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OREGON CITY, OREGON, JUNE 4, 1 859.
No. 8,
an pan, unlm at thiaptianoj thi publuher.
THE OREGON AUG US.
CaasUcr Us Ultra, 11a w Tbry ttww
Tha lilies fair ant found
On shadow, d gmunil ,
Tha shs ly lisunis of tunny clinio,
And breaths the balm of summer linif I
Rvu-Mbed by m .ru n daw, and vtileJ from uouu
tiiia iflow.
Thoy taste the toAut light and air, and Ill's la how
they grow.
t'plrewn from vcrJnnt sud
By look from Ood,
These My, hup;y fluwem pervade
t , The slop nj lawn, the fnreat glndo t
Aal charmed by avphyr'a wing, and lulled by
sirratniat's flow.
They calmly mux-, they brightly dream, anl lliia
I now iney grow.
J They bloom in shallrruil nnok,
' Ily curling bio.k ;
And Knrlh hw firmly, fondly Invea
I Three treasures of her streams and grovre:
The dark mould cherishes their petula white tiki
. annw,
i With hcavcn-apportioned outriiueut, and this ia
1 buw they grow.
i '
I ham considered tlirnt,
Tha flexile tiein,
Tha blossom pending airily
llt-neath their leafy canopy,
' Their witching frogiance, siatlrs hue, and thue I
feel and know
That Col imparts their lovt-lini-ss, aud title ia how
tin') grow.
. Dublin Vnitenity Magnxine.
Far tki ArgHi.
Y' ntgalv
Ma. Editor: Can you exouse one mare nrtiule
n th't all-abiorhing topic 1 If to, I ill try to
raid wearying your patience.
' Xruittie haa occasioned quite a t'r among your
enierralive readers; which, I doubt not, waa prin
cipally what she designed j and 1, for one, heartily
. . thank her fur it. I do not just admire her article',
but I do not suppose they were presented to b
admire I, ao much aatn atvukeu thought, fur which
tiny sceut remarkably well adap'eJ. Tliennjuri
. ty the has awakened oppoee her, which ia always
the ease In presenting any newly discovered truth
that call in question the correctness of long estah
. I'shed enige. Mr. Owen, I believe, lakes no el
eptios; but Lear, ' Ate. S., and Mrs. Duuiuay,
' all think her aiming far finin the currect point.
5 As t Lear and ' 4w.,' I think they, d milieu, are
. Oregon politicians, probably of the Bush school,
- which, being an the decline, they w II of course
disclaim. I come to tha c.inuluniuu from their
: style and arguments.
. 8. and Mrs. D. take the piaition of a very great
majority of llio world, that woman should he well
educated, and should use her education almost ex
clusively in the home circle ; that she should be
Intelligent and should be allowed to tli'nlt freely ;
but they always add, in order to avoid being sua-
fieeted of eutcrta:ning unpopular views, tlmt they
have no sympathy with what is termed " woman's
rights"
- 8. takes what I conceive to be a rational poe'tion
- an woman's education. But that wb'ch seems to
p'rase and content her most, is tlio fact that the,
and nI her husband is the mother of the family.
Wiih a go d education, husband, children, home,
n I home duties, ami tho undeniable and unavoid
able riht of being a mother, she is " contend''
Upon the same ground, why should not her hus
band, bo he tradesman or merchant, say, with a
' home, wife, children, mid my qu el, honest occu
' palion, and the undeniabU au 1 unquestionable
right of beings father, "I am conk nt.' For he
lias the right to bo what worn in ouuuot be, the fa
! ther of hla children ; and a right, according to our
laws, to keep aud control those children during
' their minority the right to bike them with him to
the 'enJs of the earth,' if he choose, aud auk no
one: no, not even thtlr mother.
Mrs. 1). says she does nut pretend to deny that
women in some places are cluiiiiing rights they
should not have. I would very much liko to know
what those rights arc. If women, in any place,
are claiming the right to attend to the labor out
uf doors, such as plowing, rail-making, teaming,
blacksin'thing, and the like, and leave meu to do
the sewing, cooking, dish-washing, ic, I am not
aware of the fact. I am not very well versed in
Woman's rights literature', but think the principal
, of their claims is woman's right to tha elective
. franchise, which to my mind is not incompatible
: with her fine organization and natural delicacy.
