THK OK ISO ON A KG US.
, BY D. W. CHAIO.
TKHMt-T A '" furnitkti at
Tint Dillrl f'f'f Cl" f't nium,i
aifttt, '?' tnkteriktrt Fkm Vollari
It '' ' " mi,
Xtki Ikt """J ' Fiur
DtlUrt liH "' "' '
Mi'. "
. , DtlUri ftr tit MMtkiNt mlncrip.
imi ttttttti for ftrM.
rW St f'f i"ttintd until til trrtmtgtt
trtfH- tkttptianof Ikt fuMiker.
fur Hit Argut.
Drtltay.
Blly ftom III hire tree,
JJul it Mtl. u'vr.
8llr. rf C"lu' tttnA .
ih(t of jremmwii rt to U,
mI,i. llwt l'J f T"'
Itliih U) Elerul,)'.
Nluw bull lli rirrr flow
, Onwtr.1, l Il hnnn,
, Drli lh fom arclii (fro
Slowly toward lit tkjf't IjIim dvmo;
Bi lllio mn of en uo ol'mb
lliglilo of (rrin. J " ,
Knatirf llinl ' ill li'lo of T.nm'
Kf aclitih hi Knrnliy.
Oiiuon CitV, DfQ. 18, IH.-.t. I. o. t.
Jlnajf't Woolat.
Ta winJ enroi' bUiig oul of tlio writ,
Aui Jimmy mowrd lli hay
Tho oani blowing Mit of l!io wtl
llilirml tliogwp team nut of iht.rrrtt,
AbJ KJ tlio bluo-tiiril iu h at,
A Jimmy inuwJ die hay.
Taoiwll" k'roinrJ a!.x tho RrouaJ,
AJ Jimmy in eJ lb by
ThowHw'nal :oik th Rrouiul,
Aj r!lin b m'lr P "oJ,
Lib obiWrra libbiiii all r..tiJ
, A Jiiiany owJ ilie buy.
HiKy en wiih her bucki l by,
Aid Jimmy nmwrd lli hoy
M:ily w.lb her bm-ket by.
With hr I gill fot trim mid ily,
AiJ funburlit chiek nl ! H ry
AJ Jimmy inuwf J Ihu Ii 7-
A nWe lluth la liney j -wa
AuJ Jimtiiy in'l ilie hay
A ruilio limli in I nrey ("Wn,
It wjK-IicJ her -:i clmrko rluninj lirnwa,
AaiHlirln,laik hh ilnl irriiibieJ Juau
Vt litne'rr lie Ickril ill.., ..).
Oil! HiS'j 'i litnrt f 0.1 is pilil
An I J.iiiiny innwe.l llir hay
Oh! Mill) ' heart w.. im psl gM v
Hut' Jimmy tli.Higlil h.r oliy im) coM
Aait nirr lie lit '"It'll tliun e'r ho to.il
AoJimniy moweJ il. h..y.
Tbt rain o-iiiio I'lUfiiiJ ll"i niin,
Anil Jimmy movtf j ilie buy
The rain enmr inDieting .lnuii mnii:n,
Ami, uuilrr llm thatch uf lliv huh .1 Ualn,
Jimmy anit Mi.lr, emin t tw a,
81 ahe'lei I by Ilie hay.
The merry rain-drop ha rirJ In,
1'n.lerlh llmkh if buy;
Th miity r u-lniji hurr.l in.
Ami lauhe.l and pitirre.t in a 'I n,
' Over lli at which lli.-y anw wiihin,
Uudrr Ilie llink h uf hay.
Far M Ily aestlod t Jimmy'i breaat,
Under the thatch nf Imy
Fr MHy nestled to Jimmy 'a liia-ct, .
l,;k a wild hird flutter.! if u ita neat,
And then I'll iw.tr ah llie.l her Ut,
Under the thatch of bay.
And wheo the rain ranie l.ii:gliiiij out
Over th ruined Iny
And when die rain i'uniotn"Eh'iiI out,
Milly had eo.ued ( et ninl p.iul,
And twitterir.j hint hegm hi alinal, ;i
An if fT a we ld u.' il .).
