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VOL 8 NO. 21,
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1858.
WHOLE NO. 385.
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Ia this paper sre poMiahed the laws, resolutions and
treaties of the United States, and the laws knd resolu
tions of the State of Oregon, by authority.
A Sans; to Knajlandl
Vet again, O, Enp-land ! insnlt t
Yet again thy hanghty hand
Smiting wrong upon the banner
Of thy growing Daughter's Land T
In the jeep of parted eras
Was it not enough for then
T resound thy march of empire
O'er the billow of onr seat
England ! eana't thou not remember
How thy Lion fled the fires
Lit on Freedom's holy altar
By the great Republic's sires T
O, it is too strange, too dreadful
For us to believe that thou.
Mid the old world nations foremost,
With a progress on thy brow.
Would repeat the dastard insult
On a Land with flag unfurled
For the truest march of Mandood
In the new and ancient world.
No ! oh no ! we'll not believe it ;
Not for this were lit the fires
Of our Karth's majestie progress
By the great Republic's sires.
Yes, Americans ! .yes, surely
Some mistake at bottom lies ;
Soon some explanation quenches
Anger's lightning in our eyes ;
Sooa a Washing-ton and Hampden
Shall behold their climes apuin
Speaking through the tramp of Honor
Words of friendship o'er the main
Words of progress, words of glory.
Sounding mid the fadeless fires
Lit of Aid on Freedom's altar
By the great Republic's sires.
Yet, if insult is intended.
England ! know one thrill shall dart.
Like a thunder's spasm through mountains.
Through a banded nation's heart;
Warren's blood is on that banner;
Jackson's Shade is with it still;
And it cannot, shall not rower
On the billow or the hill ;
Tea, O England ! for Earth's manhood.
We must fadeless keep the fires
Lit on Freedom's holy altar
By the great Republic's sires.
EnglUo, Grammar.
The Comic Grammar says:
Bnt remember, though box
In the plural makes boxes,
The plural of ox
Should be ores, not oxes.
To which an exchange adds:
And remember, though fleece
In the plural is fleeces.
That the plural of goose
Arn'teoses nor genes.
"We may also be permitted to add:
And remember, thongrh bouse
In the plural is houses,
The plural of moose
Should be mice, and not'mouses.
rkilm. Gazette.
AH of which goes to prove
That Grammar a farce is;
for where is the plural
Of rum and molasses. .V. II Gazette.
The plural Gazette
Of rum, don't ns trouble ;
Take one glass too much
yVnd you're sure to see Joahlr.
Brooklyn Advertiser.
Jl pair of blue eyes;
Just to vary the train
f5ra the plural of kiss
Is "do it again !" Ilmrard Co. Sen'l.
Bexkftts of a Good Hearty Lircn.
If people teiil believe tough stories with
rood moral, we think the following, from
an English paper, can be recommended as
one of the very best of Its class:
"While on a picnic excursion with a party
of yoang people, discerning a crow's nest on
a rocky precipice, they started in great glee
Xo see who could reach it first. Their haste
beiog greater than prudence, some lost their
hold, and were seen rolling and tumbling
down the hill side, bonnets smashed, clothes
torn. Dostares ridiculous, but no one hart. ;
Then commenced a scene of most violent i
nd lonir-continned laughter, which beine all !
young people, wen acquainica wun eacn
other, and in the woods, they indulged to a
perfect surfeit. They roared out with merry
ipeal oo peal of spontaneous laughter; they
expressed it by hallooing when ordinary
laughter became insufficient to express the
jnerriment they felt at their own ridiculous
situation and those of their mates; and ever
afterwards the bare mention of the crow's
aiest scene occasioned renewed and irresisti
ble laughter. Years after, one of their nnm
ter fell sick.bccarce so low that she could
mot speak, and was about breathing bcr
last. Oar informant called to see her, gave
i aame, and tried to make himself recog
nized, bat failed till he mentioned the crow's
ssest, at which she recognized him and began
to laugh, aud continued every little while
renewing it; from that time she began to
inend, recovered, and still lives, a memento
of the laugh cure."
The Evecreek. At Masonic burials each
brother deposits a sprig of evergreen, saying
as ne does it:
''ThisI deposit in remembrance of my
-deceased brother, and in token of my firm
fcelief ia his glorious resurrection and im
fflortality." "lathe grave all fallacies are detected,
1I ranks are levelled, and all distinctions
r done away."
What a cheerful philosophy is this, and
how beautifully expressed both in the words
ad ia the symbolic evergreen."
A Virginia paper records the Mar
riage of Miss Jane Lemon to Mr. Ebenzer
Sweet; whereupon an exchange moralizes
sb follows:
"Bow happy the extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebenezer;
She's no longer sour, but Sweet,
An $ he's a Lemon squeezer'"
Memorial.
W BEIIALF OF TRE PEOPLE OF OREGOX AND
WASHINGTON. TERRITORIES.