, It is uo more trouble to go the polls aud cast a vote
; than to step into a fancy store uud buy a yard of
' tibbou. You may say it requires much more
v( fcAewledge, thought, aud understanding. I an
' ewer, Miat is jmt what we want Again, you may
. aay there is nothing in politics refined aud conge
nial to woman's sensitive nature. Very true, and
1' as much the more need of her influence there.
. , Xo doubt some herculean-brained(?j woman will
: ask, ' Would you have a womau for President?"
1 think but very few women would care for tho
spoils of office, even if they had an opportunity to
occupy the highest; and it would take two or
- three generations fur woman's influence to refine
tba political world to such a degree that she would
accept an office. But if in tha course of time
there should a woman arise with better capabilities
aad batter qualifications for that office than any
sMher Individual, and' it be the will of the people
that she should aerva them in that capacity, and
aha, be willing, the is the very individual above all
pthers that should hold the office. (It will be re
iscinbared that at the age ef our present Presi
dent, a woman's children are not under her aupei
vislonj If women may be Queens, why not Pres
idents! "
My first aud almost my last personal acquaint
ance with a woman holding to the faith of Lucy
tone, was some four or five years ago. I chanced
ta atop a few days in one of the many pleasant
towns of tha Mississippi Valley, and it so happened
that I spent about a week at the house of ooe of
those greatly misrepresented creatures, a thorough
jroman s-righta woman. Mr. C. waa a merchant
of the place, and I had heard of Mrs. C. aa a phy
siciaa, and bad been posted aa to her costume, f en
eral appearance, and all the etcetera of gossip
usually connected with the name of person who
steps nqtsiije of tha ordinary walk of life. I had
uerer seen her when I entered tha house ; and aa
I stood in the neatly arranged little parlor awaiting
her appearance, a multitude of thoughts of various
kinds passed through my mind. There was no
thing very unusual in tha appearance of things'
rxoepl that everything waa scrupulously neat. It
peemed. that the breath of a 4y might hart borne
aver porucle of dust thai ooold have bora fooad
ia the roam,. Aad such order, each precisjoo, 1
had seldom seen, even in tha most refined circles.
Thia ia bat the parlor, though I j tba kitchen and
pantry may present quite a diflV rent aspect. Hut
1 had not lung to wait, till the dour was g-ntly
opened, and ther. eiitet.d, Instead of ' my img..
nary eoarse, grulr, frowning, masculine-looking
woman, a re.Wy, of ordinary bhthi, fin. figure,
light brown hair, blue eyes, and an extraordinarily
clear and beautiful complexion ; her fi aiur.a wsro Stqitoevillo a lloiiritiliilijr, plieiiix-likc
fine, iu fuel elegant, and were aver brightened by town, situated at tho head of stentn nnvlga
a sunny smile. Indeed, her whole appearance ' tio ull(l nro,,,tuc, to become a noillt of iltl-
was so far snpei ior to that of ordinary womru that
I was spell-humid and astonished when she an -
nounced hemlf a, Mr C. She wa. so una-um-
lug, so graceful, she could move so easily (she
wore the short dress), h seemed to require not
Rnora than half the elTort for her to get up and
turn rou.i.1 mat It did ma. lien Ilia even ng .,jUI ro()n Come 0li aj (lisl,laco t10 ky
meal was spread, Mr. C. entered fmm hi. business f R)d crI,.ketlt,lclie are Kumi
cares j he aptxared as happy aa his cheerful w.fc, ... ' , ,
and met her with a smile of love and r.pect loo nkl" coloTl mA to Mwt mmmrj ve.l
srldomseen on the face of a five-year-old hus-' gnco upon the Bostons for their unjust
band. The labia was arranged with tha moat
axquisllcbistc; and the linen in snowy whiteness
would not compare unfavorably with that of any
f ... i..nn. mn.l..n. !... ....:.....
of our Oregon madams, who can find no time for
anything outside of home, f-he had too email
children J they were bright and beautiful, and she
was not only a rery fond mother, but understood
the art of keeping her children Hell.
