favorite doctrina of hli own Incorporated Id tht constitution, and Lt would Inform them that tbii wae takn from the constitution of North Carolina. ' Smith asked if ibi would deprive Mm or tb tlllo cfWuik" Logan That would depend upon wliotb- r lb liile wa earned In consideration of jiublic service rendered. The amendment waa lost. Tba origi nal etctioo wa then adopted. ' Dryer movd lo strike out Ilia word retldent" and Insert " cllize na" lot. Dcady moved to intert " while" before foreigners carried. llri.low mated lo iniert the following at lha cod of the ectlon : "That the leg ialatura shall have power to regulate and restrain tie immigration of pr rsons who are not qualified to become citizen of the United Stat carried. The remaining sections were then adopt cd without amendment, and the eame re ported to the convention. The convention resolved itielf into com mlttee of lha whole en the report of the standing committee on suffrage and elect ions. 1 The 1st section was adopted. Farrar moved to aa amend iba 2d soot ion that no man shall have the right to vote unless ha be oitiien of the United Slate. Farrar advocated hie amendment. Smith opposed, though ha said he felt no particular solicitude on the subject. lUed of Jackson, look lha ground that Congress had bj the Constitution the ex--elusive right to pass naturalization laws and wa had no right to make new citizen on any other than a full compliance with the requirement of that law. Marple opposed the view of the mem Wfroin Jackson. - Dryer moved to insert one year in place of ail month in the amendment lost. The question recurred on the original amendment, which was lost. : Dcady moved to amend the section by compelling a foreign born citizen to reside one year in the State before the election to entitle him to a vote ; lost. Farrar moved to amend section 3J so tbat these who may be engaged in duelling aball not forfeit their right to vole there, by lost. j Kelley moved to strike out that per aons guilty of an infamous crime be en titled to the privileges of an election "carried. The section was then adopted also the 4th and 5th sections. Dcady moved to amend the 6th section ao that noua except those who belong to the free white raoe should be electors. It was modified ao as to read ' pure whites." , Brittow moved to amend by inserting the word 'simon beforo " pure." ' Aflor discussion the amendment was re jected. The whole amendment was then reject ed, and the original section adopted. farrar proposed to strike out section Oth disqualifying duolista from holding office lost. Logno moved lo strike out the words "or agree lo go out of the State to fight a duel" lost. .. Marple moved to strike out the penalty in the aection and insert " to be punished by law" j lost. Farrar moved to negative the section by inserting the word "not" lost, and (he aeolion was adopted. Farrar moved to strike out "a lucra tive" and insert " any" in the I Oth section to that no person holding office under the Vuited Statea should hold oQico under the Stale ; lost. The vote on the 10th section was recon sidered and the word " deputy" ou the 6th line struck out, and the section ad opted. '' The 12th and 13th sections were then adopted. ' lfcady moved to amend the 4th section so .that elections be held on the 3d Mon lny In June Yens 21, nays 10. . ' Deady moved Tuesday instead of Mon day ; carried. ' The word annually was (hen stricken out and the word biennially inserted to that we have elections only once in two years; carried. VHriitow moved to amend the 15th toot ' 'don so that dumb persons should not have tlie privilege of voting by ballot j lost. Dryer moved to so aincnJ that voting la by ballot Yeas 20, nays 25. ' ' Punch moved to so amend that the leg. iilature shall define the method of voting. "' Committee' rose without deciding the question. An Editok's Audikncb. We fear that there are few editors aware of the respon sibility implied in the following paragraph from Hie New York Day Book. We are apt lo forget the large audiencoa to whom wa daily apeak: " Whom are you talk ing tot" Why to a much larger audi ence than the best conversationist ever could boast of, and to mora than ever lis tened to bim during a month. How few lecturers, how few publio speakers of any description, ever witnesses! an audience half so large as that lo which lha editor of tba smallest country paper preach! How maoy clergymen ore accustomed to audienoea of a thousand, and how many : papers are there that do not strictly and literally find mora than a thousand read rat ' ' ' There are 162 John Smiths ia N. Y.eity, (Il)c (Drcgou Strjus w. h. a dam, turros and raoraia-roe. . 