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o o o o OREGON CITY, 0EEI07 SATURDAY, MAY 18, ro. 30. 1 .:' - -. : - M ' ' .. Vol. i. i - -.A 4 jc lU:ckln cSntevpnsc. PCBLI5ED EVERT SATURDAY liOKXINO' By D. C. IR3LAND, mrE-South cast corner of Fifth and M ! i Vtrects, inie building lately known Court Hau.se, Oregon City, Oregon. Terms of ulsci l-t ion. - w roDT one vear in advance 3 oo One copy, on . u delitved 4 00 . Terms c.t Advertising. Transient advertisements, one square U lines or lesi first insert.,., ...2;0 Freach subsequent insertion. 1 W Ju'inCardsoucuare per annum juivale quarterly '. -j oiecolu..... peranum J J One hait column g() (i0 Srtisin- at the" established rates. the nr 4 j ti.:...) 5 ,u.. ;,... . r,.,l standniLr are invitea to 111 .....i, vi ..re.icu muni."! r - - , . W. M. 8:lv I Oregon City, .Nov. bth, lSbo. fO V. Meets ev ery Wednes- i dy evening at 7 o'clock, in the I Mi8ic Hall "Member, of the order are in I MtcV to attend. Hy order N. . -j-ly 1 "n'illmete No. ' T- ' J T I ft-rts everv Saturday evening, at the rooms 1 E corner of Mam and Filth streets, at 7 1-2 K, clock. rtVitins members are invited to t y order of T- I w . c. joaxsox r. o. m cows. Xoiory Public. 5 JOHNSON McCOWN, OUK:ON CITV. OREGON. Q Will attend to all business entrusted i t .our care in any of the Courts of the State, .Uect money, negotiate loans, sell real es- 1 1 vjf-V'articu'iar attention given to contested I .ind cases. . JL'L L- D. KJfloKEIiriEY, Attorney and Counsellor ol Law. TILL ATTEND PHOMI'TLY TO ALL f busineso1111-"1 to his care, 0 FiCfc-One door north of Bell k l'aiker's 4 i u st'ire, Oregon City, Oregon. 8:ly S. HUELAT, ATTORNEY AT LAV, 0.t;oit City, Oregon. Oifioe over o arm an & Brother. S:t ' Dr. F. Barclay, Eli C L.v I - . 1 '(Formerly Surgeon t the Hon. II. B. Co.) I , OFFICE: At RtsbUnce, "f Main St reet . ' (52 ).:... O regon C iy. o Br. H. SafFarraiis, PR YSWIAX and SURGEON OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book tore. Mtiin xtret-t, Oief0,1 City. O J. WSLCH, I3ENTIST. . Ptrmauiutiy Located at Oregon City-, Oregon. Rooms over Charrrtau k Bto.'s store. Main i street. (12.1V - : JABIE3 LI. BICOBE, Justice of the Pence d' City Recorder. o ; O.fitt; In tht' Cotiri Rouse tid Citj ; Cunnril Runi, Orejio-.i Ciiy. !; Will attend to the acknowledgment of i leedn, and all other duties appertaining to - .theolliri; of Justice of the Peace. i-':lv . 0 John Fleming. EALER iu HOOKS and HTATIOXRY. Thankfijl for .the patronage heretofore re i-ived, respectfully soIicii.- a continuance l the favuis ot a generous I His store is between Jacobs' and Acker ' man's bricKs, oh i lie west side of Main street. ' Oregon City October 27th, 't0. t.tf ! William Ercnglitoiij : COXTRA C TOR and BUILDER, Main st.-ett, Oregon. City. I f WilKattend to all work in his line, con- V "l istinin parU.f Carpenter and Joiner work I J timino, buttlliug, etc. Jobbing promptly I r atterulevf to. " i I I DAVID SMITH W. U. MAHSU.VLL. I J . SMTH & MARSHALL, Black Smiths and Boiler Makers .Corner of Main and Third streets. ?egon City Oregon. Blacksmithing in all its branches. Boiler I making and repairing. to irive satisfaction. AJlvvork warranted (,K ! JOHN ttCHHAM I Manufacturer and Dealer in I SADDLES, JIARXESS, d-c , etc., 1 Main street, between Third and Fourth, Oregon Gift. fPilE attention of parties desiring anything I JL in my line, is directed to my stocK, oe- I jtui'C making purchases elsewhere. I (ly) JOHN ,-CIIBAM. I A. LEVY, I Main Seet, at the Telegraph Orhce, Oregon City . . . .Otigoti. f. Dealer! n . Kestrrs Ready made Clothing, Cigars, Tobarco, rincs. Stationery, Cutlery, Willow and H noden Ware, Yankee Notions. I lancy and staple Groceiies, Candies, Nuts, I 'fys, etc. (52 I oil EGOX CI T Y t ; I JLanirfacture, and hare constantly on I hand, a very Snprior Article of Straw Wrapping Paper. iT Orders will receive prompt attention. J. D. MUJ-EB, Secretary. CLIFF H OU SE . Main Street, iiiJi JVeorr? Opposite Woolen Factory, W. L. WHITE, 1 . T. W. KIIOADES, f Iropnetors. Or'n Cit-. OrFffon. "We invite the citizens of Oregon City, and the traveling public, to give us a shave of their patronage. Meals can be had at all hours, to p!e:.se the irost fastidious. 