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No piper diicontmurd until all arrearage calty. Jl AN 1)1111.1., l'OMI.IIS, Itl.AXKR Vol. III. OREGON CITY, OltEGON, OCTOBER 10, 1857. No. 20 CAKIW, I'llX'l I.AlJs, J'AM I'll LET- WoLK ami other kinds, done to order, on short not ice. are paid, unleee at the option of the publiehrr. THE OREGON ARGUS, MLIIISU EVEBV BATt'SUAV MUR.tl.ia, BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. Ik BUSINESS CARDS. W. T. MATLOCK. W.O. JOHNSON, lYTatlock & Johnson, ' ATTORNEYS & t'ul'fWELOIM AT LAW And Solicitor) in Chancery, WILL promptly attend lo any business which may be committed lo their professional charge before the District uml tjuproute Court. Oflii III lliglitiild'i buildinj, immediately op pose ilia .limn ntreel I louw. . Oregon City, March 7, lb57. 47y 2X. O. Burnett, iATTOUNEY is COl'NSELOU AT LAW, Ami Solicitor in Chancery, DKTIIEL, POLK COUNTS, OIIEGON. JCHN R MtRIDB, ATTOIKET AND COI'DIELOI AT LAW, Lafayette, Yamhill County, 0. T., WILL faithfully utU-nd to till business en trusted to In professional cure. Wm. C. Scmont &. Co,, "TTrilOLliSALKund retail Dealers in Grocer V T iea, Provisions, l'uiuls, Oils, Jloola and Niocs, Crockery, Slo. Opjws.le the Lund Office Alain bt. un-gnu city. June 1, ldS5 CHARLES POPE, JR., DEALEIt in Hardware, Croceri.ii, Dry Goods, Clotliiiij,', Uooti Si. 8hoea, Medicines, Hooks and Mulionery. Main-!., Oregon City, April 21, 1837-Itf cieo. ABi:i:i nv & to , MERCHANTS, OREGON CITY, 0. T. ' AbcrncUiy, Clark & Co., COMMISSION AND Foil WARM. NO MUtCHANTS, iS'rm Francisco, Cnl., Will attend to feliiiis Orepm pro I yen, and All or ders for Goods, Groeeriis, Ao., ut the lone-it rates. The uli oii.io of the poople of Oregon ia re epoctfully solicited. Aug. 2. E. IMilwafa, Manufacturer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in COOIt ASM IM5.J.OE. STOVES, TIN t COl'I'LK WAilK, IIAitDWARC, AC, MaiuSt., oppoaite Main .Street Hotel, OREGON CITY, O. T. Steamboat and jubhiug work attended to. with UTi-pitlll. Orders from the country promptly filled. je7 Time. TTT P. II !0 Ii VI K !. I) V . wa ran. ma k r.n IViuiih cli-tirout of g lung (.-dud work done wall (III U'l.ll If, lie,l III,, tl llntl. lltl l.ivi Miii.l.. lima ill ii... voted to Ilia repairing of (.'hionoiiieter, Lever, A'UpiCX, UUU lloriil'llllll HUIelie. An u:'w: tiiit'nt of Jewelry o:i hand. Jewelry made to ord. r, und repaired. Price lo anil the limes. I um lluuikl'iil for pant fi;vors, and hope to u;ivont:fai'tioii in future. ID' I.W'ii'i-ii nt the old slaii.l, oiipua le tliuTel oamph Oflke, OREGON CITY. Feb. 2. Brug-s, rScdiciacs, P.-.iats, Oils, cad lunc-stiiSfs, al (ho OltKiiuN clTV UUVG STORE, aepla Jlaiu Street, Orefjuii City, O.T. JOHN P. BROOKS, Wholesale llrtail Dealer in Grocerin, Produce, I'lociaione, tj c. Main Street. A General Astorliueiit k.lupof Selected Goods Cnueinali, Murcli ZS, l5j7. G-UN-SMITniNG. EI'UXG pcriiiiinenlly loc.ilid in Oregon City, I ant prppnred la curry on llie business oi OUN-SM1T1UXG AY ALL ITS L RAX CUES. Those nliu favor me with their pati'dinge, may expect to have their work done right. Those who leave GUNSut my Simp for repairs, and do not cull for theui wilhiu nine months of thu lime act for the work to be done, limy expect to hiive tii. tii sold lo pay charires. I'EltUIXAXt) WILDE. June S7, ISo". Ilml8 Wol's, Farjjo & Co.'s Express, Between Orrgnu, California, the Atlantic S'alcs an I Europe. HAVING made advantageous rET "nil IIIO Ull.tl'U T f. . p.i ...... lit niil.1 ii. I. II. ii.. l.l .States and Pacific Muil Steom ahip t'oinpauiea for tiunsportutiou, wc aronowpre pured to forward Gold Dust, Bullion, Specie, Package, Parcels, and freight, to and from N York, X. Orleans, Sun Francisco, Portland, and principal towns of California an I Oregon. Our regulur Seuii-moullily Express between Portland anil Sun Franeiicu, is dispatched by the 1'acitic Mail Steamship Co.'s steamship Columbia, connecting ut Sun Francisco wilh oiir acini-month ly Enpress to A'eio York and New Orleans, which is dispatched regularly ou the 1st and lu'thof each (iionlh, by the mail ttcuuiers and in charge of our own messengers, through to destination. Our fix press from Xew York leaves regularly 4n the 5th and SOtlj of each mouth, also in charge of messengers. Treabure insured in the best New York com panies, or at Lloyd's in London, at the option of shippers. OmcEs New Yoik, No. 16, Wall sL; New Orleans, X'o. 1 1, Exchange place; Sun Francisco, No. 114, Montgomery street. A. II. STEELE, ASenl. Oregon City, April 21, 1857.