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THE OREGON ARGUS, rUII.IIIIKO ivr MTVIUAT HUSKIKO, BY WILLIAM L. ADAM 3. TERMS Thi Aaovs will lie furnlthrj at Thru Ddlars and Fifty Centt per annum, in , advance, to tinglt tutiecribert Three Ihlluri each to elubi of ten at nut after in advance When the rn'inru it not paid in adenine, four Dollars will le charged if pud within lix montht, and Fire doltartat the eiidnf the year. tV Two Dollars for tit montht No tulucrip tiont received fur a Irtt period. I3JT JV paper diteontinued until all arrearage an paid, wile it at the option of the puhlieher. tV Tho following communication m ri-ceivod several weeks ago, but m by some moans mislaid. Iu ctiiiinriii upon lb principle of gambling will (It to tliiuk of after an election 10 we lut it go in at till late hour : For the At gut. Mr. flush, ibe lUmtiltr. Tho Statesman of April 6 b says: We are authorized to bet the following sums," dco..- Tho whole amount in Iwcn'y-tive hundred dollars. ' Now, as wo arc not a butting character, llio most we can ventura I to sny, wo wouldn't bo afraid of losing anything to oflor our old hut to "show our faith" tliul every window breaker in Salem will vote for Mr. Bush, Wo discover a very good reason for this in the sameness of principle, exercised by Mr. Buh ami the window masbers. Mr. Bush as a gambler would get somebody's money without giving any thing fir it; tho smashers give nothing for tho proporty they destroy: hence the two are alike, only that the one wants the mo. ney for sefish purposes, while thtt others do not. Any one can see it would he entirely out of place to rote for any but Mr. Bush, taking it for granted that the opposing can didates are not gambler. Men generally vote, when not deceived, or driven by the Roman army discipline the 'lime-honored usages of our party' for those reprew nt. ing their principles. ' Itirda of a feather flock tog ther." But perhaps wo nro too fast in culliuj Mr. Bush a gambler ; perhaps wo do injus tice to the feelings of I ho so preachers and members of tho different churches who think of voting for Mr. Itn-h. Yes, per haps w have no: that clear perception of morula possessed by Brother D.luzoti, Moon, and others. True, it may be that wo nro a weak bro'ber, but let us argue thu question. Is there any essential difference between b 'tling on elections, on hirsu races, u rid betting on cards! There is none. Card playing fir money is gmnblirg, every body says ; then belling on cl.. ti ins is gambling, and ho who b. Is is a gambler. Hiit, on the uccu-i'in referred to, Mr. Buh does not prnpus" to bet, himself In- is o:i'y tho authorized ayttt of a gr.nibh r. Be it so. Is there any important difference be twecn the agent authorized to sell stolen good and thu thief who stole them? There is not; neither is there between .Mr. Bush and the gambler for whom the for mer proposes to do business. Yes, he is in principle a gambler ; he uiibliisliingly ad vertices himself ready to otlici ite in u trans action by which some person is to be de prived of two thousand dollars mid mere without any remuneration. In the States man of 13th April be says he is author ized to bet one thousand dollars. Indeed, ho is driving quite a business: wonder what commission ho gels but no matter, he is in the gambling trade and may do well, even if not elected to office ; he is a con firmed gambler, so it seems. And now, hruthron, Bnn, Iloyt, and more whose names we forget, have we rea soned correctly ? Is Mr. Bosh not a gam bler? Can you consistently vote for such a character at tho snmo lime you preach honesty, morality, and personal piety to Lj tbodu'y of all nun I I'lcasc record your Votes iu view of moral duty; if conscience is drowsy, wuko him up; such o sentinel has do business sleeping on guard. But further. If Mr. Bush, or any other man, can de liberately deprive a fellow-creature of a thousand dollars without any equivalent, thero is truly ground fur fear that os u pub lic officer he miyht deprive the government of funds by omitting the proper equivalent. IV e insist that all good men ought to de imand the highest standard of honesty in Ipublio business. Some moderately fair men bet on hose races and elections, but 'these who refuso to bet from action of con science are at least equally trustworthy. Jt would be better to elect no gamller to effice. Gambling is neither stealing nor high way robbery, 1ut there is one principle es sential to all taking another