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STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. X 1 AE20TT, Editor. SATURDAY.. ....MARCH 2, 18C7. Tho First Kentucky Resolution of 1750. Jiedttd, That tho several SUtef composing the Vnitot States, ro not united on the principle of ynliia UmI submission to their General Uorcrntuont, but that bj a compact, under the atjrlo and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amend ments thereto, they constituted a General Uorern tnent, for special purposes delegated to tlyit Gov ernment certain dcfinito powers, reserving, capj pute to itself, the residuary mass of right to Ihir fclf-gcTemmcnt ; and that whenever tljo flnerai (iovernment assumes undelegated power, its sets reunuuthoritative, void, and of no force ; that to f his compact each Stato acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to it f elf, tt 9 other party j (hat the Gorcrnnicnt creat ed by this compact was not made Iho exclusive pr final jndge of the extent of th powers delegated to itself, since that would bars made its discretion, and m t the Constitution, the measure of its pow ers; but that, as in all other ea-cs of compact among porer$ taring no common Judge, oc party ka am fat ri< tojudg fc itt, at tee I I of in fraction at U mJdt and taentvrt of rtdrt, XXexiry Clay's Prediction. "The slavery q&eeticn in the Free States will destroy all har mony, and finally lead to 'disunion. The conse quences of disunion are perpetual war the ex tinction of the African race ultimate military des potism," Cfaj's .Letter to Cotton, Spt. 3, 1343. a THE RAILROAD. Ths telegraphic and other news this week is Tery meagre, owing to the storms all over tho country; but there h one item that has managed to get over tho wires which we are glad to see. It is to . the effect that the Commissioner of the General Land Office has recently submit ted to the Secretary of the Interior, two lists cf selections of land in Oregon, u.n ler the 500,000 grant of lSG4,amountipg to about 116,584 in the Oregon City Dis trict, and 75,514 acres in the Roicburg .District. This loots like business. It shows that 4hose engaged in the Oregop Jlailrpad en terprise are not idle. A law has been passed by Congress -which grants to the California and Qrc gon Railroad Company the right pf way for a railroad and telegraph line Litween .the city of Portland and the Central Pa cific Railroa4 in California. The Califor nia Company Is to bsgin its end of the joad at such poiot on the Central Pacific Railroad, in the Sacramento Valley, as it may select, and run it thence northerly through the Sacramento and Shasta val ;leys to the northern boundary of the .State ; and the Oregon Company is re squired to begin its end of the line at Portland, and run thence southerly through the "Willamette, Umpqua and Rogue River valleys to the southern boundary of Oregon, connecting with the California road. Sections of at least twenty -iniles txe required to be completed every year, and the whole road to be done by .July 1, 1875. The gauze must be tip ,same as that of the Pacific Railroad, and the companies arc required, in considera tion of the liberal grants made, to trans port the maib at all times at reasonable rates, and to convey, free of charge, the troop3 and property of the United States It ia now certain that if the people of Oregon will give it the encouragement and assistance which the interest of every person in the State imperatively demands -it should have, the road will be speedily .commenced and pushed on to final com pletion. Construct this road and the whole amount of taxable prapcrty in the ;State.wfll be doubled; the cost of the -transportation of goods and produce will be -lessened sJL bast one-half, and the rate of State taxes will be very materially de creased. Let every one who can put his shoulder to tie wheel. The Great Pedestrian of the Age. . We, says the Alta Californian of recent date, have received a ,ajl fro ,C. -J?.. Schaefer, the famous German traveler, .who is making a tour of the world, bo far as practicable, on foot, and is now in this city in route for Mexico, Central America, South America, as far down as Chile an .ultimately China, Japan., ,?Ad the .couo. .jtries of the East generally. He has al ready traveled on foot over a large part c Europe, Africa, and Eastern Asia, and .during the nineteen months he has been an America, has crossed the Conti nent on foot, and visited twenty-,thre States and Territories. Mr. Schae&r, who is deformed rorn an injury to the spine received in .early youth, and ,1s not over four feet eight inches in height, has .tray ,eled already seventy-five thousand miles fii which forty-five thousand were accom plished on fpqt.' He is often indebted to tthe jgejiejosify of tie proprietors .of public teonyeyanee for a ride by stage; railroad &t steamboat, and having, no funds of his own, depends on the public for such small pecuniary assistance as he may.need from time to' time.' When he completes the - h tour' of the world, he will return to tGermary' and publish the result of his ob servations in all countries. "He has col lectcd, during his wanderings, an immense .number of autographs of notable men, seals of different