0X3002 CZTTi ' ' i i -,.. 8ATURDAY, KKITKMUKR 19, 1837. UT.D..W. Cum is euUuvufei to d any n lm connected Willi Tli Argu OfTus during my absence. - . ' ' ' ' ' 1 W. I ADAMS. ' Error. On the first psge of this week's paper, In th las) column,, about halfway, down fioin lha top, in tba report of lha Constitutional Convention proceedings, oc curs (be following remarkable paragraph : "Smith introduced an amendment to the end of lha aection providing that the jury be tho gudgeona of the lawyers, under the instruction of (he court; carried." . . It is unnecessary, wa suppose, to inform the intelligent rosder that these lines, as quoted, contain a mistuks and for "gudg eoos of Ihe lawyers" they were evidently intended lo read "judgci of tht law.' , Of course it will be perceived there is a slight difference. We don't know what our com positor could have been thinking about at iba time, unless he had before his mind's eye somo specimens of the anoient institu tion as exhibited in the present age of en lightenment, when generally the J' twelve good men and true" seem to be selected more on account of their ignorance than for any other quality belonging to human ity. In this view of the case, il is appa rent that no more truthful as well as homely illustration could be given of modern ju ries, ihsn has been done involuntarily by the compositor in this instance, namely "gudgeons of ihe lawyers.", . , , Narrow Escape. On last Saturday evening, soon after the steamer Jennie Clark landed at the foot of the rapids, Mrs. Capt. Hoy t, with three children, end Miss Taylor from near Astoria, stepped in S skiff" for the purpose of being set over to Mr. Tompkins's place, almost opposite where the steamer lands.1 Owing to inex pnrienca and want of care on the part of the young man who held the oars, the skiff swung round and was carried by the force of the current under the guard of the steamer and instantly swamped, ps ing under the boat and coming out bottom up. The passengers,, however, as their frail craft sank beneath ibem, were able to grasp the steamer's guard, and, clinging to that and to each other, were all lifted from l heir painful and dangerous- position, 'up on the (learner's deck. Col. Jennings, having passed down a few minutes before, was hailed, and coming back, carriod the involuntary bathera safely over Id Mr. T.'s place. . . '; -''-, : From tub Sovth. The editor of the Sentinel has been on a visit to Josephine county, and notes great impovryiiont in Kirbyyillo, tllo county scat, which, he says, at no distant day will be one of the most flourishing towns in Southern Oregon. It is beautifully located in tho center of the most extensive and most successful mining districts. The mines on Sucker, Althouse, Canyon, Josephine, and Rriggs' creeks are yielding well. , The Sontinel is informed thai the con tractors on the Crescent City road have commenced work in earnest, and there can no longer bo any doubt of its completion. Tho road will add more to tho importance of Southern Oregon than any enterprise heretofore undertaken. tlT Mr. Isaao Headrick, of Howell Prairie, Marion county (the Eden of Ore gon), has sent us a box of excellent apples, for which he will please accept our grateful thanks. . . - ;; v.-;. t .:.: Marion County Enumeration. The Advocate gives tho following as , tho legal enumeration of Marion county for tho pres ent year ! '' " ' ' "" ' " ' .' " ' 7' , ' Legal voters, 1331 ; males over 2l", 1400 ; males over 10, and under 21, 039 : males under 10, 009 ; total . number of maleM, 3403 : females over 18, 078 : fo- mules under IS and ovor 10,'4S l females under 10, 038 ; total number of females, 2450; total number of persons, 5855 ; amount of taxable properly, $2,300,0001 03" Mr. Mahlon Brock has laid on Our table some fine apeoimens of the Red In dian Peach. Two of them together weigh ed ous pound two ounces. ,: - : ! ; ": . Panoramic Entertainment, Lo. Pro fessor VandorfT gave the citizens of Oregon City exhibitions on Friday and Saturday evenings of last week embracing a pano ramic representation of the Planetary Bjs tem, accompanied and illustrated by a sci entific lecture also a Panorama 'of Scrip turul scenes and incidents with Ventrilo quism, Magic, dec. ' Prof. Yandoff has held forth in most of the towns of Oregon, and, so far as we know, has given pcnerul satisfaction.