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livb in uerxci.on niiil eiiilumiK-v ul uur pom
jc4, la.iu ut(iw, mil w j de..ouii'.- lit Ihw.cm
MU1.UII by niiiie i luice ul' nay dial ur 'lVrruor;,l
ouuwiKf sutler Uul pralesi, in Muiung tlic gruv
ut ul cliillM.
filth: ilnl the priteut DiniocroLO Ailinin
iitnliuu hu for ticaiilnl uur wurl upprrluiK.uiu
ju iu ui.'iwi'reK'Mu nulMerviency lu li.e exacliuu
of a Hk-kuual inu-iol, mis eapaci illy evij.iuin iu
de'peraie eierliou lo lure Die mUniom Lt
cniiliu Coiwliluliuu upon Ilia pMlemnif people
of Kiii iu uuiiMruiii the toi iwuul rela'ioii be
lreu uiiWler auJ aervaiil Iu involve mi ur.quttli
6ti prokity in peru in ii multiple J eaiurve.
nirnl everywliere, ou luml au.l ern, iIiihiikIi Hie
iukrnuuoii uf CuiigreM uml llie K oVr.il Court, ul'
tit tiireine preh'iiMuu of a purely Kcal interna,
gal iu general and unvnry.ng abuts oflliep iwer
iutriuieU to il by n conn' luij pe. p.e.
Sixth: Thau the pe ip.ejully view with alarm
Ilia iFCklex exiruttig.iiu' wli cli pervadrl i Very
sYpailnunl of the I'Vdoi'ul li iveriim 'lit: tti.tt a
mam torijlit ciouo ny aud a.couutaUility ia .u.lia
ffiiwble to ari-eat th ayalrtn ol plun.ivr uf the
public trriifiiry by fav.jnd partinaiii; wlnie the re
nul ttartling develiiiuuta uf Iruud .in.l corrup'.iun
at the Federal inelropiiw, allow that an eu.ir
lianf-- of uilinii:itniliuii la itnHr.iliv,-ly di-inunKil.
Strtnth: 'Chat the new dojfiua that the O.n
itituton of ill owu furoe cirrin Slavery into any
r ill tlie Tornlorin uf the United 6t.Ue. ia a
dangrruut political hereny, at Viirianee niih the
npl.cit pniviaiuii uf Hut intrunieiit itaelf, with eo
ttuiporiiuroiu exHitiou, mid w.lh legialutive aud
ja.ioial preccdem, ia n voluliouary in its tendency
and aubvenive of the peuce and harmony of the
onintrv.
Eighth: That tlie normal condition of all the ter
ritory uf tho UniU d State ia that of Kreedinn. that
ii our repjbl.cun fnthera, wlin they had abolished
almry iu all our nation ul territory, ord.uned that no
Jmn should be deprived f iife, lili. rty, or prop
erty, without due pmcew of law, it beemiirn our
.duly, by leg aliitiiiii, whenever atali I. gislalinn is
Biceoary, tu maintain thia proviaiou of the Con.
Kitation agutiift all alleinpia to violate it; and we
4rny the authority of Conurewi, of a Territorial
Legtlature, or of any iudividiiala, to (rive legal
ciuieiice to Slavery in any Territory ol the Unit
l States.
Ninth: That we brand the recent re-openioj of
the Alricau slave-trade, under tlie eover of our na
tional lh aided hy perveraious of judicial piwer,
ui cr.tne u((.iitil huminity, a burnnifr shame to
ur ciun'ry and age. and we call upon ConttrifS lo
lake urmnpt nud etKaient uie;Lurf for the total
in I d ial suppression of that exeura'de triffio.
