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OREGON CITY, OREGON, iMAY 1, 1858.
Vrt 1 t'AKDfl, CIUCULAIW, PAMi'llLKT-WOIlk
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THE OREGON ARGUS.
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fUSLISUSD IHIf tmatMV HOSSISa,
BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS
a rr-? -m
- RKHULtTIOMH
Aasslce by lk rpubllc Male Caevta
Warn, tr a, tela.
'Resolved, 1st, That tlia Republican
party, true to the principles I)nI form the
btin of our free and democrutio system of
government, reainrui 10 tnem i'a unaiier
able devotion, a laid down in ilia blood
bought charier of American liberty, the
'Declaration or Independence, miiI devl
oped in the Cun il ii linn or ill" United
States, and that the prosperity miiI perpe
tuity or our Union dnd upon a atrict
adherence to tlio doctrine tniigw, mid ihe
righi guarantied in those honored repo
ilorim of republican Txiih.
Resolved. 2nd, That in mint ion lo I h
Institution nf domestio alnvery, we rfuiNin
where thn pairmi who funned our insii
tuliuua planted iheinelve, anil where the
leading statesmen of nil parties, until mill'
in rocent period, have harmoniously
stood that it i a purely local, ikiI getter-
ill, State, and nut iiui iouul, institution
determinable by ilia States, each for itself
over winch the other btule have nu
control and lor which no responsibility,
, Kiaulved, 3-i, Tlmt with Washington,
,Jc(Fron, Madison, Franklin, and their
compeer and cntemporaries, who in the
framing, of the Consiitui ion made ftT'Oonl
prevision for the annihilation of llin lralfiu
in slave, end who were especially anxious
thai thai instrument sheu'd contain no ad
mission nf l lio right of one man to hold
property in nnother, we believe alavery lo
be a pilmcul, 'cuil, and niuriil evil; and.
whila we disclaim all righl ai.il inclination
In interfere with il a a mnniuipal regtila
lion of any of the aovereimi Sl.iti'n of tin
Union, uu bi'lii've tlint the oruniu not f
1747 I'or'lLe jiovprinnnit uf nil die territo
ry I lieu belonuiiiu' toihe It'puliliu. peiiiiid
by thiijjicinll Jeir'raoii. iipprnvi-il by the
imiuori nl Wiiahiiifiion, inj -triclly ndhered
to in the forinoiioii of every terriiuri tl
povcrnineiil from ilmt lime ilon in 1 54.
embxlie thu dmy of Co.ir. in frMiiiiiis
poveriini.-iiU for ihu Ti-rntorira Ihat in,
the lion-ex'eiiiioii of hlavvry,
Reaolved, 4ll), Tlint the uilrtunnn
drprtr'urn from thxi ptinuiil in tlm lute
ui orL'aniziii the Territory of K iii-hk, lo
which wm directly tr:ic ilie hitler ajita
lion which ' Iiuh ilestmyeil thn pnce, and
reddened with llio I l)"d uf hrui hern the
virgin Hwil, of thut f iir hind, Iihs proud hv
jt bitter frnita the win loin of th ancient
policy which it Iinn Moppliinted.
H'wtvJ, ftlh, Thut we n'onrl by and
m.iinliiio, as did our forefather, tine pop
tilar novereigniy, and thu iiiHlieniili rihl
of tlio people to govern thoiiwlit ; but
we deny tlmt a man i deprived of iIipmi
unleta he enjuy the privil.'e ofenvlnvinn
Other, nnd allirin tlmt the result ofhiiuha
doctrine would be to found the liberty of
the ci'izen upon a Imnin of deapoiiam,
Itolvrd, C ill , That tlio attempt upon
the pari ofl!le. present Deinouratiu iidiniii.