societies, effete., which will be of rare interest hereafter. The Mongrels ' are full of troubles. They dare not try Jefferson Davis. The late : division of the Supreme Court shows hat the incarceration of - Dr. Mudd and . .others, , at; the . dry , tortugas, is illegal. Surratt is also likely to . prove a very; big elephant on their hands," for they cannot now try him by military c,om.mjsi6n, and his trial in a court" of law will very likely disclose the fact that - his mother had no more to do with the -kiHing of Lincoln than Charles Sumner had. They are therefore, in a fair way to become murder ers themselves in the eye of the law. T1II3 NTAJU TAX. Historians tell, us that our forefathers went to war with Great Britain chiefly on account of a stamp tax an tea. They spit upon it and defied tho government and tyrant under whose auspices it was issued. Comparing tho prcseut gcucration with thoso who preceded thcui,ono caunot but arrivp at tho conclusion that wo havenad ly degenerated. Wo havo beforo us the "Laws of the United States rolating to Internal Revenue, in'forco August 1, 1SG6," and from it we have gleaned tho fol lowing relative to tho Stamp Tax. Through these laws it is made the duty of every American citizen to stamp his deeds; stamp his affidavits; stamp his contracts ; stamp conveyances; stamp entries ; stamp insurances; stamp his leases; stamp legal documents ; stamp letters of credit; stamp letters of administration; stamp his man ifests ; stamp his mortgages ; stamp his pension papers and passage tickets; stamp his telegraphic messages ; stamp his match es; stamp his cigars; stamp his mcdi cines, perfumeries, cosmetics; stamp )iis powers of attorney; stamp his photo graphs; stamp his agreements and ap praisements stamp his assignments; stamp his bap& checks and bills of ex change; stamp his bills pf lading and bills of sale; stamp his bonds ; stamp his cqrds; stamp his clearances; stamp his charters; .stamp his certificates pf loan; stamp his certificates pf deposit; stamp his certificates cf stock ; stamp his certi ficates of profit, cert ideates of record, cer tificates pf weight and certificates of every kind; stamp his probates of will; stamp his bonds of executors, letters of appoint ment and certificates of appointment; stamp his protests and promissory notes; stamp his quit claim deeds; stamp his releases and discharges; stamp his re ceipts; stamp his. returns; stamp hii deeds of trust; stamp the entire outcnts of his warehouses. Indeed, there arc few things of any value whatever that are not either stamp ed or taxed in some other manner. We have sometimes wondered why our pres ent wise Congress have not enacted that every infant should bq stamped. A stamp of 5 could be placed on every one and it would not in any wise serve to stop the increase of population ; but on tho con trary rather to augment it ; because peo ple would want thus to show their inde pendence and hurl defiance at the Gov erpment. Supposing that our natural in crease if qne million annually, a revenue woul.4 'thus be derived of $5,000,000; and this would pay about one-fourth of what the Nigger lluieau costa the nation annually. It would help to feed, and .clothe, and educate several thousands of big, lazy and greasy niggers, and thus to ivatc, and refine, and ennoble the ebony pets of this great Nation. -We trust our delegation in Congress will take this scheme into serious consid eration. Our wisest statesmen are at their yit's-end to device some means by which tp raise more revenue ; and we have sub mitted one that is perfectly feasible and practicable. -Telegrams to the Sun. The waves of fcound go only 377 yards in the second, while the earth itself goes 13 i miles, and light 10,000 times faster than that; while eleciricity(which again is probably another kpd of vibration of the solid atoms of todies, and certainly not a fluid,) runs along the wire about half as fast again as light So, if the earth, were a cannon ball .shot at the sun from its present distanco, jsritji the velocity it now travels with, and tip moment of explosion telegraphed to tsgp sun, they would get the telegram there ia about five minutes, and see the earth coming in about eight minutes, and would have nearly two months to prepare for tho Jjlow which they would receive about fif teen years before they heard the original explosion. This is merely taking the sun as a target to be shot at without regard to Jiis power of attracting the earth at the finale of 206 miles a second. Dcnnison's Astronomy Without Mathematics. Douthit's Gang Plow. Mr. J. JL Douthit, of Linn County, patentee of a new gang plow, has one of them riow at the, Oregon Iron works in this city, Negotiations are in progress between tfce company and Mr. Douthit for the manu facture of these plows at the Oregon Iron Works. A trial of it ou the farm of Mr. fjpffin, on Thursday, was eminently satis factory, Mr. C pronouncing it in every re spect superior to any gang plow now in use. Anybody, boy or man, who can drive a team, can manage it easily. It is provided with a contrivance for raising the gang out of the ground:, one for hold ing it in the ground when disposed to run out; another for running deep or shallow at will