-' We understand that ha will pay our city another visit the coming week, with perhaps aa addition to bia means of entertaining the public. ." OtT Blushing it an effusion that is gen erally tba least seen in those who have the most occasion forir. ' ' ' ' i i . -. 03" A question has bean raised in one of our Courts whether a blind mo can be liable for a bill ' at sight. The lawyers arepurzled. ' ' v-' 1 ' . ' ' ' "- ' .: ! CO" Why is a watch-dog larccr at night lhan in lb morning f Because be is let out at night and taktn in in th morning, 03" New York lae 884 cburohea, indu cing ua syasgoguea. , f For Iht Argu: Th ArfWtacal aislatt MUvery. . Ma.'KoiTOB-fl wl.h lo call the alien lion of your five thousand readers agaiii to Iba affect of slavery in depreciating the prioe f their land. I wish to' do this bees use certain claim-holders are pleading for. slaves to help clear nd,work,jbeir land. . They ay, w want help wo can not afford to hire free laborers we must have slaves. I heard a land-owner talking ia ibis st i sin to a free laborer a few days ago, and felt Indignant at the insult of soch arnuments. .Resides abusing those whom be falsely calls abolitionists, be put the argument to ihe free laborer in this way: I own a claim.. I cannot clear it all or work it all myself. I cannot afford to employ you, and yot support my family In easy luxury.' I wwh to bring a class of laborers who will lake your place and make it degrading for you to work also.'' And now, I want you to vote to bring them here, and just let me and my wife and children live assy.. Free laborer asks, what great reason- have you for this! Land owner replies, Oh, th greatest possible reason. lit, The good of the country; 2d, the preservation of the Democratic party, lo which you and I belong ; you know the Republicans want to break us up, and gel ihe offices themselves, 3d, To preserve the Constitution of tba 'United States. The abolitionists wish lo destroy that, and break up the Union.' We must, you see, have alavary to preserve the Union. The North is getting toe strong. - We must have two men in lha Senate in favor of the South, and one in the House. Now if we do not all vote for slavery, it will go the other way. The North 1 will become stronger and' the South weaker, and the slave-holders won't bear this. ' They will break up the Union, and then we shall lose all our freedom. ' There will be civil war, and England will take advantage' of our weakness, and lake, away some' of our country, perhaps Oregon, and Washing ton, and California. ,' You see how impor tant it is to vote for slavery in Oregon, and thus save the Union, and the Democratic parly, and enable us who own lands to im ,provo them. " ' ' ' ' '' v Free Laborer But this matter Is not all so clear to me. 'I wirb to ask what will become of me and of my wife and chil dren.' I have a claim which I am slowly improving, but, In order to get along and support the young family at present, we have to move into town once a year for a few months, and work for others. The fair prices for work here and among tho richer farmers give us a lift, and wo go on another year comfortably. Wife and I are both willing to work hard, as every body must do in a new country. ' Yau now wish me to vote for slaves to come lo take our work out of bur hands. You wish me to vote lo quit work, deprive my family of the comforts and even, the necessaries of life, which we now gain by hard toil ; or you wish me to vote to pul myself on a level with the slave, in the field, and in the wpods, and in carrying brick and mortar. You wish me lo work for less than I now do to. work harder and to be degraded with slaves by. my. work and you wish me to vote for a system which will do all this for me and my family, that you and your family may live easily : and if I will not do this, you will call ma an abolitionist, no enemy of my country, and no Democrat. Pro-slavery Land owner Well, I do nol mean exactly that. , I do nol think all this will happen. I do not think that slave enough will come lo lower the price of la bor much. For my part, I cannot buy more than one or two, and I shall have to borrow a pari of the money for that. , They will cost $100Q apiece.-, i s, ; .- y . i Free Laborer Well, if slaves enough will not come to lower the price of labor much, why cau you not as well hire free men as buy slaves t According to your own showing it would bo cheaper. ' Yon have to invest $1000 in your slave, the iuturosl of- which is at least 0150 per an num.; .That interest is dead loss.