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I PVSLMISD fVttV SATUSIMV MUISINO, BT WILLIAM L. ADAMS. TBMMS-Tkt Aaecs will k$ arnUkad at Tkn DMtri aad Fifty Ctnti r num, in ' liMMi, I I luiieriktriTkrn Uvlian ft It ttaht ten it a afieia advance t las smv i m( paia' m adtante, four thlUre will I ekarttd if paid within $ig . miM, ana r im MlMff ! f x4 i As ytar, , KT" Taw Dalltrear tit mmlkiNu eukeerip- rrt it a yw mm juriiiif. mr e s tip it ADVKKTISINQ RATES. 0s aqasr (12 lioM er It) oa Uwsrtiot, $3,00 i wo iMtroons, ijno " thn-e Insertions, 5,00 Eaeb tuWmunl IrsssrUon. Us3 Rsssnnsble deductions l thus who advwtis hy in year. ' ftftr ditttatinatd until all arrtaraget TTitr TIT id,alHattkiftiinftktpMi,ktr. v vu tb vim iw ar jcrasait s. Rassu Dhivi.no orr the American Frew the new publication, Tent Life In Whalees. Tin Pacific Advertiser, (nub. tht Holy Land, by W.C. PiUe E-q., at Honolulu.) of Oct. 18th, in nolle- take Ike following description f rmniiun ing the arrival of sundry vessels el Mono natural tea firet eight of the IMyCity: lulu from tire north, deem the news fiom " After few atept forward, our worn the whaling fleet in the Ochotsk Sea quite oat herte Mumbling rather than galloping unfavorable, in cenequtiee of the ice hold tr Ibe rock path, a mountain crowned tng out ao long in July. But the met with a moiquo and miearet was before U important intelligence derived from (bat ia the distance, which my heart knew hy quarter ie the following, which we copy intinct wat the Mountain of the Ascension. lrom Advertiser : I raised myielf in mr nirruo, and turn- "Residua the drawback of ice, we learn JOB PRINTING. Taa raoraiaroa ur th ARGt.'S ia nsrrv to inform th issblle that be baa Jum received a AvA T:.:1. r.ir- rw i ... .i .i. .t . . MarpeuicaofJUU Tri'ltaiMt mIimm print. ",; i..ojj.v.., Uv.vi,vu mj mc i j iiiujiice vi v eiiersuillllll AemuiTacy, ana RQVOCaung lae Blue 01 IfUin 111 eveiyiSflUe. ing material, and will be la the )dy rwip w , , I uuiwuiw nuieej io Bit ui rvuirwrTirHi ov uiw if i .i.m at k iiiiii ii lajiKTL iiy ui : . u No 48 CARDS, CIltCULAIta, PA MimKT.'w'oKli i mo wwr Biuaie awRV i ornvrf win notic OREGON CITY, OREGON, MARCH 13, 1858. In!. M.,i.m a.Ka...il 011. Mn..i V M' Iglieriy that the Rum inn OliM!' and warod my hand toward it- by f((rejn VM,p , le ,nd nd thea, at I looked again, before me, In among the i.lmi.U of their Aiiaiio pout mil their glory and majeety, I behulil, mag- ion, and in order to carry out their inlrn- alfioeat in the light of the letting tun, th ",,n ",v fn afveelto protect the walla of Jerutalem. ?T ...... "',., WM ""t0 I had thought of that moment for yeare Lr Vuatmk. and i doubtlete reliable. If ia waking and in sleeping dreamt. I bail eo it will serioiuly interfere with the iue aaked myatlf a hundred timet, 'What will ma of the Ochotvk fleet, fur the favorite . t wh.n PA.,p .... rcoriot wnaicr t in in oaya over wincn ' ' ' I tlid liiuliin. .in .aHi.ii i.!...ti.t!mi Tliut W.tl&t' ftflra.limM f llt.i.iivlil II. - . v"b t icv have a nfrfect rmr lit to frrv nut lit ahouldc7oulaloud,adidpilrimofold Kle, no one can dt.ubt. The United Siate and hnjlanrf protect ihtr own full ing pruundi, and Rumia can do th Mira, liut uiilfMthe whaling cronnda are vinited by llio Rumian ahipa it eeeint to be little hI than a 'dog in a manger' policy to drive away American and li,rnpn whalers." , timet, and tometimea that I should kneel . dewa on ibe road, a did the valiant men wb marched with Godfrey and Richard But I did neither. ftal a t .t I a a mr nor aioppou in uie roau. m it tie iVaii that all nnv haata hi! kaan fnt llaiu and I murmured to mvelf. 'P.ua vult' and GooD New "0M T" Camels. The myeyee filled with teart, and through w' 'tment h iniereating de.patcbe them I raxed at the battlement, and the fr,,,n Lieut. Ik-Hle, (fermerly of the navy,) towera-of the city. One by one the party "uP''ri''""",'''l5 h construction of the mil. rode up, and each in succession paused, There 'Were our Mahnmmedan servant. -.'Latin monk who had joined us a little 'back, two Armenians and a Jew, in our cor tege, bcaidet ourselves, who were Protest- ant aad til alike gazed witb overflowing eyes on'ibat spot, towards which th long- 'lag heart of so many 'millions of the hu- iao race turn daily with devout affection. 'We apoke no word aloud. 'One running wae of thought awept over h'II oursoul. 