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cj mnrr twwwup-w The Coast Mail. SATURDAY, FEHIlUAUY 7, 1HR0. TOWN" AND COUNTY NEWS, Ji'iiii.ant Tho schooner Ihinnu (titer, wim mioccufifully raised and low ed to tliu Mnrshllold wharf Friday night of taut week. Tho mill hands fiom tlilw phtco anil North llcud woo mi board, nnd iihhIio canto up tho Hay uliotil 1! o'clock at night, llioy Woko tho echoes of tho surrounding IiIIIh with songs and cheers (lint was not nil; thoy woko llio good pcoplo of (IiIh town, many of whom got up to assist in pultingout tho lire, or to mako themselves useful in tho gi cat diet ross which npiK'nrcd to exist somewhere. There wore eight piiut)8 and forty or llfly men employed in raising t lio Hchnouor, and an unusually low tide and pleasant weather favored thu Work. liUATIIKIl MaNUKAOTIIIIK. V() nro pleased to ho able to nnnounco that Mr. Diimuick lias decided to establish n launery on tho Hay. Air. John Kruno, of Ninth Bund, will b" iiHsooinled with him in tho enter prise. Thoy Jiavo selected and j 1 1 r ohnsotl u nito for llio tannery a short liHlanco below thin place, between hero and Contorvillo, and will soon commence work on tho necessary buildings. It in gratifying to fee this btisinois inaugurated hy men who havo available ineaiiH, as well as tho practical knowledge ncccKsa ry to mako it a success. Si'iTosnn Kofi, Pi.av A Into Vic toria dispatch says : The disapparanco of dipt. Wake, late of the loyal navy, in creating attention. The nlnop on wliicli ho sidled from Nanaimn him lieen found. Six cases, which contain ed family plate, books, clothing and vnlitalilc picture, havedeen found on I ho beach; lint an the contents are not to lie found, it iH feared that tho cap tain hart met with foul piny, or that, if liin denth wiih tho riiuiltof accident, tho sloop win roblicd hy those who first found it. Lr.rrnu Li8T.-l.iitt of letters remain ing in the post ollico at Marshfiohl Feh. Ut 1880, Coot Co. Oregon. Itohert Uiekerton, Thos. ('minimi, Mrs J. (S. Chapman, Christian Dcar doir, ThomnH Drew, W. W. If. Glenn, (due, II els) (irccn llolton, Joseph Holler, Alliert JoIiumwi, Mary Laird .Mrs J. It. McKinny, Win Neep, I'. A. Smith. (2) A. W. Smith, Ephraim, W Klewnrd, Andrew Soulaud. JlchLfor postago: True t Co, Au gusta, .Maine. A. N.vsnrito, 1. AI. Lirrrr.u List. hint of letters re maining in the post office at Empire I'ityCoos county Or. Fob. M IHSO. Air, ltchcccii Ambrose, TIiom. CTurry It. T. Corpe. (2) Wiley Knglii.li, War ren Goodnlo, I.imin lli.U'mer, Airs. Alartha Jones, Thomas Jones, Kvau Af. Jeukiiirt, John, C. Kinliall, J. 11 Laws, Willliam K. Alooro,.Ino. J. .Mil lor, A. (J. Wilbur Jr. John Wood, II. Willi, F..Suiiirrri:it, P. M. Tin: Coos Hivt:it HotiTi:. Our Douglas county ootcinpornrles speak of tho roulo from tho valley to Coos, hy the way of Coos river, in encour aging terniH. The people of Cole's Valley aroawakoto tho importance of tho subject, and il iH announced that a party will kooh Btart out to locate the road, or to ascertain the most practicable route. (Join'o. .1. W. llennclt.of the AYir, will ho a passenger on ono of the Ktonmers now in tho Bay, route for Ireland. Ho is innpired with a patri otic and humane desire to contribute to tho relief of the distressed of bin native Isle, and with that view will probably take a contract to furnihh ut leant one Irish girl with calico ami potatoes. Wo wish him a pleasant journey. 1. 