- ' You have e, risk Ihe life and the health of your slave you have to feed and clothe bim you have to urge him to work, and oversee htm while at' it. j 'He' will be neither skill ful fo plan nor quick to do work, nor pru dent to save time, or tools, or harvests. And then you must' incur the risk of his running away or if 'you wntch. him so closely that he cannot get' away, you be come, a, slave to him.-, You at ihe same time, make him your enemy. Ho' will waste whal he can without discovery.1 He wilt perhaps become desperute, preferring death lo slavery especially if he baa been torn away from his own wife and children. Rut he will determine nol to die alone. If you will not let him escape alive, he will delermfne'to die in your burning house and , weltering in your blood. Slaves brought to Oregon, to work aide by aide with the whiles, to hear all that is said on all subjects,' will no 'be Ignorant of their rights: 'they "will not "tamely a'ubniit al way. Tbey jsiU Jtiama,dojftid ly worth lesv of malignantly desperate. ' Besides ibis, according; to the testimony of slave holders, on free laborer' is worth fir slave. " If you da not admit this, you will admit that one free laborer, whom you co spar to duly by his wage, in worth at leatt two or three slaves. . To return to Our (purrs.: 'Yoa. 'will pay $2000 for two slaves, loa 930O late-rest annually oa the same, risk the loss of both, feed and clothe them, be yourself a slave to watch and gaida them, ratkr thsB ksy $40 pt month loa free laborer, who will do moro than both, eat Iras, be no care, be no risk, and who will he a fit 'companion for your self and family. j i f ; l-l Still further, your two slave cannot do your work. White men will not long work with them in your fields, or white women in- your be"" And unless you can buy more, you will fait to Improve the farm for which you have entered upon this system, , You will thus actually turn the white laborer out 'of employment, and deprive him of the benefits which tho free labor market now affords him. You may claim that you will treat ihe slave well and benefit him, but you do il at my ex pense. You push me and my family aside to give room for him. 'This is what slave ry has dona at the South. '' There are In fifteen slave Slates 346,048 slave holders, according to the last census reports, and five million non-slaveholding while. Those noh-slaveholders' are gen erally poor; there are few opening for their work," and (hey are becoming more and more mioerableasaclass. Multitude or them are annually leaving for the free Siatca. ' Southorn Ohio, Indiana, and Illi nois aro settled chiefly by them. Slavery makes the non-slaveholder poorer, and lends to drive him lo the free Slates. Your system, that for which you wish me lo vote, would not only degrade my labor, diminish the price' of it, drive me out of the labor market, but eventually drive me from the State. . ' But I have not dona with your pro-slavery arguments yet; "" ' You start with the idea that you cannot clear your land and improve your farm with cheaper help, such as slaves. Did you ever think thai your land cleared by slaves would not sell for as much as it will now uncleared and unimproved I Record ing to the Inst census, the average price per acre of land in all the non-slnveholding Siatcs wai (10.73, and in slavoholdmg Stales it was $5.80. .."You'wil not bo' able to raise your land ubovehe average of land in slavchohliiig Stales. Oregon ' must share the depression in prices which Mis souri has groaned under' for thirty-seven years. The moment you introduce slave ry, your land fidls from the free Slate av. erage of $lp.73 to the slave Slate average of $5.80. " If you and I vote for that sys tem,1 we vole to destroy $13.93 of the value of every acre of Oregon's fair do main.' You profess yourself too poor to hire free men or free women, but you think yourself rich enough lo make yourself and your neighbors poor by introducing slavery. ' I wish to be excused from voting to place my land in the lists of that in slave Slates. 1 am unwilling to vote such a wrong upon my neighbors' property. ' A. From tht Neu York Evening Pott. , Th Vrea Laborer's Great Arguaieat. i At last Ihe people of the Southern States are seriously looking the question of eman cipation in the face. The movements in Missouri and Virginia are nol the only evi dence of it ; almost every day new indi cations reach us of adeeaying confidence in bond labor, and a corresponding inquiry into the economy of Ihe free.'