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ADVKUTISINO KATES. . -One e,aare (13 line or Iia) one liuttreb, (3,0) ' ' ' - ' . two hcrti'iJi, , 4,CO - three fiiMrek-na, 6,10 Eaoh tubaequeat liurrtion, 1,00 tttaannable dailucik.it lo ihuae who advirtae l y : ;, . the year.- -. u TBItMSTkt At'one mill hi furaithtd nl t.Tkr4 Dollars aid Fifty Vtnlt P'rnHiam.ia adnata, to tin til snlitrihrri Thrtt Dnllnrt 'tack t elaht of lm at out ojlietin adraaes Wr tho i cat paid in advuntt, faar Dillon will I" chirgid if pud tell hi iim ' moathi, and Firedolhriattht oaduf tht ytar. tJT T D'lllart for intuitu Nn tubtcnp flout rtrtieid fur a Ittt ptriad. Jf No fiftf diieaatinard Unlit all amnragti art paid, unltii at thtaptioaof thi pulilikrr. '; job p n i n T i j c .! i :. . Tns ranniirros ofTthfROVH nt lurrf to Inform the ptblic that ha liaa juet received a large ork of Jejll TYl'E and o Ur new print' iinr muter al, and will be in the t eeily rere'pt q tiddillnna eni rd to nil the riqul-Mi i-uta of ih a It ealiiy. 1IAMXIII IH. l-OKTlrHH, IIIANKSt. CAUI'H, CincTLAItP, rAMl lll Kl-WOl K mid oilier kind. dune 'o tinier. mi abort riot'ee. , 1.1 I I ,Hi 1 , .,,,., . .. . T,lt ',,..! . . . A Weekly Newspaper,' devoted to the Principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, and advocating the side of Truth iu every issue.- Vol. IV. : OIIKGON' OITY, OREGON, DECEMBER 1 1, 1858. No. 8.1. :THE OREGON ARGUS. I - - r ryiuMicu amav Miraiur Muixma, . , BY WILLIAM L. ADAMS. , , ' Drttk Hlero. , How wonderful it Death!' , , l)ellitid be b o.lur Shop! Oae pile ae yonder winir.g aiMa, ' '" i - Willi ! tr luriil lM 1' m1 Th olriiT ijr m lb mora ' i !.'; ' y Wju-n Uiruntil oil ocean'e wav, ' I . It btuh u'r tlw W'ir'il t , j . ,, . J ' Yul both o im.iiij wond.Tful. Hath thtu the nlo-miy power, . ; Wlio n-igu t In ilte tuin I arpjlcbree, ' tailed mi lie in cu mil f n ' M int thi n tlit nit rl.n f..nn, t Which lte urn! ImirAi on cannot view , Without a beating lu-Ml ; llnae aiure veina, Which aU-iil like treniiri aloiij t fi.-ld a;' mww, That biri-ly outline, wlii'li ii fuir An breathing marble, per' oh f Mwt palreCii'tlou'e b.viih . Leave nothing of Ihia hvavenly e'ghl ,, liut lojlliMiinoiiret and ru'u t Spire uolli.ug but a ulnuuiy llieme, Ou which the lihteat mart might ruoreliie t Or Ii it only a vei-t luinb. r ' BteahujoVr nualion, 1 - t Wh'cb the b.'enih "f re:itc raimiinj Chuwlh Inki ilnrkiioMi r , - ' .Will laolho wuke again 1 r '' And g've llut f nthful bun joy. Whuet eleeplcee aplril wain to c.iuh J- (hi, life, and lajMuie, from her un It I . , , k :Yee elm will w.ike egi.s, . i ', Alihoutfh lier gluwui liuibiare m iliouleti, 1 And aili-nt thoett ewwt I pa, P" tnee breathing eluqucnci', , i That in'ght have K)lli d a I gcr'i r.ipt, Or tNw'd the cold hejrt nf a c.mqiuror. ' liar dew vyet air oiuned, Ar'I on her 1. Jit, whote texture fine , . flcn' hhlri thu dark blue in bl belie.ith, The baby tie. p a pilluw'd 1 , ller goMi'D trnawa ulude 1l,11ie bno.n't iLilnliM prido, Curling I ke teihlr'.U of puruite !' Aroiiui a marble coluuu. ;,.ilj .),; .,r. ..A i ' ; . SA.'ry. . .(.! - ., ,Tuk Uabhi and Mios. Tiis aspect of .!ie eai'tli , beheld from tlio moon, always gorgeous, , ii ncvur the same. lSi'forc it jSouts a t flx'ki'ritig drapery adoniii with ercr-clinngrng soU, which arc continually d!8.tppciirinr, to give place to others of frcsli form and pattern. Cloudy belts are drawn in certain directions ly llic agency V iiionsoons and trado winds. Stripes di verging in other directions are the traces of 'the polar gidos,' wlii.h rash toward the 'temperato zonef, ' sweeping the heaving "ta'asscs of ' mist ' and "vapor before them. The ! freaks and violence of the untamed winds give to oar plaitet a more singular ,and changeabie aspect tlian that of Jupiter .as we beliold him striped across with trans verse bands or belts. , In cousefpicnce of -,hese continual alterations of the outer veil, iti ! rarely is poijibln to catch a .complete "view of tho . coufi uratiou of. our continents or of tho cxaet limits of our wide-spread oco'aiis. ' Lunar' students of