man's money without giving anything for it. Ex Andrew. The Volunteers. A dispatch from Washington informs us that the President has finally determined to accept the two regiments of Volunteers allowed by the re cent act of Congress, and to draw them from Kentucky and Ohio. A regiment in each of these States has bcea accepted by the Governor, and both contain officers and men who have seen service io Mxico. CoLoaiNa Uctte. Some practice cM nrlnn K.iti.r with earroK an l commend it as not only improving the picranco of the butter, but the fl ivor ami qnaniv. The following is the process: To the cream for five piind of butter, take a eood sized orane carrot, wash clean, and rafo off the deepest colored portion ; poor a tea-cup of warm wa:er to it, let il stand a short im lkfin strain through a cloth, aud a I'd '0 cream oelore ctiu'Uing- A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to tlto Principles of JelFersonian Denioeruey, and advocating Vol. IV. GlIOWTll Or TIIK NoRTIIWKST, AS Co.1l I'arku with OTitEn Parts of the Union Tho Cincinnati Gazette not long sine published oil elaborate review of the pro gres of thu Northwest. There aro inclu- ded in what is denominated the Northwest the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi gan, Iowa, and Wisconsin, and tho Terri lories of Minnesota and Nebraska. The statistics of tho increase of population iu these six Status exhibit the very astonishing fact that near one third of the whole while population of the United S lutes li con tallied in this Northwestern portion of the Union, mid that nearly tho whole of that population is tho result of emigration. Four fifths of tho increase i'b these Slate have acuiued within the last quarter of a century. Tho growth of the population in these six Northwestern S'atcs it as follows : Iniyno, no.ato in i84o, 2.907,5 . 1810, 272,324 1850, 4,721,551 1R20, 702.U10 1857, 7,200,000 18:10, 1,400,218 Tho Dultimoro American, commenting on these statistics, says: ''Let us now compare tho growth of the Northwest since 1830 with the growth of New Eng. land and Xtw Yoik 011 one side, and that of the original Southern Stales on the other, aud let us seo how they are likely to stand at the end of another generation : 1820. 1857. New England nnd NewYoik, 3,032,021 5,000,000 The original South, 3,C5N,(!37 5,080,000 Th- Northwest, 702,719 7,200,000 ' Iu tho lust thirty-seven years the South has increased 07 per cent., tho North pro per 85 per cent., and the Northwest 800 percent.! But it may bo said that the comparison should have been made, as !o "the Sout'i, wiih the new States of the Southwest, where immense territories and fertile soil give them a fair field fur r lipid growth. These States are Alabama, Mis si-sippi, Louisinnn, Texas, Kentucky, Ten nessee, Missouri, and Aikansos, about the same number of States with the other sec lion, but n ninth greater extent of terri tory, and larger rivers. The Comparison stundn thus : Southwest, in 1820, 1.424,003 in 1857, 5 047,000 Increns", 315 per cent. " Wo see, then, that with this much greater territory, milder climate, and greater rivers, the Southwest has not in creased at one half tho rate of the North west. In one word, we see the growth of the North west increase at a more rapid ra tio than any part of tho Union; r, we imagine, than any portion of the globe." Changes in tiik Weather Has the Moon any Influence won them 1 The remarkable mildness of the weather is ev erywhere noticed by the press. In tho western part of tho State, on the Niagara fi on tier, the farmers have actually been engaged in plowing. Violets are growing in tho open air in Connecticut and New Jersey, nnd the rivers are almost freo from ice. Many persons have noticed the warm color of the moon, the turning up of its boms nnd recall the sayings of the In dians ai.d old hunters to show that these indicate a higher temperature. I: is a question much discussed of luto years, whether tie moon has really any influence on the weather. Among educa ted people the prevailing opinion appears to be in the negative ; hut scientific persons am by no means unanimous. Is it possi ble to solvo ihe doubt ? We do not know, but there can be no barm in trying. Tbe strongest objection to the theory that the moon has an effect on the weather, is that long, continued baromelical observations do not give any efRcts of consequence at its changes. Obsenations of twenty years nt Viviora and Paris show the quan- lilies of variation