Aa I grew more Intimete'y acquainted, I took
occasion to observe how the ''cooking fixtures'
were kept as well as the pallor, but found nothing
to which the most fastidious could take exception
Ae 1 said before, 1 spent some days with her, and
although I did even try to find sunm fault iu her
housekeeping or her manners, that would offset her
superiority in other respects, I found none. While
I was there, she entertained a number of guests,
and attended to a few professional calls, and had
but one assistant. The manner in which she met
her alllicted sisters, was, I thought, almost enough
to cure them ; and in fact her merry mood did
seem to lighten the cloud upon their sorry faces.
The secret of her success was iu her exact order.
She had a time for everything, even to thu nursing
uf her babe.
I congratulated Mr. C. on being the head of
such sn orderly and happy family, and mentioned
the fact that H ost Indies would thii.k it a very
great task lo do anything more thnn keep house
and attend babies; when he remarked that "pre
cious few knew how to do correctly even those
things.''
I left, feeling I was leaving a little paradise; and,
although Mrs. C. d d not try to make mo a pros
tyle, I was relieved of many prejudices, and havo
ever since been a firm believer tlmt many who talk
much of the exoibitant demands of this class of
women, know but Utile.
Th's is no imogiuary p'cture, but a simple state
ment of facts.
" Oro' lernu to think woman should bo allowed
to do anything or be anything she chooses, and
nieutiutia surrcying as one of her r'ghts. I do not
think woman's finely organized body ' and acute
usio.mics were Designed lor surn uncoutli toll ;
...;.... .1.. r n.;.. b 1....1 1
..vi.it. . .iu mum iiiuii s uiuuu Biiuui-iei 8, IIIUSCUIBr
limlsi, and heavy body were designed for measur
ing tape, fringe, ribbon, Ac., nor li s slow percep
tions given to delineate the qualities of s'ik, cash
mere, bullous, thread, needles, Ac. Aud I think
navigation, which ' Oro" brings in as pari of her
rights, might be left out. Although Mrs. Paltou
has ulio-.vn us that it is possible for a woman to un-
Ursuiud navigation, I think very few would fancy
uch a life. Hut, since I come to th'uk, I believe
I would not have her exeludod for, if my husband
were a sea c.iptuin, I should like to be frit mate.
I would not have ' I.ear' think me in need of a
husband, or 1 6rc.' think me an ' ink-besmeared'
old maid ; so I will say for their es;iecial benefit,
that I am happily situated at home with u kind
husband, who has stronger faith in womnu's rights
than I have ; and, further, thut this is my first ef
fort on this subject. Viyia.
I.vuli Dell, Polk Co., May 19, 18.VJ.
Yrora (he Dalles.
From our Special CorrBnondent.
Dalles, May 20, 1859.
Tho latest intelligence from far-off inte
rior points, though not of an exciting, is of
an interesting character.
Many of tho AVillamctte folks will bo
lad to learn that their friends at Colville
s ., ... . - , . lull v iiiu iiiuuiij ui uio x u-iuii-iiwii :um
are now doing well, with prospects of doing , coullterill!? b,lwccrj the mouth of tlie Va.
better. The military command en route for j house and the Tu-kah-non, a distance of
that place, for the purpose of establishing three miles, a very strong rapid. Itereaf
a permanent post, is occasioning among the ' ter. m connection with the movement on
miners, farmers, and others, a most joyous I Colle- 18'ie in. n,uke '',er the
' ' ' i mmith if rna-i I'tiliiitc-n ivhrr olio will aiefx
jubilee, or jubllum-mm, and among the !
Indians a pell-inell stauijiede, " hurrying
out of the way." crossing the river and
striking for the mountains rather than re-
. i ... . . 1
mam and settle accounts with the troops;
trnt it ia ii4tisMsi til flint enma nt tlm wsief I
Jl.leb IB y t,UlrlUV IMUV OVIIIU VI Villi n vliJW
of the tribe will be ' hunted down' to atone
for past mischief. At all events, pcrma-
npnt aoouritr ia minnti.od for the future, to 1
,
thc various interests there.