terrestrial gc 'ograpViy,'' unable over to obtain at once an entire' view of either oT our liemisjiliercs, might hevM'th.'lcss construct an aeurutehmp Thy noting djivn the details of various coun tries as they presented themselves from time Ito time, and then combining the fragments into a whole. It would simply be nn cxer cisiof the -name- 'mental' powers which a child exerts when he fits together his puzzle 'map of Eiigland, finding its proper place ' for every one of tho countries which have 'been mingled pell-mell hi the box." Selen ite members of the Geographical Society f enjoy the great , advantago of having a full ,.iew of localities which are all but iuacccs- Ble to us. : They are able to inspect Cen- tral Africa with less fatigue- than Doctor "Livingstone, ' and they can form an idea of what the North Polo is like, without slmr .ing the sad fate of Franklin. ' 1 ! But while the outlines of the earth's disc 'are Vague ami difficult to detenuiue, her toloriiif js decided and strongly contrasted. ( At each pole of the shining planet is a vast : h'ite spot which offers a singular phenome non. Although perpcUtally there, and ncv- er effaced, . they periodically: vary io size, re-assuming their original appearance, after the completion of the three hundred and i-sixty-five revolutions on iU axis, which con stitute the terrestrial year. In proportion - as the white spot on one polo diminishes, --that of the opposite pole increases; it is as .jfoneofitho rival ipowers reconquered a portion of ground exactly eqnal to thut lost ; by the other,, so that they advance and re treati reciprocally; maintaininjr, on the . c ' -ween the two, an eqnal amount ,of territory. Neveu- . hrtepot is always considerably mailer than the wmtheru. To Sulenites, who have w notion or knowledge of water and ice, tho "wariatibn of 1 these two white spots must . remain an impenetrable mystery. We, who observe the 'same phenomenon in the planet ,)im, can easily account for it. '! 1 ' i'ft ghort,'' the earth's' complexion is bril liant, coming and going as her sentimcnU, ibcr passions, and the state of her health -wry. I She tarns brightly pale when and where it is winter, and blushes tenderly . green under the influence of spring. .The 'diverse colors of the diffjrat parts or onr "globe change like the hues of a mag e lan 'tern, according as they are reflected from an arctic circle or a torrid zone, a contment or a sea, a sandy desert or a leafy forest, mountain or a plain, and even from an Old World or a New. . The regular return "'onoe in twenty-four hours, of these richly tinted spots, to the tame position, demon- , .wm t nnce to moonite philosophers what Las giren raeo so much trouble to establish, ' the fact of the earth'f revolution on its axis. It does more; it provide njoarofri oo the moon with the most mnguiricent clock that was ever Imagined. It Is tritmntie. nrnnn. net, ami keeps prrA-ct time: It never stops . . 11 n.i . and ncre requ.res wmdln? np. ll.e rota- t.on of the eartli In four and twenty hours replaces me iiuim which travels round the dial plate. Every fixed spot, situuted at a different terrestrial longitude, is a number which mark the hours and the minutts, as it pussis over this ; or that lumir mer'uliiui. The spots which at any given moment iiinkv their npjiraruiice nt the edge of thc 'urth's disc, will be situated, six hours uftirwardx, exactly on thc straight line which passes fain pole to pole, through the center of thc disc;- and six hours ( afterwards they will have reached the opposite edge of toe disc, and will then immediately disappear. Every spot takes exactly four-and-tweuty hours to return to the lunar mcridiun which it has passed. In order to ascertain the hour, and its divisions by looking at this admirable clock-face, all that is required is to know tho time it takes for thc different spots to pass from one mcridiun to another. The appearance of a spot, as well as its dis appearance, also suffice to tell what o'clock or rather, what on earth it is. A vis itor to the moon would reckon the hour of the day by watching tho pnssnge