: Ttntk: That in tlu- recent vetoes hy tln-ir Fed
eral Uoveruors uf the acts of the beg nlHturea of
Kansas im l Nebraski, prohi iitiuifSI -vry In ileui)
Trmtnries, we Kiel a r ictii-al illtmtral ou of the'
brnteil I) mcraiic principle of iioii-inlervtiti.in
anl pupularsuvereiniy, ein'iod e l iu the Kansas
anl Neliraak.i bill, and a denuuciatiuu of the de
ception mi l fraud involved therein,
i Ettenth: That Kansas should of right be im
aiel a:e.y admtted ana State under the I'oiis'ilu
tion irmiit'y firm d an I adopted by her people,
and ace ped hy the House of Heprewntutivis.
Tatlfth: That while pnividiiig revenue for thi
"Pnrt o' th.. Cieurral Governin nt hy du.in up
on .iiipxis, .ound policy requ res such mi adjust
in ai of lhee initots as lo enooiiraje the devel
op twin of the iu liiHiriul in ereuls of tho who
country, anil we commend that policy uf nat nnal
rt':h.ii8t wh c!i snuurra to Ihs waekins; m n lib-
a! ari.j i, to aur cul ure remunerating priees. to
neeh uiies and in inuf.i. turero un adu,uil reward
fi;lifirk.', . bor, aud enterprise, and to the na
tion .-gin nere l piop-riiy and independence.
Tkrtttnth: '1 Inn we protest at;ainii any sal
hW,ti,,n to others uf the publ e land held by
e otl settlers, and a.-aiust any view of th fr
ll ties end po iey whieh renards the settlers as
"pitaer ..r ojpp:ic mta for pu dio bonniy, m d we
"mill 1 1 he p.MHifo by r,iiittrsof th 0 mpleie
"d saiiaco:v Homestead measure whivh has
raly pa dlhe limine.
t'nrttentk: That thu RepuldVan party is op.
' w my ch mire in our Nmuraliiaiion lr. or
toy s a e ovulation hy which the rghis ' e ii
niahip hiiheito act nrled to imm gran from 'or
't i Ian Is shall lie ahrrfged or ;miaired; and a
niore; ;iu7a full and efficient pro's, tina tolh
n.'liuia allelawaisT citn-na, whether natve or
"'"nliied bntli at home and nbnavl.
. rifltftk: That apprnp' ia'nuis by ('onfrreN for
K'srand llarlior Improv. inenta of a aaiional
'waeuw, eeou red for the ac-oinnvida i n an I so
"" "f an e list ni eoinmic. art h inherited by
wUioatitaiion anl justfied by ao oblige ion of
Gwerameoi lo protect ibo lives and prvpeilr
".
Sirteeala: That a railroad In tho Pac'Be Ocean
WlliuM"t,ly touuutiti by the iDtorest of lb
""airyi Uial the Federal Government
"Cw s tender immediate and efficient aid in i's
l mi asp.-rnininarr inereioaoa
'JJerUa l mail .hould be prompHy established.
wetien,and tliat anp.-rliininarr iheretoadai-
r ""t"" riaally, hatmg llius -t for h
eiive principles and eiews, we invito the
oar
I1 n f all eithiena. h.,er Jiff.p An ath.
atSlleJtiMla -I... ...i . . n . i
ki " " -w uua.auiiao arco WIMI as la
r alSrnWe and sup.tort. '
A English gentleman's servant is
Wd for trial in Naples, accused of blasphe
h7, In saying that a beautiful and attractive
jnaoUofmore value ihaa an angel.
Jbsri woald be t great many awful sinners
the world, if this declaration was bias
foeajy.. Ritcher enutBerates 600 distinct
Tei of rJifca" in tha
A Weekly Newspaper, devoted to the Interests of the Lnboring Classes, and advocating the
Vol VI.
Tb mail. Hllvrr Mllrt.
Ed. Aieic Iu jour hsdu oftlio 8lh, In
fptuklog of tht Suiitium silver ininm you
give the rwtill of icr-l awijn n pub
lUhed iu the SUteimuu aud Tortlund Ad
TiTtincr. Now you cnnnot form correct opinion
of those uilnm from eillier of theae hkiihh.
