xce)t ibal it it not near so e-ere with
llio genoral lonor of the slsvo codes of the
different States. We learn by Bible
tint God !i no respecter of persons thnt
La ii pure, jut, humane, anj benevolent.
Now, I ek, can eny man talis lLa defini
tion of slavery tbovt given, and rccot'.cilo
it with ibese idmltted Attributes oft right
eoui and holy Cod f And if silvery be
right, the means by which it hat 1 bo sus
taincd art hecrsearily right. Then, are
we not " respeolcr of persons" when we
punish (lit slave for that for which another
. would never receive evea lite mildest ro
proof t when in fuel a hundred (hinge may
be done lawfully nnd properly to the tlave
which it would be criminal to do to any
other; and eron hit life may be token
necessary to preicrvt (not tho master's
own life, but) hit authority. Tell me
where the Dible mule ihis diflirenco be
tween men. Next : lie it pure, and hasi
aid, "Thou shall not commit adultery ;
yot aluvo law recognizes no luch thing as
marringo. " A tlave canuot coutracl mat
Tlmony." Slroud'a Slave Laws, papa 01.
' Slaves art not entitled to the conditions
of matrimony." Taylor s Civil Law, page
429. True, they may ge through the
form, but the law gives it no vitality and
allowt it no force. No slave woman can
shield herself from the passions of her
owner, for the law mukes him absolute,
nod sho dsre not resist. Thus slavery up
roots virtue and fidelity by refining to
recognize tboni as merits to bo protected,
and imbrutcd ignorance and LuuriJlcd li
cense run without curb or restraint. Tell
me, can a God of purity sanction such a
system of harleiry and prostitution I
Third : lie Is said to be just aud hu
mane, hit just to keop a ilare iu igno
rance of the simplest means of informing
his mind, and then to puniali him ly a law
he never saw, and could not read if ho had
seen it I Keep him in ignorance of the
laws, and then punish him for their trans
gression. Is it just to afflict tho posterity
because the mother was bl.uk instead of
white ) Is it humane to tear these chil
dren born in soirow from their parent and
sell tbcin fur sordid gain to the merciless
alavedriver, whose eye never kindles with
pity for their sufferings, nnd whose cruel
ties know no bounds but tho limits of hu
man endurance t In tine, can a system be
liumaue which solely rests upon force
where tho scourge and the baud-cuff", the
whipping-post and the bloodhound are the
means by which it is sustained nnd perpet
pot ua ted I Yet such a system is American
slavery in principle, and when a God of hu
manity smiles upon such cruellies, thcu
will he approve thnt system.
Lastly God is benevolent aud kind.
Indeed, such has been his loving kindness
that ho sent his only begotten Son into the
world to sacrifice himself for all men to
save tho bond as well as the free. Yet the
slave code gives tho mnster power to keep
his slaves in enliro Ignorance by prohibiting
them tho benefits of education and the
preaching of tho gospel thus keeping
them in heathenish darkness and supersti
tion. Can a God who mude this sacrifice
for the elevation of man, approve a Eystrm
which gives to a sinful, depraved, fallen
.man tho power to thwart his noble nnd be
nevolent designs and who says thnt nil
men shall be judged by the deeds done in
the body thus making every individual
responsible for his own acts ? I ask, can he
npproro n system which annihilates that
responsibility, destroys the slave's capacity
and right to choose between right and
wrong, ignores the fact that he possesses an
immertal soul, and turns him into a chattel
. and a brute I I answer, Ho never can.
Cut, Bays our friend who bslievcs this
-system "a Bible principle," the abuses
which slavery may have sulTered in tho
hands of bad men is no argument against
the existence of the institution. But it is
folly to tulk about abuses when tho whole
system is an abuso. One step in wrong
begets the necessity for a hundred mors,
And the recognition of the one falsa print')',
pie thnt one human being can rightfully
hold another ns property, brings inevitubly
nnd necessarily tho long crimson catalogue
-of crime that you denominnto the " abuses
of slavery." If it is right to hold a man
In bondage, the menus to support that right
are also right. If a slave is property, he
can have no legal marriage relations, for
lhat would interfere with the master's pow
er to sell his " property." Adultery is sot
.then one of the " abuses" of slavery, but
2s absolutely necessary to its very exist-1
-ence. If a slave is " property," then tho
light of the master to dispose of his prop.
riy includos the means to enforce his au
thority. Thus the whip, the gag, and the
hand cuff become absolutely necessary, aud
are therefore not "abuses," but instru
ments without which it could not exist.