0. (. T. Tho following aro tho ollioorfiof tho Good Templar'H Lodge in thin place, installed biHt Thursdiiv moiling : . U. T. rorost Lang : W. V I Nellie Cory; W.AI. Thou. IIol- laud ; W. H. . V W I I' lltill . r I I) II KentingjW.T. Aim. Holland: W. 1 , , . .;. u, . wnii , ., . j, , ii. .S. Frank Lang ; W. A S. Alnrcun Dun liar; W. t), U. J. SwaiiRon ; W. I. (1. HarnbDunbnrjK.H.S. L. 11. H. Alary Alorchiiut; L. I). Win. Tom pie. Aiiiiivkd The HteainerH "Areata" and TitiKHie Telfair" nrrived yontunlay morn ing, crosNhig thu bar about the name time. There wan apparently hoiiio rival ry an to which would nblo to get to New port llrrtt to commeni'rt loading. The "Telfair" Mopped at NitHburK'n wharf to liKclntrfe Home freight, and tho "Areata" went by without Mopping ami preceded to the coal wharf. Tin: Di'nca.v. Tho Meainor Aler. Duncan arrived hwt .Saturday, proeed cd to (he Coal Muiiku and took on coal for fuel and loft for I'ortliiuil TIiuih lny .morning. Her future roulo iH undetermined, hut there in little pro bability of her returning hero noon. A Ciianoi:, Our ltoHenurgo.xehan giH bring the news that II. A. Canton Iiiih bought tho RoKoburg end of the mail route between ItoHeburg and Coon Day. Jou Clnugh, (ho former owner, will go north to remain. Jliii.iuioux Kxi:itcisi:s-ltov. C. P. Ilai ley will ireaeh at thirt place on the on rlli .Sabbat bin thin month, and on JhoHfth Babbatb nt Kinphv) City, in uvoniug, on loth ocensigua. Diuth or A Cnil.t).- Aflcr the death ofCirpl. Floyd's Utile- child which occurred ImhI week, Mrs Win Turpcn willi her family of UHlo children went to ICinplrc'to visit her sister, AIih. Floyd, and on WVdiioK day her daughter, litllo Mabel, was taken maidenly ill mid died on the following day. Wo understand an of Mr. Turpen's children In nick with the name dcHeiiMi whiidi curried oil Hie other two children dysentery. (iiiAND I'aiitv. The ladled of Em pire City are preparing to give a grand masquerade ball next Friday evening, tho full announcement of which ap pears in another column. It may be depended upon for a success. Tom: Iti:i'Aiui:i The Contract for taking out the 'Knimii Utter" and putting her in repair hiw been let to John K'niHoof North Item! for $1,500 Wo aro not informed where the work will be done. Limn'. I'avhon arrived on tho Hay, by way of (iardiner laitl Thurmlny. We are plcaKod to neo that tho (lov ornmeut work hero n receiving the attention of competent oiigineorn. K. A. AndciKon tho livery Ktablo man bought the carni of the Utter tui hiiHHtorcd the coal near Lobreo'HHtore, where it will bo eoverud anil held for falo in tho local market, for fuel. Lai'Ncii. (JiiHhinan'rt new echoonor wi'' bo laupc'ied 'loin Deri A Com rtliip d 'o ' rt it tout 11 o'clock a. m. She is chriMonod Aui'nlntla Ciinhumn, font mater of llio liuildor, Wi: uuder.stand that arraugementH aro being Hindu to raise and repair the life Having Htational Capo Arago. Ji'ixir. It. V. Ilotibiuu, who it wiih Home time wince announced, lia I moved to Itofebiirg, lui!. letiirned to 8alein to re main. Tin: Hlcamer Sntrtlitv luiri been taken to the Kmpire City wharf and is un dergoing repair. Tin: work of building hcowh for the traiiHjiortatiou of rock, has been com menced at Kmpire. AIu. Fours liana largo (daw in pen- maUHhip ; it ineot.s three times a week. Conhtaiii.i: Xoble will cell u mini borof cuttle next Mnnday at Herron'H place on DanielVCreek. tlirlll II 1 1 lex. The artof neiingoiiiorlunities and turning even accideutn to account, bending them to Home purpose, is a great neciel of miiccom. Dr. Jobnnon haw defined goniunto be " a mind of large general power accidentally de termined in Homeparticulanliiection. .Men who nro resolvwl to find a way for thomolvcrt, will always find oppor tunities enough ; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, thev will make them. It is not those who have en joyed the advnnlaen of colleges, 1101011111, and public gnllerion, that have accomplished the niont for nei ence and art ; nor havo the greatest niechanic8 and inventornbeen trained in mechanics' institute!. Xoeesmty, oflener than facility, ban been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all ban been the Hubool of dillicultv. Home of the very bent workmen have had tho aunt in diHerent tooln to work with. Itnt