THE OK BOON AHGUS BY 0. W. BAIU. o-rfftfiJ OF SUBSCRIPTION. n.Wr ' t"' "'' f"' .1 i J af I. Mar af flft If""" " V r0t D,llari mill thargiiar tit awniils Ji w.f""" rtctittdv If period. ' JV f"r iitetnlinuti MtH til trrtnragit artfi. "'" '"r" j r ' T"- Forlki Argni. ; Th CMU' Vvlta. .' A I ittle girl run wildly Down when ll willow im brnda, And, mh ro, tnbb. d wildly, I hi frtamU." , Off lb grcn turf fly Ih rif-id, Tlior 'Ik wopt. ft, birJs, m7 waraieu, new, Pm Mlrr, M il riowtd by her, murinurg.l, Uert,' Tb wiudi M il funned her hut chetlt, wheroij, '' All snjel flow III at way, . : ' Klrw frm Purad.w, . And bruahed from hr weiry eye ', Tin pearly iar away. A tin' f'fl l"p wtfily : )nwa whet lb wilkv.re btndt, ,' Ad ll'P'i drarniM iwmly j Jlu ill no friviiUa t r. i. Win on thc Crisis It is quite re freshing to hear Seautor Wade on tlie ub serbing topic. He swcors in frond round Anxlo Saxon, with characteristic vehe mDce. rounding off hi periods with a rintr cf tabooed expletive which would startle the piety of old-fashioned Psuliu-smgera. Hesays, " the Republican party won its tri umph upon distinct principle, open and clearly announced from erery mump in tlie country, and dd if they shall budge on inch." lie arraigns the President Tor gen eral imbecility, npon the secession question particularly. H uy " if the President denied the right of secession, why didn't he hold his tongue and quietly transfer troops to Charleston, where, if it should liuie proved neressnry, ho could have used them, without disturbing the nation? It would Jure been merely changing the soldiers' boarding-house. And if South Curolimi had been Inquisitive, an answer might hare been (riven which she would bare readily comprehended." He is bitter upon the course of the South towards Northern tun in her jurisdiction, saying that " if the British should hang a Ynnkec because he is a Yankee, there would be wnr in two honrs: bat the South hangs scores of men, and they beg us to conciliate 'them." He is willing to do anything that is ritrht, but will submit to uothiitjr wroiir. When se cession conies up in the Senute, "old Den Wiide" will "talk out in inectiu'." A7. Louit Democrat. No STRvcnxiNR is Whiskv. At a niet'tin;' of the American Phnrmnccutical Association, of New York, a paper was read by Mr. Carney, of Boston, on the frsuds and d'C ption practiced on the public by adulteration of dm;;. In ore popular idea, however, says the report, -there is a jrent error in regard to the strychnine in whisky. ' In a lurc number of whisky an my's made duriiij; the past year, we have not been able to detect, in a sin'lo instance, (lie presence of the least truce of strychnine, nnil we hnvo not been oblo to nsevrtuin, from any reliable source, tlmt the practice flfuMiij; strychnine in whisky is ever fol lowed. The fact, nlsn, that one part of strychnine will impart a sensible bitterness to 600,000 parts of water would seem to preclude its being used for that purpose. ' Tub Message in the Housk. The St. Lauis Democrat snys: There was an im pressive scene in the House, universally re-' marked by reflecting men, and it intensified tlie current gloom. It is the practice for the Chuirnun ot Committee on Ways and Means to offer resolutions referring different parts of tho message to appropriate stand in coiniuittccs. These resolutions gen . erally open debates which extend through an entire Congress. Most of the buncombe resolutions are thrown on the House on such occasions. For the first time in forty jean, not one word of debate, not a res olution was offered, but a long string of referring resolutions, presented by Sher man, were adopted in silence. Sherman tveu attempted to provoke debate, but was unsuccessful. G row's homestead bill wus pat through by a sectional vote. The pen wn appropriation and Military Academy appropriation bills were put throngh in like manner. This, is significant. Senator Ba iter, of Oregon, arrived to-day, and attract ed much attention. - - OiRiBAi.Di.Th8 New York Tribune Myi: Garibaldi has resigned his Dictator ship into the hands of Victor Emanuel, nd gone home to his rude farm on the little island of Caprera. Alter uniting : Sicily and Naples, with their nine millions f people, to the Italian Kingdom, the Liberator returns to the simplicity of his peaceful seclusion, refusing both wealth d titles, enriched in nothing but glory, d the mingled admiration and affection f the world. ' If history records anywhere the life f a hero more disinterested, more