If the slave is property, and tries to escape
from his owner, then the use of the chain
nnd the bloodhound to retain the refractory
fugitive is not an "abuse of the system,"
however inhuman and cruel it may be, but
a necessary concomitant of it. If a slave
is property, then he is bound to ebey hit
master; if he refuses, the master may flog
him ; if tho slave, under the impression
that he is about to receive tome great bod
ily injury, should raise his hand te resist,
ht may be killed on the spot. This is well
settled law in the slave States. The right
to take the life of the stare, then, is net an
"abuse," but a nteessity of the system,
and without which power insubordination
and rebellion would destroy the system.
Throw aside the whip, the gag, the chain,
and the piitol turn tho bl'iodheund ooe
to track the native beasts of the lores! aud
twamp recognize the law of marriage
among tlaves and let the law prohibit
their use to perpetuate the sway of lbs
matter, and how long without these abuses
would the tytlem exist? The day thnt
such Ihw was proclaimed would be tho
knell of slavery.
And yet "A Member of llio Christian
Church" ays thnt such an inlilution " it
no national, no moral evil. I can only
tsv, if this bo true, that I envy not his
code of moral principles!
After all, he hat succeeded In showing
if he showed anything at all that while
mat could rightfully bo mado slaves fur
he will hardly contend that the Hebrew
slaves wero " niggers." Our Deduratien
of Independence, according te the luost
ultra pro-slavery interpretations, has set
tled that all vhitc men have equal rights
to liberty, and I presume even "A Mem
ber of the Christian Church" would blush
lo be compelled to maintain tho doc-
trino that he couid enslave rightfully hit
fellow citizens if he ceuld obtain the power.
And yel the Biblo proves that right, er it
proves nothing for him.
Asking a caudid perusal by all who hId
the doctrines of " A Member of the Chris
tii.il Church," and begging pardon of tho
printer for occupying so much space, I am,
sir, jours, respectfully, te.,
Freedom.
Lafayette, Nov. 7th, 1S.VT.
Sljc rcgou Cirgus.
W. L. MMI, ruiTOS AND rHarSIKTOI.
03XrOX7 CITY:
SATURDAY, XOVKMHKll 21, 1857.
(jf 1). W. Csaiu is aullinriwd to do any but
liu-u connected with The Argus Office during my
absence. AV. L. ADAMS.
Tbt (tec lilf nisi as Ihe n lioosf1
Since the election, tho Occidental Mess
cnger lakes the following true South Caro
lina secession view of the goose :
"We contend for an equality of rights
between the Stales we contend that the
territories, being common property, all
have an equal right to citizenship upon
them with such property as they may pes
sos. We further contend that the people
of a territory, in the formation of a state
government have no power lo exclude
slaveholders, because the exercise ef such
a right would invalidate the common part
ners In p would bo a declaration to the ef
fect thnt the people of the nos-slavehold-
ing states possessed superior rights ovor the
territory to the people or the slaveholding
states."
This is tho only consistent, sound, and
reliable black-democracy, and the nation
al demagogues will occupy the Occidental's
ground in less than Ion years. .
In the snme article the Occidental pokes
out the cloven foot of disuuionisin :
" Asgreat an evil as disunion would be,
we consider there is still a greater, and
that i'.i submission to the unrestricted will of
a reckless fanaticism, tehieh overrides the
barriers erected by the constitution for the
protection of the minority, and tramples,
with ruthless, iron heel, upon the plainest
principles of justice nml equality.
Hero we are threatened with disunion
as preferable to a 11 submission" to the will
of the " reckless fanaticism" that has just
decided lo " override Ihe barriers erected
by the constitution for the protection of tho
minority" who wish to deal in the bodies
and touls of men on tho same terms that
the? deal in baton.
fVC 13. Pickett, the wandering Ish
maelito from California, who has been so
journing iu Oregon for a couple of months
for tho purpose of advocating the intro
duction ef elavery here, through tho Occi
dental nnd Sentinel, publishes a letter in
the last Occidental, which shows thnt he
has " got his back up" nbM the recent
vote on slavery. In addressing his fellow-worshipers
at the woolly shrine, he
suys:
" Rut it is said you will acquiesce in the
decision given a! the polls on yesterday.