15 BARLOvv HOUisEj Main Street, one door north of the Woolen Factory, Orrgon City Oregon. Witi. Barlow Pioprietor. The proprietor, thankful for the continued patronage he has received, would inform the public that he will continue his efforts to pleast his guests. (52 Iis2jic!'Is?J 'Mills, OREUOS CITY. KEEP CONSTANTLY u HAND FOR SALE : BRA X A Nl) CHICK EX FEED ! Parties wanting feed must furnish their sacks. Ib.Sin OREGON CITY BEE WERT ! IIEM1Y 11UJ5BCL. Having purchased the above Brewery, wishes to inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 quality of LAGER BEER! As good as can be obtained an3'where in the State. Oiders solicited and promptly tilled. Urt got! City, December iibtli, lbtjtJ. lOtf CLARK GREEN HAH, 7 C. City Drayman, OREGOX CITY. All orders for the delivery of merchandise, or packages and freight ot whateve- descrip tion, to any part of the city, will be executed promptly and with care. It'.t5m 18GG. JOHK MYERS. XJJJ II. C. MYERS. J. MYERS & BROTHER, Urtder the Court House, in Oregon, City. Dealers in Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes. Clothing, Groceries, Haruware, etc., etc., WhU-h they -propone to sell as cheap as any Ioume in ( eijuii. Oregon City." OctoberS3, iSCfj. 2:ly PONY SALOON. Main street, Oregon City, SSvaWw Adjoining tiie lirick totore of m'M&3 J8? c. Acxcrman. iVV JAMES 3IAXS, Propr. This popular saloon is always supplied .with the very best quality of Wines and Liquors, Ale, Porter. Deer and Cider, Cigars and Tobacco. (Jive me a call:. :iyj James manx. Fashion Milliard Saloon Main street, '"between Second and Third, Oreyon City. J. C. ftlaxm, Froprietor-i rpHE above long established and popular 1 Saloon is yei a favorite resort, and as only the choicest brands ol Wiues, Liquors and Cigars are dispensed to customers a share of the public patronage is solicited, (lv) J. C. MANX. SHADES SALOOlT West Side Alain- Street, between, Second and Third, Oregon City. GEORGE A. HAAS Proprietor. The proprietor begs leave to inform his friends and the public generally that the above named popular saloon is open for their accommodation, with a new and well assort ed supply of the finest brands of wines, liquors and cigars. 5ti CAN M A II STdE! JAMES HORFITT & CO., WOULD INFORM TIIE PUBLIC Es pecially of Can mah, that they have established a Store at that place, where they will . Li:ep on hand a well assorted stock of Merchandise and Groceries. which will be sold at reasonable rates, for the purpose of establishing permanently such a necessity at Canemah. Try us. (3-:y BENNETT HOUSE, Salem Oregon. I. .JAY S Tt'R.VEY, HAVING LEASED THE ABOVE HOTEL is prepared to accommodate the public in as good style as any house on the ccat. He has" determined to make the Bennett as good as the best, and better than any public house in Salem. Charges moderate. LOUUS & ALBUIGHT, MARKET ! Corner of Fourth and Miin Sis., Oregon City Oregon. 'PARK THIS METHOD OF INFORMING X the public that they keep constantly on hand all kinds tresh and salt meats, such as REEF, I'ORK. MUTTON, VEAL, CORNED REEF, II A MS, PICK E LED PORK, LA III), And everything else to be found in their line of business. LOU US & ALBRIGHT. Oregon City, April 2oth, 1-:G7. T-:ly IN MOSS1 BUILDING, Main Street Oregon City. The undersigned will keep on hand all the varieties of fresh aud cured meats: Poullri, Vegetables, Porntd Beef and Pork, Bacon, Hams, Lard, TaUoic, -c A liberal share of patronage is solicited, as I expect to keep as good an assortment, and ot as good quality, as the country atfords, which will be delivered to purchasers at any reasonable distance in tho city. 6;lyj B, MAYER. Old Musie. Back from the misty realms of time, Back from the years agoie Faintly we catched the ringing rhyme, Aud heard the melody and chime Of golden songs, of straius sublime, 1 like the carol of birds at dawn. And ever we hear them soft and low, Harping their mus-io sweet, Songs that we loved in the long ago, Rippling their liquid ebb and flow, Driftiug their cadence to and fro. Like the fall of fairy feet. Some faces our heart will ever hold, Some smiles we may remember yet. There were flowing locks like the sunset's gold, There were parted lips of Cupid's mold, And the songs they sang can ne'er grow old, For our hearts can ne'er forget. Ah, weil-a-day ! 