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Vol. IV.
OREGON CITY, OIIKGON, JUNE 5, 1858.
No. 8,
ami other kii.Ha. dune to order, en hnr rot ee.
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.. nV'.SOlA'TIOXS
Adopted toy the nepufellctn Hltte Convea
tins, April la, 1HSH.
Rosolvud, lit, That the Republican
party, true to ilia principle that fiirm tho
basin of our (ten arid douiocrmiu system of
government, reaffirm to them iin unalter
bio devotion, a Inid down in tho blond
taught clinrturor American liberty, the
Declaration of Independence, and iltvy
oped in the CoiiH'itiiti'in of the United
State, and llint the prosperity nnj perpe
tuity of our Union depend upon a strict
adherence to tun doctrine tuughl, ami the
tlghl guarantied in those honored repos
itories' of rnpuhlicn.i faith-
Resolved, 2nd, That In relation to the
Institution of domestic x! a very, wo remain
where tlio pat riots who (brined our insti
tution planted themselves, and where the
loading utaiestnen of all parties, until with
in a recent period, have hnri.ioiiiouly
tnod that it i a purely loco I, not gener
nl, State, anil nut nuiiuual, institution
determinable by thn Sin'e, each for il-u lf
over which the oilier .Stale havp. no
centrol ami lor which no responsibility.
Rolvcd, 3 1 . 'I'll it with Washing'on,
Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, and iheir
compeers and cnlemporarics, w ho in the
framing of the Constitution mtidn (-textual
prevision fur thn miuihilaiioti nfthe irnfTiu
in slave, and who were expi-ci 1 1 y anxious
that that instrument shou'd conluin no ad
mission of the right of one. man U hold
properly in another, we believe blavery to
boa political, social, and mural evil; and.
while wp disclaim nil righl ar.d inclination
to interfere wilh it ana municipal regula
tion of uny of the Kovureign States of the
Union, wo believe, thai thn orgauio act of
1797 for the government of all the territo
ry then belonging to the Republic, penned
by tl)eagaciou Juir.rsuit, approved hy the
immortal Wasliinyton, h'iJ, strictly adhrrcd
ts ill tho formation of every territorial
government from that lime down In 131,
embidies the duly of Congress in framing
government for ilia Territories that is,
the non-extension of slavery.
Resolved, 4th, That the unfortunate
departure from that principle in the. late
aet organizing tho Territory of Kansas, lo
'Svhich wo directly traco the bitter agila
lien which has destroyed tho peace, and
reddened wilh the blood of brother the
virgin nuil, of that fuir land, has proved bv
it bitter fruits tha wis lum of the ancient
policy which it has supplanted.
Rjtolved, 5th, That we stand by end
maintain, a did our forefathers, true pop
ular sovereignty, and theinalipnuhlo right
oTthe people to govern themselves ; hut
wo deny that a man is deprived of these
unless h enjoy th" privilege of enslaving
others, and ntlirm that the result ofHiich a
doctrine would bo to found the liberty o!
thn citizen upon a basis of despotism.
Resolved, Oth, Thai tlio attempt upon
the pari of the present Democratic admin
istration to force upon the people of Kan
in a constitution abhorrent to a large,
majority of its citizens, and to sustain in
power a usurping and tyrannical minority
against thn known will of tho remainder,
is an outrage not to be borne by a free
people, and we hope that, planting them
solves firmly upon the immortal truth first
enunoiuted by the Declaration of Independ
ence, " that all governments derive their
just powers from the consent of tha gov
erned," they will bo nble lo wrest from
their oppressors that which is inestimable
to a free people and formidable to tyrants
only (ho right to compel llio'rulers te con
form to the wishes of the ruled.
Resolved, ?ih, That we insist that the
right lo govern necessarily follows the right
to acq'iire and hold territory, and that in
providing ft government fr a Territory
under this right it should be based upon
the inalienable rights of the people, and we
arraign tha modern system as practically
carried out in Kansas fir its utter and aross
violation of these principled, and nllirin that
tho dark catalogue1 of wrongs and crimes
committed by the la'o and existing Ad
ministrations against pnpular rights in that
Territory deserve the cxreration of every
lover of freedom of the present lny, and,
as their just reward in history, an immor
tality of infamy.
