The Oregon Argus., October 23, 1858, Image 1

THE OREGON ARGUS.
I",' I.U..I.0 IVttV TUi4t iioaaixo,
BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS.
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A b'ryouRf child, wtih hrt of glee, - -8kU
pmtuin by h mother's lint, ','
: Aad a hat ay nlU-ol Ilie smile , .
Hrlfhleninf hr darling' ha lh wliil,
Oh, metbar deer," ll otx-mb erlM,
- 'Imi baby I your eye !'
, Th mother stoops, snl playfully
' ' liaising the Infant In hrr hate, ' ' '
' flat within th nun deep
' 'Wbcr Joy'i bright meaning Mrtr s!teps ; '
A Bait, nil vm iht deecrir
Out-fating from her biby'ety.',' ,
- Ah I eye tall Uuth," aha lu it but
1 . . " Your apeak your fatartrmna ray foal
tat in your radiant art I tea
A prophecy af days lo bo, .
I,, And in my own dimmed eye appear
A (limp 4 cliililliaui't vauilid years.'' .
. P.'' . "77 . - -; - -
, TiiR Ma ix tii I box Mauk Tim
True- Version. The man in the iron mask
trot Coant Ercola Antonio Muttln'oli. sen-
tor from Mantua, a private agent of For
dinand Charles, Duke of Mantua. He suf
fered bin long and strango imprisonment Tor
-staving deceived and disappointed Louis
'XIV. in a secret treaty for the rmrchaso of
" the lurtrcM or Canal, the key or Italy; the
Regents of Spain and Austria having offered
, Jjiia a higher bribe. Vet their iufunious
acherae could not hare been brought to
light' without exposing the shame of the
Jtriitcipals concerned. The troth of this
ulkritutcracut . was proven beyond any
reasonable douht in 1820, by the publica
tion of I'VCuoTftw. History of theStato
Prisoner commonly called the Iron Mack,
tracted . from Document in the French
rchlrcs," hy tlic Hon. (Jcorge Agar Ellin.
In tilts' work It is established, that immedi
ately after Louis perceived that he had been
duped, Matthioli wns arrested by the King's
order. ., Tliongh armed, ho offered no re
niutajipe, . but was carried that night to
l'ignerol; the leader of tho party uloue
knowing the prisoner, whom, for better con
cealment, b nam'tl L'Kstang. During
his conlliKii(f nt at l'ignerol liis mind bepiu
U taiiler; when ho was placed in the room
with ah "insane Jacobin monk." In 1081
the Count and hii companion were removed
, in a litter, and under a military escort, to
; Exiles, a few leagues from Pignerol. Hero
. Jhe .monk died; and in 1GS7, St. Mnrs, the
custodiun, who had removed with his
charge to the Isle of St. Marguerite, re
ported of one prisoner only, whom we are
.warranted in concluding was Matthioli, the
j man in tho iron mask. During his removal
thither he ia thought to have been first
compelled ' to wear a mask to hide his fea
tures, not, at hit been erroneously tlutrd, a
matk of 'iron, which could not have been
Iwrnc upon the face for nny long continu
juice of, time,' but one of black velvet,
. Htrcagthcned with whalebone and fastened
behind tho head with a padlock, and further
secured by a seal, which did not prevent
.the prisoner from eating and drinking, or
Impede his respiration. At St. Mnrgucrito
he passed cloven ycare; and was d s.'ribid
,1jr Voltairo as richly dressed, supplied With
Lvces from Paris, served at table with silver
pinto, wearing a mask of iron, and plucking
' out the hairs of his beard with steel pincers
'nril of . which were gross exagcrations.
, -In 1093, St. Mars moved with his prisoner
to the Bostilo. Matthioli traveled in a
1 litter; and when St. Mars halted near his
own estate of Pulteau, tho unknown was
.neen la a block mask a circumstance talk
' cd of in tho neighborhood until our time.