'I stood in the 'road, my 'IikikI on my horse's neck, and with my dim-eye onj;lit t trace 'the outlinesuT the holy plHCes whldh I:had long before fixed in my mind, !butthe fast flowing tears forbade'iny suc ceeding. The morel gaited the morel itary road from Fort Defiance to the Colo rado, of California. They bear date "Colorado river. California, Oct. 18, 1857." Ha has arrived there, says the Washington Star, in forty eight days, ex ploring and locating a capital' wagon road fram San Antonio, Teias. Everything on the way was found favorable to his purpose, good gras, water, ceo., and a gently un dulating country. We have no roum for his interesting details, which go to aliow that the liillieito almost entirely unex plored region through which he passed i destined to be very valuable. We quote a portion of n ht he says of the result of the camel experiinet.t, as follows : 'Unsupported by tho testimony of evcrv man of my party, I should be unwilling to could not see; and at 'length, gathering Utate nil that I Imve seen (hem do. Start- dete eroued iny free the MUs'df itiy coufeH, I ini: with full determination that the 1 sprang into the sariiMe 'and led the ad, 'vance toward the ges df tu city.' (The first morning in Jerusalem tm a lima forever to be re me in be re' I. Wlien the tun came up above the Mount 'of 01 ives, II was standing on the eat'tcrn side nf ths'diy, without the walls, on the brow of the Valle-r of Jehoahsplmt, Inokim; down I'Xperiiiient should lie tio lialf way one, I hale nuiijeetcl litem to trials which no other Kiiitnul could poibly have endured and yi't I have arrived here not only with out the Io-k of a camel, but they are ad milled by those v.'Iio hv them in TeXnsto be in ire good rondiliou t day as when we leu Shii Antonio. In all our lateral ex iilnratioini t'iiey have carried wareu aome time for more than a week, lot Uie mules used bv the men, themselves never receiv lint 4talonmy depths and up to the hill ing n Inicki'tTull to one of them. fht-was trftewed by the last fooMepa of Christ. I could not sleep, it wan In vain to think of it or attempt rt. broken ttiarthes of slumber, dreamy and restless atVhe best, but mostly broad awake thought, fancies, feelings and memories, occupied III entire night. Weary and exhausted as Tb.y Imve favrrs-d iialiently, with heavy puck-", on these explorations, voantrres tfovcred wilh the sharpest volcanic rol-kv, tind yet their feet, to this hour, tiav-e evinced no symptom of tenderness or injury. With heavy pucks they have urnsKed meoniailis, aicemled and descended precipitous plnces, where an unloaded mirlo frrAnil it ditliuult to tmss. even with he ns-dfciaiTCe of the rider dismnHnred end I was by the previous day a travel, 1 could carefollv picking his wav. 1 think ft cat eomnoMe mr mind sufficiently to take would be within bound to say that in thtvest I actually required, It was bat a little after the break of daf that I at rolled down to the gate of St. Stephen '(so called now, though formerly katwn at the gate of the Lady Mary, be- oawse of its loading to the Virgin's tomb) mdiodiftgit open already, passed out raoag the Moslem graves that cover the these various lateral explorations ihev have traversed neurlv double the distance passed over hy our mules and wagons." Sir Wllllnm Wallace. general idea entertained of Si The William Wallace is that of a rnu''h but skillful warrior, endowed with marvellous stretiL'th of arm and courage that never shrunk from any trial. His sword is pre Hill of Moriah, outside the walls, ami sit- served as an evidence of his personal ting down on one of them, waited in si leace tho coming of the tun. And it came. I had teen the dawn come over the for. oat of the Delaware country, io the sublime winter morninpa ' When last eight's mow hangs lightly sa th tree, And all th cedar and pines are whit VVjSh Ui new glury.' IMtaeen tho morning come up over the prairies of Minnesota, calm and maj tmie, aioog the far horizon. I had teen it ia gait glory on the sea, in soft splendor ia Italy, ia rich effulgence over the Libyan desert. . Bat I never taw such a morning at that befara, nor shall I ever see another such ia this eo!d world. At first there was t flush, a faint but beautiful light like a halo above the holy Mountain. Right there-away lay Retba y, aad I could think it the radiaaceof tho burning of Martha's brother. But tho flush became a gleam, a glow, an opening heaven of deep, strong light that did not dsnle or bewilder. I looked into it and vat lost io it, at one ia lost that gazet into th4ep laviag eye of the woman ha w0r ahip. It teemed aa if I had but to wish aad (should bo away in the atmosphere that arte at glorious. Strong chords of detirt teemed drawing me thither. I even rota la my feet and leaned forward over lb tarred turban on a Muasulman't tomb. 1 breathed atrong, full inspiration as if 1 aM breathe in thai glory. All Ibia while, deep in the gloom of tht valley betwaea mo aad tho Mount of At eaasioa lay tho Hebrew dead of all th atsjisjritt, quiet, cai.