-ltf Beading for the Million. S. J. McCORMICK AAI CONSTANTLY ON HAND AT Till FRANKLIN BOOK irOllti, FBONT-BT, FOUTLAND, OBEOON, A Choice selection of Popular Books, News . papers, Magazines and Fancy Stationery. Among the books on hand will be found works on Temperance, Agriculture, Horticulture, His tory, Poetry, Hiograph-, Medicines, Religion, Science, School Hooks, Itoninuces, cVc., A'c, &.C. CTSuWriplioos rcecived for Harper, Graham, Godey, Leslie's, or Putnam, at year, post age free. ID" Subscriptions received for any newspaper published in any part of the L'uion. Remeiuber the Franklin Hook Store and News pa r Agency, Front street, Porllaud Oregon. f3;A priced catalogue will be published early in April, and will be sent to any pari of the terri tory free on application. Orceou l.odsc ya.Z, I. O.O.F-, MEETS at their Hall over the Oregon City Drug Store every Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. Brethren in goo. I standing are invited to ti.iL FKED. CHARM AX, N. U. Geobge Pcase, See')'. 31 rpEMPLE OF HONOR. Toahitin Temple of L Honor, No. 1, meets on tlx 1st and 3d Fri day eveuiueof each mon;h at t o'clock, at Tem perance Hail, Foret Groir, Oregon. .Members of tlie Order in good standing are in vited to taut this Temple. E. W. DIXON, W.C.T. M. Tittle, W. K. 33 for tlu Argue. DefrBitBi Hcf. " TLut any one Lita tlie right to rrci tliit principle of idf defense, we will not prcton J lo deny." This itdinistion D. B. G. miiliM In objecting to my notions of aclf defense as jjiven in TLe Argui of Aug. 10. Friend G., you ccrtaiuly admit too much. It appfors lo me that having tho right to do, in tho unqualified sense of 1 lie term, is elf evident proof that the tiding cannot be wrong. Hits a man a riyhl to stent f No ; and stealing is wrong. Has he a right to lie, to swenr, to cheat, to murder! No right; and it huppens that nil these are wrong. Ou tlie other hand, hits a man a right to love his neighbor, his children, his wife rather than other men's wives; has he a right to tell the truth, to practice be. nevolcnce, nnd to commit nil munncr of good ihingi ? Certainly he has ; and it is not only not wrong to do them, but it u really a duly. If we have the right lo de fetid ourselves, Jiow can it bo wrong then- poor philosophy and bad morality lo do it f If you did not mean a legal right, you certainly admit the whole case. Hut as my eombativeness is aroused, I will ar guesome oilier points presented. I agree with you that " ' should al ways endeavor to restrain all our evil pas. sions," &io., and I ihink I pave no ground for a sujr gestion to tho contrary. Did 1 not stato that wo should "keep cool" while others call us liars, fools, or any thing else f Do not men generally become nbnut as much angered ul such epithets ns at the infliction of blows f Nearly, if not quiie. No, sir ; I offered self-defense on the basis of subor reason : thai " it is dan gerous to submit to the rule of a man in ger." It, is alo iuconvenient. It is true, as you remark, that men gen- ct ally resist from anger; this should not be. Men often turn lliinirs " UDside down." Not uulreijueiitly men get angry when dis cussing an opinion ; but they should not do it they should keep cool like you and I. Iureuts seldom whip their children unless rather out of humor; the very time they should not do it. So, generally speaking, we "live lo eat," and not "eat to live," as we onght. Living to drink, instead of drinking to live, is the foe of temperance ; but must we quit discussion, drinking, enliu'', and self-dt fuiise. bi cause men getieraliy gel lost in the fog of pas sion ? Not so ; wo will put reason ahead : we will resist from sense of duly, as the preacher did I read about when a boy. Ho was slopped ou the way bv an unbe lieving fellow, who proposed lo make good his standing rule, that of whipping every preacher who passed that way. Our preacher requested permission to take off his coat ; it was a preseut