'tis a story past, Which I may not tell again, 'Twas a happiness too sweet to last ; The heavy clods on her grave are cast, And her voice is still, and above her, fast Falls the Winter ram. QcAititELS. One of the most easy, the most common, most perfectly foolish things in the world, is to quarrel no matter with whom man. woman or child ; or on what pretences, provocation or occasion what soever. There is no kind of necessity in it. and no species or degree of benefit to be gained hj it. and yet. strange as the fact may be, theologians, politicians, law yers, doctors, and princes quarrel ; nations, tribes, corporations, men, women, children, dogs and cats quarrel about all manner of things, and on all manner of occasions. If there is anything in the world will make a man feel bad, except pinching his finger in the crack of a door, it is unquestionably a quarrel. No man ever fails to think less of himself after, than he did before one ; it degrades hiin in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others ; and, what is worse, blunts his sensibility to disagree on the one hand, and increases the power of passionate ir ritability on the other. The truth is, the more quietly and peaceably we get on, the better for ourselves, the better for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten, the wisest course is, if a m m cheats you, quit dealing with him ; if be is abusive, quit his company 5 if he slanders you, take care to live so that nobody will believe him. No matter who he is, or how he misuses you. the wisest way is generally just to let him alone ; for there is nothing better than this cool, calm, quiet way of dealing with the wrongs we meet wilh. Fopclaii Follies. To take exercise or walk for the health, when every step is a drag, and instinct urges us to repose. To guzzle down glass after glass of cold water on getting up in the morning with out any feeling of thirst, under the. im pression of the health-giving nature of its washing-out qualities. To sit down to the table and " force"' yourself to eat, when there is not only no appetite to eat but a positive aversion to food. To take a glass of soda or toddy, or a sangaree or mint-drops on a Summer day. under the belief that it is safer and better than a glass of cold water. To economize time by robbing your self of necessary sleep, on the ground that an hour saved from sleep is an hour gain ed for life, when in reality it is two hours actually lost and a half a dozen hours actually spoiled. To persuade yourself that you are de stroying one odor by a stronger one : that is, attempting to sweeten your own un washed garments and person by involving yourself in the fumes of musk, eau do Cologne, or rose-water ; the best perfume being a clean skin and well-washed cloth ing. r.KECUEn as. Ballou. Wc seldom find in a religious controversy anything more spicy than the following : Once upon a time, says the narrator, Lyman Beecher and Rosea Ballou met to compare Calvinism and Universalism, and each came well armed with textual mis sils. After several apostolic blows from each, shrewdly parried by the other. Dr. Beecher opened to the ninth Psalm and read : (i The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God." -There sir, the wicked are in hell ; get them out if you can!' Hosca Ballou. calm as a swimmer morning, poictirg to the twelfth chapter of John's Revelation, read: "Death and hell delivered up the dead that were in them."' There' said father Ballon, they are out, get them in again if you cao?"' The Goppess of J.iiu:rtv. The origin of the portrait for the Goddess of Liberty upon our coins is of great interest. . Mr. Spencer, the inventor pf Spencer's lathe. used by the American Bank Note Com pany, was the artist who cut the first die for our American coiu. He cut an exact .medallion of Mrs. Washington, the wife of General Washington, and the first few coins were struck with her portrait. When General Washington saw them he was dis pleased, and requested the figure to be re moved. Mr. Spencer altered the features a little, and puttiug a cap upon its head, called it the Goddess of Liberty. They Offer to Swear to it. George T. Bromley's address to the Santa Cruz children is being extensively copied in the East. George's remark that lie was 4i not as good as some little Joys,"' says George's brother, editor of the Norwich Bulletin can be established if necessary by the affi davits of all the reet of the family. - ?xpaiision. . The ratification of the Russian treaty makes another large addition to our na tional territory the sixth since the be ginning of this century, when the United States had an area of 820.000 square miles. In 1803, Louisiana, with S89.000 square miles j in 1819, Florida, with 818, 000 ; in 1845 Texas Avas annexed with 308.000 ; in 1810, California and New Mexico, with SoO.OOO.