or thc earth's spots 'over the lunar meridian, by exactly the same method that he employs dt home, when ho lays down the rule thut fifteen degrees to the east is nn hour later, and fifteen degrees to the west is nn hour earlier than nt the place where he happens to be. Thus, when it is noon on the mer.d inn of Paris, it is one o'clock on that of Up sal, nnd two on that of Suez. Unfortunately for residents on tho moon, the earth is visible from o ily one ot U (the moon's) hvm'sphi'rcs. That heinispluro is specially privi'ejed; it knows no real night. When' sun-shine fa'ls, the ctiths'iine sup plies its pla:e with n liht equal to tiiirle n times that of our full nioor.-'ight when tlia sky is nt its clearest. And the earth benev olently beams not light only, but alto warmth.' It has nt l.-nst b.cn tsc rtnLed beyond doubt that the rays of thc moon do transmit a feeble but observable umoiint of heat; the larger aud hottt r mum of thc earth must dart on the moon considerably more than thirteen times the heat .reflected from our satellite under the most favorable c'reiunstances. Moouitcs, then, might well be excused for worshiping .the eartli in the amplitude of her Fplendor. Those who dwelt on the hemisphere whereon their queen -1 kc planet is iavIiMr, m'ght be sup posed to perform p'lgrimnges, at least once in titer live?, ' to adoro so magniCcett n luminary. . 1 , . The American Liox iv Paris. The Paris Correspondent of the London Times says: The grout chess match between Ger many and Anrrien, between M. llarrw.tz, of Prussia, and Mr. Paul Morphy, of the United States, is now going on in this city 'at the Cafe d.s la Higetice, iu the Hue St. llouore, the hsadqaurteis of this scientific game. The match is to be won by th first seven games. Harrwitz gained the fnvt twogames, Mr. Morphy gained thc three next, the last of which was played yesterday afternoon : and evenin-j. In the third and fourth . games Mr. Morphy mado some of the most brilliant and startling moves that had ever been seen in the Cafe de la lle gence ; and so great was tho enthusiasm that telegraphic dispatches were sent to the nu;.,o in tl, 71Wp ,.f H.M,nSi,l and other great players, begging them to como and see the wonder of the world. Atrial 1 1( v J i a. .l j , v vr.w v. Notwithstanding the watenngsensoit, when nil the fashion are supposed to be out of town, the Cafe de Regcncc is the scene eif a crowd, ' or rather a mob, of distinguished men, nnd even women, of all nationalities and all tongues. It is believed that Mor phy will beat ILrrnvitz, though it is not by any means sure, and, in that cose, he be comes the chnmpion of the world, for no man in Europe can beat Harrwitz. Harr witz is 27 years old Morphy but 22. Morphy plays much fiistcr than Harrwitz, nnd in fact Taster than any adversary he has yet met in Europe, and thc boldness and originality or his moves str ke thc lookers-on with amazement aud admirat'on. , A gentleman now iu Paris writes as follows. ,. ' The greatest of living French scu'ptors, T,M,n,-" the pupa aim succ"1 ter, nas nsKeu .or, iv v bust o marble. ! Morphy gave Inm tne .-.fr. vrterdav. The bust will be has asKca jnorpiv exhibited uttlie Exios Vou de Beaux Arte, Th s is, I think, the h ghest honor Morphy his Royal Highness the Puke of Brunswick on Sunday. The other night, nt the the- atro Franca:s, half the aitaicncn sroon np nn Lv.Ui rl at l.;mhe nerfcctlr uncoticious nutit it was po'nU-d out to him. Every - body seeks introductions to him, and the old players or the t me oi AJa..ouru.iii. treat him with the greatest reverence. : , I . :The Leak I the Cable-Mode or DETEBinxixG rrs LocALirT.