Not only will this expedition especially i
protect the Colvilliaus, but will render safer resume his journey in this direction, and
the communication between thcui and us, ! disappeared. Since Col. Wright's cain
, r. .. . , , , i ' paitrn of last summer, it matters precious
hence our Dalles interests are more or Jess j. Mcr faton nmrimi tx
ind.rectly enhanced. - not.' The eminent success of that expedi-
The Dalles ia improving rapidly. The
bclief that it will become the Cincinnati ,
of the Columbia makes ready efforts Bt'1,lflufnceIwltn1)th1e Indians, w
building and other improvements,
A
t
brewery is novr in operation. Ale, '
. . .....
porter, lager Deer, ana yeast will be plenty lie has fled, doubtless, to seek shelter in
and their effects manifest. In town whisky some remote hiding place beyond the moun
makes occasional displays. AU in all, the , The influence of this once powerful
Dalles is a flourishing city, and will soon
throw Portland ' into the shade.' The
cantile business is lively, and payt. Hotels J
are doing well, the city is full of strangers
and citizens. The river is high and rising,
. , ,
Three leet n.gner w... suomerge pans oi
Main. Broadway, and other streets. Wa
ter street is enjoying a bath. Holman
twenty-five thousand dollar rail road depot
site is O. K.; a part of it is the home
"mermaids down Deiow, tne omer pan is
cape with a palace for a light boose for
piloting salmon and Sheath tanm. The
ninny ti-umn employed iii tlie transportation
' of frt,ig,t to t)0 I)e Cmtcg are u ,Ny.
' Tj , taw B)(1 WnH Wua
, , , ...
MW ComndcruUe. TI.8 rvprcwitltioiw
from tlmt Villlcy pre of a pacific kind.
1)0rtIlcu
1 ' ,
Tl,e ltcctn of Bcttlew l now adequate.
' toimtailt arrivals' from lllO lllumctle 111'
dicato a growing intorevt in tilts Upper
country. Come On, licro is vet trrcat SUr-
' invusioil of his lands llin kingdom. Oppo-
gitc tho Dulles the crickets are destroyilitr
: elltiro arJ).n ald rttil while around
n
the Dalles nono hare yet made their np-
pcarance, but a few miles south a few may
be found. The crops look and promise well,
A much larger crop u now growing than
has ever heretofore been grown in the
county.
The four companies constituting the Salt
Luko expedition aro to leave here on the
first of next month under command of
Copt. Wallrn. This movement will afford
mutcrial aid aud protection to coming emi
grants. , Tho explorations incident to thin
order will doubtless prove of much value.
Lieut. Mulhin's company aro fn route to
the seeno of their labors. Some of our Re
serve Indians arc said to be out in pursuit
of some Snakes rank or Indian) upou
whom they intend to inflict thu death pen
alty for recent thefts and murders perpe
trated in the vicinity of the Wurui Springs
Reserve. The most active exhibitions are
now o' scrvalile among our principal busi
ness men, Humason, Thompson, Mnrshull,
Bigelow, Dorrls, and others.
Capt. Jordan is doing everything to de
velop the advantages of this section of coun
try that a high minded, pubiic spirited, in
telligent man can do, und has thereby se
cured an cnviublu tianio for philanthropy
and kind social qualities.
The Lane (Stout) junta arc wide awake,
trying to rcconcilo the sore headed, while
Logan's friends arc whistling Yankee Doo
dle unconcernedly, never doubting his elec
tion since thu returns from Clackamas and
,,.1,.,. f..r nnt,.hpR
'
Your townsman, our old Iricild David
Thompson, the surveyor, is surveying the
Rase Line from the vicinity of Dog River,
which will run near the Dalles.
Everything about tho garrison indicates
sobriety, industry, cleanliness fruits of sys
tematic discipline and cultivated taste.
Iu haste, respectfully, Recdex.
P. S. A few days sineo several horses
were stolen and taken into the mountains.
Fulke, the noted thief, is concerned not
yet captured.
' liLPAnY Movement. Ry a recent or
der from Dept. Head Quarters, the Head
Quarters of the Dtli Infantry ore to be re
moved from Fort Dulles to Port Walla
Wulltt. This involves the change of station
of Col. Geo. Wright, niion whom the coin-
niantl nf Fort Wulla Wulla will devolve,
when he shall reach that post. Sallet
Journal, May 87.
Snake River Navksateu Abovb the
Palouse Moith. The Col. Wright has
again tested her power and value. On her
last voyage she ascended Snake river some
! niilts that is, to the site of Fort Tuy-
lna nt sVIia Himifh SkF 4 lis rll bnli IIAfi nn
lllnd the w fur' the Road party, en
route for Fort Ronton, under the direction
of Lieut. John Mullnn, whose work the
steam navigation of Snake River to that
iu lib mil uicnuv luiiuiuiG aim oiiuituu.
