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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
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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.
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