-were conquered, and two years later they were paid for ; in 18o4, Arizona, with 25,000, was purchased, and in 1807 Russian America we shall call it tho territory of Alexander with 370,000 square miles, was purchased, mak ing in all five purchases within sixty-four years, at an expense of laillions. We be gan our national career by taking our original stock of land from Great Britain by force, and we huve purchased addition al stock from France, Spain, Mexico and Russia, and now we have an area of 3.325, 541 square miles, or more than four times as much as the country over which the Stars and Stripes were hois-ted in the time of Washington. Tho British Colonies which lay between the Saint Lawrence and Florida, the Alleghanies and the At lantic, were merely the nucleus of the na tion which has since grown up, and which now fills the valleys of the Mississippi, the Columbia, the Sacramento, the Rio Grande and the Great Salt Lake, and having ac quired Kirehpab and readied the Arctic circle, is now looking around for some thing else, such as a slice of Japan or China, an island or two in the West Indies, or any good thing in the way of a land speculation that may be lying around loose anywhere. We have considered the case of Mexico, and have concluded that it is a bad investment, until after the guer rillas and bandits have extirmtnated one another. Our territory, heretofore, has been compact, all lying in one bod, but Alexander Territory is separated from the nearest point of Washington Territory by a distance of about 100 miles. This makes a precedent for annexing and acquiring islands and parts of continents in any part of the world, and in either the Northern or the Southern hem'sphere. --&- . . Axkcdote ofCeruan. A farmer attend ing a fair with a hundred pounds in his pocket, took the precaution of depositing it in the hands of the landlord of the pub lic house at which he stopped. Having occasion for it shortly afterward, he re sorted to mine host for payment. But the landlord, too deep for the countryman, wondered at what he meant, and was quite sure that no such sum had ever been de posited in his hands by the astonished rus tic. After several ineffectual appeals to the recollection, and finally to the honor of Bardolph. the fanner applied to Curran for advice in the matter. " Have patience, my friend,'' said the counsel. " Speak to the landlord civilly; tell him you have left your money with some other person. Take a friend .vitli you and lodge with him another hundred in the presence of j our friend, and then come to me." He did so, and then returned to hb le gal friend. ' And now I can't see how I am going to be the better oil for this, if I get my second hundred back again ; but how is that to be done?"' ' Go. ask hini for it when he is alone' said Curran. ' Ay, sir, asking won't do. I'm afraid not."' " "Never mind, take my advice," said the counsel ; do as I bid you and then, return to me."' . The farmer returned with his hundred, glad to find that safe in his possession. "Now, sir. I must be content, but I don't see as I am better oflf."' ' Well, then,"' said the counsel, "now take your friend with you, and ask the landlord for the hundred pounds your friend saw you leave with him.'' We need not add that the wily landlord found that he had been taken off his guard, while our honest friend returned to thank his counsel, exultingly. w ith both hundreds in his pocket. What they-Say. The Victoria Xeics speaking of the proposd treaty between the United States and Russia for the Rus sian American Territory says : W .. n' l 1 il. .1 . ? C T.. i e nave saiti mai uiu cession ji jlus sian America to the United States is as much more important fact than many per sons may suppose, and we believe it has not bec"n consummated without a clear realization of the complications and inter national difficulties to which it seems al most certainly destined to give rise. Great Britain has interests involved in this mat ter which she cannot overlook or submit to be ignored, either by Russia or the United States. Her right to the free nav igation of the rivers entering into the Pa cific between 54:40 and CO. which affords an outlet for the people of the possessions lying to the east of the ceded territory, she will not likely forego under any cir cumstances, and shouW. the United. States seek to deprive her of those rights, tthu h she most likely will, her 4 traditional pol icy' being one of exclusion of all foreign shipping irom her inland navigation, it is not difficult to forsee the feeling of hos tility to which such an act would give rise' - Jay Cooke, the banker Mr. Chase made rich and famous, is setting up an art gal lery, and has