Mytertou Wotnaa.
Place her among (lotrers, foster her as a
tender plant, and ahe is a tbing of fancy,
waywardness, and sometimes folly annoyed
by a ew-tlrnp, fretted by the touelf of u
butterfly's wing, and rendy to faint at the
rustle of a beetle the zephyrs arc too rougMonrd
the showers too heavy, and site is overpow-
ercd by the perfume of a rosebud. But let
real calamity come rouse her affections
enkindle the Ores of her heart, and mark
her then; how her heart strengthens itself
how strong is her purpose. Place her in
the heat of battle give her a child, a bird
anything she loves to protect and see
her, as. in a relative instance, raising her
white arms as a shicld.s her own blood
crimsons her upturned forehead, praying
for lifo to protect tho helpless'. Transplant f
ocr m iuoaan places o. n-'J.ji. lMWt WM 110t qu:te half full,
herenwgit to action, and her breath L I Vitl. tho exception ortwo ot
comcs-a healing her presence a blwiug.ll . , . .,,,,..
She dis1mtes, inch by inch, the stride of 4
etillkinir nnst.i1inrf w inn man t in stiinr I
; o i, 1 " 1 -n
and brave, shrinks away, pulo and affrighl
ed.
Misfortunes daunt her nof.; she wears
away .a life of silent endurance, and goes
forward with less timidity than to her bri
dal. In prosperity she is full of odors,
waiting but the winds of adversity to scat
ter them abroad puro gold, valuable, but
nailed in the furnace. In short woman
is a miracle a mystery, tno center from
Wiile'i radiates the great charm ofex'stcuce,"
Advice of Tuomas Carvle to Readers.
Headers are gcnerally.not aware of the
fact nevertheless it is a iiict and one of
great magnitude, and of terrible importance
-that their first grand necessity in rending
"'. be vigilantly and conscientiously select.
':o.)ks ore, like human souls, divided into
ind gOiits,Hor, compared to beasU,
into " clean and uiu'leun.''
iHsH books should be j.hore, and the bea.n'
""-V,jr(.ii'g on the " upper-ten"
' " - etiysmihj-"
-A Weekly New-paper, devoted to tlio Intents of the Laboring Clasps, and advocating
Vol. V.
f rruA,.t, .r d0Wlli nre M.rM;ll),1,ly Krt!tfn; A jr; ,
New W, NovcmW 4. 1S59. I.nrrouml.d ,y rtcl.c of cano. and hel
My Lift letter ra dated, I btiiore. t.r...l fm, il.. ,,M i..
September 20. 0,. th. next day wenp-
pronched .pun. which bee dis-
. ..id towards evening An l.micne.rablo
tnnglu oT chepp.n.l descended from the
farthest h.lls quite to the ocean. I could
distinguish no land, the rock, jutting out
'""j" nKiiiiiM i no wniffl, 11 was a great
relM from the burnt and bnld scenery of
Cal.forni to see verdure again; ,f there
had been a frw tree. I could have fun.
fclcd myself n Oregon. Tne excitement
on board wus intense, for it wua known
k. ,
that on the follow,,, BlK,t w. ,!.ould
read, our firt rtu.p-ph.ec-Ac.pnl.
I tue oper and py glM(1, were in
k.,.tnnt BW and ninny could fa, h,
new l.edl ,ud or mouutuiu the long wished-
(f.r liind inurk. A wo were off thecoust
of .Mex co, our DemorruU ix.htifmm (we oftfrwardf., and our passage pronounced re
had enough or then.) enjoyed thenelve n.arkal.ly cool, although before reaching
l,ng-ly in r.ast,ng their longing eyes on tic Mmm i WM tgnin oIlnost illc ,,,
the tii(iiliifA ii " full " h mi. nf lliom a..M ' r .