at aow Moon, the oc tants, the quarters, perigee and apogee, to be almost insensible, never more than one twentieth to one fortieth of an inch. We thus give in a few words, the most that can be said of the question. But in reply to this, Arago remarks, that the Bar ometer ought " to remain insensiblo to these variations, for the columns of air though of different height, must every where bo of the same weight." This ex planation is however liable to objection. We suppose that if the moon has an effect upon tbe tides of the ocean, as is universally admitted to be the fact as is verified by experience, we must think that the atmos phere which has mobility, and a positive pressure of fourteen poiiBds on tho square inch, most also be .lie subject of its attrac tion and influence. Humboldt expressly states that moon light is capable of producing heat, a discov ery of his friend Melloni, who, by means of a leDs, three feel in diameter, ascertained an actual elevation of temperature during different charges of the moon. The difference was in proportion to its age and a!;i:ud". Thofe curious to become famil iar with bis experiments, will Gad them re corded in the Comptes rendu, oI. 22d, 1 ; 13. The inlucncc of this satellite upon OREGON CITY, OREGON, JUNE 20, 1858. atincpherie pressure, is considered to be indubitablo by the most learned of the German and French astronomers, and we know thut Sir John Iler.chel considers it probable that, as "tho moon's surface Is uninterruptedly exposed to tho full lotion of the sun's ray for fourteen days at time" it must acquire a vory high tempera ture, and have some effect upon our almos pherio drapery, if not so much on the kur face of the earth beneath it. In proof of this it is averted by him as a meteorolog ical fact that clouds, not vory dento, aro rapidly dispersed by a full moon, and Humboldt supports il by hi own observa tion in tropical climates. In addition to this our luto discoveries in the character of light, have proved the ex istence of a chemical power in its rays, whether direct or reflected, which is being turned to great account in tho processes of the Daguerrootypo and of photography, and iu the singular effects of polarized light, of which tho moon has its share. The important part which her attractive in- Il iience plays " in regard to tho liquid por tions of tho earth," the consequent changes in tho lines of coast by the operation of the tides, snd as one of the sources of mo tion, cannot, says Humboldt, bo denied. We see, then, no reason why it may not be equally active in 1 roducing atmospheric changes. Medical nu n, of tho rank of Meade, Sydenham, and Durnin, admitted the periodical influence of the moon upon the sick, aud have so recorded their opinions. When the moon is near the full or new, some people, 6ays the observing naturalist Forster, are more irritublo than at other times ; headaches prevail more coinmotdy, and insanity has its worst paroxysms. u 0 do not here care about giving the prognostics of the weather, from the ap pears nco and changes of the moon. "Old shepherds, gardeners, hunters, and men of education have all testified to them," but wo have briefly treated the subject in a purely scientific way, and leave our read ers to diaw their own conclusions. Recent travelers from England on their way to India have alluded to the fact, that sleep ing exposed to tho moon's light was found to produce a peculiar indisposition, and had to be guarded against while steaming on tho Red Sen. "The sun shall not harm thoe by the duy, nor the moon by night," a promise to be found in thu Bible, certainly affords us some ground for the belief that tho moon has singular effect on mortals, if not on tho weather. N. Y. Mirror. Agriculture opthb United States. Ihe census taken for 1850 shows Indian corn, our native grain, to be the great sta ple of the country, yielding at that time 000,000,000 bushels, valued at 8300,000,. 