come into the market as a heavy-paying' picture buyer. lie ha3 just given 5.000 tor tfro imported pictures, and offered a like sum for George Inriess's " Peace and Plenty," but its owner Mar cus Spring, preferred painting to money. An ugly frown is generally a eigu of tfie ,cro?3. Dtadr, Justice. From the Sacranunto Union. The American judiciary must be taken in hand. The Judges, not to pnt too fine a point upon it, are overdoing the sensa tion business, eclipsing the ten thousand dollar preachers, turning law-making into a comparatively dull and useless task, di vorcing law and justice with reekles dis regard of the fate of the offspring, and somersaulting with alarming contempt for the gravity of the ermine. The California c rcuit was recently enlivened by the ad vent of a new judicial star a gentleman from Oregon, who signs his opinions " Deady, Justice," but who nevertheless so surprisingly varied the tunc routine of the Courts and displayed such capacity for fantastic tricks of reasoning and de cision that the honorable Bar of San Fran cisco broke into glowing congratulations upon his peculiar success. .The engage ment is concluded, and Oregon once more claims him as her own ; but he has left on record two. decisions which will keep his memory green very green in California during a succession of Sierra winters. The Deady opinion in the " Black Crook" case, to the effect that a dramatic copy right granted under the laws of the Uuited States gives the owner no right to legal protection if the moral of the drama fails to please the Judge of a District Court, would have been sufficient to secure his fame, for a great many people on the other side of the continent will be startled to learn that so tickle and absurd a censor ship of the theater has been established in the republic, and not a few interested par ties will earnestly inquire whence this Or egon Judge derived his authority to say whether a copyright should have been granted or withheld, or to nullify it after it has been secured and bought and sold as valuable property. But this opinion, which will be classed with the opinion de livered by Judge Cadwalader ot Pennsyl vania in the " American Cousin" case, as a choice illustration of judicial vagary, was only the prologue to the swelling act of Deady "s imperial theme. His mon umental performance is the decision in the case of John McCall vs. Irwin McDowell et. al., over which the creatures who cher ish the name and tho deed of John Wilkes Booth, aud regard assassination as a right ful Democratic expedient for attaining po litical ends, are now rejoicing. This is a perfect wonder of logte and law. It is such an opinion as any Judge in the land might write and then be content to die. It is the crowning achievement of a para doxical intellect, not part cnlarly skilled in making the worse appear the fetter rea son, but traveling to conclusions by paths which seem to the ordinary eye to lead to other and directly opposite findings. We can think of no parallel to the learned Judge's odd way ot reaching a result ex cept Heller's apparent defiance of the laws of nature. Under the order of Gen. Mc Dowell, one McCall was arrested by Capt. Douglas, upon the charge of Using gross and incendiary language, at a time when Hiu public mind was terribly excited by the cowardly murder of the Presideut of the United States, and imprisoned at A? catraz. It will be remembered that other arrests were made at the "same period, upon similar charges. Men who, by the insolent expression of sentiments that would disgrace a band of Sioux, were in viting the rough treatment of Judge Lynch and provoking civil convulsion, were taken into custody lyjgfc held until some what tamed and then ni'ercifuHy set at lib erty. At that time the suspension of the writ ot habeas corpus ' throughout the United States," which had been proclaimed by President Lincoln, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, on the 15th of September, 1803, was still maintained, and that proc lamation was construed and acted upon as a general order by the commanders of military departments in every section of the Union. As a matter ot necessity, these commanders were clothed with large dis cretionary power,- and after the rebel armies had been suppressed hundreds of persons who had been arrested and im prisoned by military officers, under the general oiders of the President and War Department, were subjected to vexatious prosecutions. This caused Congress to pass the law known as the Indemnity