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ADVKItTIHINO HATta. Ona quart (II liuea or knj out luwriloa, )flQ ' - liiur;''iat, 4,0 lime iiiM-iiiua, bJbO Kueli sub raneot lawi.ou, f'D Reaeuoabla dedueiiona lo lliota wbu Jiai.ua by Ilia year, rVSLUMUD BVSSf (ATUKUir NOBXINO, BT WILLIAM L. ADAMS. TERMS-Tka A tons trill aa fmnihU it f J'krta Dollar! and Fifty Vtnla per onnam.ia adranee, la tingle aubtcriliert Three Pullari ' taek la clubi if tin at um office i a atlranea When lln money la not paid ia nlmae; four Vol hit I will la charged if paid villi' a ait manlka, and Fire dollma at I lie end of the wear. IV Tito Dollar I for tiM monthiHo auhacrlp. limta received for a Uu eeriad. JOB PRINTING. Ths MorntToa or Te AUfll'B is nirrr lo liilorm Ilia Mih'ie iHkI Ii Iiu just iwlvrd a large siork of Jo 11 TYPE and e brr new ril inj material, and wi'l he in iht rrdy rrcr.jit of additions tulii-d loa'l III i-iqniienirn i of this In eiilliy. IIA.M)llll.ll, 1'0'II KS, HUNK. CAIilW, CIRCIXAIIM, PAMI'III.KT-WOItK I ad o.her Linds. duiw lo mdrr. on hor nrx'i e. A Jileekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jefl'ersonian Democracy, and ndvocatmc tie side of Truth iu every issue. df No paper dieconlinued until all arrente jei OREGON CITY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 28, 185 T. No. 33, . art pain, uairta at taa option o the potiiiafr. HIE OREGON AKGUS, ma 'JF- M BUSINESS' GAUDS. ijfmm. W. T. SUTLOII. ' ' W.O. ' Matlock tU Johnson, ATTORNEYS St COUNSELORS AT LAW, , ,: , And Solicitor in .Chancery, WILL promptly attend lo any busluese which may be coinmilled to their profreuonal choree txifore the District and Supreme Courts. ' OlnVa In llighfluld a building, immediately op- JMMia Ilia Alaiu Nreet Ilaii-w. .. Oregon Ciiy.Maruh 7, 1857. . 47y R. O. Burnett, ATTORNEY Si COUNSELOR AT LAW, ' And Solicitor in Chancery, BKTHEr.,' POLK COUNTY, ORDO.V. JOHN R M BRIDE, ATTOSNSV 1X0 ooomuoi AT law, 1 iMifayetle, Yamhill County, 0. T., ' WILL faithfully attend lo ill buunesa en Irunled lo hia profeesioiial cars. Wra, ft Dement tk Co., WHOLESALE and retail Dealers in Groeer ir, Provisions, Paints, Oils, Hoots and Shoes, Crockery, AVc. Opposite Ilia Lund Office. Main Ml. Oregon City. Junt I, 1855. , CHARLES POPE, JR., .TvEALER in Hardware, GroncnVe, Dry Good JLJ Hominy, uool. n. Mioea, Medicines, Duok. and Stationery. Main-sl., Oregon City. April 21, 18.T7-Itf , iiVO. lUL'U.HUTIir & Co., MERCHANTS, OREGON CITY, O.T. Abernethy, Clark tSi Co., COMMISSION AND l'OHWARDINO MKHCIIANTS, ' San Francmo, Cal., Will attend lo sellim? Oregon produce, and fill or- dera for Uooda, Groceries, etc., al the lowest ruin. I he patronage of the ieii!a of Oregon la re epeclfully anlkitrd. Auj. 3. E. MUwain, ' 'Manufacturer, Wholeiala and Retail Dealer In COOK AM l'AKLOR STOVES, ' ' ' tth a. corrRTi warh, hardware, ac, , Main St., oppositt Main Street Hotel, ; ' .' OREGON CITY, 0. T. ' .. , Slcumbout and jobbing work attended to with diMtch. ' Urdera from the country promptly filled. ' je7 Time. WF..HIG11KIELD, v A Tr it. if j p p n - - w Mm - ... ji u j , Penmin di'lroii5 of felling pood work done will do well to (rive me a call, aa my whole time i dc- nited lo the repairing of Chronometer, LeiT, . Dnplux, and ilorihmtal wutuliee. .i An aaaortuient of Jewelry on hand. ' Jewelry muilo to order, and repaired. "' l'ricre to hu It the lime. 1 am thankful for punt - favor, and hopo to give nlisfaetion in future. ... O Loeatrd al the old eland, nppoelto tliuTel egmph OUKc, OREGON CITY. .Feb. 3., - Srujra, Medicines, Paints, Oils, l) and Dye-stuffs, Hi the OHbliO.N CITY DRUG STORE, .t aepl5 Main Street, Oregon City, O.T. ' JOHN P. BROOKS, H7ioZfeae Retail Draper in Groeeriet, Produce, ' ' Pmviiiotu), dc. Main Street. A General Anortnient kept up of Selected Goods Cnnemnh,' March 88, 1857.! GUN -SMITHING. rTEING permnnenlly locnted In Orejron City, - l 1 am prepared to carry on the bu-ine ol UUN-S.MrrillNG . . , , , -. IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. " Thoee who favor me with their patronage, may expect to have their work dune right. - ' Those who leave G (INS al my Shop for repair, and do not call for them within mm r months of the time set for the work lo be done, , may expeot to have them anld to pay charges. iliKDiNANU WILDE. June 27, 1857. , llmlfl '- Wells, Fargo fe Co.'s Express, Bettceen Oregon, California, ths Atlantic States and Europe, ' HAVING made advantageous jsStpj arrangements with the United - ifesnCa Slates and Pacific Mail Steam- ehip Companies for transportation, we are now pre pared to forward Gold Dust, Bullion, Specie, ' Packaget, Parcelo, and Freight, to and from N ' York, N. Orleans, Snn Francisco, Portland, and principal towns of California an 1 Oregon. 