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. THE OREGON ARGUS, 1-1t i i ir n i I i i i w ili PVILHIIIR0 RVRtr UWKUAt MOKNINO, i ;yT .WILLIAM L. ADAMS. 'tBKXS-Thi Ami mill hi furniihei nt nl Three Dillari and. Fifty Cento per annum, in fj advance, to tingle onhecribero Three Dollar t clubi of ten it oni office In adeanco JWhen the money it not paid in adoance, Four JWJar- Kill hi charged if paid vitkin lit i aiaafer, and Fivi Mitre at the ondof Ike year. W Tut Dallaro far eix menthaNa eubocrip .. tint rtretvtd fnr a If period. t3f ftp piper dieeintinued until all arrenragei tt ite pnid.unleio at tkcnptionof the publisher. ADVKMT8INO KATia. , -Op aqasra (19 line or kaa) on inarriloa, $.Ttn two inwrliini ' ,U - - thnw inscniuiia, l,u, Kach aubseiuenl Insertion, 1,1'J Raaanaabl deductions lo tho who advertise by j , th year. . JOB PRINTINC.l l i Thi noraiiTos or Tits AI'.Gl'S H rurrr to Inform th tullie that ha has Just received a large stoek of JOU TVl'K and other new pr wt in material, and will ba ia lha aj eeily rere.pt o additions sni'ed to all tha requireincats of lli s l eal ty. 1IAN Dlill.J.K, POM KIIH, III.AXhH, CAUDS, C'lllCl'LARfi, PAMPIILET-WOPK and other kiads, dona to order, on short lotic. t i i a. mm n I i ,n ). if U r. : A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Principles of Jeffersonian Democracy, nnd advocating the side of Truth iu every mne.- Vol. IV., , OREGON CITY, OREGON, DECEMBER 1 8. 1 8 5 8. No. 3C. rl i : Blata la !lrwiaar tailor, j ,. "" '' One rejiler ertm, jtMfirr.Un'a loo grave, Udi vfrt much morality you hava, Too muoh abwit reVg'on j : r. ' ""' dire m mn wilch in witirJ title, '' 1 "' Of alipHhad (lioita, win fiiiaand acalca, 1 And ft-ullier like a pigeon. ' '," ' ; 1 ! to rea 1, another cr'ca, Thaaa monstrous fliion.ibi lie - j .. In other word, lln novels, , ' Cm:xw.l o!'kidi, an I pr st anj lord), "' nl-,, 01 bimler war, an I Gothic horde, - .. , Th it u.l to l.vo In huvele. . . S.1U . j'i... . , .. No, no, oriei one, we're had ennujli , . Of such confounded lovesick tuff To craie i he fa r ereat on. , . " v Cira ua eiime recent foreign newt, ' .,,r;Onttisiiit, Turks, the l'oie or Jeas, . ur any o ner nuti.in. , . ,,., . , . Thi man of dull chfllustic lore px' Vould like to) alitilenwra ' : v i- Of lirst-ruto acrnpi f Latin ; I ... , The grocer Oin w.iul.1 It urn the price ... .Jf u a a mi sugar, fruit anil riea i - ... l , The dratier, eilk and nun. ft: I- ! . . . t.;. It .Another erica, I want more fun, ' ' ' : A witty anecd ile or pun, A rebue or a riddle; , Some wiih for parliamentary newe, , .. , Anl mine, ptrh;ipa,nf w'aer view, . ( , Would rather hear a fi ldla. : ,. . , ; Til oritiv, too, of 0;'o ak II, , . . Moat dip iu (all hii gunlcr qu'll, . ". , An I ncruwl aju'inc the puurr; Of nil the literary funis, Bred in our enllvgea or echooh,' ' ' ' He cute the greatest caper. "! r '''Another crie,I want totea , ' " ' A jumbled up variety '' ;. VaKety In all th nz " ' .'I " A mii'elIaiieiiualalge-podgi! pr'.nt, i i Cump.iaed (I only g ve thv h.ul) Ot'multi!ariouainull thiua. ' ' I want aoma miirri.i)i' new, any mi, : It euiiet tuli my biglwat b iae, : : 1 ,'. .. -To bear of wuldiugi ulmty for n n linie of geneial m or-r Nona ruffur fio ii u Jmuglit 'tr plain, ,1 y,; At leant uol one in tweuiy. , , 'I wint lo hear of dinthe, eay one, ' ' Of prnp!o tiiliilly unions, ' "' " By liasea, rlru or fr ver ; - ivh . Another ana.vera, full oa wia, ' I s 1 ' - I'd r.ilher liar the full nn I rine, r. Of raixoon ikn and beaver. - " " 8ome n'gn'ity a ccret wih , Y for no.v uu I then it fuvorue ilih - Of po!it:ca to tiiit lliem ; : . 'j llut h; re we rest at p.rfea care, for shou'd they sne.ir Ihe m mi wna clieece, y ' ' HW, siiuulj coiifah) lliaui. r ."; Or grave or humorous, wi.d or tome, l1y or low, 'tis all the same, R Tuvhtuitmy or too humb! 8o. bnrther editor, pursue Tha pailrthnt eetim th bt to jmj," And M thv rjrunib'ersrOiiib. a e For the Argue. r, Iiu-EoiTon-r-Sryotwitlistanding. I herony to that nnfortunato sex which- Paul denominates tho weaker vessel,' and which . for nwro than six thousand years lias been ! the ielding; minion of earth's greutest ty thereby to contriimte something to the usr fulness of your Invaluable journal. ' f VATIien we consider man as a social being, whose every moment of enjoyment or sor- .row depends entirely upon his intercourse "with his fellow-man, we eau but regard the difJerent .phases, of society with peculiar and absorbing interest, and hail the efforts of thetenbwned philanthropists who turn their Bttcrftion