Act, which provides : ' That anv search, seizure, arrest or im- pVisonmeut made, or any acts done or omitted to be done during the said rebel lion by any officer or person, under and by rirtue of any order, written or verbal, general or special, issued by the President or Secretary of War, or by any military officer of the United States holding the command of the department, district, or place witliiu which such seizure, search, arrest or imprisonment was made, done or committed, or any acts were so done or omitted to be done, either by the person or officer to whom the order was address ed, or for whom it was intended, or by any other person aiding or assisting him there in, shall be held, and are hereby declared, to come within the purview of the Act to which this is amendatory, and within the purview of the fourth . section of the said Act of March 3, 18G3. for all the purposes of defense provided there in. But no such order shall, by force of this Act or the Act to -which this is an amendment, be a defense to any suit or action for any act done or omitted to be done after the passage of this Act." Now Deady, Justice, sustains the consti tutionality of both the proclamation and the Indemnity Act, and also decides that the latter is "sufficient to shield Captain Douglas, who simply obeyed the order of his superior officer in making the arrest, against liability for damages. But alter an elaborate argument in support of these positions, and after full recital of the cir cumstances which instilled th arrest, he holds that McDowell is liable because the arrest was without authority of law and the defendant had received no specific or der from the President to take John Mc Call into custody. In other words, while nearly all the reasoning of the opinion goes to prove that General McDowell was clothed with authority to m ike such ar rests, and that the detention ws iu pursu ance of the general order ot the' Comman der in Chief of the army, Deady arrives at exactly contrary conclusions on both points. With equal felicity of bringing a chain of reasoning to a startling end. he argues that owing to the extraordinary emergency, the bad conduct of McCaU and the patriotic motives of McDowell, this is not a case in which " vindictive or exem plars damages' should be awarded, and then fixes the sum to be paid at six hun dred and thirty-live dollars. Allotting the same compensation in similar cases, which will i? brought to trial in conaequenee of this encouraging decision, we shall find that although no " vindictive or exemplary damages'' should be awarded, the com mander of the department will be bled to the amount of about ten thousand" dollars. The law andf tbe- vine words are given, to the General ; the dollars, to the wretches who. while living under the shelter of the nation's flag, proclaimed their adhesion to the cause of .treason anil glorified the mur derer of a President of the United States. Will the Glucinl criotl ever Return? Galignani staics "that M. Babinet re cently delivered an interesting lecture on the causes of the glacial period, which some geologists maintain to have existed many thousand years ago. while others equally eminent refuse to admit this theo ry. The opinion of the former is founded on the traces left on rocks, and still more on what are called erratic blocks that is. enormous solitary blocks of stone found in plains where no similar rocks exist. Thus a -block of granite region creates no surprise ; but if it be found in a region where no granite is to be met with for miles around, the question naturally arises, how did if get there ? The theory by whii h this phenomenon is attempted to be explained, and certainly with great plaus ibility, is the following: At a certain period of our earth's existence its- whole surface was nearly covered with ice, and the blocks of stone detached from the mountains by storms and other convul sions, lay on large sheets of ice, which, as this glacial period gradually wore away, broke up, and were floated to great dis tances, until at length, in melting away, they deposited their blocks of stone on the bare ground. There are other argu ments besides in favor of the glacial period, which we must pass over in silence in or der to arrive at the main question treated by M. Babinet, viz : Will the glacial pe riod return, and mu:t it return at stated times, destroying life on our globe for a few thousand years ? To answer this question M. Babinet has recourse to the ascertained fact that our sun moves