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Memuaia of the Order ia good ataodiog art ia n ed lo visit IhisTtoip'e. 4 E. W. DIXOX.W.C.T. t M. Tern, W.B. -. lUrori at CamaalUec alaltraada. At s meeting of I he citizens of Alton's, bold Oct. 31st, 1SC7, commitie wanp pointed to report st s subneqiient mtiting upon the feasibility orconslrucling s rail road from Aatorit to E ijene City, nt the bend of the WiUmette Valley; and on the Oik iiut., Mid commiitt aubmitted the frl lowing report: The lubjeel of building ancli a rail rend mutt be considered with reference to three Important poiotavix : lit. It there a good and feasible route! 2d. Would the road pay if built I 3d. Whence arotobedorived the mentis Decoaaary to build the rond t I ' Upon thevs separate beada we would re mnrk, in the 6rtt placr, that we have no doubt that there duet exist a gtod and Am. aible route, aod that it It along the line or mar by the present lorriloriul military road from Alria to Salem, and ihcnee on cither tide of the Wilamotte riVer to Eu gene City. . , Wo hav no defiuito knowledge of the actual grades, or amount of excavation or enibauknient ncceasnry to construct a good railroad on that route j but from the testi mony of all with whom we have conversed upon the subject of (ho general character of the country along the line of the mill. tary rond, we learn that the general sur face of the country along or near taid lino ia very uniform, tvitli but faw hills tbnt will require deep cutting or hoavy embank ments. All egrre also in representing a great portion of the land along tho route as being of tho best qtinlity for agricul ture when the timber shall have been clear- ed oil, and that a considerable portion of tho way tho land could be cleared at much lest enpence than any of our heavy timber ed land. This fenturo of the country, so favorable for tillage, is an important item in counting up the future support of a mil road along that route. Although the fea sibility of i ho routo cannot bo demonnra led except by an actual survey and leveling thereof, yet we have no hesitation in say ing that we are confident that the route indicated is a ood one, and very feasible fur the building of a Jailroad. , Secondly Would the road pay if built I Upon this point it is necessary not only to consider the business thut would probably be oflored to the road in the present con dition of our agriculture, manufactures and commerce ; but we must take into consid eration the changed condition of the whole country, that would bt afTccted by the op eration of the read and the whirling along of the fteight and passenger t rata of carta at tho rate of twenty or forty miles an hour. Nor should wo stop at the close of that calculation ; but wo should estimate the increased value ofproperty of all kinds, in consequence of the better facilities for business with railroad communication from the interior lo th seaboard. Although the investment might not pay back in div idends, a per ceutage equal to the now cur rent interest on money, yet the increased value of property along tho entire length of the routo in all probability would be from :wo to tenfold Us present . value Therefore the road would be owned by the property owners along the liue of the road, and such owners could well annrd to give tho road to any man who would keep it in running order and accommodate the community at the accustomed rates. To this particular, we wish to call particular attention to wit: that property owners, along the lino of the road could well afford to build the road and give it away, for the privilege of u-ing it afterwards and paying liberally for that us", tor instance, the valuo. of real estate and taxable property of thn e'ht counties now organized, through or near by which the proposed road would pass, according to the last re- luri;' county Assessors, (See McCor- . .. It C - 1 O - Q If. mll , (llA mid. S ..Minanau lur m mi . mo f l..t.Ai TVanliinivfn Yamhill counties tf' ""r' Polk, Marion, LinB, Lane, and Benton, is in round numbers 1 1,000,000, which is nrahabl btlow the present value. Build ih mad and the same prope.-'y weu,d bo rth from twenty-five to fifty miJ'ons 01 dollars, whila it would cost not to exceed four or five millions of dollars, therefore, re would be after the cost of the road, an actual increase in valuation ofproperty ofaot lest than from ten to thirty million! of dollars. The above consideration it far from being the chief, or only source of profit to be secured bp the propused road, at we think a little reflection upon the fol lowing particulars will abundantly show. Durin" the first nx months of the pres ent year, the seven counties situated at or near the upper portion of the proposed road, thipped away about 10,000 lontof produe by the alow, circaitout, . ana expensive route of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, costing on