-n, toUaa u tLaix iloabon." power, and if he used the weapon which tradition awioitM hi him, his strength far exceeded I hat of common men This popular notion of Wallace consists with each authentic history we possess. Ii is correct so far as the man is delineated ; hut one set of peculiarities is descrilied and all others are omitted. Nearly all na tions have their heroes and many virtues are ascribed to each. The Scottish heio had the virtue of military courage and skill rfevelopea very largely, and as they told more strongly with a military people than any others, and were more intelligible to their bards and historians than his political services to Scotland, they have been den. cribed mora fully than his diplomatic qual ifications, or than lhoe accomplishments that rather belong tu private than to public life. ' We are not to fe.write the wondrous story of this short lfe-tfl tell again how in the course of seven year the younger son in a squire's f-tmily defeated and over threw the anniee and generals of a great and popular monarch wrested from him the possession of a kingdom fought all the hos'lle Influences of a feudal power out of a nation of serfs raied an independ ent army, amenable only to the royal authority, which he, as Regent, wielded--gav to the nation' Parliament a rude but strong life knew how alike to lead in cab inet and camp, and how, in camp or court, to b led and to obey 'olved so far as oln I inn was practicable then, all the prob lems of the day between people, peer and king, and reconciled them all Io the nation al cause ; and amid ceaseless and patnionat struggles for national existence and for personal and public vengeance, contrived to cultivate. Io encourage tad to extend national commerce, and to ally national independence with individual industry, elic iting at once from crude materiala a mer cantile and a military spirit and from a eolfiah a,elnh aristocracy aad a domi neering priesthood, gaiaiog popular right. without ilia reproach of having sought personal onjeci i0r personal ends. Wallace was the man of lite people, and the faithful Servant of a monarch in a for eign prison. To the people he aould btve given personal freedom ; to tho sovereign a throne independent alikt ofdomttlio and foreign tuperiort. He struck net down alone the feudal powarof the Norman king, but also the feudal strength of tho great Norman barons. The system of terfhood existed Ittg after bit death, bul hit life secured its death. The burg hal influences were the rood of political freedom, and be planted (hem. H!t regency restored old Ssxon customs, and once more made the penult a power in the state. We think of him now at the great national chief ia the struggle between Scotland aad England. Those who read thai history aright tee in it tht olden strtle between Saxon and Nor. man between the aristocratic and demo cratic elements of the time race a el rife fought on other fields, for apparently different object, in future timea between Cromwell and Rupert. Sir William Wallace was for his age and this age a scholar of liberal attainments ; conversant with the beat workt of art in Europe, and probably, therefore, a man of tate; fund, as all men of thai cbaraoter and time were, of carved columns ia stately temples, on which art they chiefly traced the evidence of ita existence. An old portrait ia fon lly t opposed by seme enthusiasts 10 preserve tho features of the man. We would not roughly break the dream of a harmless fancy, but portrait painting was not ia a very advanced state in this country six hundred year tilice. The friends of ibis painting overcome evety dificultr that chronological one in clusiveby reminding us that Wallace visited I'arts and Horn", aad was known in continental court. These circumstan ces do not help the matter much ; bul the painter had studied the history of his sub ject. He lived nearer tho events of the leaders life by two or three centuries than those who new wri'e of them. The gener al state nf society in the days of the Bruce and Wallaco wan more intelligible to him perhaps than to us. He waa a man el genius, and al least, if ha could do he more, he