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klB,j. the bachelor jliHe oVr lb . of life,
v, to.iimiKiii rouud him ruae, to K.the Li
worthy head,
Kor - eurli lecture." fright h i leul, ncUmug
on li Ml
ml, . ii peaceful and f re no,
Jul are blue, hi field, -re green,
Aud MUgM tlhet' ur urrene
Cwwerkhim woe, or bring him ..,
Vb.l be j. free from wedlock ili.iu.
Vht tliuuuh hi clothe be llireudbure,
With half tlw ,"'" 'J"! . . .
What though b frirn.J. oil wedded ore,
And olloh'HiM ot Inn 001.111
RuppowhehMtocookliiifooJ.
And do tbo work w,,tn,,n ,MouU '
Toe ilU he'll cheerfully endure,
Bccaiuc tliry ore boiler than lb euro!
Biractnre of ttoe IMaart Malum' RUu.
It has been ascertained by means of the
telescope that the Ring of Saturn consists
of an annular plate or mutter, the thickness
of which is very inconsiderable compared
with llio superliccs. It is nearly but not
nreweiy eccentric with the planet, and in
the plane of its equator. This is proved
It the coincidence of the plane of tho ring
villi the general direction of the belts, and
with tlmt of the apparent motion of the
spots by whK-li the diurnal rotation or the
plaint has been ascertained.
When telescopes of adequate power are
direcfd to the ring presented under a fa
vorable aspect, dark streaks are seen upon
its surface, similar to the belts of the planet.
One of these having been observed to have
a permanence which seemed incompatible
with the admission or the same atmospheric
awn.' an that which has been nssigucd to
the belts, it was conjectured that it urosj
from a real separation or d vis'on of the ring
into two eccentric rings pl.tccd one within
the other. This conjecture- was conveit.d
into certainty by tho discovery that the
same dark streak is seen in the same posi
tion on Loth sides or the ring. It has even
bceu affirmed by sonic observers that stars
are to be seen iu the space between the
rinjs.
It has also been found that the rill!:, in
stead of unncnriuir as an even, thin line or
light, appears a broken and uneven line.
Tins singular appearance is supposed to
arise horn great mountainous irregularities
on the surface of the ring, rendering it much
thicker at some parts than at others. At
some parts it is too thin to bo visible nt
Saturn's distance, while at the parts ren
dered thicker by lofty mountains, it is ap
parent. The brendtli or the rings, as well
as of the intervals which separate them from
each other and from the planet, have been
submitted to very precise micromctic ob
servations, and the results obtained by dif
ferent observers do not materially differ
from each oilier.
ITaih Turned Black. Two of our lady
friends were rending, the other day, Byron's
" Prisoner or Chillon." We intended to
say that one lady was pretending to rend
it aloud to the other lady. No woman has
ever been, now is, or ever will be, capablo
of listening without interrupting. So at
the very commencement, when the reader
read the passage
" Nor grew it white
In (single night,
As meu'aliave grown from sudden fears"
the listener interposed as follows:
"While! Howodd.tobesui'e. Well,
I know nothing nhont men's hair; but
there is our friend, Mrs. G- , of Twelfth
'trect, the lady who has been just twenty
aine years old for tho Inst fifteen years
her husband died, you know, last winter,
at which misfortune her grief was so intense
that her hair turned completely black with
in twenty-four hours after the occurrence
Of that sad event."
Rocking the Bady to Sleep. Never
pnt a child into one of those detestable
things called cradles. Better cut its throat
at oiiJ"1 a"d free it from all the pains and
511s which Vu' m03t certainly rock into it.
Kocking producer; Partiul congestion of
ithe braui, causing dizness, such as yoa
may experience by turniug upon one foot
rapidly for a minute, and is very like nnto
vthe effects or liqnor upon the brain or a
drunken man. This congestion causes a
stupor, and the child lies still; but, oh!
don't call it tl'ep, that balm and sweet re
storer'tis more nearly death; it is the
deep of a drunkard, or of an apoplectic,
Orofafaiutness; 'tis disease produced by
over-excitement, overstimulation of the
tfain. American Medical Gazelle.