an average tl5 per too lo the seaboard and generally consuming about three weeks time in the transpoit- stiot ' The same amount of freight would have bees carried on railroaJ from Eogtns City to Astoria, fur ti per tun, muking s saving on the 10,000 ions of not less than 1 100,000. More than half as much, lay 0,00(1 tons of merchandise was token back into these same ceuntics al a greater ex pense per ton, for freight, and the tame detention, and which make by' railroad a taving of at least 975,000. ' These two items alone make (172,000 that would have been saved to the producers of those seven counties, on the sale and return pay of their exportable crops of lust year And, may we not say that ths risk that would be avoided and the better prices that might bo obtained for produce, by reason of the less risk to the purchaser which the railroad facilities give, would be equal to another $150,0001 We think so. But further on this point. How much of the products of last year in these seven coun ties was lost entirely, or went to waste, which would have been saved and exported but for the expence and delay attending their transportation to ihe seaboard I We think we are safo in estimating the bene fits of a railroad to the eight counties sn the proposed route, with their present sparse settlement, In freight sn produce and merchandise, In fnciliating travel and business, nnually, at not less than half a million of dollars, which would bo ten per cent, on an investment of five m'llions an amount more than suQiciunt to build the road. If such should bo the case new, what would be the benefit of the road some years hence, when there would be added to the eight counties before mentioned, several counties mora between Clotsopatid Wash ington, all of which will contain double the population they now have; and when settlements shall have sprung up all along the route, and enterprise in farming, lum bering and manufacturing generally shall have been stimulated to high and honor able exertion, with good pwpecis of suc cess! We think that not less than 91, 000,000 per annum would be saved in doing the ordinary businoss of tho country along the line of the proposed road, all of which would be expended in do'ng the same amount of business on tho present route of travel and transportation. This then would be twenty per cent, per annum on an investment of 95,000,000, and in this estimate no account has been made of the ordinary charges for business on tho road, leaving them to go for the current espences thereof. lly these estimates then, the road would psyj it would pay in the vastly increased raluo of property along the lino, say from 110,000,000 to 930,000,000. It would pay, in the facilities it would afford for transporting the mails, merchan dise and passengers to and from ihe sea board, say twenty per cent, per annum. But, then, would it not pay in the mote common acceptation of the term as applied lo railroad, that is, pay the pitprietorand operator a fair interest on his investment? Upon this point, we are not certain that it would, and in fact it is not necessary that it should; for of all tho railroads it. the U. States not ono fourth of them pay simply as a monoy investment that is, the stock n those railroads is not at par, but in al most all cases sells at less than cost. Dut whoever heard of any railroad be- ing abandoned because it did not pay I Although they do not pay, snll nobody bat lost a dollar by them or by reaon of taking stock in them. The merchants, manufacturers, farmers and real estnte owners along the roads and at their termini, have generally built the roads, and when in operation and when business has increased largely, or their property been enhanced in value from two to ten, or even fifty fold in some cases, ihen wi.-liing to change their business, or invest their money otherwise where thry could exercise more immediate control over it, or where it would pay a larger dividend, they have offered their railroad stock in market for less than cost, as a purchaser is always fuund at some price ; nt fifty, sixty, orsev-anty-five, or some other per cent, of its cost, and thenceforth railroad stocks are a nicies of traffic) and sell for cost, or above, or below paras their business aad incomes teem to warrant. That the road would be a continual pay- inZ investment, is shewn by the fact that the mouth of the Columbia rivals we onry practicable harbor on the coast from San Franci?co to the Straits ot oan Juan oe Fuca, and that the Columbia river the secand in size on the North American con tinent, drains a large extent of country whoso productions for exportation is an future time must find an outlet, aad whose importations will find an ingress at tht mouth of the Columbia river. This pro. posed road leads by the rcost feasible and direct route from