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ADVKHTIHINO RATKrJ. One aqnar (13 line or has) one liuwrtina, $319 " M two inmnioiw, AfyCt - " tlirw ttHwrtkms, 6H Each MaaequeM insertion, 1M Reasonable deduction, to thus, who advertise by the year, JOB PRINTING. Tm raorairtna tir rue AUOl'R is iurrv to inform the pnhlie thai lie has juet rweived a large stark of JOH TYl'K aud other new print ing material, and will be in the speedy receipt uf addition suited to all the requirement of lliis lo calily. 1IANDIIII.LH, J-OKTKUS, M.ANKtf, CARDS, CIUCTLA1W, PAMI'JIf.KT-WOlik and other kind, done lo order, on short notice. . , f rvausuao vi:av aAiuauAV uotmsa, , BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. TERMS Tko A so us wilt is furnlikei at v 2'Ar ZMar and I'ifty Venli per annum, in adeance, to tinrle lubicribcrei'hree Pultun I inch (a cluht of tin at out office in admnce. yVhrn the money ii not paid iu advance, four Dollar! alll lie churned if paid vithin lix in mmitlu, ami t'ite dollart at the end of Iht fear. IJjT .?'" Dotlun for eix montltsA'o eubicrip- Hone received for a leeo period. W " paper discontinued until nil arrearage! . ,, are paid, unleei at the option of Iht pulilitker. . A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jcfl'ersoniau Democracy, and advocating the side of Truth iu every issue Vol. III. OREGON CITY, OREGON, DECEMBER 5, 1857. No. 34 THE OREGON -ARGUS. t BUSINESS CARDS. W. T. MATLOCK. W. 0. JOIIKWN, Matlock f& Johnson, '' ATTOIIXEYS ii COPnSELOlM AT LAW, ''And Solicitor! lit Chancery, "TTTILL promptly attend lo any business which , V . mny ba oonimilted to thoir professional charge before the District and Supreme Coiirla, . Olliee iu Higlificlde building, immediately op posite tin Main Hlrert Mouse. ,, y Oregon (Jity, March 7, 1857. , 47y u,u n. O. Bnrnott, 1 - ATTOKNEY & COUNSKLOlt AT LAW, 1 And Solicitor in Chancery, ' " '" 8UTHEL, TOLK COUNTV, OltRGO:. T" JOHN R M BRIDE 1TT01NET AND OOUNKLOt AT LAW, ' ' Lafayette, Yamhill County, 0. T., WILL ruitlifully attend to all busincM en trusted to his professional oare. , '"' Wm. 0. Dement tU Co., .TTTUOLESALrJ and retail Ufulnr. h, Grocer W.i ie,' J'rovisious, Taints, Oils, Hoot aud fihoos, Crockery, &.c. OlKaite Ilia Land Office, Wain St. Oregon City. ' 1 - June 1,1855., T ,. , , CHARLES POPE, JR., . TTVEALEU in Hardware, Groceries, Dry Good, JJ Clotiirng; lloots & Shoes, Medicines, Book ' - - and Stationery.'' ; Main-it,, Oregon City, April 31, 1837-Itf .bn GEO. AiaiCTIIV & Co., Hoa". !,''. .MERCHANTS, . ' . ... ,,,,,,, OREGON CITY, O. T. j, '. 1 1 .'Abernethy, Clark A Co., COMMISSION ANJ) f OKWAltDINQ MEBCIM.1TS, .1 v San Francisco, CaL, ; I ; . Will attend to selling Oregon produoe, and fill or ders for Goods, Groceries, A.C., at the lowest rates. " The patronage of the people of Oregon is re spectfully solicited. I . ... . Aug. 9. . 33. ZVEilwain, iMannfnatttrer, Wholetale and Retail Dealer in COOK AND 1MKLOK STOVES, ; ; t corr&a wars, uardwarc, Ac, : Main 8 1., opposite M oin Street Hotel, 7 ';" V OREGON CITY, O.T. i ' Stfom'uout uud jobbing work attended to with dispaleb. ''. . ., .Order from the country promptly fiUod. j je7 , !:'! -id iM.ij 1 ' Timo. W i,.,,- JIIGHK1ELD, . . If A rcil-UAKER. "u' Persons disirou of (rolling good work done will -ill) well o givq mo a call, as my whole time is de voted to llio repairing of C'lironomcter, Lever, Duplex, und llorixnutal wutehes. 1 - " '. : jn Amuwii tinent of Juwolry on hanj. ' j, -j ' Jewelry inudo to order, and repaired. ; , ri icea'trt suit the time. I am thnnkful for past favors, and hope to give satisfaction in future. 1 IJ Loeuui) at the old stund, opposite the Tel. egmph Ollioe, OREGON VITy. Feb. 2. i Drags, XXEcdicines, Faints, Oils, Vv and Dyo-staffs, i3 aithe OUKGON CITY DKUG STORE, .,.,i(iep15 .t ' Waiu Street, Oregou City, O.T. i ,!i JOHN P. BROOKS, : ' nolnnlc 4 Retail Denier in Grocerict, Produce, aim! c i Provision, Jr., Main Street. ; ,,, General Assortment kepi up of Seleotcd Good ' "Ciuiemah, March 23,1857. . '. ' ! uU ,. i ',, i ; ,, , ..ii-uLh,', GrUN- SMITHING. eTKING permnnently located in Oregon City, J ) I am prepared to purry ou the business of 'OUN-SMrniING i Z-IN-ALL-ITS BXANCIIS. ' ' ''"flioso'who fuvbr me 'with their patronage, may -(xpeet to hivve their work douo right. .... 1-jluThose uho Uav GUNS at my Shop far jr pairs, and do not cull, fur them within ninr " u'oiiTii. of ilia lime sal for the work to be dune, ' may expect to have them sold to pay charges. Jfuno 27, 1857. ' limit) T j.