thitherward with joy and delight. Tlie age in which we lire is great and pe- Mctfliap-agreat in its advancement in the arts and sciences great, in its advancement iu Intelligence and enterprise great iu its her culean efforts to correct, the abuses of gov ernment ud of society great in every thing that tends to felicitnte and beautify the cartft aud the inhabitants thereof. StillAwith all this effort atr correction and imjjrovcment, there arc many ycry, many, thihgs In the socfety of these United States, civilized aMculighteiKd aa the ptopfe claim to be, that are disgraceful to an elevated Christian civilization land deserve the stern ' retake of, all who have any claims to re apectability. Now I haVe no desire to os aome arrogant dictation, or to present my-. v"aclf at a model, oitlter iu word or deed, by which others should bo govefned, nor yet rsto appear as a faultfinder;! but, actuated ' by the best of motives and desiring an ex pression of sentiment, which I believe are in consonance with the feelings of all civil ized and Christianized people, I hope that I aKolt ie Ikcard calmly and dispassionately. J as man sets himself up as the lord of creation, claiming the invaluable right to ajr the rod of dominion over all creation, from the beast of the field to the angelic patient partner of -his joys and sorrows, I 4 hmi as my test. . It w a seifjexi; i dent fact that in ihe creation of the human ftmilj the Doifcy intended them for the glo rification of H'ai inimitable and lioly name, j " ithd that" all should enjoy the ame blessings ( . and the same general immunitie, each be-' lieiriug biaself eaai ;to . the rent f man kind, regardless of birth, color, r sex; and j 1&WMZ "O superior W the God 4t the j IJoirerse. Bat as soon as tlie spirit of Sa ;"tap. fcund a rcsting-pface ui'the heart of naa,' and experience told him "of his supe rior physical ability, a desire to rule maui- j ' fested itself, and,. as there was nothing else , ffpon -which to satiate so ungodly an ambi r tioa he very naturally turned to woman, ,, kis known physical inferU)r, and bade her :,'serre and obey him.' u Prom that time I &ra to the present, she has been denied ' ber legitimate stat'on, and reduced to the '"most abject servitude that ever cursed God's rbotstool. It fe wtt$n to eitw yoaj to hr rant man, yet, with your permission, and that of yoa? iutellijrent rcudits,-1 will write few essays ot a Veucral "'nature,'' hoping condition iu various portions of the Old World where the iron heel of despotism has crushed her to the earth, for your every day observation tells you that she is the unfortunate victim of tyranny and abuse in liberty-loving America, even in oar own beloved Oregon. : This is what I want to talk about. I want to tell the American people, if they don't already kuow it, and more cspcciolly the men of Oregon, what the legitimate sphere of woman is, and what their duty is toward her., It is the current opiuioti of mankind that women were creat ed not as the cquul but as the slave of the man, with no natural rights except such gi were grunted to Iter by the lenity of iter master. Dut this we peremptorily deny, and throw back the insult into the teeth of its supporters with that indignation which the nature of the sentiment so justly re quires. Qod never intended that there should be any grades or castes in the hu man family, or any recognized superiority of one sex over the other, but that oil should be equal, in the full enjoyment of all Ihe rights and immunities calculated iu the least to contribute to human felicity. : ' But history my own experience tills me that man has perverted the fwt of the Deity, wrested from woman her dearest rights, and reduced her to the condition of a slave. True it is, that the onward march of civ 1- izution is fast overthrowing the old and long-established customs that have hitherto circumscribed her spin re of action, and is fust elevutiiig her to her proper position.' But common observation will tell any one, free from prejudice, that sho is yet denied many of those rights so dear to every human heart. Entertaining tho opinion, as the world dots, that he is mentally incapable of self-control aud is naturally void of that stamina so necessary in tho discharge of many of the important duties of life, she is denied the exercise of those high preroga tives wliich naturally belong to every hu man being, aud is reduced to a complete cipher a civil and political nonentity. Understand me not as aiming to say that sh" should, or even desires to, exercise the full rights of citizenship, figure ou the po litical chess-board, hold offices, guide ships, command armies,' and rule empires; for verily the natural gentleness and angelic sweetness of her soul are too pure, too holy, for such brutifying and degraded callings. But thishc does claim, that in tho domes tic circle the utmost, limits of her com mendable . ambition she should be the recognized aquul of man, and be allowed a voice in the control of those affairs with which she stands so intimately related. 