the entrance of that river to the interior and most populous and pro ductive portions of the whole Territory. Nor ia there any risk that the comparative populousness and productiveness of those portionsof the Territ7 wiliever decrease, or that any more dirvct and feasible routo will hereafter be discovered. Consoquntly no opposition will ever rite that can suc cessfully compete with the propssed line of road, either by ahortening the distance, by finding a better outlet or a better point of ingress. Ths incrtased commerce that would grew up sitnullaneously with tho construc tion of tht rokd, would make it pay to put steam tug beats on the Columbia bar, whiob would do sway with nine-tenths of all the difficulties of crossing that formid able obstacle to our past and present com merce. This brings os to our third and last point : whence are to be derived the meant necessary to build the proposed railroad I Thit we have already indicated partially under our second head. Dut we will re peat and add, as follows : 1st From those now doing business and owning property on and near the liuo of ths proposed road. Sd From others, non-resident now, but who will come in with money, and locale or purchase property on tho line of the road. 3d From a land grant Is be obtained from Congress, in accordance with the more recent act of Congress in giving land to railroad companies ao aid in building such roads through the public lands of the United States. The first and most important source, as it should be the initial as indicating a nesd for it and a determination to have it, is from the seven thousand voters and othtrs, living and doing business or owning prop erty in the eight counties before named, and who will be the most interested in the building and operation of the road. In or der to put the road through, and to have the enterprise start and move right ahead, one thousand more or less of the most in terested must come forward and subscribe 91,000 each, of the stock necessary to be issued to build tho road. That would make 91,000,000. Another million would be taken by capi talists and those coming iu to locate along ihe road, and by those already here, after they see that something is ts be done in the matter. The grant of land from Congress could bs selected along the line of the road where it Is now worthless, but with the road built would be worth from five to twenty dollars per acre, and which being selected in alternate seetisns along the line of the rond, could be held In reserve until the read would be built, by pledging the road and the land as security on bonds to bo issuod on which the ballance of money necessary, say one or two millions of dollars, could bt raised to complete ihe road, when the lands could be brought into market and sold for more than enough to cancel all ths bonds that should havo been issued. Loeking at the subject in this light and taking into consideration the general im petus tho construction of the road would give to all kinds of business ; to the build ing up of society and numerous communi ties, etc. which must attend the same, your commiite recommend tha adoption of the following resolution and the appointment of a committee of three to correspond with the poople of Willamette Valley who are supposed to be interested in the matter, and take such other steps as they may think advisable towards organizing a company and gelling a charter from our Territorial leislative asscmb'y, tn connection with those with those who may choose to act with us in the Willamette Valloy or elsewhere. Resolved, That it is the deliberate opin ion of I his meeting, thut if all whose inter- els would be subserved by a railroad from A storia to Eugene City, would but consider the subject candidly, however visionary the project might appear at first view, they would come lo the full determination that the road can be built ; and for tbe purpose of bringing the minds of others interested to reflection and consequent sction on the subject, we recommend that meetings be called and that all proper measures be used in tbe counties in the Willamette Valley, to bring the subject before the people there and in other parts of tha Territory, that would be affected by tee proposed railroad, The report waa adopted by the meeting and the following named persons were ap pointed a corresponding committee in ac cordance with the recommendation contain ed therein. Jas. Welch, W.W.Fihkeb, J as. Wayne. W.U. Gbat, A. A. Sr-inne. Jambs Tatlob. (fcjr: There art thirty Artetian walls in Iroquois county, Illinois, all but two in suc cessful operation. t"7 Einbt hundred tons of coal are con sumed by a Collins steamer in making ths trip from INew xork to Liverpool. (r Tbe sugar cane crop is unusually largo this season. (T Why it summer like pridsf Be. csnse it goes before a