For, In the Owt plaw, If you niiiHwe tin
Cascade mountaina to be liuilt of anch ore
na tliut from which Mr. Hull obtiiiued otit
5,000 per ton, yon, liks many others,
would find yoursrlf jtn-atly niistukfu. And
ou the other hand. If you think tlit-re la no
Mich oru tliera because another aM;iy has
beeu made which pves but $7,50 of nilrcr
per ton, and still another that produced no
silver, you wdl still find yourself umliiken
Out it seems tlmt most men are inclined to
one of thesa extremes. I am a partner
with the two gentlemen for whom these
assay were made, and have worked in the
mncs with Mr. Horton ull tho past sum-
mcr until the 3d of August, when we left
the in lies, bringing with us specimens of
itbuiit twenty diffe rent kinds of ore uml
mineralized rink for the purpose of ascer
taining which was of rnlue. Of n number
of these specimens assayed in Siileni by Dr.
L. C. Broy aud Rer. C. H. Hull, one con
tained no silver. I know nothing of the
assays made by Miirchund & Co., except
from the urtiile in the Argus, ir Mr. Hor
ton furnithed the ore for these assays,
" Dcpositc Xo. 083"' was probably a sped-
mcu d.flvrtfut from any wu Imtl hud assayed
thu Tnlue of which he wished to know.
If tlie "Oulenu ore, di-posite Xo. 083,"
was from our lend, it must hare been just
l.ke some assayed by pr. IJroy, which gave
bctweeu eleven and twelve pounds of silver
per ton. We found but very little Galena
ore, and that deposited near the surface
occurring in small cubes, and is what mi
ners call foot mineral.
Must of the so-culled mineral brought
from tlieso mines is from near the surfucc
and contains but very little (if any) silver.
Mr. Hull's best assay was a piece of oru
from our lust hour's work in Humbug
Lead deposited 34 feet fmm the surface of
the curth. It guve $3,308 per ton, instead
of $3,200 as published iu the Statesman.
Our assays from this lead, four in number
(exclusive of tho one referred te above,
which yielded no silver), avernged over
$1,000 per ton, the miut rul iucreusing iu
richness the le per we go.
The " Glen Onk Co." are working a
tunnel in a henry dike, which after work
iug in about 10 feet they turned and work
ed across the d.ke parallel with the river.
When I left the mines hist (Aug. 23d),
the entire depth of their work ng was
abont 30 feet. Besides these, there ore
five other lends that have been opened to n
depth of from 5 to 12 feet each. This is
nil the work that hits been done during the
past summer on some four or five hundred
claims which huve been taken in these
mines.
It is generally supposed that there has
hti'n a great amount of labor performed
there, but this a mistake. Most men who
have been there, when they see the work
that is to be done iu order to prospect a
leud, seem to luck courage to buttle with
the hard rock, and have contented them
selves by taking claims, and are waiting
for some one else to do the work. They
seem afraid to risk a few days' work, until
they know it will pay.
Another nvstnke in the pnblie opinion
(or in the minds of those who have any
faith iu the existence of the mines) is in
the amount of ore. I have no doubt that
there is enough good mineral to pay for
working, even at the present prices of la
bor. But there are not " worlds of it,"
nor even a " mountain" of it as has been
report d by some who habe been there.
" All is not gold that gl tters." Neither
is the min ralized rock glittering with mica
and pyrites, silver ore.
If it were, then it ,
ra'ght be said with somn propriety that
" there are mountains of it." The ore oc-j
enrs in veins or lends. The leads are from
one inch to four or five feet wide. I do
r.ot know that all the leads contain silver;
it is my opinion they do not.
A lead or vein is a fissure crossing the
strata, filled with a d'posite differing from
the rock through which it runs.