'i i v- 'i-, 'i i - - Xumn McMinnvillc, Nov. 22, 1858. . Nicaragua. Nicaragua continues to claim a large sharo of space in the newspa pers. Senor Jerez, the special Envoy to this country, has issued a manifesto, caution ing persons against purchasing passage tickets- for the steamer Washington', which is advertised to sail in a few days for San Juan del Norte. He Bays that, owing to the nnscttled state of the Isthmus question, it will not be in the power of the owners of the, Washington to fill the engagement to carry passengers across that route. It is a matter of grave dispute between the ever verjeious Washington letter-writers wheth er or not Gen, Jerez is in actual intercourse with this Government, while it is reported (hat Gen. Cass has informed him that the powers he exhibits do not warrant any fur ther negotiation. It has been stated that Lord Napier and Consul Sartige have for- mally e ommunicated the resolution of their respective Governments to protect Ceutral America from the filibustering expeditions now making against her. Specific orders have been given to capture and detain all private armed parties proceeding against any Central American State that may be found on either coast Tlie President has issued a proclamation " enjoining upon all officers of the Government, civil aud mili tary, in their respective spheres, to be vig ilant, active and faithful in suppressing these illegal enterprises," -&c. The Cen-, tral American qnestion has uow assumed such a shape as to bring matters to a crisis. Our Government is culled upon to acqui esce in the interpretation of the Clayton Bulwer treaty assumed by England, but which we have all along so streuuously de nied; and the forcing of this intcrpretat.on down our throats is singularly iu keeping with tho announcement of a large fleet of French and English vessels ordered to Nic aragua. If England or France, or both of them, undertake to be " the power" in (Jen tral America, or oppose the United States m any interest there, the obligation is put poa our Government of vindicating its rights. Washmglon Cor. AU toa- forni. n . , , . ' i rtf" SiW aaid of a om n alvim be almir I, TahafieTv4bi aa a libaral adacaliaat" W v. irA too or na who) arc atoH oaaly try- injt t gain awA a KlKr-l adBeaiiuii. Thy J 1 j lial:other better th go or taenCage. There i ao p.-U!e i0 bra, baeuaa tbare i, bo e-4rojaa Crouwkll's Head. The story some time sinco current, that Cromwell's head wsi tu potscssion of some one in England, is again revived by a Paris correspondent of tho New York Express, who says:' '., , ', - " Before leaving England I had an op portunity of see'ng a great curiosity, a relic of antiqu ty wh en few Englishmen have seen. ; You will be surprised, and perhaps intr tlitlous. when I say I have seen tlie head of Oliver Cromwell, not tho mere skull, but the head entire, and in a remark able state of preservation. Its history is authentic, and there is verbal and historical evidence to place the thing beyond cavil. Cromwell died at Hampton Court in 1058, giving the strongest evidence of his earnest convictions, and of his sincerity as a Chris tian. After an imposiiiK funeral pageant, the body having been embalmed, he was buried iu Westminster Abbey. On the restoration of the Stuarts, he was taken up and hnng In Tyburn. ' Afterward his head cut off, a pike driven through the mck and skull, and exposed on Westminster Hull. It remained there a long while, until by some violence, the pike was broken, and the head thrown down. It was p eked np by a soldier, and concealed, and afterward conveyed to some friend, who kept it care fully for years., through a succession or families which can be easily traced, it has come into the possession of tho daughter of Hon. Mr. Wilkinson, cx-memher of Parlia ment from Buckingham and Bromley. It was nt the residence of this gentleman that I sii w the head, and h's daughter, a lady of fine manners and pr. at culture, exhibited it to Rev. Mr. Verr ll, the pastor of the Biomley Dissenting Chapel, and myself. The head of Cromwell is