" The peasants- observed that his teeth and
' Jips were seen, that he was tnll and had
'gray hair.' His imprisonment extended to
twenty-four ..and a half years, according to
' , the horrible . order issued by Louis, "that
i .he should have nothing which could make
. life -agreeable." Ho died in November,
"1703, being then sixty-three years of age,
although the register of his burial states
him as " Matthioli, aged about forty-five
- years." But persons who died in the Bas
tft were) . frequently interred .under false
names and ages; and' Louis and the Duko
of Mantua were still alive. , On the decease
',of the prisoner, . bis keepers scraped and
'whitewashed' his prison walls; the doors
and window-frames were bnrnt, and all the
metal vessels, whether of copper, , pewter,
'.or silver, which had been used iu his service,
.'were melted down. When the records of
'-the Bastile were made public in 1789, the
'register was searched in vain for anything
.that would throw light on this affair; the
- leaf of the register which contained it had
hccn carcfully .removed. ; Sueh is the true
istory ot tne irou JiasK,
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PcxchV1 Charos to thb Jvni. The
' subjoined " charge" was hot written for the
present ' time, a fact which is evident from
the' other fact that we cut it from an old
file of the Lancaster Intelligencer, into
' which i.it was copied from , the London
y Pouch about fifteen years ago. Notwith
standing the antiquity of the document we
-i eowider it," in some respects, a "model"
" hargeat least, possessing the merit of
.V"3eTUig the jnry unbiased in their delibera
tions npoq a .verdict: .7 ,
Gentlemen of (he Jury : Yon are sworn
"in all cM-Jo.decide according to the evi
dence; at the same time, if you have any
ftdoubt, you are bound to give the prisoner
.Hthe. benefit of it. Suppose you have to
i -pronounce on the guilt or innocence of a
gentleman accused of felony.,' You will
' naturally doubt whether any gentleman
f" would commit such offences accordingly,
.'r however strong may be the testimony
"gainst him, yoa will, perhaps, acqnit him.
The evidences of yonr own senses are, at
least, as credible as those of the witnesses;
' If, therefore, your eyesight convince you
m that the prisoner is a well dressed person,
yoa have aright to presume his respecta
bility; and It is for you to say whether a
Ireyectable person would be likely to be
nilHr nf the crimes . imputed to him. In
eke manner, when you see a shabby look
ing fellow in the dock, charged, for exam
ple, with sheep stealing, the decision rests
i yHh yon, first, whether or not thatmdivid
Btl h a r;rmuffin, and econdlr, how far H
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Vol. IV.
Is probable that a tnun of that description
would steul sheep
Of course, as hoi been before said, you
will always be guided by the evidence; but
then, whether the evidence is trustworthy
or not, Is a mnttT for yonr private consid
eration. You may bef icvo It if you choose,
or you mny aisoeiicve It; and whether, gen
tlemen of the Jury, you will believe it or
aisiK'neve u win iiend on the constitution
of your minds. If vour mlnd are in ntn.
stilntcd that you wish to find the prisoner
guuiy, pernnps you win believe it; If thry
happen to be so constituted that you desire
to find him not gtilty, why then, very
likely you will disbelieve It. Yon are to
free your minds from all position and preju
dice if rou can. and In that est vnnr Imlo
mcnt will be unbiused; but if you cannot
you win return a verdict accordingly. It
is not, strictly seaking, for you to consider
wuai win ue me eircci or your verdict; nut
if inch consideration should occur to you,
and you cannot help attending to it, that
verdict will be Influenced hy it to a certain
DYfnnf Vnti nrn rtrnttnltlv awnM il.nl
when yon retire you will be locked up until
you contrive to agree. You may arrive at
unanimity by fair discussion, or by some of
VOU Starving out others or hv tnssinn- nn-
. o 1 J o i I
and your conclusion by whichever of these
rt : i ...'n i. i ...
umvt.-u ui., mil uu inuru ur ick ill
accordance with your oaths. Your verdict
mny be right; it is to be hoped it will; it
may pe wrong; it is to be hoped tt will not.