placed on taavaa Ihe opinion that he bad formed of this great leader. The painting demotes a man of calm, rather than stern, determination ; of atrong intel ligence and resolution a man whom we would aun'cipate to cope with difficulties and overcome them to meet troubles and not be vanquished by them a man of he roic spirit, who would not be elated greatly with success, but who would not quiver al the edge of the axe. From the features wo should iafer the immense physical strength that he ia said to have possessed ; and yet over them hangs a shade of gentle ness, and a mournful lint, gathered from the day when the lady who was said to Ireve been hi wife was murdered by his foes. The circumstance is forgotten often, that the mnriyt to freedom op Smitlifield wit a very voung man. Sir William Wallace died in early youth. He had a great work to do. He did it well, even lo the end to the scaffold and the torture, de creed for him by a great king of Kngland, m many rertcts an able and a great mon arch, bul so destitute of generosity that having paid a traitor to betray a still abler and greater soldier than himself, ho not only ordered his death, but his death by torture. The haughty Edward dreamed not then that the death-warrant of Wallace was tli ti t also of nil his ambition and hopes, the insult which made reconciliation tm josibie which hred nearit that were before almost hopeless inspired purposes that were nearly extinguished irritated the nobility "(id the squirearchy of the land which he wished to make a country or a province and kindled into fury that commonalty ro whom Wallace had been I he object of profound hero-worship, and who in all changing vcenet stood by him, always constant and faithful the unbroken spearmen whom he bad trained that no ble democracy of burghers and peasants whose vengeance for many sufferings made Roslin heights bul t red, red mire, and for their leader'a death of agony made Mnnnockburn a river of blood who cared for neither faction nor king, but followed the Comyn to Roslin, or the Bruce to Stir ling, intent on one conclusion, and thai alone, their national independence. Ldward'i courage was often placed be yond cavil or doubt. He was a bravo man the bravest of the brave among the king of In day. Fit was a Wiseman, for the policy which he proposed wit nec essary to the ultimate greatness oi tne three" kingdoms; but he wat nut a good man. or a eagacioua prince. The wisdom of Henry VI I., whoso valor was not less tried on battle fields, rendered possible by peace what Edward made Impossible by war; but Edward had none of Henry' wis determination to gain from kindness what was lost to power. Btnluj) iMintl lantf. conservation of force. Suppose a panicle of matter, A, to exist alone ; it hat no force of attract ion. Let U be created : tlnntlt could not attract ; but both existing, a force or power la supposed to be created by jut laposition or, in other words, position creates torce. I'rof. r. reasons witb much ability in favor of the ground he at sumet en this subject. An Ameiican Oidii or Aichitectoii On of our exchange contain an article advocating Ihe adoplloa of a ttrtctly Amer ican order of architecture. In the vesti bul of the Supreme Court Room, at Washington, it a number of pillar which form a starting point for such an idea. Ihey represent mane stalks clustered in columns with the ript ears bursting through tht enfolding leave for the appropriate capital. We should like to tee American tdopitng a distinctive order of architecture. ana at we feea the world, tho toulDturina m ..a km oi "inotan corn" on our column would indulgt nt io a quiet little bit of vanity. and keep foreigner from forgetting what ihey ewe ua. If our Hibernian friends should become ambitious of setting up for themselves in this line, we weuld sug gest a shillelah with a potato for a capital at otat and appropriate. Uoilon Courier. Tin Family CiacLi. Tht Baltimore Sun, alluding to the prevalence of crime among boys, very properly asserts that one of ihe main causes of the decline of moral ity it Me decay of parental diiciplint. Tht family circle, the domestic hearth, is the t rile fountain of purity or corruption to public morals. Musi people become what they are made at home. They go forth into (bo world to act oat the character they have formed io (be first fourteen years of their lives. It it alleged, in excuse, that children have become more unmanageable than ihey used to be. We reply, that hu man nature and human relations are un changed. Children