Can this bn true? Will you thus quietly
nnd tamely submit and tit is, loo, in mere
wantonness cf insult on the part of somo
who oppose you to bp deprived of your
hopes, wishes, expectations and rights!
II so, tlien, you no longer deserve the
name of men nnd freomcn."
This talking about "not submitting'' to
the wishes of an overwhelming majority of
the people, comes with a rich grace from
a source tunt bus rained lire and brim
stone on republicans who have demurred
at the political opinion ef the five southern
members of the Supreme Court! It's a
sad plight you're in, poer fellows. Wo
would advise all these Ishnia'blites to emi
grate to South Carolina, but we aro
afraid that in their great desire to kick up
a muss of some tort, they would commit
some act that would cause them all to be
hung aa " abolitionists."
Cut poor l'ickolt consoles himself with
tho idea of a better timo coming. Hear
him:
" The time is coming, nnd noi far dis
tnnt, when a decision of far greater im
portance than that of the Dred Seotl casft
will be made by the Supreme Court of the
United States ; and this decision will be
that negroes are property, the tame at any
other specira of personal or movaablo
propeny, is to recognized by the federal
constitution, at well as by the great un.
written common law which covers all parts
of ibis confederacy alike, and that the
owner of a negre slave iu one State has
a perfect right to remove such slave into
any other Statt and there held him, as in
the State from which he came, and that
any State law centraveaiag such fight, u
unconstitutional, null and void. "
There spske the soul of a regular dyed
It-the-weoi black-democrnt. The 'opinion'
ef poor Tickett cannot, however, be called
original, naose Deady, a pettifogger whom
poor Tierce commissioned at ono of the
supreme judges of Oregon, expressed the
same opinion in a speech made at the
Leckiug;latt school house in Douglass
county last spring. It it whnt poor Pick
ett, in llio language of Ruchannn In refer
ence la squatter sovereignty, would call a
" happy conception." Wbon Pickett's
"sperm cori" decides that the constitution
revives the slave trade, permits Toombs te
call the roll of his slaves on Hunker hill,
Wise to settle with his five hundred negroes
along side of white luberers in Vermont,
thereby reducing their wsges from one dol
lar to fifty cents a day, besides requiring
I base white laborers te leave their Work
and hunt 'Wise's runaway niggen for
nothing, we hope thnt poor Pickett and his
Court will permit us te quote a sentence of
his epistle, in addressing tho free laborers
of tbo North" Will you thus rjuittly and
tamely submit!"
Wo think that when Pickett's "Supreme
Court" knocks the underpinning from the
pillars of State sovereignty, nud plants
slavery in all tho States nolens fo(;n,llien
bluck-democracy may lay some cluiiu to
"nationality." Till then, however, we
shall continue lo denominate it ns a "sec
tional" party, and a miserable rotten one at
that.
tW Last week wn published an extract
from Salem correspondence ef the N. Y.
Tribune, giving a pretended history ef a
border ruffian row in the Constitutional
convention. The authorship ofthat letter,
it was supposed would forever remain a
mystery ; as no one belioved thnt tho
creature who would de such an act would
ho silly enough to " leak out" a syllable
that would lend to implicate him in a ded
that would brand him as a very dirty dog
in nny civilized community. But it seems
thai the lecherous blockhead who edits the
Snlcm organ of black democracy, knows
a II about the letter (having doubtless writ
ten it himself), and ihinks it so smart and
wilty a thing, last he allows his zeal for
notoiiety in doing dirty things to blind his
discretion, and he thus proceeds to open
.the wallet aud iuvite the community to
look at Ihe cut :
" Philosopher Gbeelev 'Sold.' At
the time of the organization of the con
stitutional convention, a wag at this place
got up a " blood, hair nud thunder" des
cription of a row nnd -fight in that body,
ns u ' sell" upon Greeley. Wo thought
the "soli" was too transparent tedi-ceive
anybody, nnd had not the slightest idea of
ever seeing it in tho Tribune. Rut Gree
ley, ever on lbs nlert for " border ruffian"
laics, clutched at, nnd swallowed it with
avidity. It seems from the extract we
publish below from tho Tribnno of (he
7th, that the letter was published in the
issue of the day previous. We have net
the paper of lhat day, but the correspond
ent here has furnished us a copy ef the
letter which ha kept, nnd we would pub
lish it from that, but we have not room this
week. It will appear next week."