Readers Classified. Disraeli was
lately descanting upon readers at a party
flf the litnali given by Gladstone, and
oapard them to foor classes. The first
) compared to an bonr glass, their read
tag being as the sand it rons in and out,
ad leaves not a vestige behind. A second
lss, he said, resembled a sponge which
hutobed everything, and returns it hi nearly
the tame state, only a little dirtier. , A
third class he likened to a jelly-bag which
allows all that i pure to pass away, and re
tains only th refuse and dregs. The
fcwrth elas he compared to the slaves in
Golconda, who, casting aside all that is
'WThless, present only the pure gems.
Ilfie
A Weekly Newnpaper, devoted
Vol. V.
Jat WHIIamti AatreM.
This gentleman on Saturday lust deliv
ered an address in this city on the ques
tion which ho said divided the democratic
party, to wit: Popular or Congressional
sovereignty in tho territories. Ho conten
ded that the popular sovereignty doctrine
was set forth in tho Kausus-Xcbrufcka bill;
that it was so understood by all tho mem
bers of the party, embrac'ng southern and
northern statesmen aud politicians gener
ally; and that it it was then as now, the
true doctrine, to put down forever Con
gressional intervention iu territories. In
tho exercise of this popular soverignty, the
people of the territories, as well while iu a
territorial condition as when they were pro
viding State constitutions, had the right to
establish or to cxeludo slavery. The demo-
cratic party when they met in convention
ut Cincinnati to nominate a candidate for
President, so understood this to be the de
mocratic doctrine, as their platform proves;
and Mr. Buchnuan, when he accepted the
nomination, distinctly placed himself upon
this platform. These were matters of his
tory that could not be denied. Subsequent
ly Mr. Buchanan took an opposito position
on the subject, and hud announced that
slavery was established by the constitution
in the territories, and that the peoplo ot
tho territories could not relieve themselves
from it. This was said to be the decision
in the Dred Scott case; and Mr. Buchan
an had assumed a new platform of princi
ple and had removed every man from office
within his reach who held to the doctrines
of tho platform upon which he was elec
ted, recognizing no mnu as a true demo
crat who held the democratic doctrines of
185(1.
Judge VV. contended that the Dred Scott
decision did not sustain the opinion of Mr
Buchanan, and that tho true constitutional
doctrino iu this case was, that tho people
of tho territories, possessed cnl'ro power,
by their representatives, to admit or exi
elude slavery. He sustained this position
by various arguments. Ho believed it to
bo the true democratic doctrine, and while
he sustained it, lie held himself to be a de
mccrnt. Mr. Smith, in Linn county, in
reply to fiis point, had state 1, that the Su
nremo Court had made a new democratic
platform. He did not so consider it, and
would rrcoL'iiize no other than tho Cincin
nati platform until that was done away by
a democratic national convention.
In tho illustration of these positions, and
Mm nrosentation of nrimneuts to sustain
them, Judge Y. occupied some two hours,
His speech was plain, manly and fair,
as far as it went into the political history
of the day. At tho close, . ho was called
upon to answer tho question Would bo
support Gen. Lane for President? Hie an
swer wus, that ho would support him if he
stood upon tho platform of popular sove
reignty in the territories,
We had intended to write out a report
in d. tail of Jud0'e Williams' speech; but
we deem it unnecessary. The Tacts and ar
guments Used by him are familiar to oar
readers.