almost entire. The ilcsh is black nnd sunken, but the fea tures are nearly perfect, tho hair still re maining, nnd even the largo wart over one of the eyes such being a distinctive mark on his fiicc7-;8 yet perfectly visible. The pike which was thrust through the neck still r -mains, the upper part of iron, nearly rusted off, and the lower portion in splin ters, showing that it was broken by some act of violence. It is known historically that Cromwell was embalmed, and no cr son thus cared for, was ever publicly gil beted, except tl.h illustrious man. In ad dition to the most authentic records con cerning the head possessed by the family, and which I have found sustained by his torical w orks, and even by an old manu script in the Briiish Museum, Mr. Flahman, the distinguished sculptor, once gave it as his opinion that this was none other than the head of Oliver Cromwell. Yet its ex istence seems almost unknown in England, and only a few years ago, a discussion iu some of tlie public journals, which I have seen, alternately denied and advocated it. Such a rumor was in circulation, and as r.o ono had then seen the head, it having been kept concealed, none could speak by au thority. Recently the motive for conceal ment has passed away, and permission to see it was carefully granted. It is a curi ous keepsake for a lady, but it is carefully preserved under lock mid kev, in a box of great antiquity, wrapped in a number of costly enveiopes, and when it is raised trom its hiding-place, and held iu one's hand, what a world of thought is suggested." . , Trees. Dr. Holmes, in the October number of the Atlantic Monthly, talks about trees. Hear him: " I have something more to say about trees. I have brought down this slice of hemlock to show you. Tree blew down in my Woods (that were) in 1852. Twelve fret and a half round, fuir girth; nine feet where I got my section, higher up. This is a wedire, coinir to the center, of the gen eral shape of a slice of apple-pie in a large and not opulent family. Length about eighteen inches. I have studied the growth of this tree by its rings, nnd it is curious. Three hundred and forty-two rings. Start ed, therefore about 1510. The thickness of tho rings tells the rate at which it grew. For five or six years the rate was slow then rapid for twenty years. A little bo fore the year 1550, it began to grow very slowly, aud so continued for about seventy years. - Iu 1020 it took a new start, and grew fast until 1714; thcu for the most part slowly until 1786, when it started again, and grew pretty well and uniformly until within the last dozen years, when it seems to have got on slngcishly, . . . "Look herel Here are some human lives, laid down against tho periods of its growth, to which they corresponded. This is Shakspeare's. The tree was several inches in diameter when he was born; ten inchc s when he died. A little less than ten inches when M Hon was born; seventeen when Iir died. Tiien comes a Ion? inter val, and this thread marks out Johnson's life,, during which thi tree increased from twenty-two to twenty-nine inches in diam eter. Here is the span of Napoleon's ca reerthe tree doesn't seem to have mind ed it.- !.:'.: .-' "I never saw the man yet who was not ( stirtLd at looking ou this section. I have . seen many wooden preachers never one like this, now mucn more sir.mng womei be the calendar counted on the rings of one of thosj awful trees which were standing when Christ was on earth, and where that brief mortal life is chronicled with the stol id apathy of vegetable being, which re members all hnman history as a thing of yesterday in its own dateless existence." . Xcwsr-ArEB Articles. The Spriugfield Republican says: "The editor has lived, to very little purpose who has not learned that a true newspsper style differs as much i from a magazine style as Dickens from: v - i t V Avtu'tua am nntt atnrlicsl tbev are read read hastily aad. carelessly. They are almost always read at a time when mens mmds are full of do' ineaa. If they have salient foints, thn areremerobcred. iWymaMaainrprasMw which remains. If they hare mo aafieit1 points, they are hardly read at all. 1 A man at leisure will tuke up and carefully rend the carefully elaborated articles of his magazine, but what be catches from his newspaper he catches at a glance. 