iira'ion lo foicn upnn the pi-oplu of Kan
Int l . cortfliiulion ahhorrrui lo a large
majority of i' citizens, and lo niKlain in
power a usurping mid tyrannical minority
againxt th" known will of tlio remainder,
iv an outrage nut to be borne by a free
people, and we hope that, planiin thein
aelvea lirmly upon the immortal truth first
enunciated by the Declaration of Independ
ence, " ihiit all government derive their
just power from the consent of the gov
erned," they will bo nble to wrest from
their oppressors tlmt which is iuektiinahle
to a free people and formidable to 1)' ranis
only tbo riht o compel the rulura lo con
form lo the wUlie "f the ruled.
ll.esulvud, 7h. That we insist that the
ribi to govern necessarily follow the right
lo'acq'iire an J hold terriiory, and ihat in
providing a government for a Terriiory
under this right it should be banud upon
the inalienable right of the people, and w
ttrraign the modern system as practically
carried uul in Kansas for it ultei and aros
violation of these priiicides, and altirin that
the dark catalogue of wrongs ami crime
committed by the lare and existing Ad
ministrations ngnitlsl popular rights in that
Territory deserve the execration of every
lover of freedom wf the present ily, and,
at their jut reward iu history, nu i lur-
tality of infamy
Resolved, 8lh, That thn late partisan
decision of the Supreme Court in 'he case
ofDred ScO't, which make th Constitu
tion a grand lillo instrument lo every
bolder of slaves, is a disgrace to the Ju
dietary of the nation, nnd a stain upon the
character of our country, whose proudest
bomt i it lyvaof liberty In I" largest
tense and it hftircd yf tyranny in tffry
form.
' Revolver), &th, That we congratulate
. . .u. .., nf 0re"ili upon
the ceault of the lale election upon the
Qiicrtion of alavery e a triumph of the
Republican doctrine of non-extenion, ami
wo only insist that e O'ljjhi use our
iiiiauenee wherever it cjii bt- J.-gitioiately
done to secure loniher Terri'uriesihosaine
priceless blessings of freed mi which by
euch a gratifying In4,'il' 'e'n "
ally to appreciate for imr ve.
ReaoTveij, Id" h. That th" r-ckl-s prodi.
gality of national treasure which has char,
cterizwl the la'e and pre-nl ! niocratic
Aduiinistrali-ns, br'ingiiig to bnkrui,try
a tieasury whose vaults have received (JD,
WhO.UOl) per annum, and mce-siiaiing a
loan in a lime of peace, is a clear and de
'moiilralive proof of ihat wa-leful extrav.
kgance which ha plundered I he nation
and inrned it treasury into a shmplaster
machine, with no.hing bill it credit lo
fustaio :t finance-
, R-lve,!, llth, That ili P'!n R'
road is no longr an enterprise of doubtful
expediency, but has become one of imper
tiacwnmrci"l and national necessity;
and we favor its construction on any cen
tral and practicable route by th" aid of the
ienral Government given in ucli a man
ner a may b bet c;i!culated to effect it
early completion.
RetoWcd, 12th, That we favor appro
T.rialion by Congo's fr tb? improvement
of river and barbori of a national character.
Resolved, 13tb, That tlia political dog.
ma (ought recently lo be established by
a narlv Wvlinir themselves Denwuraia in
' I 4 - ...
this Territory, which aiseri the duly of
a representative or delegate in tome in
stance lo be lo obey the instructions of
hit constituents wlnlo in other vpeuhed he
it bound to disregard them nnd bow to tlrj
will of ether, is dangerous and anti-repub.
lican in ila tendency, and worthy to be
sustained only by a party that everywhere
i known aa trio all v or personal vassalage
and 'h advocate of partisan despotism.
Resolved, 14th. I hat we believe in the
unirainmeled right of the citizen to think
and vole aa he please, and we utterly de
ny the riubl of any representative under
any circumstance lo violate l lie instruc
tion or known will of I lie people be rep
resent. Resolved, 18th, Thai the present r;em
of voting viva voce, introduced by that
party to subject the suffrage of tlieci'izen
to the urveillance of partisan inspectors,
and awe him, under the penally of being
branded a a traitor, Into nbject submission,
a relio of barbarism, winch finds fit
friends in a party whose whole organization
is devoted to the extinguishment of eve
ry park of personal freedom, and subject
its member to the entire control of an aris
tocracy of leader; and that with such a
party we are proud lo have neither sym
pathy nor communion.