Here we have a full acknowledgement
that tho editor was a particeps cri minis in
this foul transaction, er at least knew nil
about it at tho time, nlihotigh he essays to
fasten tho crime upon some other member
of the " clique." The exhibition of such
moral turpitude nnd brazen effrontery ns is
contained in this extract from the Salem
paper, shows the crying necessity for
more thorough moral training and rigid
discipline in tho family and in the school
It is mainly for the want of this training
and discipline thnt wn now nnd then see
in community a sneaking slimy loafer,
whose highest gratification consists in dis
turbing public meetings, disfiguring post
ers and handbills, writing smutty things
on the tcalls of public buildings, dropping
obscene anonymous communications in the
post office directed to females, whittling
picket fences and disfiguring other people's
furniture, nnd other nets which mark the
perpetrator as a slimy greaser. Tho au
thorship of this letter to the Tribune
would probably furnish n clue to the crra
lure who last fall, crawled into a "neces
sary" at Sulem, lor material with which
te smear the whole front of n poor harm
less negro's barber shop.
During a long period of pretty success
ful school teaching, we have generally
managed, whenever we have had such a
subject to deal with, to " bond the twig"
aright by moral influence with nn occa
sional mixture of tho hickory. Tho ouly
half dozen or so cases that proved "too
much for us," have either turned out lo
stealing, or editing locofuco newspapers.
A. Bush, the editor of the "Oregon States
man" (Czapkay's organ), from which we
make the above extract, is, of course, too
much hardened in villainy and steeped
in crime, to justify any hope of doing much
for him. We think with the Messenger,
however, that an argument might now and
then be made to reach him through his
hide. If he should ever bo put up at
auction, and we think, upon "examining
him," he has the mental qualifications for
a Devil in The Argus office, we may buy
him ; thinking that by sending him to
Bro. Pearne's Sunday school and wearing
eut a couple ef good hazle brush on him
every Sunday before he starts, and aa many
more upon his return, we can improve
his manners to as to make him a passable
devil.
fctT Tne Astoria Report in favor of a
railroad from Astoria te Eugene City,
Beit week.
8L80TION B.2TU&NS.
Clackamas. Bulow we give the official
returns of Clackamas county :
I 10 - u.
Oregon City..., 1!)3 87 41 249 S3 313
t'piwr Mululls 41 33 19 56 4 C3
Young's 91 3 5 19 3 3D
Lower Moltllt 39 33 11 41 0 43
Curry 19 9 3 19 (10 31
IU Creek 37 5 1 41 7 35
Timlslin 19 3 3 19 00 30
Matron's 37 13 S 30 6 S
Hi-aver Crick 35 1 3 33 1 31
l.iun City SI 37 9 49 9 37
.Milwaukie 45 13 1 50 33 34
Muniumu's 43 10 4 50 1 44
Total 530 SIO 98 655 113 594
Clatsop. Ed, Argus: Below are the
official returns of the election in Clatsop
county :
Yes.
62
25
25
No.
37
71
05
Constitution,
Slavery,
Free Negroes,
Astoria, Nor. 12
W. W. Pahickr.
UMrcjUA. Dear Sir:
I send you the
returns of this county :
Yes.
Constitution, 107
Slavery, 32
Fren Negroes, 19
Ne.
83
204
100
It is reported that Douglas county goes
for the constitution 173 majority, nud
against slavery 155 majority.
Yoncalln, Nov. 13. E.L. Atplesatb.
Yamhill Co. Mathenv's Precinct.
Yes. No.
Constitution, 28. 2
Slavery, 3 27
Free Negroes, 5 25
S. M. GlLMORK
Polk Co Plcn Vallry Pseciwct.
Yes. No.
Constitution, , 45 27
Slavery, 26 40
Amos Harvey.
Amity Precinct, Yambill County
Yes. No
Constitution, 30 2
st .
Slaverv, IS 40
Free Negroes, 5 5;
Jerome Willing.
The returns from this precinct sent us by
S. M. Gilmore, Esq., give 48 against sla-
siUered a stronuhold or slavery indeed.
. . ..... .
we have often heard it said by pro-slavery
men from Amity, "We are all sound on
the goso in Amity." Fifteen votes for
tho "goose" out of sixty-feur votes, looks
like rather a "bad egg" for a "sound
goose." Put her back on the nest again,
boys, wiih the "Nebraska stone" under
hor for an egg, and let's see what she will
hatch, out next time.