it iw not tooln that mako the workman, but tho trained skill and perseverance, of tho man himself. Indeed it is proverb ial that the bad workman nover yet had a good tool. .Some one linked Opie by what wonderful procoiw he mixed bin colors. "I mix them with my brains sir," wan bin reply It in the name with every workman who would excel. Ferguson . made uiurvcloiih things such an his wooden clock, that accurately measured tho hours by means of a common penknife, a tool in everybody's hand ; but then everybody in not a Ferguson. A pan of water and two thermonietors wore the tools by which Dr. lllack discov ered latent beat ; and a prism, a lens, and a sheet of pasteboard enabled Newton to unfold the composition of light and (ho origin of colors. An em inent foreign xivant once called 11)1011 Dr. Wollaston, and requested to bo shown over his laboratories in which Hcienco had been enriched by so many important discoveries, when the doc tor took him into a little study, and, pointing to an old ton-tray on the ta ble, containing a few watch-glasses, test-papers, a small balance, and a blowpipe, said, "Tboru is all tho labor atory that 1 luivol" An cx-confederato ICentuckian crit icising Heck's Hjieech in tho .Senate on the "2d nil. wherein ho attacked tho moneyed men of New York, said it was a little rough for Heck to scold in that way about N. Y. while (hero would be hundreds upon hundreds of Kentuekians who would bo literal paupers to-day had it not been for tho kindnessof those very New Yoik eis in the use of thoir capital. Tin: Santco Indians, says an ox change, havo received a testimony of Uniparental aU'eetion of thoir (5 rent Father at Washington in tho shapeof 1'JOO brand-now pitchforks. As the Sautcos number (!()() men, women and children, they will have two pitchforks apiece. If this doesn't make them them happy.thoy must he an ungrate ful set. Tin: Supreme Court has remanded the case of Hprague, of Ventura coun ty, Cal convicted of (lie murder of T. Wnllaeo Aloro, (0 (ho lower court with instructions to let (ho law take Its couric. Dcutli In ii 4'oitt ,11 1 no. At about 0 o'clock lart ovoning, s.iys the Health 7W of tho 2tli, Air. Geo. Illnke, a coal miner, was cbrushed to death in tho inino at Kowcantle. It seems (hat in company with another man ho had quit work and was in the act of leaving tho inino, wbon lllako return ked to his companion that ho thought he would start a largo lump of coal, which lay in tho Hchtite. .So swinging bis pick ho struck the lump a hard blow, doing so, however, in a cautious manner, its the incline hold a largo quantity of loose conl, which was likely to be started and run down upon him. Sure enough, no sooner had the pick cnlcicd the mass, and ho lme bo could seize tho man rope that was near to protect the men nt just Hiieh a time, than about lo car loads suddenly rushed down llio sleep in cline, throwing him oil' his feet, and at once bearing him down to tho bot tom, where ho was instantly buried beneath innny ton's weight of llio mov ing mnsn. Horrified nt tho fate of bis friend, tho man in his company shout ed for help with all his might. La borers in tho adjoining rooms hurried to his aid, when tho fate of young Illnke was made known. Tho only way in which thoy could get to him was hy ioading the coal from the schiito into tho cms. Forty enrs were thus loaded before the men reached tho body of the unfortunate likke. lie was found doubled up, bis head lying between his knees. Two hours elapsed from tho time of tho accident until they obtained tho body. Life was extinct, and il is thought that ho was killed instantly. l'ulpll ami Singe. Wo sometimes hear worldly criti cism of tho fat salaries paid to cer tain favored clergymen, but tho New York Tribune couples in a rebuking way, the earnings of pulpit and stage. Thus, Jieeehor gets $20,000; Edwin booth, $100,000 