more faithful, endowed with more Mbstantial magnanimity or a more sublime iiaplicity of character, we do not know it. ItTy may well leek on him with pride and gratitude, but he belongs to hums ait y even W than he belnnps to her. Cjurrnavu Legislature. Don Pablo 4 la G (terra baa been elected President of the Senate, receiving the vot of all the Republicans, all tho Breckinridge Demo- CTits, and eight or nine Douglasites in all 2. Waikins (Dong. Dem.) received 10 ,'otea. Don Pablo has represented Santa . Barbara county ever since the State organ . "'. He is an honorable, high-minded tenileioan, and his clectioo was intended as ' waplimwit to tho aative population.- f ife A Weekly Newspupr, devoted to the Interests of tbo Laboring Classes, and advocating the Vol. VI. latU Vlrw r Hlavarjr. ii.Tu.x;hT--;iA:: ma " A knJ ire oanum briny fur.h evil fruit." Our last sketch left thu reader on one of the plantations of Mr L. of Louisiana, the first one on which the writer was ever employed as a mechanic. This was con- sidered on ef the best managed plantations in the parish, for which no small part of .i ri!.-..: ..... . Hie credit was due to the Intelligence, skill and business energy of his -faithful overseer by whom his slaves were well fed, well clothed, well honied, well cared for in sickness and in the tender age of Infancy as nothing of the kind is included in their ami chilhood; and, it may be added, wit allowance. A lurge gourd serves them for wtrktd, and wll jloyytd for any delinqnen- a bucket, a small one for a dipper; a rude cy or slackness. i ly constructed bench or a stool, for a chair, Tho all 'Wiinco of food for each working and a like rude construction or a box for slave was half a pound of pork a day, ' a table. Their lodging is either on the tuken with corn brcud audwater at break- floor, wrapped in their blank -t, or In a fast, with the addition of vegetables for rough bunk framed into a comer of their dinner. These meals are taken in the field cabins, or on Master's old east off bedstead, as described in a former number. Their beds if any are nbln to obtain that On this plantation there were 120 to luxury consist mostly of corn shucks rn 130 cotton pickers to be thus fed, besides closed in n t ck of old cotton sack, or the the infirm, the small children and others patched fragments of their tattered gar that were at home in their quarters. The ments, while a very few who haro means food wus prepared at tho slaves' quurters by the conk, who provided the aggregate allowance for the whole gang, divided into as ninny equal parts as the gang numbered, Tho slaves provide themselves with tin buckets or gourds, according to their means, in which to receive respectively their allow- ancc, ns it is dealt out to families and in- dividuuk The allowance fur supper, ns before noticed, was simply corn bread and water, the slaves sometimes reserving a portion of the pot-liquor, which comes with their breakfast and dinner, to sop their bread iu ut night. The supper is the only meal taken nt their quarters. This is what is called good feeding, in Southern parlance. . For summer clothing the men received each one cheap palmetto hat, one Lowell cot-! tan shirt, two paiis of Lowell cotton punts, one pair of shoes; tho women, one cotton j handkerchief, one cotton under garment, two cotton couts, of five yards each, and ' one pair of shoes. For winter, tho men received each, two cotton shirts, one linsey woolsey jacket, one pair of p ints of the same cloth, one pair of shoes, mid once in two years, a cheap cotton felt hat. The Winter allowance for the women was one cotton head linmlkercliief, two cotton under garments, one liusey-wnolscy coat, and one puir of shoes. Skirts they make for them selves, if they have thrm, by patching tlie fragments of woru out clothes. Each working slave was allowed one cheap blanket every second year. On Monday morning they were all re quired to turn out with their cotton clothes well washed, or receive twenty-five lashes. Sunday is their washing day. Some, how ever, take thc night for it after their day's work is completed. The rule for feeding and clothing varied, I found, on different well-regulated plantations. Some furnish only one cotton under garment in the Tall, no shoes iu the spring, uud bread, meat and vegetables for dinner only. Others give out their allowance on Sunday for the whole week, which consists of three and a half pounds of meat, uud a peck of corn J meal, which the slaves cooked