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VOL. 8. NO. 32.
SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAYOCTOBER 19, 1858.
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QL)t rcgon Statesman.
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Uie Two YUlaffes,
Over the river on the hill.
Lieth a village white and still;
All around it the forest trees
Shiver ami whiper in the breeze;.
OrM it sailing shadows po
Of soaring hawk and screaming crow,
An mountain (grasses low and sweet
.5row in the middle of every street.
Over the river n4er the hill,
Another villaga ilitill;
There I see in tlreclondy night
Twinkling stars of household light.
Fires that gleam from the smithy's door,
Mists that curl on the river shore;
And in the roads no (Trasses prow
For the wheels that hasten to And fro.
In that vilag on the hill
Never is sound of smithy or mill;
The houses are thatched with grass and flowers,
Never a clock to toll the hours;
The marble doors are always shut,
Yon cannot enter in hall or hut;
All the villagers lie asleep;
Never a grain to sow or reap;
Never in dreams to iuoan or sigh.
Silent, and idle, and low they lie. -
In that village ufider the hill,
Vhen the night is starry and still.
Many a weary soul in prayer
Looks to the other village there.
And weeping and sighing-, longs to
l'p to that home from this below:
Longs to sleep by the forest wild.
Whither have vanished wife and child.
And heareth. praying-, this answer fall
"Fatienee! that village shall hold ye all."
The Mill-Stream.
A child looks into the mill-stream,
Where the fish glide in and out.
The dare with a coat of silver,
And the crimson-spotted trout.
lie nlavs with the diamond waters.
lie talks with the dronir.S bee. I
He sings, and the birds sing with him.
' lie runs to catch the breeie.
A perfume from wood and meadow
is wandering round the boy;
He is twining a garland of lilacs.
And, joyous, he thinks not of joy,
ITe prays in the eve and morning.
For the heavens set-m always near.
And he thinks that each chiUiith murmur
Is a charm that the angels hear.
O life! O beautiful picture!
O light, and perfume, and love!
O the (rrace of the heart that is tender!
O the dream that can lift us above!
O life! no longer a problem.
But a something to see and enjoy,
A brightness on stream and on meadow,
A breeze round a dancing boy.
Bark, back to the fair blue morning
f wild hope and of fancy w-ild.
Let me watch the fish in the mill-stream
With the eyes and the heart of a child.
. Tate Retort.
BV GEORGE B. MORRIS.
, OH Birch, who taught a village school.
Wedded a maid of homespun habit;
He was as stubborn as a mule.
And she as playful as a rabbit.
Fcxn Kate had scarce become a wife.
Before her husband sought to make her
.The pink of country polished life.
And prim and formal as a Quaker.
" One day the tutor went abroad.
And simple Kitty sadly missed him;
When he returned, behind ber lord
She slyly stole and fondly kissed him.
The husband's anger rose! and red
And white his face alternate grew!
"Less freedom, ma'am!" Kate sighed snd said,
. "Oh dear, I didn't know 'twas you!"
The West the Seat of Eurisc. Caleb
' Cashing, in bis speech at Boston, paid the
(following elegant and striking tribune to tbe
West:
" "Jealous of the South ! Snch wonld not
4m my theme, if the demon of sectionalism
.had so far possessed itself of me. I should
not strive to draw the attention ol Massa
chusetts away from tbe only real danger of
.a sectional nature which threatens, and to
fasten her attention upon an imaginary one,
Nor by the comparatively small section of
tbe Union lying between Mason and Dixon's
t Line and the Gulf of Mexico, as the scep
tre of the power in this Union to be held,
hereafter;" bat by those vast regions of the
"West, State after State stretching out like
star byond star ia tbe blue depths of the
' firmament, far away to the shores of the
r. Pacific, What is the power of tbe old Thir
teen. Yorth or Soatb, compared with that
of the mighty West. There is the seat of
Empire, and there is the hand of imperial
.power. Tell me not of the perils of the
clave power and tbe encroachments of the
ftouth. Massachusetts and South Caroli
na will together be as clay iu the fingers of
the potter, when the great West shall
stretch forth its arm of power, as ere long
- it will, to command the destiny of this
tUnion."
- Weixs oj- Hills. We have seen a great
' many wells on tbe top of hills affording a
large supply of water, while tbe bottom was
' above the near-by-valley in which the farm -
Stead was situated, now easy to obtain
his water by a siphon, or a pipe inserted
v on a level, which can be done with digging
' a .ditch the whole depth and distance. As
certain where the level of the bottom of the
' wall will strike on the face of the hill, and
dig in there, and set up a frame to support
.ao. earth-boring auger, and drive a bore
straight through to the well, which can ea-
si! j be done one or two hundred feet, if ar
tesian wells caa be bored one or two thous
and feet perpendicular. Where the distance
is. too great, or tbe hill is 60 me what rocky,
pat ia a siphon pipe, with a little band
pump to start it, and joa caa always hare
running water in jour yard or garden at
tbe foot of a hill.
lougtna .ltd Lincoln t Ottawa lrrsoa.l
nrmlolocrntrs.