To the Hon. Senate and Hottse of llcprtsen
tre of the United States of America:
Your memorialist, being a citizen of the
United States, Is in honor bound to respect
Impartially the rights and interests of his
fellow-citizens. And whereas his testimony
as published in a work entitled "A plea for
the Indians, with Facts and Features of the
late war in Oregon," . seems to place the
people of that and the adjacent Territory in
such a reprehensible position as may excite
unjust opposition against their claims for
six millions of dollars as indemnity for loss
es and expeusea of the late Indian war:
It is but jus( th&t jour memorialist
shonld affirm in connection with this testi
mony, that although the war was (as he.
believes) unnecessary ami cruel, being wa
ged and carried on for months against a
people who only desired protection and jus
tice; yet your memorialist would respect
fully submit the following considerations of
palliation, if not in Vindication of the peo
ple of those Territories, and for their claims
upon the National Treasury for the expen
ses thus incurred.
I. The war, however wrong, was only
a natural and practical expression of the
eommou seutiment, wincn declares mat
"the Indian is desliucd to perish before the
march of civilization," and implies that those
who first settle upou his lands must be the
exterminators of the race; aud therefore the
people of those lands must be the extermin
ators of the race; and therefore the people
of those Territories have only perpetrated
what has been common to the settlement of
every State (Pennsylvania and Rhode Is
land excepted) siuce the lanUiug of the Pil
grims on the American shore. .
Moreover, the eople ot tnose .territories
have not only the sanctions of precedents,
but of the President, who iu his late Annu
al Message asserts that "the Indians are
hostile, aud require expensive military ex
peditions to overawe aud chastise them."
2. A statement like this, without quali
fication, from the highest functionary in the
land, seems to endorse in the most authori
tive and public manner all the numerous
wars and spoliations, which from time to
time have bveti inflicted upon these people,
and particularly the late destruction of Ink-'
pudata and his tribe at Spirit Lake, and
the slaughter and robbery by Government
troops ia the Gila Valley, where a village
was consumed, most of the people put to
death, six hundred acres of corn destroyed,
and a thousand head of sheep, beside tattle
and hones, taken as spoils; also the mas
sacre at Ash Hollow lj order of Geu. Har
ney, where it is said that one hundred men,
women and children, actually sneing for
pence, wer shot dowu or driven into Piatt
Hirer and drowned; aud alio the long con
tinued war, aided with bloodhounds, against
tbe Seminoles in Florida.
H. In addition to all this positive sanc
tion by tLe Government, the people of those
Territories have also the passive yet potent
approval of all the churches in the country;
for it is manifest that transactions which
have not been done in a corner, involving
so unch misery aud waste of life and prop
erty, and have been regarded either as una
voidable or right; hence no tract has b?cn
issued in protest by the American Tract
Society, and no remonstrance from any ec
clesiastical body in the States has been put
forth, so that onr border settlers in their
aggressive proceedings have been left to
i-oppose that all was proticr, aud as the
rights of the red mn have never been an
item in the creed of any political party, it
is but natural that, however abhorrent the
transactions are in the review of sober sec
ond thought, the people of those Territories
should believe themselves sanctioned by the
popular will, and that they have only prose
cuted what their fellow-citizens in the States
wonld have done had they been in their
place, and therefore that tbey arc as much
entitled to indemnity for loss of property,
and for services reudeicd, as is the Presidcut
for his salary, or Gen. Harney for his pay.
4. Your memorialist is profoundly con
vinced that this claim for six million dollars
is not based, as some suppose, in an error
for which the people of those Territories
are especially chargeable, but obviously iu
a cause operative throughouUonr country at
large, which was transmitted by our fathers
from the darker oges, and was in former
times manifest iu the putting to death of
pagans and witches, and the persecution of
Baptists ana uaaKcrs; ana tuougu puonc
charity is becoming more comprehensive, it
vet excludes
the American lnaian in me
wilds, and calls him a savage to be
stroved." And until, as a nation, we
'de
act out the principle of love and wisdom, and
demonstrate goodness as well as power, the
future will be as the past wars will be re
peated, and indemnities called for.
5. Two distinguished Senators have
lately expressed themselves to the effect
that the Indians were only known in tradi
tion; their history and wrongs have never
been told: tbey are not understood, .and
therefore not appreciated; and because, as
men. thev assert their rights, and fight for
existence, they are denounced as hostile.
dealt with as aggressors, and punished ou
their own soil as though tbey wero rebels
and traitors.
The official reports of Gen. Wool, while
commandant of the Pacific forces, also of
Joel Palmer. Superintendent of the Indian
Department of tbe Pacific, aud the tcstimo-
ny of many others, anoru paiuiui uciuns cor
roborative of the above.
6. Your memorialist respectfully submit
(that an entire change of policy is imperious
ly demand alike by national honor ana tne
humanities and eulightenment 01 the age
and that to, continue the present system so
fraught with disaster, is only to perpetuate
the imperfections of the past, as though we
preferred tbe slow coach to the car, or the
post-horse to the telegraph.