for them- selves nt night. This was, however, found . to be bad economy, inasmuch ns the labor j of cooking encroached upon their needful hours of rest, and thus impaired their health and strength and their productive power. It was therefore sujierseded on large and well regulated plantations, by a common cooking establishment where the meals were well cooked and at seasonable hours, by an old and experienced slave. Planters generally worked their slaves from day-break until dark, with no other intermission lima the short time required for a hasty breakfast and dinner; except tlmt during a part of June and July, up to tho timo of cotton gathering, a recess or two hours in thc midst of the day was al lowed them. Mr. L.'s slaves were also comfortobly housed. Their quarters consisted of small one-story frame tenements of two rooms eoch-to accommodate two families-j -i.h . el.imnev in the centre. They are weather boarded, and have a tight board floor a comfort with which negro quar- tcrs are not always fnrnished-Vut w.li.out oi emu.oi.on, . u,-r-.ru .uU..u, . ceiling lining or windows, except wooden mon to all the overseers in tlmt region, shutters. Tliese buildings, arranged in two which mad- them furious Jehus at slave or more rows, extending from the overseer's driving. Tlrs may be sport, or at lea bouse at the head of the street which di - vides the rows, to the black driver's house. wth front, the .treet at the writ. end. placed at equal distances from each Other, ' 1 . . ... ,. t.. r nnifarm st vie and size, all lllic-waniic nresent to tlie beholder . .1.. k..l.nM..r an attractive aD- -present iu - r pearance, somewhat resembling a wna vew-rii...i.i8 - lira v New England village. -Md W r the slaves on Mon- cleanly appearance oi v.' day morning, w in inr , racmao. - fl , specimen of ir. ao Savor's "beaotirul Mtward. u " whtted leyuVcwrv ! xr 1 ciepit t$m OUKGON CITY, OREGON, JANUARY 26, show of order and beauty, however, that! i w-.nu he about as mtionul as a I ke conclusinn drawn from the nppesrauce of the splendid edifice which coctumi the manacled pris- oner. Such were the negro qunrlcrs on the best regulated plantations in the region where I resided. On other places they were mean, uncomfortable hi cabins, with nothing but the ground for a floor. As to furniture, it is such as the slaves ran make a shift to provide for themselves, purchase new ticking. A wooden tray, of the;r own manufacture, subserves the double purpose of platter mid plate for the fum'ly table, mid in eating they illustrate the com- mon saw that " fingers were made before forks and hands also before knives and spoons." O.ie knife for a family either pocket or cuse-knife, is uho.it as indipeiisn- hie as tanning tools on a plantation. Iu the furniture of diff rent cabins, however, there are grades of variety and style, as wrll as in the furniture of any other com- muiiiiy; each family providing itself with couveuiencies and elegancies, such as knives and forks, and plates ami dishes of eroeke- ry or tin ware, as means permit and taste dictates. Such cooking .implements as n pot, kettle or sk lh t, are among their rari- ties; the embers of the hearth for their ash- d the hoe for baking hoe-cake, sub- serve tho most ol their rooking purposes on plantations where they have no geuerul cooking establishment. For washing, u tub, block, a paddle, besides a streuui, hike, or bayou, answers every purpose. The fira of the hearth serves them In thc place ol lamps orcumlles. Their fuel they gather uud cut for them selves, when timber land is near, or have il hauled by the teamster when it is fur off. Tuo blnves' pecuniary menus are derived Irnin a variety of sources: such as raising chickens, working lor wages on Sunday when work crowds, cultivating patches of their own on Sundays an indulgence with which overseers sometimes stimulate their best slaves and female prostitution, in which 1 ne many ol the fairest of the sex do a very profitable business with overseers, and mechanics on the plantation, and wealthy paramours. Sunday is the slave's own day, on all well regulated plantations, except so much of it us their owner may require of them for washing uud mending clothes, sharpening and repairing tools, and other necessary preparations for plantation work of the tie- suing week, which must not be interrupted by these incidental avocstimis. Whatever work of their own they have to do must also be done on this day, for the six days' labor, from early dawn to the