L J , nt on(j .
the history of this section. JJallet Journal.
,. ill i ,
- Kamiakan after all, has not made
PPruni. wvrrco.i.B ny His in
i . 1 1.:.. . . c
the treatment m store for him, he gave Ma-
nu. inriion a,, i, aim
Walla Walla, tho night before he was to
tion. rendered hiin utterly impotent for fu-
ture mischief, and destroyed ids power and
, . .i!
iium ue iiau
. , til j ia i: .-ii i
. nmuiniulv niniileil nnrl and veil to lnu will.
!i , ... . Ti. :
"irouirnoui mis srci on. ue w uuiv uiiecr
abl L,, and djectKl bunted by 1)ig fear '
J . . 7 . - . .,
, 1 '
gy- Jly dear Juliana,' said Alphonso,
the first day of their housekeeping, very
tenderly as he rose to go out and do his
first marketing, 'what shall we have for our
, a . m
our.'
. k; : hi hil nose mnd ii
pbonso went out like a lamb to the slangh-
tcr-boote.
' T think mv Invc ' rculied she ' that ail our
.' . ' ' ' r ' m arm dhowinc the annual vrwnriitnr in the
s appetites are not very .greai, a qnaru-r o : " o- - -- --r -----j -
beef will be snfficieut.' Alphonso stood. (
i i ..-.. i t i v. i A single 'artist' bus been known to pocket i
. , A onarter of a pound. I meant, my lore.' ytt. thousand dollars in acruise of a fng-
Gov. WlSB 1'POM IHK PltKSIIiENT.
There has just been published from Gov.
Wise a characteristic letter to Hon. David
Hubbard, of Alabama. Gov. Wise says:
"The Tresident bids high. To dllihus
ters ho offers Cuba and the Isthmus and
North Mexico to tho West, Pacific Rail
road to the North, protection to I ron and
course woollens and to tho great commer
cial countries, the power of centralization
by obvious uses and abuses of a bankrupt
act to apply to Istato bunks. 1 cstcrday,
Riddle was a monster, and to-day a few
Wall-street bankers can expand and con
tract upon us more like a vise than he did
and what would they not do if they could
force the poor provinces when they please
into bankruptcy? I have written this right
on, aud you may do what you please w ith
it."
Thu new style of nrjurenelaturo in
our navy is attracting much attention, and
credit is generally giveu the Secretary of
the Navy for good tuste in naming new
ships. Tlie eight new steamers now build
ing are culled Mohican, Nitrrugansett, Iro
quois, Seminole, Pawnee, and Ducotah.
Tho New York Times considers that
theso names oro musical to the ear, but
that tho Department has made a great mis
take by departing from the established cus
tom, which was to give-tlio names of Stutes
to liuc-of-battlo ships, of rivers to frigates,
and capital towns to sloops-of-war. The
Albany Evening Journal says in this con
nection :
" Theso new mimes, as we understand it,
do not make a departure from the estab
lished system, but merely carry it out still
further. Theso steamers aro a new class of
vessels, corresponding neither to frigates
nor to the old sloops. Consequently it was
necessary to havo u new class of names for
them. As heretofore, names of States, riv
ers, and capitals will designate respectively
liue-oi'-battlu ships, frigates, and sailing
sloops-of-war, while Iudiau names will des
ignate the small steamers. Ours is u great
improvement on the Lnghsh system, winch
seems to have ransacked tho infernal re
gions for names for its war-steamers such
the SpitDre( tho Vixen, the Pluto, the Fury,
tlie llecate, etc., etc."
Mauri ed Women. The Raltimdre Sun,
in commenting Ou tlie Sickles affair, offers
tho following scusiblo remarks:
" No married woman enn be approached
by any mall With undue professions of re
gard, or of affection, but with nn instinctive
knowledge of his design. Not the slightest
impropriety, not the least indelicacy in word
or deed, cuu bo thrust upon her observa
tion without startling her honor and put
ting her on her guard. She is tit once
warned and armed; she has a counselor
ever at her side to direct her, and a cham
pion to defend her in a true and honora
ble husband. Hence the law esteems her
guilt at least equal to that of tho most se
ductive and designing invader of her honor
when sho Culls.. The married woman is ar
rayed in the Very panoply of virtue, and
cannot bo nurprued.