a year; Dr. Hall, of Fifth Avenue, and Dr. Dix, of Trinity, gets $15,000; while E. A. .Sothcrn earns over $150,000 as Lord Dundrea ry, and John K.Owens plays 30 weeks annually for $U0,000. Tabnage pleaches for$12,000, nud Joe Jefferson plnys 10 weeks nt "Itip Van Winkle," nud earns $120,000. The scholarly and gifted Dr. Storrslias $10,000, and Alaggio Mitchell earns $.'50,000 to $50, 000. Dr. Cuyier works bard and faithfully for $8,000 a year, and Dr. Ilepworth for $5,(KX). while Dion Uou cicnult has just finished a season as the "Hhaugrnun," etc., at $:t,000 a week, and his managers scold him in the public print hccatino he would not play longer at the sanio price. Dr. I'otle, of Grace Church, has $10,000 and a parsonage; the elegant Dr. Tif fany has $10,000; the once vigorous) now venerable, Dr. Chnpin, gets $10, 000, while pretty Aliss Xeilson mnkcn over $ir0,000ayear,and Fannie Dav enport earns $1,000 every week she plays. In this same connection of pulpit and stage, Dr. Crosby in a ro- cent lecture to the Yale theologucs said : " Young preachers who go to the stage for an example of manner or utterance, are on the high road to ministerial ruin, although they easi ly make a newspaper funic. The stage-actor is elyinologienlly ami das ieally the hypocrite, and has, so far as he is astago-actor, no sympathy with the preacher and bis solemn duties. A"Ilotmr In 'lYIIiii-lum .HIhIiix Sliirli, Tho Voirn Tilth says that news has been recoived by I. X. Aluncy, Presi dent of tho Tellurium mines by letter from K. A. Chase, that assays have been made of ore taken from the Tel lurium mines, which prove to be very rich with gold and silver. Ono assay made by Dr. lJunnell.of Hoseburir. without tho knowledge of any other assays having been made, produced tho following result: Oro taken from face of tho tunnel, assayed $01,20 per ton. Second assay, two feet from sur face, $11,17 silver, and $311 gold. Third assay, twenty feet from furface, traces of silver and $2,:!77 07 gold, Two other assays of last rock show traces of silver and $2,:UU5 05 porton. Everything looks favorable for a rich yield at tho Tellurium mines, and on shares aro ollered for said by this com pany. If this lie only half true, tho holders of stock in that inino, (thoro nro a fow in this county) have a good thing. Anotiiuu largo cotton mill is in course of erection nt Lancaster, Pa., which will employ about 200 hands. Hiisiiv Lnwir-tiolwyn, a full-blood Sou.v Indian and a son of a lending chief of tho Yankton tribe bus been ordained pastor of tho church nt Yank ton Agouey. If tho brother should take a notion togot up n revival in his parish ho will havo it if hohastocomo down and scale the whole, congrega tion. Ciiiim.sti'Z, Saxony, Jan ;10. A largo spinning manufactory burned, throw ingout of imploymontoOO persons, Oitawa, Jan. l!0. A grave-digger had thrown three or four shovelfuls of sand on llio coflin of a smallpox vic tim to-day, when hu fancied that lie heard a noise. Thocollln was raised, and it was found that the person still lived. Ho was taken back to the hospital. N0I0111011 mill III .Niist. Onodny the Queen of Shebn gnvo .Solomon a ring, with ninny score of oxen. .SI10 bade him bestow it on the wisest of his sages. 80 Kolomon com mnnded his wiso men to appear be fore him on tliefeaitof tho full moon. They camo from Ilolhclnnd Dan, thu court and thu school of tho proph"ts. Then King .Solomon, arrayed in the regal robes, sal on his throne, the scep tre of Israel in his right band. The Queen of .Shebn snt besido him. Ho commanded bissiigcs to speak. Alany opono I their mouths, and discoursed right eloquently j thoy told of many tilings. Tim eyes of the Queen sbono like dew-drops which quiver nt sun rise on tho pcnoh-blossoms. Solomon was sad. At last one aroso of courtly mien. Ho told of wondrous cities in far-off lands ; how tho sun tcalds