Messrs Douglas and Iiiuroln had a grand
tilt at Ottawa, III. last week. Mr. Doug
las's (tpeerh contained this amusing passage:
"In the remarks which I hnve made tip
on this platform, and the position of Mr.
Lincoln upon it, I meant nothing personal,
disrespectful or unkind to that gentleman.
I have known him for nearly twenty-Ore
years. We had many points of sympathy
when I first ffot acquainted with him. We
were both comparatively bovs hoth strug-1
glingwith poverty in a strange town for j
our support, i an numoie scuooi icacuer
in the town of Winchester, and be a flour
ishing grocery keeper in the town of Salem.
Laughter. " He was more successful in
his occupation than I, and hence became
more fortunate in this world's goods. Mr.
Lincoln is one of those particular men that
Las performed with admirable kill in every
occupation that he ever attempted. I made
as good a school teacher as I could, and
when a cabinet maker 1 made the best bed-
steads and tables, but mv old boss said I
! succeeded better in bureaus and secretaries
than iu anything e'se. Laughter.! But
1 believe that Mr. Lincoln was more suc
cessful in his business than I, for his busi
ness soon carried bini directly into the leg
islature. There I met him in a little time,
and 1 had a sympathy for him, because of
the uphill struggle we had in life. Cheers
and laughter. lie was then as good at
telling an anecdote as now. He could beat
any of the boys at wrestling could out
run tliem at a foot race beat them all
pitching quoits and tossing a copper, and
could win ni ore liquor than all the boys put
together laughter and cheers ; and the
dignity and impartiality with which he pre
sided at a horse race or a fist fight were the
praise of everybody that was present and
participated. Renewed laughter. Heuce
I had a sympathy for him, because he was
struggling with misfortune and so was I.
Mr. Lincoln served with me, or I with
him, in the legislature of 183i, when we
parted, lie subsided or submerged for
some years, nnd I lost sight of him. In
1S46A when Wilmot raised the Wilmot pro
viso tornado, Mr. Lincoln ngain turned up
as a member of congress from Sangamon
district, I, being iu the senate of the United
States, was called to welcome bitn, then
without friend and companion, lie then
distinguished himself by his opposition to
the Mexican war, taking the side of the
common enemy, in time of war, 8guinst his
own country. Cheers tnd groans.
When he returned home froa. that congress
he found that the indignation of tbe people
followed him everywhere, until he again re
tired to private lile, and was submerged un
til he was forgotten again by his friends.
He came up again iu 1854 iu time to make
tbe abolition black republican platform, in
company with Lovejoy, Ciddings, Chaennd
Fred Douglass, for tbe llepubliean party to
stand upou. Trnmbull, too, was one of onr
own eotemporaries. He was one born and
raised in old Connecticut. Bred a federal
ist, he removed to (leorgia, aud there turn
ed imllilier, when nullification was popular.
But as soon as he disposed of his clocks and
wound up his business, he emigrated to Illi
nois. When he got here,, having turned
politician and lawyer, he made bis appear
ance in 1840 41 as a member of the legis
lature, and became noted as the author of
a scheme to repudiate a large portion of the
state debt of Illinois, and thus bring infa-1
my and disgrace upou the fair escutcheon
of. our glorious state. The odinra attached
to that measure consigned him to oblivion
for a time. I walked into the house of rep
resentatives and replied to his repudiation
speeches until we carried resolutions over
his head, denouncing repudiation, and as
serting the moral and legal obligation of Il
linois to pay every dollar of debt the owed
every lad bearing her signature. Trum
bull's malignity toward mc arises out of the
fact that 1 defeated his infamous scheme to
repudiate the state debt and state bonds of
Illinois."
Ice from the J lowing Crucible. A
new branch of physics has of late years been
inaugurated by 'the discovery of what is call
ed tbe spheroidical state of matter. When
we bad got as far as steam and gas, we fan
cied we had fathomed the uttermost secrets
of nature; bnt now marvels which a writer
of fiction would hardly dare to introduce
into a fairy tale or a legend, turn out to be
incontestably true. For instance, a bold
experimentalist some people might call
him an impudent quack set bis heart on
manufacturing a lump of ice. And where
does he succeed in making it? Of all pre
posterous places in the world, he produces
it inside a glowing crucible standing in a
heated furnace; the heat of the furnace,
moreover, not being the gentle temperature
which bakers use to reduce beef aud pota
toes to a savory dish nicely browned and
with the gravy in, 4ut a chemist's white
heat; and the bit of ice, so turned out, is
not a half melted hailstone, which you
would suck with pleasure (if clean) after a
summer afternoon's thunder-storm, bnt a
diabolical little lump of such intense cold
ness that you would take it to be the con
centration of a whole Russian winter, or
an essential ice-drop distilled out of the
very North Pole itself. Household Words.