Mr. Dana, in his Manual Mintralngy,
page 204, in describing the position in the
rock in which metals and their ores occur,
says: " A vein often consists for the most
part of the rock material called the
gangue; and the ore either intersects the
gangne in continued baud, or more com
monly is partly disseminated through it in
some places, and is continnous for long dis
tune in others." This is an exact de-
acription of the deposits of mineral in Hum-
bn-' Lead, and it is the only lead that has :
JL '.iiii.. eniwvrh to irive an idea
of what we mar expect to find. Idafewjsee the Coast mountains for aoove me
' .'avl t .u CasM
leads Galena ore is found in small quanti-1
tics bnt an lead miners tell me they do not
Mnidtr the prosoect good for heavy de
iteoftbis
W00 It
OUKOON CITY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 29,
piospecti in the bars aluiir the river.
Several other minerals usually associated!
with silver, as copper, Iron, x:uc, antimony,
bismuth, arsenic, and cinnabar, are alxo
found. Leads occur and have been taken
fur 15 or 20 m;lca along the river, and how
much farther I am not able to suy.
Now, in order to dcvclope these mines,
we need men who are not afraid to buttle
w th hard rnek and cold water (for both
huve to be encountered and overcome be
fore anything cun be hoped for), and who
ar willing to wait as long for ruturns from
their labor as a farmer does when he plants
a field of wheat. And we need other men
who ore willing to furnish these workers
with tools and provisions for six mouths or
year, in return for which they are willing
to tuke an Interest iu wlmt the miners may
find. Let three or four hundred men be
et to work iu this way, as might and
ought to be done, and they would soon dc
vclope some of the mineral resources of the
country. But as long as the present sys
tem of operations, or r.tMier iuactivity, ia
fullowed, we cunnot expect much good from
these sources. I know a number of men
who have been eager to secure claims, and
who uru buuduutly able to prospect a
lead, now holding from three to five lends
each, but not more iii.n one such has done
anything toward opening a lead. They
are waiting and watching a few poor mei;
spend thrir time and money, and when they
think the thing is ierfectly sufe, they will
be ready to " pitch in." Truly, are they
not of that class who " hide men with bur
dens grievous to be borne, and they them
selves touch not the burden with one of
their fingers'7
Now, Mr. Editor, if you or the tommu
uity iu genera! are anxious that the value
of our silver ores should be known, just
devise some plan to get into tlie bowels of
the earth and bring them out, nud my opin
ion is that a market would soon bo opened
for our surplus produce, and labor be bct-
ti r paid and wages higher than at prvseut.
I do not wish to creuto excitement;
there has been too much of that already.
I do not wish to see another man going to
the mines unless he is prepared and letrr
mined to work, and to work if nercsrary
under disadvantages aud discouragements,
us those have doue who have worked there
thu past summer. J. Cooke.
Salem, Sept. 15, 1860.
From the Summit of tbe EverlatUng
Haaatata.
Eo. Argcs: According to rrqurst, I
send you a brief report of a small parly of
us, who have just returned from Mount
Hood. We all camped nt tho Summit
I'ruirie on the night of the 29th of August,
and on the next morning curly wo proceed
ed onward aud upward. At 8 a. u. we
left our horses iu tho care of an Indian at
the base of the mountain, and all of us,
numely, Levi Davis, of Clackamas, Churhs
Kirkpatriek, of Sublimity, R. V. IWm, of
Salem, and the writer, commenced our
march toward the regions cf eternal snow;
wc bore to the right and crossed a great
canyon, and got on a ridge leading from
the southeast to the northwest, which we
kept up to the highest vegetation, when it
soon became very sharp, and inclined a
; little mora to the left, and iu about one
half mile further we came to a large rock,
where we called a halt, and, after resting a
little, the company proceeded on. About
this time we saw smoke from the crater, a
little to the right of what had appeared to
he the summit, but to the left as seen from
this valley. The ridge on which wc were
was composed of sand and all kinds of
roek and ashes or lime. We soon en me to
snow, which supplied ns with wuter. Af
ter ascending ubont three fourths of a mile
on snow, we again commenced climbing the
roiks op toward that awful place. When
we got there, or near it, we saw a number
of I oles, which we found finite hot ; we
could also see steam coming np from some
of them. At this place Mr. Kirkpatriek
begun to climb orer a pile of rocks that
lay before os, but was persuaded to return;
had he ventured farther, he would proba-
bly have tumbled into the crater with a lot
of loose stones which hung on its brink.