Your memorialist having been -called by
circumstances to witness the wrongs and
the rights involved in the premises, would
respectfully submit, that many of our fellow-citizens
participated in the war from
motives of duty and patriotism, many oth
ers from dire necessity, and some are now
suffering extreme embarrassment and depri
vations, in consequence of losses sustaiuedj
and moreover, that the people of those Ter
ritories are our brothers and sisters our
sons aud daughters. Their interest is our
J interest; their honor is the honor of
nation. Therefore, every consideration of
humanity, of natural justice and fraternal
law. calls for a prompt adjustment by the
payment of the white man's loss, and tbe re
dress of the red man's wrong.
And your memorialist will, as heretofore,
pray that peace may reign in all our borders.
JOHN BEESON.
A Pictvrb True to Nature. The follow
ing graphic description of a ."good fellow"
"on a bender," Is so true to nature, that wej
canuot refrain from giving it a place in our
columns. Who has not seen many a simi
lar 'amusing, or rather lamentable exhibi
fioTif" We make the extract from the l'hil-
awif.bia EteTirfr-aTraTTOrr"-"
The TcceTi friciTles-feftrrargTrdeF-TBI."
'We saw ye"stWr3nT antirKvfrin'41' who
Nffiynlwfrylrrtirg wteTnplininmmTTjnhrfadtr
4 .1 r t. - " r--:- 3 r-r-f --r' i 1 - I
uo- waa -preparing tor me uouuar, aim ioj
use tuts wurua oi s certain cmeiiipurarj,
was on a grand sublime bust. Fearful were
tbe efforts of Thomas Alaize to enjoy him
self. Ever and anon, over his illustrious
head, did he flourish a bog of gold, a small
bag, and theu he asked everybody np to
drink, which everybody did, aud fell back
to allow everybody else to come up and do
likewise. Everybody else invited their
friend, and Thomas Maize, Esq., whirled
the little bag of gold and produced the
"tin," aud paid the expense in the most
cheerful manner.
Every voice proclaimed hjm a good fel
low, and so of course he was, for at 10
o'clock, P. M., we saw hitn generously and
munificently spilling himself miscellaneously
about the streets and alters, and we are
perfectly satisfied that, if he bad not been a
very 'good fellow," he would not have doue
so.
We saw him at 1 1 o'clock, P. M., and
somebody bad stolen his new boots and giv
en him an old pair of pumps. Uuder the
nfluence of two glasses of soda he had
slightly recovered. At 12 o'clock he hod a
relapse he wag on a sublime drunk. K ve
ry body was present, iu company with every
body else, an 1 a number of invited guests.
Tlios. Maize, Eq., still flourished his bag
now considerably reduced and every now
and then the whole crowd walked up aud
took sugar in tlieir'n.
We saw linn alter that,
. lie had a kinky het
On his head
His pnntps were worn away
And bis pockets seemed to say
"Nary red."
Gen. IIorsTox's Northers Mexicax Re-
rcBi.ic. 1 lie rsew lors correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger writes:
Gen. Snm Houston's intimation that if
Congress did not thiuk well of his Mexican j
PrattMitorate sclteme, America us would take.
beJob jikto-ehelr own hands or something
of.that-ort was not an empty-threat:-.
Jiely uponoliati - And rely upon- this, also; i
that .Ue-pavee -firm which -shipped off -three
thousand muskets the other dav, on account
of General Yidaurri and the Sierra Madre
Republic, are now flllinr, a similar order for
a bouse iu Galveston, Texas. The muskets
must be landed there, according to contract,
by the 1st of Angust. Whether the Sena
tor from Texas has anything to do with
this transaction, of course it would bo pre
sumption to say, but there are persons who
profess to know all about what is going on,
willing to prophesy that in less than sixty
days the star Fpanglcd banner, will be float
ing ' or authority, as it once betore Boat
ed in triumph over the ramparts of Mon
terey. Cut this paragraph out Tor refer
ence, say about the middle of August.
Calling Senatorial Absentees. Very
funny stories are told of the process of serv
ing a call of the U. S. Senate, an hour or
two after midnight, on the Senators who
had gone home to bed, on occasion of a re-
ccut call of the House: -
'The Sergeant-at-arms, accompanied by
carriages, rode around the city and collect
ed the deserters, peaceably if he could, but
torcibiy if he must. fam Houston was cap
tured at Kirkwood House, taken from the
bed, and carried growling to the capitol.
When called upon for an excuso for his ab
sence, he gravely requested the senate to
inform him what excuse it had to offer for
the outrage it had committed on his person
al rights, by dragging him from his bed tit
that untimely Jiour. lie protested that be
would'not be .pacified untjl theSenatefapol-
ogizeu to mm. ocnaiur viay, oi aiuuuiuj,
1: rT 1 1t r-r t.i .lx "r -i-.ii - c?
p.ept ins uoors locaetr, onu ,ucueu tuo ocr
gcant at arms flatly rcfusing""td obey the
raandaterejerajly, howejer, the aUSCflt-
eess surrendered themselves witn a goou
grace", and quorum i was bbtainecT"ut" i
o'clock ia tbe morning."
