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CT Twt Vollan for tix mo n tht No tubterip ., I titnt rtctivtd for a Utt f triad. Of No pnptr diteontinutd until all arrtmagtt A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Interests of the Laboring Classes, and advocating the side of Truth iu every issue. Vol. V. artpan, mm at tht optionoftht publitlirr. OREGON CITY, OREGON, JUNE 11, 1859. No. 9. My Lambs. I loved lliem so, That wheo tbe alder Shepherd of the fold ; Came, covered with the elorni, and pnlu and cold, And begged for one of my eweet laniba to hold, -I bade him go, ' lie olainied the pet: And, Utile fondling thing, that to my breast Clung always, either in quiet or unteet ! ' I thought of all my laniba I lured bim brat, And ytt and yet 4 1 laid him down, In Urate white, ahrouded arirw, with bitter team ; for tome voice told me that, in after yeara, fit ahould know nought of paaaiun, grief, or fears, At I nua auown. And yet again Yliat elder Shrpherd came my lieart grew faint ) lie claimed anotlier lamb, Willi sadder plaint, .Another! She who, gentle na a aaiut, .1 Ne'er gavu mo pain. Aghast, I turned away i There tat ahe, lovely nt an angel'a droam. ' tier soldeu loclta with sunlight all uglvani, ller holy ryes with heaven in their beam ; . r i 1 knelt .to pray : la it Thy willf V My Father, aay, mutt this pet lamb be given f ' Aid a toft voice tiid, " Nobly hast thou etrireu ; Hut peace, be ttill!" ? O! how Iweptl And cleaned her to my ontom, with a wild And yearning love my lamb, my pk-tumnt child ; Her, too, 1 gave the little angel tinilvd, And dept. , " Gol go!" I cried, Koroncn ng.iin Unit Shepherd laid hit hand t'p-n the ooblrat a( our household bun.) ' Like a pale specter, then he took hit stand, Close to hit tide. And yet how wondrous twret 'The look with which lie hrurd my passionate cry " IWIi not my lamb for him, O! let me die!" . '' A little while," With senile and syh, " Again to meet." H-prU-se I fell ; ' Aa I when 1 row, the light had burned so low, . 8a faint, I could uot tee my diirling go . lit had not biililen me furewell! but, U! ;.- . I tilt fa'ewell, More deeply far ' v Than if my nrms had coinpaytel that slight frame; Though could I but have heurd him call my name, ." Dear mother'' but in heuven 'tw.ll be the same; ; There burns my tlur. lie will not take 'Another Inmb, I thought, for nnly one ' Of the dear fold is spared to be my tun, '. r. My guide, my mourner when this life it done ; . : My heurt would break. . - Oh, with that thrill 'I heard him euter; but did not know i (For it was dark) that he hud rubbed incto; "The idol of my soul ! he could uot go . O, heart, be ttill! ; Came morning; can I tell How this p.or frame in auiruwlul tenant kept? 'for waking lean were in ne ; I, sleeping, wept, ; lAud davt, ineiitlii, years, that Weary vy.l kept ; Alas! Farewell." . . How often it it said ! . ;. t tit and think, and wonder, toe, sometime, J low it will weiu when, in that happier clime, ' It never will ring out like funeral ehiiiio ; " Over the dead. ' ' " No tears! no tears! ' - Will there a day come that I shall not weep ? for I bedew my pillow in my sleep. 'J ' Y,yea; thank Ciul! no grief that clime slm'1 keep, ' No weary yeare. ' 1 ' Aye! it it well ! Well with my lambs, and with their early guide : There, pleasant riven wander they beside, 1 Or ttrke sweet harps upon i:t silver tide Aye! it it well 1 I Through the dreary day ' 'They often pome from glorious I girt to me J I cannot feel their touch, their facet see, ' Yet my soul whispers, they do come to me ; Ilearru it not far away. . The RifiiiTS of Women. Tlicro in much i cltttnor, in these days of progress, respecting a grunt of new rights, or an extension of privileges to our sex. A powerful moral ist has said tlmt " in contentions for power, i both the philosophy und poetry of life ore j dropped and trodden down." Would not a 3 still greater loss accrue to domestic happi ness, and to the interests of well balanced ' society, should the innate delicacy and pre- rogative of woman, as woman, be forfeited - or sacrificed? , ," I have given her as a helpmate," said the voice that cannot err, when it spake unto Admn, in the cool of the day, amid the ' trees of rnradise. Not as a toy, a cog;, a 'wrestler, a prize fighter. Xo! a helpmrei, i such as was fitting for man to desire, and , for a woman to become, Since the Creator has assigned different ' spheres of action for different sexes, it is to ' be presumed, from this unerring wisdom, , that there is work enough in each depart ment to