. One of the most encouraging symptoms of this, kind has ju.t come under our noiice. It is the publication of a book written by Mr. n. R. Helper, of North Carolina, who has collected in a volume of some 400 pages the most compact and irresistible array of facts and arguments to prove the impolicy of slavery, that we remember to have en. countered. The book is entitled, ' Tht Impending Crisis of tht South How to meet it," and is published , by Burdick Rrothers of this city. Mr. Helper is a resident " of Salisbury,' Rowan county! North Carolina, where his family has' re! Mded for severaf generations.' ' He becarmj dissatisfied With the way things were go ing with him and his neighbors, and natur ally Concluded that 'there must be some reason for the greater prosperity , of the Northern Statea. ' He was not long in fincl ing out what the reason was, "and lie has had the courage to proclaim it. ' He says lhat slavery issucking the life-blood of the South, and lhat.she can prosper in noth ing until she 'gets rid of itv To prove tnw', and to convince his neighbors of their folly in persisting in it, be wrote the book to which we have alluded.. He baa here col lected a body of facts and statistics agoinsl the econpmy, which seems to us quite, irresistible as Newton's argument, of gravi tation. , We have never seen the facia, a r. rayed with ao much power. Vet propose to give some of .bis elaborate, and, we be lieve, conscientious calculations, under the impression thai they will reveal many new and surprising aspecis of this much vexed biS'-' ' 'Yv v".-'t 1 elavery. has an advantage over free labor in anything, it must be in, the culti vation of the soil in agriculture. Here are some of the comparative results of free and slave Jabox.. agriculture : " -iTt(e-erop of bush i-foea ore products such as wheat, oats, Indian corn, potatoes, rye, barley, buckwheat,' beans' and peas, clover and grass-seeds, flax seed, garden product and orchard products, in the free States, amounted in 1850 lo 409,190,041 bushels, and was valued at $351,709,703. The same crop in the slave Stales, with 238,011 square miles larger area of ter. ritory, amounted to only 481,766,880 bushels, valued at $308,927,067, or leas than the free States some seventeen mill ion of bushels nearly forty-four millions of dollar. ... ,V . . , ., Much as the South' boast rcf it enor. mous cotton crop, Mr. Helper shows that ihe hsy crop alon of the Northern State is worth considerably mora than all the cotton, rice, hay, and hemp produced in the fiftceo slave, Sioles, more than four limes the value of all the cotton produced in tho country ; also, that the singlo Slate of New York' produo -more lhan - three time the quantity of hay that i produc ed in all the tlavo .Statvi together. Here is his (able : . , ' ' hat caurorTii rats rrm W I6."j8. l9,6!NM)e3l0aattll3u ("() l4i,l3H,9t)8 , 4 suaaav mobuct or Tiia slavs ttk. 0011011-8,445,770 balm at $7,lifl4,i)38 Tobacco 185,U'.,3,90fl II- l lUc... . Rlc (nwah) 9IMI3.4U7 lb l4e 8,lil'W31) Hay 1,137,784 ton al $11,80 111,713,180 llmnp-34,073 ton al $112 3.H83.376 Can Sugar 937,133,000 lbs at To. Ifl'J!) 310 Siimlry product slave Statu..,.. Hay crop of fre Slate $138,005,72.1 142,138,908 Dalinee In favor of fre Slate... . $3,5334273 ' In ihe pound measure products of tho soil, Mr. Helper proves a much more strik ing contrast than In tho bushel measure. Here Is his recapitulation : rnr.r. vtatss. liny 28,427,7911,680 lb al o $142,136,998 I lamp II. p KUx Mu pie Hug. Tobacco... 4A3,m So 22.170 3,403,178 ' ' 15 3,048,97d ' '10 32,IC1,7U9 11 8 14,7.V.,087 ' 10 39,647,211 ? 35 519,476 304,S7 . 2,.r72,9l.'l 1,475,208 13,874,52:1 52,479,117 1,033,255 Wo. 4..., Dul'rachcese 319,800,783 15 lieeiw'i a hou 6,888,303 ' ' 15 Total. 8,878,064,902 lb, value 4214,422,423 . . II.4VH aTATKB. Hay 2,54S,(i;ir,,lfiO Ibaal Jo.:.$l2.743,1SO Hemp 77,007 ,520 ' 5o 3,883,370 linn 3J,7HU ' Flnx ' ' 4,700,193 Maple Sugar 2,1188,687 ' Tobacce... 185,023,906 Wiwl 12,797,329 ' But'r a cheese 68,03424 1 Beeswax tlion. 7,964,700 Cotton .... 97811,600 ' Cane Sugar 937,l3:i,0(0 ' Rice(rouKli) 915,313,497 15 ' 10 8 ' 10 35 ' 15 15 8 7 4 5, 47, " 1071 18,50: 4,47Lfltj0o 10295,133 1,194,714 78,204,928 16,599,310 8,612,538 Total... 