We here felt a painful sensation in the up
per part of our breasts, and experienced
a naus'ous smell. Wu now passed round
to the right, aod got on the ridge beyond
the crater, which soon became very precip
itous. After getting up to within 50 or 60
feet of the last and highest peak, we rested
and ate our mackamuck. The air here
was quite cool. We conld see Mount Jef
ferson a little to the left of the Three Sis
ters, and the Blue Mouutains to the south
east from us; we could not see the Colum
bia River or the Pacific Ocean, on account
or the sraoKe tnai nnng over isns, mi
looked as though it had fallen down and
was resting on these waters. We could
. . ..... .i i i
smose. uor oreatn.njj . i..
j this point we could see down into the
(crater; it was sn awful sight. We could
kettle, aud munetimm t noise l.ka distant
thunder. Whether this was In or outside,
we could not determine. After fimliujr
thnt It was Impossible to 't to the highest
peak of these rocks, Mr. Lewis Dim
took s sum II lioltlr, In which were our
names, aud climbed as high as lie could
and placed it in the crevices of th nx k.
We now retraced our steps with speed,
aud at 5 p. u. we got to our horses, having
been gone nine hours. We then returned
to camp, and next morning started home,
in good spirits, aud well phased with our
trip to Mt. Hood. Wji. M. Davis.
Sept. 8, 1 8(10.
IST Blomliu's l.irt ro-wulkiug feat at
Niagara cmbracrd a bit of stereoscopic
business. The Niagara Falls Gazette thus
sketches the performance: At 4:30 r. m.,
Blondin seized his balancing pole and started
on his tour to Canada. Ha walked rapid
ly, stopping twice to stand on his head, re
cline on his rope, &c, and crossed lu six
minutes. To those who hara seen him on
these mere walking excursions, there is no
fear; they regard him more os they would
a squirrel on the limb of a tree, or a cut
walking the top rail of a fence. On the
route he lay down on his back nud turned
n summerset backward. About 5 o'clock,
Blondin started out witli a stereosro)e,
for the purpose of taking a view of his
grounds on tho American side. After
proceeding about 100 feet, he adjusted his
Instrument, leveling it nt his friends nt this
side. Again the gymnast appearrd on his
cable, this time with a chair on his bnck.
He soon had occasion to rot, and not only
sat down but stood on the chair and bal
anced in various postures. When near the
center of the rope he again went through
several balancing feats. He stood up in
the chair and also sat on the top of the
back of it. We leave our readers to judge
of his position. Out upon a s'ngla rope,
high over the roaring rapids of the Niag
ara, and quietly sitting on the bnck of an
ordinary sized chnir. If any one of our
read' is think they could enjoy a trie a Mr
with him in such a position, they hnve more
daring than we give them credit for. It is
sufficient to state the fact without any hifn
lutin language in tho description. With
but a little other performing he came to the
American side, where ho was greeted by a
crowd of adtnirers.r Many strangers were
a little skeptical about tbe chair, and it
was passed around to convince them that
there was no moonshine nhout it.
Who Paid the Expenses of Tnr Rev
olutionary War? A correspondent of
thn Historical Magazine calls altent'on to
a statement made hy the non. Rufus Kinjr
in the Convention rf Massachusetts which
met to consider the Constitution of the
United States in January, 1789. Mr. Kinir
said tho requisitions upon some of the
States to carry on the war were disregard
ed. A requisition was made at one time
for eleven millions of dollars, and six States
did not contribute a penny of it. At an
other time Mr. Kintr ssid: "Two States
have not paid a farthiiitr from the moment
they aigned tha confederation to this day,
if my documents are to be depended upon,
and they nre open to the inspection of all."
In view of these statements of on of the
promWnt men of the period immediately
following the Revolution, the queries are
made;
Wh'ch were the six States whieh contrib
uted nothing toward the required sum of
eleven millions?