THE 01110 DEMOC.flMW.
Ureal A. alt- leaatalaa t'.savrallai at
V-eteauas, Okie Myrccti by Boa. F. P,
Hiantoa, of TcaatsM.
A mas convention of the anti-L'Cooip
Ion Democrats nf Ohio was held al Co
lumbiis in March, nt which the following
resolutions, among oiheis, Were passed:
Resolved, That the Lec-unpton Consti
tution is the olT-pring of usurpation and
trauds, and l not the act and deed of the
lieople. of Kansas, but, on the contrary, it
has been repudia'vd end renounced by an
otnrwhelmiug majority of the lawful voters
of said Territory, and lo imo it on an
unwilling and protesting people would be
an acl of gross injustice and tyranny, iu
coul raveiilion of the platlnrm and pligbleii
faith of the Democialic party, subversive
of the principle of self government ami
promotive, nf ilislriist nnd alienation be
tweeu the different sections of the Union.
Resolved, That the enforcement of ibis
rejected instrument on tlio people of Kan
aas against their known ami expressed
will, merits our unqualified disapprobation,
and will, unless arreah d and (It f ated, lead
to the most unfortunate and disah'mus re
suit to the Democratic party and the
Union.
Speeches were made by Hon. Ilunry ft.
Payne, late Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio, Cu. Manypenny, Cotnmis
sinner of Indian Affairs under President
Pierce, and Hon. F. P. Stanton, of Tenn.,
late Acting Governor of Kansns. We give
portions of Mr. Stanton's speech.
Ot iheLecompton Constitution lie said :
"At the time of I he passu go of the
Kansas Nebraska act, I did not dream that
something such a we have seen was to be
Niibs'iiuted for tins principle. ioSouilie.rn
man dreamed it, and I should then have
blushed with limine to have believed what
has Occurred.
" I, as a Southern man, proclaim ihnt the
people nf Kansas had a right lo settle the
question of slavery for themselves not to
be defrauded and cheated bv the manner
in which it was presented lo them.
" Now, this is not all. It Kansas I ad
mitted tinder litis instrument she will be a
lave State. Moreover, the apportionment
Kansas under the Lecompton cnusiitu
lion is not only unfair and unjust il is
corrupt. Jus! look al il. Nut only a
idge of Ihe Oxford precinct n delegate in
the convention, a man who was a clerk in
that election elected cleik of that cnnvt-l)
lion, but this vvry constitution apportions
representatives to thai very count) where
the frauds were committed-, nliogeiher in
IWpropurtion to Us rights. As a man hav
ing a conscience, i cannot receive that in
atrument. Ihe corrupt apportionment
nin s and vitiates the wh"le instrument.
I would as loon take by the hmul a m-w
who had murdered my own father, at to
take the hand of a man who would accept
tht Conttt'tHt'on, knowing thm fraud
And J cannot think that that man who
would thut accept them can be an honest
man."
Mr. Stnnlon bluntly asserted that the
friend of Mr- Douglas have been removed
from office for no other reason man ue
cause they refused lo sanction ihe fraud in
Kansas.
Afier expatiating upon ih position nf
the Locompton constitution in Congress.
Mr. S. said if tin instrument is adopted,
Kanss will be orgamZ'd as a slae State,
but organized only to dissolve again. The
people will not live under it. " Hut should
il pass, a day of retribution will arsuredl;
visit the authors and advocate of ihe foul
wrong. The people, the democracy of the
country, will repudiate and acorn it with
deri.i"H and hate. Il u like a poisonous
reptile. It wi!l be like the i-r which
geolo"i.U eometime find petrilieJ in gran
ite. It will be imbedded iu the granite
rock of history, a poionou and vicious
reptile which will be handed down for the
perpetual eX'cration "t luture g'neranons.