all worked by merely depressing levers with the foot. It has also a con trivance for gauging the cut to land or to furrow; "and another to .regulate the standard depth. Provision is . made against accident by running against stone or other obstructions under ground. There are -two plows capable of cutting 12 inches each, but which may be sot to cut half that. The whole machine is rigged for three horses, but four may be used at pleasure. Oregonian. : Outers, Frogs, and Snails. The daily consumption of oysters in Paris amounts to upward of three quarters of a million. The number of snails nowso favorite . an edible with the Parisian gourmands as to have thrown the frog, the national delicacy par excellence completely into tho . shade brought daily to the Paris market is not so easily ascertained : all one knows is that from Burgundy and Champagne, the great snailproducing dis tricts, upward of one hundred thousand arc dispatched to Paris every day.' " ? Freedom or the Negro. For moro than thirty yenrs from pul pit, schoolhouso, lecture room, forum and fctump throughout tho North, ono fren zied cry has gono up for tho freedom of tho negro. For more than thirty years, every North ern breeze wafted to Southern shores, has been laden with oho song redolent with ono sentiment tho utter and entiro nbo lition of slavery in tho Southern States. For moro than thirty years, fanaticism has looked forward to tho fulfillment of hopes which, in tho last htroko of tho eleventh hour, have, liko tho fabled apples onthe Dead Sea's shore, turned to ashes in her grasp. And what havo you, oh ! Abolitionists, in return for all those long yearn, in which you havo sdeeplcHsly guarded the watchlircs of fanaticism ? A nmerublo lazzaroni upou our hands a fearful list of starved out victims upon your con sciences a currency which is tho laughing-stock of uations tho phantom, spec tres of oh! how many good men upon your hou1.-, which will uot down at your bidding the knowledge that half a million lives havo been ruthlessly sacrificed, gnaw ing at your hearts) a debt of three thou sand million dollars upon your shoulders a country staggering under a taxation which threatens tooverwhchu it in a gulf of your own digging a land yet cloth ed in crapo aud reeking with human :ra. For moro thau four years a civil war blotted with blood and tears tho pages of American hibtory, for the extinction of livery j and now that the great contest has been decided, compare the situation of tho negro at this inumeut, aud hb con dition. , ,,i At the inauguration of the war. more than four million of negroes had their happy homes in the Southern State, sur rounded by their humble penatt?, aud identified with the localities whero they were born, and lived, aud loved, and wor fchipped God. To-day instead of the natural increase of a race noted for its fecundity not much moro than half that number can stand up aud answer to the roll-call of their affectionate brethren of the North. At least a tjuarttr of tho number who dwelt among us in peace, hecurity and comfort four years since, have been swept from the utage of life by freedom and the remainder yet cling on by the rotton cords of poverty and dboase a frrtid, noxiou-, loathsome ytonuiuftit of Liberty, if it be Liberty to die unknown, uncarcd for unrcgrcttcd. Tho nogro is free, to come to gf to sell rto buy, if perchance he happen to have the money if not, to starve ; and this noiomo excrceence, this foul incubus, is tho ripe and luscious fruit that has fallen into the Kadical hat after four years of the toughest kind of shaking. Step up, Messrs. Sumner, and Wade, and Stevens, and take a front fccat in thedres circle, with your free confreres and don't hold your noes. Glorious philan thropy, that in less than four years has consigned a quarter of ita pets to pau pers' graves, and ordered coffins for half the remainder. Glorious patriotism ! unrivaled politi cal economy! oh, ye guatdiins of the na tion's weal, that have swept a wild besom of destruction over a land once blossom ing as the roe now rank as the weed of desolation which flourishes in tho briar patch of your own black hearts. Well may you rest hatlificd with the work you have wrought well may you chuckle over the hilent acres which once whimpered in the Southern breeze the glad promise of a golden fruition. Not in anger, but in sorrow, do wc now hold up the stereoscope of the future to the people's eye, and "nothing do we ex tenuate, nor aught ct down in malice." The war has been a tcrible ordeal, a fear ful four years gauntlet, through which we ran ; but before reaching the goal, the clubs of our enemies became too numer ous for our exhausted strength, and we succumbed- as brave men have ever been wont to do fighting to the last. JJutwcarc now passing an ordeal, yvo are now running the length of a gauntlet with as poor a prospect of success as bo fore, with this material difference; that in the first instance we surrendered to men who could honor and appreciate a kindred valor, whilo in the second we sfiall surrender to the harpies who fatten ed off the spoils of war to the cowardly vampires who suck tho blood of a sleep ing man ; to jackals who feast on the prey the lien ha3 slain.' And as