Below we give the result of the viwe by
majorities for aud against the Constitution
and ngaiust Slavery, in nil- the counties in
the Territory. A part of them are official,
while the rest are made up from the best
information we had in the absence of elli
cinl reports. The full official returns will
not materially change the total, result.
Many thanks are tendered to our friends
in all parts of the Territory for their
promptness in sending us in returns.
, MAJORITIES. -
counties.
Clatsop,
Columbia,
Wasco,
Multnomah,
Tillamook,
Washington,
Clackamas,
Marion,
Yamhill,
Polk,
Benton,
Linn,
Lnne,
Umpqun,
Douglas,
Jackson,
Curry,
Josephine,
Total,
For Con. Against. Against Sla.
23
40
73
27
C57
25
350
657
889
450
245
00
804
150
172
155
200
100
650
30
34
241
22
175
814
781
07
335
04
178
300
150
450
4555
70 5090
Remember It That Luckamiine pre.
cinct in Polk county is the only precinct
yet heard from in the Territory which
gave a majority for slavery. The vote
stood 38 for, to 29 against. The Terri
lory ougl.l to buy a black goat and
stake him out in the cenier of thai pre
cinct for the natives to smell of.
Scene. Dramatis Persons Landlord
anil Editor.
Editor rides up te landlord just before
sunset, and finds him busily digging post
holes.
Editor Good evening, sir.
Landlord (digging away How are
you, sir f
Editor My name is Mr. Pe.irne Ipre-
sume you have heard of me !
Landlord Y-e-s. My name is Jim
Barlow I presume you have heard of meL
(Keeps on digging.) (
Editor looks at the frightened chickens
a moment, scratches his head rather bewil
dercd, and rides on.
But, in the present condition of
mailers, it we should catch a thief in the
act of taking a horse from our stable, or
committing an important robbery, we
would shoot him upon the spot." Crop-
Hay's organ.
It is probable that about as valuable
" horse" as any body will ever take
from yeur stable, will be a shaving 'horse'
and a borrowed one at that.
63T " If the doctrine of the tranamirra.
tion of souls be true, Leland's spirit, after
death, will be fouad playing snapping turtle
in a swill-tub." Portland Times.
Very likely ; bat nobody need be afraid
of being bit" but you.
t.-r" They Wells, Fargo & Co. r
ceive from us a large package of papers
weekly, but we seldom receive any from
(hem, and when any, mosily valueless In
terior pspers. We have not received a
decent file for three months." Ciapkay't
Organ,
H' receive files of valuable papers
from lliem.auch as the New Orleans True
Delta, N. Y. Tribune, N. Y. Herald, N.
Y. Times, Boslon Traveller, San Francisco
Herald, and many others. The reason the
Express Companies usually send you 1 he
Banner of Liberty(riism), The Venus Mis
cellany, Prophilactical Star, tnd Czapkay's
nlmanaot for 18550, is, ihey know these
papers are such as furnish suitable "clip
pings" for your lying filthy sheet why
you call them " valueless," we aroal a loss
10 determine.
Instead of your not having " received a
decent file for three months," most people
here judge from the looks of your sheet
lhat you haven't received a " decent file"
since yon stole lhat editorial from the
Albany Evening Journal.
W Some lime since, Dr. Hutchins of
Lafayette sent us a bottle' of his 11 Balsam
of Wild Cherry," which, having no occa
. . i .
sion 10 use eurseii, we gave 10 .nrs.
Stout of ibis city, who has been 'troubled
for a long lime with a strioijs n flection of
the lungs, producing severe cough and
oilier symptom of Approaching consump
lion. The medicine, we ire glad te say,
has produced an almost immediate cure.
Dr. Uiitchins' medicines, so far as we
have heard of their being triad, have
proved highly efficient.
0 " Our readers may regret ihe ne
cessity which trots into requisbion this
Coinjj down into llio cellarage. i'orr.
land Times.
The only ' regret" we have heard ex
pressed up this way, is, lhat your moral
respiratory organs were net so constructed
that, instead of rruderini; it possible evel lo
poke your head above your natural elemani,
the same 44 necessity which trots into requi
sition this going down into tho eellaregt,"
hadn't" trolled into requisition" your stay
ing doun in the cellarage after, your first
dive.
jm
vjr M rin. rRimMMiiUi.
rical exhibition in this city liist Tuesday
night lo a crowded house. II is persona
tions of distinguished orators aud stage ac
tors were generally good; nnd some of
them felicitous. In our opinion, however,
he appears the best as a regular built Yan
kee, and ns an rrishmen from Cork.