000, more than the combined value of tho three next staples, wheat, colton, and liny. This crop is grown from our Northern to our Southern limit, nnd affords a better test than any other of tho advance of Amer ican tillage. In no State has it retrogra ded. Its iucrense from 1840 to 1850 was 56 per cent., while tho increase of popula tion was but 35 per cent. The crop for 1950 was estimated at 800,000,000 bushels nearly double the crop of 1 840. The wheat crop from 1840 increased only 15 per cent. In. New England, the cultivation duiing that time declined 50 per cent. It languishes In New York, Is nearly stationary in the Middle States, but is increasing largely in the North-western States. Of wheat, the average produce in New York, Ohio, and Indiana, is 12 bushels to the cere, while in England it is 21, in Flanders 23, nnd in Scotland 30. IIow fur it might be increased by culture is shown by occasional crops of 70 in England, CO in New York, and (as reported) 87 at San Jose in California. KgRFnoM in IlrssiA. A renort latelv nrpenlpil la the Einnernr Alexander Con tains iho following statistical returns rela tive to landed property and serfs in Bus- mi l e :i: L. in 1 nA nnmnpr 01 lurniiies wuo are land owners amount to 127,000. Out of these, 2000 own Irotn 500 to 1UU ; IH.ouu from 100 to 60 J; 30,000 from 21 to 100, and 75,000 have less than 21 serfs. The total number of present serfs of the nobil ity amount 10 1 i,uuu, anu muse 01 iu Crnwn to 0.000.000. There are. there fore, 20,750,000 persons anxiously wait- ing lor an improvement in meir coouiuon. To Make Soft Soap. Take 10 pounds of common Yellow or Rosin Soap; 6 pounds of Sal Soda and 10 or 12 gallons of soft or rain water. Cut the Soap into small pcices, and put the whole over a fire. Bring the water nearly to a soiling point, and allow it to remain at that temperature until the soap is throughly dissolved. Il may then be taken off, snd when cooled, it will become thick and lively. The soap made with these ingredients will be found to be too strong, and cld soft water can be added until it becomes of proper consist ency and thickness. OCT Ho tbat thinks nothing of himself, will not be thought, much of by others. Views op a Soutiikhn Governor. We are glad to find a Southern Governor, tho American Governor of Maryland, speaking out in a lone worthy of hi high position. Tho views expressed In the fol lowing from his lata message to the Mary land Legislature are far mora general In the South than many persons may imagine, and the time is at hand when they will be far more entertained in tbat section than they generally are now: "The people of Maryland have always looked wiiq priilo on their snare in the great compromises of 1820 nnd of 18S0, and with very different feelings on the flagrant violations of those coin promises, and their destruction by "designing men," In 18S4. The name of one of Maryland's ablest sons is forever associated with tho Missouri Compromise, which madoajutt partition or tbe common territory between those Slates which maintained and those which had abolished the Institution of domestic slavery, and further established ihe great principle that each new State ad. ded io the Union mnst be admitted equal and sovereign as all the rest, without con dition or restriction, or limitation upon the right of self government. The act of 1 620 drew a line through tbe territories, to the South of which slavery was established, and to the North of which. it was prohibited by Congress during the territorial oondi linn, but it equally provided for the right of the proide of every territory, north or south of the line, to establish or forbid slavery in their State constitution. And this it did by asserting the absolute right of the people to form their own constitution, and exclusively control their own domestic policy, nnd by denying any power In Con gress to impose any condition upon them. " To William Pinckney, of Maryland, is due in great part the glory of the vindi cation and settlement of this principle ; and to his fame we may look with feelings quite different from those with which we contem plate the action of those Marylandors who took purl in bringing on the country all the strife and bitter animosity and ill wliUL has been the direct result of that ill-tim ed, useless, and inexci'sadlk measure know n as Ihe Kansas nnd Nebraska bill, Tho policy of Maryland was utterly oppo sed to that measure, and her policy has been the policy of all the great men of the Union, from the time of its establishment till 1S54. It was adopted when Texas was admitted. It was repeated at the or ganization of Oregon. It was re-affirmed io the compromise of 1830. It was com plained of by no State, nor by any respect able body of ihe people. It restored and secured the peace of the nation for thirty years, and until it was ruthlessly pulled to pcices by a petty conspiracy of political aspirants. It was abrogated with the in tention ot once more alarming the fears ot tho South and exciting the