We have our views or the same ques
tions discussed by Judge W., and honestly
entertain them. The popular sovereignty j
provision In tho Kansas-Nebraska bill was
a cheat and a lie. The bill was intended
to secure tho establishment of slavery In
Kansas. When it was found that with the
assistance of nil the Bluo Lodges in Mis
souri, the uso or tho Missouri State arms,
and Cupt. Titus' brigands from the south,
acting in concert with President Buchan
an's office-holders in Kansas ; when it
was found that thc-seizure of tho ballot
boxes by armed bands, the driving out or
free state settlers and tho practice of out
rages upon those who stood their ground,
that will blacken the page or history as
long as the waters of the Missouri shall
piss by that beautiful territory ; we say,
when it was found that all these means
could not make Kansas a slave territory,
the agreed case of Dred Scott came np be
fore the Supreme Court, and the decision
of the Southern Judges was, (as was in
tended,) that slavery existed in Kansas
under the constitution, and that the peo
ple there were powerless to exclude slavery
from tbc territory. Mr. Buchannan, sur
rounded by bis pro-slavery cabinet, imme
diately stepped from the Cincinnati plat
form, raised his voice aloft, and declared
that slavery existed as much in Kansas as
in Georgia and Alabamal Mr. Buchan
'. democratic party now assumt the po
a code of
sition that Congress shall pass
1 to protect slavery in Kansas!
-v r a tl, Tnilira errs We think, in
. .
unr meuu u. t, .
supposing that mspany ,, J
slavery portion of it-were ever Donral i
.u. hi.nnrtr we mean tne pro
ed to nave we prupc
onestion of slavery within ita limits
fasten it there forever. The
only
whole
" ...Hi.!.; nl,i.t
to Kansas snows wai ---;-i
& . .
and their only object. Ana .
. m.im tndn were
adopted. These embraced theseizore of tht;tht subject.
to the interest of tho Laboring Cliwses, and advocating tho
OREGON CITY, OREGON, MARCH 24, 18C0.
arms of Missouri the blockado of tho
Missouri river to keep out free state set
tlesthe employment of fillibustcr chiefs
and their unprincipled bamlils-the use of
five thousand ruffian members of Missouri
Blue Lodges and the countenance and
KiipKrt of the general government ; all
these means were to be used, and wero us
ed, to rivet slavery on Kansas. They fail
ed! thanks be to God and the energies of
a free jxople.
No, Judge Williams, your party, as a
whole, never designed to allow the people
of Kansas to exclude slavery from that ter
ritory. Aud It is a striking fact in con
nection with this subject, that Stephen A.
Douglas never raised his voice against tho
outrages of the Buchanan party in Kan
glU)i onti he found these outrages were
likely to destroy him in Lis own State.
Then bo denounced tho courso of the ad
ministration in Kansas. Vt'o close this ur
tide with a remark previously made, that
the provision in regard to popular sove
reignty in the Kansas-Nebraska bill was
a cheat and a lie, designed to fix slavery
upon Kansas. God has turned the coun
sels of tho modern Ahitophels iuto foolish
ness. siMALKAMEEN MlSES
Iteus. Letters
from Walla Walla of the Mi, says "All
our surplus population have left for the
mines, and from what wo hear of the ad
vanced pnrties that have already reached
tho Simulkuniecn, indicates general satis
faction." Another letter from Walla Walla states
that a party of miners had arrived there
from Yreka on the way to the Simalka-
meen. This is pretty substantial evidence
that the prospect of miners near Yreka
and Jacksonville do not accord with news
paper reports.
Dr. Bell, on the route to the mines, un
der date of Feb. 21, at Chelan Lake,writesi
"Our prospect 1ms been much interrupt
ed by snow. We crossed tho Columbia on
ice, a little above Priest's Ilapids, rccross-
ed again a little below Chelan Lake. We
are now within twenty miles of Fort 0
kinegnn, aud will yet bo ten days on the
road."
Several old residents of the Dalles,
among them Col. George Carpenter, uft the
Dalles on the 14 th, for the mines.
Gen. Palmer has undertaken to make a
wagon road from Priest's Rapids or the
Columbia river to tiio Simalkameen mines.
Such a wagon road would bo of great ad
vantage iu sending supplies to the mines.
He was to leave Portland on Wednesday
with means to prosecute the work.
The Olympia Pioucer and Democrat of
tho 9th, states that
"Tho steamer Ranger, Cupt. Hill, with
a rmrty of some sixteen men, left Stcila-
coom on Monday morning: last for Ska-
wamish Puss, the highrst altitude or which
is represented to be alxmt 1500 feet above
the sea level, and therefore the best puss
yet discovered through the Cascade moun
tains."