-. I -u--u :.i '. : ' .' f- ! : ! ) j Wells, Fargo & Oo.'s Express, v Between Oregon, California, tiie Atlantic -irl ! Statu and Europe. , ., ., 11A l-M" maae advantageous , arrangement with the United . States and Tacific Mail Steam- thip Companies for transiiortution, wo are now pre- J.pertd to forward Gold Duet, Bullion,. Specie, tlFackapet, Parcel; and Freight, to and from N York, N. Orleans, Sun Francisco, Portlaud, and - sprlnoipal town of California and Oregon. jOur regular Semi-monthly Express between Tortland nn.t Snn Francisco, is dispatched by the Pacilic Mail Steamship Co.'s steamship Columbia, connecting at San Francisco withonr semi-inonth-g ly: Express to A'eie York and Neu Orlcam, which is dispatched regularly ou the let nnd 16th of each f month,' by the mail steamer and iu charge of our liowa messenger, through to destination. ., Our Express from New York leaves regularly 'Hen the 5th and 2Ulh of each month, also iu charge ::o rucsiengem, i i" ; Treasure insured in the best Now York com panies, or at Lloyd' in Londou, at the option of shippers.., ,'. ' T . trt-ncKs New Yl' No- 1C' 'vv',,,1 "l Ncw -U'S. No. U, Exchange p.':MS ?B0 VtwaKO, , A. JI. STEELE, p J 1 ' Oregon City, April 21, 1857-ltf "l c -.i Beading for the Million. ., S, J. MeCORMICK . . . BA CONSTANTLY OH HAND AT THE FRANKLIN 100K .ri.. (TORE, FRONT-ST, FOF.TLAND, OREOOST, ' ' ' Choice aelectiori of Popnlar Books, New ' oapera, Magazine and Fancy Stationery. A moo " the book on hand will bo fonnd work -rim.-ancei Agricnltnre, Horticulture, Ui- pTtry, iiioraphy, Medicine., Beligion, tWe'nee 6choo. Bit. Komancrt, &c, 4c , &c. 8 ub1cri"L recced to Harper, iinhn,, Codev, Lcdie'," Futna.-n, l $4 a year, o. Itbscription.' received for any newspaper ' "published in any part of llm Union. ' P"Semor thVFr.nklin Book .'mm, A vencVi Front street, FonJana Oregon. ., priced ct.Jogu.Viu pubushed rir Aril, id wijl be ut to wy pai.t ot Urn , Ury free en application. . Oregon Lodge So. 3 I- -F ' "A TEET3 at their n.ll over the Oregon City a 'iYL' Drug Store every Wednesday evening : ai "o'clock, brethren in tS'r to visit FRED. CHARMAJi, N.G. Gtoas Pais, Seo'y- l Utr-w. -; r-" . , . j mEMPLE OF HONOR.-Tolun 1 ' X Honor, No. L, meet, on the 1st and 3d I ri ' day eveaingsof each month at 6J o'clock, at Tem 1 ' permnce Hall, Forest Grove, Oregon- " Members of the Order in food ataading are in vited to v-it th-T.n,pl.w pixoV) w c T -M. Tcttli, W. It. 33 jT Tbo Now Or!ean Dclm, one of Buchanan't tupporten, anJ an especial admirer or Stephen A. Duuglut, ULiglily ploaacd with tlia PresiJcnt't lata latter to Ibe forty New England genllumen on Kan- aaa and lurery alTairi, and, after naming eulogy upon thai document, enlarge upon the doctrine therein let forth, in (lie fol lowing language: . ,. 1 .! "Slavery it not aeclional, but national. It exiita practically ia Kansas, anJ theo retically in Nebraska, Oregon, Minnetoto, and Now Mexico. No right thinking man can question thii fact, la order t destroy ils national existence iu Territories, the people thereof in the settlement of the terms of their Stnto constitution must ex clude it by a clause introduced for that purpose. The right, therefore, claimed by the South exist in ils nationality a right which the Northern Free-Soil Domocrucy at this moment deny and oppose with all their might. 41 We have to any' that to valuable ia Southern slavery in itself, so wholesome and salulary in an industrial and social viw, and so conservative of rational, true, and sound Democracy, we believe ils tie f?no, iu propagation, and extension should be rr-ffitrded as an esnlinl part of the dem ocratic creed in all aectiona. We spnrn the idea that it is sectional. Only the other day a journal in Illinois announoid itself in favor of the re-estnblishment of slavery in that State. Give us enough slaves; abolish the unjust and unequal laws against the African slave trade; put an end to the present unhealthy centraliz ing tendency of slaveholdership iu tho South, and give every industrious and thrifty white man a chance to tyoome prof itably a slaveholder, and we will not only triumphuntly maintain slavery where it is, but it will be seen to flow like living, re fresliin", and fertilizing waters, trite) all our unoccupied territory, and to break over the bouudntics of many of the present free States, regardless of tho silly doctrine about climatic limits and isothermal laws. Give us the conditions, and we vouch for the results," , . , -r. , ,i , . ,. Comment on