At ail events, gentlemen of the jury, you
will come to some conclusion or other, un
less It should so happen that' you separate
without coming to any.
Book Sales, Formeiu.v and Now. The
New York Journal of Commerce, compiles
the following from the new Encyclopedia:
One or two other facts may be mention
ed in reference to the high price of books in
olden times. St. Jerome (A. D. 880,) it
is said iniK)verislied his estnte to procure
tlio works or Ungen; King Airred gave nn
immense tract of land for ono book; in 1274
a copy of the Bible sold for 34, when la
bor was Id. a day; in 14G6, at from 00
to 20; and about the sume time, the "Ro
mance of the Rose" for $150. Compare
these prices with the cheapness of modern
works, and cpecially with the enormous
sale ofsomo of our lute publications.. It is
said that 35,000,000 of Webstcrs Element
ary Spelling Book have been sold; that its
annual issue is over 1,000,000; while some
3,000,000 of his Dictionaries are annually
circulated. Of Mitchell's geographical
books there is a probulile issue of 1000 per
day, and of Prof. Dimes' mathematical
series, 300,000 were sold in 1857. There
were sold of Livingston's Travels in South
Africa, 10,000 copies; of Kane's Arctic
Explorations, 65,000; while dropping down
to fiction, we find thnt tho serials of Dick
ens have a sale of 85,000; that 310,000 of
Uuclo Tom's Cabin were sold; 70,000 or
Fern Leaves, and 45,000 of the Life of
Barnum. : ' '
Tlicro Is n dark side to this picture.
Speaking of the sale of pernicious works,
the Journal of Commerce says:
" Should the statistics on this subject
ever be published the good citizens would
loso hope for the morals and principles of
the rising generation. An investigation
mado by a committee of the House of Com
mons in 1851, showed that the sale of immor
al nnd infidel publications amounted to 29,
000.000 aunuullv. 'And we have reason
to' believe that an expose in this country
would be scarcely less appalling.
A New Tvpe-Setiino Macuixe. Mr.
Grccly, a good judge from his practical
knowledge of tho subject, thns dcserilcs it:
.Type-setting is a work which an old type-
tetter cau hardly be convinced will ever be
executed by machinery; yet tho machine
ol Mr. Timothy Alden, now on exhibition
in Center street, threatens to do it. I its
distribution is purely automatic, proceeding
simultaneously with the composition, and
requiring little oversight or aid. Une per
son does all the work of composing, justi
fication, Ac, at a speed which is said to be
three or fonr times that of a swift composi
tor, at an old fashion " case," and we see
no reason why the execution should be oth
er than first-rate. . The cost of the machine,
which must be some $1200 to $1500, mny
impede Its general adoption; but if it does
all it promises, it must ultimately make its
woy, unless supplanted oy a octwrorcneap-
er rival. i 7 ' ;:
jsr The delicate and interesting oper
ation of transferring blood from one person
to another has been successfully pcrfored by
Dr. Whcatly, an English surgeon, upon the
person of a female patient. When appar
ently expiring from loss of blood, about two
pounds were transferred from the veins ol
her husband into her veins, with tne most
favorable result. In a few minutes, the
currents of blood began to flow, and the
ebbing of life was checked, the circulation
being re-established, and the deliverance
from apparently certain dissolution secured.
Japan Seeking Light. The nephew of.
the Emperor of Japan is about to visit
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England, France, Russia, Holland, and the
TTnitivl KtntM. accomnanied bv two intelli
gent native engineers, who are to examine
into the svstem of radways. Tne tmperor
has had the electric telegraph given him by
the American plenipotentiary . wlien toe
treaty of commerce between the two coun
tries was siiroed. fitted up between his sum
mer palace and Jeddo, his capital, a dis
tance of about six miles, and it worts per
fectly. His conduct tn encouraging me
introduction of American , and Eoropean
inventions contrasts favorably with that of
China. Hi capital city of Jeddo is said to
be the larptin thworW, eontainin
OREGON CITY, OREGON, OCTOBER 23, 1858.