The exercises- n-ero much broken in upon
by a new-comer set of California rowdies,
w iih a sneaking hang-dog look that ram ki d
them as exotics from the " Five Points."
Their presence induced every man in the
house to instinctively place his hand upon
his pocket,' besides feeling the force of a
.. . . - . : .. r f t -
vi-ry Nirunr ttrumeiit iu lavur ui t 'g'
Ihnce Comniitiees.
Cc5"IIe Jo Lane was accompanied
bv lion. Aaron Rose and family, of Dou
glas Co., who go to tho stales on a visit.
Our nest wishes trot along with Ihe com
pany." Portland Times.
How natural, nfter " trotting" out here
behind Jo Lane, to make ' our best wishes'
lake the form of a poodle " trotting" back
after him en all fours I'
f3T We notice in one of the Portland
papers n statement by Marco Gassivadu, of
San Francisco, thnt our old friend Samuel
Simmons, of Howell Prairie, Has sold 1000
bushels of apples this fall, which brought
from five to ten dollnrs more per hundred
than nny other apples sent to the California
Market. Friend Simmons used lo raise ex
cellent apples, we know, but il is so long
since we have seen any of them, thnt the
way they tasted is not sufficiently vivid in
our mind' to enable us to form a very dog
matical opinion as to Gassivgdn's state
ment. .
OT James Gray, Esq., writes us from
Albany, O. T-, that pork is selling there nt
seven and nine dollars per hundred. It is
telling at eight in this market.
03" The weaiher lias been beautiful for
the last two weeks, resembling spring.
Our farmers are improving the time in put
ting in fall crops.
03 Thirty thousand bushels of wheat
were recently sold at Joliel, Illinois, for
40 cents a bushel. Com was selling in
the field near Springfield, at $5 per acre.
03" Bngham Young lately declared in
a speech at Salt Lake city, that "hence
forth Utah is independent of the United
States." We look upon this ns only a fee
ble outburst of Briiham's harmless gas.
Bloninowlh Vnlvemllj.
Jk RniTnn n, Tub Awmto Pin...
x ,,,!,
me to announce through your paper to the
friends of Monmouth University abroad,
and the public in general, lhat Professor
W. T. Halet, a graduate of Bethany
College, arrived here on ihe 14th inst., to
take charge of the collegiate department
of our school. We expect lo have other
rooms fitted up in eight or ten days.
Boarding in good families, from $2.50 10
S3. 00 per week.
The neighborhood of Monmouth is pro.
verbis! for morality, good order, and so
briety. Send on your sons and daughters.
J. E. MriRpnr. '
Moumouth, Nov. 16, 1857.
KW ihe Washinirioa corresnondent
ef ihe New York Herald, ssyt that Judge
Curtis is considered there as the Dred
Scott candidate for the presidency, since
no resigned bis jue)g4smp.
A Man or Dkstinv, Mr, John D Da
menl of Oregon City O. T., on, t '
stved from the Central America, wb
name has undergone a dozen Ulegrs.J!
transportations, has experienced a !
ev.mful life kr owe t young, ft,,,,
In the neighborhood of Wwhlnj, Q 1
where he was bom, he volunteered in B,
Ride Regiment, composed principal, .
the best blood of lhat region,.,,!,
the service rendered In the Meiclr, w '
Ho fought in every battle from VertCm,'
to the gates of the city tnd never recti,
ed a scratch. During ihe occupailoa of'
lhatCspiial he occupied a prominent r.
sitlon in the Police Department, tnd escT
ed many well laid plots against his lif,, 0t
Ihe part of Ihe Greaser population, 'jj,
wax the firsi man 10 vlunter on the call
of General Scott for a certain number who
should blow up the castle ef Cbepuhep
at Ihe certain sacrifice of their lives.