are just at amenable to author ity aa ihey ever were. Thi is the main purpose for which I'rovidence hat made them helpless and dependent, that they may be trained to obedience, to order, to industry, to virtue. Itisnot true that pa rente nave not a absolute control over their children as ihey ever had. Whra there ia dependence obedience may be en forced. The real Tact it, that parent are too indolent, too negligent, too indifferent to take the pains to train up their children io iho way they should go. It require perpetual vigilance, and they get tired. requires self-control to exercise a proper authority over others. Self-couqueat is the greatest victory of all. There can be no just parental discipline when there it no character to back it. VT Oov. Walker of Kanaai tent Iht Mixico. The revolutioa in Mexico ia following retnarkablt letter In reply to an similar to the coup d'etat of Lenit Napo- invitation lo attend the anniversary cole. eon. The new Constitution bat beea bratlon of the New England Society of overturned and dont away witb forever; Now York : the Federal Councils have been broken no WaiMiNOTON Citt, Deo. 10, 1857. and disported, aad Comoafort declarrd DearSii: Circumstance beyond my tele ltd absolute Dictator, wilh power to control compel me to be absent from the call ia extraordiaary Coogrea. 1 he day Anniversary Dinner of the Nw England I prior le the overthtow of the existiag Gov- Society, to which you hart to kindly in- ernmen, Governor Bas wat arraigned in vited me, the Chamber of Depntiet for several of. This it a time when we are all turn. Tenses. So far, however, from deigning lo mened lo recur ro first principles, to glo- reply to them, after rebuking ibt Con- rlously associated with the early as well as great in general term for Iheir puerile ihe Revolutionary history of New Eng-1 course, from ibe opening of the session, he land. II may be truly taid that the May- openly and plainly told them that that flower, which bore tho Pilgrimt to Ibt wat tht laat day Ihey would over aaeet in shores of New England, wat frtlghttd those chambers, for the next day they with Ibe liberties of the world. Oa board would be ewtpt away. Tbt next morning that immortal vessel wat framed the ao- the cannon announced the coup d'etat ia cial compact baaing all human government tht heart of the city. The belle were on the content of the governed, and car. I rung, the people shoaled, the military pi- ry ing it into execution by the choice of ru-1 reded the streets, a few arrests were made, lera by their own volt. At your falhtrt proclamation wat published, and all wat Itodtd on your rock bound shores, there over the Constitution twept awty, the dawned the first faint glimmering of ihe Congress broktn up, and Comonfort made principle of telf government, which rose Supreme Dictator. It it taid be time at upon enfranchised humanity, in all ita me- the dignity of Emperor. ,.-.r,,,,,l ,U,,IUUI UirillU.I Kym nn, w- r vi.it. I.. !.. Th. r tr . i. "- a V r ' j -";"' been invited to celebrate the 8th of Jaou, .-o. .,B ..agwa. . ,e.r,u. .no, per. XtmmiBJ r, N,w Yerk, wrote a 1"F '. " H .7 . . m . ,erD latter, in which hi tpeaka at considerable I armory, ll Iht pnnc.pl. can be rub- eng.h of .be K.n.a. trouble. I. seem, varied there, and auch an act raffled by u neilb.rwi,h Mr. Dougla. .or ihe Congress, th. Ttlgrlm P.th.r. wdl h.v. Pmi , fc fc , J ibuucu in 'o do io snores oi xiew cog-1 . j j , , n l url. ..t- ...... . ....... t 10 Pol'7 Ponded by Mr. Pugb in " ' " IIUIU. I ,V. kill hSiMud Ia (I. Q,,b.I. k-il mm. uvm nuuiuig.icu in iuo icciaraiion oi I , , t n . ,-,., ' ' ' I tw1iinri tli. frtri tif lit. .rlntiltun nt tL. A.. - - ""J " the Revolution wi'l hsv. been wasted on a aeil where military and despotic power would soon resume their away, at under 03 Professor Faraday has recently delivered a lecture before the Royal Insti tution of r.nglsnd, which has attracted much attention from the boldness With which the received theories of science are lamined. The lecture wat on the can- serva'inn of force, the main idea of the lecture being that force I. e. f, or Ihe power, or that which givea motion can neither be created nor destroyed; that 'gravity" ha no exemption from the princi ple of conservation ; but that, being iacoa vertibl in its nature, it offera an unchang ing ted of the matter recognised by it. Prof. F. eontenda that the conservation of force ought to be admitted aa a physical principle in all oor hrpathett ! that all force ac io time, and scree