from the ladies, and he would not have it injured. As he drew his hand from the sleeve, he knocked the follow down, got on him, and, keeping active and forcible timo with his fist, sung : " 0 how happy are they Who their Suvior obey, And have laid up their treasures above.' "Ned" that was the fullow's name afterward stated in "experience meeting" that his brother literally pounded the grnca of God into him. The grace of common sense might be knocked into semo specimens of man, on some occasions, if nothing more; and if music could not always accompany the performance, unre strained anger should not, nnd need not. Again. " Wheuco arises this disposi tion to give blow for blow to return re- buff for insult which is nothing mere than self-defense ?" This is what you may call self.defense, but my view is differcut. Tho eld law, "an eye for an eye," &c , is an exhibition of false justice, having its real foundation in revenge. I am of opin ion it was the spirit of the law, revenge, that Christ abrogated when he said "But I say unto you that you resist not evil." No; blow for blow is not self-defense; but rather two blows for one, and if cir cumstances require, half a dozen for none. Self-protection being the object, the num ber of blows is not material. Nor would 1 wait, always, till the blow be received. Seeing an enemy raise his gun to shoot me, I would be foolish iudeed not lo anticipate him by shooting first. ' I notice one other remark : " It feeling of self defense seems almost interwoven in his very naturo; yet if it is, it must be in his selfish nature ; fur observe it is self that is to be defended." Grant it is in his self ih nature; what of it f The disposition to eat is selfish ; for. notice, ttlf receives the pleasure and also the benefit of eating; is eating wrong! Yes, we are selfish; it is right we are so. We shun evil for fear of evil consequences W avoid going to "the bad place," where ttlf would be badly treated. Also we " learn to do well" because it makes self happy, and promises self a happy Lome in the future. It is often the case however that we do both evil and good io obedience to ruling forces, without motive for self or any body else we do it because '' we wan: to." But while we are selfish, it is not proper or uatural to be blindly sellish. While we eat for self, we may and should feel desir. ous that others may cat for themselves. Dlind self would take nil from his neigh bors, but wide-awake self is willing to " live and let live" ; indeed, ho sees that much of his happiness depsnds upon the happiness of those around him; a fact that slaveholders and many other foolish peoplo liavo not yet learned. Lastly, you ask, "Where is our model of morality 1" I am not certain that 1 can answer this argument either to your satisfaction or my owu. I will offer a thought or two for reflection : 1st, the pe culiarity of Christ's mission may have re quired difference of conduct not proper for us in many respects to try to imitate. Cir cumstances alter cases ; even so with him ; atone time very meek and submissive, at another we find him casting out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrowing the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves ; and as much as tells them they are no better than thieves. 2d, Christ came to die, as generally held, while we came to live ; hence I hold to self-defenso that no wild man, mad man, or mad dog may change my natural destiny. I will indicate one or twa other reasons against non-resislanco and for self-defense. Continued and contented submission to wrongs will lessen the energy of an indi vidual or a people. Look nt the down trodden everywhere; look at their chil dren inheriting a deplorable want of ener gy and self-respect. Submission does not insure future redress or forbearance. In most cases it encourages the oppressor. What subject of what king, what hireling, what slave, will better his condition by sur rendering more rights to his master t It is the general tendency in all walks of life for aggression to grow moro aggressive, meanness to get meaner. How has it been with slavery in tho United States At the first, a few black slaves, with a general dis position lo get rid of it entirely. Now, its advocates