1 It must bo striking and bright, or it will have no t power to daguerreotype Itaelf upon his mind." ' Dr. Kani. Tho October number of the Atlantic Monthly contains an article on 'Tho New World and the New Man,' be ing a comparative review of the American and the European, especially the English man the lean, sharp-featured man, and the adipose. The author ably aud com pletely refutes the charge of Mr. Robert Knox, of Engluud, tho ethnological think er, who proclaims that all Americans are undergoing a physical degeneration, involv ing an equal lapse of mental power, and the writer in the Atlantic Monthly illus trates his argument with one of tho finest specimens of the American and tncntul manhood, too the country has seen the lute Dr. Kane. ne says: , . . " But while the typical American organ ization is of this admitted delicacy and lightness, it is still capable, under high ami I powerful impulse, of extraordinary feats of, endurance. This has of late been admira-i bly illustrated. Not long since, there re-1 turned to our shores a hero who as Daute J was believed by tlie people of Italy to have entered the Inferno of Fire had actually I 'lescended into tho opposite Inferno or Frost, and done unprecedented battle with the demons of thnt realm. Dr. Kane was slight, delicately framed,' lean, with sharp, clear-cut features, of quivering mobility and' fineness of texture, having the aspect ra ther of an artist than an explorer not at all the personage to whom most judges would assign great power of euduraucc. And as one follows him through those thrice Herculean toils sees him not only bearing cheerfully the great burden of his own cares nnd ills, but lifting up, as it were, from his companions, and assuming upon liis own shoulders, tho awful oppression of the polar night, as Atlas of old was moleel to support the heavens not even one ad miration at such force of soul can wholly exclude wonder at such fortitude of body. Whence, we ask, this power of endurance? We can trace It to no ordinary physical re source. It comet from no ordinary physi cal resource. I It is pure brain-power. It streams down upon the body, in rivers of invigoration, from the cerebral hemispheres. When the question is asked, how the slight frame of this Arctic hero could snpport such tests, the answer must be anal ogous It clung to his brain. The usual order of support is reversed; and here is' that truer Mercury, in whom the winged head, possessing as function what its proto type only exhibited as ornament and sym bol, really soars in its own might, bearing the pendant feet. Dr. Kane was one of the purest examples of tho American organiza tion; and as he issued victorious from thnt region where ' the ground burns frost, nnd cold performs the effect of ure,' the Alan of the New World was represented, and in him came forth with proven strength. The same significance would not attach to all feats of endurance, even where equally rep resentative. Here are Hercules and Or pheus iu one; tlie organization of a poet, and the physical stamina of the gladiator." Tk Great Dallooa Race. W find in the Cincinnati Gmetie a very full nai interesting accouut of the recent trial trip iu the cloud: ' The StartingThe Ckate Exciting Inci dent. -The b illuott etartvd fruit Ihe e'ty lot at fuur o'clock twenty one minutes, Prof. Ste.uer l-nd-ing off in his " Pride of the West," foliowrd cl"sc ly by Minis. GwlnrH in his 'Levialhau.' The hitler gained rapidly upon his rival fur tlie first mile or two from town, until the aeronaut were with u sneaking distance when leas lliun Ihr.f di les from the o.tv, both moving nbnut twenty-five miles an hour. Alons. Uudard sailed up uiuj ali cal y besiJf the p.o'essor, when the Mtllt-r greeted ha rival with a wrlcoun, nnd p dnted to tlie boun tiful sight which everywhere met Um eye. ' Mag nificent.'' responded ihe reprinriitaiive of Franco. M. Ciodard then introduced h a frii nil and pas senger, Mr. Win. lloel, to Pmf. Sieinrr, and at the same time prowen In it tliey alioulil like a friendly dr'nk. lio.h aeronauts opened a bottle uf wme, when won, uoaar.t proposea in toast " To l t7r Republic" This waa drauk with a w II iu sparkling Ca tawba, wh n Prufesafir 8leinvr gave the following : "To Mmi. Uodard, the justly ctlebratcd French aerouant." The compliment waa returned by Mons. God ard t ' "To Prof. Stainer, tha greatest aeronaut in America." Mns. Godard drank 'bottom np,' and ha com panion followed suit, and then, af.er filling the g aa- aea, Mr. rloel gave a loaat : " Here's to our sweethearts and wive." "Time cheers for that," alxiuted Professor Sieioer, aa the balloune were coming Dean r to gether, and tba three jo nad heartily la a " hip-hip hurrah!" : The Celiition ketwrrn tho JinUtne. Scarcely five minutes after, llie biliooua cam in co.Imh. at