8Q,lrigbamYoung is said to be worth $3,
000,000, besides having control of all the
church property in Utah. The latter ex
ceeds in value all the rest of the property
in the territory, and is exempted from tax
ation by tbe territorial law. A correspon
dent of the X. Y. Tribune says, in writing
from Salt Lake City:
"Iu my strolls I have been astonished at
the number oi aeiormeu persons wno are
1 visible iu the streets,
I have never walked
half a mile withont meeting a hunchback
or a cripple. I am informed by Mormons
that tbe cause of the assemblage of such
people in this territory is the claim of the
first presidency of the church to the posses
sion of the power of healing all diseases
and curing all deformities by the laying on
of bands. On referring to the published
discourses of Young aud Kimball I find
repeated instances io which they assert that
it has descended to them from the Apostles
of our Savior, but I can bear of no instance
iu which they have attempted to deceive tbe
public by pretended cures. Most of these
deformed unfortunates are Welsh and En
glish who have spent their all in journeying
to Zion.
, For the Statesman.
We Know w hat we any r
1'
In i I stated some weeks since, that
J. Pryer of tbe Oreeoniau is nn'iirnora-
mus" wholly unfit for either heaven or hell,
I knew what I said, and when I now repeat
that the same 1). is sinking daily deeper into
the slough, I know what I say, and I w ill
fny what I do know at some future time.
When Dryer states in his black sheet that
the Jews appropriate his paper which is in
tended for the Uentiles, he exhibits a fool-
hardy audacity which a Snncho Panza
might envy; but Dryer ia crazy say .the
statesman ana limes. ei l snail ex
tend tny charity to this dangerous maniac
and say to those who mfy be misled by that
champion of . Fen Yan notoriety, that the
Jews as a people are strictly honest, and
would never stoop to pick bristles out of
the mire! Let him point you to our pris
ons, and see whether there is a single Jew
within its walls. Let me point you to oth
er Statesaaud other countries, and see there
whether the Jew does not stand pre-eminent
as a man of honesty and Integrity, but T.
J. Dryer will have yon believe that the Jews
of Portland are dishonest preposterous
idea!
He will also have you believe that, "to
be an Oregon Democrat" is simply to sur
render all personal responsibility all the
right to think speak, vote or act.
I hurl the lie in his teeth; I am an Ore
gon Democrat and think and speak not as a
mauiae, but as a freeman, think like a Jef
ferson and not like Arnold, between whom
and T. J. Dryer there is a stroug affinity.
To demonstrate to the reasoning world
how ignorant and totally depraved Dryer is,
lwill qnote from bis 'Sectarian Market"
wherein he tells you that the "Jews observ
ed the feast of the Tabernacle" on the Vth
and 10th of September! Great is Diana of
the Kphesiaus!
Where is thy shame, you ignorant pnppy,
where thy much boasted of knowledge? Is
there a man in all Christendom who does
not know that the tfth and 10th of Sept.
have been celebrated as New Years by the
Jews? But bow should Tom know any
such a thing; he got home from some camp
meeting no doubt, where the fire water of
life is dealt out freely, and imagined the
Jews must have a tabernacle; fie, for shame,
Tom, to be thus ignorant of a people who
have trusted you to many a pair of breeches
for which you never paid, aud don't mean
to pay to assail peaceable citizens simply
leoause th?y will not take your Githy pa
per iu paymeut for the "coots and poots"
they have charged you with. There is not
a Jew in Portland, or any where who can
uot spell correctly, aud I defy Tom to point
me to a single uotice which reads as he rep
resents them in his paper. The Jews in both
the old and new world set a high value on
education, and while foreigu courts, Halls of
j Arts and Sciences, aud even our own coun-
try is represented iu the .Senate by Jews,
Tom Dryer, poor outcast wretch, dares to
speak d;srespecful of dods chosen people
the authors of Christ I
We will not crucify you, Tom, no!
"lao, honest lago, if thou be'est a devil
I cannot kill thee!"' unless tou too prove a
"Bastard." I. X. CHOYNSKI.
How to Make (Jood Cider. There is
hardly a tithe of cider made now that was
made forty years ago. Many of the old or
chards bav.e died out, and the temperance
reform has prevented their renewal. The
market for fine fruits has greatly expanded,
and nearly nil the trees now planted are for
the production of market apples. It took
eight bushels of apples to make a barrel of
cider, and the barrel sold for only $1. Ap
ples now bring every year, from 50 cents to
a bushel. Fruit growers can hardly be
expected to lament the change that is so
much for their pecuniary interest.
Yet cider is still made all over the coun
try in small quantities, some for the apple
butter, some for vinegar, and still more for
a beverage. When bottled and properly
bandied, it is as palatable, nnd much more
wholesome, than most of the wines of com
merce. Iu affections of the kidneys it is an
excellent remedy, and shonld have a place
in every well appointed cellar. It is a mat
ter of some importance, that what cider is
made, should be made in the lest manner.