For hisgsllamry he was promoted t0
Lieutenancy in the regular armv, 1,, Ar.
tillery-a double honor. His fir,t ordef
was to the pol of Sicilacoom on Tugrt
Sound, a waste howling wildorness, when)
his ndventuros with the Indians, grialiM
and other vtrmnnis, would form 1 meaii
leresting bonk. One occasion he toak 1
small bom, of the sire of an oyster pm. ,
and with only four men, rescued from a'
mosl tavago tribe of Indians, ocoupyiaj
nn Island, soverul porta m including 1 yt
nnd child, who had been wrecked and bar.
ha rously treated. Persons familiar with
I he adveoiure pronounce it one of the
most heroic and dtriag,. requiring M
ninnuut of- diplomacy rarely fnund-eN
which Nnpelron might have delightd to
honor wiih 'ho graud cross in ihe presence
of a gmnd army.
, Finding the soldier's life in time of petce
too monoionoiiK, or obeying nn f rreaistibta
impulse lo attivo life, he resigned Ins po.
siilon whilb stationed nt tile pleasant post
of Charleston, look to himself jft tnj
returned' taOrgou to join his brother i
buiiuess,. who it may be said by the wiy,
had-crossed the Kwky Mountains iih ihe
first train that ever wcnl to Oregon for lbs
purpoe of settlement.
Now comes the remarkable femurs of
his travels on the sea. Lsst year in com
ing 111 for goods he was in tho steamer Ill
inois, which was so near being lost, and ar
rived in Norfolk under such painful cir
cumstances. This year he meets the ill
fated Central America ami ho gels into
Norfolk again. Pity it is that we are not
in possession of his account of the caiaa
trnpha While his cne may not have dif.
fered essentially from others, we aro sure
he knows as much as any who have made
statements, and thst as in all the rest; of.
his works, his modesiy would be equal 10'
his ineril.
AJI Imtl In ikon Inl.nl rioni.l I
.11... MV , W.'l... 4 WV.... f".lit(t-
friend of my early days I If yon arealwan
good you cannot now fail 10 be a better
man. I would net preach you a sermon,
John, but would merely suggest inquiry
as to how the prayers of that dear good eld
mother of that sweet, amiable wife,.,
away across the big mountains, and oftbat '
little boy who doubtloss lisped your name,,
as yen took the fearful plunge, may hare."
performed the functions of the life preserver
That you' nro born for a good esd ii al
ready known that you are reserved fort
better may be inferred, and if for nothing
more agreeable, let it be for seeing uie
once more''. Job.
India. The New York Evening Toil, in.
reviewing tbo latest news from India, saysr
On the whole, the India news by the
steamer yesterday is altogether gloomy.
The prospect now ia that it will cost mora
to recover the revolted provinces ef Ceo
iral India than it eost originnlljt to con
quer litem.; that when reconquered it will ,
take three limes as many men, and three
times as muoh money, lo bold them at
etirely r and lhat when thus reduced to sub
jugation an event the occurrence of which
grows more doubt till every day tney
not be worth ono third as much to the con
querors as 1 hey have been. The natives
of lhat region " ill Imve become alienatM
by this war, wlitcli is conducteo wiiu
mercy on either side; seeds ol hate will
bloom for half a century after a p
lias been conquered, and no one can fore
see the time when the people who have
hitherto constituted more than filiB
twentieths of the Anglo-Indian snny.caa
again be confided in, or saWy tmyhjei
to any considerable extent as seMier
the revolted districts. -
Improvement in Soap. The wife ef
American agriculturist has been experi
menting in soaps, and finds that the add"
lion of three quarters of a pound of bo1
to a pound or soap, melted without boilingi
makes a savins of one-half in the cost of
ap, and of three-fourlbt the labor at
washing, improves the whiteness 01 iw
fabric; besides, the usual caustic effect
thus removed, and the hands are led "
a peculiar soft and silky feeling, leaving
nothing more to be desired by the meat am
bitious washerwoman.
The Mam who Bbok the Tble8aM
Cablb. The letter of Professor Morse,
L'ives t nerfectly clear and understsndao'e
explanation of the cause of bresjinj w
Atlantic Telegraphic cable, ana u
blame of the disaster where if pwp"J
belongs. Mr. Bright, the head engines
who had the laving of the cable under t
sole direction appears to hsve e
culprit. He had put the blame npo"
...... - ftl - taVI
thai
mechanic," but proiewor www
he ordered one of hia aubereinaies -r
ply ihe brakes, the - mechanic
Mr. Bright repeated the f.ul
ihe mischief waa done- M.1'"
sarcastically remarks that Mr. Brtght
erously" gave a certificalt exonerating