Resolved, 8th, That the lain partisan
decision of the Supreme Court in ihe case
of Dred ScO't, which makes the Constitu
tion a grand title instrument to every
bolder of slaves, is a disgrace to the Ju
diciary of the nation, and a stain upon the
character of ouroountry, whose proudest
boast is its love of liberty in its largest
sense and its hatred of tyranny in every
form.
- Resolved, Oth, That we congratulate
ourselves and the people of Oregon upon
the result of the In'0 election upon the
question of slavery as a triumph of the
'Republican doctrine of non-extension, and
we only insist that we ought lo use our
influenco wherever it can be legitimately
done to secure toother Terriioriestbesame
priceless blessing of freedom which by
such a gratifying majority we seem so
fullv to appreciate for ourselves.
. Resolved, 10th, That the reckless prodi.
gality of national treasure which has char.
cterized the late and present Democratic
Administrations, bringing to bankruptcy
treasury whoso vault haw received 80,
1900,000 per annum, and necessitating a
loan in a time of pence, is a clear and de
monstrative proof of that wasteful extrav
agance which has plundered the nation
and turned it treasury into a shinplasler
machine, with nothing but it credit to
ustain its finances.
- Resolved, Uth, That the Pacific FUL
road is bo longer an enterprise of doubtful
expediency, but ha become one of imper
ative commercial and national necessity J
and we favor it construction on any ceo
trsl and practicable route by the aid of the
General Gjvernment given in such a man
ner as may be best calculated to edict its
early completion.
Roled, 12ib. That we favor appro
p nations If Cngre for the imjiro'evn
ofrivura and harbor of a national chor-
ncier.
Resolved, 13th. That the political dog -
a party stylinir themsrlve Uemocral in
this Territory, which asaert the duly of
a representative or delegate in soiuo in -
.000 l0 oueyine ...tr..c..onorit)UK0 ,vork, on American archieology.
lW iinnwti.iii.iitu ulii L. I.. ..it..... ...A..li:..li... 1 J
is bound to disregard them and bow lo tho
- mv- " iniw .11 vtttviv i;iiivo ur
will ofsithers, i dangerous and anil repub
lican in its ti-ndency, mid worthy to bn
sustained "nlv by a party that every w here
isKiinwn as iiieauv 01 personal vassalage
and ijiu advocate of partisan despotism.
Resolved, 1-lih, That we believe in thn
iiniriiiiutu-led right of the citizen to think
and vote as he pleases, mid we utterly de
ny thu right of any representative under
any circumstances to violate the instruc
tion or known will of the people ho rep
resent. Resolved, 15ih, That the present system
of voiing n'm t'ore, introiluced bv that
pur y .osuhjeoi ine si.ti.ageoi the citizen
loina surveillance 01 partisan inspectors,!
hum own nun, miner ice penuny 01 oeing
b.anded as a traitor, into abject submission,
is a relic of barhariin, which finds fit
friends in a' parly whose whole organization
is devoted lo tha extinguishment of eve
ry spark of personal freedom, and subjects
us memoers 10 hip entire control. of an an,
tocracy of leaders; and that with such a
party we arp proud lo have neither sym
pathy nor communion.
Wonders of the Interior.
The riiiladelphia l'ress published a
highly interesting uarrntivp of Lieutenant
Urate's Wagon- Road xpeliii'm from
Fort Defiance to the Colorado River, in
which tho writer notices some of the ob
j- c's of note on the route. Crossing the
Rio Frio, the expedition passed through
A VALLEY OP LAVA.
The Pi.-cado, a small stream of coul and
delicious wafer, upon which at that time
the train w as encamped runs through a val
ley covered wilh a sheet of luva. It has
evidently poured from tho crater of some
extinct volcanic mountain in the vicinity,
and rolling down the gorges, burst into the
vale, and there spread entirely over it, pre
seining at this lima the singular appear-
alice of a black and motionless torrent,
bearing upon the crest of its still swelling
waves green and luxuriant trees.
The southern part of the Navajo country
is described as a region more b-nutiful
than any yet traversed. Interminable for
ests of lofty ine trees cover the mountain
sides, and the long sloping valley seems ever
green wit h that grass most higlily prized
by 1 he pioneer, the gramma. Nezt came
the
INSCRIPTION ROCK.