The apples should be well ripened, but
not in the least decayed. Every apple with
the least speck of rot in it should be remov
ed, if you wish a first rate beverage. The
decayed and inferior apples may be reserved
for making vinegar. Perfect cleanliness
shonld be observed in the grinding process,
which should performed two days before
pressing, and the poqiace be permitted to
stand and mellow in the vat, until it as
sumes a deep red color. Clean dry straw
should be used in forming the cheese. If
tbe straw be musty, the flavor will be com
municated to the juice. If water be added,
it will make it hard and unpleasant to the
taste. The casks, also, in which it is put
for fermentation should be thoroughly
cleansed, and finished oft" with a fumigation
of brimstone. This is done by burning in
side the barrel a few strips of canvas, drip
ped in melted brimstone. The fumes will
penetrate all the pores and destroy thu must
and correct the sourness.
After the fermentation is over draw off
into clean barrels and clarify it. This cau
be done by mixing a quart of clean, white
saud with tbe white of half a dozen eggs
and a pint of mustard seed and .pouring it
into the barrel. It may stand in the barrel,
or if a nice article is wanted it should be pat
into quart bottles and corked.
This cider will be fit to drink in case of
sickness, and will always bear a good price
in market. It retails at twenty-five cents
a bottle, and would bring at least two dol
lars a dozen, by the quantity. This is much
better business than to make a poor article
from decayed apples, in a slovenly mauncr,
and sell it for two dollars a barrel.
Revoltikr Indian Ccstom. A recent
communication to the Indian office, from
the Superintendent of Indian affairs at San
Francisco reports a strange bat shocking
custom that prevails among almost all the
Indians of California. This is that of bu
rying alive. When a widow dies and leaves
young children, rather than trouble them
selves with their support, the tribe to which
she belonged will bury tbe orphans alive.
The Superintendent states that he will use
all bu efforts to pat an end to tbia cruel
practice, bat it has been impossible to pre
vent it entirely as yet, even on the govern
ment reservations.
: Inimiutiveness. Phrenologists discover
an organ, says the Trinity Jmtrnnl, which
creates tho desire for permanent abode. No
matter how buiublo l at abode mty he, bow
unprotected fro j weather, hi ?. remote
from companionship of kind, meXnnd ani
mals turn at nightfall to the phi where
they have rested before. This sei.meut is
especially perceptible in the mocirfains of
California; the wandering searcher for gold
builds his camp fire at tbe foot of a tree,
and it is immediately in some degree, invest
ed with the fnncity and security of hojae.
It is his unw'alled castle, where he will resist
aggression to the death; he goes away and
at the approach of danger flies to camp,
thongh he may have his only weapon (of de
fence in his possession. His patient donkey
has marked tbe place of his abode; and go
ing out by day in search of provendw, re
turns at sight to lie beside tV9 -'Smjfal of
coals which survive the preparation of his
owner's supper. "The ass knoweth bis mas
ter's crib," how scant soever it may be, and
will return to it as though it ran over with
the largess of Ceres. And when the camp
er is preparing to remove, he feels a shade
of regret, and returning afterwards and Cod
ing the ashesf his fire cold, he lingers a
little while in melancholy thought. How
beautiful how Hod given is the love of
home! How heavily hang the dusty cob
webs from the smoky roof, under which one
has communed with an object of friendship
or affection how loud is the gnawing of the
worm in the rotting timbers, how dismal aud
death-like tbe emptiness perceptible through
the shattered windows how venomous tbe
poisonous weed that grows from the crevi
ces of the once sacred chimney-corner how
loathsome tbe bloated toad that squats on
the door sill, ouce sanctified by the sacred
baptism of a tear of good bye.
IICSRANPS AND WlVES IIlXTS TO THE
Lorps or Creation. Those dear creatures
who are the most indifferent to their hus
bands are those who are cloyed by too much
surfeiting of the sugar plums and lolly-pops
of love. I have known a young being with
every wish gratified, yawn in her adoring
husband's face, and prefer the conversation
and j-eMs sins of the mesast booby and idi
ot; whilst on the other hand, I have se i
Chloe at whom Strephon has fluog his
bootjack in the morning, or whom he has
cursed before the servauts at diuner come
creeping and fondling to hi! kuee at tea
time, when he is comfortable after his little
nap and bis good wine; and pat his head,
and lay him bis favorite tunes, and when
old John, tbe butler, or old Mary the maid,
ponies in with the bed candies, looks rouud
proudly as ninth as to say, "Now, John,
look how good my dearest Henry is!"
.Mute your game, gentlemen, thet,! There
is the coaxing, fondling, adoring line, w hen
vou are hen-pecked, and Louisa is indiffer
ent, and bored out tf her existence. There
is the manly, selfish, effectual Fystein, where
she answers to the whistle; and comes in at
Doicn, Ciuirse! and knows her master; and
frisks and fawns about him; and muzzles at
his knees; nnd licks the band that's raised"
that's raised to do her good. As (I quote
from memory) Mr. Pope finely observes,
what useu the lamented O Council to say,
over whom a grateiul country has raised
such a mnguifieent testimonial? "Heredit
ary bondsmen," he used to remark, "know
ve not, who would be free, themselves must
strike the blow?" Of course you must, in
political is in domestic circles. So up with
your cudgels my enslaved injured bovs!
ti...j. i-.- "
Senatorial Terms. The terms of the fol
lowing United States Senators expire on
the fourth of March next Clement C. Clay
of Alabama re-elected; Wm. K. Sebas
tian, of Arkansas; Martin . Bates, of
Delaware; Kobert Toombs, of Georgia
re-elected; Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois,
George W. Jones, of Iowa James W. j
Grimson chosen as his successor; John 11.