apace, aad by or in physical lice ; that a theory canaot oe accepieo a sumcieni unies ir princi ple of th conservation of fro bo contain odioit. He asweru thai the ida t grae rtrigaoret entirely the prittipleef the A Common Fault Rkbuxed. now an noying it is, when seated alont in your nthoe, io have some one open the door, look around tht room to be satisfied that you are ita only occupant, and then ask, "Mr. (your partner perhaps,) is not in, ta he I I he custom is as common as it is rtdiculoui and aunoying. The Buffalo Express in stances a case in that city, where one of these askert of nedless questions waseffeo lually taken down. A member of a law firm in tnat city is silting at hit desk, busily engaged in important business, when the door opens- Mr. Auger walks in, takes hit seat, and sayt in a drawling tone, " Mr isn't in, ia he I" The question waa useless, of course, as there was no one in th. room bul two ; but the counselor arose, and with great urbanity replied, " I will see, sir. ' tit looked under his chair, be hind the stove, into the " pigeon holes" ef Ins desk, and saying, " I don t see htm." tat down and went to writing. " Hold on, bqutre. ' said the visitor, you have taught me a lesson, sir, and I'll send you a peck of apples' ---and departed. OtT Postmaster-General Urewn bas de cided to declare streets in cities pott-routs, under tat act or the year lool, with a view ef depriving private expresses from carrying letters, and ceacentrattng the whole business in the hand or the Depart ment. Letters are to be mailed from the tub-offices free of charge, bul two cents are charged on delivery of all local corres pondence, the aama aa delivering letters by the mails, this policy haa been re cently applied to Boston, and is now design ed fur New York and Philadelphia. A Rcmasiabli Testinont. The Tab let, a Roman Catholic newspaper published in New York, makes a striking confession of the decline of Romanism in the United States. It sayt t Few insurance companies, We venture to assert, would tak a risk on the national life of a creed which put five hundred daily into ihe grave for one it wint over to its owa communion. And vet litis it what Catholicity it doing In these Slatet while " ot t saw 89 That lingular boy at Ithaca, who had a passion fiowtr grow out of the flesh ef hit diseased leg, haa since produced in the tame way a cluster of orange flower. Dr. Ha wiry saw tht Hem rise at right an gle to tht limb to the height of about three inches, when il eooa developed pure whit bud, resembling tht buda of the orange; oa being exposed ta the light iho bods etpeided lata flower, which aaannv d a beautiful grayish-purple color. These flowere are eompoted of fleshy labttance, and are grid tally drawa back again be- aeeia kbo akia. While ihey are ia bot tom the ley is relieved from pels. atilutivo. At the same time, he aropoaea to tolvt the difficult- in thi way ; Tka Pnnirr.M nf ITnil.J S-.m our taicidt tho freedom of our country oughl Bol,0 reiect the legitimate and Re and the world forever tank, wilh ita laat publican Constitution, but ought to adopt bubbling cry," into that great deep " subject to a fair and legal vote of tht where il should remain until "the tea PP'a ol Kansas, according ;to a law to bo .j ii . j ii i uiesvriuvu hj iiieir icrriioriai uegiBiBiurr, gave upiuoead, and man .hall answer ,Pnd .h, Sul, uade, j, Cons.ilu' for hi crime al the dread tudgment-aeai tion whenever the Territ.rv ahall proclaim of his Creator. I ita approval and adoption bv the people. As a Pennsylvania I have no claim by If doPt hi ,0 (,in't he I"0 lh8 u birth or ancestry oa New England, and on JaM " 'Mbey rejeci it, lo pretumethat for thit k.nd invitation to way to orginlxe another, and lo.ubinit an. your anniversary dinaer I am indebted to other Constitution to Cungresa for ap. ray wife, who ia a descendant of the illua- proval." trioua Boston printer boy, Benjamin Frank, lilt, in whose principles and virtue! I have eudeavored to rear my children. In closing this letter, permit me to trans- rait for the occasion the following senti ment: SelfQoverament Whenever il shall be endangered here, let every eon of New The Steamship Adiiatic The new Collins steamship Adriatic made a trial trip from New York, and thoronghly t iified ihe competent gentlemen on board that ahe it the fastest steamship afloat. Her greatest speed wat eighteen nautical (twenty-one atalute) miles in one hour and England, wherever residing, rise at ont four minu,M. 