1,500,000 dwellings and 5,000,000 people,
and some of its streets are thirty-two Eng
lish miles In length. The commerce of Ja
pan Is very lurge. . i
A Book Over Nine Hundred Years
Old The Detroit Free Tress notices one
of tho rarest and most valuable specimens
of biblical literature In the world. ' It is a
volume of six hundred pages, containing
the wliolo Bible In the Latin language. ' It
belongs to the Rev. Dr. DufDeld, of De
troit. The book ia made entirely of vel
lum, and tho printing is all done by hand
with a pen and ink. Every letter Is per
fect in its shape, and canuot be distinguish
ed by any imperfections in form from the
printed letters of the present dny. Tho
shape of the letters Is of course different
from those now iu use, but iu no other re
spect can they be distinguished from printed
matter. The letter is of about the same
size as that In which this article is printed,
which will give some idea of the difficulty
of forming so perfect a work. The 1m
mense amount of labor may be conceived
from the fact that there are two columns on
each page, each of which lacks only about
six letters of being as wide as tho columns
of this paper. They will average sixty
lines to the column.. The columns number
ing 1,200, we have about 72,000 lines in
the whole book. Nothing short of a life
time could accomplish such a work.
The date of this book is A. D. 030. . It
was consequently inudo 510 years before
printiug wns invented, and is 923 years old.
The vellum upon which it is printed is of
the finest kind, and is made of the skin of
young lambs and kids, dressed and rubbed
with pumice stone until it is very thin. It
is somewhat thicker than common paper,
bejng a medium between, that and the
drawing paper now in uso. . The fine veins
in the skin are distinctly visible in many
places, i A pencil murk was drawn by the
operator to guide tho construction of each
line. ; Many pages have these lines visible
ou their whole surface, no effort having
been made to rub them out. . Two lines
running np and down divide tho column
with mathematical accuracy. At the be
ginning of each chapter, highly colored or
namental letters are plnccd. These are tho
only marks of the division of chnpters.
There are no subdivisions into verses, the
chapter running through in one paragraph
to the end, and no descriptive headings.
This iuvolunble relic was presented to
Dr. Dufficld by Lewis Cass, Jr., our Min
ister rcsideut at Rome. He procured it of
a Greek monk who brought it from the
Greek convent of St. Catharine, at the
foot of Mt. Sinai. - Mr. Cass befriended
this monk, who was in trouble, and he, in
return, presented him with the Tolumc
which we have described. According to
his story, it is the work of one of the an
cient monk scribes in the convent above
named. ' When it became known that Mr.
Cass was parting with it, and that it wns
going put of the country, tho round sum of
$3,000 was offered him for it by the monks
of the city of Rome, which was refused. :
Effects of Novel-Readixg. A whole
family brought to destitution in England,
has had all its .misfortunes clearly traced,
by the authorities, to nn ungovernable pas
sion for novel-reading, entertained by the
wife and mother. The husband was sober
and Industrious, but his wife was indolent,
and addicted to reading everything procur
able in the shape of a romance. 1 This led
her to utterly neglect her husband, herself,
and her eight children. One daughter, in
despair, fled the parental home and threw
herself into the haunts of vice. Another
was found by the police chained by the
legs to , prevent her following her sister's
example. The bouse exhibited the most
offensive appearance of filth and indigence.
In the midst of this pollution, privation,
and poverty, the cause of It sat reading the
latest "sensation work" of the season, and
refused to allow herself to be disturbed in
her entertainment. 1
Horses in the United States. It is
estimated that there are 50,000 horses in
the State of Massachusetts, 221,000 in the
;cw England States, 4,500,000 in the Unit
1 States. Ohio stands foremost in the
number of horses, New York next, Penn-
Ivania next, Kentucky next, and Minne
sota last of alL Estimating the horses of
Massachusetts at $75 per head, their value
will be i3.750.000. and the horses in the
United States, at the same rate, would
mke a value of $3,750,000, or more than
three times the whole cotton and woollen
manufacturing capital in the Union. The
horse' Interest is a most important one to
the wealth and prosperity of the States.