"The wrongs of Kansas have excited
the t.e...le to deed of violence. They
have threatened the destruction of all the
author of the fraud and wrongs that have
betn heaped upon tbem. It i natural
.u-. .. bnl I resort to violence. If the
I II f ' 'v
pro-slavery party had been treated a they
have treated ihe free Slate men, I don't
believe a mm of the free State parly
would have been l A. They would all
have been slaughtered. The people of
Kama are outraged almost beyond endu
ranee. Thera have been people who for
much lighter wrong have resorted in much
harsher measure than the people of Kan
sas liuveyel adopted."
Mr. Stanton said lie lirmly believed that
civil war will follow the adoption of h
Lecompton constitution. And Mr. Uuch-
anau hai precipitated what he attempts to
prevent by the perpetration of this great,
t'li monslruus wrong. Pursue this
wrong io the end proposed, and this Union
of Slalea will disappear forever. 'We ure
told that we shall be read oul nf ihe Pom
ocratiu party. Mr. Buchanan has no right
In call upon ihe Democracy lo destroy it
self, lie has no right to hazard llin pvace
and welfare of ibis Union. If we respect
ourselves, if we regard our homes, if we
love our honor, we can not and will not
follow hi in.'
Mr. Stanton alluded lo his Southern birth
and education, ami aaid that his sympa
thies have always been with Southern peo
ple, and with their interests and principles,
bul as a Southern man he derided atM con
temned the slave trade, which some of the
Southern members of Cuiigross propose lo
revive for the purposg of preserving the
equilibiium nf the Siutes. Doii'l you see
something else in this Lecompton matter
in Congress lie-idos a mere desire for a
barren triumph f Do you not know that
the ablest mil most active of them design
lo make Kansas a slave Stale, and keep il
solo all eterni'y, and I lint they will urge
thn 0Mning nf the slave trade ! Yet I Itll
ton, aa a Southern man, that although I
have always thought it desirable thut the
equilibrium of the. Slates should be pre
served, sunru, and all honorable Southern
men would scorn, to establish thut princi
ple by f'aud and villainy. And I tell ytu
thai ili impie-sible, w iihool a very great
increase of tile Af'ican population, to peo
ple the Territories with siutes. Theie are
but .'1, 5110,011(1 slates in ihe Union, and e
know that even Textis alone i sufficient to
ahsO'h double ihe number nf slaves now in
the Union. The equilibrium of the S'ates
cannot be preserved except by the slave
trade.
"I don't know hut that in a few years
l tie Democracy may he called upon to ad
vocate the slave trade ; and it may be made
a test of Democracy. Strange things have
happened lately. Who, a year ago, would
hat e believed ihat a Democratic President
and Cabinet would have advocated and de
fended the foul ft and, that have been visited
upon unhappy Kansas f 1 tell you it will
be nothing strange to sen even some of
you before me advocating this very princi
ple of lbs slave trade. Tlio Administra
tion will distribute among you a liitlu pat
ronage, a custom-bouse collectorship here,
and a post office there, and the people, be
cause ihey will be persuaded that by ihe
increase of the slave populutian by impor
tation ihey can buy sugar for three or fmii
cents per pound, instead of six or seven, a
now, will be induced to swallow this black
bill, and help to make it the Democratic
lest of orthodoxy. I have lio doubt thai
some of the ablest and most wily of the
Southern members of Congress aro looking
to the passage nf the Lecompton instru
merit u a wedge to open Kit slave trade,
llml the "equilibrium" may be lints pre
served. This would he no diflereuce to
you, would it. if you could thereby get a
few of our staple -i little bit cheaper than
now They'll offer ou thai bait, and
von may bite. We'll wait and see. As a
Southern man, I always have opposed, and
always will oppose, llin opei'ing of the
slave trade, and I believe, if the question
were submitted lo lite people of the nouih,
they would reject il with scorn and con
lempl." Hi denunciation of the Administration,
of Calhoun and hi fellow-scoundrel in
Kansas, was wiihcringly bitter. During
his remarks, Mr. S. was frequently inter
rupted with vehement applause.