She enn hardly be
suid toriiV she steps asido of her owu
free will and sins deliberately.
"With these premises, can there be any
difficulty in answering the question, what a
man ought to do iu the event supposed?
We say just what many a good and trtio
and honest man has done before, and we
could naino a shining example iu tlie act of
one, who well deserves tho title or hero and
philosopher. He slew neither the man nor
the woman, lie called the erring wife be
fore him, and bade her take whatever she
could rightfully claim us her own, nud leave
him forever and then, like the hero that
lie was and is, he pursued manfully tlie even
tenor of his way and all men honor him.
This is what iu our opinion a man ought
to do."
Southern Literature. As a specimen
of the manner in which the immortal "sou of
his father" is regarded in tho sunny South,
we clip the following from tho Rrandon
(Miss.) Republican:
" We received from Washington a speech
iiurportui': to have been delivered
have been delivered by
James R. Clay of Kentucky There is nn .
odor about that piece of clay which is in-!
tolerable to Whig olfactories; hence the
ravings of Jim will not be read by us. Jim
Clnv like a nntutn imteh lins his lieut, eliiim
to favor in the ground. His worthless life
liA M'ss!ttn lit tVinfililif rlif umiIi a
diivuiu uiuuu ij iiiuuiiiikiiu. nun u
, buaurd.,, whlffi , 88W(Ju,t ,preiMl on ca-
boards, with ink taken from a mud-hole.
It should be written by Forney, to be dedi
cated to Buchanan."
A Hard Hit. The Albany Evening
Journal says:
" Under its new prospectus, the name of
the Washington Union is to be changed to
"The Constitution." This is after the
fashion of pirates, who hoist the flag of the
nation they mean to plunder. Under its
, .... i, .!
N'niirr i lie, ii e paper una uoi e us iu
.. ... . . i
distract and divide the Lnion, and under
. , . -n ' ,.,i
the la Uer , we suppose it will pervert and
avcnil flip I Yinutiliitirin "
assail the Constitution.'
!& One of the Democratic candidates
for the United States Scnatorship in New
Jersey, it is said, remarked, " that the pres
ent was tlie highest priced legislature he
ever had dealings with."
nar It is estimated that at least four
thousand persons in the United States Na-'
vv. annuallr. are tattooed with figures cost-'
mg from seventy-five cents to fifteen dollars,
tr Praia., to (r'Mroaa minds, is ths rsrm and I
the aiinv.n- :i emulates 1
ate in mete luuian in a pictures.
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Romance ok tiik "Iiion Dike." Inn
sketch of the late Lord Chnrlei Wellc,ly, a
recently deceased son of tho Duko of Wel
lington, Forney's Press publishes tho fol
lowing, not generally well known, iucident
in the life of tho "Great Duke:"
Whoever should exhibit the Iron " Duke"
us the hero of a romantic lovo story, in
which sentiment is blended with chivalry,
would probably be laughed at. Yet there
really is such an incident, true in 'all partic
ulars, and Imbued witli the delicacy and re
finement of impnsKiountc affection. At the
risk of having this little love pussngo riili
culed, we shall take lcav to relate it.
At tho age of twenty-eight Arthur We.
Icsley (or Wesley, ps he wrote it nt the
time, according to an autograph in our little
collection) went to India with the rank of
full Colonel, obtained simply by the infill
once of his uristocratical birth und connec
tions, and by money, in the tenth year of
his military service. At that time he was
engaged to Catherine Pnekcnhnni, daughter
of the Karl of Longford, and sister of Gen
eral Sir Edward Puckenhain, who was kill
ed at the buttle of New Orleans. This la
dy, young and beautiful, was devotedly
ottached to Col. Wellesley, and her affec
tion was fully reciprocated. Culled to
India, where his eldest brother was Govern
or General, to take a leading part iu the
war with Tippoo-Saib, this furtiiniite sol
dier had to leave his lady love behind.