through space towards some point existing in tho constellation of Hercules. It is. therefore, a planet belonging to a system, the center or sun of which is too distant for us to descry. The planets of our solar system, are but the satellites' of our sun, which most probably describe an ellipse around'ita principal sun, but an ellipse thousands of times larger than our earth's orbit, and, consequently, thousands of years must elapse before our sun. after describing, itt returns to its starting point. Now, as our seasons depend upon the dis tance of our earth from our sun, it is highly probable that the latter, in running its course round its sun, will produce sea sou -5 on a larger scale : it wiil get colder at one point than at another, and the cool ing of our sun will occasion intense cold, that is, a glacial period on our globe, and conversely, at the point where the temper ature of our sun will increase, our globe must experience a torrid period. Polygamy, There are two daily newspapers pub lished in Salt Lake one a -Mormon organ and the other anti-Mormon, and they keep up a continuous defense and attack of the polygamic system. The Mormon organ the Telegraph of the 31 instant, has the following : It has pleased a large portion of the citizens of these Uniied States to rate slavery and polygamy side by side, as twin relics of barbarism,' and therefore institutions equally deserving of abolition by the enlightened people of this nation. We. however, must be permitted to say that we can see no relevance, connection, or similtude between those two institutions. With negro slavery very few, of the peo ple of this Territory ha e had any practi cal experience. It has not come before them as a vital or important question di rectlv in their path, and necessary or ex pedient to be attended to tihd disposed of once for all. With polygamy, however, it is otherwise. The world needs moral reform, more than any Oilier sort of reform just of this time, because such reform is at the root and foundation of every other reform. His tory ho?s that tt'e most exalted people the world ever knew, in this respect, vre polygamists. It is difficult to find a peo-. pie. 011 earth, acknowledged of God. who were not of polygamic faith or practice. Since God ceased to acknowledge any people of his own. many of the chief na tions on the earth have forbidden a plural itv of wives, but have winked at sill sorts of lewdness, and in some have actually made it legal and licensed it. Such has been the horrible result ol accounting polv"-aray a crime in Christendom, and forbidding it under severe penalties. Such law and sentiment, forbidding what in the sin-fat of Heaven is honorable marriage, has filled the cities of the nations with prostitutes and the systems of many of the people with rottenness." These people thus defend their system with energy, just as the Slaveocrats did. and undertake to show that it is'sanctioned by Heaven, but it is fast fading away and when the Pacific Railroad lets a full blaze of the light of civilization upon it, it will be made to appear so hideous that it can not long survive. How to write history is' thus told by a great historian of France : I prepare, in the first place a table of all the events, the great as welt as the small, with the ver.Ued dates the dates not only of the years, but cf the months and days ; this 1 the long est and most minute of my labor. 1 Jen 1 efface from my mind all current and pre conceived opinions ; 1 consider iny da e l tacts ; I see their connection ; I feel U progress of events, and I write uiy book like a novel," . . When a man takes more pleasure m earning money than in spending it, he has tajf ?e the tirst step toward wealth. Firc-Daxup. The caike of explosions in coal minea so disastrous in Great Britain, is the acci dental ignition of air containing light car buretted hydrogen, or marsh gas which the miners call fire-damp a gaseous com pound consisting or twelve parts by weight of carbon, and four parts of hydrogen.' In the process of mining, crevices are opened containing this gas, which, by the law of diffusion, soon becomes equally mixed, with the whole air of the mine. It is well known' that diaphrams of animal matter possess' the property of absorbing this gas by endosmosis. An empty blad der, for instance, suspended in a mixture of air at:d marsh gas, will soon be found partially filled with marsh gas. Unglazed earthenware may be substituted for the animal membrane. Mr. G'. F. AnselT of the Royal Mint, London, first