would cover the wholo coun try with its curses, even trampling on the rights of white men to effect the end. Wind selfishness, what a tyrant fool thou art ! Yes, tho moro I think of it, the more fully am I persuaded that men should study to know their rights, and, knowing them, properly defend them. Veto. for the Argu$. Kotos on a Pleasure Trio. " All naturo looked smiling end" (smo ky) as I took my leave of friends and start ed for the seat of government of our Ter ritory. Having been afllicted for a brief period with the complaint which has been so prevalent for tho past few week, and which bid fair to ripen into a comfortable consumption, I deemed it necessary to for sake the toil of business and tho busy haunts of city life, and, relying upon the hospitality of country frieuds, seek in some tural solitude rest and recreation for body and mind. My road led near tho bank of a river, which, though it lack tho ma jesty of the Hudson, the beauty of the Ohio, or the importance of 'ho Mississippi, afforded mo many fine views; und as I contemplated its glassy surfuco unrufiled by a single ripple, I was led to instituto a comparison between its course aud the life of man. The mighty river an emblem of a master mind. Unnoticed by the world at its birth, it flows on, gathering strength and power io its progress, till finally ihe ocean, fit emblem of eternity, receives it, not destroyed, only changed. As great as is the diversity of character in the human family, each trait may . here Mud its appro priate resemblance. Unconscieusly I asked myself, To what am 1 like? the pure, clear mountain stream, or the slimy, miasmatical slough which rises in a swamp and spreads mala, ria and contamination wherever it goes i Assuredly the clear stream, though shal- low, is preferred to the depth of the cor- nipt slough. But incident is liked better than dull moralizing so I will follow the stream and let the train of thought go. Passing , a point well known to river men and voyagers generally, as it is at times dangerous, and has been the scene of several narrow escapes from shipwreck, my thoughts recurred to my own experi ence in that regard. Coming down late one Saiurday night, after a hard week's work, we were so unfortunate as to strike a rock while running under full headway, 'and found earsclves involved in circum- stances of extreme peril. Luckily the rock rose gradually, and as the boat slid upon it the shock wm not so violent, and, though some of the planks were badly strained and split, if we had struck the rock fair oor bow mast have been stave in. The rock rising above the surface and forming an island about fifteen feet across, we deposited Ihe greater part of our load upon it, and laboring without interruption through Saturday eight and till Sabbslh morn, we were finally able to eitrica'e our selves. Severn! years since, a patty com. ing down with large raft narrowly etcup ed with their lives. A large body of drift had accumulated over one channel, and at the stage of water when they enmo down, the water ran wilh great violence under this drift, and they could perceive that they were hurrying surely on to their destruc tion. Having a cable or. board, one of the party made a running noose, and passing a snag stationary in the chaunel, very dex trous! y threw the noose of the rope over it. But the efjjrt was vain the snag was dis engaged, and the men had barely time to get into their skiff and pull away, before ihe doomed raft went crashing uuder the drift, and proved a total loss. Passing this sj'ot, the road soon left the river, and I saw but once more uulil I reached the capital, whero I halted for the night. I was much edified and amused by the conversa tion of a party assembled on the porch of the hotel, ns they passed the members of the Convention in review, describing and criticizing some of them pretty severely. One of the members was described as re sembling a crazy jackass, tiling and kick ing indiscriminately friends and foes. An ether was declared to have ability but no principle, while third bad the principle but lacked ability, and a fourth had neither ability nor principle. My curiosity being aroused by what I heard, I determined to remain the next day and witness the final proceedings, as the Convention expected to adjourn, having passed a hill of rights, constitution, &o., and nothing remaining but its final adoption, when it would pass out to the people for them to decide upon its merits. Friday morning I listened with some in terest to a speech from one of the Demo cratic chiefs, reviewing and approving the action of the Convention. A majority of the members being in favor of the constitu tion, tho motion to adjourn was carried aud I departed. Roveb. for the Argue. Lebanon, Sept. 19, '67. Mit. Editor The glorious cause of out-spoken freedom is not yet extinct in old Marion, if it is silent. 