much greater as is tho differ ence between' cacn of these classes of our enemies, so inuch greater will be the hu miliation of the punishment which will be inflicted upon us, in the event of a de feat by tho latter party in the present contest; and at this moment it is - almost a foregone conclusion that such will bo iq issue. I he end is not yet; tho revenge or fa naticism the direst of all revenge has not yet been glutted. Wait till a majori ty in Congress places in Radical hands the heavy lash of power, and then go hang your, heads at the ballot-box . beside the negro. Wait tijl the bib now being forged in the arsenal of Radicalism is in your mouth and then try to go haw when Stevens says gee. Wait till the Civil Rights bill, in all its hideous deformity, is rammed down your throats with the bayonet, and then welcome Sambo to your bed and board. : There is but one hope left us, that this impending doom may be averted ono star gleaming out to tell of a haven where we may find shelter from tho raging storm. He who will come, and byjbrce, restore order, quell faction and prevent anarchy, will bo in reality tho country's deliverer. Tho final act of tho drama will not ba reached until some modern Marius shall assumo the reins of a Dicta tor ; or somo Cassar, proclaiming his pur pose to defend the people's rights, shall seize tho powor fcnd wear the royal pur ple. T.hen, if America is not free, tho South and history will be vindicated. Vicksburg (Miss.) Times. '' "YyATEit-PnooF Boots. A correspon dent writes that six years experience has convinced him that a coat of gum copal varnish applied to the soles of boots and shoes, and repeated as it dries until the pore3 are filled and the surface shines' lijce polished mahogany, will make tho" soles water-proof and also cause them to last three times as long as ordinary ones. Northwcst, Frecport, Illinois. BY TELEGRAPH compiled from tub oneaox nsnAtn " New YoiucTFcb; 2L Tho World's upociul says tho indictment against Suratt was bo defective that it is said it has been quashed. A new indictment has been drawn presenting .him as accessory and not us principal in tho murder of tho Pres ident.' Tho Herald's special dispatch nys lllair, Sen, .has gono to Boston to urge Governor Andrews to accept tho position of Secretary of State by authority and in connection with the universal suffrage party. The Tribune's special dispatch says tho action of the House in referring tho loan bill to tho committee on banking was in tended to defeat tho measure. Thero is no possibility of the committco bcipg call ed again' this session. Tho Ways and Moans Committco arc going to bring in a new bill as a substitute, prohibiting tho contraction of greenback currency! '' 1 Tho Time's special dispatch ways: Tho President will most undoubtedly veto tho reconstruction bill. His action will doubt less bu communicated to Congress in a wock or two. ' Reverdy Johnson's ia riot a reflex of the opinions of the President. The hitter does not regard tho bill as q finality, but a leaving the wholo question opeu to the action of a futuro Congress. The military feature of the bill is particu larly obnoxious to tho President. l'ohtal service between Sau ' Francisco and Prcscott, Arizona, will hereafter ba acini-weekly. "" The Houe Ins voted another appropri ation for reservations for tho Colorado riv er Indian;. A bill to aid the construction of a ail road from San Francisco to Humbolt Bay will probably pus in a day or two. It gives tweuty sections of land per mile. The Hou.mj concurred in tho amend ments to the bill granting titles to lots in Petaluma and Placervijlc. Some action was taken last gcasioti for Bcnicia and San ta Cruz. Washington-, Feb. 20. It is under stood that ct tiovcrnor Thomas H. Ford and Solomon Hinckley have been retained a4 counsel ror Suratt. The prisoner wai yesterday delivered to the Marshal, and. aked by the latter if his name was John II. Suratt. Ho replied: "It is sir." Hitherto he has denied his indentity. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has submitted to the Secretary of of the Interior, two lints of selections of land in Oregon under the 500,000 grant of 180 1, amounting to about 1I0.5M1 in the Oregou City district, aud 75,51-1, in the Ro.seburg district. The House paed the Senate joint res olution extending facilities to the citizens of the United States who were in the sur vey of a roiltfc fur a ship canal in the Isthmus cf Darieo. Thq World of this morning urges an early and open veto to cucapc the trap thc nepublieans have laid for the President. The bill, bid as it 3, tnvre favorable than any that is likely to be pawed in its stead. If parsed over a veto it will prevent the cxrlusion t.f tha South from the next Presidential election. 