Thompson, of Kentucky Lazarus W. Pow
ell chosen; J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana;
V . 1 itt ressenden, of Maine; Henry Wil
son, of Massachusetts; Charles E. Stuart,
of Michigan; Albert 0. Brown, of Missis
sippi re-elected; John P. Hale, of 'New
Hampshire re-elected, ilham t right,
of New Jersey; David S. Iteid, of North
Carolina; Philip Allen of Rhode Island
Henry Is. Anthony chosen; A. I . Hayue,
of South Carolina; John Bell, of Tennessee;
A. O. P. Nicholson chosen; Sam Houston,
of Texas J. W. Hemphill chosen; 11. M.
T. Hunter, of Virginia: James Shields, of
Minnesota.
To Make Tomato Fis. Four boiling
water over the tomatoes in order to remove
the skins; then weigh them and place them
in a stone jar, with as much sngar as you
have tomatoes, and let them stand two
days; then pour off tbe syrup, and boil and
skim it until no scum rises. Then pour it
over" the tomatoes, and let them stand two
days, as before, then boil and skim again.
After the third time they are fit to dry, if
the weather is good; if not let them stand
in the syrup tuutil drying weather. Then
place on large earthen plates or dishes, and
put them in the sun to dry, which will take
about a week, after this pack them down in
small wooden boxes, with fine white sugar
between every layer. Tomatoes prepared
iu this niuduer will keep for years.
Doest Injure Bcttf.r to Color it?
This question is answered by A. L. Smith
in the Genesee Farnur, in the affirmative.
He says, "Pure butter has but one flavor,
if properly made, and when you add any
thing to it, then it is not butter;" and
adds, "To those who are troubled with
white butter, I would recommend the pro
priety of coloring the cow, in thiswise:
Give her carrots, yellow corn meal, well
salted, together with cut cornstalks. Boil
ed potatoes aud wheat bran fknay also be
nsed with cut stalks; or the 6talks muy be
fed whole, and cooked food separate. If
you will follow these directions, and keep
away your boiling water, the butter will be
sufficiently colored."
They have a juvenile prodigy at
Boonville A "wee bit of a boy" astonished
his "mother a few days since. She had oc
casion to chastise him slightly for some of
fence he hadommitted. Charier sat very
quietly in his chair for some time afterward,
no uouot lumping very proiounaiy; A last
bespoke out thus: "Muzer, I wish pa'd get
anuzzer house keeper, aud let you go."
"Why so, my son?" "Cause I've got tired
seeiu' yoa 'round."
How Alligators are Caught Down
South. "When I was io the West Indies,
government offered a bounty for - alligator
hid.es. All sorts of traps . were put into
requisition, but the game was too knowing,
and avoided all places which bore the slight
est suspicion of foul play. Bullets had no
effect on their general 'health, and there
seemed but little prospect of making any
thing out of it. All attempts proved fail
ures, and were on the point of being given
up, when a Yankee appeared on tbe ground
who thought there might be a chance for a
speculation after all. First he set about
studying the habits of the animal and notic
ed among other peculiarities, that when it
came out of the water early in the morning
it walked up the embankment, probably in
quest of food, and when returning, took the
ametrack invariably, and entered the wa
ter aj the same spot from whence it emerged.
If the ground was disturbed during his
morning excursion io its path, it might be
seen walking slwowly and with the great
apparent caution, but never to leave its
track. Our observing Yankee took his
measures accordingly. Watching his op
portunity when the alligator leaves his
swamp, he crawls noiselessly after it, and
plants a thin stick into the 6and directly in
the middle of the furrow made by the rep
tile's tail; then following it by a round
about way, marks the spot where it turns to
go back, and there also puts a stick In
its furrow. Alligntor is about entering
the water, when he espies stick No. 1 right
ahead of him in his track. He stops, eyes
it attentivelv for a minute or two. durinir
which time he is supposed to exclaim, men-
tally, "Well, therel 1 11 bet five dollars
somebody has been here and put up a trap,"
tic, (Yankee mentally defies him to put up
his money) Alligator suspects, and de
clines walking over that stick, consequently
turns about, aud with a negative flourish of
bis latter end, implying strong doubts as to
any boy's ability to come it over Lim, wends
bis way back to the other end of his jour
ney, when lo! stick No. 2 meets its aston
ished gaze. He stops, ruminating iu his
mind what all this means, and declares that
he never saw tbe likes of it, and muttering
and growling turns to go home. He walks
along thoughtfully until he comes to stick
No. 1, ai:d there the poor creature keeps
walking back and forth between the two
sticks until be gets so nsed up that "
AVitr Hartn Journal. -
A Kansas Difficulty. The position of
the traveler in this unhappy territory is well
illustrated by the following story related by
a Kausas correspondent of the JJojtou Jour
nal: An unfortunate fellow during the troub
les here two years since, while riding away
from home one morning, was met by an
armed baud, who inquired his politics. He
replied that he was a free state man. The
company, which was composed of pro-slavery
men, immediately "eased" him of his
watch and money aud left him.