-'Il.e at ment that the fcreach in the cable ts from two fo three hundred m.les from Valent.a, has no donbl sa.rgt sted to many the que tion, " How can its locality lie determined r On this point the London Obrervef says it cinM it mar derm, the electrician htthertofascWiunyarf flnM itself, the kxal ty of the, .Some time since n most ingenious iihco of mi-chanlsm was made, by wlrch the flee- lr' cou1'1 1)0 wWftl. tlM) fua. ,)tinK , act on a inagntt, and th:s upon thc ,,, ofa nM ,,.,, ;tt.,Ivuril( v tell with acenrwy the we'ghtof the current j irnnsmtuca irom me otner enu 01 a wire ai a long distance. Following out this exper iment, wo believe first shown by Professor I'ur.uhiy, ut tho Itoyal Instttut.on, other elect ricin us have arranged a very sensitive piece of machinery, by which the amount of r s'stnuco opposed to tho passage of the electricity by tho conducting wire may bo correctly ascei tainrd. The amount of resistance offered through j the whole length of the Atlantic cable, or even one-half of it, is Something very much larger than any which cua be measured by the delicate machinery hitherto employed upon shorter distances of wire. The conse quence Is that the electricians have not yet been ablo ' satisfactorily to ascertain the place where tho cable is defective. Of one thing, however, they ore certain, thut is, thut the fault does not occur within twenty or thirty miles of the land, nnd we ore In formed that within the first two or three hundred miles tho continuity is still perfect and complete. Deyond this distance all is doubt and uncertainty, and it is idle at pres ent to sK'culute upou the subject. Should thc defect bo found to exist In the deep parts of the sea, the public mnst be content to hear that for the present the Atlantic TJegrnph is a future. i Uxvni.iNo tub Town or Fhaskmv. Tiik Wokk Comsiknced. This mortting, workmen commenced demolishing a portion of the brick wall, intended to be removed, at Christ Church burying ground, at Fifth and Arch streets, fr the purpose of ullow- ing the grave of Franklin to be seen from the street. The work has been confided to Mr. John . Sk'rvitig, architect, through whose courtesy we have been jicrtnitti 1 to inspect the plan of thc nlteriit'ons. ' Two panels of the wall will be removed, leaving u space sixteen feet in the clear, which will be occr.p cd I y a neat and pla n iron ruil'ng. The ra.l.ng w.ll be flanked with the origi nal heavy br'ck columns which now inter sect the panels of the wall, nnd these col umns w.ll lie surmounted w.th stone Dulls corresponding with the original ornaments upon the corners, nnd at tl e gateways of the ground. The railing, the top of which will be the same height as the wan, win r.'st upon a neat marl le bnse, tome ten or twelve inches in height. This arrangement w ill citable p rsons to look din ctly iu upon ti e huutblu flat stone which covers the grave of " Benjamin and Deborah Frank lin." It is probable thut tho work will be nceompl sheel in the course or a few days. Since this plan of enabling citizens nnd stnugera to si e tho grave of tho Great Printer was first suggested in the Bulletin, it has been discussed, and the alacrity with which e'tizens have taken advantage of the prrm'ss'on finally given by thc church au thorities to make tho alteration, evinces the reclines of community ou the subject. One gentleman off r.d to do it entire ly at. his own expense : but tu.s coulel not lie per mitted, as othrr citizens were elcsirous of coniributinir to t'.c object. Tho propriety of removing the entire Areh-strcet wall of the eruvevard, and tho substitution of a railing is now agitated, and if the vestry of Clir.st Church would give tneir consent, the necessary funds could no doubt bo prcr cured without trQubfo.fhihdiljihia liai ktin. , ., -i How to Feed CmnmE.w A child needs tho digestive apparatus of nn ostrich, to grow up in the enjoyment of good health under thc dietetic treatment received at the table. The mother, supposing Iter darling must like the viands which please her own palate, plies knife, fork, nnd spoon, until she kills her child with kindness. Preserves . ... .i i? r wo iinru wr me eitgcseivc organs oi un i . j adult to il.sjioso ot, nre thrust tiowu lite I throat of the little innocent; bits or greased potatoc, impervious to the nct.on of the gastric juice; biscuit yellow with suleratns and fat, with flukes of shorttiing; bits of pickle, to pleuso papa with the pucker of its pretty mouth; spoonfuls of tea and cof fee, though swallowed with n wry face, are forced down. Of