such " Democratic." doc trines are entirely needless. The people of the free Slates will appreciate them at their full value, without a word of com ment.1 We merely quote the extract from the Doha to show what modem Democracy is, and to what it is tending. " ' ! President Buehanan Answered. H is salisfiictory to have at lust an epen and explicit confession' of faith, and expo sition of policy, relating to Kansas affaire, from James Buchanan. Would that we might have had it a year ago when he was not President of the United States, but candidate for that high office. .The banners of the Pennsylvania democracy would then never have borne the legend which secured his election "Buchanan, Breckinridge, and Free A'urtM" for Mr. Buchanan says slavery now exists In Kan sas, and has nlways existed there. ' It has always been ttave holding Kansas never free Kansas. , "IIow this could ever have been seriously doubted,1! he says, " is a mystery." M There would have been no mystery if there had been no mystiliers. It was considered certain by the whole world, and never was denied, that slavery was prohibited " forever" by the eighth section of the act of Congress, passed March 6, 1820; and this eighth section' was in full force and effect until the passage of the act of May 30, 1851, containing the memorable provision, which we quote be low in full. ; The singular . language in which it is clolhod is enough to indicate the strangeness of its purport : ' i " The Constitution and all laws of the United Slates, which are not locally inap plicable, shall have the same force and ef fect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States, ex cept the eighth section of the act prepara tory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 0, 1820, which, being inconsistent wilh the principle of non-intervention by Congress wilh slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby de clared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory or tate, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to lefive the people thereof perfectly free to form and I'fgitlate their domestic institu tions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United Slates; provi. ded that nothing herein contained "hall be construed lo revive or put in force any law er regulation which may have existed prior to the act of March 8, 1820, either pro tecting, establishing, prohibiting, or abol ishing slavery." . ; -i T , . i . The advocates of this bill dented stren uously that its passage established or le galized slavery. They said H was its " true in'ent and meauing" " not to legislate sla very into" the Territory, but to leave the people free to decide whether it should ex ist or no', on the presumption, of course, that it was an open question. ' Neither Mr. Buchanan nor acy Northern Democrat would have ventured during the pendency of the Kansas-Nebraska bill to assert that slavery already existed in the region sol emnly dedicated to freedom by lb Mis souri Coinpromi&e. The advocate of that bill only pre tended to ak an apportunity for the people to establish slavery if they chose. Now we are told by the Chief Magistrate of the nation that slavery was already established there that it existed in the whole of the domain acquired from France, and that it still continue (o exist in Kansas and Ne braska and this proposition i mentioned a boing clear, certain, and indisputable. How it could ever have been seriously doubtod," tays tho President, " ia a my tcry ."Boiton A Jeer liter. TlBCADTION OF LOUIS Ni F0L80N AOAINST Inburbection. The Pari correspondent of the Boston Traveller writes as follow relative to the immenso military camp re ccntly formed at Chalons by the Kmperer Loui Napoleon : " In my opinion, Louis Napoleon is now engaged in building a scheme by which he hopes to secure his throne against accidents, even so great a casualty as his assassinntion. The plan he has adapted is, like everything he does, marked by a great reach of foresight and a good deal of astuteness. I dare say you have seen by the papers that a great camp has been formed at Chalons. It oc cupies a space which covers about 30,000 acre. 1 There will be some sixty or one hundred thousand men of the best regi ments in the army. The camp will be an entrenched camp that is, it will be a fort, a stronghold of 30,000 acres. Marshal Canrobert, that devoted personal adherent of the Emperor, will command it. The Prefect of the department is to be a picked man, of approved fidelity. The troops ara to be constantly employed in strengthening the camp and all its approaches, ao as to render it, as far as possible, impregnable. It is well provided with water. The camp kitchena cover nearly four miles in length. The imperial quarter form a village alone, so numerous are the kitchens, stables, coach-houses, and other offices.. . About eighty or a hundred wagons have been daily employed in carrying objects from the Garde Meuble de la Couronne to fur nish the Emperor's quarters. 