fall. r i a? PerlU tf the rutas-Tka Meraatwa aaa Ike lata Meiatre Three emigrant families arrived lately in Sacramento, l.y the Carson Valley route. They report, says the Union, many sad evidences of outrngo and murder st different places slong the routo, particular ly In the vicinity of Guest Creek. Near this creek, thtir uttenlion was attracted by the appearancs of a human foot protruding from lbs ground, snd on examining the spot, the remains of three murdered men were found buried only three or four inch et below the surface. Upon another grave there lay two dogs, alivs but much emn oisted, aod as pertinacisus In retaining their lonely resting place that no effort could entice or drive tbura from the spot. Their master was, most probably, tho oc cupant of that grave, and their presence there, under such circumstances, was a touching exhibition of canine instinct and devotion. A few miles further on, they came upon another scene of murder, where, upon ihe ground, were strewn s few boiivs, and also knots of lung,, glossy hair, torn from the head of some ill-futed worn aa. Near by were the remains of three head of cattle, with the arrowa still stick ing in them. Reports brought by these families tend strongly to corroborate the suspicion al ready existing against the Mormons as ths instigators, if not the perpetrators, of the recent wholesale massacre of emigrants at Santa Clara canon. Mr. Piorce, whs came by way of Salt Lake, and joined the other two families nt tho Siuk of the Humboldt, reports some five hundred Indians en camped near Salt Lake, who, as he learned from the Mormons, wero retained as allies to operate against the troops sent est by the Government, lie was also assured that thess Indians had been instructed not to molest the emigration this year, as prep arations wore not sufficiently complete to enable the Mormons to make a stand against the United Stales. In the city it self, Inrge crowds of Mormons were nightly practicing military drill, and there was ev- ery evidence of energtlio preparations for some great event. Before his family left Salt Lake, vague declarations of a threat ening character were made, !o tho efTect that, next year, "the overland emigrants must look out"; and it was even insinu ated that the last trains this year might be dostroyed. From the Mormon train which recently left Carson Vallev, and which these families met on the way, similar statements were taguoly communicated, one Mormon woman even going so far as to congratulate an old lady in one of these families upon her safe arrival so near her destination, and assuring her that "the last trains of this year would not get through so well, for they were to be cut off." We give these statements as we received them from members of theto families, and, admitting (heir correctness, which we have no reason to doubt, they certainly go far to confirm a terrible suspicion. Prophktic The Yolo (Cal.) Democrat says : " Without pretending to be gifted with prophecy, we venture the prediction that Urigham Young will at soine not very distant day die of a Misnourian, i The people of that Stale are protty well satis fied that they are the natural enemies of the Mormons, ond are now nearitig the time to 'get even' with that people for all past misusage. Murder and retribution are alike to be deprecated and deplored ; but ihe 'human nature' of Missourians is not remarkable for ils capacity to meekly endure the treatment they generally re ceive among tbe disciples of Joe Smith." Crteltiks in India. It is tho privilege and duty of tho American press to judge of events transpiring in the Old World with strict impartiality. We have slight lies of blond connecting us, to be sure, with the European races, and we have the prejudices which spring up about civiliza tion and Christianity; but atill no other nation is so well fitted as we to look at all sides of the controversies in the other hem isphere. Mindful of this, it would be man ifestly unbecoming in ns lo Indulge in that revengeful feeling which the English jour obis express in view of the cruellies prac ticed by the rebel natives of India upon the British residents. To the men of our race there Is tome thing peculiarly horrible in the idea of tor ture. It does not pain ua near so much to hear tbat s man, whom we did not knew, had his head cut off, as it does to read a de scription of a child's having a finger-nail pulled out with pincers. Such things seem fiendish and are sufficiently so and atir us into fury. But tbe Asiatic cannot un derstand thia feeling, and some slight thought shonld be taken of his different training and temperament. But the voice of history, all partial as it is io favor of Europeans, should also bs heard by ua ia thia matter. Could certain chapters of it bare been written by Indian writers, they would