employ them, and that the faithful r performance of thnt work will be for the ) benefit of both. If he has made one the ( priestess of the inner temple, committing to Iter charge its sacred shriue, its unrepealed .sanctities, why should she' seek to mingle in the warfare that may thunder at its gates i or rock its tnrrets? Need she be tempted by pride or curiosity, or glowing words, to t Larter ber own Edeu? The true nobility of woman is to keep her own sphere, and to adorn it, not like the comet, daunting and perplexing other systems, but as the pure star, which in first to light the day, and last to leave it. If ' the share not the fame of the ruler and the blood-sheddcr, her good works, snch as " be. ' come those who profess godliness," though they leave no deep "footprints ou the sands of time," may find record in the Lamb's Book of Life. . Mothers! are not our rights sufficiently "exteusive the sanctuary of home, the throne of the heart, the " moulding of t ie rbole mass of man in its formation?" Have ire not power enough in all the realm of sorrow and suffering over all forms of ig norance and want amid all ministrations of love, from the cradle to the aepnlcher? : So, let ns be content and diligent; aye, grateful and joyful, making this brief life a hymn of praise, until called to that choir which knows no discord, and whose melody is eternal Mrt. Sigoumry. iW Aa insurrection against Gaffrard, tht new President of Hayti, is reported by letters of April 8. Ao insurgent attempt bad jast before been suppressed at Cape Ilaytiao. The rebels are blacks, instigated br jtaloofy of tbe domination of mulattos. For tht Argut. Correal Wlae. Mr. Editor: Currants will be ripe ere long, and I wish to enter my protest against turning them into wine. Currant wine, as usually mode, contuins, I think, from .OS to .20 per cent, alcohol. Its containing alcohol at all is a sufficient argument against its use. Those who use it supposing It to contain no intoxicating quality, very much mistake the fact. Un der ordinary temperuture, the destruction of sugar by fermcntatiou is followed by al coliol. Is alcohol in currant wine not as well calculated to create an appetite for stimu lating drinks as alcolwl in sweetened whis ky or brandy? Some of the friends of temperance great ly err in supposing that the use of small quantities of tho intoxicating principle, as in native wines and cider, is not objection able. But the only true position is: alco hol is always poisonous and injurious. The ludies (a portion of them) practice a similar error whether with thought or without it, I will leave to them. ' They ar gue that to drink alcohol is wrong, but to tat it, is very good. The latter reason ing is exhibited in pies, cukes, and pud dings. The following from the Rurul New Yorker for March 12th is in point: " Pixm Cake. Four pounds flour; 1 lb. sugar; 3 lbs. currants; lb raisins; 1 oz. inuue; cloves and one nutmeg; the peel of a lemon and half a pound ulmonds; 2 lbs. butter; pint cream; pint wine; 1 glass )inuuy; 12 eggs; hull pint yeast; 1 lb. citrou lemon and orange.1' 0 Science! how incomprehensible thou nrt, anil yet what simplicity marks thy way, to ntttko so fine a cuke with so few matcri- ! Aside from tho liquor feature, if half ns much grease ns (lour, with a pint of crtatn, will not make that coke rich enough fur delicate stomachs, it could be made so by adding three or four pounds of lurd. One pint wine, one glass braudy, or, as a pint is a pound, ' our enko stands: four pounds flour, one and n half pounds liquor. Most splendid enke to feed to temperance babies. How could wo brumly-bibbers re fuse to sign tho pledge so long as the ladies will feed us upon such excellent cake, and their fathers and husbands furnish us cur rant wino to drink? Home manufacture is commendable, but n better way for temperance men to exer cise their patriotism than to muko wine, would be to preserve currants, gooseberries, cherries, &c, fresh. Fruits and vegetables could be dried, saving a great deal to the country and furnishing an article worth two of thut we buy. Our fall apples will soon be abundant ; fanners, dry them. A perfect drying apparatus, to dry with heat ed air, and regulated by a pendulum, is de scribed in the Country Gentleman and An nual Register for (if I mistake not) 1855. Green corn and greeu beans could thus be dried for winter use; and our ' better halves' be enabled to get up good dinners without ' plum cake,' brandy, or currant wine. But if home industry cannot run in the di rection I have indicated, then let