the dew in Sahara; how il forsakes the chill north for wholo months, leaving the cold moon in its place ; ho spoke of tho fleets fiat go down to the sen; lie told how thoy weave wax nt TyriiH, spin gold nt Opbir ; of the twisted shell that conies from Oroba, and the linen in Egypt that endures tho fire; ho Hpokoof fleets, of laws, the art Hint makes men happy. "Truly, ho is wise," said tho King. "Hut let others speak." Another camo forth ; ho was young in years, bis cheek was burning with enthusiasm, the fire of genius shone in his oyc like the day star when nil the others are swallowed up in light. He spoko of the words of tho great One ; told how tho cedar of Lebanon, when thcstin kisses its forehead, lifts up its great.irms with n shout, slink ing of!" tho fenthery snow in winter, or the pearly dew in autumn.to fresh en the late river that glitters nt its foot. Ho spoke of the elephant, tho ante lope, tho jackal, the camel, the eagle ; he knew them all. He told of the fish that made glad the waters an the sea sons dance and frolic around about their heads. He sang in liquid soft ness of the daughters of air who melt the heaven into song ; he rose to the stars, spoke of old chaos, of tho world, of i'ic oll'or'og of love. lie spoke of the siars, Ciec'ow'i, Altr-i Oi'i, and tlio in laooer .lacol) saw. iie sang njai'i the Blar of cre.itio-i. 'Ho is wiser that Solomon," said tho King ; "to him belongs the prize." Itnt at that moment some men in humblegarb brought a stranger un- wniinuiy aioiiL'. ins raiment was poor, but civnoly and snow white. The seal of labor was on his hand ; the dust of travel covered hU sandals. His beard long nnd silvery, went down to hisgirdlo ; n sweet smile, like n sleep ing i.ifant's.satiiiiconsciousonhis lip. His eye was tho angel's lamp, that burns in still devotion before tho court of paradise, making tho day. As he leaned on his shepnrdV stall' in the gay court, a blush, like n girl's stole over bis check. "Speak," said the King. "1 have nothing to say," said tho hoary man. "I know only bow un wise and frail I am. I am no page." Aim Solomon 's countenance rose. "Hy the sceptre of Elshaddi I charge tho to speak, thou ancient man." Then ho began : "Aly study is my solf ; my nets, my sentiments. I learn bow frail I am ; I of myself can know nothing. I listen to that voice within; and I know all." Then ho spoke of his glees, his gloom, and his hojics ; his aspirations his faith. He spoke of nature, tho modest trees, tho pure golden stars. When ho came to Him who is all in all ho bowed his bead and was dumb. "Oivo him the ring," said Solomon. "Ho knows himself, ho is tho wisest. Tho spirit of the Holy is in him." "Take back the gift," said tho sage, "I need it not. Ho that knows him self needs no reward, bo knows God, be sees tho all of thing, Alas! I do but feebly know myself I desorvo no ring. Let 1110 return to my homo and my duty." ' Itailron.1 I'rosrroftw, Tho Walla Walla Union says: At last accounts tho track of the X. P. It. U. had been laid for 10 miles out from Ainsworth. Tho work of gradinc and tracktaying is being pushed as rapid ly as tho supply of material and labor will admit. Tho iron tracks used nt Wnlluhi by tho W. W. and C R. It, nro to bo roplaccd by stect rails as rapidly as tho work can bo dono. Engineer Zanner has about completed tho sur vey at tho Umntilla end of tho sec tion, between that point and Wallula, while Engineer Scovill is busy at tho tho croi-sing of tho Walla Walla rivor. Draughtsmen are busily engaged in working up the field notes and mak ing profiles of tho route down tho Columbia. An Tmcoktant Question. Ono John Williams is under indictmont nnd hold for trial in tho U. S. Court nt Portland for tho crimo of murder, committed in Sitka. W. W.Page, as nltornoy for thodofenso has (lied n demurrer to the indictment on tho ground that Congress In