1 The Commissioner of the Land office has received from the Surveyor General, San Francisco a return of Surveys for patents confirmed among which arc the following: Thomas dc Sar,tiao -17,250 acres, and 2,700 acres to Juan Tempi?. .IliwerllAiicoutt. New Yokk, Feb. 20. A violent snow storm is raging. The snow is drifting badly and the storm prevailing extensively. Hartioui, Feb. 20. The Democrats have nominated Richard D. Hubbard for Congress. New Youk, Feb. 20. Pacific Mail stock continued the feature of the market up to the close of the day. The last quotation was lo2. The heavy decline has shaken out a great many weak parties whose stock parsed into stronger hands. Tho convention (?) placed on the new Board of Directors of the Atlantic Mail Company have all been withdrawn and the trustees have surrendered the proper ty to the new board. President Wheel ing has resigned and Huston ia President. acting New Youk, Feb. 20. Portland (Me) papers gay flour can bo brought now quicker from California than from Chi cago, owing to the poor facilities for Wes tern transportation. On last Saturday, February 10th, they received 'a lot in forty days from San Francisco. The sacks were inclosed in gunny bags. In Philadelphia, this morning, George E. White, being put on trial for an at tempted rape, was shot dead on the thresh old of the court room by the brother of the outraged girl- New York, Fub. 20. In the House, Wilson of Iowa, moved concurrence in the Senate amendment to tho reconstruction bill, with an amendment disqualifying as mcmbers'of tho State Central Conven tions any person excluded by the pending Constitutional Amendment from holding office. Blaine, of Maine, having moved tho pre vious question, objected. After debate tho House refused to seoond tho previous question. Shcilabarger moved as a new section to the Senate amendment, that until the peo ple of tho jcbel States bo admitted to rep resentation in Congress, the present Stato governments be deemed provisional, sub ject to tho paramount authority of tho United States to abolish, modify, control or supercede. At all elections under tho same, only thoso shall voto who are enti tled uuder tho provision of tho 5th section. So person ehail bo eligible to office who would be. disqualified nndcr the 2d section of tho pending Constitutional Amend ment. Tho question recurring on the Senate amendment as amended, it was agreed to ayes 125 hoes '40.' The bill was Bent back to the Senate. " :" In the House the National Military bill was recommitted.' 7Tho House 'passed a bill to render applicable to seamen ot tho United States navy and to marines, the provisions .relating to tho pensions in tho appropriation bill of July, 18GG.' " A bill directing the Secretary of tho 'Navy ip distribute 81?0,000, the value of tho piratical steamer Alabama to the ota cers and crew of the steamer Kearsag was considered, but without action. " ., J. Which is tho choaper, a bride or a bridegroom ? Tho bride ; she -is always given away, the bridegroom is- sometimes. soiu. - Ncgrocff an Voters. : Tho Chicago Times, bending to tho no gro suffrago storm that has been sweeping over tho North, advises tho Democratic party to strike its flag and surrender to tho fanaticism that controls every North ern State, and go in fot putting theblacks on a civil and political equality with the whites. That our cotemparary may learn tho truo character of tho class ho wants tho Democracy to assist in making voters wo reproduce the following portion of a letter written October 10,18G, by Brev et Brigadier General Jonathan Tarbell, from Forest, Scott county, Mississippi. That tho Times may know the character of the writer, wo subjoin tho following from tho Goycfnor of New York; 'State of New Youk.') "Kxk "Alman "Brevet Brigadier General Jonathan Tarbell, late Colonel of the Nioety-firsi New York Volunteers, is known to me as u highly intelligent, patriotic and relia ble gcutlcman. As au officer he was gal lant and distinguished. His command wan thoroughly organized and disciplined, and served with credit. I tako pleasure in commending Goneral Tarbell 'in 'the confidence aud kind consideration of all with whom ho may ount.ct himself iu future buUnefcS relations.' "H. K. Fe.ntos." With this preliminary, we let General Tarbell give his vfyws of the capacity of the blacks for governmental functions. Ho says : 'Negro suffrage U a measure of the most stupendous wildnessand humbug of this or any other age. Mormotmm is fitly compared with the depravity of theblacks, but to these vices, aud universal thieving and lying, ignorance incapacity, and a to tal want of moral or binding obligation. Yll tho talk of politicians about the loyal blacks, and tho brave colored feoldicr, is an insult to truth. The blacks were loyal to the South, and it is not true that all the colored troops fought bravely any where, or on any oecation. There was no rising ou the part of the South, though in whole couuties or districts, lor hundreds of miles there were no males at home ; in fact they were kept in subjection, and at work, by the tcomen ! They nowhere in tho South voluntarily cuhsted, but were seized and carolled with or without con sent. They showed signs of welcome to our troops but they were no lc.3 demon strative to the rebel armies. 