prejudices of the North, and was so speciously con trived that it could be usod, as it was used, for a bribe to the sectional feeling of both the North and the South." Fiddles and Bells. There are some queer facts in regard ta fiddles and bells, going tho rounds. We seo that a fiddle improves by age and use ; a piano docs not, neither does a bell. There is, perhaps, a slight improvement for the first fuw years, but after that, the quality deteriorates. Metal, we know, is altered by repeated and long continued hammering. Thump a piece of iron, and you change tbe quality of its magnet ism; the shock of the waves modifies the magnetism of an iron ship ; and soma of the music is knocked out of a bell by long-continued use of the clappor. A peculiar effect is noticed in tho bell of Chipplegate Church, Scotland, when it strikes twelve. The first two or three strokes are distinct and clear, then a discord begins, which accumulates with every strike, until with the eleventh and twelfth, a complete double sound is produced. Earth Worms. Farmers will be sur prised to learn how great are the obliga tions imposed upon them by the common earth worms. Any one who has followed the track of the plow, knows what multi tudes of these creatures reside in the soil. Their uses are not so manifest. They arc indeed "sub-soil plows." By constantly boring through the upper crust of the earth, they render it porous and friable, and easy to be saturated with moisture. The rain readily passes through their multitudinous holes, and by this means, Is rapidly drunk up by the thirsty ground. But for their bumble labors tbe ground never could be come sufficiently friable for the purposes of agriculture. The rain, as il descends, instead of sinking into il bosom, would flow along the surface in rivulets, until it became mingled with tbe streams ethe valleys, to be lest in the ocean. Tbe plow could no mere penetrate the hard crust, than it can the granite rock, and the earth would speedily cease to yield ber increase. Another benefit arising to ns from the la. bors of these little creatures is tbat of the soil being constantly renewed. They swal low a quantity of earth with their food, which is again ejected aroind tbe entrance of their dwellings. These deposit are known a " worm casts" among gardener, and are the abomination of these ernamen tal member of our Common wealth. But such citizens are rarely given to philo sophical inquiry, else they would speedily perceive tbe advantages secured to them by these labors. In tbi way is the entire the side of Truth in every issue No. 11. surface of the earth, to the depth of some twolve or fifteen inches being perpetually ta ken up and re-depoited ; to that it has been shown that surb layer, covering the entire superfices of the ground would in eighty years, acquire thickness of twelve or furrieen Inche. Observe by what lowly Instrumentalities Providence has arranged that not simply our comforts, but eur very existence should be preserved and sustained. Without the labor of the earth worm, this beautiful world would have been a wilder ness. A nd were those labor suddenly and permanently suspended, it I hardly too much to say that In the space of a few years the entire human family would per ish from the face of the glnbo. With what gratitudo should our hearts be filled toward that great nnd good Being, who has been pleased Io link logo! her all existences in the j u test harmony and dependence, and who sustain them unceasingly in that perfect and necessary relation the one to the ether, in which they were first estab lished. Tub Growth of our Cities, Old and New. Boston was trying to grow nearly one hundred years before it attained a pop ulation of ton thousand; Albany was two hundred years ; New York was one hundred thirty years ; Philadelphia, settled sixty or seventy years later, grew much faster than the old er cities, and arrived at tho dignity of ten thousand, in much less lime, that is, in about fifty year; New Orleans was about ono hundred years old before sho had that number; During the first hundred years after the sottlemeut of Boston, (103(1,) she was tho largest city of the colonics ; New York became as populous as Bos ton just before the Revolutionary war ; Philadelphia Lad taken the lead of both her older sisters many years before the war; About 1911 New York became as pop ulous as Philadelphia, each containing one hundred thousand inhabitants ; Baltimore overtook Boston about thu