Oil the 23 I of August, the train emerg
ing from the dense forest that clothes the
back bone of the American continent,
passed down the slope on its western side,
and encamped at the base of the celebrated
El Moro or Inscription Rock so called on
account of its sides being covered with
names and verses of various dates; some
of a century ago, others more recently in
scribed. This remarkable natural monument rises,
without any previous indication of its ex
istence, 1,000 feet above the leel plain
extending along its base. Its sides are
perfectly perpendicular and smooth, while
the atmospheric action upon the soft vhite
sandstone of which they are composed, has
made them look as if etiatneh-d. It is
foririK.I like a wedge, whose base is crown
ed will) an ancient aboriginal fortification,
evidently the work of the same nrtisans whose
tumuli are Visible from Peru to Wisconsin.
Sloping from the southwest is a plateau
leading to the western entrance of the
mountain, which forms a natural corral of
great size, and evidenily impregnable to
the aboriginal warriors, who doubtless
lived through this country. Riding into
it, they found growing within it the largest
pine trees, whose heads are far below the
crest of the rock which runs above them.
; Lieut. Iteale, after leaving the Colorado
Chiijuito, passed over a country but par
tially explored, and discovered what was
believed to be the Celebrated canon of Ao-bn-y,
descried by him in his hotes. Here
were found
PAI.ISA3ES- r-F.TRIPACTWNS- INSCRIPTIONS
The natural peculiar'nies of this part of
our rouie are worthv of remark, the pali.
sade formations crowning the summits of
the mountains are formed with such regu-
lorily as to appear less like a work of na.
lure than of art; and ihn road being over
the perfectly level mass, resembled those
great thoroughfares of ancient times famil
iar to the historian. The route was cov.
ered by the most luxuriant blue gramma
grass in greater abundance than many of
the mountain men of the party had ever
seen it
Here petrifaction, of the most wonderful
description presented themselves, whole
trees in many instances having been turned
to stone ; and on one occasion, on the bank
of the Hi de U Xsra, the trunk of large
cedar was found petrified and imbedded in
the solid rock rising at least 30 el above it
The party moreover discovered on th
rod. ar.J in the raves near the bank of
th, Colo-al , Chiv'i'-o, ancient yt unef-'
j faced inscriptions, evincing the change
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iwiii ma iuww;itijiii; IU illy 'lli'HUI IU VbJ II-
o who once
unJoiibledly inhabited iu vast aurubcr tbia
present deserted country, and whose
1 renmaiiU of civilization ure dencribed in
Lord Stanley tub Kctliib Great
nessof Amkrica and Russia. Lord Stan
ley, the new Drliih Secretary for the Col
onies, delivered at Lynn, on the occaion
of his re election, a long sptcth, in the
course ef which he said :
" In every age that old question of the
' balance of power' assumes a new form.
Thai question no longer concerns Wetlern
Europe ubme. Two empires are spring
iug up in the Cast and iu the West; they
are already of first ratn magnitude, mid
boill of them are increasing not mninly
: or nrccssarily by aggression upon others.
but simply by natural n.eans-al a rate of
)rgross which far exceeds that of our
selves. Looking merely at the matter of
population, it is impossible not to see that
unless some unforeseen events take place,
America and Russia will one hundred years
hence, perhups even fifty years hence, be
numerically tho most powerful Pinpir.-s
upon the globe. I sny numerically, and
of course in that reckoning I do noi include
India, because ii cannot be considered an
elemcni of strength in respect of population.
Now of both Ibcso great empires I speuk
will no feeling of jealousy; I spi-uk of
them both wilh respect; of one 1 speak
wilh sincere nd.niraiioii and sympathy, but
still as society is constituted, ii must hap
pen thai hub pendent tuitions will have dif
feitnt inlerisis. A position of inferiority
is never suiisf'aclnry, mid il is noi always
even safe. What I say, therefore, is that
if Western Ku rope at this moment the
very focus and center of civilization
throughout the wo'ld is to hold its own
is to hold in another g. nerulion the place
which it occupies in I lie present, it must
be by a cordial and friendly union among
its leading Powers."
Louis Napoleon The following is an
extract fiom a Paris letter to a London
paper:
" Yesterday the Emperor was in the Hois
de Doiilngne w iihnul escort, und was walk
ing about with the Empress and the Im
perial 1'iinee. I happened this afternoon
to be a witness to the ulnio-l rash way in
which ho sets at nnughl precautions which
most men iu bis situation would be likely
to lake, -Passing through iIih Tuilleries
gardens, between ihreo and four o'clock
ibis afternoon, I saw the I'lmperor alone,
standing on the slept of the little staircase
lending from his study to tho reserved gar
den, which is only fenced off from the
public promenade by a railing not more
than forty yards from iho palace, und a
railing which any body might jump over.