'We are not of those who splurge and make a fuss ; we do not believe in having it all talk and no cider. We want to work and not show, aud you can rest assured we do work. Our glorious cause is on the increase in this region, and the principles dissemi nated by your valuable journal arc mak ing their mark, and the people around about here are beginuing to think. But we have a couple of slnveocrats among us who huve just made the important discov ery that it is unconstitutional to vote against a slave Siato. What constitution thoy have reference to, I am at a loss to know. These same gents have not this day chink enough to " buy salt to pickle a jay bird," but they will vote for this ac cursed institution of slavery becuuse, say they, we know it is best for a poor man to live ia a slave State. But, thank God, we have but fow such amongst us. Pro-slavery men are very scarce in this region. There are not more than a dozen within six miles of here in any direction. Our honest freedom friends arc alive to their interests, nnd will do their duty. No such scurrilous sheets as the Occident al Messenger or Sentinel, or any other pro-6lavery paper, can pull the wool over our eyes. The miserable curs who are employing their time in whining and barking at your paper because of its fearless advoca cy of truth, are only following the dictates of their own nature. Go on, Mr. Editor you aro fighting whilo (lie true banner floats over you, aud while a host of friends are around you. " Thrice armed is he who has his quarrel just." We will rout the pro-slavery party by such a majority that they will he asham ed of themselves and thn inhuman princi ples they advocate. .Old Marion will say td them, We don't lliiuk much of the de grading influence of slavery, by about 1000 majority, and likely more. You r's, truly, w. B. D." Tiik ' Pacificator" of Kansas and the Conqueror of Utah. In personal appearance, General Harney is impressive. lie is considerably over six feet tall, and is large-boned and muscular. His hair was red, but is now thickly mixed wilh white, lie wears it short, and begins to be bald on the crown of his head. Ilis moustaches and beard are nearly white, and are also thick, and clipped short. His eyes are blue; and dull for he uses spectacles. In younger years, he must have been a mod el of physical vigor and strength ; but he now looks older than be really is, for Lis age, I believe docs not exceed fifty-five. While in St. Louis, I heard an anecdote, illustrative of his character, which I have never seen io print. Being in New York manv veart azo.be passed a store in one 9 w tf the principal streets, in wLich nn sue lioncor was soliciting bids for an engrav. ing of Central Jackson. Both the seller and the crowd were no politicul friends of the subject of the picture, and were ridi culing it in every possible manner. 'How much am I offered for tho Hero of New Orleans I cried the man at the stand. " Only half cent I Why ho' worth a cent, surely, after robbing tho bank. Make it cent, won't you, gentlemen I Now, then, how much am I offered !" " One bund red dollars !" said a voico, very emphatically, as Colonel Harney eulored tho door; "one hundred dollars, sir," he repeated, making his way through the crowd, half a head taller thau any other mna in tho room. The auctioneer, natur ally astonished, inquired if tho man was iu earnest, and started again on Lis witti cisms. " sir. I am In earnest, und 1 claim my bid," interrupted the Colonel ; 11 and if no one bids more, I claim tho picture." No oue biding more, Le handed the auc tioneer the money and his address. " Aud now, sir," Le