07" The Washington correspondent of
the St. Louis Democrat speak of some of
he leading points in Mr. Millsnn'a speech
nn ihe Kansas qtiePtion. Mr. Mill-on is a
Dcmoci:', frn,n N"rul Di't'icl, Vir-
... II .Iu
ginia, and bt spercu its me uous ....
nouncing ihe repeal of ihe M'tsoun wotn-
promise attracted considerable atteniioD.
The Democrat's correspondent says !
" taid llie civil war in Kaiissa, wot
the Kansas Nebraska bill put in action
He made a pnw'avey argument against ihe
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which,
siriin-je enough, bad been overlooked. If
ihe bill had never passed, slavery would
have existed iu the Tenimry under llie
Dred Scott Decision, pronouncing the Ad
of 1920 unconstitutional. The Kansas-Xebra-ka
bill is another compromise, and
a worse on for the South lhan iho com
promise of 1820. for if slavery wasever nbol
i.hed in ih Territory North oT th- Mis
souri C-'inproinise line, il was alili.h"d by
iht bill. The memb rs crowded around
Mill-on whi he wa speakin?, manifet
in:.' great interest in hi remarks. When
he'had finished, be warmly eonirram
l.irl bv iVfa. mid other Republican.
No National Deue-cral, I observed, prof
fered him greeitng. lie , ri n a mai-er
cooj-cture whether lie will sreefor the Le
eoinplon Constitution. I onde'slsnd he i
a brother-in-law of Rhchi. nf ih Rich
roond Enquirer, and devoled to Oor.
WUe."
Ifyoo do evil, remember end repent of it.
Mexico. Another revolution haslaken
plsco in (hit unhappy country, and Co-
monfort, late Dictator, Las taken refuge in
the United Stales. Mexico is sinking low
er and lower into the pit of national deg
radation and helplessness, and every suc
cessive revolutionary attempt to extricate
herself ends only in a further subsidence
into the slough of despair. In view of il.ls
undoubted fact, it is cot impossible that ihe
United Status Government may feel itself
called on to take Mexico under ils own pro
lection, to prevent interference by Euro.
pean powers. Ou this subject, the London
Times says :
Mexico has now arrived at a point nt
which any convulsion may improve the
prospect of her foreign creditors. In the
present slate of things ihey can have no
hope, and their great drend, therefore, niusl
be lesl il should be perpetuated. J f some
new military dictator were lo arise, or I he
country were to be absorbed, without more
dulay, by the United States, their treat
ment could not be worse, and it intelit,
especially in ihe latter case, be much bet
ter. Let the United States.
when they are finally prepared fur it, enjoy
all ihe advantages and responsibility of
ownership, and our merchants al Liverpool
end elsewhere will be quite content with
the trade Ihat may spring oul of it. The
capacity of the Mexican population for ap
preciating a constitutional rule is not so
remarkable that wa should volunteer to
administer it."
The article in the Times from which this
extract is taken was written previous to ihe
late revolution In Mexico. Of course the
conclusions ot the writer are strengthened
by wlmt has transpired since they were
first propounded.
(E The Capitol is a miniature world,
and a world of wonder, loo. It length is
740 feci, and its width 270, and covers, in
cluding its terraces, which inclose a series
f rooms, some fits or six acres of laud.
The new dome, now in process of construc
tion, will surpass in grandeur, iu beauty of
conception, in style and magnificence, any
thing of the kind on this continent, and
perhaps not excelled by any similar struo
Hire in ihe world. It will rise 300 feet
from the base nnd 230 feet from the top of
the building, and will be surmounted by a
colossal figure, representing the Genius of
America, designed by Craw ford. The ped
iments in the extensions are also to be fill
ed with colossal statuary, much of which is
already cut, nnd ready to occupy ils place.
03" The Legislature of Texas lias not
responded lo Gov. Runnels' message pro
posing to make (he rejection of the Lecomp
ton Constitution by Cnngrers the cause for
immediate preparation for disunion. The
joint committee to whom the subject was
referred reported a series of resolutions,
which were debated, opposed, and refurred,
and returned back amended, and finally
passed Iho Senate.