For at least a quarter of an hour ho re
mained alone, leaning on the banisters in
an altitude of contemplation, with his legs
crossed, and smoking a cigar. The day
being very fine, thousands of people were
walking in the gardens, and gn at numbers
leaned over tho railings lostr.ro at him.
When, at length, being summoned by an
ushrr 10 give audience to some one, lie
went into bis study, he left the outer door
open. Whatever may bo said against
him, truth commands one to say that pusil
lanimity is not one of his characteristics."
ClDDINGS CltlTTENOEN Clay. One
of the Washington correspondents relates
il.n following interesting incident: ''On
Saturday, while the discussion upon the
Knmns question was iu progress, and while
all panics in tho louse were more intent
upon arrangements for the final struggle
than upon the arguments of speakers, and
while all were in doubt as to what might
be the ultimate course of Mr, (Jiddings
and his confreres, ths lion, Mr. Criitcnden
came into the hall, and, near the door, was
joined by the Hon. Humphrey Marshall.
Uut a moment was permitted them for com
munication, when Mr. Giddings went for
ward, and, Inking Mr. Crittenden warmly
by the hand, with a recognition of Mr.
Marshall at the same time, lie said : 'Who
could have believed -this of me, that 1
should he found wiili you, following you I
But, while I have spent a long life in fight
ing against enemies, and am ready still in
fight them, I have never fought, and can
not now fight, against my friends. I re
member well the occasion when the ban of
exclusion having been passed npon me iu
this House, I had taken my hat and was
about leaving, f met you, Mr. Crittenden,
with Henry Clay, at the door, and thai you
( each gave me, in that moment of trial, the
warm hand of sympathy and friendship.
1 1 do noi forget, for the gr.at end's sake ;
Ulrsnge as it may seem to some, and cen-
snred a I may be by many, in memo.y of
the past, I arn with you I go with you.'
A gush of warm tears of true patriotism
here came forth from the three so united,
and the fate of Lecompton in the Douse
was so sealed past redemption."
ft-7Tlin aniele in the Washinirton
. fc bich cM thal
slaves could be carried into and held in
any part of the Union, waa written by J
K. Paulding, of New York, formerly
Secretary of the Navy
fcT The Senste of Virginia have adopt
ed a joint resolution, appropriating $2,000
to remove tho remains of Presidcdt Mob-
re trm 5cw York te Riclmec J.
I Col. Hbxtox Was born nar Hillsbo
n.. v.,u r
, "ui II, VIHiiJtv vwuiltj, iiunu WHI WIIMII,
March 14, 17S2. Ho was educated at the
University at Chapel Hill. He removed to
Tennessee, andstudird law, and soon rose
to eminence in that profession. He served
a term in the Legislature, during which he
procured the passage of a law n forming
the judicial system, and of anoihor giving
to slaves the benefit of a jury trial, the
samo as w hite men. He wus appointed a
Lieutenant Colonel in tho Army in 1413,
but resigned on the conclusion of peace,
and removed to St. Louis in 1813, whero
tome time afterwards he established the
"Missouri Argus," of which he wax the
editor. Duels wcro usual nl thai timo, and
ha had his share of them, wilh their un
happy consequences. In one of them he
killed his opponent, Mr. Lucas an event
he deeply regretied, and all the private pa
pers relating lo which he has destroyed.
Col. Ortitort was elected a Senator from
Missouri before iho long contested cdmi.,
sion of that Slate, and took his teat in the
Senate in 1831, where ho remained till
1851, when he failed f a re-election. He
sustained the administration of Jackson
and Van Rurcn mosl ardently, and was rec
ognized a Ihe leader of the party which
elected them. With a strong, industrious
intellect, a dominating character, and quick
appreciation of men, Col. Renlon exercised
a prominent influence upon national affairs.
In Missouri his power was at on time
boundless, nnd throughout ilia West he
moulded public opinion to his will for many
years.
Col. Be nton had his peculiarities, and
was not without faults. Ho was remark
able for his manly perseverance, and his
political independence had becomo pro
verbial. While his caprices and eccen
tricities rendered him an object of remark,
his manliness, his power of intellect, and
his heroic fearlessness of opinion and of
action, rendered him an object of gcnoral
admiration. His long career in Congress
was uniformly characterized by a manly
independence, and whilo we could but sel
dom indorse the policy lie advocated iu
reference lo questions of national finance
and expediency, we have nevertheless al
ways believed him honest and sincere in
hit peculiar views.