our citi zens make soap, candles, rope, any useful thing but not liquor. They can then have the consciousness of not making drunkards to enrse them nnd the country. Who will second the motion? . Salem, June 1, 1859. Ono. Ruined. Referring to tho fact that the President provides liberally for all politi cians who have been defeated before the people, the New York Courier says Addi son tells us somewhere in the Spectator the story of a girl who had been a servant iu a gentleman's house. She discharges her self without cause assigned, and when her late master meets her by accident in the street, he asks what good luck had befallen her, so smart her gown, so gay her bonnet. " Lawks, sir," wob the reply, " don't yon know I have been ruined?" So has the late Senator Wright of New Jersey. The Nebraska bill and Lecompton have undone him. But he won't miud that. He will be in high feather yet. Just look at bis fellowrServantB. There's Senator Cass he voted for the bill lost his situa tion ruined Secretary of State. Touccy voted for the bill lost his situation ruined Secretary of the Navy. Glancy Jones voted for the bill lost his situa tion mined Minister to Austria. Sen ator Jones of Iowa voted for the bill lost hit situation mined Miuister to Bo gota, Senator Pettit of Indiana voted for the bill lost his situation ruined I Chief Justice or Kansas. Senator Wright , , . , , . . voted for the bill lost his situaUon rained and, " Lawks," be will certainly have finery. We shall see what! Ha? The Order of Odd Fellows celebrat ed the fortieth anniversary of their estab lishment in the United States, in New York, April 26. There were many dele- gates from abroad, a grand procession, j Cairo for building purposes, and enough re soiree collation, and other festivities. Fa-i mains to supply the demands of a city of a ther Wildey, one of tbe six men who fomui-j f People for a century, if they . . - , . -. t ' permitted freely to ate it. ed the first lodge, in Baltimore, forty years ( 1 .. . ' tja, was prctcnt. The Order .amber; t& M?n and gold fix each otb?r value about 200,000 members lit the United States. Last year $350,000 was paid for tho relief of the sick, and $12,000 for the education of orphans. JtetV The Louisville Journal says: Three- headed Cerberus is a more appropriate crest for Democracy than double-faced Junus. Iu its Pennsylvania State Convention it advocated " adequate encouragement and discriminating protection of the industrial interests of tho State." Iu its Tennessee State Convention it asserted that " a tariff for revenue alone is the true policy of tho country." And the Washington States, which is the organ of tho Southern States' Rights Democracy, says: " If there be any one measure of public policy upon which tho party has planted itself more distinctly and obstinately than another, it is the very proposition of Free Trade." Thus the Northern head growls for Protection, the Western head barks for a Revenue Turin", and the Southern head bays loudly at both and howls for Free Trade. " Great coun try, this!" , The Fiiist Conohess. Mr. Everett, in the last of his Mount Vernon papers fur the New York Ledger, gives an interesting review of the organization of tho federal government under the Constitution. When the 4th of March, 1789 tho nppointed dny which wus to give an organized con stitutional existence to a new confederate republic, about to cuter on an equal footing into tho the family of nations arrived, there had assembled at the seat of the new government, at New York, of the Senote, only tho two Senators from New Hamp shire, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, and one each from Massachusetts and Georgia. These eight punctual men met and adjourn ed from day to day for a week without any addition to their numkr. On the 11th of March they " agreed that a circular should be written to the absent members request ing their immediate attendance.'' Another week passed with the same result, and on the 18th of March it was again agreed thnt "another circtilur should bo written to eight of the nearest absent members, particularly desiring their attendance, in order to form a quorum." Ou the 19tlt of March a Sen ator from New Jersey dropped in; on the 21st a Senator from Delaware made his ap pearance, aud then for another mortal week no increase of tho number of Senators in attendance took place. The other Sen ator from New Jersey came in on the 28th. No one else made his appearance till the 6th of April, when " Richurd Henry Lee, of Virginia, appearing, took his scat and