'Never has Garde Meuble seen so many objects taken at any one time eut of its stores.' It ap pears to me that Louis Napoleon designs this camp as a place of safety for the Em press and Imperial Prince, if insurrection should occur which menaces to assume the form of revolution. It will serve as a mil itary reservoir with which he may deluge Paris with soldiers, or as a Military strong hold where he may wait till he conquers an adverse tide of fortune. It is incredi ble what precautions are taken against an insurrection.-1 Only this Week the whole exterior of the Hotel de Ville has been tunneled, so that now horsemen mounted may pass underground from any part of the Hotel de Ville to the new barracks Napoleon. The broad Boulevard leading from Vinoennes (which is the great ar- sonal) to the Hotel de Ville and the Tuile- ries, is rapidly being completed. 1 The ar my is courted every way and meritorious officers are sought out and well rewarded. I do not, however, believe that all these resources and expedients will be found of avail' if the only serious danger which threatens the throne, the death of Louis Nopoleon, should ensue ; then the imperial fabrio would fall as it rose in a single night What mighty destinies hang upon the life of this man 1 " .'''' Wih, Tallow, and Godliness. Peo ple can scarcely believe that the war in In dia could possibly hare arisen from so ri diculous a matter as a dispute about grease. People who reason thus, are not posted up in the foolish mummeries of Hindeslnn. The cow, for instance, is a sacred animal lo the Brahmin. She is regarded with the deepest reverence. Beef is forsworn by all Hindoos. To eat any part of a cow ia a horrible sacrilege, and it is quite as bad to rat of anything fried or rubbed with beef tallow. A story is told of a Brahmin, whose re ligion forbade him to eat of any animal food or devour any living creature, but who was once induced to look through a microscope, there he saw bis purely veg etable food was all alive with little living creatures. Me saw, and in a fit of rage at once dashed the costly instrument to the ground, and trampled it furiously into frag ments. His reason was that it would ren der the faith of millions impossible, and he begged and besought that this fatal know, edge might be kept away from his poor countrymen. . , The British army ia India numbered about 350,000 men, of whom not more than 50,000 were British troops the rest being Hindoos and Mohammedans. It appears that a new cartridge was got up for the use of the Indian army, which was so large that it could not be got into the musket without greasing. The grease used was beef tallow. Every lime a nin doo soldier, therefore, bit a cartridge, he was committing grow sacrilege baaiahiog himself from all the benefit of his religion making , himself accursed. , Enterlaia inz these notions, iti no wonder that the ! cartridge led to an insurrection, the cost of which will not be less than fifty millions of dollars. By greasing with beef tallow, John Bull trod on the consciences of the Ilindees, . Ilad he used mutton fat, the Mohammedan would have drawn their (words and gone in far the very plug-muss uew engineered by the Hindoos, a class of people who believe that spilling on fat ox will lead to pordition with mere certainty than killing your father and selling his ski to a morocco dresser. Great institution, that buman being I ' He is the only animal that can reason, and yet he it the only creature ass enough lo worship rooks, cat, short-horned bulls, and while elephants. $3T Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxville Whig, has doubtless many sins to account for, but, to his credit be it spoken, that of having even the slightest affection for the Democratic party is not one of them. With that Hard Shell bluntness for which he Is notorious, he thus "comes down" on that dishonest, unprincipled, and unscrupulous orgutiizaiion : , ' . " We recognize in the rank of the Dem ocratic parly thousands of high-minded men, aruoni patriots, and irue