remarked, seizing him by the collar and dragging Lim to tho floor, " I claim the privilege of applying the basti nado to your body for your damnable Im pertinence." And having caned him to his satisfaction, do ono io the crowd ven tured to interfere, he strode out of the store, and coutinucd his walk down tho street. Analyze the quality of character necessary for a man to bo tho actor in such a scene, and I think you will discover tho traits which military men consider to fit General Harney eminently as the leader of this Utah expedition. iV. Y. Tribune. Watulnuloa. The following is takon from a work late ly published by Richard Ru.'h and entitled " The Domestic Lifo of Washington :" An anecdote I derived from Col. Lear shortly before his death In 1818, may hare be related, showing tho height to which Washington's passion would riso and yet bo controlled. It belongs to Lis domestic life, which I am dealing with, having oc curred under his own roof, whilst it marks public feeling tho most iutense, and points to the moral of his life. I give it in Col. Lear's words 83 nearly as I can, having mnde a note of them at the time : Toward the close of a winter's day in 1701, nn officer in uniform was seen to dismount in front of tho President's at Philadelphia, and giving the bridle to his servant, knocked nt the doer of his man sion. Loa ruing from the porter that the President was nt dinner, he said that he was on publio business, and had dispatch es for the President. A servant was sent into the dining-room to give the informa tion to Mr. Lear, who left the table and went Into tho hull, whore the officer re pented what he had said. Mr. Lear re plied that, as tho President's Secretary, ho would take charge of the dispatches and deliver thorn at the proper time. The of ficer made answer that he had just arrived from the western army, and his orders were to deliver thorn with all promptitude, and lo tho President in person ; but that he would wail his diroctions. Mr. Lear returned, and in n whisper imparted to the President what had passed. General Washington rising from the table, went to the officer. Ho was buck in a short time, made a word, of apology for his absence, but no allusion to tho cause of it. lie had company that day. Everything went on as usuul. Dinner over, tho gentlemen passed to the drawing-room of Mrs. Washington, which was open in the eve ning, llieucnoral spoko courteously to every lady in the room, ns was his custom. His heurs wore early, and by ten o clock all llio company had gene. Mrs. Wash. ington aud Mr. Lear remained. Soon Mrs. Washington left the room. The General now walked backward and forward slowly for some minutes without peaking. Then he sat down on a sofa by the fire, telling Mr. Lear to sit down. To this moment there had been no change in his manner since- his interruption at the table, Mr. Lear now perceived emotion. This rising in him, he broke out suddenly. " It's all over St. Clair's defeated rout ed ; the officers nearly all killed ; the men by wholesale; the route complute too shocking lo think of and a surprise in the bargain !" He uttered this with great vehemence. Then he paused, got up from the sofa, and walked about the room several times agi tated, but saying nothing. Near the door he stopped short and stood stil! a few sec onds, when his wrath became terrible " Yes," Lo burst forth, " hero on this very spot I took leave of him ; I wished him success and lienor; you have your instructions, I said, from the Secretary of War. I .,ad a strict eye to them aud will add but a word beware of a surprise you know not how the Indians fight us. lie went on that as my last solemn warn ing thrown into his ears. And yet! to suf fer that army lo be cut to pieces, Lacked, butchered tod tomaka ked by a surprise.- ihe very thing I guarded him against Ob God! he's orso than a murderer I how can he answer lo hi country j the blood of the slain is upon Lim the curse of heaven !" This torrent came out in appalling lone. 11 was awful, saiu Air. x-eur. More than once Le threw Lis Laud up as ho hurled imprecation upoo Cen, St. Clair. Mr. Leur retnaiued speechless; awed into breathless silence. Ihe routed chief ml down on tho sofa ono mure, lie seemed eoncious 01 in passion, and uucomfortolls. He wo al ien!. Hi warmth begiuniog to subside, he at length said in on altered voice : "This must not go beyoud this room."