'D nly about twothirdt man to the rescue. of her available steam, and about half la- Most respectfully, your obedient serv't, den. The Adriatic ia tht largest steamship TL J. Waleki. E.D. Moeoan, Esq., Chairman, die. How the House or Representatives la Lighted. It is taid that, for simplicity and efficiency, the lighting apparatus in the Hall of Repretentativea i without parallel. The number of burners is 1,300, The pipes which convey the gas along are pierced with 45,000 jets. The ceiling it made of stained glass, richlv decorated with the armorial bearings of each Slate, and a variety of other ornaments. Over thit rriling, and out of sight from below, it the machinery for lighting the Hall. It ia the beauty of the arrangement that whon the gat U turned on and a match applied to any one jet, the light runa along the whole teriea of burners, and in about twenty seconds the whole place ia io a blaze of brilliancy. Ameiican Watches. The prediction of Speaker Banks, ia his address at the Crystal Palace, that in America we should shortly be able lo manufacture watches for three dollars aa good la are now made in England for three hundred, aeemt to give some promise of being realized. A watch factory hat juat been establish ed at Waltham, Massachusetts, by Apple ton, Tracy it Co., where the separate parte are all accurately stamped eut by machin ery and fitted by band. The jewels are bored by hand, and the corresponding piv ots fitted to them by females. All the watchea art mada alike, to that they can be easily repaired, and any part of one tiae will exactly fit any other watch of the tame aize, to that they can eaaily be re paired and refilled. The simplest kind of lever watch without the fusee, it the form tdopted, and they can turn out about tea thousand per annum. fcCT During ibe year 18S7 there were 80 steamboat accidents in the United Slatet by which 322 persons loot ibeir lives and 66 were wounded, la 1658 there were 29 accidents, S58 killed, and 137 wounded. Number of railroad accidents in 1857, 138, persons killed 130, wounded 530. a 168, 143 aceideBte, 195 killed, and 029 wouaded. We fancy we are becoming wUer a wo crew oldr. whea it ia aimaly our iaaapaqiy to eeosoul the tame feline at whoa we were young. ever built in thit country the largest ship that has floated since the daya of Noah (the Leviathan ia not launched yet) and, without exception, tht large! wooden vet. eel in the world. Her length ia 354 feet 8 inches; breadth of beam 60 feet; depth of hold 38 feet 3 inches ; Custom House register 5,809 Ions. The beauty of her linet ia unparalleled, and may well be con sidered the crowning monument of Ihe ge nius of George Steers. The keenness of her bow, with wedge like aharpaess ex. tending back nearly fifty feet, and the graceful linea of the waist and atern, as she sits wiih swan-like ease upon the water, notwithstanding her gigantic proper I ions, present a specimen nf symmetry aud grace unequaM in naval architecture, lh-r upper decks run the whole length of the ship, affording a fine promenade. There are eight principal boilers, having 18,000 perpendicular iron tube, and are arranged ia sets of four, forward and aft of the en. gine. The whole number of furnacea i forty-eight, six to a boiler. There are two extra boilers, with brass tubea, to be used in any emetgency. . The water wheelt are 40 feet ia diameter, of wrought iron, and each haa thirty-two paddles, 12 feet in length. The shaft are 38 feel iu length, 27J inches in diameter, and weigh 34 tons. The actual propelling power ef thia enormous engine ia estimated at 2,800 horses. Beneath the saloons are the freight decks, where 1,000 tons of cargo can be stowed and 1,200 to 1,400 tons of coal, besides water tanks for 10,000 gallon, exclusive of the ample provision made for a supply of water by condensation from, ihe engines. The Adriatio made one trip lo Europe ia December, and haa been bauled off until April, for the reason lhalshe doe not pay expenses; besides, the Bailie and Atlantio can make all the necessary tripe during the winter. The disbursement of the Add alio for etch trip are estimated at about 150,000 ; and, notwithstanding tht recti pt of 119,350 for tho round trip for carrying the mail, it ia aetimattd ahe muet have. annk $50,000 ia tba late trip to aad from, Liverpool. - (D It is reported from WaaMfiataa that the Adminietralioa ooaat apea a, majority of ua in the Bouao of Ujye4B,at'te for the tdouatioo ea Xaoue with taa Leoaoio. ! too CoDltitbUflQs I 'it i. i I i ,l. ;! 1 't ?- lit I? ! V . ii