"""'I
oi goiu, auu a;ivcr, ana Oram,- ami an-
licijiating the good time when Uncle Sam
would appropriate them to himstlf. liut
n'ght came, when, after waiting a long
time, I addressed myself to sleep as the
.most ifLetmil way to '' kill' the next few
hours. I
I was nrouiwl by tho cries and excited
ramiing of a thous.ind passengers. When
I reached the deck we were creeping slowly
over what appeared to be it little round
ake, enclosed on all sides by mountains,
There were a few lights glimmering in the
distance, by which wu could distinguish a
..I.!.. .. . I . f .. . I..- 1
1 emier woe o, us, ,y,,ig i.kcmmuows
ioso iiho .tore, a lew nurrieu commauus
1 l ... l a i
mid our gun wakes
Tlio eclnwi from thvir dens.
.M ela, ruvky tnl.a uu I u'imih,"
Kuir anchor cots rattling and thunderim?
into the water, and we are at rest. In half,
Vn hour afterwards, a host of cano. s, filled
with trop'cal fruits, s!nl!s, and various
kinds of stlirnr and bread, were floatimr
irouud us ill every direction. Their native!
owners knew enough of English to cry their.
articles with a soft Spanish accent. Tliey
wcro
not allowed to como on bourd, but
when anything whs called for n long ropo
holding a basket was thrown up, the money
Ki'Maaetil In them, uud thv nrtitlu returned
Iwitli scrupulous honesty. The warm, al-
Inost sultry night, the gentlo cries ofthe nn-
;ives, echoed by the mocking lull-s.des, the
jlare of torches everywhere, I shull never
iorgct.
Daylight came nt lust, and with it a
jrarm of passenger boats, very m otlycush-
A lew days of warm veatner linn
Ae m (t) wt,uk tlUt X col,j 0lly Wl,lk
;cross tll0 drek liut tiermined to go on
,.., ,i ,,.c. .t,,, .r.-v nf wu-hnth.
...,,, .,,... t0 ,. boats in com-''
F -.i i .i 11,;1,ii;
liany with several others, cncli captain
r . ...
L...... ti...l t.. .....itt.A ..f li:a tt,ii-t:in!iir miff.
if . . , ', .... , .
j..,l I...,,). n.l ..'nt Lot ir iiitlli d in
Li.:, , rorAr ntto,;t:o We made!llIt,,0,,S,,.i P"'"1!'
Irtish for the first boat that pnncntcd :
.. . . . ,
(self. In an instant tin clamor censeo,
and after repeated commands to " vamose,"
W'" captain" departed with a sad air, for
owned by Americans, Acnpnlco !'(,
... , mM Mon of 'me stnrT ndol
' J . . , ...
. .. . , . ,i
iiiousm, mine ua.ii:.!, nm, .vw.vv ,
i . .i...t ..i..t- ri' ...
thrown together with little reguiat nj . jm
fadics of tho cily had collected on the
beach, each one bearing a little stand full
of delicacies to tempt our appetites as we
landed; but I had been warned hy the obi-
ccrs against an excessive indulgence in f"tJ
imr. and mauaged to run the gauntlet with-
out suffering much depletion ofthe pocket
or distention of tlie abdomen. I passed
don" tho streets if sucn mey may
Ulh.H but thev wero ulmosi
WerO Ulltl'IS' .Uteeiw;".
j. ,i
About an equal number of pigs and na-
a, nl I nn ant a- nrcd to lo
Lunging iu sleepy, blissful indolence iirnnnd
lives, uu i''v -j,
. i . 1 t .-c ni itirnii tioti to visit a
me uuum. " v
small Mexican fort ut the southern side of
the town, but before completing my lath r
the signid gun for our recall was
Most pt the passengers were b-
OREGON CITY, OREGON, DECEMBER 24, 1
,,treiml ,)HTe wicrt, B fl.rlile tCMIlbo
f(,uil(1. The great objection to It ...place
of the extreme l.eut, greater
here than at any other place on the const;
tl.. .... i.iu..i -i '
wnt(.r at lIglt( 0 M10t wwk
Indavt'me
Tm i,, aflfr u vi A(t u.0 ffJ
C01lll,,rcd nll0l,fr ,,,. mor'e Rma
,,. (mw)r W(.n , Mg g
ww ,,rivill!r hlto M of rinV
...i. i t . i
wi" ccnsioii!iiiv relieved
1,y . hnrrilde, Minding ,hnt of liKhtni.