lovers ot their country ; but before we will fall into the support of what we believe to be the reckless and ruinous policy, the low-flung humbuggery, and the villainous designs of this self-styled 'National Democratic par ty,' Wo would see that unwashed, untorri- Bed. uncombed, uncircumciseu, ana unre- generate organization as far down in Hell as a forge hammer would fall In a thousand yeara I Let no one suppose this language too strong, without considering to what sort of an organization it is applied. We apply it to the Democracy, who, differing among themselves, widely and materially, on every question of national policy before the country, nevertheless agree, atmiaie, nnd fraternize, in elections, for the sake of the speils, with all parties, or all colors and of all religions, embracing in fraternal hug all the odds and ends of uod s cre ation 1 They are a party whose leaders hunted down to the grave the purest pa triots and noblest intellects of the land, slandering their characters, misrepresenting their acts, and vilifying their ashes in their graves; a party that has trampled the Constitution, and Laws, and Treaty obli gations, as well as the settled usages of the country, and with them all the sacred pre cepts of the Christian religion, under their unhallowed feet I ' Howevor "strong" tho Parson' fan- ffvage may be considered, there is no ques tion but that the sentiments are " right as a book.''' " '''" ' ;' Helfinq one another. A firm in Bos ton employ some three hundred mechanics and laborers, and, as a matter of course, their weekly disbursements are large. On a pay day during the late financial troub les, in consequence of the non-arrival of funds duo at a distance, they were obliged to expend the funds in band in the redemp tion of matured paper, and consequently had to forego the pleasure of paying their hands their accustomed weekly allowance. What did the men do thon j did they ' strike" f Not but, like rational Boston mechanics, they . met, consulted together, and passed resolutions expressing sympathy wilh and confidence in their employers, and tendcriug to ihem a loan of six or eight thousand dollars, the proceeds of their own savings. There is a great deal of nobility in the conduct of these men so much of unselfishness and consideration that one cannot but feel proud of our spe cies. 1 his incident win survive me crisis. 03 A call is out, signed by several hun dred fools in some of the Northern States, for a convention to consider the expediency of dissolving the Union. They appear to have a regular yearly attack of this mania. It would be a blessing to the whole country if these Nortbcrn Union-haters nd the extreme Southern Nullihers could be induced to dissolve their connection with our Union, and go off and colonize themselves in the hottest corner of Africa, or in that other very hot place whose fires are fed with brimstone or, which is about tho same', betake themselves lo Salt Lake, and join the devils congregated therein abusing our Union to their hearts' content. Don't Sweae. Profanity ia one of the mest offensive and disgusting habits to which unredeemed humanity is given. To say nothing of its sinfulness, (which ev. ery one of course understands,) profane swearing is a vile, vulgar, low-bred habit, from the indulgence of which a proper self- respect should restrain a man, oven if he has no regard for the dictates of religion. It is a habit, loo, which Increases with fear- ful rapidity, when once given way to ; and we have known of instances, where men who were once highly respectable, but who unfortunately contracted this habit, have soon sunk so low as to use profane language in their own families, and even to swear at their wives and children. OCT A Toledo paper reports a speech made by a gentleman of that city, who bad been elected to aa important office in a miliiary company. The recipient of hon ors being called out for a speech, mounted the rostrum and said "My brave men, them who voUd for mo I rtipett Ihem who didn't di$gutt!" Onf, of th Wahti Not Suffmib, The New York Post referring to the abun dance of good food produced in the United Slates, and the scarcity of individual competent to prepare it for the table as it ought to be prepared, say : "Wo want school for cook a much a for physicians, even more, for people want to eat every day, but they only want a doctor occasionally ; and they would want one much less fre quently if their food were hotter pre pared. How often does it happen that the professing cooks