Continuing his journey, he was met before
long by another armed company, whose
captain stopped him, and a?ked to which
side he belonged. The Brightened traveler,
supposing all the rovers to be like the first
party, promptly replied that he was pro
slavery. This band, which chauced to be
free State, immediately took his horse from
him aud left him to go ou foot.
' He coutiuued bis trip, bowevc, and just
at night was stopped by a third band, who
asked tbe old question. The unfortunate
traveler was fairly uon-pluseJ, but at last
be asked:
"Gentlemen, what are your politics? It
doesu't mako the slightest difference to me,
only whichever side you may happen to be-
loug to, I agree with you perfectly r
Hjgf The Southern Literary Messenger
draws a portrait of a certain type of the
"old maid":
"The morals of Sally Magann are preach
ers. These it adores. For these, it discov
vcrs its small capacities of ueedle aud thread ;
and concerning these, next to "wet goods"
aud theatres, its giggly gabbling is affluent
beyond all' measure. To 6cw ou a buttou
for a preacher, to visit his wife, to embroid
er a pair of slippers for him, to be spoken
to by him wbeu it afl'octatcs all along the
street, to kiss bis children to death, is the
first joy of S. Magaun. How it bungs upou
his lips, as it sits iu a pew, and pushes up
up its bouuet slipping iioui the back of its
bead! Its fervent prayers that the Lord
will deliver him into the hands of a suitable
helpmate! Its anonymous letters of grati
tude for bis refreshing sermous! Its incog,
boquets! Could it be privileged to make a
robe de uuit for the right young minister,
it would willingly die.
But its destiny rarely comprehended the
better halving of pulpit joys. Generally it
advances by distiuct, but rapid metamorpho
ses, to old-maidism; iu which case, the sour
element iu its nature, is seriously increased
aud aggravated; for a Sally Magann acidu
lates fiercer tliuu any other variety of fe
male. Ou the other liuud, it may, as here
tofore iutimatcd, marry. Its desiiuy theu
includes early widowhood, au uupromisiug,
uukept child or too, aud a most dreary at-ter-exibteuce
of untidiness and paregoric."
fJlARD AGAINST
YllAKlTV. We would
guard
against the use of every word that'1'"5 ""J
I nntr onii roiioini fii earns &lii.'h mov
is uot perfectly proper. Use uo prof an a ex
Use uo niofaua ex-
pressious; allude to uo scuteuce that will
nut to blush the sensitive. You know
ihe tendeucy of habitually using indeceut
. f i !,.,, i.
and profaue language. It" may never be
obliterated from your heart. When yoa
grow up you will hud at your tongue's cud
some expression which you would not use for
uny money, it was one you learned when j
you were yonng. By being careful you will j
save yourself a great deal of mortification i
aud borrow. Good men have beeu takeu
6ick, aud become delirious. In these mo
ments they have used tbe most vile aud in
decent language imaginable. When inform
ed of it, after restoration to health, they
bad uo idea of tbe pain tney bad giveu their
friends, and stated that they bad learned
and repeated the expression in" childhood,
uud though years had passed since, they
had beeu indellibly stamped upon the heart.
Think of this ye, who are- tempted to use
improper language and never disgrace
yourselves.' ' -
MSf" A duel was fought in Mississippi last
month by S. Kuott aud A. W. Suott. The
result was, Kuottr was shot, and Shott was
riot, la those circumstances we should
rather have been Suott that Knott.
Aw India? Lover. Miss Bishop, the !
writer of "Floral Home," who went to '
Mmnpsnta as a teacher, received an offer of i
marriage from an Indian. He came
to her dwelling decked in all bis finery
scarlet flannel, rings, feathers, newly scour
ed brass ornaments, and bear's claws, and
through an interpreter, announced to ber
that she must be his wife. It was urged
that he had one wife. He replied, "all the
band hare as many as they can keep, aud I
have but one." As an extra inducement,
he promised that she could have the best
corner of the lodee. hunt bv bis side, and
water. Miss Bishop, a little in fear of the
"green-eyed monster," even if the other
claimant did hold an inferior position, de
clined the distinction. The Indian then
begged a dollar to bey s shirt, and lirft with
a baughty air. Next day he was drunk.
But Miss Bishop's associate almost fared
worse. She bad only been a few weeks in
the country, and was iznorant of Indian
customs. A young warrior smitten with
her, called often. Hoping to be rid of him,
she gave him a ring. He interpreted it as
a token of partiality, and returned to take
ber to hi lodge. The next day he agaiu re
turned, with six young braves, to compel
her to go with him. Explanations aud in
terference saved her.