course, thc child will suf fer and cry pitcously with pain; restless days and sleepless nights will suggest the ielea of using cordials; paregoric, Godfrey's cordial diluted opium, ore poured down tho throat of thc infant martyr, nnd he is drnggfd till he is drunk; nnd when the in nocent is so intoxicated he le.oni s insensi ble to pain; he sleeps the sleep of tho drunkard iu his cradle. Poor little, sot! the glaring of his ryes; the twitching of nnw-u,,. the rnotwts of its mouth- .u- ,A 1 seem to ImLcte the inc.pte.tt stages of dc- j riam tremens. . ILs unthinking nurse and h- w Wg, or physiolo- 0fC8,t,,; first made a glutton, then an iuvul.tl, ami tien drunkard of her child. ., - A Swri-B Exm.axatio.v or a Straxoe ! Phejcomesox. Professor Bue kland ac- j connts tue myster'ons apjiearance or , - ,( w,i(.h mnJ httTe gHp. nt0 th8 air hy wtter. I spouU or wliirlwimls, by the fact that they gme daJ! Mnn tIie railli 8nd before they were'olv , M thfy nmVj , f of t,)(iy find , flie hot( parcM anfj ( tothe cooIpst ,n(1 dampest places j1)ry End on(1(r cwi, ,nfi gt,lCg, hmm nntire t:fl the rain com". hetf t)ie. their appearance tothe "" rr Trainino axdTeaciii.no. "My school- Cimihsities or Insect Life. Every master,'' suysCnrlyle, " wus a pood Latin renderof 'Don Quixote' will remember with scholar, and of the human mind he knew a smile the unbounded faith entertained by this much thut it had a faculty called tho knight In tho virtues of a certain bnl memory, which might be reached through snm of Fierabrns, of which he had read In tho muscular integument by the application his books of chivalry. 'When I thnll of birchen rods." Vigorous natures break have mode and delivered It Into thy keep through these impediments; contrive to ns- lng, lie soys to Snnclio Ponzn, 'thou hast scrt their Individuality; nnd nt last leave no more to do, when thon scrst me In any tho schools with the possibility of becoming combat cut through the middle, which is an men, if not scholars. Youths of genius sre accident that frequently happens, but to therefore commonly saved tothe world in snatch up that part of thc boely that falls to spite of the laudable efforts to make them the ground, nnd before tho blood can con dunces: but then what risks arc often run! peal, set It upon the other hulf that remains Martin Luther, for example, was a person who could not have been conve niently spared in tho sixteenth century; but that Martin Luther was not killed, morally, nicittully, and physically, before ho was 16, was not owing to tho lack of effort on the . . . i own. There IS an amount or shock to mo oeiween uicorgnuizui.nn oi men buu worms, system, and a degree of pain, which we The belief which is laughable from Its nb know from experience arc Inconsistent with, surdity when applied to the former, is actu life, even though none of the vitul organs ally true of thc hitter, who readily repair aro touched, and that this shock nnd this such an accident as being cleft asunder, and pain do not arise when the body is cut in J that without any old from tho balsam' of two Is a sure evidence of comparative ob Ficrabras. So more nuthorativo account tuseness whatever may be thc extent of tho can be given of the process than that which suffering undergone. A leech whoso nnat i omy is of the sanio class with that of the ' worm, may be divided iu tho middle while surprising loth fur Its range and its or.gt from home ond occasional vagaboudism, nality, though it is only ono of thc many rather than tho world should lose what , titles to fame which have long placed our it cost her so much pains to proeluce. But it is too apt to be otherwise with thofo whose minds require intelligent and careful culture, and who are not originally strong 4 A worm cut in two was found to repro enough to overcome obstacles to their de-, duee the tail at tho cut extremity of the velopment. They have euoiigh in them to cnplial.c half, and to form a head upon make them, under propi r training, solid, in- tho caudal moiety. Bonnet progressively telligent, reliable, self-helping n;cn; under increased the number of sections