undoubtedly haveboen drawn in more impressive colon. Thus we are told that, in out of the first Euro pean vnyngei, the Portuguese connnandir seized a large vessel on ihe coast of India, shut up tht crew and passenger In ths held, snd set the ship on firs. Three hun dred por'ahed ; many of them pilgrlmt to Mecca. A subsequent eemmandrr made an attack sn the city of Pabeol, mnstacrrd the Inhabitants, "tearing children from the bosoms of their mothers nnd dashing out their brains against the walls," aad then burnt Ibe city. It passed into a pro verb with the Hindoos, who rt furred ts it lo point their bitterest curse. In short, tbe history of the Porluguene in Iudia, is history of enormities, and may well liavo taught the natives the use of brutality tn wai fare. The English were never to much ad dicted to cruelly but, under the impulse of rovenge, they have rarely stopped to think twice nbtut ths proper modo of pun ishment. Nearly a bundled years ago, blowing mutineers from cannon wni adopt' ed. And throughout the history of their ceuquesta in India ia many a dark page, when placed beside the Christian standard. But it would bo unfair lo revive thte at ihe present time. Let us glance rather at something of the fouling now manifest in tbe British troops. An officer iu the civil service, from Alia. habad, writes; "We have power of lifo and death in our hands, and we assure yon we spare not." Another, from tho same place: "Not day posses; hut wo tiring up from ten to fifteen of them (non-' combatants)." One exulting oRicer writes ;' "Uolmet ii hanging them by the score,' like a 1 brick.' " Another, in allusion lo the summary hanging of s large body of the natives: "Then our fun commenced.'' A third : " We held court-martials on horseback, and every nigger we meet with we either tiring up or shoot." From Be uares we a f informed that thirty Zemin dars were hanged on the mere suspicion of sympathizing with their own country men, and whole villages wore burned down on ihe same plea. We should also remember that, while the atrocities nf the natives are dwelt upon, the revengeful operations of tha English are rapidly dispatched in matter-of-fact style. Thus, in oso account of the blow ing up of the magazine at Delhi, it was briefly mentioned that about a thousand mutineers were destroyed. An . Iodine, writing an account to his family, especially, if bia relatives had been blown up, would give a very different description of tho affair. ' Of coarse, wo abomiuato tho airouiics of ths Hindoos as much as any, and wo sincerely trust that sur English kindred may escape any mors of them but wsj would keep our indignation from degener ating into unseemly revenge, aud from looking wholly upon one tide. Boston Traveller. .' , DlSTRIUl'TlNU TUB SUHFLUS UlVUNUE. Tbe Albany Evening Journal, in spouk- ing of a plan for distributing the surplus revenue in the U.S. Treasury among tho States, says : " Government adopted this sl"p or.ee be fere, and with beneficent results. On the 1st of January, 1830, 920,000,000 in ths Federal Treasury wore divided among ths States. New York received 91,500,000. She Invested it in education. It has wrought magio changes lu twenty years. Soven stalely Colleges and a Normal School have risen in our towns. A bun dred new Academies adorn our villages.' When bells ring noon, uino hundred thou sand children pour out from eleven thou sand school house, When Saturday night comes roiiuil, a free library ia thrown open of a million nnd a half of bouks. Every boy and girl in the Slate, frain five years up to twenty, is offered tuition gratis, by that United Stutes Deposit Fund. It adds '25,000 every year lo the principal of tho School Fund. It gives 9100,000 every year toward the expenses of the School system. Ii has educuted a generation.' It will educate tho next, and the next, nnd dozens more, aud they wiH each and all rise up to bless the generosity of Undo Sam." Death of Ma. Cuafia. It becomes our painful duty, says the National Inttlligen. cer, to announce the decease of tho vener able Geo. Washington Parka Cuslis, the last of the members of the family of Wash ington. Mr, Cuslis died at Arlington, near thia city, after a brief illness, on tho morning of the 10ih Oct., in the 77th year of his age. For several years he bad stood alone in his relations to the Father of his Country, ever anxious, with filial reverence and af. fection, to illustrate his character, and the rich stores of his never failing memory to bring forward an annual tribute to his immortal worth. Known and honored by his fellow country men, hia departure will awaken universally a profound regret. Cuss rot Lovs. Hide in a closet half a dozen times and listen ts the conversation which tpkes place between a couple who have been married ons year, while they think themselves entirely alone.