We apprehend that tho Ranger will find
difficulty in attaining this elevation. When
onco on the pass, the descent would be
eny.
Tho Puget Sound Herald states that J.
II. Wilcox intends to make an attempt to
reach the Simalkameen mines by the Na
chess Pass through the Cascade mountains.
Ho designs to go with a pack train.
The Portland Nows of Saturday notices
the arrival there of three skiffs, laden with
provisions and mining tools, and manned
by nine sturdy miners, on their way to the
Simalkameen. They were from this city.
It was a novel sight to witness the three
frail boats, with their living freight, sailing
down on their long and toilsome journey.
These courageous men have our best wishes
for their success.
For the Argut.
Vitiibte llaeklae.
Mr. Editor: In conversation with one
or our farmers he said to roe, "I am afraid
the oak grubs will take Oregon." In some
sections of the state they are occupying
some or the best lands; and the evil is in
creasing. To remove these grubs is a work
of mueh labor, and the cost is great, from
$3 to $20 an acre. Few can afford to pay
the this expense.
I have learned that two citizens of Yam
Hill County are erecting a machine which
will rapidly remove these oak grubs. An
experimental and imperfect machine did the
work well; but a strong and perfect in
strument, improved under experiment, will
no doubt entirely succeed. 31. Crawford,
Esq. and Mr. Rogers will gel up a ma
chine, probably costing G0, which,
ith
T-Tweek. from three to six acre, of,
harwU nrt a Dorse, will clear iroini
1 h' -
Una.
.. . f,nlMi
ad iu.lu.uc ...... v
Mpstan, strong and sufficient, is well an-
chor and atuched to it is a chain cable,
j wjth t0T)eT hooks 10 seizo mo gruu. i
( wpfUn u worked by a lever moved by a
horse. The cable should be of sufficient
lBe
1111 lllllimv.. . . i
hglf , minute
( Mr. Crawrora wares. 1
.n vir 1 needful information on tne .
For tht Argut,
VaracrttWH(S tor t rfc
Mn. Khitob: I trust that you will con-
tonllr wck to Impress upon your mrmer
reder ,lie necessity and duty of writing
for your paper. We live In a section of
country where much is to be learnt in the
farmer's occupation. When the farmer by
a new mode of husbandry produces a good
result, the fact so important to himself, can
be rendered of grcut value to bis brother
fanners. Experiments in furmlng will be
often made. For instance, we niut erad
icate the sorrel from our farms, or that nuis
ance will drive us from them. This is lit
erally the truth. Can wo arrest the spread
of that nuisance and destroy that which
now infests our grounds? I believe it can
Iw done. Tho ingenuity of our farmers
will find some means to effect this object.
Many experiments will fail. Some one will
not; and that successful one will prove of
more value to Oregon than all the gold
likely to be brought from the Simalkeiueen
mines the prescut season.
Attempts have been made to destroy
this sorrel. Frequent plowing have had
little good effect. But has any farmer tri
ed deep plowing? The Doublo Michigan
Plow, which buries seeds and roots a foot
or more deep, has done much for the de
struction of weeds in Michigan, Illinois,
and other States where it has been used.
It places seeds of weeds and roots so deep
in the ground, that they are no further
trouble; and pulverises the soil so to secure
largo crops. Who has tried this deep plow
ing here?
Somo farmers, I have been told, have
destroyed the fern on some portions of their
cultivated grounds. How was this done?
Thut farmer who has lieen thus successful,
owes it to his brethren to place upon re
cord iu the papers his mode of practice.
What if all the discoveries in agriculture,
in mechanics, and science, had died in the
bosoms or the discoverers? Every man
who can, should contribute his mite to the
irrcat fund of human knowledge. And
more than all, a farmer owes it to his toil
ing brother, to do all he can to lighteu his
toil and make his path or life a prosperous
and happy one. I earnestly desire to en
force these views on the progressive far
mers of Oregon.
fur the Argut.
Ornaneatat trkcl tit Starmbi ! Orecoa.
Mr. Editor: In a late number of the
Oregon Farmer, reference is made to tho
fact, that the most beautiful shrubs are na
tives of tho United States. I hove already
recognized several of tho most popular
in tho east in the woods near your city.