Whieh were the two States which con
tributed nothing toward the support of the
confederation? ?
Final TriaI. or Jcdcr Tfrrt. It
will be recollected that Judge Terry was
nndcr indictment in S in Mateo county for
the same offence for whieh be wos acquit
ted antler the mock' ry of trial in Marin
county. The trial came off in the District
Court for San Mateo county, before Judge
Norton. Of course, the production of an
authenticated record of the verd'et of ac
quittal was conclusive as to the disposal of
this indictment; but nevertheless the jury
showed a desire to stigmatiza that trial,
ami were oat five hours before they
bronght in the verdict in accordance wilh
tlie imperative constitutional provision. If
tht original had been prorIy bronght
More an honest court, Terry would have
undoubtedly been bunged.
t9 It is said that Mr. Douglas and
Mr. Breckinridge are in the daily receipt
of thousands of letters, enthusiastically con
gratulating them npon the harmony which
they and their rrsective friends have es
tablished iu the Democratic party. They
bear their congratulations aa well as conld
be expected under all the circamttances.
tbW It is aaid that the whole West,
from the Ohio to the Missouri, is one vast
rln fiVM. Jt estimated that the State!
Ci'f ear ill Lows tlat m-TI'MM tint. Lola f 1
uu..lu. . metMn rM,ffl, while the demand,
wheat-five million mere than it baa ever! hfU u MW ,i,n)at i,,c.lenUl.le. Tbe
produced Ufore, tod that it is of tbe best I completeness of tbe failure is tbe Sooth, jt
' ' ' ' " "." lh tart" ".pit.-
side of Truth in every issue.
1 860.
No. 25.
Daasla Uraaalelrt HuaUV HverelBly.
Tiie Ch'caifo Tress ami Tribune rrpub
lilies from The Glulio the subjoined speech,
made by Stephen A. Douglua In the Uuit d
States Senate on the 17th of May. It is
a ilocnin Mit which every man who takes an
interest in politics would do well to read.
It was made subsequently to the two-day
effort of its author iu May and was fished
out by tho Mrsistetit caietb'zing of J OVr
son Davis, who was determined that Doug
las should no longer skulk behind unmean
ing generalities. It will be seen by this
unwilling confession that Mr. Douglas re
pudiitti Sijua'trr Svvrrlgu'y, acknowl
edges that the p ople of a Terr tory cannot
Mt up a government for themselves, and
can exercise no political rights except such
as are obtained through an Organic Act of
Congrtu! He in effect justifies the action
of those Democrats who voted against Eli
Thayer's bill proposing to give to the in
habitants of Dakotah, Arizona, Jefferson,
and Nevada tlie right to chooso their own
Territorial rulers and elect Territorial
Delegates to Congress. His doctrine
would have even excluded California as
State, because the people did not go through
the form of a Congressional Territorial
organization. If anything was needed to
convict Mr. Douglas of the most shameless
inconsistency, and couse every honest ad
herent in his ranks to forsake him in dis
gust, it is superabundantly furnished iu this
brief Senatorial speech. It ought to be
posted up in the same frume with the letters
and speeches of Fitzpntrick and Johnson
in favor of a Slave Code. Let everybody
rend it:
Mr. Dorot.AS Regarding Squatter
Sovereignty as a nickname invented by the
Senator and those with whom he acts,
wh'ch I have nevr rccognizol, I must
leave him to define tht! meaning of his own
term. I have denounced Squatter Sover
eignty when yon find it setting np a Gov
ernment in violation of law as you do now
at Pike's Peak. I denounced it this year.