-' Another pause fol!od a longer one when ho said in a tone quito low, "Gen. eralSt. CI air shall have justico; I looked hastily through tho dispatches, saw the whole disaster; but not all tho particulars; I will receive him without displeasure; I will hear Lim without prejudice; Le shall Lave full justice." He wa now, said Mr. Lear, perfectly calm. Half an hour Lad gone by. The storm was over and no sign of il was af terwards teen in hi conduct or heard ia his conversation. The result is know. The whole case was investigated ly Con. gress. St. Cluir was exculpated and re gained tho confidence Washington bad in him when appointing him to that command. Ho had put himself into the thickest of the fight aud escaped unhurt, though so ill as to be carried on a litter, and unnblo to mount his horse without help. Tits Ashland Dutbict. Jarae B. Clay has a majority of 130 for Congress in the Ashland disttict. The Leuisvill Journal speaks of the result as follows: The heart of every ttuo patriot in tht Sinto will be aaddened by the intelligence of this result, and the admirer of the Great Commoner, the immortal Sage of Ashland, everywhere will mourn over thi triumph of his life-long enemies in Ihe dis. trict which first gave hi splendid taleute and lowering eloquence to the councils of tho nation and which is now the saored resting place of his honored ashes. The election of the apostate son who has taken to his embroco the enemies of his fit her, llinsn who hunted that noL'.o father throuch a quarter of a century with fiend-like ma. Itgmty, and crushed out Lis great neart with the foulest ami blackest caluninios, i thn rnwiiinr curse of lh nt Democratic ha tred which persecuted Uuiiry Clay living nnd thus' insults the memory of Henry Clay dead. The Ashland District has fallen Into the hands of the spoilers. The hallowed shiine of tho great dead, endeared to the hearts of milliout of hi countrymen, is re sounding with the shouts of triumph of those who followed him wilh sternest Laired ntid imprecations from earliest mauhood to ' the very close of his long and useful and glorious life. OT A Little Monc English Filiuus terino. Recent arrivals toll us that "ac counts from India statu that the govern or general on the advice of his counsel had declared the annexation to the Anglo-Indian empire of the Stalos of Bijey-Singb, llnjsh of Hindoo Khouch, who died on tho 11th of April without heirs. Tho ter ritories which have just been annexed to the British possessions are situated ou the southern slopes of the Hindoo Khouch, a vast cli u in of mountains culled tho Indian Caucasus, which extend from the frontier of Persia lo tlm Indus. In the north of Affgunistnn, nnd in the South of Budako ban and Independent Turkestan. The States of Bijoy-Singh contain very rich and fertile district, and possess, trom their geographical position, grtut political im portance.". fJr party lines wero not strictly ob-' served in voting upon the new Constitu tion of Iowa. The Constitution La been approved, though tho independent clause in regard to negro suffrage has been voted down by a vory large mnjority. Thi pro. vision seems to have been equally objee- -tionable lo both parties. 03" Mrs. Sigourney U still in excellent health and cheerful spirits. Although far advancod on tlm journey of life, thi dis tinguished American poetess i yet ena bled to receive her friends, who aro nu- merous, witli much of the wit tnd sprightly conversation which characterized her ears . licr years. Removi.no a.nu Previntino Rust . Some persons employ an acid to remove rust from knives ; this, the best authority declares, should never be done under any circumstances. Nothing surpasses rotten stone and oil for scouring knives and forks. To prevent kloves and grates from rusting during summer, if placed io damp situs, lions, ;;ive them a thin coat of lard and re sin, melted together, in the proportion of three parts of the former lo one of the latter. 03" People who tako cart loads of medicine every day they imagine they are going to bo sick, are the fool upon wlie-ce, the quacks feed and fatten. -