The red flowering Currant; the Evergreen
Berberry (called in the books, 'Mahonia,'
and bore Oregon grape) ; the Evergreen
Sallal; and Waxberry; these are all a
mong the choice shrubs of tho eastern gar
dens. There are several others, I am told,
of great beauty. Tho Honeysuckle com
mon here, is a fine plant. I have seen spe
cimens of tho flowers of Mountain Laurel
or Rhododendron, brought from Mount
Hood, of exceeding splendor. I do not
know of any collection of shrubs which
would bo more interesting thaa could bo
collected here. A clump of Mahonia
in the garden in winter, with its handsome
evergreen glaucous leaves, would make a
rich display; its flowers add to its beauty
in spring; and its fruit in summer still eu
hances tho interest and value of the plant.
Of ornamental trees, I know of none
more remarkabla than the Laurel and Yew.
Their beauties should not bo lost sight of
because they are common. I have not seen
a fully developed Laurel tree. Those found
were growing near other trees and in shape
were affected by them. The leaf and bark
are unique and striking. The Weeping
Yew is most beautiful. From the charac
ter of the timber, I would suppose it to be
of slow growth, and when once in a thriv
ing condition, without accident, the tree
would grow for centuries.
Oregon is lacking in native deciduous
trees. The Balm of Gilead Poplar is a
tree of handsome proportions and foliage
good. The oak, maple, ash, and alder, I
think, comprise all the Other deciduous
trees I have noticed. There are quite a
number of lesser trees or tall shrubs, of the
same character. I see that the yellow lo
cust of the eastern States, is introduded
here. It is pretty when yonng ogly when
old and often is a nuisance in consequence
of throwing np numerous suckers, a. b.
Ut-Sorae of the opposition members of
. . . . . , . u tt--
the 'rB,", ""T . . . T ".V
John M. Bolts to publish his views on the
questions or the day, have since disclaimed
responsibility for the views he has ex-
d in Mwet that inTitation.
Wherenpon Mr. Bates staU in a card
that these gentlemen did tiot invite him
Until they had read in private.and of course
approved, the document for which they
II II TT a Irt with.
N IM1I II . mn H 1 1 M I r. r iiiiiin u. r 1111
drtW theif ,0dorsement,.nd he will assume
ul " "
their ibare of the ConHjainH.
sido of Truth in every issue.
No. 50.
toeteftrary of VuiUt.
Editor Amirs: I have been told by
early settlers iu Oregon that it was not at
all uncommon at that time to find steers
that at three years old would weigh seven
hundred pounds. Then there was plenty
of range for stock. Cuttle had their fill In
summer and in winter. Now scarcely a
three year old steer ran be found that will
weigh five huudred pound. Instead of
progressing in the way of improving com.
mon stock, we are retrograding. Why is
this? Theouswcrls ready; the range Is
eaten out and destroyed; Hid our farmers
have mado little provision to meet the
emergency.
Nature provided the natural grasses to
meet the early wants of settlements; but it
was never intended that these should bo a
permanent resource after the country should
be settkd aud filled with stock. Our far
mers, to a great extent, have failed to be
instructed by the teachings of Nature.
The destruction of stock within tho winters
previous to the present is a sad comment
on their industry and nccutcness or oltser-
vation. Idleness is tho cause of many mis
fortunes, "Timo is money," every where,
aud especially npon the farm.
Beef, now, is not hero in quality what it
was in early times. Beef can never be good
where it Is not well fed. English beef rat
tle arc never 'stunted' by poor feed but nre
ever kept in good condition, and when set
apart for fattening they are furnished with
a constant supply of food. What a figure
would Oregon beef make at this season of
the year if placed in competition with
beef of the States?
These things ought uot so to be. We
have all tho means to make beef which
would uot suffer by comparison with tho
best beef in tho world.
l.lberot tew at Mr. UotUt
Hon. John M. Botts, of Virginia, iu an
swer to a request from somo political
friends, gives his views on tho politics of
tho day in on ortido occupying over eight
columns in one of tho Richmond papers.