Wife Taming. The Boston Gazette ar-
PTTolincesIr-a4IertyTirao--asR teacher
of llll'Vl HI" Wife uiwgrUtue-low price
of $50" bP? llau. Here are--eouia--of his
certificates:
This is to certify that Mr. Taiil Pretty
man has succeeded in subduing my wife.
He took ber when in ber moat restless con
dition and in ore hour she was cooking a
beef steak with the placidity of an angel.
.New York, May 8, 1858.
Jas. P. Horner
Mr Prcttyman has full liberty to report
to me. His art I consider tbe great desider
atum of married life. He quieted Mrs. Simp
kins who was alway ugly in double harness,
and accomnlished wonders. Not a shirt
button has been missing "since the date of
his trial. P. Simpkins, Newark, A.J.
Westeskisvs. Tbe dialect of the west is
rather strong, and slightly, hyberbolical.
'One Brown who has lately been travelling
in tbe Occident, as far as Arkansas, says
that when a man in that region desires to
say be would like a drink, he declares that
if he had a class of whisky be wouia mrow
himself outside of it, almighty quick!" A
man enumerating his family, goes a point
beyond tbe conclusion of the John Rogers
list and says mere is uui, ana ouu, uuu
Sam and Dave, ana jonn, ana niary Ann
ml th babv. and the prospect!" That will
do. . ; fL
aa We have a new chronicle from Chi-
rarn through a eotetBDorarv. which shows
it to be miseraoiy poor piace ior x an
. .. I XT
kee;
Tbe climate elves him the ague fever. The
water brigs ou diarrhea. The food as cook
ed by tbe "Suckers," produces dyspepsia.
Tbe whisky, tiuctured with strychnine,
makes him crazy, while three per cent, a
) month is fare to bring on the blues.
A Hew Religion. -
Hon. Gerritt Smith, of New York, on
the 21st, or February Iar delivered a dis
course to the people of Petocboro, the place
of his residence, ou the subject of a " A
New Religion." We give .a synopsis of it.
Creeds. Every man should have one. -But
a Vkurck creed is improper. .
Chcrch. "In His Jesus' eye, the
Christians of a place are the Church of that
place; and this too, whether they know jt
or not. will it or not. Thev are snch bv
Tbrce of their character, and vote! can nei
tbernake or unmake the fact" . An organ
ized Church he calls a "sectarUri Church, "
which Jesus no mora thougTit f providing
for, than for a political party. " Every
true Church of Christ is a simple democra
cy. Its oidinary assemblies should be more
conferences, iu which all persons, male or
female, are to feel entirely free to speak as
the spirit moves them."
The Clerical Order. "Such an order
is wholly unauthorized and exceedingly per
nicious." . .
Itinerant Preachers. He says, in ad
dition to encb member speaking his mind
freely In the ordinary assemblies "the col
lective Churches should have, and should
liberally support, a powerful itinerant min
istry." Falle.v Nature " Owing to ancestral
violations of moral as well as physical ami
intellectual laws, we Inherit a constitntion
morally as well as physically and intellect
ually impaired. This is all I mean by a
fallen nature, adding thereto what we may
ourselves have done to degrade it."
Faith is Christ. " What then is it to
believe in Christ? I answer, that such be
lief, in its very highest sense, is faith io
justice, sincerity, mercy, love, and other
moral qualities of which man, be he iu
Christendom or heathendom, has instinctive
knowledge, and for his growth in which,
be he in Christendom or heathendom, he is
responsible."
Inspiration or the Bible. "The Bible
is really the best book in the world, though
the present use of it make it practically
the worst. All other books put together
are, not so much as the Bible is, the occo
sion of obstructing the progress of civiliza
tion, and of filling the world with igno
rance and superstition. The cler
gy make the Bible supreme authority; but
our reason is, under God, the final judge of
all questions. Reason must sit judgement
on the Bible as well as on all things else.
Reason, poor guide though we may
make it, is our legitimate guide. ' It may
lead us to ruin; still we are not at liberty
to give it up for any other leader, no, not
for Church, nor pope, nor Bible."
Poi.TGAiir Y roxc. " W ho too but such
man i. e. a very wicked or a very 6tuiml
men, will ever feci it uecessary to go to
the Bible to put polygamy on trail? High
er authority and more certalu evidence than
the Bible have we ou this point, as well as ou
the point of rum drinking. The census tables
iu all ages aud in all nations dispose of the
question of polygamy. They prove the
qual numbers of the sexes, and confirm
the declaration of Jesus that God made ns
male and female' only one woman for one,
nian, and only one man for one woman
Whoever therefore gets a plurality of hus
bands robs her sister; and whoever gets
a plurality of wives robs his brother; jsut
as the people who get two or three farms
apiece have made themselves guilty of rob
bing the landless."