shutting down of night, is all claimed by their owner. The Lord's day is the slave's day, in which to la' air and do all his own work (and some of his master's), while the six are consecrated days consecrated exclusively to tho service of bis earthly owner. The Snbbuth is the day fur him to work for wages, cultivate his own patch, gather moss for the market, market his chickens and his little crop of fruit and vegetables, and fit up or repair the rnde comforts of his own cabin. All this work of his own and his master's, crowded upon the single day, makes it a poor day of rest for the slave. On another of Mr. L.'s well managed plantations where I was likewise employ ed ns a mechanic Mr. O. was overseer. i who had the reputation of being also an excellent manager. Indeed it was in all respects similar to the management of the overseer on me nrw nameu F.11Ui.w,., -- tween whom there wns a cons tint strife to out lo each other at cropping. This spirit . i . f r. - r ...,l ...iin. ". to me i-om,i..on., ..ut m.u.-r..w rw to their panting hum.., teams. t that they are regard!, of tho hfe and bea-tn or meir s ave,. , ney are in ten them iii eood condil.011 as to get I " the last lick" of woik out of them, for one is su'ervient to the oilier. Their am- , t0 ,. nlittr Their am- j - . " " ' I . . . 1 . . T V .,. ih... ainonni or gain to iiie.rriupiujn obtain for themsel.es good sitnatioos and; -ric, Ml.ries; and. 1 ke the stock-growing Utmr. theT think as mu -h of improving, the tIih of the pUuU-r's hunuo stock, ai Jfopin art soared to make! I the negroes strong and healthy, and to rear a numerous and vigorous offspring. In the latter respect their cure Is often ex cessiveI mean excessively severe. Mr. Q, the overseer last named, told me that his rule was to give a slave mother on hundred lashes, If she lost her chd I; as if a mother's affection were not Inducement enough to secure watchfulness and ciir, on her part, and a mother's anguish at the death of her darling, not sufficiently intense, without the addition of this terrible scourg ing! "O, Sluvt-ryl thou art a bitter draught!" Mr. G.'s care of the health and condi tion of his negroes did not spare their hidrs, as their scarred backs gave unmistakable proof. I noticed on the plantation he maunged, a large number of slaves who hud been so cut up with the lush that their bucks were m irked with scars and welts from their shoulders to their heels. I was surprised and shocked at the amount of whipping which I witnessed myself on this plantation. I rode out, one day, with the overseer, to their field of labor. They were cutting timber and getting out rails. A numlicr of them, whose movement did not please him, were ordered to shell off und come down, to have their activity quickened with tbo driver's excruciating lash. One Sunday morning I witnessed a pun ishment of a very d. (Trent kind. The vig ilant overseer had, the night before, c.i light a slave in the act of cooking a pig he had stolen. Ha was immediately taken to the stocks, and there fastened by the neck till thu next morning. After breakfast the overseer ordered his black driver to bring the culprit to his house, along with the pot of pig he had cooked. " Shell off your clothes, sir, and sit down!" The poor fellow trembled and rolled his eyes iu a wild manner, as if watching an opportunity to break away. But the presence ol the driver, with his heavy load ed whip ready to knock him down, if he uiado the attempt, precluded all hope of escape, i lie overseer taunted him, and biulo him help himself to the contents of the pot as fast as possible. When he ceas ed, because he could eat no more, the raw hide was applied to his bare back, and the meat, grease and soup, were forced down him until his abused stomach disgorged its contents. This only aggravated his pun ishment, as hn was compelled to swallow ngaiu what his stomach threw tiff, and this process of vomiting and swallowing it again was continued, alternated with scourging, nntil it seemed as if the poor fvilow would die under the operation. Another method of punishment for a like offense was adopted by Mr. M., the overseer of Col. B. The pig-stealer was compelled to wear a hum of fresh pork lush ed to his shoulders likw a knapsack, with out nny relief from the burden, night or day, until the flesh dropped from the bones. The sickening stench of the putrid meat which the victim wns compelled perpetuiil ly to inhale, and the annoymice of the swarms of flics which it attracted, in