an alavalion of some 50WI feat from the earth ! The ballooa of Prof. SHeiner dn.v rip dly lnwarda it rival, aa (bat tha bjskat of tha latter attack the former kbout midway of Ihe ballon. Mons. Uud ard and h a companion promplly (-eed off with their hands, aud Prof. Suirier shouted to M. Cio dar l to throw out bullae, whu-h h did.asd rapidly row above lha Pr da of lb Wast, and out of dan ger af any further cotitnoU Mr. Kleiner, at t a'e'oek, opened hia basket of proriaione, and aat dows lo aa elcellent fof-prr, wh cb ha pa nook of whil drlv.ag through this air at th rite of a boat fifty mile aa hour ! TU Afnt fete Aeieep and Bring! np iu Trt Tap. About ball-pa So'eWk ikaaesu naut brcjme very a"pTi and foand it almost im pede k a tu keep awake. The edd waa qa:t ba abiaf . Ua aaag soap, overhauled kia trapa ia the basket t divert hie atteaiioa, and 'finally at tached a boot 1.000 rat of a pida Una to hia wriet, ao ttut if he daan-! tha drag tapn wwald awake h aa. II than threw eat kalian, and asceajilatl la) aa elrrat oa of ht I MJO fat, and auaM km- V to keep awake, SjaaJy iaaigae4 tiataaaT to a contfortabi ap. A boot 10 'clock tba aareaaat waa awakened by a rraeb. aad feand that k aalloeaj bad deeees M aa law that lha ear ia which ha waa eajeyina; a anan4 dm. bad Mark oa tba tea af a tie, ia tba BiMaVrf aeiarfaaraat The baaawt waa taraed nr, aad asa ateawaar eaavejcja. waa tawawa violently Into the hoop to which Ihe pipes were at tached hich united tha basket with balloon. Th remi nder in the supper we thrown ejt h's wilt was cast ovai board -a part of k.a kilhwt follow. d In the d.eceni: bis buoil.ee of dr atclies and pa pers kept lliem company. Tha ahovk wns so great as to sp.U th at ou which lha aeronaut wja bik ing a lieett. 1'b baoket rlgji'ed la a minute, and the txtlloon b.'ing relieved 01 a coiwiJeralile weight in lha wny of cold ch'cken and other pirpiralions lor a long voyage, shot into lha air wl.h grmt veleo'ty, so rapid that tha aerunnut opt nad hi v.ilv in order tu prevmt go'na "away up yonder" amongst iho Mnrs. Ilalore be'ng atiipped, lha bulli on reached au elevation of li,IK)U lael, and finding tha altno pliere d amreiob y sold, tha aeronaut co.umcaced tu dencend. '' ' rinding a good current al an elevation of 3(X0 feet, Profresor Kleiner managed lo keep his con veyance in it, and proceeded at a speed of sixty miles an bour, when he diaeoverad Lake Erie but a few miles ahead. The billoon struck lha ground about 500 ynnb of lit water before th am hut took a Arm hold. IV kind ng p'ae was about hair a mile fnun fan dinky city, iu a corn field, on the firm of Mr. A. G. Townseud. 1'ro.etaor Sle iwr calhd loudly for aawalam-e, Jiut fai.ing lo armaM ail) holy, ha evap orated hi balloon, aud gaiheriug a shk or two of cornstalks, h wiapprd liiniself in hia blnnket and ovcrooat, and Uy ilown by b a ' 1'riJe of the Wist." and slept until deyiUiL . All this time, from tt o'clock, Prof, pleiner bad no knnwledga of hi coti p- utor in the race, but on arriving at a sintion on the railroad, some fif.cen or twenty milea Imra 8anduky, Man, (io liird cittne on brd ai.h ha monster " Leviatltou." He had landed near Hunt's ('orners, some eight een miles the 'de of Nandiwky. Recapitulation of Time. 'iheaemnantaata-ted at 4:21, and Mons Godard Inndad at about twenty minutes past ten hnving been lip atoul rr'l hour, 1'mfcrsor Steinrr land at 1 0:3(1, hnving been in the ir ten or filieeu m iiuiea longer thun hi comp t tor and hiiviug traveled in th(;x hours and ten m u utes about tare hundred and thirty milee. Tho Keeult of tho Race. Accord ng to ilie liuulat'ous of tha race, siKiied nud witneseed Jie- foie stnniug, it was uniicrntiaal that the aemnnnt ahoatao' the greateet dielanco, without nfrard to time, win to be declared thv winner, ami it is with no little perron! gi-aiificiit'on, as well aa na lioiwl prio'd, we aiiiHiunee the fact thnt our young American (.eion iul hoe harne tiff the honoto. 3T The lliir.for.l Vrtu says Uial a young man at iSorfo'.k, Uoiin., named Kilward Knurn, has, during four yanra past, been exercising his ingenu ity on tho matter of kniiling nindnics, antil he has palenH-d, b-ith n llracountiy and Great llril bin, a machine which bids fair lo nviku n much of a revolution in the mnnii ncturu of kn t goods, whither of silk, cotton or wool, aa hilney'a cot ton g u did in ihe entli.u mmiufaciuiv. lie bought an ordinary knit ing loom, and while knilt'ng socks, alteration continued to auggeat ihemselvr, until he bad mad application for twenty- our im tr.vemen's, eiglmeu if wiii. li were aucept d ; and the r suit is virtually in entirely new m .chine. It chief feature ia that tha work run n-pid y through (a in an ordinary weaving loom,) widen ing and nsr.