His vies of Denominations. " God
hasten the day when here, and elsewhere
there shall no longer be Christians who
shall not be deeply ashamed to be called
Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterians, or., to
pass under any other religious party name."
J.HB Death of Christ. It is said his
mission was to die for the world. I answer
that his death was incidental to his faithful
pvliilkition of Ilia Kiitlior'a rhftrantpr
Tbe one thing else for which I blamed our
clergymen was their making faith iu the
doctrine of attonemeut essential to salva
tiou. But are they not also blameworthy
for makiug themselves so perfectly and stub
bornly certain of the truth of the doc
trine?
Fcture Life. " I confess, perhaps to
my shame and condemnation that I do not
feel a deep and abiding interest in our next
stage of being. Jbar less concerned am I
to know what is the future state than to
kuow, aud determine the duties of the
preseut."
i ctcre Pcmshment. " r believe in fu-v
ture punishment. Every man on
dying must eo to his own place to the
place for which his character fits him.
Judge teaches that persons cau fall
from heaveu. Why then may they not rise
from bell? For aught we can certainly
know, there may be room in the life to come
for repentanco as well as apostacy.
1 now arraign them I the clergy for their
undonbting faith in it i. e. in everlasting
punishment. ISo warrant have they cither
to preach or to eutertain a faith in it.
which is free from all doubt,"
A Goon WniTEWASH. Take half a bush
el of fresh-burned white lime, and slack it
cither with hot or cold water, iu a tub or
barrel. When thoroughly slacked, dissolve
in the water required to thin the lime, two
two quarts of common salt, stir it thorough
ly, add one quart of sweet milk, , and it is
ready for use to put on with a brush."
This wash is for tbe ontside of buildings.
fences, Ac, aud is very durable. Some put
glue in whitewash, and others flour and
rice paste, but these render it liable to scale
off in very dry weather.
The above wasn may be made a cream
color, by the addition of ocher.
The above whitewash is all that can be
desired for the interior of houses, excepting
the salt, which must be omitted, as it tends
to imbibe moisture. French white is su
perior to lime washes for the ceilings of
rooms, as it is not so liable to turn yellow
ish in color, but it rubs off so easy it can
uot be used for side walks.
Jti5A Chinese theologian informs the
Trinity Journal that the little tapers left
on graves by the Chinese are for tbe conve
nience of the devil. After three hundred
years that personage comes to the grave,
and if arriving iu the night might stumble
about among the tombs until provoked to
do mischief.
Hurry is the mark of a weak mind.
4 despatch, is fb.e jevidence qf a strong one.
Poor and Content. As I stood in a
hardware store, one of the late very cold
days, hovering over tbe store as 1 talked
icicles to tbe master, a boy opened the door
and inquired the price of a pair of skates,
which hung out to tempt the adventurous.
I looked at the urchin and my eyes descen
ded from a pair of linen trousers to a pair
of baret feet. The poor fellow wanted
skates, and did not seem to feel tbe waut of
shoes!
You doubtless remember the story of Louis
la Grand passing one cold morning over
one of the bridges which cross tbe Seine,
aud seeing with admiration a man dressed
in a nankin coat and breeches, (pantaloons
enruo hi as the monarch went out.) with vest
and stockings equally as thin, who leaned
ith perfect noncbalence over trie bains-
trade to gaze at the skaters below.
Stop tbe coach, said the kiucr. "Call
that man in nankin to me," '
The window was let down, and the furred
and shivering monarch thus questioned his
nappy subject;
Jlon ami, pray tell me how is it that
you are warm though clad so thin, while I
am freezing ic peltries?"
1 lease your maiestv. was the reilv of
the bowing mid smilinir Frenchman, " I
can tell, you how you may be as comforta-
blv warm as I am."
"Let us hear, my friend."
"Do as I do, sir; put ou all your ward
robe."
" I might have known the fellow was a
wit," said the kinir, laughing: "give him a
purse of louis d'ors."
I will not say that my barefooted boy
was a wit; bnt I could wager ten pounds to
a penny that his father was either a genius
or a drunkard. English Pajer. '
Acquittal or a Murderer in Kentucky
Sl.S'UUFAR LANGUAGE FROM A JUDGE. The
young man Hardesty, who shot and killed
Orubb, in Burlington, Boone County, Ken
tucky, was tried atid acquitted lost Thurs
day. The case was an interesting one.
Grubb bod sednced a sister of Hardesty,
and the latter on discovering the fact, told
the seducer that if he did not marry her in
six mouths, lie would shoot linn, lhe six
months having expired without Grubb's com
pliance, Hardesty met him en the street and
shot him dead. Grubb was armed for de-
feuce, but was pierced by tbe bullet of his
antagonist while iu the net of drawing his
pjstol. On the rendition of the verdict.