'I served by the side of the colored troops before Port Hudson, and know their conduct was a poor burlesque on soldiering, as was General Banks' com plimentary on their bravery and good conduct. All the speeches iq Congress advocating 'equality' between white and black fcoldiera wcro keenly resented by every officer and soldier in the army; but none uarcu (paw out. o m&ucr wnai interested officers, partisans, politicians and dcroogogucs my say, tho black sol dier did not' para their' rations. "The Union owes thcui nothing to its support as soldtor." They owe a debt of in-ati- tudo to the Government for maintaining them from idleness and fctar'vatica. "They have not the integrity, capacity or education for voters, and will not have for generations. As allies for the Radi cals they would prove worse than useless; for they do uot possess the faculty or in stinct of combination, and they would dis close all party secrets to their icccsston owners "Were Henry Ward Bcccher to come down here and own a plantation in person, we can imagine, what, from his well known piety and goodness, be would do for the blacks, both spiritually and pecu niarily ; yet after all he would do, they would stujy in a religious meeting, or which they are excessively fond, and in which they are inordinately enthusiastic, how to steal his bit crumb and his hut dime. "Give theblacks tho host State in the Union, 'with teams, seed, grain, farming tools, a year's supply of things, and five hundred dollars in money each, with a government of their own, and they would starve to death tho second year, and re lapse into barbarism in half a century. 'This is no exaggeration. I speak but the simple truth, as an impartial man may see it for himself. 1 am a true friend to the negroes and to progress. They ueed most education, both secular and religious for years and gcncrations-honcst' and fair dealing and justice from tho whites, but not tho ballot, which 'would prove a Booth's pistol avenged the rebellion for the arbitrary and lawless usurpation of President Lincoln ; and therefore that pure martyr of freedom cannot be brought beforo any earthly tribunal. Washington City CJironicjQ. ' That is siqgular for so eminently loyal sheetasthe Chronicle. To admit that tho President vyas guilty of arbitrary and law less usurpations is tho first step toward tho justification of his assassination : for Booth was taught, as havo been all the American people, tjiat resistance to tyrants isobedienco to God. Cincinnati Enquirer. - . An Aged Woman. -Thero is now liv ing on tho premises of Mr. II. Blanton, Richmond, a negrcss who is one hundred and eight years old. She was a mother with an iufant in her arms at tho surren der of Cornwallis,was raised in Culpeper county, Virginia. ' Sha retains her men tal faculties to a remarkable degree; speaks freely of tho incidents . of "that war," meaning the revolutionary struggle. Years ago from old ago she, lost her sight entirely, and "within tio ' last four years has quite recovered if, and ean now' see aa welj as i1? th'o' days of her ybutlil , i j y 1 1 A change has been made In the engi neering of the " Russian lines, 'and'tho French engineers have been relieved from duty, " Iossra, .Winans havo obtained i new contract for working the St. Peters burg and SJoscov" 'riilray "jipou terms still moro favorable' to them 'than their present contract." Four hundred locomo tives are to be built at' tho railway works at Atexandrowski. near St. Petersburg. It is said that General Schouler is to write a history of Massachusetts in the rebellion. .Which rebellion? The difference between a girl who tears her dress ; and x one that "pads," ia that one busts her stuff and tho other" stuffs her bust. ' cutive DeVaut.ment, y y, October 23, 1805. Extermination Necessary, Our blood curdles in our veins when wo look- over our exchanges and read accounts of further Indian depredations. .When shall itbc no longer a common oc curence upon our lonely trails, reaching from tho Missouri to tho Columbia rivers? shall it havo an end or shall our mineral resources remain a mystery to our enter prising people? From a private letter dated Ft. Phil Kearney, Dec. 23th 1800, published in tho Idaho Statesman of tlje 2d inst., we tako the following : ' Four YMh Kkahnv, D. T. Dec. 20. ,1 have just returned from Laramie with flic mails, '' 'Thja fort Is in a very precar ious situation. Just at' present the In dians seem' to "mean mischief. On or about the 10th of this month they at tacked the wood train. I was in advance of the main train ' with four wagons and tan men to load 'some foga that had been capsized. " On the road we were set upon by about forty Indians. We got our four wagons ' corralled and fought them nearly an hour, when wo were relieved by the cavalry" from the fort. No one "of our party was' 'hurt though pVcr eighty shots were fired at us and many arrews throwp. Tho cayalry were 'drawn'irito a skirmish and lost two men Lieut. Bing ham, of the 2d U-. S. cavalry, and a ser geant. There were from three to five hundred Indians. And noir for the massacre. I was not here at the time, being on the road back from Laramie. I give you the particulars as i get them here. The 19th of Decem ber the Indians corralled the wood train long enough t draw the troops from the fort. They would allow thc-troops to ap proach within gun-shot, and then retreat. In this way our men were drawn into an ambuscade, somo three miles from the fort. Tho whole command of 91 men were thus surrounded and killed. Not one escaped. Tbey were' stripped, scalped, and horribly mutilated. ' Some had powder poured in their cars