formed a quorum of the whole Senators of the United States," viz: twelve in number, the States which had as yet rutifted the con stitution being but eleven. Such was the tardy organization of the Semite, which at first sat with closed doors as well fur legis lative as executive business. Of tho representatives, of whom the whole number from the eleven ratifying States was but fifty-nine, thirteen only as sembled at New York on the 4th of March, viz: four from Massachusetts, three from Connecticut, four from Pennsylvania, one from Virginia, and one from South Caroli na. - Ou the following day ono more ar rived from New Hampshire, one from Mas sachusetts, two from Connecticut, and one from Pennsylvania. No one else came in till the 14th of March, the House adjourn ing from day to day for want of a quorum. Ou that day Jas. Madisou, Jr., and two other members from Virginia came in, but there was still no quorum. On tho 17th and 18th of March two more members from Virginia appeared, and no further ar rivals took place till tbe 23d. On that day two members came in from New Jersey, and on the 25th another from Virginia. No additional members arrived till the 30th of March, when another member from Ma ryland end Virginia appeared. On the 1st of April another member each from New Jersey and Pennsylvania came in, and a quorum was formed. It was five days ! more before a quorum of the Senate was present, and the first Congress of tbe Unit ed States was organized. On the 21st of April the Vice President, John Adams, appeared and took bis seat as President of the Senate. Immense Size or the Pyramids. A Uuited States naval chaplain who has re cently visited the grand pyramid of Cheops in Egypt, wading in the deep sand fourteen hundred feet before he had passed one of its tiJes, and between five and six thousand before he bad made the circuit, says, L l 1. 1 I X- 1. l. -I I "I" " "T'T ,e: u , I of the ordinary width, and arranging them ';.,,' . ,.,. B;,i0 -nn would have scarcely the basement of this! pyramid; take another hundred and throw their material into the hollow square, and it would not be full. Pile on all the stone : and brick of Philadelphia and Boston, and the structure would not be as high and solid aa this pre tut work of man. One rof block was long since removed to General Washington's Remains. The following is an extract from ait article in tho New York Ledger of January 25th ult: " A few yours ago tho remains of Gen. Washingtuu wero disinterred for tho pur pose of placing them iu a new coffin. Even these wero found in a remarkable state of preservation so much to that one who knew him in life would at once have recognized hit feature." Hurpcr'i Magaziuofor March, 1859, has an article iu which is described the removal of tho remains of Washington: "At the request of Major Lewis," says Mr. Strickland, "the fractured part of the liu was turned over ou the lower part, ex posing to view a head and breast of large dimensions, which appeared br the dim light of the candles to have tuffered but Utile from the effect of time. The eye sockets were large and deep, and the breadth across the temples, together with the forehead, ap peared of unusual size. There was no ap pearance of grave clothes; the chest was broad, the color was dark, and he had the appearance of dried fttth und tkin adher ing dote to the bone. These accounts coincide with the common belief in the neighborhood of Mount Vernou. Cunioig Proceedings in a Tennessee Court. The Circuit Court of Lincoln county, Tcnn., recently tried tho case of the State vs. McElyca, for shooting Lawsou Turley on tho first Monday in May, 1858. "McElyea," says tho Lincoln Jouruul, " was put upou his trial at the November term, 1858 the jury were unable to agree and were discharged ten being for acquit tal and two for conviction. Again he wus put upon trial at the March term with a like result, except thut on the last trial elev en were for acquittal and one for conviction. The jury received the charge from Judgo Marchbanks on Tuesday, remaining togeth er until Friday evening, reporting to the court from time to time their inability to agree. " Before tho jury were discharged the defendent stated to the court that ho would prefer to go to the penitentiary at once ra ther than remain longer in jail, and, if per mitted, would withdraw his plea of not guilty, and plead guilty to tho indictment, though in fact not so, and submit to the ju ry to fix his term of imprisonment that tho case might be disposed of. The jury were theu discharged and again sworn to deter