Judge Nutall delivered the following ad
dress. It has more of tinman nature than
of Judicial propriety in it:
Sir: You have been indicted by a grand
jury of your country npou a most heijous
charge, lou have put yourself nph your
country and your God for deliverance. You
have bad a fair and impartial trial before
them, and they have both pronounced you
not guilty, and so say I. It may not be
proper in me ta express my sentiments, ytt
1 will do it. Joung mau Had 1 been
wrouged as you have been, I would have
speut every dollar I had ou earth, and all
that 1 could have begged and borrowed,
aud then starved upon the track of the vil
lain, but I would have imbrued my bands
in his blood. Go beuce withoutdelay. You
are acquitted I I
Both the verdict and this judgment were
received with shouts of applause.
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The Citt cf Jeddo, the Capital of Ja-
rAN. The city of Jeddo is said to be, with
out exception, the largest city in the world.
It contains 1,500,000 dwellings, aud the
unparalleled number of 5,000,000 of people.
Some of its streets are 16 Japauese ri'a iu
length, which is equal to 32 English miles.
lhe commerce of Japan is iiunieuse, and tbe
sea ail alonr their coast is covered with
their ships. Their vessels are laden in the
Sontheru portion of the empire with rice,
tea, sea-coal, tobacco, silk, cotton and trop
ical fruits, all of which find a market iu the
North, and then return freighted with corn,
salt, oil, isinglass and other productions of
the North, which find a ready market in
the South.
The Chicken and Feathers. At break
fast one morning, in that quiet and comfort-
ablo old inn, the White Swan, in old lork,
a foreigner made quick dispatch with the
eggs. Thrusting his spoon into the middle,
he drew out the yolk, devoured it and pass
ed on to the next. When he had got to his
seventh egg, an old fanner, who had already
been prejudiced against Monsieur by his
moustaches, could brook the extravagance
no lonsrer, and speaking np, said: 'Why,
sir. vou leave nil tbe white! How is Mrs.
Lockwood to allord to provide breaklast
at that rate?" 'Vi,' replied the outside
barbarian, 'you vouldn't have me to eat de
vile? De yolk is de shicken; de vite de
fedders. Am I to make von bolster of miue
belly?' The farmer was dumb-founded.
Avoid the Briars. The Gazeta tie la
Haban, vouches for the following; Some
fourteen years ago a woman, supposed to
have died in a fit, was being taken to the
grave for interment, when the bearers stum
bled and dropped the corpse. On picking it
up and removing the briers which stuck to it,
she recovered from the trance she was in.-
" She finally died in truth," nnd when about
to be removed to the place of interment,
her husband exclaimed; "For God's sake,
my friends do not carry the corpse of my
wife where there are briars."
t&- An indigeut boy applied for alms at
the house of an avaricious rector, and recciv
cd a dry mouldy crust. Tho rector inquired
of the boy if he could say the Lord's prayer
and was answered in tbe negative. llicn,
said the rector, 'I will teach you that now
Our Father!' 'Our Father!' said the boy,
'is he my father as well as yours? 'Yes,
certainly.' 'Then,' asked the boy, 'how
could you give your brother this mouldy
crust of bread?"
Mr. P.'a daughter came running to
her autt one day saying, "Aunt Kate, little
Mai tie has swallowed a button.77 beein
her terror, her aunt calmly replied, "Well
what good will that do her?" Said the
child very seriously. "Not any good, as
cau see, unless she swallows a button hole!"
A negro passing uuder a scaffold
where some repairs were going on, a brick
fell from above his head, and was broken by
the fall. Sambo very coolly raised his head
and exclaimed: "Hallo, you white man np
Anr if voa don't want your bricks broke
just keep 'em off toy head."
MY AUTHORITY
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT to provide for the Collection and
safe keeping of Public Archives in the
State of California.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
lupresentairet oj the Untied States of Amer
ica in Congress Assembled, That it shall be
the duty of the duty of the Secretary of the
Interior to cause to be collected and depos
ited in tbe Surveyor General's Office in Cal
ifornia, all official books, papers, instruments
of writingTdocuments, archives, official seals,
stamps or dies, that may be found in tbe
unauthorized possession of any Individual,
relating to and used in the administration of
Government and public affairs tn the Dcpar
tment of Upper California, and which be
longed to the Government during thexist
ence of Spanish 'or Mexican authority iu
Tppcr California; and the same, when de
posited in his office, shall be safely and se
curely kept by the Surveyor General in the
archives of his office: And copies thereof,
authenticated by the Surveyor General under
the 6eal of his office, shall be evidence in all
cases where the originals would be evidence
Provided, That at the time of depositing
said books, papers, writings and documents
in said archives, a schedule and accurate
description thereof shall be made, by the
Surveyor General, with a statement of the
time and place where the same were found,
and when they were deposited in the arch
ives, which shall be certified under the seal
of the Surveyor General and filed in his of
fice; aud a certified copy of said schedule
shall be transmitted to the Commissioner of
tbe General Land Office, and also to the
Attorney General.