iu healthy improper training, they trammed ond flog-! individuals of a worm or nais, which he cllated through " a course or studies," and calls Liimb'ieut varityntui ; nnd when one sink slowly into thc pauper class or sterile j or these had been so divided into twenty-six and stunted natures. parts, most nil of them repro Jilted a head The fundamental effect of this improper and tail, and beenmc so many distinct indi training is its perverse misconception of the vidunls. Thc small frcsh-wntcr naiad show purpose or teaching. The pedagogue docs grent powers or repair and reprodnct'on. not condescend to look into tin brain and . There are some species found In snnd or heart or his own image or the imago or ccr- mud, such as those thut stain of a red color tain idolizeel rules.. , Ho thinks his duty is cxtcusivo tracts of tho Thames mud nt low perfbrm.d when the authorized processes' water, which when submerged, hobituully arc gone through, l.ko the doctor in the . protiuele tlio anterior half or their body, well known epigram, who blisters, bleeds, which is remarkable for its regular, oscilla and sweats all who call for his professional ting movement. Bonnet cut off tho hcnil service, mid is supniii'ly iaiiiffcrent to of ono of iho na'iuls pf this genus, which their fate, iucaso they have had fie bod' was soon reproduced; and when perfect, lie taste to die under such re-gular treatment, j rcpeuteJ tiic act, nnd again as often was lie would doiibtlets prefer to have his pu- tho head reproduced. After tho eighth de pil turn out a Tuliy rather than a Titmouse capitation the unhappy subject wos relcused or a Toots; but if uothing comes of him It by death; tho txecut'on took effect, the is because there is nothing in him. He is reproductive virtue had been worn out. never weary of repeating that his business Since many of the smaller kinds of naiads is "to give iiistruct'on, nnd not to givo 1 frequently expose a part of th.-ir body, tho Indus," and thus commonly contrives to rest Leing buried in tho earth, both they elude tlio responsibility or quenching the and their enemies profit by tho power or re soul or his pupil by que stioning its ex'st- storaton or tho parts which may bo bitten dice. But it would bo fur more reasonable off.' Ouoi's Lettuns on Anatomy, Inver. to seek for the cause of his failure, iu thc error of his system; and this error wo be lieve to consist in not subordinating the oc quisitiou of knowledge to tlio formutlon or faculties. To crush the growing faculty by cramming is not the way to make scholars, though it may be the way to make scholas tic imbeciles. A'. P. Whipple. Letter most Henry Cur. The fol lowing letter from the Sage of Ashland to one of his namesakes is published (for the first time) in the Western Farmer's Al manac for 1850, and is characteristic of that great man: i Amiuxu, "ih .Tvly, ld4.V. JVy dear IU tit Namtmkoi Yimr mmi time done me thu lioiwr t giva my ti;ime to ymi Oil llial uci-'Ount, will ut the requml of )cur gmnl niii.lier, I iiildnaa tin Hole, which file Wli-lit-s In K-Mtrve fir your f cruiml, when, by Ilia liipw of lime, Jiiu nhull Imva uituinrd un age that wi.l cnn hie you to vump.tlicn l anJ apirec e ill fr eii'lly purport. ' Your parent! entertain fond hopes of you, and you ought In sir ve un I nut dini point thrm. Yun mil rral it- all their mint tungm ho. if yon firmly re Wo tii do to, by ju.iicionn employment of your time and your fuuli to. bliun lad c m prniV. and a I iliMpalinn,! a inevitab onfwnre HlB'ly dil gf ntly ami perwv. r ugly. You w II be uipiix-il at ilit I'm uiib h ch you w II mulcr b aiM-hi of know.cdi'e, whi. h, 0 a Ural riew, will frighten yoeh) Mke h"nr, ftobty, truth an I priucipli- uur invariub e gu ile. U ob-dleul. aut alwaya iifteia.i.iiately rrnpictfui to your pen-iita. Aa iiluou!y-jit'rTa virtue and re ligion, li e run guarantor u. llaufnu n bo.h h it an I hereafier. l.i ym.r imeiTourw with ynur feV low brill.i br firm, bit at the aniiie lime, b! n l, eurte..uii, andt lging. Itecogn te at all I m-a the MMinMiiit right ! yir daintiy lo yur nt dev. d arnricM. hfther