know how to make good bread or to boil a potato or cabbage 1 It i a much as a roan' life is worth to travel through the interior and less fre quented portions of our Western country, so apt are they at spoiling the produca of of the soil in preparing it for the table. In three months a man or woman of fair intelligence could be taught more of the art of preparing the gift of Providence for ihe nutriment of man than is possessed by ninety-nine hundredths of the most expe rienced of our American cooks. Who will more in this matter I Who is pre pared to take rank among our great na tional benefactors by selling such an insti tution in motion f . , , HcteaK aa the TJeteeUaa of Cv(e In an able and well written article on the crime and execution of Nation, for the murder near Taunton, the circumstances of which are ''full of dramatic incidents," the Sherborne Journal remarks : "The most remarkable feature in the case, and that on which aa publio moralists we would lay most emphasis, is tho scientlfio evidence which removed tho last shade of doubt from the guilt of the prisoner, and entirely demolished the miserable excuae that cun ning had devised. U pea the prisoner's knife was found blood, both on the Ha le and haft. He averred that tt arose from having cut some raw beef with it at the fair j but science has made gigantio strides of late, and one of its discoveries is, that the little discs in blood vary In size in dif ferent animals. By the aid of a very powerful microscope suoh a one as will magnify a singe inch to the size of thirty feet the shape, size, and number of these discs can be very accurately ascertained ; and Mr. Herapatb, the eminent surgeon, by the use of such a mioroscope, found, from the smallnesa of Ihe discs, the blood could not be that of either the ex, the sheep, or the pig, all the discs of which are larger. Another fact discovered was, that the blood upon the knife must have been living blood, for it had coagulated where it was bund. Among the blood was found some fibres of a textile fabrio ; and again, these fibres were cotton, like the deceased's shirt and neokercbief. ' But with the blood and the cotton was a fourth evidence of guilt. Science has discovered that in the mucus that lines the body, and in the mu cus membrans itself, from which the mucus exudes, there are thrown off, as waste ma terial, minute scales, called by anatomists, epitheiia. iney are so smaii mat tney s.e 1 W1I . . .. II 1 cannot be discovered with the naked eye, and yet, under a powerful microscope, they look, to use Mr. Ilerepath's words, like "great paving stones." But they vary in shspe, according to the part of the body from whence the mucus was taken. Thus the epitheiia of ibe throat are tesselated, or arranged like a pavement. Those at the root of the tongue are a ranged in columns, and are termed columnar, whilst those of the intestines are called cilia, from their likeness to hairs. Now, as Mr. Ilerapalh found tesselated epitheiia upon tho knife, it is quite clear that the mucus upon the blade bad its origin in the throat. Blood, human blood, living blood, Gbres, cotton fibres, mucus tesselated epitheiia such were the links of the chain of cogent evi dence that science forged around the mur derer." '.'" " 7 , A Man, of Dusines. In one of the western ooualio of New York is a man by the nam of Zadock Pratt, one of the bone and sinew, an inteligent methanio and farmer, who has contributed greatly to tbs general prosperity, as well as to hi indi vidual wealth. In a speech at an Agri cultural Fair, in Greene county, N. Y., he said that, siac he had ben engaged in farming he had employed over fifteen thou sand yeara of other men'a labor ; had em ployed thirty thousand men, and paid them for their labor over two millions five hun dred thousand dollars. II had cleared over ten thousaad acre of land, and used over two hundred thousand cords of hem lock bark, and paid over half a million dollar for it. Ho bad uaed and worn out five hundred bono and on thousand yoke of oxn, used two hundred thousand bush els of oat, one hundred and twenty thou sand tons of hay, thirty thousand barrels of beef and pork, nearly oa hundred thou and barrel of flour, and potatoes without number or meaur. Ho had tanned over one million two hundred and fifty thosand side of leather ; bis usual disbursement is over five thousand dollar per day and be ba osed in his business over ten million. He ha never had a si'Jeof leather tolrnr and bai never sued on aeecunt of hi busi ness