He scouts the idea that the Republican
party ever had anything to do with John
Browu's Virginia raid; and condemns the
authorities of his own State for lionizing
the invader at an expense of a half a mil
lion or dollars. Had Brown and his asso
ciates be:n Southern men, they would have
been tried and hung without any excite
incut. He regards the ndo, therefore, now
made about them as tho periodical visita
tion or power, their leap-year of horrors,
just before a Presidential election. It is
not n tempest in a ten-pot, but a hurricane
in a tea-spoon. Mr. Botts regards the ab
olitionists and the disunionists as the Capu
lets and Montagus of the nation, and de
votes a plague on both their houses. He
thinks the Helper book contains much in
cendiary matter for the non-slaveholders
of the South, but docs not blink the fact
that it quotes largely from Washington, Jef
ferson, Madison, Munroe, Patrick Henry,
Georeo Mason, Cluy, Gov. Hammond of
South Carolina, Gov. McDowell, Rives,
Father Ritchie, Gov. Wise, French Am
bassador Faulkner, clf-Sccrclury W. Bal
lard Preston, aud others, oil of Virginia,
against slnvery. But neither this book, nor
anything else now extant, justifies the dis
union cry now raised by Southern Demo
crats. He contends that the man who scri
ously talks ot dissolving the Union, is an
ignoramus. It was mado to bo perpetual,
and perpetual it will be of necessity. Its
i a
founders provided for its perpetuation, and
omitted to provido for its dissolution.
Mr. Bolts does uot approve the legisla
tion in some or the free States, hostile to
the fucitive slave law, but he does not
think this justifies the rewards offered in
Richmond papers for the heads of promi
ncnt members of the Republican party
The recent lynching of Northern peoplo in
the South, he condemns in all their length
and breadth. He says Virginia will never
rival the Northern States until she aban
dons her free trade notions and gives more
protection to home industry. Mr. Botti,
in conclusion, is opposed to carrying slavery
into free Territories, by national legislation
or by force or arms. In this particular he
adopts Mr. Clay's doctrine to the very let
ter. He calls on the Opposition party in
the South to rally on this great principle,
against the " nightmare politicians" who re
pealed the Compromise of 1820, and inau
gurated the act of 1854.
These opinions of a man like Mr. Botts,
put forth at the present time in Virginia,
have a national interest. They are among
the encouraging signs of the times, afford
ing evidence, as they do, that they are
shared by thousands at the South, who are
denied, or do not care to assume, the priv
ilege of expression,
ter The amount of salt manufactured
annually at Syracuse U 7,000,000 bushels.
Tbo annual revenue to the manufacturers
is $3,000,000, and the income to the Stat
is $70,000, as a tax of One per cent, per
bushel is charged by the State on all salt
manufactured. The whole amount of salt
manufactured la the United 6tates it 16,
000,000 of buabele yssHy.
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A writer from St. Louis gives the sub
dued description of tho Hon. F.dwtrd
Bates:
" Mr. Bates is a natirc of Virginia, and
is about 05 years of age. He came liete
at 20 years of age, and sooti engaged in
the practice of the luw. He was one of
the delegates who framed the Constitution
of Missouri, and such was his prominence,
even at this early period, that he .wus c
lected as the first Attorney-General of the
State. Since that time be has lor the
most part devoted himself to his profession,
though he has been a member of Congress
and a Judge of one of tho State Courts,
nd hits had various other liik'h offices ten
dered to him, both local and national, lltf
married a most estnnnUo lady of North
Carolina, by whom he has had a numerous
family of sons aud daiihtcr, eight of
whom are still living. I lie oldest son is a
lawyer of very eminent ability, though he
is chiefly devoted to farming In this viciu
ity. Another Is a physician, aud others
are qualifying themselves for various pur'
suit 4.