When you Gad an miaul hnrized Li g stature,
in violation rf law, se!trng np a Govern
ment withoi t sanction of Congr-ss or
Court, that is Squatter Sovereiirnty which
I oppose. There is tie rase of Dakota,
where you have left a whole peol' with
out any law r.r Ttrritoriul orgiinirso-i,
with 1:0 mode of appeal front Squatter
Courts to fie United States Court to cor
rect their d c'sVs that ' Squatter Snv
tre:trnty in vii litinn of the Constitution
aid laws of the United" Stites. There is
a simil tr Government set np over a part of
California and a part of the Territory of
U'ah cilh'd Nevada. It has a delegate
here claiinins to represent it. I have de
nounced that as unlawful. I am opposed
to nil such Sqnntter Sovereignty, if that
is what the Senator referred to, I am
against it. All I say is, the people of a
Territory, when they have been orgnn'zed
under the Constilut'on and I in, have Leg-
itivr power over all riehtful subjects of
leffislaflnn, consistent with the Constitution
of the United States. That is tie languatre
of the law, and if they exercise Legislative
powers on any subject Inconsistent with the
Constitution of the United States, the
Conns, to whom oppeal may be taken un
der the luws, will correct their errors.
That is all.
Gwin I ask the Senator whether he
nvs the pen-no ot uaiuornia act np a
Squatter Sovereignty like that at Pike's
Peak?
Douoi as I state this: I re? from the
newpapers, and suppose it to hn true, that
an ortraniz'it'nn has been set up in Carson
Valley, called Nevada Territory, and the
people hnve elected a Governor.
Owin That is in Utah Territory.
Dorot.AS Yes; but it is ssid portion
of the settlers nre over the line in Califor
nia, and soma in Utah, but it mnttera not.
It doe not change the effect, for if it all
be in 1'tnh, it 's an act of rebellion Bfrainsi
the T -rritorinl Oovernm-nt, establshed by
tha Oorernmsnt. That Is tho Squatter
Sovereignty I am agnir.st.
SOT The bluster of Southern drmn-
gnsncs about the commcrc'al supremacy
of the South is effectually silenced by The
Nashville (Tena.) Banner, which, In a
recent article npon the crops, remarks that
the agricultural prnpecta this year present
a subject "of mnch greater important
than the political divisioas of the North
and South, and as if to rebuke tho minds
and restrict the spirits which have t'ar.-d
to whisper ' secession from the North,' sn
Almighty Power has made the Southern
division of the country as dependent npon
the North for food as the North has been
on the South for cotton. Two such failures
as tbe South experiences this year in suc
cession would ruin her. Happily for the
South, the cotton never entirely fails, and
an augmented crop of (it is estimated) 4,
500,000 bales, she will find the means to
pnrcbase her food. For once, ' King
Cotton' must abdicate his commercial
throne, content to make one of a trinmri
rate that henceforth rules the world. Tlmt
which would have been deemed impossible
a few years since, has now actually occur
red, and Georgia, Mississippi, and other
State, sre fmporting their food from Illi
nois and Indiana. During last season,
Missouri suonlifd this demand, but abe will
pnahle this year, for ber crops have ia
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UeaacralU V.ry,
" Independent,'' tho Washington corre
spondent of the Philadelphia North Amer
ican, says that, by tho time Mr. Buch
anan retires from office, and It's legacies
are paid, tho public debt will liaro increas
ed to about f 80,000,000, exclusive of tho
$20,000,000 which General Pierce turned
over to him on the 4 th of March, 1S57.
The present Administration curuc Into
power with all manner of promlsts of
"economy ''and "retrenchment" on its lips.
Yet it has been the most extravagant, not
to say dishonestly lavish one wo lure ever
hud.
During iU wholu tvnn, it has bcert
spending at the rate of twenty millions
a year more thou its receipts from revenues.
It would not take many years of such
financial policy to saddle the United States,
like England, with an cnonnotn, Immova
ble, and intolerable nutiouul debt. '
Heretofore, when tho Treasury bus been
depleted, there has been some rca.ien for it
a war to be prosecuted, or a canceling
of old debt. But no such justilkit'rfrs cau
be alleged now. We have been at pence
with all the world, and not a penny of our
standing debt bus been paid off. Ou the
contrary, it has been increased. The
money bus gone to enrich political favorites
and to promote party cuds.