A Doo and Cat DiFFicutTr iUprav
Co.mi'Romiskd. Miss Julia Dinsmore, an
unmarried lady of about thirty. I wo, has
been for some lime boarding at a very gen
teel establishment in Eighth street, her
chief solace being in Ihe society of her pet
tom-cat, " Lord Mortimer," the only male
thing she could ever tolerate. Dul a few
weeks ago, Abraham Siubley, a single
man of forty, doing business a a merchant
in Market street, came to take up his quar
ters at the sntno boarding house, bringing
with him a terrier dog named General Bol
ivar. An instantaneous antipathy seemed
to spring up between Miss Dinsmore and
Mr. Siubley. The latter informed a fel
low. boarder that he was sorry that he had
come to a place where there wat such " a
sour old maid," and Julia (old the landlady
that if "thai nasty old bachelor" did no:
soon go a ay, she would be obliged to
seek another boarding-hoUi-e.
Hostilities were quickly commenced be
tween ihe tom cat and terrier; the aristo
cratic title borne by the former seeming to
disagree with the republican proclivities of
"I!oivar." Yesterday, as "Lord Morti.
mer was going np stairs, hi canine t ner,-;
came behind him and feloniously bit off
about ih ret inches of his tail ; at which his
lordship, with a loud yell, turned around
and gave the General a dangerous scra'cli
in the left eye. Miss Dinsmore, on discov.
ering the injury done to her pet, roolved lo
endure it no longer, snd pulling on her bon
net and cloak, she started ofTto the Mayor's
to complain of Slubley's dog a a nuisance.
Abraham, by a strange coincidence, firmed
the tame plan with reference to Mis Dins
more' cat. It appears to be a common error
with some of our fellow citiz-nt to suppose
ihat a Mayor can rectify everything.
Thus the off-tided bachelor and obi maid
started out on similar errand about the
same time, and perceiving that they were
both rnn-i the same way, the intention of
each was communicated to the other. Mr.
Siubley indicated his fondness for ihe ter.
rier by declaring thai he haJ nothing else
apoo earth on which lo latuh his affec
tion. This touched the feeling of Mi
Julia, who admitted that her own case wa
'very mecb ih rae, A long snd inter-
siting conversation ensued, and both par
ties at length agreed to visit the Mayor,
but with a design vary different from the
one which brought them out. Mr. Stub'
ley purchased a gold ring on the way, and
the ouple were united in matrimony soon
after their arrival at lite police court
Abraham agiecd to discard bis dog and
Julia her cat, both having found excellent
substitutes, and neither, therefore, was like
ly to feel the want ef a quitdruped pel.
Philadelphia Prett,
Frtac.
It is well known that an attempt was
made not long since to assassinate the Cm
peror of France. He was about leaving
hia carriage lo enter the Opera-house,
when three ahells filled with fulminating
powder were thrown from an opposite
house, one of which killed one of bi
horses, wounded the footman, and tore the
Emperor' bat and the collar ef hit cloak.
He carried the Rmpreti in hit arms to the
step of the Opera-house, when another
shell burst midcr his carriage, shattering
it to piece; the other burst among the
crowd, killing five persoss and wounding
near a hundred. About thirty persons
were arrested, mostly Italians, of whom the
chief seemed In he a man named Orslul.
The Government has become severely
stringent in il measures sinco this attack,
and errn went so far as to demand tli ex
pulsion of political refugees from the toil
of England alleging that ihey there con
spired against the Emperor's lift). This
amused ihe indignation nf the British peo
ple, and led 10 the resignation of llie Paltn-
ersion Ministry, which had introduced a bill
into Parliament favoriug the demands of
the French Government.
Remarking upon the stale of affairs in
France, the Philadelphia Ledger has the
follow ing article J
"Dkspotism i Fiance. If the Em
peror Louis Napoleon know where to stop
and how to be magnanimous now, he
inighi enthrone liitnsolf in iho hearts nf the
French nation and of all Europe forever.