-owing accnnling to pattern, and wl.h oul th neotashy f t lopping lo let down or tuke cp stitches. Tha advamngia gained ai a seen in tha fi.ot that knitting wh'ch is dona elsewhere at a cost of five dollnra or over per doicn, cm be done ia Norfolk at Iweuty five cent per dot. u, or perhaps leaa! One machine will knit eno doi ru pair of draw ers each day, and una girl ein tend three m.-ichinc. New machine ara building that will knit two draa ara at a lime, nr two down a dny. Una person can kuit four duea drawer per day. . , , Poitoaoea ViotTssna Tha Tr'nily Journa' ay t In the Pitt river monnls'ns there Is a small root, resembling a rotato, a hich potnloe ia a deadly poison. Traveling there, companion of ours found a qnnnt'ty of ii m ill Ihe hetlnm of a rpring, two or three of whu b he ata. and ws di a I within two or three hours. The rpilng waa near the trail, and ihe poisonous th'nfr hud b i n p aeed there by ihe Indiana, who knw Ihe ten p ing death coneesled iu them. jy An oIJ lady rcaid.ng not fnr from Exeter was, perhaps, one of lha most brilliant (sample of conjugal lenderncra that the Inst century produced. Her husband had long been dying, and, at length' on ill clergyman of ihe jeriah niak ng oue of his daily vi'ils, he found bint dead. The disconsolate wilow, in giving him on account of her spouse's Inst momi n'.s, told him her "poor dear nun kept groan'ng, but could not d'e. At Inst," niiil she, ' I recollecled I had got a p'eco of new tape In the drawer, so I look out tome of that ami lied it as tight as I enuid around hia neck, and then I stopped his nose with my thumb nnd finger, and poor dear 1 ha went nhT like a lamb." ' - The editor of a weilern p iper having lent his axe to one of his subscribers, the b irrower un fortunately broke off the liandia.. On reluming It, tha man sa d, " You can cosily have it repaired." " Yea,'' replied Ike editor, " but thnt will coat at least a quarter of a dollar." u Well," r. j lined ihe borrower, " if you ain't rather sninll lor an editor ! Here's the quarter, but I'll llituk yon to st p my paper." Lical Baptism. Some liaptist paper makes the following complaint, concerning the decision of a judge of one of the Ken tucky courts: . " Pedobaptism has gained an extraordi nary victory iu the courts of Kentucky. Judge Xutall, of Henry county, has ofliciul ly decided that ' sprinkling is legal baptism.' A negro girl about to be hung for the mur der of her mistress, experienceed a timely change of heart, and expressed a desire to be baptized. Her counsel applied to Judge Xutall for permission to take her uway from the jail for the purpose of immersion. The Judire. however, with that ' hard horse sense1 so peculiarly shot king to scruples of conscience, couldn't see the necessity of such an inconvenient form or bapt.sm. 'Why not sprinkle her V heinqnired. 'Because,' urged her counsel, 'sprinkling, accordinxto the faith she holds, is not baptism. And her faith, mar it please yonr honor, is that of thousands of the best and purest in this community.' ' Oh! well,' said the Judge, drawing himseir up with an air or gravity, ' I decide, and I want it distinctly under stood, that sprinkling ia legal baptism 1'" VST A lady wrote with a diamond on a pane of glass: God did at first mak man (aright) bat ba " To which a gentleman added: Moat auraly bad enalinued but ha " ty Every on earrlea two aacka, ana babe, tafia1 with tba fealte of hie aaig'.ibun; tba other kahiad, filled with hi eara. ty XatakCieh a Mod coot IBM tba epperm. at ruea af a baraar. ad be wtfl Uaasptat bus- ar'W AyaCyaa. ..' , A Costsntko Pebsox. Tlie New York Atlas says: How profound is our admira tion for contented people who ore alwnvs as com for table as a cat In a sunnv window, who do not allow themselves to be wor ried about anything who take the ills anj pleasures of life with a precious and delight ful calmness who do not allow their souls to be ruffled with a puff of human lifc- who?o purring dispositions oro 01 incflulily blissful as tho sleeping iufunt who never grumble at misfortune, murmur In illness, or storm nt disappointment. When we sec A woman possessed wilh these virtues,, wc al ways feel as if we would nflproath her hum bly, and, kneeling by hex side, ' rest our weary head in her lap. A rose odor nhj n perfume of pinks seem to pervade the at mosphere about her httllowetl person. 