making pro vision for tho Government has failed lo mnkoauy provision for the punish ment of crime, or to oxtond tho crim inal lawsof the United States to that region. Tho question excites somo interest and Judge Doady hits taken it under ndvisemont. Tlio I'll rc! i:iil-! Ill IlllllC 'J'lio I'iinIohImIm IM-f'eiUcil. The controversy between the fusion of Democrats and Grccnbnckers on ono fide and Itepublirnnson tho other contending for llio control of the Government of tho State of Alaine, lias at length been brought ton elo.o. Tho Supremo Court of tho State has mntlo three successive decisions in fa vor of the legality of the claim of tho Hepublicans, but the Fusionists, with it recklessness almost unpnrnl elled, insisted on holding tho various offices to which tho Court dented they were not elected. This high bnnded course was pursued till tho .Stale was on tho verge of bloodshed ; but tho "sober second thought" hn. t length prevailed nnd, as the following dispatches indicate, the farce is ended. AuaosTA. Jan. 28. Tho Supremo Court lest evening answered the ques tions of tho rusionist Legislature, de ciding against the Eusionisls on all points nnd holding the Republican organization lo be legal nnd consti tutional. The Fusionisls nro much depressed. Smith snya Hint tho con troversy is ended nnd that he can only submit ; that ho has got through play ing Governor and is going home. His views nro adopted by most Fusionists who will take their seats in the Leg islature. The Capitol Guards and Hichard's Light Infantry marched out of tho State House at 9 o'clock this morning. Tho Fusion Legislature met in Union Hall. Reporters were excluded. The House immedintcly took a recess till 4 o'clock. The general expression of tho Fu sion members is to go into the State House Legislature. Their Legislature is expected to dissolve sine die to-day. Augusta, Ale., Jan.23. Hill and Alilliken have taken their scats in the State House Legislature. The Xcw Era, the Greenback organ submits to the decision of the Supremo Court and appealrf to tho people, nnd calls upon the press to publish the declara tion of principles of the Urick Pom eroy leagues. A Kt'Tcri'iid Clown. It is now announced that Dan Itice, the oldest American circus clown, has been converted and pro poses to become a preacher. The an nouncement is the more startling be cause a few days before the country was informed through the same me dium that the versatile Dan had elop ed from a town in the west with a young and respectable girl. Dan is determined to keep his name before the public in one connection or an other. A few years ago he was car ried away with the belief that he was an available candidate for tho Presi dency, claiming that every person who hnd laughed at him would vote for him. Asa successful circus man ho has failed, lie may do better in the pulpit. But here bo cannot in troduce his blind trick horse "Excel sior," or his educated mules, Pete and Harny Dully. He is over three score years of ago, and his circus experience for forty years will render him quite as noticeable a pulpit acrobat as Tnl mngo is said to ho. "Hob Hart," the negro minstrel, is also persuing theol ogy, and seems to be in earnest al out it, the San Francisco minstrels hav ing recently given him a benefit per formnnce to ennble him to pursue his studies. He tins laid bis banjo aside, nlso the big shoes in which ho was the first to dance and sing that highly vnlttnblc musical porduction, "Shoo Fly," ten years ago. Er. Ciovcnimcitt lor Altixka. Tho most practicable mode of jjov- erning Alaska is still a matter of dis cussion, aiuVlho propriety of establish ing n territorial form of Government there, will bo considered by the Sen ate this winter. A sub-committee of thb committeo on territories has been taking the testimony of n person named Elliott, who has had his head quarters at tho Smithsonian Institute during tho winter, and is said to bo employed by tho.Fur Seal Company during this summer. Elliott is op posed to a territorinl form of Govern ment in Alaska. The Fur Seal Com pany is also opposed to such a Gov ernment. Sonator Butler, who is chairman of the sub-committee inves tigating the question, says bo thinks tho pooplo of Alaska should be given some form of Government for the pro tection of their lives and property. Ho has been informed that under an established government thero would bo considoniblo inuniuration to Alaska. 