Reside his long career m a public man
al Washington, Col. Kenton has rendered
his country most invaluable service as a
political historian. His (tThirty Years in
the Senate," and his " Abridgment of the
Debates in Congress," arc standard works
of Am' rican history. His lift was one of
temperance, energy, usefulness, and ear
nestness, and his name is memorable as
one of America's greatest men.
The lone, manner, nnd bearing of Col.
Denton in thu Senate were not suited to the
popular taste, nor adapted to win the par
tiality of the mass of his Senatorial breth
ren. His touo was bold nud imporious,
his manner precise, and somewhat dicta
torial and dogmatical, and his bearing that
of a giant among pigmies. As the head
of n family, husband, father, companion,
and host, he was a model of affection, sim
plicity, and hospitality. Among his neigh
bors no man could be more popular.
Among his children and grandchildren he
was literally worshipped as their best
friend, their teacher, their companion, ami
their guide.
In person, Col. Denton was tall, muscu
Inr, and robust, and with a presence sin
gularly majestic and commanding. His
features were of the strong Roman mould,
and their habitual expression was that of
a self possessed, self relying, positive, and
resolute man. His marriage with a daugh
ter of Col. McDowull, of Virginia, secured
him on amiable and eemplury partner,
and the dorhestic associations of an exten
sive circle of influential families. Mrs.
Benton died in 1901. In the important
matter of religion, Col. Kenton was, if not
a member, a faithful attendant wilh his
family at the New School Presbyterian
church near bis residence in Washington.
Central Portion op the Atlantic
The -'Mar de nrgao," as the Spanish
riatigaiors term the central portion of the
Atlantic, stretching westward fiom the
Canaries and Cape Verde Islands, a sur
face fifteen timet greater than thai of
Ureal Britain, may b described at a vast
stagnant pool, receiving lb drift sea
weed which the surrounding current fling
into ii, and generating on its calm surface
what has been well called "an oceanio
meadow" of sea weed, the F ucut natan
of botanists. ' It i in ibis tract of sea ihatj
we find such wonderful specimen of fueii
a the Macrocijctli putiera, having stems
. .. r. . r .n r . I ( A '
Irom J.uuu to i.ouu ie in ii ngwi, ana
but a finger's size in thickness, branching
upward into filaments like pack thread.
This vast domain of marina vegetable
life is the receptacle, at indeed are the
water of the ocean generally, of an equal
profusion of animal existence, from the
minute luminifernn organism., which to
borrow Humboldt's phrase, "convert every
wave into a crest of light," to tboe larger
form of life, many of which derive putri-
meat from the waters alone thus richly
iirpgnttH Kb hv.ng amma ma.r-
Reason nud imagination nre equally con
foundod by tho ell'ort to conceive those
hosts of individual existences, tattt
richeue tffrayantf, as Cuvier term it, gen
crated or annihilated at every passing in
slant of time. No scheme ot numbers
can reach them, even by approximation;
ami science Is lyrced to submit its deduc
tions to the general law that all the mate,
rials of organic life are in a slate of uncens.
ing change, displacement, and replucmeiit,
under new forms and altered furciions, for
purposes which we must believe to be
wisely designed, but which transcend all
human intelligence. Edinburgh Review.
Douglas Speech. Senator Douglas,
in bis last groat speech in the Senate
against Ihe Lecompton Constitution, took
(he occasion to lay th ground work of 4
future radical position on tha general
slavery question in sympathy with the
policy and practice of nil parlies and the
Government itself, down to iho lime when
John C Calhoun obtaiued hi nseeudeney
in the Democratic council. Said he :
" I recognize the right of tho slnvehold
ing States to regulate their own domestic
institutions; but I will not admit I can
not admit that the right ef property iu
slaves is higher than any State C'onstitu
lion, or that the State cannot abolish It.
Rut such is tha doctrine ef the Washing
ton Union such is the doctrine of iho Le
compton Constitution. That doctrine, if
accepted, is a fatal blow to Ihe principles
of our government. 1 fell it 10 be such
when 1 first saw it, ami hence I refu.ied to
vote- for tho editor of the Union. Mr.