mine tho time for which he should bo con fined iu the penitentiary, which they fixed nt two years." , iRSr Tho Woshington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press is " pained to an nounce that Mr. Buchanan continues to cm ploy tho present authrucito coal agent for Pennsylvania, Dr. Hunter, after the unani mous verdict of the Committee of Investiga tion of the last House reported his utter worthlessucss and incompetency as an agent of the Government. I also hear from a confidential fricud at tho Navy Department that orders are still sent to this man (Hun ter), and that ho is hugely delighted that Mr. Buchanan should continue to favor him while denouncing Gov. Packer and his State administration. But Dr. Hunter has the advantage of most of you men iu Penn sylvania he was never Mr. Buchanan's friend, and can therefore claim tbe honors." A New Tyi'e-Composinq Machine. On the 6th of April several gentlemen were invited to a private view of a new type composing machine, in practical operation in the printing establishment of Messrs. Bradbury k Evans, Whitefriars, London, The machine is the invention of Mr. Rob ert Hattersley, of Manchester, and seems to be simple in construction and efficacious for its purpose. Tho letters nro arranged in rows on a tabic, aud by pressure on a key the desired letter is made to pass down a groove into a 'composing stick.' A com positor was at work upon it, and though he had only used the machine three days, he appeared to thoroughly understand it and to use it with the greatest ease. He stated that he could compose and 'justify' a 'stick of matter in seventeen minutes, tho time ordinarily employed to perform thut opera tion being thirty minutes. He further stated that he could ' set up' 3500 letters an hour, and that with a little more prac tice he thought he could do 5000, the ordi nary rate of composition by hand being 2000 an hour. One advantage of the ma chine, which was pointed out, was, thnt mistakes are less liable to occur in setting np the type than by manual composition, and consequently less time is spent in cor recting. Description or Prentice. A corres pondent of the Naahville Banner thus do scribes George D. Prentice as be found him on board a Mississippi steamer: " A short man, thick set, round body. short muscular legs, short arms, and hands to suit, neck coming straight down into his shoulders, and pretty short and thick; face decidedly marked. He has checks that stick out like a young cub's when bis mouth is distended with nnmasticated com (a yonng cub is a young bear, you know), his I"' j j - i" - " - typej his no is strait, not sunk nor Rol MoDVu to thm ,DrJ inaikt man, and ot blont nor sharp-a regular bl7- Hfl WM on!7 rpncU it was not e gooi nose; bis rye k little, round, and ' trcLcd to a greater extent." restless, enveloped in fat, which obscures it, without ho luoks at you; it looks funny, witty, severely sarcastic, calculating, cold, quick, without great humanity, yet not pre cisely selfish; cautious, piercing with little facility for tears. His brow is black, a lit tle arched, and moderately wide. His head Is, if yon would have it in a word, round; it is a good head, large behind and before, not flat on top nnd not scanty ou tho sides, forehead high and full. His enr is smull, and sticks closo to his head. His hair is durk; when drr, inclined to friz tin, obscures his cars and neck, very thin on top, and hangs over his brow without care or regularity. He shaves clean; wears a dove-colored suit, pants nnd coat ulike, vest of plain black; loose, turn-down collar, lenvtng the neck exposed ; wears no jewel ry; keeps an old pair of steel specks alter nately on his foretop and before his eyes. He bus an old hut, worn smooth, which comes down to his cars, high and largo, full of pupr r, and a big red handkerchief. He wears bluo socks aud a pair of old buckskin moccasins." sir Our grave contemporary, tho Na tional IuU-lligenccr, rarely relaxes its digni ty to perpetrate a joke, but, iu reply to the charge of the Washington Uuiou that the Republicans of the House of Representa tives aro responsible for tho failure of tlio postal appropriation?, it Indulges iu the fol lowing sly but cutting sarcasm: " As we have no moans of knowing the secret counsels and purposes of tho Repub lican party, we cannot undertake to disprove the assertions ot tuo Uovernment organ on this head; but if those who lubored in the House for the defeat of the Post Office ap propriation bill, in tho shape in which it wus amended by the Senate, deserve to be known