alia tnrala yu ill nt rl, an I neier iel e.fwli iewe or iutrrea a r.doin imie nver the ilu.iea iS pair o wn. ;' Hy regiilminif youisrll according In theae rut a, you mny ueoni mp'-cieu an iiri w .,1.,-,- nient to your I ouuiry. aim a oiu jmr y- t, n'e. I nai top ni j o jvui trrr w all u llu r and your Ir end, U Clat. MirrkS llrxattwr . Qlick Thatelino. It is stated that the swallow's flight is the quickest rate of mo tion, afto electricity, light, sound, and can non balls. Oue or these birds being set free at Ghent, readied iU nest at Antwerp in twelve and a hair minutes, going at the rate of foar and and a half miles a minute. Val or a Sixsnixr Day. From tl census report of sgricultural productions, the curious calculation has been made that the ralue to the country of each warm growing day betwen seed-time asd bar Test is over $18,000,000. In tho saddle, taking care to join them with the utmost nicety and exactness; then muk- ing me swallow a couple of draughts of thc aforesaid bahntn, thou wilt seo me in a Avitikling as whole and sound ns an apple.' lbs Is an apt Illustrat.on of thc difference . . t i is contained In the lectures or Professor Owen ou ' Comparative Anatomy,' a work distinguished countryman at the head or his own vast and magnificent deportment or sch nee. Mm it Animals, p. 232, Tho earth-worm docs not reproduco thc losses from excision witli the same facility as the naiads, whero every segment, like an egg, appears to contain the undeveloped genu or a new being; but that it can, nnd frequently does, survive and repair theso in juries, affords ubunehmt testimony thut its sensibilities aro extremely inferior to our part of his teachers to commit homicide, but to the immense resisting vitality of his own character. There is hurelly a poet, art ist, philosopher, or inn of science, men tioned in the history of the human intellect, whoso genius was not opposed by parents, guardians, or teachers. In these casts Na ture seemed to have triumphed by direct in terposition; to have insisted on her durlingB having their rights; ond encouraged diso bedience, secrecy, falsehood, even iu flight it is sucking blood, and be so little disturbed by thc operation that it will continue feed ing for several minutes. Nay, there is a vulgar, though, wo believe, nn unfounded notion, that hair a leech is better than a whole on,. The blood which goes In at one end finding an outlet at the other, the animal is not gorged, and the common peo ple fancy thut a divided leech will in conse quence do the duty of a dozen. They have at least sufficient fuitli in the theory to re duce it to practice, the economy being tho motive. t ; Insects stand higher In the feale of ani mated beings, but thry arc heedless of catu- alties which would be death or torture to man. The Dragonfly, soys Professor Ow en, may be regarded, from the size and per fection of its organs of ns.on, and its great and enduring powers of flight and preda tory habits, us the eagle of insects. He speaks of its head as being coven d by two enormous convex masses of eyes, numbering upwards of 12,000 in coch mass. He states that the swullow cannot match it In iU aerial course, that it not only outstrips iU swift and nimble feathered pursuer, but can do more in the air than any bird can fly backwards and sidelong, to right or left, and alter Its course on the Instant without turning. He deacrilx its brain as lieing in keeping with the rest or iu prerogaUves, and having a larger development than ii. an? other insect. Yet we learn from the EotwDology of Kirby tad Spencer, that when tho tail of one of the se beautiful cren-' tares wus directed to its mouth to see whether its known voracity would induce It to bite itself, it actually devoured tho four, terminal segments of IU body. When It had proceeded thus fur iu tho work of self- demolition, it escaped by accident, ami flew away as britkly as ir nothing had La e'nid. Whatever may have been thc puln, It was . at leant subordinate lo appetite, and appar ently the animal had not the slightest Etn picion that every mouthful was bitten from ' its