Four years ago, thu Democrats uJitiittcJ
they had managed the expenditures lavish
ly, but promised, if the peoplo would trust
them four years longer, they would work
miracles of retrenchment nud reform. Tho
people were beguiled by thu promise, and
now reap the reward of their credulity.
Shull the experiment be tried over again?
Wakino Ur. Great Britain, it would
seem, is at lust wuking up to thu danger of
her position. Lord Palmerston has deman
ded tho appropriation of i.1 1,000,000 for
the sole purpose of fortifying the chief na
val urscuals nnil ilockyariJs. llm noiilu
Lord in his speech presents to tho English
people a frank exhibition of their weakness
and their present inability to copo with tho
gigantic power of tho French empire, and
displays to the world his apprehension of u
rupture with the " nephew of his uncle."
Kothiii!r but tho obstiimto pride of tho En
glish nation has prevented it from rccog-
n z is this met long mice, .trance is, be
yond till question, a fur superior pow r to
Great Britain, in a military point of view.
As Ion,; as the supremacy ou the British
ch mnel depended upon the number and
cflicic'icy of suit of thu line, C rent Britain
was n the end always master. Nice stenra
frigates have taken the place of tho men-of-war,
tlmt snprcmacy bus been lost. Eng
land is now open to an invasion, at a fort-
muht s warning, ly nn army composed or
six hundred thousand regular troops.
Jt is therefore high time that our hngli.sh
cousins coufissed tho true state of facts,
and prepared to meet them; for wo doubt
whither any thinking man lias, with nil the
professions of the French Emperor,
brought himself to believe that Louis Na
poleon hus forgotten St. Helena, or tha
French people the occupation of Puris.
Chicago Herald and Times,
What Ccbiiino says ok Lincoln. In ft
conversation between Caleb Cushiug and
Col. Parker, author of Reminiscences of
Rufui Choate, Gushing said:
"Abraham Lincoln is n much nbler man
than is generally supposod, even iu his own
party. In his canvass with Douglas, he
bent him in luw, aud bent 1 ti tit in wit; and
the published debutes of that ennvass will
susttiin this assertion."
When Caleb Cushiug, the President of
both the Democratic Nntionul Conventions,
voluntnrily renders to Mr. Lincoln this hon
or which Is so justly due him, wo think
the little men of tho party who have been
charging Unit Lincoln is a weak and illiter
ate man, ought to hide their faces in shnmo
for th.'ir contemptible meanness.
ExrExstvx PjcTfnt. The Cincinnati
Inquirer has a story of a coachman Who
made $3000 very eusily. Ho bud suspect
ed that his mistress was not like Co sar's
wife iu all tilings. A gentleman, he ob
served, whoso name was on tho list of the
Inrco tax-payers, came quite often to aeo
her, and, queerly enough, always in the
husband's absence. Thinking this scarcely
fair, the coachman went to a daguerrean,
and by the offer of $150 if bo should suc
ceed in making a good picture, induced
him to accompany him one day to bis
stable. The library window opened in
that direction, and the gentleman and mis
tress of the house being at tlmt time in the
library, the artist succeeded in securing
for the couchmnn picture, for which the
gentleman thought it worth while to pny
the coachmnn $3000.
Com. Chaui.es Stewabt. This, 28th
dy of July, is the eighty-second birthday
of the gallant Stewart, who has been in
the service sixty-three years; l.ns been in
over forty actions; captured the Cyano
and Levant, when in command of the fri
irate Constitution, Febrnary 20, 1815.
Ha is in the enjoyment of good health,
works on bis farm at Bordeutnwn from
early in the morning, Until time for cars or
boat to leave, when he comes down to the
nary yard, and attends to all biisincss ap
pertaining to hia position as commander
with fidelity. May he enjoy health for
another score of years, is our sincere wish.
Philadelphia Argut.
U9The total noobef of registered
electors In Great Britain is stated by s re
Cent rfSnal retora to be 1.07I.0T5