Republicanism has just disgraced itself in
Paris, and the abhorrence of such villain
as J'ierri, Osini, and their associates, from
the diabolical nature of their plans, would
have commanded any amount of respect
for Louis Napoleon, as the grand opponent
snd object of such attacks, if ho would only
allow it. Uut if the republicans are mad
on the one hand, the Emperor is mad on
ihe other, and the plan of shutting up the
freedom of the press in Mo, increasing
espionage, in fuel, destroying all liberty in
France, has roused against him all inde
pendent thinkers, and done nothing to put
down assassins. A reign of terror may be
said almost to have begun already in
France. Foreigners will do well to avoid
the country, and the best thing for every
peace loving Frenchman, who Las the
slightest acl f-respect, would be lo leave
F ranee for A ustrnliu or fur America, or any
placo where ha could get out of the reach
of these two litnriblo antagonisms, despot
ism personified in Louis Napoleon and as
sassination in Orsini Si Co.
" Never has France had such a Minister
of thn Interior ns now. M. Hillault, a con.
siitutionalist friend of Napoleon and a ci
vilian, is cashiered. Wu have no fault lo
find with ihat, for he was or seems lo have
been remiss, but the appointment of such
a militnry man ns General Espinasse, better
known for his mad freak as a Colonel, or
an aid-de camp to the Emperor, to this po I,
with extraordinary powers and titles, is
putting down all liberty in France, lie i
a man of courage and daring, but oho of
no experience in the Cabinet ; in fact, no
thing but a desperato dragoon, who will
slick at nothing lo servo his master, and
have the eniirn control of the Police, with
all their secrets, entering into every family,
hacked by any amount of troops. Il seems
like proclaiming martial law throughout
France, and ihe hope renounced of ever
governing France by civil law. It was not
until two other militnry men had declined,
that ha was nominated.
" Perhaps ihe best that can be expected
is that Napoleon nominates him because he
intends, in be the real dome Minister him
self, but he could have found such tools
among (he civilians, lie has clearly
made every arrangement, however, for the
Home Office in he under his own more im
mediate supervision. It is about to bo
transferred to one of ihe now wings of the
Palace of ihe Louvre. So perfect a ma
chinery of despotism ha never before been
completed, or even conceived, in the histo
ry of the world. That office will be the
center of France and uf Europe. Here
coni ergelelegra'pb wire extending through
all France and all Europe, toon to exieuu
ihioiigh all lb" wotld. Secret passage
underground communicate with all the va
rious fiirts and military rendezvous by
which Paris is surrounded. Accom'moda.
tion for two emir" regiment of horse are
contained in one of the wing of the Palace
it. If. This, with an army of fifty thou
sand soldiers around Paris, with innumei
ble cannon ready lo poor gi.'Pe on the peo
ple in a momen', and, above all, with a
countless body uf police, who know what
is going on in every bouse, constitutes lb
strength of this center of despotism, which
yet is afraid to unmuzzle the press. What
chance is there for resistance 1 A ravolu
luiion would seem impossible. There u
General K itiate. like a spider in the cen
ter oMii web, and he the mere cal'a paw
of another bigser, blacker spider, crouched
back behind him in the interior of a cell
like tlihs. Th idea of it i tenible.
Brtfer sWell la th miast at alarm,
Thaa rip in thi horr.W plsee."
W ko 'ht ifspo'1" I1' every-
thing to provoke and to alarm liira. Hut
' we cannot forget that he airuck th first
blew of this conlest, and this is, wa will
not say the natural, but tb uanatural re
coil from the unnatural deed h lliencotn.
milted. Wa believe Napoleon now wish,
es io govern France for the bes. II
firmly belive himself the physician nf
France, that be Is lb only possible "In.
stituilon" that can tav the nation, aod
these are (be only means. Were let Iw
throw up lb reins suddenly, there would
be a general scramble for ihcm, but it is
doubtful if France Could gel any thing
much better.
" So far, be would say, hs has nieeeedu
keeping peace and quashing rebellion."
ftut we dread ihi centralization of iower.
It i ihe moat desperate ofetpedicntt, lia
ble nt any moment lo be overthrown, temps
ting men to become assassin by the ama
zing premium it offer for this vilest of
crime. II is alike horlbl lor all parties.