A Sion or Rain. When the odor of
flowers ia unusually perceptible, rain may
be anticipated, as the air when damp con
tcts the odor more effectually than when
dry. Damp air being also a better con-
t . ' ... 3 .L-T1- I iV-
ductorot sound man ary, eu
sound of mill and railways are bettfr beard
before rin,
Important Contribution to American
History.-Within a comparatively recent
period, tho papers of a Mr. Struchcy, tho
secretary of Lord Howe, tho commander
of the British army during a largo part of
tho ar of the Revolution, have come to
light and a market. Tho most important
of these have, we understand, been pur
chased at a high price, by parties In con
ncctiou with the New York Historical So
ciety; and they contain some highly impor
tant and interesting information relative to
the couduct of Mujor General Charles Lee,
They show, beyond a doubt, that Gen. Lee
at one timo was engaged in treasonable
correspondence with the British commander,
the object of which was to terminate the
war (rebellion) by a strategic movement of
the British forces, which should result in
the interruption of the communication be
tween Congress and tho army, and the sub
sequent capture and disorganization of
each. At a lute meeting of the New York
Historical Society, the Librarian, Mr.
Moore, exhibited the original paper in the
handwriting and with the signature of Lee,
and read its contents as a part of a general
communication, relative to the whole sub
ject, to the Society.
This discovery sheds a flood of light on
the conduct and character of Lee, and will
strengthen Into certainty what was before
only suspicion. Originnl letters from Gen.
Reed to Lee were also read In the same
connection by Mr. Moore, which plnee this
officer, also, in no very enviable light, and
prove him to have been a secret detractor
end defnmer of Washington. ' This view of
Reed's character is not, however, a new
one; nnd Mr. Irving has been severely crit
icized and censured in some quarters for
treating him so leniently in his life of Wash
ington. Some years since, a pomphlct, dis
cussing the subject of Reed's patriotism, in
a somewhat caustic and powerful man
ner, was privately published in Phila
delphia, with an engraved vignette, the
principal feature of which latter was a me
dallion, containing in close juxtaposition, in
compartments, the profile likenesses of Ar
nold and of Reed, supporting' each other.
The knowledge that Lee had, that pa
pers involving his honor alid his life were
in existence, and liable under certain con
tingencies to be made public, doubtless reg
ulated his conduct during the latter part of
the war, and perhaps contributed to short
en the number of his days. And now, after
having been a tenant of the grave for more
than three quarters of a century, his secret
is disclosed and his namo is branded as that
of a traitor. bchool and Home Journal, .
Napoleon's Powers of Memory. His
powers of application and memory seemed
almost preternatural. There was scarcely
a man in France, and none in employment,
with whose private history, character, and
qualifications he was not acquainted. He
had, when emperor, notes and tables, which
he called the moral statistics of his empire.
ne revised and corrected them by ministe
rial reports, private conversation nnd cor
respondence. He received all letters him
self, and, what seems iucrcdiblc, he read
and recollected all be received; He slept
little, and was never idle one instant when
awake. . When he had ad hour for diver
sion, he not unfrcqucntly employed it in
looking over a book of logarithms, which
he acknowledged, with some surprise, was
at all seasons of his life a recreation to him.