ycnrl800; Tho principal new cities grew to the number of 10,000, nearly as follows: Pittsburg in 05 years; Louisville, 30 years; Cincinnati, 22 years ; Cleveland, 40 years ; New Albany, 35 years ; Chicago, 12 years; and Milwaukie, 10 years; The above-named cities attained to 20,- 000 In tho number of years from their birth as follows: Boston, 103; Albnny, 220; New York, 150; Philadelphia, 80 ; Mew Oi leans, 112; Baltimore, about 80; Pittsburg, 75 ; Louisville, 41; Cincinnati, 30; Cleveland, 45 ; Detroit, 62; Chicago, 10, and Milwaukie, 17 years. If any one will compare the early with tho Into growth of our cities, he will be struck wiih the extraordinary disparity in favor of their roceut growth, not in the actual augmentation, merely, in their pro portionate more rapid growth, as they at tain a larger size tho por cent, increasing from decade to decade. In a community of high civilization, less than half are now needed for the cultivation of the ground, and more than half find cities and large towns the best theater for their industry and enjoyment. In our country, west and northwest of the Atlantio slope, including the Canndas, not over one In 15 live in cilies nnd towns, the other fsurtoen-fif- tcenths being engaged in opening new farms or growing crops. This state of things is anomalous, and cannot long con tinue. Our cilies will receive, before long the whole augmentation, and a considera ble number from the thinning ranks of ag riculture. It is as certain as any future event dependent on human action can be, that the next ten years will exhibit a mere rapid city growth, and especially in our great interior plain, than has ever before been witnessed. Important Decision. An important case, involving the right of a father to dis pose of his children by will, oliliouiiti their mother may lie alive, has just been decided at Pittsburg. Geo. S Hamilton died at Pittsburg last December, Icavine a widow and three chil dren, the latter sged respectively 9, 11 and 13 years. As the husband was a I'retest- ant and the wife a Catholic, the former, in his will, appointed guardians for the chil dren, directing them to be brought upas Protestants, lhey were, accordingly, ta ken from tbe mother and placed in a Prot estant school. The mother applied for a writ of halieat corpus to recover tbe cus tody of them, but was denied it by the Court, which decided that the father had tbe right to dispose of bis children by will. Thr Revival at thb South. The re vival of religion is extending widely at the South and W est. The system or daily prayer-rneetings in business Lours Las been inaugurated in most f iL Southern cities. There ha been a creat increase in church membership, and, during the past year, tbe Baptists alone have added over 500,000 members, most of which accession has been at the South. ADVKRT1S1NO 11ATU8. One square (13 lines or lea) on liieriin, $3,n0 " iwo iiiwrions, 4(,(i, " " time lnertl.ih, A,ltU Each ilr(uriit liiw-rtion. UU rteaannab! deductions Iu llue who advenue I y th year. JOD PHINTINU. Th rsnrairros or th Alifil'H is lurrr Io inform h ixiliiio that lie ha jiut rrerlvnl a larg- nurli f Jul! TYl'K aiul other new r iil lnif material, and will be in lh rnly in t pt o ad'litioua niiird to all lh f quiri-nimn of ihi l eally. IIANDItll.li, l'dcTKIIK, lll.ANKH, I'AUDH, C'IKCl'l.AltH, PAMI'III.KT-Wl KK and other kiuil. dun to orJrr, on hun notice. Scvlla and CiuRYUDi! A correspon dent of the Advocate and Journal would have us believe that the world ha been greatly humbugged in respect to this fa mous strait, by the eWio wj'uors. Ho says : " We wcro upon the old track of Puiil again, lluluw us, upon Ihe islund coast, were the ruins of ancient Syracuse, where he 1 tarried threo days.' Less distant, upon the opposite shore, was Repgio in full iglit, hi next halting place on hi way tu Home. But classic recollections soon quench cv. tiling else ; we wero approaching the tremendous Lull-gate of Scylla and Clin. rybdis; we were now to seo with our ow n eyes the terrific spot, aud hear with our own ears the bayinu of tho blue haired dragons in the depths. We read over iriril s description, prepared ourselves to see tbe broken surges 'strike tbe stars' without llincliing. appointed a committee for sharp look out upon either side that we mii; lit give the lie to the old proverb fur once, and thu, with straining eyes aud ears erect, we drow near. " We survived. We shot riuht through between them, and came out alivo, in fuct