The ltwm ,iur(it ovcr , r"
...i w;,, ,, ,.,;
rcain u UKtP) ,)Ul , r,w . nJcr.
t,,ir the n:r delhrhtfull i!Mtt.,t .!. ...
,, ti,.. r r........
oi walKllur. p. j.
Get 1'kE.vnr for tub " Cknsi-s Mas."
Next year will occur the great decennial
census of the United States, made by the
General Government. Persons will bo up-
pointed for every locality iu the States and
Teri'itorii I to lnthcr stu'Jsties nl tlio inlmli.
ilnuts, and of all the agricultural proiluc-
tions, manufactures, etc. Every cultivator
will be asked for a concise and ueurate state-
ment of land occupied ny him, the number
of acres and the amount of each crop raised
by him during the year ending June, etc.
T.iose who wcro culled upon in 1850 will
. i .. .. .
uounness remnuiier tlio Uillieully expt ri-
at a. -
enced in miiKiii'' tin an accurate report or
tho crops. As the reports are required
in June, it will be necessary to give iu the
crops gathered this year, and the suggestion
tlitit we now make is, that cultivators write
6 .
down, while fresh
in mind, tho number of
acres under cultivation, including the wheat,
etc.,' ulrendy gathered. Tho number of:
acres of each kiinl Hia nnmnnt nrr n.Ti.
and tho gross amount will bo required-
The milk products also, and the amount of
pork. beef. etc.. will also be asked for. Ex.
Webster asd Crockett. 'o two char
acters could be more dissimilar than those
of Webster and Crockett . On. knd pene
trated to the profoundest depths of law,
, statesmanship and diplomacy. The other
had penetrated to tho profoundest depths
of the forest und was a passionate lover of
its wild delights. Crockett paid Webster
a compliment that both pleased and amused
him. "It is related that when his celebra
ted speech upon Foot's resolutions was
published he sent a copy of it to Davy
Crockett. Shortly afterwards Davy called
upon him to make his acknowledgments for
favor-remarking that it was the only
speech that he had ever been nblo to rend
t,T i
llinn i in mil nf n H.ptinnnrv Mr IVnlv-
without the aid of a dictionary.
stcr. it is said, frequently remarked, that
'cr
a compliment was not
1'!Un' noue,
him that he va
wus ever bestowed npon
ver b
hira thut he valued so highly
j- Through the Paris papers wo learn
that tho Abbe Vianay, whose name was
known throughout France and tho Catholic
! world as the Cure of Ars. near Lyons, died
tlio 4tli September, at seventy years of
i ago. They say: " He had been forty-one
. . .,
yt,lirg , nlg punsa, ami kjil-iu. """'J ,,,B
. . . . . . . . .
w10jB 0f , tim(J , US conressional, tuKing
gci,rc,.iy 0ny food or sleep. He gave all he
m1 tQ tje .()0r s sool) ns it. wng known
lmt le wus dyiiiff, the whole, population
cl.ow.,ierj around his bonso and entered
tlirongh doors and windows, and even on
,1(J roof t0 R(.e t,e clyinir suint. Hs atten-
jultg wute(i to send them away; but his
)ast wor(is were that he wished to die
futbir in the midst of lu ciniurcu."
jgy They had some fine '
St. Joseph, Mo., fair.
offered a premju'-
l.-u-k-kmle
j v
Ovj
Tho l.ale nattte with Ike t'.hl.aae.
The Albany Evening Journul states the
case thus: The battle on Pciho seems to
have been the result of a succession of blun
ders on the part of the French and English
Ambassadors. Thoso gentlemen, it ap
pears, set forth for Pekin witli an obstinate
determinat'on not to believe anything the
Chinese told them, and not to do anything
they advised.
Consequently, when at Shanghai1, they
wero Invited to go to Pekin by land, they
curtly replied they would go by sea. Being
directed to go up a certain, river, they went
straight up another; and when told they
were mistaken, assumed their informants
were lying.