fly time, (tn say nothing of the flocks of buz zards which I have seen besetting the poor fellow. ) rendered this the most intolerable punishment! Ho might well exclaim: " O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death!" The overseer on another plantation boasted to his brother overseers, that he had compelled a slave to eat the whole of a duck whiih he hud stolen, feathers, en trails, everything but the wings, who ap plauded him for his skill in managing nig gers. The same overseer once drove a slave into the river where he was drowned. He became notorious, indeed, for his out rages upon the defenseless blacks. But he liore the character of " an excellent croji ;er, who could make a nigger travel about right." Thi alone was sufficient to cover a multitude of sins. Mammon is a cruel god, when humanity crosses his path; it is then he becomes a Moloch. Another of the legitimate effects oi slavery was exhibited on Mr. L.'s third plantation; in which the overseer suspend ed a slave by his thumbs and great toil to the limb of a peach tree, and whipped litio to death. To escape punish men t, he crossed over into Mississippi, and remained there until the grand jury had finished their rejtort of criminal cases for the next court. This case excited a great deal of sympathy iu the neighborhood, not for tho poor mur dered slave, but for the murderer, because he was comjielled by this unhappy occur rence to leave a good situation, while his employer kept back his wages to indemnify himself for the property he had thus lost Jobs Holes. MB. VI Im. IH. Vam 1 - . I. . a. ... .,nlu Uio umi um Lieut. Mnllan of tho Wagon Road Exih diiiou. sailed ou the Pacific en route for V ash.ngtou City, He hopes to return In tho spring to proaecuu bis enterprise Hiroojtb U Jtockj mounW I side of Truth in every iswue, 1 801. No. 42. Ihf Vlrr aa Him f RetatatUa. The Rchmoud (Va.) Whig, speaking of secession und its consequences, says " That Is the cu. They propose to give you a tasu or Mr. lance) medicines. It will be a nice little ofa-ratioo. Sowing wheat is tiotlimg to marking time and walking sentry at two o'clock in the night under a drizzling ram. Slim king corn It Out coin pi red to a charge of bayonets. You also will make your arrangements to have your barnyards lit up at night with the fm of revolution. Set your boots nt the head of the bed, fr at any moment the same Ores may lie sputtering and crack ling on the roof of your d wi lling-house. Glistening bayonets on the south bank of tho Potorauu in front burning straw ricka aud burning lions' s behind yon- something worse that, perhaps, in the shupe of death produced by Invisible end uneoiilrontuiile agencies the state de prived of its lalair those laborers escaping by hundreds, or sold at hulf their value in the South your fields unplowrd your public works ruined laud depressed to the lowest figure Statu (tmks, Insurance stocks, Bank stocks, Railroad stocks, liaakedata mere song these would be the immediate effects of the ' Fire and Sword,' which Gov. Wise proposes Iu his 2Vor:olk speech. A peaceable dissolution of the Union is sometimes suggested. Let us allow thut the result could be effected ieaceably. The next thing wo should want would be a standing army. IV John Brown nff iir cost us $300,000. Muke the calcu lation. Yon would mniutain a line of posts all along your frontier. You would ulso want a navy, though Norlolk produces only a few fishing smacks, except the vessels Lu.lt there by order or the Government. You would pay a Southern President with all the ordinary government officials. Yon would pay a d plomutie corps. lou would have to pay Tor uu indepen dent Senate und House of Representatives, and for a new Judiciary. Perhaps you think all this would be reud.ly managed. They tell yon, you are rich. We tell you, thut no purely agricul tural people ever wus rich. The wealth of Philadelphia alone is equal to the entire wealth of the State of Virginia. Take the postnffico alone. The total receipts from the postoffu-cs iu Virginia for 1857-58 wir $242,951. The expendi tures were $453,848. In South Carolina thu receipts were $101,145. The expendi tures were $284,000. In Alabama, the receipts were $1 1 1,002. The expenditures were 1240,750. In iMississmpi, the re ceipts were $88,458. The expenditures were $332,508. In Arkansas the receipts were $35,727. The expenditures were $244,589. How is this deficiency made up now? Part of it is made up thus: The receipts in the State of New York