Section 2. And he it further enacted, That
if the Surveyor General shall have cause to
suspect a concealment of any such official
books, papers, writings, documents, archives,
or official seal, stamps or dies aforesaid, in
any particular dwelling bouse, building or
place, any Judge or Commissioner of the
United States may, on affidavit showing the
facts and circumstances upon which such
suspicions are fouuded, grant to the Survey
or General, or to and Marshal of the United
States a warrant to enter snch house, build
ing or place, and there to search for such
official books, papers, writings, documents,
archives, seals, stamps or dies, and to take
possession thereof and deposite them in the
archives of the Surveyor Geueral's office as
aforesaid.
Sechon 3. And be it further enacted. That
if any person shall without lawful authority
illully take from the archives of tbe said
Surveyor General's office any espediente,
map, diseno, book, paper, writing, record,
ocument, seal, stamp or die; or shall wil
fully alter, deface, mutilate, injure, or de-
trcy any espediente, book, paper, map,
diseno, instrument of writing, document,
record, seal, stamp or die deposited la said
archives; or shall conceal or unlawfully
withhold from tbe possession of the Survey
or General, or on demaud refuse to deliver
to him any espediente, map, diseno, official
book, pnicr, ' writiiijT. document, archive,
record, seal, stamp or die, relating to or
used in the administration of Gove-innieut in
the Department of Upper California, and
belonging to the Government during the
existence of Spanish or Mexican authority
in said department; or shall wilfully alter,
deface, mutilate, make away with or destroy
any such official book", espediente, map,
diseno, paper, writing, document, archive,
record, seal, stamp or die, the persoa so of
fending shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, aud on conviction thereof in any
court of competent jurisdiction, shall forfeit
and pay a fine, not exceeding ten thousand
dollars, at the discretion of the Court, and
be imprisoned for a term uot exceeding ten
years, at the use accretion.
Section 4. And be u Jurther enadea, lnat
f any person shall wilfully, secretly and
fraudulently place or cause to be placed in
or among the archives of the Surveyor
General's Office, any expedients, book, paper,
diseno, map, draught, record, or auy instru
ment of writing purporting to be a petition,
decree, order, report, concession, grant, con
firmation, map, diseno, espediente, or part
of an espediente, denouncement, title, paper,
or evidence of right, title, or claim to any
land, mine or mineral, or any book, writing.
paper, or document whatever, the person so
offeuding shall bo deemed and adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic
tion thereof by any uourt ot conieieni ju
risdiction shall forfeit and pay a fine not
exceeding five thousand dollars, and be im
prisoned for a term uot exceeding three
. . . i i ? r
years; or oe uom qneu anu impnsoucu
ithiu said limits us me aiscreuou oi iue
Court.
Approved 18th May, 1S5S.
AN ACT for the prevention and punish-
mnnt of frauds in laud titles in California.
He it enacitd in the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United Stales cf Amer
ica in Congress assemoiea, i nai ii any per
son shall falsely make, alter, forge or coun
terfeit." or causa or procure ' to be falsely
made, altered, forged or connterieitea; or
... .
willingly aid and assist in the false making,
altering, forging or counterfeiting any peti
tion, certificate, order, report, decree, con
cession, denouncement, dewl, putcut, confir
mation, diseno, map, espediente, or part oi
pjsnodiente. or and title paper, or evideuce of
r ir it. title or Claim IO lauu. tunics ur ui-
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rnU in Culiforuia. or anr instrument ot
writing whatever iu relation to lands or
mines or minerals in the State of California;
for the purpose of setting up or establishing
against the United States any claim, right
or title to tanas, mines or miiiumis wituiu
the State of California, or for the purpose
of enabling any person to set np or establish
any such claim; or if any person for the
purpose aforesaid, or cither of them, shall
utter or publish as true and genuine auy
such false, forged, altered or counterfeited
petition, certificate, order, report, 'deeree.
concession, denouncement, deed; patent, con
firmation, disen, map, espediente, or part of
an espediente. title-paper, evideuce oi ngni,
title or claim to lauds or mines or minerals
in the State of Coliforuia, or any instrument
of writing whatever in relation to lands or
mines or minerals in the State of California,
the penon so offending shall be deemed and
arlin.led iruiltT of a misdemeanor; and be
ing thereof duly convicted shall be sentenced
to be imprisoned and kept at hard labor for
a period not Jess than three years, aud not
more than ten years, and shall be fined not
exceeding tea thousand dollars.