unhurt ; we avoided Scylln, yet full not inloCharybdis; the thing has been done I "Ihe most provoking part of the per formance, however, was, that we could by no means fix the exact lime of our won derful passngo, and hence posterity must ever remain ignorant of tho exact chronol ogy of the feat. The fact Is, the channel was nowhere less than three or four miles in width, nnd the w ater as calm as a seclud ed mill-pond. Charybdis, like her repre sentative, in ihe group at Messina, is no where to bo (buiid; and so hopeless is the search for her on tbe smooth, sandy shore with which the Maud terminates at its northwest corner, that some geographers have found ber in a littlu eddy around on the northorn const of the island, more than . ten miles from her mate. Scylln is not quite so bad, though, truth to say, I think the poets have sadly humbugged us in re spect to both. There is a somewhat pecu. liarly-shaped rock on the coast of the nm'n InnJ extceding some feet into tho water; and it is very possible that when a current is setting into tho Strait of Messiun, the water may niako a few dimples in passing ; but as I sailed along pnst at somo two miles' distance, I cannot pretend to say." Thb Mississippi. Those who have never seen thu Mississippi when the gush ing waters of a thousand streams that else where would be ranked as rivers, Lad given it a volume nnd power, a wild rush of wa ters hcio broken by great swirls, tliuro re verted on itself by forming eddies and counter currents that a good boatsmuii alone can safely pass, know li tie. of the magnificence ana sublimity of the view from our Levee. Stand there, nnd let your thoughts truce tho mighty flood now rushing by to its sotirco, amid the li tl Io lakes of the fur north, growing more nnd moro turbid, duepor, broader and loss to bo restrained by any ordinary obstacles, ns it receives the tribute of tho Hocky Moon 'aitta and the great American pluins on tlm west, through the Missouri, tho Arkansns, ' the Red, and their branches, nnd llio wa ters from the grent basin west of the Alle ghanies, through the Ohio, and you b'j.'iu to appreciate the idea of the Mississippi. It grows upon you as you gazo upon its steady sweep onwnrd to tbe ocean, barirg along washings from every soil to niako ' the foundations of new lands slowly rising from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. N. 0. ricayune. OCrThe St. Louis Democrat has the fob lowing parngrnph upon ihe arrival of Col. Benton's remains in that city : " Hy ita sido was the little coffin containing llio stuteshan's grandchild, McDowell Jones. bach body was enclosed in an air-tmht zino case, wbicb was laid within a mahogany colli n. A lid was raised so as to allow friends to look through a glass on lliu faces of the dead. Tho faco of the great Mis. sourian wore that expression of mnjestio placidity which whs habitual to him in life. The lips were slightly open, the eye closed, nnd every lineament in tho fice in a state oi repose that indicated hnw gcntlo and peaceful had boen the rud of the vuter an' stormy life. There was no discolor ation or wrinkle to be seen, and the pres ence of death was visible only iu Ihe clo sed eyelids, and the cold, white, marble like appearance of the features. Tho grandchild lay as sweetly as though only sleeping, with its little head, covered with golden hair, nestling amid white hyacinths aud early spring Mowers, whose purity was typioal of its own young spirit." A Sbnsiblb Vibw. Edward Everett, in a letter apologizing for not attending the dedication of a new school Louse, closes his lottor thus: " We must not rest satisfied with a gen eral impression that our schools sro in a very satisfactory condition. There is somo dungcr that showy accomplishments, such as declamation and English composition often prematurely attempted and dramnt io exhibitions which seem tome wholly out of placo at school will occupy tho time and thoughts of teachers and pupil, to the neglect of thorough instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, ge o"raphy, history, and Christian morality, and oilier branches of a solid English edu cation." KT" lie who rises late may trot all day but never overtake bis business." S i said Dr. Franklin. A contemporary says : " We have watched those fellows who are early risers, and as a general thing they are the first chaps who go te tbe groceries of a morning. It's all moonshine about the smartest and greatest man being tlm early riser." J'tf