transactions. We should say that Zadock was a valuable member of society. Moreover, this show the advantage of di' versifying labor, and of bringing the man who consume by the aide of him who pro duces. Richmond Deepatch. Recife fob Qrc-wmo Bra Me.. Re cently some who Frenchman published s learned treatise oa the mean of getting: rid of hideously large paunches, which re duced to a point, is nothing but to nso ani mal food, especially lean meat, and indulge) in vegetables little a possible. But the greatest discovery of all has been mado by Dr. W. Holmes, who tolls u why thehu' man race deteriorates in some regions, is titer lack of the material in the soil to produce bone. He instancos New England as not furnishing limestone in sufficient . quanti ties, except in Western Vermont, where it Is abundant, and where the men grow larger in proportion. We eopy from an exchange paper the following description of the new theory; ''' "' " "In Kentucky, Ohio, and Western er- mnnt, men grow to largtr size becaa of the limestone formation under tho noil. Parts of families have emigrated to these regions, and the result in tho next general tion has been a larger bono development in those who left Massachusetts than iff those who remained. Kentucky, Ohio, and Iowa will grow great meft. The finest figure in the world will be found in the valley of the Mississippi in a few genera tion. ' Indoor labor, so unnatural fur men, will weaken the vital power and stop tho growth in large cities, but the great and! glorious West, wilh its broad prairiaa, will compensate for the growing foebtenees of the Eastern States." ' ' Acting on the limestone theory, we shall expect some of the agricultural societies v offer a prize for the biggest man of lime. stone growth. 1 '" ' ' - 1 L- . ; . -, Awful Shipwreck Men Eatrn by tub Sharks. An extraordinary case of double shipwreck is reported in the St, Christopher papers. . The "fiosabella" left Dominica early in May for the Spanish Main. On the night of the 14th of May a storm suddenly brewed up, a heavy sea struck the vessel and she became a total wreck. , Nothing was saved but a trunk of money, and with this the captain and su percargo got ashore. They purchased a cargo ef sugar and chartered the "Esther'' of Curaco for half, and then without a moment's warning a faarful tornado struck the Schooner, and she instantaneously went down, t ; , , l Twenty-one persons , were washed off, and with great difficulty avoided the vor tex of the sinking vossol. , The boat for tunately got adrift, but the plug was out S For three hours they madly . atruggled to atop the hole, at last it was done. But meanwhile the sharks had taken off several of the miserable men, and only thirteen succeeded in gntting into the boat. Mormon Movements. There Is a vory general apparent breaking up among the Mormons in this eastern section of country, We have already noticed the discontinu ance of the Mormon newspaper published in Ibis city, nnd the suspension of religious worship in thoir usual place in 13 room street. ' We hear also, that lost Sunday, at their head quarters, at Tom's liiver, New Jersey, whore there has been a smull colony for some llmo, it was announccJ that there would be no more publio serv ices there. We understand thn. in Phila delphia measures are in progress for closing up tho Mormon church there; publio wor ship is to be discontinued, and all tho busi ness afluirs of the sect are to be wound up forthwith. This has the appearance of docay and dissolution ; but we are inclined to think that it indicates a change of poli cy, and that the Mormons in all parts of the country, are to be summoned to Utah. Instead of supporting missionary agencies in Ihe eastern States, it is thongbt best to concentrate thoir forces at head quarters. We understand that the New York society will take up their line of march for Utah early in the apring. N. 1. Timet. Newspaper Entkbfisb. Tho New York Associated Press hare decided to era ploy a news yacht to be stationed near Cape Race, Newfoundland, and to board, off the Cape, all European steamers and obtain from them tho news, which will be telegraphed immediately by the New York and Newfoundland line. By this means it is expected that the New York papers will be able to give their readers the Euro pean news in about six or eight day after it leave England. "All honor to them that do labor in schoolrooms," says Richler; "although they may fall from notice like the' apring blossoms, they fall that tho fruit may bo borne."