They met a pnrcel of jagged country
peopU on the hank of the river bank. These
they took to bo Mandarins. The country
peoplo told them the Mandarins were wait
ing for them nt the mouth or the other river.
This they took to be a falsehood.
Pursuiug their blundering voyage, they
enmo to some stukes, booms, and mud forts,
intended to keep out smugglers and rebels..
They construed them as intcndid to keep
out Ambassadors nod fleets. So without
waiting to be attacked they began pouring
shot into the forts. The forts, though
doubtless amnzed, could do no less lhau de
fend themselves.
The battle was as full of blunders ns the
voyage. They undertook to snil close to
the forts without waiting to seu if there was
water enough, uinl, iu consequence,
rail'
aground. Then they sent a, thousand men
ashore, to march a quarter of a mile, tinder
! fire, tlironirli mud knee keen When these
railed to achieve an impossibility they at-
I "
tribuled it to imaginary Russians with Min
uie rifles, disguised ns Chinese with match
lock! It was not till niter their disastrous
defeat, thut cooler reflection suggested they
had been too hasty, und that had they gone
to the rtirlit nlacr-. tliev would nrobnblv
mvo fuimd the Mandarins ready to receive
,!,,,,
Y ha Uttered the Sentiment.
There was one point qu.to worthy of
mention, that was omitted in our report of
tho lion. Abrnm Lincoln's speech, in this
city. In regard to the sentiment expressed
that the Union would sometime become all
five or all slave that a house divided
aa-ost iiai-lf couio .- stand tiiat there
was an "irrepressible conflict'" between
slavery and freedom Mr. Douglas charges
Mr. Lincoln with its paternity Ho says
that Reward should have given Lincoln
credit for it. Now Lincoln says that the
credit does not belong to hint or to hewartl.
In 1855, tho Richmond Enquirer, then ed
ited by Roger A. Pryor, rxpicssed the
identicul idea. That venerable iVnioernt
ic sheet, tho acknowledged orgtu of the
Democracy of Virginia, was to ii: credited
with the first direct expression' that the
Union must become all free or ill slave,
that there was an irrepressible eonlict, fcc.
In Illinois Douglas plumed liimsctthat he
bad squelched out the treasonable .nd fatal
heresy, anil he iiitiuinted that if e could
havo but spent a little time in Xrr York,
that ho would have squelched out tls heresy
there; but no one heard that Donrlus pro
posed to squelch out the terrible an .deadly!
treason in Virginia. Instead or tat, Ro
ger A. Pryor, who first uttered it, was re
moved from Richmond to Wsi:ngtoti,
that he might edit the centr. l a;jiiii of
Douglas. Cincinnati Commer :ifit,
Pnirrn of the Jews. Tiiei al
though scattered over the raw of h; earth,
yel remain a secret, aim inviur.ui.i., j .
tin on nuti ct
union ami common interests. , r
(.nirv thev are as it were tho V
i " j -
,llt tie t;n,B ,
may come wlten the
tually be the masters in
at the present time are th"
extent, tho arbiters of
Maintaining, on t'
tween the diff
ous powe
and 0'
lif"
thesidtfo
850.
Deaths' Ue Oi-ltiaa
m SWtla
A Scotch paper con
interesting history;
" On Sunday afternoon'
brought to Oulnshifls that i
of weak mind, well known to
Galashiels and Melrosn l.y var.
mens as Black Us.", Bet Orum.
l)uft Bess was ly'.ii'i in a i!y'" eo.
on the road near Ellwand BimI.. -county
police, with mclic.il aswistutce, wv
to removo the stiff ring woman, who hit
Iniu there all night; but she yielded up h.-r
breath just as the medical man approached.
Tho body was at once conveyed to the s;ik
house here, and afterwards interred iu the
strangers' p'ot at Lmlhope burying ground.
Fifty years ago Kl zuhctli Graham was the
rustic beauty, pride, and toast of Mclro'c
and its neighborhood, respeetubly brought
up, with health mantling on her cheek, and
guileless innocence iu her heart. Return
ing home one evening, she was set upon iu
the gloomy sol.tude ol the Bogle burn, and
there ruined. She returned home, or rath
er she immediately forsook the ordinary
huunts or man, having become a raving
nmiiiiic, and lunccforth she dwelt apart,
living alone among but not it responsible
portion or Immunity. The outward form
or what had once been a pay and Imppy
girl took np Its dwelling place iu a rndu
cave in the old Quarry II. II of Melrose.