Mr. Bates lives in a plain, though large
and handsome, brick house, recently erect
ed on a commanding site, four miles west
of the city. His style of living is simple
but gi'nrrous, the administration ot the
household being conducted with the utmost
order and system. His tublo hits all tho
abundnnco churncKristic of tho teeming
West; tho meal ia never tasted till the
blcssimr is asked for from on high. At
an early hour in the morning, tho family,
servants and nil, summoned by the big bell,
arc collected in the parlor. Hero a eh a li
ter in the Holy Hook is read, nna the
prayer offered. Family prayer also closet
the duties nrnl pleasures ol tne uny.
In person, Mr. bates is a litllo below
the middle bight, but of substantial form.
His general aspect presents a mixture or
modesty and dignity. His hair mid beard
nro full, and silvered in patches; his rouiw
tenanco is cheerful and lively, and during
conversation exhibits rapid transitions with
the play of Ins mum; his Itrow is promi
nent, and his eye piercing, manifesting a
high development of the perceptive facul'
ties. He is eloquent by nature, and is ono
or tho most finished orators or the great
West; as a lawyer, ho stands in the front
rank.
I have not heard him m public, but I
hove, listened to his conversation, which is
in the highest degree winning and instruc
live. In early life, Mr. Bates came much
in contact with the old French settlers of
this region, and from them, I suspect, do
rived something or that courtesy ana re
finement which characterize him: probably,
too, his intercourse with them, dlid his
habit of spenking their language, contrib
uted to that perfection of elocution which
gives a r.est to all he says. At nil events,
his mind is foil, his knowledge exact, his
recollection clear, prompt, and positive.
His imagination is lively, anil humorous
associations constantly flash over his dis
course. He abounds in anecdote, histor
ical and personal, and frequently illustrates
his views by incidents connected with his
own experience and observation.
Though Mr. Bates, as well from taste as
the claims of a large family, has shunned
political life, he is still known aud regarded
here as a profound Btiitcsman, acquainted
with the history or ancient and modern
governments, and especially failrliar with
that of our own country. On these sub
jects ho lias long been a copious and Influ
ential" writer. In connection with him, I
have been particularly struck, not only with
his mass of politicul facts, but with his pow
ers of analysis, and the force and felicity
with which he seizes and presents the geni
us of politicul systems subjected to his con
sideration. Though Mr. Bates has not accepted po
litical station, except in the fow instances
I have mentioned, ho has. for nearly forty
years, been the active and efficient friend
and promoter of religious, charitable, and
educational institutions iu this lurge and
flourishing city. To them lie has contrib
uted his influence, his time, and his elo
quence." ltivrns Undf.iiuInetiieir Ribiit Banks.
It is a fact that, without apparent cause,
the great rivers of Siberia, the Obi, the
Vcirsei, and the Lena, which run into the
Arctic Ocenn, nre perpetually undermining
their right banks. M. Babinet has shown
that this should be the case from the une
qual rotary motion of the earth; and he
proves that an equal movement to the right
should bn found in rivers flowing Kast or
West in the northern hemisphere, the ten
dency in the southern hemisphere being to
the left. M. Bertrond asserts that this
tendency really exists, he asserts also that
it really has been proved that it cannot ex
ceed the hundred millionth of the weight
of the molecule, which would not account
for the phenomena observed. M. Babinct
declares that this tendency to the right is
always observed in gunnery, and to it bo
attributes the direction of the rotary cur
rents in cyclones.
To Rruovk Films Having seen a num
ber of remedies for taking films from horse's
or cattle's eyes, I will give the method I
have practiced for years, without fuil'g in
a single Instance. Take a pice of fresh
butter, the site of a common walnnt fttv
put it In the ear; if t jo Latter is h-rd. Void,
the ear With your hand for a aliojrt'time,
until It melts and runs into, (V head; in
most ca'jc one application 4 aty (hat ia nec
trisary. If you have not got the baitesy
bog's lard will answer. C'winiVy GVnt.
Maeaulav's death waa 10 sudden that
none of hia relations were present. Lady
Trevelyao had left him at 5 o'clock on,
Wednesday, very much iu lis aua state
of health. She was summoned at 8 o'clock
to find him a corpse in bis chair. The im
mediate cause of death was collapse, con
sequent on a most violent sad rrolomred fit
of coughing