and styled ns ' Republicans,' wo con fess that tho members of that party wero much more nuinirous iu tho list Congress than we had before imagined; for among those who voted to rc'uni tho bill to the Senate we observe the names of many mem bers from Mississippi, Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, anil other States, whom wo had previously supposed to be Democrat of most undoubted ortho doxy. We nro especially surprised to find Southern members like Mr. Lamar, of Mis sissippi, nnd Messrs. Talbot and Mason, of Kentucky, acting In concert with tho Ke publican party on a measure which was part and parcel of a scheme for the promo tion of what the Union calls tho 'pertonal aspirations' of Mr. Grow, on eminent Re publican . Horn tho State of Pennsylvania, We aro equally surprised to learn that ten Representatives from the latter State, who, by their course on tho ' Lecompton ques tion,' we had supposed to bo Administration Democrats of tho purest water, aro found at last to lmvo yielded to tho seductions of the ' Republicans' so far as to have become art and part with them iu their maneuvers tor tho next Presidential campaign! Nev er perhnps bus any House of Represenla tives witnefised so great a defection; for the AdminisJraton, which commenced with about thirty majority at the opening of the session, was found at its close, according to the classification of the Union, in a minori ty of forty on a question involving tho im pending Presidential contest of 1800.'' t&" Femnlo polygamy, or a plurality of husbands, is authorized by law in Ceylon; aud this is not the result of feuiulu Mor monism or free love, or tiny new light of that sort. It is an old Nnid custom, hav ing prevailed among tho Slnguhleto, under the sanction of law, from time immemorial almost. ,' Tho full latitude of Mormon plu rality of wives, however, is not, by common practice, given to tho femolo polygamy of Ceylon. In general, the Singnhleso women make a close family mutter of it, a woman marrying all the brothers of a family, nibro or less. , In this respect tho Ceylon polygamy cor responds with that of some of our North American Indiun tribes, where tho men tako to themselves all the sisters of a fami ly as their wives. As the Indians do no other work than thnt of hunting, and de pend wholly on the labor of their wives for whatever subsistence they derive from their agricultural crops, there is an inducement for them to multiply partners in toil, And so among tho Indians it is a common max im: "The more wives the more corn." How it is with the East Indian women, we do not know; but if tho same rage for dress prevails among them as with our la dies, it Is possible that they msy be govern ed by the same principle, and thut the max im with them Is: The more husbands the more pin money. This species of polygamy in Ceylon is chu.fly confined, we bol ove, to one district of that island, Candy, and per haps to the Singahlese portion of the pop ulation. We observe from late Bombay papers that the Ceylon Legislative Council has undertaken a reform in the mutter, and declared that hereafter every woman shall l)e satisfied with one husband, or in other words, that no two or three or four men shall at the samo time have one aud tho same wife, A Kentucky Judge. Judge Johnson, of Louisville, Ky., lust week, in deciding a case before bim, said: "A man has no right to whip his wife, but should be severe ly punished if Le were guilty of such aa outrage. Bat the women, on the contrary, bad the right to whip their but. bands when- mr lne. j)Ietlae It was a prerogative Genehal Jackson 'a Rki.kmoi s Cn.tn.te." TEn, It is not generally known that Gen eral Jackson was intended for the ministry, We find tho following interesting facts in the correspondence of thu Presbyterian Sen tinel, a paper recently started t Memphis, Tennessee: While ho was very young, Jackson's fa-1 ther died, leaving his mother but liltlo means to educate and lit for the duties of life himself and two brothers. Andrew, was intended for a miuister of tho Pros hyteriun Chnrch. For tho accomplishment of this purpose ho was sent (o a Uourishiug academy tit tho Washnw Meeting House,, iu South Carol inn, where ho was put to tho study of the dead languages. Tho Provi dence of God, however, hud a mission for Jackson to fulfil, and henco the prosecution of tho mother's purpose was interrupted, and the whole course of the youth changed. In his ufter life, of trial, vicissitudes and (lunger, Jackson often appeared irreligious, and even profane; yet how plainly do