So retentive was his memory of numbers,
that sums over which he had once glanced
his eye were in his mind ever after. He
recollected the respective produce of all
taxes through every year of his administra
tion, and could at any time repeat any one
of them, even to the centimes. Thus his
detection of errors in accounts seemed mar
velous, and he often indulged in the pardon
able artifice of displaying these faculties iu
a war to create a persuasion mat ms vigi
lance was almost supernatural. In running
over an account of expenditure, he per
ceived the rations of a battalion charged on
a certain day at Besancon, "But the battal
ion is not there," said he, " there is an er
ror." The minister, recollectina that the
emperor had been at the time out of France,
and confiding in the regularity of the subordi
nate agents, persisted that the battalion
must have been at Besancon. Napoeon
insisted on further inquiry. It turned oat
to be a fraud and not a mistake. The peo-
nlative accounts were dismissed, and the
scrutinizing spirit of the emperor airculated
with the anecdote through every branch of
the public service in a way to deter every
clerk from committing the slightest error,
from fear of immediate detection. .ora'
Holland., ... . ,,
gST The celebrated savan, Niewentyl, Is
said to have once undertaken to count the
nnmher of narticles of light that escape
from a burning candle. By his computa
tion, there are thus evolved, at every se
nf time, ten millions of millions times
mnr than the number of trains of sand
computed to be contained in ue wnoie
earth. If any mathematician can make a
more nice and accurate calculation, it will
be bt for Mm W bejtn pretty soon.
the side of Truth iu every issue.
No. 28,
Tiik Bottom of the Atlantic It has
now been satisfactorily ascertained by
lilcut. Maury that the basin or the Atlantic
oceau is a long trough, separating the Old
World from the New, and extending prob
ably from pole to polo. From the top of
Lliimborazo to the bottom or tho Ocean, at
the dcccst place reached by the plummet
In the northern Atlantic, the distance in a
vertical line is nine miles. The deepest
part of the north Atluntio is probably
somewhere between tho Bermudas and the
Grand Banks. ' The waters of the Gulf of
Mexico ore held in a basin abont a mile
deep in tho deeest pnrt. There is at the
bottom of the sea between Cape Race and
Newfoundland and Cape Clear in Irelund,
a remarkable , steppe, which is already
known as tho "telegraph plateau." The
great circle distance between theso two
shore lines is sixteen hundred miles, and the
sea along this route is probably nowhere
more thun ten thousand feet deep. Sci.
Amer.
African Cotton. Tho supply of cotton
from Central Africa is Increasing, as is the
demand for manufacturers of cotton; and
the English manufacturers havo turned
their attcution to that quarter. Mr. Clegg,
of Manchester, has entered into corresjiond
enco with over twenty native .chiefs, from
many of whom he has received consign
ments, and with whom he has large trans
actions. cJ-Tho Rev. Eliuzer Williams, for
whom the claim was some years since set
up that ho wns tho veritablo lost Dauphin
of France, died on tho 28th of August, at
Hognnsburgh, a part of tho St. Regis Res
ervation in New York. Mr. Williams died,
aft'T a protracted illness, frara tlropry; and
suffered at last rom want of attention and
other necessaries.
A Tender Dove Story i-A gentleman
at Macon, Miss., had two pigeons, and ono
evening the female, perceiving the end of a
cat's tail vibrating from beneath a pair of
steps, and prompted, probably, by a curi
osity inseparable from her sex, flew cown
for a closer inspection of tho inscrutable
gyrations, and fell a victim. The malo at
first seemed bewildered; then commenced
uttering a low, plaintive rtoiscj like tho coo
ing of a dove; but, in a few moments, as if
becoming suddenly conscious of the inconsol
able loss ot his lovely ' partner, flew into a
pool of water near by, and succeeded in ef
fectually drowning himself. :
taf Men are born with two eyes, but
witli one tongue, iu order that they should
see twice as much as they say. The same
is also applicable to boys and women.
37" Revenge is longer lived than grat
itude. Endorse Mr. Smith's nole lo keep
him from bursting, and he will foruet all
about it in a month. Pull Mr. Smith's
nose, and he will cherish a secrel deiilrs to
burn your house down for the remainder
of his lifo. Revenge is a passion. Grati
tude appears to be only a sentiment. We
enn all hate; but il is only one man in a
hundred that possesses sense enough to
be thankful. 1
Graceful Compliment. Washington
visiting a lady in his neighborhood, on
leaving the house, a little girl was directed
to open the door. He turned to the child
and said, "I am sorry, inv little deur, to
give you o much troublu." "I wish,
sir," she replied, "it Was to let you in."