1 43870,601 lb, value $155223,415 total airraasxca rovND-MSAiuaa raonvcrs. I'oiiikU. , Vnlne. Free Stale 28.878,064,91)2 $2l4,42',,.r.23 Slave Slate 4,38,870,601 155,323,415 Balauceinlb., 24,539,094,241 , Pillereneo in value - .$:9,199,108 These figures, we beliuve, would have startled even Mr. Cullionn, if he had lived lo read them. ; But the contrast is not by any means exhausted ye!.' Hero we have the roljiiive, productiveness of tho free and the slave-tilled farms : ., rasa statu. .' Wbeat .' 12 bushels per acre. Outi '. 27 " " Hye... 18 " " ' Indian Corn.......'..... 20 " " Irioh Polatoe ;..125 - '. SLAVS STATU. ' 9 buiJieli rxracre. 17 , ' . " 11 " " .............. SO , " ' " " 113 " " Wheat Oat Rye..... , Indian Corn... Irish Potatoes. 'Add up these two : columns if figures, and what is the result t Two hundred and thirteen bushels as the product of five acres in the South..: Looking at eaoh item separately, wa will ' find that the avi rage crop per aero to every article enumerated is greater in the' free States lhan in the slave Stales while the ' tables at large which precede the recapitulation we have quoted, 1 show that, while Massachusetts produces sixteen busliels of wheat to the acre,,Vrginia produces only seven ; that Pennsylvania produces fifteen and Geor gia ouly five; thai while Iowa produces thirty. six bushels of osls to the acre, Mis sissippi produces only twelve ; that Rhode Island produces thirty and North Carolina only len ; that while Ohio produces twen ty. five bushels of rye to the acre, Ken lucky produces only eleven ; that Vermont produces twenty and Tennessee only seven; that while Connecticut produces foriy bushels of Indian corn lo the acre, Te.Hs produces only twenty ; that New Jersey produces thirty-three, and South Carolina only eleven ; that while 'New ' Hampshire produces two hundred bushels of Irish po tatoes to the acre, Maryland produces only seventy-five that Michigan produces one hundred and forty and Alabama only sixty. The', difference in value of live stock, slaughtered auimalsand farms, is, it poss ible still more striking. 'The following is a recapitulation of his table : '"' ' -! " '"" n T'',t "'rasa states.' '''' '-' 11 "' Vahie of live etoek,' t' $3864761 Value of animals lughtcred,. , . ... 50,91037 Value of furm, farming implemeul, i .audiQuehuiery,. . ( j ( : , 2,233,058,619 - ... ,:.v , i ,. ,,j $2,576,425,307 ., i! ,'.,.' etAva itatsi. . Value of live stock, ... $253,72.1,087 Value of animals alaughtered, , . 54,388477 Value of furnia, furmiiig implemeata, aBdmacliiueiy, j . r J.183,995,274 ' '.j !(... !.,!,:. !i .; KA : ; 1,492,107,338 DirrxaiacB m tilde tasms and domestio ah- , 1HAL. Free State, ' '' ' ' $2,576,425497 Slave State, .' .,: i ,. . . ., ;.-1,492,107438 Balanceinfavorofthefree State, $1,084418,059 ' By adding to this last balance in favor of the free States ihe difference in value of the bushel and pouud-meaaure products, we shall have a very correct idea of the extent to which the undivided agricultural interests of the free Statea preponderate over those of the slave Stiles. . Let us add the difference' together, and see what will be the resuhi V ...; V .. BALIIKI ALL 0 VAVOS Of THE SOITB. J Difftreooe in the value of buaiiel-mea-sure product, ' ' $14,7S2,636 DirTirtnce ui Uie Talue of poond -measure products, . . 59,199,108 Difference in the value of farm and domestic animals, i' 1,084418,953 Total, ' ' ' ' ' ' $1,18899,803 Thus it appears that, in spile of all the loud talk of Southern politicians about the agricultural products of the South sup porting the country, the entire value of all he agricultural interests of the slave State showing a balance in ' favor of the free Statea ofen billion one hundred ami tifkty-eigkt million tlx kvtndrtJ and nine.- 4TJ0 I) nint Ihoutundiyht- hundred and Ht uuiiun i . Of the mineral productions of (he t.v cctlnns Mr. Helper does not give IRy tailed slativtic, bul he stale, upon whatbs deems sufficient authority, that the marble and free stone quarrio of Now England ore far more important sources of revenue than all ihe subterranean deposits in tb lave Slates, and that the total value of all Ihe precious metal, rocks, minerals, iD miners! waters annually extracted from the bowels of thn free Stales la not less ih(a eighty.five million of dollars, and seven limes as much as th product of tba slave States from the same source, Mr. Helper 'a table (how alto that the entire wenlth of the froe and altv Stain compared, is as follow: 1 Kntir wraith of the free Stale, $4,109 m iL Kntir wealth of th .lav. SlaU, including lvn, 2,936,090,737 Balance in favor of free Slate, $1,1 66,081 ,371 Ve will not attompt to follow Mr. Hl er any further with hi comparisons, which are infinite in number and upon. almost every conceivable subject, but all tending to prove the same general truth, that frea labor has uniformly proved more profitable than slave lubor.nnd that the exchange of slave for free labor Is the only resource which i left ihe South for escape from be ing a waste. 