Douglas then read from the Cincinnati
Platform various propositions upon slavery,
to each of which he gave his assent, saying
thai he stood upon them still. .They rela
ted chiefly, as did his inferences from them,
to the proposi ion that each State must de.
cide. for itself upon tho stains or condition
of its negro population, without interfer
ence from Congress. The right of each
Stale, to regulate its own institutions he
dwell upon with much earnestness as the
cardinal principlo of our government.
The proposition that property in slave
was above all law, was a monstrous prop
osition, against w hich he protested, in his
own name nnd ihe name of his coti-tilu-cnta."
Mr. Sewakd. The Washington corres
pondent of the New Orleans Crescent fur.
nisbes the following notice of Senator
Seward: "I have a passion for Seward.
He comes up to my idea of Rodin in tha
Wandering Jew the most delectable devil
ihnt was ever drawn by human pen so
cool, so clunrhoadeH, so indomitable, so
relentless in the pursuit of his fiendish
purposes. Seward traverses the seem
ingly tortuous, but really straight lino, of
his ambition wilh tho unerring certainty
of footsteps thai characterize a rope-dancer,
never missing a step, and keeping
bis eagle eyo steadily fixed on tho goal be
fore him. Thu balance pole by which he
preserves his equipoise, is (hat cool, big
bead that bulbs out above his narrow
shoulders. If ho becomes our next Pres
ident, and disunion does (tot immediately
follow his election, I will wnuer that he
will so bonntifiilly honnnyfugglo both
South and North, thai the people will pro
nounce lii in ono of Ihe best President wn
have ever had. Hut I begin lo think
there is little danger of hi obtaining the
nomination. He is loo great a man, that
is, if he is n man, and not a devil."
fctrThe Paris correspoudont of the
London Morning Post says that lliero is
perhaps no man in the whole world who
goes through such an amount of.diffieuli
mental labor daily as the Emperor Napo
leon. " At the present moment espe
cially the most important responsibility of
foreign nnd domestic affairs, belongs per
aonnlly to the ruler of France. Tho mo
ment is critical und anxious and requires
both calmness and decision."
Tiin Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. It Is
reported that negotiations nro now going
on between the United S'ntcsand England
for the abrogation of the Clnyton-Rulwer
treaty. The .Senate mid llou.n commit
tees on Foreign Affairs will shortly, by a
decided majority, recommend its Immedi
ate abrogation. The English govern
ment, through their Minister, professes to
have no objection, provided our Govern
ment will make certain concession in Cen
tral America. '
03r It is postively stated that the bair of
Orsini, who attempted the life of Louis Na
poleon recently, was jet black when he
was arrested, that at the lime of his trial
il had turned very gray, and that when he
was executed it was almost white.
Tin Farmer's Creed. One of our ex
change gives the following first rnto ad
vice under the heading of "Tha Farmers'
Creed :"
We believe in small farms and thorough
cultivation. The toil loves to eat as well
as its owner., and, therefore, lo be nur
tured We believe in large crops, which
leave the land better than they found it
making both the larra ana larmer rtcn ai
once. We believe In going to the bottom
of things, and, therefore in deep plowing,
and enough of it all tha better, if wilh a
subsoil plow. We believe that the beat
fertility of any toil i the pirit ef industry,
enterpriie and intelligence; without this,
lime and gypsum, bone and green manure,
marl or plaster, will be of little use. We
believe in a clean kitchen, a neat wife in it,
clean funlrOanJ. daii-v
a B 1 1 1 ,
and oonscieeca. W' firmly djsceliera is .
farmers that will not imnrovr: in fiium
that crow poorer everv year; in starvid
cuttle ; in farmers' boy turning inlo
clerk and merchants: in farmers' dmi"h.
tors unwilling lo work, nnd in nil furmeia
w ho nre ashamed of their vocation.
The Ownership op Ooi.d .ini;s. Th
Supremo Court of California in ISM de.
cid. d that the StnlP, nud. not ihe Federal
Government, was the owner of all the
mines of gold and silver within the S:te,
That decision has now been reversed by
the opinion of the Supreme Court in tho
case of Roggs, (Wee of Od. f'r moni)
gainst the Merced Mining Company.