are $1,458,711; the expenditures are $ 1, 154, 111. Iu Massachusetts the receipts are $5G5,G33; the expenditures are $435,237. In most of the Northern States there is u deficit. But in all the Southern States thu deficit is enormous. Tho whole Northern deficit is some $800,000. Tho whole Southern deficit is some $3,000,000. Suppose, however, the Civil War dis posed of. Suppose the new government established. Suppose us with our army, our navy, our lort.llculions. buppose us to havii survived tlie shock, with some slaves left, and our depreciated lands. What thenr We belong to it Southern Confederacy. The Cotton States begin an agitation for the re-opening of the slave trade, or some coolie system. Our re maining negroes nre to compete, if they succeed in their schemes, with the new labor. At all events, we are to be arc tiou a section as regards the Cotton States, wh;ch has no trade with tho other section. e are still to have sectional quarrels. There are still to bo charges ami countercharges aggrei sions uiul coan-ter-aggressious. Wu have not conquered peace. We have now two sections to plugu ns. On the frontier we have to guard against the North. On the South we have to meet the extreme views of tna Gulf States. After a while, perhaps, Virginia would have lost her slaves, and she, with Ken tucky, Maryland, Missouri, would be an auti slavery section in tlie Southern Repub lic. If any one can find a remedy In a Southern Confederacy, we see with differ ent eyes. It does not follow from the picture we have drawn, that wears insensible to the import of Lincoln's election. No one deprecates more the ruccess of a scctionul party on a sectional issue. No one at taches more importance to the idea of the Smith's being placed iu a provincial relu lion to the government. Our oj ct is to point out the breakers, that are to be encountered, if we seek rev olution. The whole qnrstinn is, whether it is best to try snch a medicine. Revolution, in our opinion, is destruction. We ure not ready for ruin. Wo do not think the case as bad as that. When, as at the Alamo, it is necessary for Virginia to place her back to tho wall, and to have as her only object tho destruction of the greatest possihle number of her enemies, iM-tore siw nerseii sinks under a muitituua of wounds, we trust that every son of Vir ginia will die with honor. Until this dps- per a to alternative presents itself, we are Tor maiutuimng the present Uoveroincnc. Pr.xir.n. Bayard Taylor has written a letter to the Ne York Journal of Com merce, denying that he wroU the letter at tributed to him, which praised the Papal Ooveromrnt as a mild and benevolent one. Hia opinion is the reverse of that, and he pronounce toe fcitof a forgery, and not hi irrt oso at bit expewe, eitber. , i RATIW OK ADVERTISING t One Ha" (tKa Ihw or I, brevier awawirel on iiwtriiaa..; S M K ub tultMNjiiaiil inMrrtioa.... I 00 Jtutiuwaeinlieneyrtr DO la) ' A litrtial dmlueiioa will b Mied la tkM Lf aJviilt-by tbear. . tW The MiiaiUf of luwriloet tiou(d be ante J ilia Riarfla nf an sdvrtisRitnt, othatai It will ba ubiUh4 till forbidden, sad ahargW o- eord Hly. tW Obituary nolle will U shargoj Lslf lb abm niimf adi'niiiif. tU'J'ii 1'ammo tMcuttd aiib malum sad diwiiili. I'lymni fr J Printing mmt 4 f tn d'lirtrv ml lkt irirk. Tub Fokti it Ciuhitstok. The ilirr cvry ut Charleston don't l.ko the way Mej. Anderson is putting the forts In order rear thut city. It is said that already the'cMv- airy ore becoming fuint heorttd in vkw of the consequences of attempting to take Fort Moultrie. MJ. Anderson is a Ken- tuckian, aud is determined to nialutuiii the Fort at every hazard. The Mercury snyis The silent energy with which woik ! now bring pushed forward upon the fortifi cations erected for the protection of the harbor of Charleston, is something at one new and extraordinary. Until Into in tho past summer, the diffuse at Fort .Moultrie have rvmuimd in an unfinished condition: the sand of the leach, piled up by t he- winds against the south walls, had rendered thrm easily accessible, almost by a single leap, and tlx empty guus were suffered to gaze out In heriulih majesty on the noble my. A fortnight has worked a niurvvlou change. Fort Moultrie It an enclosed wuter Ut terv, haviug a front on the south, or water tide, of about 300 feet, aud a depth o( about 240 ruct. It is built with salient aud re-entering angles on all tides, aud Is admirably adapted for defense, either from the attack of a storming party, or by regular approaches. 