3 ;, j Obituary. t Died In Oregon Cily, Sept. 8d, 1837 Dh. JOUN McLOUOULl aged 73 years. l, '. V . The death of our venerable and distin guished fellow citizen, whose name aad hitory are so identified with that of thn cily and Territory,' deserves more tbia a passing notice, : 't. .... ( He was born and educated in Canada, and sooh after he obtained bis degree h entered tho service of the North West Company as a physician. ' Decerning a partner, he was placed in charge of Fort William, at that limo the piiucipal d.pot nf thu Company ; during hii administta lion, the fiercest competition grew up be tween that mid the Hudson Day Company, wliicli heCnmo'so shiirp am JiMpcr:iie, ifiat hcistilities mid battles took place between their iimtuttl adherents, resulting in the lost of many live and ihe entire destruction of the Fort. After this, the two compatji were merged, and Dr. McLouuhlin wis placed in solo charge of tho possessions snd trade of the Hudson Day Company pest of tho liocky Mountains. He established th principal post at Fort Vancouver, and con tinued in clmrgo there till 1844, whea leaving the service of the Company, he re moved to this city, having selected this a hia claim in 1829, and from that time made improvement thereon. Here hre. mained until his daih. . , ' Hawaii a roan of large liberulity in' all the departments of life, as was manifested by bis lavish generosity to a largo circle of relatives, his constant readiness lo re lieve distrcas and assist the needy, and hit prompt aid in every : public undertaking. Though warmly attached to and a devout believer in the doctrine of -the Roman Church, hp was so truly catholic tbat be cheerfully nsieid other denominations, and was especially liberal in his dons lions for institutions of learning, even though under the exclusive management of those of a different creed. To the early emi grants, his succor was free and abundant. Ho literally " fed the hungry and clothed the naked.". , His position at the head of a poworful corporation, his long experience among 'the -Indian Tribes, hi influence over , them based upon their knowledge f his strict integrity, his courage and .hi firmuess under all circumstances, gvt bim great facilities as tho pioneer and pat ron of civilization in Oregon, which he promptly improved. , His conduct ia this respect was ihe prime cause of difference between him and his employer; buttl ing that he had dona hi duty in assisting to develop the immense resources of lb Pacific wilderness, rather lhan in forcing it, against ihe indications of Providence, to remain as the hunting ground of trapper and savages, be preferred to abandoabis lucrative office and his allegianceipodjU an American citizen, employ hia great en ergies, his' wealth and his experience ia building up a new repubjic.' It is to be regretted that hia efforts were not fairly and hbnorablv recognized, but tbat th lg islation of Congress unrighteously select ed bim as a victim, and maliciously saen ficed his interest, apparently for no other reason than because he wa of foreiga birth and" had been a chief Factor of U Hudson's Bay Company, forgetting that, prior 10 ibis action, be bad taken lb astb of fidelity as an American citizen, and b used all the mean which be boooraoiy could, while in office, to advance America - .1 Ti.:. ;fl;,-i,l neon D' interests. a in wiwug ...... v.-- -i MfrLoiifmLiv. afflicted and crieved bim. anrl embittered the laat year of bi life. not so much on accounl of lb pecunm j loss it Caused him, considerable as it was, abccause. .of., the. accusation .and fls chjrgas with which it was accompanw the iagi'atitud it manifested, and the ne cessity it imposed upon him lo apt' a nation whos boast it is that il is fre generous and magnanimous, to rosier t him rights of which, while standing 00 the brink of (be grave, ihe aged and whM baired pioneer, bad beenwcruelly rot. Alajil that iuatice was so slow mat itt,o"ut lha iisfolioo of knowing restiiutioa wa mde, and U Ww cow aT