1'Hol IoIK Indicted. Our exchanges from tho north stnto that Pilot Daig, ivho has been much sonsurcd for tho loss of tho steamer Great nepubtio nt tho mouth of the Columbia, has been indicted in tho U.S. Court for wrecking the vessel and for man-slaughter in causing the deaths of those who were drowned. Tho Court of enquiry, it will bo re membered, suspended him for 0110 ycar.and dipt. Carroll for six months, but Carroll took nn appeal nud was reinstated. Somo timosinco Doigloft Portland nnd is now safe on tho coast of Aloxico. Tm: Russian Enfpiro is short of hones, Iinrr mill lIliiuri-iiiiN.-ti, 11111I Tlicir 'J'i'ciihoii. A plain man, who knew nothing of tho curiotiH tranmnutationH which the wit of man can work, would be very apt to wonder by what kind cf legerdemain Anron 15urr had eon-" trived to shtiflle himself down to the bottom of the pack, an an accessory, and turn up poor Illcnnerhas?ctt as principal, in this treason. Who then, i Aaron Ibirr, and what tho part which lie hag homo in this transaction? lie is its author, its projector, its active executor. Bold, ardent, rcstle.s and nepiring, his brain conceived it, his hand brought it into action. Who is Rlcnncrhnssotl? A native of Ireland, a man of let ters, who fled from tho storms of his own country, to find quiet in ours. On his arrival in America, he retired, even from the population of the Atlantic States, and sought quiet and solitude in the bosom of our western forests. 15ut ho brought with him taste, and science, and wealth; and " lo, the desert smiled I" Possessing himself of a beautiful is land in the Ohio, he rears upon it a palace, and decorates it with every romantic embellishment af fancy. A shrubbery, that Shcnstonc might hive envied, blooms around him. Music, that might have charmed Calypao nnd her nymphs, is his. At extensive library spreads it3 treasures before him. A philosophi cal apparatus offers to him nil the secrets and mysteries of nature. Peace, tranquillity, and innocence shed their mingled delights around him. And, to crown the enchant ment of the scene, a wife, who is said to be lovely even beyond her sex, and graced with every accomplish ment that can render it irresistible, had blessed him with her love, and made him the father of several chil--dren. Tho evidence would convince you, Sir, that this is but a faint picture of the real life. In the midst ofall this peace, this innocence, and this tranquillity, this feast of the mind, this pure banquet of the heart, the destroyer comes. He comes to turn this paradise into a hell. Yet the flowers do not wither at his approach and no monitory shuddering through the bosom of their unfortunate pos sessor warns him of the ruin that is coming upon him. A stranger pre sents himself. It is Aaron Burr. Introduced to their civilities by the high rank which he had latch held in his country, he soon finds his way to their hearts, by tho dignity and clcgauce of his demeanor, the light and beauty of his conversation, and tho seductive and facinating powers of his address. The conquest was not difficult. Innocence is ever simple and credulous. Conscious of no designs itself, it suspects none in others. It wears no guards before its breast. Every door and portal and avenue of the heart is thrown open, and all who choose it enter