After an absence of eight years, during
which he won rank and renown, he return
ed to England, where he was met by a let
ter li'oni .Miss I'ltckenhain, informing hint
that the smull-pox had assailed uud injured
the beauty which he had so much admired,
wheu life was younger and gayer with both
of them, and with tenderness assuring him
that sho had resolved to relievo him of his
engngenieiit. With the trtio feeling of an
honorable man, henssued her that her beau
ty hud not been the only inducement to woo
and win her. Accordingly, tlio marriage
took place iu 1 80(5, within six months of
his return from India. The only fruits of
this union were two sons, one born in 1807,
and the other iu 1808.
In the spring of tho latter yeur Wellesley
had to leave his wile to tike part in the
Peninsular War. He returned for a short
time after the signing of the Convention lit
Cintrn, but Trotn 180'J to 1814, (hiring
which ho rose step by step to the highest
honors of the English peerage, ho was de
tained on the Peninsula. Tho strong tie
of married love was weakened by this pro
longed absence, and the Duchess of Wel
lington, from tho Waterloo victory of 1815
to her death, iu 1831, was not n httppy
wife. To the last she deplored thut a seme
of honor had liindu the Duke marry her,
iigtiinvl her own better judgment, When her
beauty hud become a thing of memory
alone.
Tiik Hunt or Dying. The more closely
we scrutinize the phenomena attending hu
man agency, tho more marked does tho lino
nppcar which separates the known from the
unknown. It would seem as if God gov
erns tlie inanimate creation through the
vice-gcreney of subalterns, in tlio shape of
second cuuscs, whoso letters of instruction
are known to all, while Ho commands man
kind in person. The laws that control tho
former aro open to the observation of sci
ence; not so with the laws that control the
lutter. The philosopher may tell when a
comet will drop a thousand years hence,
but he cannot tell the time of the close of
his own life, lie can lay down the laws of
celestial harmony, but not those of human
life and death. We find this illustrated in
the very hour of dying.
A late writer In the London Quarterly
Review tells us thai, out of tv. o thousand
eight hundred and eighty deaths which oc
curred within a given period, there was n
division as to the hour too marked to be the
result ol what might bo considered chance.
If tho proportion of deuths to hours were
equal, one hundred und twenty deaths
would occur every hour. This, however,
was by no means the case. " There were
two hours iu which the proportion was re-
markably below this, two minima, iu fact
namely, from midnight to ono o'clock
when the deaths were eighty-three per cent,
below. From three to six o'clock in the
morning, inclusive, and from three to seven
o'clock in the afternoon, there is a gradual
increase in the former, of twenty-three
and a half per cent, above the average; in
the latter, of five and a hulf per cent.
The maximum of deaths is from five to
six o'clock in the morning, when it is forty
per cent, above the average; the next, du
ring the hour before midnight, when it is
twenty-four per cent, in excess; a th'rd hour
of excess is that from nine to ten o'clock in
the morning, being eighteen and a half per
. .
cent, ariove.
v "
From ten in the morning to
three in the afternoon, the deaths aro less
numerous, being sixteen and a half per cent,
below the average, tho hour before noon
being the most fatal.
From three o'clock in the afternoon to
nine, the deaths rise to five and a hulf per
cent, above the average, then fall from that
hour to eleven, P. M., averaging six and a
half below the mean. During the hours
fri m nine to eleven o'clock in the evening,
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mortality is between three and six o'clock,
during the mid-day hours. About one
third of the total deaths were children on-
derfive years of age, and they show the
mnuence ot me lauer more wnmf j.
At all hours from ten o clock in the
morning until midnight, the deaths, arc at
or below the mean; the hours from four to
five in (he afternoon, and from nine to ten
in tho evening, being minima, but the hours
after midnight being tho lowest niaxiniumf
at all hours from two to ten in tho morning
the deaths aro above (he fncnrr," attaining
their maximum at from fivo to six o'clock
iu the morning, when it is forty-five and
half per cent, above.
The Newspaper Rorrowkii. A lnt
writer gives the newspnjier borrower ' par
ticulaf fits.' Ho pronounces him "a bad
man that Is, an unsafo one. He never
comes to anything good, and is always poor.
It is an old Scandinavian proverb, that
when Satan wishes to angle for and finally
catch a man, lie first sets hiin a borrowing.