He that sympathizes in all the
happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys
the safest happiness, and he that is warned
by all the folly of others has perhas at
tained the soundest wisdom.
f3T Young ladies should not write
poetical loveletters. It is damjerau.
Sueh a one was written to a Kenhickv
beau, not long since, which so affected
him thnt . he stole a horse to go and see
the writer, and got into jail lo pay for
getting in love with a pnetes.
X3T A militia officer in Texas boasts,
through the papers, lhat hia men " would
tally at the Up of the drum." . firhap
they would rally still more promptly al
the tapping of a keg.
A ailly, but pretty woman com
plained lo the celebrated and beautiful So
phia Arnold or the number or her admirers,
and wished to know how to get rid of them.
" Oh, my dear," was the sarcastic reply,
"it it very easy for you to do il ; you have
only to apeak." i , ;
A Bihdino PaoMwa. 11 kUaed hrr, and prom-
iaed. Suck beaatifnl lips I Mao' usual fata he
wa lout u poll Ui coral Irefa.
XW Whf n eats wash their faces, bad weather
i at band ; when women una waahea to their com
pletion, it ia a true sign that the beauty of th day
i (one.
All women have hearts, bat ofWa it ia with
them aa it ia with lu the heart ia the hardest
part
iy Many women powder their Lees, lhat their
skia may atom white ; it ia aa a poulterer flours
an old hen, that it may pass for a tender chicken.
XW la what ship hava the frealaet a umber of
men been wrecked t Courtship.
t3f The ahertne of life ia very oftea owing to
lb hrefnlarity of the liter.
37" It is calculated that there ar ao leas than
tweaty-eifhl m: lea of lobe la tho human body,
from which wstar will eaeepa a hueaaibt parapi-
' Qf A fenoeoua rasa will place the benefit ho
aoofor btaea'h hia kat ; thee be rwwhft, aetr
t hi heart.
ADVKftTISINU RATK8.
Ob aquar (II Iiiim or lix) una intrrtlnn, S,f
u - two inaartiuua, 4JUV
" " UiR'O iiiu-rtiuim, 6,i 0
Eaeh sulwijiirnt insertion, ) ,0
IUanabls didoeiioua lu il.a who advaitie j
i the yi sr.
JOB PRINTING. 1
Tut raorairroa or th AUGl'8 la lurrf
to Inform Ui miblie tint It liaa just lectivrd a
Urga stack t JOB TV PR and oilier ntw print
his material, and will ba ia ilia rdy r .pl o
addition wiled to all lh nuiri-inrnla of Ilia l
caliit. 1IANDIIU.1X, IOh'IKItH. W.A.NK,
CAKD8, C1KCTLAKH, I'AMFIII.KT-WOKK
and Miliar kinds, dun lo ndrr, ia short nof c. ,
WonD-nisTORY. Tho history of words
is the history of trade and commerce.
Our very appun-l is a dictionary. Wo are
of the 'bayonet' that it wus first made at
Buyonue; of 'cambrics' thut they cahiu
from Cembali ' dumusk,' from Damascus
areas' from tho same name; ' cordwlne,' of
' cordoveu' from Cordova; 'currants,' from
Corinth) the 'guiueu,' that it was originally
coined of gold brought from tho African,
coast, so called; ' camlet,' thut it was woven,
at least in part,, of camel's huir Such has
been tho manufacturing progress, thut call
cocs and muslins are now and (lieu sent to
India and tho East, and the words give
standing witness thut these were onoo im
ported from thence; for 'calico' is from
Calicut, and 'musliu' is from Mosul, a city
in Asiatic Turkey, ' ' '
Cost of. a Message to London, Tho
Bostou Traveler of Fridny says: , t-
Two business messages from New York
merchants to their correspondents in Eng
land, passed through tho American Tile
graph office, Traveler Buildings, from New
1 ork, en route for London, yesterdry, nt 5
P. M. One of them, containing fifty-seven
words, paid throtiirh, fifty-seven dollars,
and tho other, twenty-snveu words, for
WHICH twenty-seven uolhirs was payed, ,,
EkJ The pebbles in our path weary ui
and mako us foot-sore, more than tho rocks
that require only a bold effort to surmount,
Senator Haumosd at Home. The nth .