An Old Gun. On Pacific street, below
Front, is to be seen an old relic of Spanish
pride and Spanish power. It a gun made i
of mixed metal copper and silver
opper and silver and I
measures sixteen feet in length. This piece
of ordnance was cast in 1 G2S. It came into
existence at the time when the germs of a
powerful nation were springing up on the
American Continent, aud tiow when that
natiou has arrived at the summit of glory
aud power, the old gun reposes in the streets
of one of its cities on the Western coast of
the American hemisphere. The old piece is
still capable oi doing good service and
should not be allowed to repose in the igno
minious obscurity and filth of the gutter.
S. 1 Call.
a3?-The Shy lock who with head erect,
with houest people mingles, should cease to
shave his fellow men, and go to shaving
shingles.
The lawyer would be betteT off, bis con
science far less pliant, who owned a little
farm in fee, aud made that farm his client.
We have some doctors iu our midst, with
talents they should use, by practising the
healthy art, in healing boots and shoes.
The minister, whose sage advice a useful
moral teaches, should mind aud watch as
well as pray, and practice what he preaches.
The world should have its docket called,
and sluggards all defaulted; and those
should be the "upper ten," whom labor has
exalted.
Democracy. "A sentiment not to be ap
palled, corrupted or compromised. It
knows no baseness; it cowers to no danger;
it oppresses no weakuess. Destructive ouly
of despotism, it is tne sole conservator of
liberty, labor and property. It is the sen
timeut of freedom, of equal rights, of equal
obligations tbe law of nature pervadiug
the law of the land."
An Ohio editor recently attempted to de
scribe the powerful effects of warm weather,
aud here is one iustance:
"A small negro boy injudiciously leaned
np agaiust the suuny side of the house yes
terday, and fell asleep. Iu a few minutes
, be began to soften, aud in three quarters of
an hour be ruu all over tbe yard. His
mother dipped him up in a wash tub."
BY AVTHOltlTY.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT to authorize the Issue of Treas
nry Notes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
the untied States of America, m Congress
assembled, That the President of the Uuited
States is hereby authorized to cause treasury
notes for such sum or sums as the exigen
cies of tbe public service may require, but
not to exceed, at any time, the amouut of
twenty millions of dollars, aud of denomina
tions uot less than one hundred dollars for
any such note, to be prepared, signed, and
issued iu tbe manner hereinafter provided.
Sec 2. And le it further enacted, That
such treasury notes vhall be paid and re
deemed by the Uuited States at the treasury
thereof after the expiration of one year from
the dates of said notes, from which dates,
until they shall be respectively paid and re
deemed, they shall bear such rate of interest
as shall be expressed iu said notes, which
rate of iuterest upon the first issue, which
shall not exceed six millious of dollars of
such notes shall be fixed by the Secretary
of the Treasury, with the approbation of the
President, but shall iu uo case exceed the
rate of six per centum per uunuai. Tbe
residue shall be issued ia whole or in part,
after public advertiacmeut of not less ttufcu
thirty days, as the Secretary of the TSpSuryj
may direct, by exchanging them attueir par
value for the lowest rate of interest, uot ex
ceeding six per centum, upon the said notes:
Provided, That after the maturity of auy
? salu ase u
v r"J - ' " " " . " J
at auy time or times be given by tbe secre
tary of tbe -treasury iu one or more uews-
! Polished at the seat of government.
The paymeut or redemption ot said uotes
Thu paymeut or redeuip
herein provided shall be made to tbe lawful
holders thereof, respectively, upon .present
meut at tbe treasury, aad shall include tbe
priucipal of each note aud the iuterest which
shall bo due thereou. And for such pay
meut and redemption, at the time or times
herein specified, the faith of the Uuited
States is hereby solemnly pledged.
Sec. 3. And beit furtlier enacted. That
snch treasury notes shall be prepared uuder
the direction of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and shall be signed in behalf of tbe
United States by the treasurer thereof, and
conutersigned by the register of the treasury.
Each of, these officers shall keep ki a book
or books provided for that purpose separate,
full, aud accurate accouuts, showing the
number, date, amount, aud rate of interest
of each treasury note signed and counter
signed by them," respectively; and also, sim
ilar accounts showing all such notes as may
be Daid. redeemed, aad cancelled as the same
mav be returned, all which accounts shall
be carefully preserved ia the Treasury De
partment. And the treasurer shall account
eat with him, while the dark squaw was tCprouauoc 01 lue 1 resiueui, io oorrow, irom
hush the papoose cook tho food, carry the time to time, such sums of money upon the
tmmp hoe the corn, anrl nrovirle wood and credit of such notes as the Presideat mar
quarterly for all such treasury notes as shall
have been countersigned by the register and
delivered to tne tnasurer lor issue.
Sec. 4. And h. it farther enaUed, That
the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby au
thorized, with the approbation of the Presi
dent, to cause such portion of said treasury
notes as may be deemed expedient to be is
sued by the treasurer in payment of war
rants in favor of public creditors, or other
persons lawfully entitled to such payment,
who may choose to receive such notes ia
payment at par. And the Secretary of the
Treasury is further authorized, with the ap-
deem expedient: Provided, That uo treasury
notes shall lie pledged, hypothecated, sold,
or disposed of in any way, for any purpose
whatever, either directly or indirectly, for
any nam lens than tbe amount of such notes,
including the frincipal and interest thereof.