applied the principle of osmosis, in a very ingenious instrument for the detection and qtianla tive estimate of expFosive gasses, whicls can be used in mines to give warning of the presence of marsh g:ts in such quanti ties as to form an explosive mixture. For certain reasons, which need not here b explained, the diffusion of gasses is not a ways equal. Several of these instruments, at different highis in thesann? mine, show that there may w a much larger percent age of marsh gas at the top than at the bottom of the gallery. Sir. Ansell ha lately improved the apparatus constructed by him in 1SG5. It now consists of an iron funnel, provided w ith an iron U-tube; the end of which is" closed by a piece of glass t -be fixed in brass, to which one O pole-of a battery is attached: the upper part of this glass tube carries a brass col- . lar, through -.rhich passes an adjusting screw, to the lower end of which is fast ened a piece of copper vir with a plati num. point. Mercury is po tired! into the iron funnel till it rises in the glass tube to a Convenient height. This mercury is al lowed to find its level by opening a valve when netting the instrument. The top of the funnel is closed by a septum, consist ing of" Wedgewood's ware, secured in its place by common sealing wax. The other end of the battery wire is connected with the instrument; When the apparatus h placed in a mixture of common air and marsh gas. the latbSr passes through the septum more rapidly than the air within the apparatus can escape, according to the well-known law that gasses dUiuaiy intt 0;iO another in tws inverse proportion. of thesquare root3 of their specific gravi ties. The accumulation of marsh gais within the septum, therefore, increases the pressure, on the mercury in the funnel, and thus raises it in the leg of the U-tube until h touches the platinum point, when electric communication is established, and the" alarm is given by means of a bell hav ing wheel work for moving the clapper, which is set in motion the instant the cir cuit is closed. Mr. Ansell has found that his instrument gives warning in four sec onds, if the mixture of gas is still below the point of explosion, but, by adjusting the point so that there is not more thariQ the thickness of a shiliing between it and the mercury, a dangerous eruption of gas may make itself known in t wo seconds. Although this apparatus is said to bo efficient, it has riot yet been generally adopted. Some superintendents of mines assert that the flame of the safety lamp be comes dull in the presence of marsh gas, and thus warns them of danger, but th? numerous accidents in mines prove that such warning is disregarded. A French Savant has suggested the use of Ruhmkorff's induction apparatus for illuminating the galleries of mines, bv which ordinary lights would be dispensed with aud all danger ol explosion avoided O What we Breathe: Some Scientist in Paris has been investigating a curious subject. lie carried into a theatre at 10 o'clock at night a bottle of ice placed on a plate, and then collected the vapors which rapidly condensed on the outside of the bottle and flowed down 011 the plate. At first this vapor thu.s collected had the smell, the taste, and so far as could be deo termined, every chemical quality belong ing to the waters of the most deadly fever marshes. Under the microscope, this wa ter was at first clear, but soon, that is to say in a week, was fouad to be full of fine animalculai. A little later on, these ' animalcuhe had grown, and the big one were seen pursuing and devouring f4je lit tle ones. Still later on, at "the end of two months, the water was thick with animal cule, various forms were seen, and still the work of destruction was going on. Vt last, but three hideous monsters were seen microscopic monsters, of course, since they were contained in a drop of water and these were still fighting to see voieli could devour the other. At the end of three months the water became clear and miasmic again. We should test yellow spots for bra??. Silver and gold now-a-days lilie so mo other virtues are only skin deep. Tho vitality of jewelry is generally due to galvanism, A man is never indifferent to the world's god opinion until he has lost all claim to it. Many travelers journey w extensively its the barnacles on a ship, and to as little purpose. Many men are willing to express then; admiration for a principle in every poesjr ble way t-xcept by living up to it. O o o 0 O o 0 O O O O o O o o G o o r . J mam i r