and burnt. Of some the hearts were cut out; and some but I eparc you tho painful recital. ' We estimate th? number of In dians at from two to four thousand. We do not know how many Indians were killed, but many, I should think, from the poolsToi blood we found. Some of our men were armed with Spcacer rifles, re volvers and sabers, and ome only with muskets. Each man had thirty ororty rounds of ammunition. One citizen went out in the excitement armed with a Hen ry rifle and two revolvers. He was found half a mile from the rest of our men with CI arrows and one spear ia hii body. Near him were ix dead ponies and fif teen or eighteen pools of blood. ' We have stopped the wood trains, sent for reinforcements, and are pUtting thc fort in condition to stand a fciege. We have fecveral pieces of ar tillery, aud three hundred rqunds of am munition for each gun. These Indians are the Arapahces and S:our. Their chief, lied Cloud, has a good KngiUh education. He is the In dian who met the commissioners at Lara mie with a pipe of peace in one hand and a quiver of arrows in the other, which meant, "peace ou his own own terms or uot at all." Ocean Te l f.g ra ih v. The contents of a lady's thimble would hardly be ex pected to constitute a very powerful ins trument. They would hardly haye been thought capable of one of the most aston ishing feats ever performed by science. The Chairman however of the Atlantic Telegraph Company informs us that this little instrument has actually achieved such a feat. 'By way of experiment, the engineer of the company joined the cx- tcrmiltcs of the two cables frhich'now stretches across the Atlantic, tlms furm- ing an immense loop lihe'of 3,800 miles. He then putsouiiJ acidic a lady's silver thimble, with bits of ziac and copper, and by this siprplij agency he succeeded in passing signals through the whole length in little more than a second of time. A few years ago how incredible such a state ment would have sounded 1 It seems. indeed, that the simplicity of the facts has taken even electricians by surprise. When a cable was first laid across the whole breadth of the Atlantic, it was an ticipated than an unusually high power would bc'sequisite to drive the current in sufficient force through such a length. In the first instance, therefore, they used a battery with 50 x?ells, and' afterwards employed 500 cells. But this extraordi nary power only injured tho cable, and the company are now working between Valcntia and Heart's Content with a bat tery of only 20 cells. ' It is, in fact, fe ntarkable how greatly the success of tjie present year has dissipated the supposed difficulties 'of distant-or deep sea tele graphy. London Times. ' ' Out of tue Depths. Wonders will never cease, 'Lovers of natural history were in extacies not long since, in view of the discovery of the eyeless fish fat, frisky fellows fresh from tho under ground streams of tho Mammoth Cave. This morning we were presented with a number of lively little fish by our friend, Joseph Winch, Esq., which were thrown up from a depth of somo thirty feet below the in Bryan, Ohio. In boring for water in the locality mentioned, tho auger, after penetrating a depth of twenty-eight or thirty feet, haying evidently encountered a subterranean canal of some description containing' ater; a strong and continu ous stream of which has Eontlnued to ho thrown out at the surface ever since. The water is very cold, and is strongly impregnated with sulphur. . Immense quantities of these little fish are 'forced up along with the wate'r, apd on being placed inyases supplied with water from almost any section of the country, contin ued "as lively and vigorous aV when first maiyng ineir appearance on terra iirma. They seem to belong to the "chub" fam ily, are beautifully variegated, have been bright eyes, "and seem" to live ' and groiy fat on nothing I Pittsburg Chronicle. v Says a member of Congress from one of the Western States : -- 'I havo been in Washington two years, and have caught about every thirigbut the General Sedgwick, of Matamoras fame, is but thirty years old. - IIe was, before the war, a clerk in a Louisville store; The I2mprc?i ofan Hour. Marie; Car lotta, daughter of Leopold I, of Belgium, and Louise, daughter of Loui3 I'hillippe, of France, and first cousin to Victoria, and wife of 3Iaximiliao, Arch duke of Austria, died at Miriraar, near Trieste, on the 14th of this month; She was born in June, 1840, and married in . 