wo' see a type of character traceable directly to tho eurly training of a Scotch-Irish Preby.; tcreun mother, nud w hich precisely fitted him for his work, And certainly no man, not excepting even John Newton himself,' has ever more strikingly exemplified the words of Solomon, " Train up a child in tho way ho should go, and when he is oU ho will uot depart from it." In his old age, Gen. Jackson becuiuo u" devoted member of tho Old School Presby teriuu Church. Says his Into biographer: " Ho was a sincere and devoted communi cant of tho Presbyterian Church, and ho' erected a house of worship in the immediate-' vicinity of tho Hermitage for the conven ience of his family nnd servants.": f Tho. samo biographer ulso stated that (luring his last illness "he was constantly cheered by the visits of his old and attached personal friends, and the consolations of religion, to which he lovtd to resort, were a never-failing solace to his heart. Ou ono occasion he remarked to a clergyman who called up on him, thnt he wus in tho hands of a iner-, ciful tloil. 'I have full confidence,' said he, 'in His goodness nnd mercy, -My lamp of life is nearly out, und thu last glimmering is come. I am ready to depart when call-' ed. Tho Bible is true. The principles and staltites of that holv book have been tho rule of my life, und 1 have tried to conform- to its spirit as near us poi'ilu. I pon mat microti volume I r st my hope of eternal salvation, through tho merits nnd blood of our blessed Lord ami Savior Jesus Chr'st,') Such were the dying wordsofGener.il. Jackson. And where, I ask, in all Ins eventful and brilliant life has ho utkr d or written words so instructive nud so vnltui- le? They aro weighty words of profound wisdom, worthy tlio last utterance of tho great limn. They ought to bo framed ninl hung up m every dwelling as UousdioKl words." :"'.i.; To the last ho continued, when dving, to utter words lull of uUVcfioit and Christian resignation.. "His mind," says his latcstj biographer, " retained its vigor to tho last, and his dying moments, even more than his earlier years, exhibited iU highest intellec twilight." 1 It was remarked by Dr. Esslnmait, "his attending physician, Hint his confidence, and faith in tho great truths of religion seemed to bo mora unwavering tlmn any man ho hail ever seen die." "Ho expressed a de sire that Dr. Ivlgar, of tho First Presbyte rian Church, Nashville, should preach his funeral sermon, und thnt no pompous pa. rude should bo made over his grave." Items fob Hopskkkkpeiw, Do cv. rythiugin its proper time; kurp everything in its proper place. Always menu clothes before washing, Alum or vinegar is good to set colorj of red, green, or yellow, Sal-soda will bleach very white; ono spoonful is enough for a kettle or clothes. , Save your suds for garden and plants, or to harden yards when sandy. Stir Poland starch with a common can dle, and it will not stick to the iron, and will be much nicer. Wash your tea-trays with cold suds, pol ish with a little (lour, and rub them with a dry cloth, ' A hot shovel held over varnished furni ture will take out white spots. 1 Ribbons of every kind sliuuld be washed iu cold suds, und not rinsed. If your llat-irons uro rough, rub tlicin witli fine suit nud it will make them smooth. Oat straw is best for filling beds; should be changed once a year. ifyou are buying ncurpot for durability, choose one witli small figures. : A bit of sunn rubbed on the hinges of a door will prevent their creaking. Scotch siiulT put on the holes where the crickets come out will destroy them. A gallon of strong lev, put into a barrel of hard wuter, will make it as soft as rain wnter. Half a cranberry bound on a corn will soon kill it. 8if Col. Pcrruult, of Louisiana, was lute ly sont by Gov. Wickliffo, of that Statu, to Missouri, to procure the extradition of a fugitive murderer who wus in custody in St. Lou's. Hj waited on Gov. Stewart, of M's-.ouri, who happened to bo drunk at the time, and who not only rejected the requisition, but told tho bearer to tell Gov. Wickliffo thut he was a " d d fool," add ing, "if I hadn't more brains than he I'd resign." His Excellency further informed the Colonel that his (Stewart's) "head was all right." The astonished Louisianian asked the drunken man if he was indeed the Governor of the State of Missouri, and on receiving an emphatically-majestic affirma tive, bode him good day and departed. f-aJ We have had a great many trials of Reapers and Mowers, but we never before heard of anything like tbe trial of SicfeH that bss lately come off.