Tha judge not only tsy, in their opinion j
that the United Slates own the publio
lands of California, but they maintain that
Iho holder uf a United States land patent
given in confirmation of a Mexican grant
has 00 greater rights than he had or
would have ha I under tho Mexican laws j
lid that a Mexico never granted nway to
private persons, or at least did not grant to
Alvarodo the original grantee of the
Fremont ranch ihe title to mines of gold
and silver, so Fremont is not the owner A
the gold within tho limits of his claim.
Tha government alone has the original
right uf digging il, but the right may be
transferred by express license, and also
impliedly. Tho practical result is that
01,0 liiun has as good right lo dig gold a .
another on any land. Mines of quicksil..
vcr are placed on thn same ground a .
gold mines. The question, it is said, will
be curried up to the Supreme Court al .
Washington.
(lov. Wise an Emancipationist. It is
slated by the Washington correspondent of
tho Now York Times, that thn opposition '
of Gov. Wise, of Virginia, to the Lecomp
ton swindle, is attributable to the fact that '
ho has within thu last year become a pros,
elyle to the Emancipation movement, '
which has for some timo past been rapidly
gaining friends and advocate in tli.i
northern line of Slave States. It is stated '
thrtl Gov. Wiso is n strong supporter and
advocate of Eli Thayer's white labor col
onization scheme, which he regards ns thu
only hopo for tho " Old Doriiihltm."
05" It is staled that stalo saiisngr '
may have coused the National Hotel mal- ,
rnly, ns PW. Liebig says thoy produce lliu
sums symptoms with mineral poisons and
afien occasion sickness and denlh, fur
which there appears lo be no known cause.
The symptoms of sausage poisoning ac
cording to tho Professor are, "a gradual
wasting of muscular fibre, and of all the .
.constituents of the body similarly coin- ,
posed. The pntiunt becomes much em- .
scinted, and during the progress of the
disease, the saliva becomes vicious, and ac
quires an offensive smell.
Arkansas Markiarr. The following
sec no occurred in a parson's house :
Parson John Triebner, do you talin
Mclinda Jones to be your wedd.id wile in
the presence of those witnesses f
John Triebner Thai's wol I'm here for, '
I calculate 1 Wot in thuuder ilnyuu think .
1 cummed this cussed long distance for
else; eh 1 horsefly, bumblebee ?
Parson If you IrMt iho solemn affair
wilh such levity, I shall noi proceed. ' '
John Triebuor Then, by thunder, you'll
lose a ten-spot and n gallon of whisky, (
As for Levity or Levhicus 1 don't know ,
what you nkan I I don't think hitchin;:
bosses with Melindy is such a darned sol
emn iillair do you, old pal? (This hn 1
said chucking bis bride elect under tint
chin, nnd winking ill the clergyman, with
otic eye under his left side, while he lohhud
hi tongue out at him under ihe right eye.)
l'arson You will pbao answer yes '
or no I i
Bridegroom Yon won't catch me say
ing no. Will he, 'Lindy ? No, sir ree,
horsefly, bumblebee !
llride Jerusalem! Jack, you've gol '
to say yes slr ren, and not no sir-ree I Ax
him again, did Solemn chop (thi
lovely bride addressed to the parson.)
l'arso'i (choking hi anger with the ten
spot and drowning it afterward wilh the
gallon of whisky, but still double-distilled
serious) Will you have this woman for '
your wedded wife I
lirido (suggeslingly) Say yet I
Itridegroom Yes, sir-ree
Parson (addressing Mclinda Junes)
Will you take this man to bo your law
ful, ice. !
Uride Wall 1 guess you're a young
hand al this sort of fun otherwise you
might save a larnal lot of breath by not
puttin' such allfired foolish question.
Wm on nirlh do you think w cumnie I
hero fot I
Parson To bo married !
Uride Then go ahead and jine us or
fail as yon can.
Parson Then you lake, Ac. 7
Jiride Sarlain ure 1
Parson Then in the presenoe of all I de
clare you man and wife accord in' to the law.
of Arkansaw and the Holy (j-wpcl. Now
fork over tho Unspot and the gallon of
whlky I
Afier thi was done, the Bridegroom
says Melindy, how do you feel artcr all
this here sisseraro 1
To which Meliuda replied-r-Futl rale.
John waa about 10 steal a kis from Ms
wife, but the was too wide awake. She par
ried it from her cheek with "Vo you
don't," and took it full on her rosy Pp.
we are lol l the report was equal to "lit.
they call " tbunlr"in th O'ld Cc'iDr;-,