1857. In June, 18G4, she accorilpatjiejd her husbrrnd to Mexico. Irl Jufy of" the current year she returned to Europe to obtain aid from 'Napoleon and vthe To"3 for her husband whose power was growing less and promising to be lost.1 She failed in her demand on Napoleon, and showed signs of insanity while visiting the Pope subsequently. ; Hcr , brother 4oolqhrro Miramar, where, after a3ditionaf eviden ces of insanity, she died. It is reportecf that she was 'occupied to the last with schemes for supporting a'nd sustaining ; a Power which has lost its chief prop in her. Carlotta seems to have been .the con-' trolling and ordering intellect of the royal family of modern Mexico. She . brought youth, wealth, beauty, influence, and abil ity to the discharge of the duties of her; position, and as much of Maximilian's small kucccss as is attributable to anjs caijso belongs to her as Napoleon or her husband. She was wise, though impetu ous in counftcL and brarr nf heart Vt Iitipally, her death has significance only in its effects on 3Iexico, and it is hardly possible that it will not weigh heavily in uencin'g that abdication of the emperor which has been some time announcing. auu mat return 10 Europe winch appears to be so imminent. Philadelphia North American. ' A Little History with an Iipo tant 3Iobal. The Oil City llegisfcr re lates the following: . ' " "The widow McClintock's farm, con sisting of about one hundred acres, is inW mediately opposite the flourishing town of Bouscville, on Oil crceL It was one of the first among the oil-producing farms of the valley. The Van Siyke well on this farm, struck early in 1803, produced for some time at the rate of twenty-five hun dred barrels of oil per day; ; .TfcerHapfc mond well, struck som time after, pro duced H the rale, of tix hundred barrebi per day. - "In 1804 Mrs. McCiintock died. Her death was caused by being badly burned while kindling a fire with crude oil. Af ter her death it was found by her will that the farm and ill her possessions were left entire to her adopted son, John W. 3teele; a youth of nineteen or twenty.. The daily income of the farm accruing to the land interest at the time of her death averaged about $2,000. In the iron safe where Mrs. McCiintock kept her money was found 40,00 in gold and $100,000 in greenbacks. All this fell to 3Ir. Steele as heir. He was a young man of fair av crage principles but uneducated. No, sooner had he obtained possession of hi3 property than he was surrbundd witS parasite?. He proved an'easy victim to these sharpers who went with him all the time, and he gave no heed to the counsels of those who were hb best friends. To1 finish the history, we will merely state that 31r. Steele is now reduced to powerty and is shunned by those who fawned up? on him in his day of prosperity1 . Bettf-r Orr. Brick Pomeroy says: The poor of the WcsC are nabobs in com parison to the poor of Nivt York. Wo would not exchange our o"Sce---hbrseback rides over the prairies our earnest friends and good fallows pf the West fof all the wealth of Afetor' or Stewart, and be forced to live in New Norkf The mad wfio is earning two (dollars a day in La Crosse i-i bet tr off than one who earns ten in New York. Here one cannot turn round without paying for the pririlege; The pavements are hot, hard, an,! crowd ed. Tne air comes thick with offensivd vapors, laden with death, and seems.' to gum the lungs with an invisible coating of filth. The parks are not1 the groves of the west the water is uot like that of our country tho vegetables are wilted tho meat cooked by "machinery ltd food tastes more like "nations" than a reT past tho air' 13 filled with dust the hearses go by continually," bearing the. dead to the quiet cities over the river.1. v Kentucky Finances. The finances of Kentucky, as is reported by, papers of that State, iscertainlv verv ericourarrinrr. The debt is said to be between five and six million dollars. The quartermaster general has lust been r notified that STOO.w 000 havo been made Knhiprk his" lalo 1r!ffc Iby the proper 'national "authorities, and V L ' . 1 11". 11 uemeeu cueapu two mnuon dollars addi tional is expected within a few weeks The assets are therefore enough to liqui- date all ttie liabilities and to enable tho State to begin a new year free from debt: l lie totaj papulation of the- State in 18G0. was , l,155,GS4or whom 919,484 were whites. In October. 1SG2. the dcbl was $G;205, 231. The assessed valuation was S277,025;054 on real estate in- 18G0', ank 250,287,039 op 'personal; or $528 211,GQ3 in the gros3. ; These ; facts carry tneir own comments, and enable every one to judge what the condition of the State really is. ; " 1 1 . t Purgative Pills have become a set tle necessity with tho American peopled Indeed, cathartics always have been and always must be used, m some torm, by all mankind. In this countrv. the pilular form of administration bas been growing iu mvor tiucy puis wcry ursi. uiuue ui Aloes 'and Bhubarb, rolled into a balk Their hi rh nosition in the nublio confi- ' l r - - 7 . . - dence has finally been secured and fasten- tic Pills, tho most skillful , combination of medicine for tho diseases they are iii tended to cure, that science Can devise or art produce. Those who. need pills, no longer hesitate what pills to take if they can get AyEJ&'s AillS. Wheeling(Va.) Press. : t ' li ii i i - H ' i ' TriE Lptiierans. From , the last re turns to the General Synod of the Luth eran Chutch in the United States, it ap pears from'the'last minutes of this conf en tfci that there are 21 district synods be-' longing to this body, containing 647 min isters, 1,083 congregations, , and 101,469 members. Contributions for berievolent objects ia the Lutheran Church, 53,000; general -hene'volence, $121,000; local ob jects, building of churches, Ac., 405,000; endowmont ofliterary and theological insti tutions, 3250,000 ; making in all, during the last two years, 829,000. '..,.. . Bomantio Deatu. A young-lady drowned in' tears. - - .