Here she slrpt ut night, iu summer and
winter, wrapped up in a blanket, save when
for some wild and woeful weeks after the
birth of her dead child, when sho followed
it to tho church-yard, and would nut be
driven away, but slept nmon tho tomli
stones to watcl it" grave. It was from
! this tiufort uuute wail' that Sir Walter S. ott
l.t I.. .1, ........... ..r a. M.., .. U'.tw.. .
iiiuiiu-iri ui i.i.uic ii iiuiue,
in the Heart ol .Miu-Lotliiau." The par
ticulars of the sad case were quite well
known to him, rrf Wing iu the neighborhood;
and the reader will oliservc that tlnTc is a
striking coincidence between-the real facts
ns wo have briefly detailed them, and the
incidents iu the novel us pictured' by the
pen of the uutho'f of Wuverly.1'
The Cause or Earthquakes. A cor
respondent of tho Snn Francisco Call puts
forth tho following theory suggestively iu
regard to the cause of the phenomena:
" What can be the cause of tho phenom
enon? My purpose is not so much to ad
vance an opinion ns to provoke an inqn'ry.
The violent winds which prevail ulong the
const during the summer season nro drawn
from the north to fill the vacuum caused by
the rnrefnet on of Vio air produced in the
interior by the great heat; our barren and
treeless hills, whose arid sides casting the
reflections iu the valleys, form a focus for
tno concentrated Ynjs or the sun, and as
soon ns tho grouiiiUircomcs moistened, and
the titmosphere cooled by the ruins, the
winds cease. NoW, it is well known that
the heat and cold (Excuse my want of sci
entific terms) come iu contact, and concus
sion is the result. Heat is expansive cold
contracting. Hot liquid poured into a cool
glass will crack it, mid hard hot metal
placed on a soft cool ono will produce
vilirations similar, to the sound of the
.Eolian harp. Now, what I would like
to see proven is whether these shocks or
tremblings aru cunsed by its too sudden
cooling; for earthquakes are peculiar
hot countries, und each one here has '
preceded by a hot spell followc
cold ono.
Ntule Somn liC
Gov. Wise has' anr''
Brown is his prisoue-
not have given h1
tletit had mad'
traitor. No'
Ohio linv
petuall"'
collif'
if-
I
OoO.
cruts, a
1S2, Don.
l.t K.
that the
both blanch
will be able to
a tors. Parrot's
said to be 3,000.
The returns from V
the election of the cntirx
ticket, and a RcpuMicuu .
Legislature.
.
Olden's mtij., Rep., In N Jerk
ut least. The Legislature will st.
ate. 12 n. innrr.itii 8 Iii'nnbliediia 1
icjn. House. 9 Democrats. ST IU
licuua and 3 Amcricuns,
McClcrnniid, democrut, has been clecte
to Congress from Illinois by a majority ot
4,000.
Tho Harper's Forry trials aro over for
the present, and the excitement throughout
the country pretty much subsided.
The editor of the New York Herald
s lys that he has seen a Utter from Gov.
Wise, in' which he sajs he will neither par
don nor respite Brown. It is believed that
ho will be executed on tho day fixed by the
Court.
Some slaves have reported to tliejr ma
ters, iu Culpepper, that they wcro ap.
prouchrd by white men, who tried to
pursuade them to run off, and in Campbell
county tl.e books and papers of a negro bo
nevolciit association have been seized. Tho
greatest vigilance is exercised and several
arrests have been made of suspicion char
acters. Latest Intelligence rnou Hr
mux, Texas. The New Orlca'
publishes a letter dated C'oiT
November 7th, which says
tniu thut the town or Bioj
into the hands of Coi"
ican flag was flyinc'
town. All com-'
off. Tho cut' '
of tho Rio
ititentior'
rc-co1