own living flesh. It cannot snrpr'se ui after this to be told that many an iuscct which has been Impaled by tho scientific collector will cat with ns much avidity as when free and uuhnrt. Mr Hope Informed Mr. Rowell that once he had a carniverous beetle which got ioose, and In fpitc of tho pin through its bo !y, it wandered quietly ubout it nd devoured all the other specimens In the case. 1 Tho cockchafer,' says Kerby and Spencer, 'will wulk awny with appar ent Indifference after some bird has nearly emptied his boely of its viscera, aud an humble-bee will eat honey with greedincsa though deprived of its abdomen.' The in-. sUnccs of the kind winch ure upon record, are absolutely legion, aud we may fairly, conclude thut the suffcriug of insects is as much less acute than our owu, os titer ex posure to injuries is grcutir. The Smiths. Who hus not acquaint ances among thc " Smiths," a most extraor dinary nnnie f Some time ago there were very learned tllscust-slons going on concern ing thc origin and wonderful extension of tho race. Studious explorers among derriva- lives and nominal roots found In tho namo of John Smith a world of mystery. Some philologist in Providence wrote thirty col umns to enlighten the public on the subject,' and threw down his pen becnuso it was cx-' luiustless. Some profess to have discovered that the greut family of thc Smiths nre tho' veritable descntlants inn direct line from' Shorn, Noah's son, the father of the Shem-' itish tribe, or Shem hence the derivation' Shcm Shemit Sltmit Smith. Another lcnrntil scbolar in Philadelphia, contcntls for tho universality of John Smith's namo not only iu our own, bnt among all lands. Commencing with thu Hebrews, lie says they had no christian' names, and consequently no Johns in Hey brew, tho names stood simply Shmcr or Shemit. ; In other nutioiis, however, the' John Smith is found full, ouo and undivid ed; let us trace it: . ' Latin Johannes Smithius. ' 1 : ' Italian Giovanni Smith!. ' ; ' Spanish Juan Smithas, ; "' Butch Hans Shinidt, "' "' French Jenu S meets. ' Greek Ion Skhn'tton, ' Russiun Ionloff Schmittiwcski, ' Polish Ivan Schmittiwcski, Chinese Tohu Se-hlminit. Icelandic. Tahno Smitison. 1 Welsh Jiohn Schmidd. ' Tusearora Ton To Smittia, 1 Mexican Juntli F'Smitlix. To provo tho antiquity of the name, tho same savnn observes tlnit in the temple of Osiris, Kgypt, was found thc nninc of " Pha raoh Sinithosis, being tlio ninth in tho eight eenth dynasty or the Tiieban kings. Ho was tho founder of tho celebrated templo of Sniithnpolis Magna." Wo congratulate tho respectable Sluitl.s on those learned and proibuml researches, which bid fair to explode the opinions that the great family of Smiths were thc descend ants or horse-shocrs, anvil ami hammer-men.' To them these researches must lie deeply de lightful. My neighbor of this nnnie, who, not long sinte, consulted me about the prob-' ability of his heirship to n princely estuto in tho English Court of Chancery, can now easily establish the antiquity of his family.' A New York clairvoyant told him to go abend in its prosecution, ns ho wus tho re siduary legatee. The Clove. - ' Iron. The entire production of Iron in tho United States in 1857, was 1,000,000 tons, and the consumption 1,380,000 tons. In Pennsylvania alone, nearly 450,000 tons of pig iron, and 221,831 tons of manufoc tnrcd iron were proelnccd. There are 4.0 000 perrons employed In the furnaces, mills, and forges or that state. The iron manu factured in this country in 1856 wos as much as it was in Englund thirty-five years' ago. ' ' Ax old Mistake Corrected. It is stated that the idea that the upos-trce of Java exhales an aroma which it Is poiton ons to breathe is not true. The juice of the treo is deadly peiison, but its oelor if harmless. There is a district where the at- mosphere causes death to every created thing that breathes it; bnt it comes from the crater of an old vole ano, which exhules carbonic gas, and is not caused by the upas-tree. Fear secretes acids, bnt lore and trust are sweet jmces. . , tST Anger legius with folly, and cucIj with repentance.