Section 2 And be it further enacted, That
if any person shall make or cause or procure
to be made, or shall willinply aid and assht
in making any falsely dated petition, certifi
cate, - order, report, decree, concession, de
nouncement, deed, - patent, confirmation,
diseno, map, espediente or part of an espe
diente, or any title-paper or written evidence
of right,, title or claim, under Mexican au
thority to any lands, mt or minerals in
tbe State of California, oi -uSj instrument
of writing is relation to lands orpes or
minerals in the State of Cy ifornia. baVrav
a false date, or falsely purporting to L znade
by any Mexican officerjr authority prfdr to
tbe seventh day rfjuly, A. D. eighteen
hundred aud forty-six, for the purpose of
setting ap or establi-'j-jg ,asy !aiat against
the United States to muds or mines er Bin-,
erals" within the State of California, or of
enabling any person to set op or establish
any such claim ; or if any person shall sign
his name as governor, secretary or other
public officer acting under Mexican nnthori'
ty, to any instrument of writing falsely pur
porting to be a grant, concession, or de-7
nouncemeut under Mexican authority, and
during its existence iu California, of lands, ;
mines or minerals, or falsely purporting to
be an inform, report, record, confirmation or
other proceeding on an application for a
grant, concession or denouncement under
Mexican authority, during its existence ia
California, of lands, mines or minerals, the
person offending shall be deemed and ad
judged guilty of a misdemeanor, and being
thereof duly convicted, shall be sentenced to
be imprisoned and kept at bard labor for a
period not less than three years, nor more
than ten years, and shall be fined not exceed
ing ten thousaud dollars.
Sectjo.i. 8. And be it further enacted, ,
That if any persoa for the purpose of set
ting np or establishing any claim against
the United States to lands, mines or miner
als within the State of California, shall pre
sent, or cause or procure to be presented be
fore any Coart, Judge, Commission or Com
missioner, or other officer of the United
States, any false, forged, altered or counter
feited petition, certificate, order, report de-:
cree, concession, denouncement, deed, patent
diseno, map, espediente or part of an espe
diente, title-paper or written evidence of
right, title or claim to land?, minerals or
mines in the State of California, knowing
tbe same to be false, forged, altered or coun
terfeit, or any falsely dated petition, certif
icate, order, report, decree, concession, de
nouncement, deed, patent, confirmation,
diseno, map, espediente or part of espedi
ente, title paper, or written evidence of right
title or claim to laud., mines or minerals,
in California, knowing the same to be false
ly dated; or if any person shall prosecute
in any Court of the United States, by ap
peal or otherwise any claim against the Uni
ted States for lands, mines or minerals in
California, or shall, after the passage of
this act, continue to prosecute any.- claim
now pending in said courts against tbe Uni
ted States for lands, mines or minerals in
California, which claim is founded upon or
evidenced by any petition, certificate, order,
report, decree, concession, . denouncement,
deed, patent, confirmation, diseno, maps.
espediente, or part of au espediente, title
paper, or written evidence of right, title or
claim, which has been forged, altered, coun
terfeited or falsely dated, knowing the same
to be forged, altered or counterfeited or falser
ly dated, the person bo offending shall be
deemed and adjudged gnilty of a misdemean
or, aud on conviction thereof shall be sen
tenced to be imprisoned and kept at bard
labor, for a period not less than three years,
nor more than ten years, acd shall be fined
not exceeding ten thousand dollars.
Approved 18 May, 185S..
AX ACT to authorize the vestry of Wash
ington parish to take and enclose certain
parts of streets in the city qf Washing
ton for the purpose of extending tbe
Washington Cemetery; and for other pur
poses. Be ii enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United Stales of Amer
ica tn Uaneress assembled, I oat the vestry
of Washington parish shall be, and are here
by authorized, with the consent of the cor
poration of the city of Washington, to
take, enclose and use forever, those parts of
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets east.
which lie between the north side of G street
sonth aud the north side ef Water street;
and also those parts of south G and south
II streets which he between beventeeuth
and Twentieth stceets east, for the purpose
of enlarging the Washington Cemetery;
Proruled, That the power hereby conferred
shall not be exercised as regards such par
ticular portion of either of the aforesaid
streets as may pass in front of any lot of
ground: And provided further, That the
said vestry shall not sell for any purpose
whatever any of the aforesaid parts of
streets, bnt the United btates shall retain
and hold snch parts thereof as may be laid
out for burial purposes for the interment of
members of Congress or such officers of the
government as may die in Washington.
Sec. a. .And oe it furiuer enacted, jriiat
no canal, railroad, street or alley shall ever
he laid out or opened into or through thd
Washington Cemetery, except such avenues
or walks as may be laid out by the vestry
of Washington parish, for the use and pur
poses of the said cemetery.
Sec. 3. And be U t urvtcr enacua mas
the Washington Cemetery shall forever be
free front taxation.
Approved IS May 18o3.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An
act to authorize the President of the b m
ted States to cause to be surveyed the
tract of land, iu the Territory of Minne
sota, belonging to the half-breeds or mix
ed bloods of tbe Pacotah or Sionx nation
of Indians, and for other, purposes," ap
1 proved seventeenth July, eighteen hun
dred and fifty four.
Be U enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United State of Amer
ica in Congress assembled, That, the act ap
proved seventeenth Jaly, eighteen hundred
and fifty-four, above referred to, ehapter
eighty-three, be, aad the sama is hereby,
amended, so that the body of land kuowa
as the bal5breed tract, lying on the west
side of Lake Pepin aad the Mississippi riv
er ia the Territory of Minnesota, and which
is' authorized to be surveyed by the said
act of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, shall
be subject to the operation of the laws reg
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