Sec. a. And be it further enacted, That
said treasury notes shall be transferable, by
assignment endorsed thereon by the person
to whose order the same shall be made pay
able, accompanied together with the delive
ry of the notes so aligned.
Sec C. And le it further enacted, That
said ireasnry notes shall be received by tbe
proper officer in payment of ell duties and
taxes laid by the authority of the Utiited
States, of ail public lands sold by said au
thority, and of all debts of the United
States of any character whatever, which
f trpasnrT ' - aT be offered : ' uav.
nt lhereof. nrl non everv snch oavment
credit shad be given for the amount of pnn-
cioal and interest due on the note or notes
received in pavmeat on the day when tbe
same 6ball have been received by such .officer.
Sec 7. And le it farther evaded. That
every collector of the customs, receiver of
public moneys, or other officer or agent of
the Uuited States who shall receive any
treasury note or notes in payment on ac
count of the United State?, shall take from
the holder of such note or notes a receipt,
upon the back of ach, stating distinctly th
date of such pay Dientnnd the amount al
lowed upon such note; and every such of5
cer or agent shall keep regular and specific
entries of all treasury note. received in pay
ment, showing the person from whom receiv
ed, the nnmber, date and amount of princi
pal acd interest allowed on each and every
treasury note received in payment; which
entries shall be delivered to tbe treasury,
with the treasnry note or notes mentioned
therein, and if found correct, such officer or
8gent shall receive credit for tbe amount, as
provided io the last section of this act.
Sf.c. 8. Aud be it further enacted. That
the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is
hereby authorized to make and issue, frorr
time to time, such instructions, rules and
regulations to the several collectors, receiv
ers, depositaries, and all others who may be
required to receive such treasury notes ii
behalf of, and as agents in any capacity Jfur
the L'nited States, as to the custody, dispo
sal, cancelling, and return of any snch notes
ss may be paid to and received by tbem, re
spectively, and as to the accounts and re
turns to be made to the Treasury Depart
ment of such receipts as he shall deem best
calculated to promote the public convenience
and security, and to protect the United
States as well as individuals from fraud and
loss.
Sec 9. And be it further enaeted. That
the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is
hereby anthorized and directed to cause to
be paid the principal and interest of such
treasury notes as may be issned under this -act
at the time and times when, according
to its provisions, the same should be paid.
And the said Secretary is further anthorized
to purchase said notes at par for tbe amount
of principal and interest due at the time of
the purchase on such notes. And mocb
of any unappropriated money in the treasu
ry ns may be necessary for the purpo e is
hereby appropriated to the payment of the
principal and interest of said cotes.
Tec. 10. And be it farther enacted. That
in place of such treasury notes as may have
beeu paid and redeemed, other treasury
notes to the same amount may be issued;
Provitled, That the aggregate sum outstand
ing, under the authority of this act, shall at
uo tftue exceed twenty millions ef dollars:
And provided further, That tbe power to
issue and reissue treasury notes conferred on
the President of the United States by this
act, shall cease and determine on the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty
nine. Sec. 11. And be it farther enacted, That
to defray the expenses of engraving, print
ing, preparing and issuing the treasnry notes
herein authorized, the sum of twenty thou
sand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be
paid out of any unappropriated money in
the treasury: Provided, That no compensa
tion siiali.be made to any ofScer whose sala-
. - f . . . . j
r is nxed oy law, for preparing, signing or
issuing treasury notes.
fcEc. 12. And be ii further enacted. Thst.
if any person shall falsely make, forge, or
counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely
made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly
aid or assist in falsely making, forginr or
counterfeiting, any note in imitation of or
durporting to be a treasury note, .issued as
aforesaid, or shall pass, otter or publish, or
attempt to pass, utter or publish, as true,
any false, forged or counterfeited note, pur
porting to be a treasnry note as aforesaid,
knowing the 6ame to be falsely made, forged
or counterfeited, or shall falsely alter, or
cause or procure to be falsely altered, or
willingly aid or assist in falsely altering any
treasury note issued as aforesaid, or shall
pass, utter or publish, or attempt to pass,
utter or publish as true, any falsely altered
treasury note, issued as aforesaid, knowing
the same to be falsely altered, every such
person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty
of felony; and being thereof convicted by
due course of law, shall be sentenced to be
imprisoned and kept at hard labor for a pe
riod not less than three years nor more than
ten years, and to be fined in a sum not ex
ceeding five thousand dollars.
Sec. 13. And be it further cnacled, That
if any person shall make or engrave, cause
or procure to be made or engraved, or shall
have in his custody and possession any me
tallic plate engraved after the similitude of
any plate from which any notes issued as
aforesaid shall havebeen printed, with in
tent to use such plate, or cause or suffer the.
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