Na mnn em snenk aleud or write. Ha
can hardly think in Paris, but hal the po.
lice have hold of him. This cannot last,"
Facts in Human Lira. The number
of men Is about equal to the nnwiber of
women. The average of human li to I SI
...... y
yean. Une quarter die tieiore the age ot
7 nne half before lha age of 17. Of ev
ery 1,000 persons, ens culy reaches 100
years. C.'siery 100 only 0 roach Go, and
not more that one in !i()0 reaches the sge of
80 years. There Is oa earth 1.J00.000,-"
000 of iuhubitnnls. Of tbee 33,333,333
die every yar,0l,8S4 di every dsy, 1,'iBO
every Lour, and 00 every minute, or ona
fur every seconJ. These Injtes are about
balanced by an equal number of births.
The married art longer lived than Ihe m
gte, and shove all, those who observe a to
bor ai.d industrious conduct. Woman have
mure chances of life previous to the (ge
of 00 year than men, bul fewer after.
The number of marriages is in proportion
of 73 to 100.
CO" Always auead or Tim. The pa
purs uniformly announce tho reception of
foreign newa at New Orleans hy telegraph
fifteen or twenty minutes bffort Iht (lock
time of its leaving New York a feat
which, notwithstanding ils frequency, is
ever wonderful in its illustration of lha al
most incredible rapidity of this mod of
transmitting inlulligenco.
JOT The Secretary of War tliinks he
uun send into the fluid against the Mor
mona about 0,000 men, without any tddi
tion to tlio army. W hare no doubt this
would prove enough for the purpose. Uut
the Administration will press again their
demand for new regimentsi
OCT The death of Freeman Hunt, of ihe ,
Merchants' Mngtzinct is a national lost. .
For nearly twenty yeart, he has laborious,
ly and unremittingly devottd himself to
the duties of a work which hat established
itt fame on both sides of the Atlantic, as ,
the ablest nnd best of all statistical and
Commercial publications,
The Alexandria (Mo.) Dulta says
in regard to emancipation t " Let a bounty
be offered to every owner who shall per
manenily remove bis slaves to a morn
southern field of labor; and this course
will make Missouri free." -
stT Tho New Hampshire Democrats
know what has killed them, and throw the
responsibility of their defeat upon the Ad
ministration. Th New Hampshire Pa
triot says !
" The Ivansas question has again crushed
ut with i's ponderous, blind, unreasoning,
power, Pefor the Lecompton Constitu
tion question wat brutight before ih coun
try, our prospects for success were highly
Haltering ; our triumph seemed in be cer
tain ; that matter, with the course of Ihe
Administration upen it, fell liko a wet
blanket upon the rising ennrago and ear
nest zeal of our friends, and from that day
we were doomed ; our defeat wa certain,
and apparent to all well-informed persons."
Movement or tiie EAani. The mild
nest of the present season bat drawn forth
many curious speculation as to the cause.
A change of ihe currents of the ocean, and
liie approach of the Gulf at ream, by fifty
miles or more, toward our costt, hav
been announced ns reiherkible facts, which
may have some relation to the subject.
We will now aJJ another s'lll mora curi
o'is fact to ihe consideration of our readers :
"The Dr'uish Astronomer Royal, in hit
las', annual report, rafurs Id oeriain myste
rious change of level and direction in ona
nf the instruments, one occurring with ,
change nf temperature, the oilier at the
equinoxes, and he imagines some mnv.
uient - f the esrth itself lo be Ihe csuse of
ihese temarkabl" phenomena."
Those who are acquainted with tbt per.
fection of the instrument used in great
nbservaiorie. the permaneney of the dirre,
tion of the transit and equatorial instru
ment!, snd llie accuracy of the measure,
ments, depending on their accuracy, will
understand that these mysterious changes
alluded to are in the highest degree impor
tant and astounding. Is the earth clang
ing the inclination of its axis I
GO" There are three modes pouiblt tf
the development of the intellect of an in-,
te'leetutl being: to know, lwil(anl tod.