The whole tribe of borrowers Is utterly
mean, and the newspaper borrower is the
meanest of the tribe. In this country,
newspapers arc so cheap that every man
con and every decent man docs buy hi
owu. At any rate, no deccut man will
borrow a newspnper. If he can't get ous
of his own, he will do without. It dirties
and rumples a paper to handle it, and no
man likes to have his family journal soiled
by borrowers' unclean hands. Subscribers
to good papers like to preservo them ia
good condition; und, in order that they
may do this, the pnpers must lie kept clean,
and smooth, nud whole. No one likes to
preserve a dirty, torn, or rumpled paper
uud one such unsightly copy spoils a whole
file aud one number of a paper lost
breaks tho continuity of a volunio. And
there is a degree of sentiment, too, about a
favorite family newspnper. A man acquires
an affection for it, and, us iu tlio case of bis
wife and baby, he don't want anybody elso
to meddle with it. Therefore, tho newspa
per borrower is a tlisturber of the peace and
happiness of families) he is a pest a nui
sanceand should be permanently disposed
of in a manner that would prevent hiin
from annoying honest, decent people, who
pay for their newspapers, and should b
allowed to read and preserve them."
Tub Deacon anh tub Irishman. Un
der this head we find tho following amusing
story going the rounds:
A few months ago, as Dencon Ingalls, of
Stvainpscott, R. I., whs traveling through
the western part of the State of New York
he fell in with an Irishman who hud lately
arrived in this country, aud was hi quest of
a brother who came before hiin and settled
in some of tho diggings in that vicinity.
Put was a strong, athletic man, a truo
Catholic, aiid had never seen tho inside of
Protestant church, It was a pleasant Sun
day morning that brother Ingalls met Put,
who inquired tho way to the nearest
church.
Ingalls was it good and pious man. Ho
told Put he was going to church himself,
and invited his new made acquaintance to
keep his company thither (his place of des
tination being usmull Methodist meeting
house near by ). There was a great revival
there at that time, und one of tlio deacons
(who by the way was very small in stuture)
invited his brother Ingalls to takeaveat in
Ins pew. lie accepted tnu mvmiuuii, uuu
walked in, followed by Pat who looked in
vain for the altar, &.c. After he wus seat
ed, ho turned to brother Ingulis, and in a
whisper which could be heard uil round, in
quired, " Sure, an' isn't this a hiritick church?"
" Hush," said lugulls, " if you speak a
loud word they will put you out."
" Divil a word will I spake, nt ull, ut nil,"
replied Put.
The meeting was opened with a prayer
by the pator. Pat was eyeing hiin very
closely, when an old gentleman, who was
standing in front or Put, shouted "Glory!"
" Hist, ve clear divil," rejoined Put with
a loud whisper which was plainly heard by
the minister, "be dacciit und dou't uiuke a
blockhead of yourseir."
The parson grew more fervcut in his de
votions. Presently tho Deucon uttered an
audible groan.
" Hist, ye bhirkguurd, have ye nodacen
cy at all I" said Put, at the same moment
giving the Deacon a punch in the ribs which
caused him nearly to lose his equilibrium.
Tlie minister stopped, and in a supplicating
manner said,
" Hrethren, we cannot be disturbed in
this way. Will some ono put that man
out." ,
"Yis, your riverence, I will!" shouted
Pat, and suiting the action to the word he
collared the Deacon, ' and to the utter hor
ror and astonishment of tho pastor, brother
Ingalls, and the whole congregation, ho
dragged hiin through the aisle, and with a
tremendous kick landed him in tho testibule
of the church.
Land Measure.' Every farmer should
have a rod measure, a light pole, just six
teen and a half feet long, for nieosur.iig land.
Ry a little practice he can learn to step a
rod in five steps, which will answer very
well for ordinary farm work. Ascertain
the ntimlier of rods iu width and length of a
lot you wish to measure, and multiply one
into the other and divide by one hundred
and sixty, and you have the number of
acres, as one hundred and sixty square rods
make a square acre. If you wish to lay off
an arre square, measure thirteen rods on
each side.
i- s saasaasasSpaaaa.
Col. Johnson, of the New York
Bute Agricultural Society, estimates the
wheat crop of 1359, in the United States,
at 158,500,000 bushel, as sgainft ltV
000,o00 for 1559.