1 he win k now in progress consists in denning the saudt from tbo wulli of the fort, ditching it around the entire circum ference, and erecting a glucis; closing up the postern gates in tho cast aud west walls, and instead cutting sally-ports, which lead into strung outworks on the southeast and southwest angles, in which 12-pounder howitzer guns will be placed, enabling the gsrrii-on to sweep the ditch on three sides with grupe and cnuisUr. The northwest angle of the fort has ulso been strengthened by a bustiont-tte, to sustain the weight of a heavy gun which will command the main street of tlie island. The glacis is fin'shed. It is composed of wind, and covered with layers of loum and turf, all of which Is kept firmly in place by the addition of sections of plunk imiled to uprights sunk in the sum, and crossing each other at right angles mak ing squares of about ten feet each. The purpose of the Rlucis, which is en inclined plane, is to expose in uttnekiug parly to the fire of the guns, which are so plucid as lo sweep it from the crest of the counter scarp to the edge of the beach. ! On thu north side a good many men are cleuriiig thu rn mparts of turf aud earth, for the purpose of putting down a very ugly ((Hiking arrangement, which consists of strips of plank 4 inches wide nnd 1 inches thick, and 0 or 8 feet long, sharpened at the point, und nailed down so as to project about threu feet horizoutully from the top of the walls. A noticeable fact in the ba.tionettcs to which we have alluded, is tho haste in which one of them has been built. The one completed is formed of solid masonry. Iu constructing the other, however, a framework of plunk has been substituted. Against the iusido of this wooden outwork loosu bricks have been pluccd. Both bus liouettcs are iirincd with n small curronadc, uud a howitzer pointed luterully, so as to command the whole iutcrveniug uioat by a cross-fire. In thc hurried execution of theso exten sive improvements, a largo force about 170 men are constantly engaged. Addi tions are daily made to this number, aud the work of putting the post in tho best possible condition lor defense is carried on with almost incredible vigor. A f w days ago, Col. Gardner, who for years hus held the post of Commutidimt, und whose courtesy and lies ring hnd wou the friendship of all who knew him, wus relieved in tho command by MuJ. Ander son, of Kentucky. MnJ. Anderson receiv ed his first commission ns Brevet Second Lieutenant 2d Artillery, July 1, 1825, wns acting Inspector-General in tho Black Iluwk war, and received tho rank of Bre vet Cuptain, August, 1838, for his success ful conduct in the Florida war. On Sept.' 8, 1847, he whs made Brevet Major for his gullaut and meritorious conduct In tho battle of Molino del Rey. The force un der him consists of two componirs of ortil le ry thu companies nre not full, however,' both embracing only about 70 men. While the working men nro doing won ders on the outside, the soldiers within are by no means idle. Field pieces huvo been placed iu position upon the green within the fort, nnd nono of the expedients of military engineering havo licen ueglccted to make the position os strong ns possible. It is said that the greatest vigilance Is ob served in every regulation at this time, and that the gun nro ngulurly shotted every night. It is very certain that ingress is no longer an easy ninttcr for an outsider. The fort is seven miles from the city. Fort Sampler, n solid work cf masonry, stands in the middle of the harbor, on tho edge of the ship channel, and Is snid to bo bomb-proof. It is at present without any regular garrison. There Is a lurge force of workmen some 150 In all busily em ployed in mounting the gum and otherwise putting this great strtrgctie;ioilitin order. The armumcnt consists of 140 guns, many of them being tlie formidable ten-Inch " Columbinds," which throw cither shot or shell, and which have a fearful range. Castle Pinckney is situated near the city, but hus never been considered of much con sequence a a fortress. About 15 gun mount the parapets. There is now no gar rison at this post; only one or two watch men, who have charge of the harbor light. t& The British Colonist, published at Victoria, terms the prospective dissolution of the American Union " the world's ca. lamiij." ter The General Lend Office h issued a patent to authorities in Portland, Oregon, for 820 acres, a ad providing for copflicting elsisit of other portleo. .' " iMnoerat.