1 A couteuted mind is bctUr than a feast.'-r- We admire the spirit and philosophy of tlie Massachusetts wife who, in a letter to Iter husband who was' seeking his fortune la Cal ifornia, wrote as follows: ,'. " My Pear ITi-snAxo: As it is soms t'me since you left for California, I suppow you wonld le glad to hear how we ar gef ting along in your aliseneo. I am happy to say that we are all enjoying very good health on the whole. Just at present two of the boys have got the small-pox. A mini tla Jane has got the typhus fever. Bet.v fs down with the measles. - Samuel got hooleeil by a cow the other day, nnd little J'eter has just chopjicil off three of his fingers with a uatchct. It is a merer ho elm not chop them nil off. With these trifling exemp tions, we nro well, nnd getting on nicely. 1 ott needn't bo nt nil anxious about ttr-1-I almost feirgot to snv thntarah Matilda eloped last week with a peddler. Tcqr girl! she has been waiting for the hist tut years for a chance, and i in gl.tiel she litis got married at last. ' She needn't iiaVe taken the trottblu to elope, though, for I'm sure I was glad to hare her go. Shr wan a great eater, and I find that baked beans don't go oft near so fast now as they did. The way that girl would dip into pork nnd bonus was a caution to the rest of the fiim iiy. Tho cow took it into her head yesto dny to run away, which was very fortunate, I'm sure, for the barn caught firo last niylit and was consumed. I was in hopes ,tlio homo would go, too, for it's very inconve nient, but tho wind wns tho wrong way, no it ditl not receive much injury. Some boya broke into the ort liurl the other day uud stripped all tho fruit trees. I am yry ghtd of it, for if they hadn't I presume the chil dren would have made themselves siek by eating too much fruit.- Hoping you enjoy yourself iu California us well as wo dci at home, I remain your offectionnto wife." t A Yaxkkr Ciiakukr of IIattles'xakfs. A correspondent of the South Carolinian, at the Sweet Springs of : Virginia,' thus mentions an exhibition there of the shalci-chnrmer.- A tall, bony, Yankee-looking foreigner, lust from California, made his np pearanco with a box of snakes rattle snakes, moccasins, blneksnakcs, vipers, AK He collected a crowd around him, thouli nt a respectful distance, nr.d grasping with both hands a hunch of snakes, coiled them aronntl his neck and thrust them into Ids bosom, as if they were strands of silk or cotton. Their twistings and , turnings s.'cmctl to give him pleasure, while the by standers Were filled with very opposite emo tions. Ho professes to tamo his savngo friends by mesmerism, and thus fights' tho rattlesnake with its own weapon. : !- ' Somo in the crowd suggested thnt ho should take a wild, untamed snake, mid show his power over it, which he agreed to do for twenty-five ilolliira. This sum was readily subscribed, and a rattlesnake, caught the day before, wos soon procured. The operator examined him with some cau tion, but presently turned the box over and threw the venomous reptile upon the green sward. He k'eked him about several times, caught him by the tail and threw him buck and forth, nnd finally seized him in the middle and held him at arm's length. The snake turned Its head toward him, otttl their eyes met; the latter fixed his gnr.n stuadily npon the snake, and kept it so for si-vcral minutes, when he suddenly coiled it around his neck, thrust it in his bosom, as he had done tho others, and the snoko seemed entirely docile. Two days after, ho repeated his experiment for twenty dollars on a large rattlesnake) which had Just been caught, and with similar results. A crowd of ladies, gentlemen and children in tlie pi azza of the hotel witnessed the singular ex hibition. It was painful to behold, though tho individual seemed to have the most en tire coufidcnco in his ability to control Uw horrid animals. . j tfr The last news about I'aris ." fash ions" U somewhat startling. Fat is tlie rage. Ladies cultivate It. They are de vouring large quantities of butter, smnslfed rose-leaves, and such like. The Emprcfs is quits "corpulent," which accounts for the style. The fashion will be over here before long. We hail it with "Joy." 'A new era is dawning. Our girls will stop eating slate pencils and chalk, and com mence partaking liberally of rout beef auid baked beans. Tiiey will rise with the lark. They will exercise. They will try oa the wash-tub, perhaps. ; OT TU toterrat af ao N debt i Mefura fli at bad hiagaag. ' .-. , a 7:7 i.1 I: !' ft'' J h If.; t'.-i l n n $i n -i. I? H .it Yt h I! I w si p. ' -I I