tlior of tho "mud-sill" speech in tlieScnuto
of the t'nitcd States has, wo tuko pleasure
in saying, recently been engaged in the good
work of talking CooHyatid sensibly, loftlii-
greater portion of an hour's speech, to his
constituents, the reputed fi re-enters of South
Carolina. Ho stated, os reported In the
Charleston Mercury, that to him tho whole
theory and scheme of Squatter-Sovereignty
wus a mutter of disgust, and thut tho Kan
sa8-Xcbra.ska bill was a delusion and a de
ception in tho beginning, It was rotten
with fraud, and thoso who mndo it flinched
from its consequences The South had reaj
sons for apprehensions, but reasons also for
hopes. Whntover relations might evetitu'
ato between the North ami South, they'
would be in the cud Consistent with tliu
fights and security of tho Southern section,
Under the present aspect of affairs, the
South would have to remain in the Union
Ito would father see tho game played out
between tho North and South thun sco the
Union brought to nn cud uow. . Of course
Mr. Hammond hud to state that' iu somo
caso tho South would absolutely perpetrate
tho everlastingly talked of dissolution. If
the South could rulo tho Union, it hud bet-,
tcr remain in it. By ruling tho Union, ho
did not mean procuring high ofiices for
Southern men, but the acquisition of a
moral supremacy thut would check the ab
surdity of negro philnnthropy. But thfl
Union must be dissolved (all the long cam
in South Curoliua arc always ojien to hear
when,) when tho North should destroy tho
conservative nature of tho Federal Courts,'
or effect any aggressive purpose in tho lino
of banks, tariffs, or direct tampering with
sluves. He did not, however, think that
tho North would do anything of a nature
so dreadful that tho South shoutd set up
for herself.. And even if at the next Pres
idential election the North should, by com1
bination, elect an Abolitionist, ho did not
think that on thnt issuo the great body of
tho South would go out of tho Union.
But if (his were followed by a second elec
lion vf the same kind, he thought lliey trould,
(It would occur to any one less philosoph
ical than Mr. HnmmOiid tlmt if tho South
could grin and bear it to sec ono Abolition
President, they could bear it and grin
again,) Tho North-western States wero
not such enemies to the South as New Eng1
iund. Indiana camo within ono vote of
being a slave State, and might lie a sluvd
State yet if tho Union were dissolved.
(Jesse D. Bright put thut into his head.)
The people of the South should be ready
for a desperate emergency, but should not
charge too quick. The North was Mt en
tirely to blame fur Hit political tear between
the sections. Many Southern grievances
tool tluir rite at the South. False theories
were originated and adopted there.. Tho
South had fought and won a grcut moral
battlo, proving to the world lhat Slavery
was no sin, that the slave was in his nor
mal condition, the right man In the right
place. He talked of the change of senti
ment on the slavery question in England
and tho Northern States. There were men
in the North who would sustain the rights
of the Sooth when consigning themselves
to political graves. When the good men
of the North offered, the South should ac
cept. All the opposition measures of
which th South has eomplained in the last
thirty years she herself inaugurated.
Washington and Jefferson, In the mattctt
of slavery, set the evil example. The ftaj'k
of the United States originated with tho
South, The South, under some of our
leading men, was god-father of the tariff j
and it was the same with Internal improve
ments. He witt apposed to th annexation
of any ttoi territories He preferred that