Such was the state of Eden when the serpent entered its bowers ! The prisoner, in a more engaging form, winding himself into the open and unpraeticed heart of the unfort unate Blenncrhassett, found but lit tle diiliculty in changing the native character of that heart, and the ob jects of its affection. By degrees, lie infuses into it the poison of his own ambition. He breathes into it the fire of his own courage; a daringand desperate thirst for glory; an ardor, panting for all tho storm, and bustle, and hurricane of life. In a short time, the whole man is changed, and every object of his former delight re linquishsd. Xo more he enjoys the tranquil scene : it has become fiat and insipid to his taste, llis books aro abandoned. His shrubbery blooms and breathes it fragrance up on tho air in vain ho likes it not. His retort jind crucible aro thrown aside. His ear no longer drinks the rich melody of music ; it longs for the trumpet's clangor, and the cannon's roar. Even the prattle of his babes, onco so sweet, no longer affects him; and the angel smile of his wife, which hitherto touched his bosom with ec stasy so unspeakable, is now unfelt and unseen. Greater objects have taken nosscssion of his soul. His imagination has been dazzled by visions of dindems, and stars, and gartors, nnd titles of nobility. Ho lias boon taught to burn with rest less omulntion at tho names of great heroos and conquoaors, of Crom well, nnd Ca?zar, 'and Bonaparte. His enchanted island is destined soon to relapso into a wilderness; and, in a fow months, wo find, the tender and beautiful partner of his bosom, whom ho lately " permitted not tho winds" of suinmor ' to visit too roughly," wo find horshivoriiig, nt midnight, on llio wintry banks of tho Ohio, and mingling her tewrt j with the torrents that froze as they I fii Yet this unfortunate man, thus ' ""in m 11 icrcsi am. . i l'"lln.thu Fcdt.ccd from tho I,"t1'8 of innocence and peace -thus jiiiuu.j.i;ii 111 inu iwun w iiii.ii ituiw delilK-rntely spread for him, and overwhelmed by the mastering spir it and genius ofnnothei, thismnn, thus ruined and undone, and made to play a subordinate pnrt in this grand drama of guilt and treason' this man is to bo called the princi pal offender ; while he, by whom ho. was thtiK plunged in misery, is com paratively innocent, a mere acces sory 1 Is this reason 1 Is it law? Is it humanity? Sir, ncithor tho human heart nor the human under standing will bear a perversion so moustrous and absurd ; so shocking to the soul ; so revolting to roaeon ( Wirt. fivott. Professor Wilson ranks Scott far n bovo Byron, in point of genius. His remarks, in substnee, are as follown: Wo shall never say that Scott is Sbnk speare; but wo shall say that bo lutf conceived and created you know tits meaning of these words a far greater number of characters of real living, flcsh-nnd-blooil human beings and that more naturally, truly, and con sistently, than Sbakspearo, who was sometimes transcendently great in pictures of the passions ; but out of their range, which surely does not comprehend nil rational being, was nay, do not threaten to murder us a confused and ir.-cgular delineator of human life. The geniusof Sir Walter Scott, it will not be denied is pretty national, nnd so aro the subjects of all his noblest works, bo they poems, or novels and romances by the author of "Wavcrlbey." Up to the era of Sir Walt r.bv'.ng people bad some vague, general, indistinct notion about dead people mouldering away to nothing centuries ago, in regular kirk-yard and chance burial-places, "mang muirs and mosses many O," some where or other in that difficultly dis tinguis'ned and very debatcable dis trict called the Borders. All at once he touched their tombs with a divin ing rod, and the turf streamed out ghosts. Seme in woodman's dresses most in warrior's mail green archors leaped forth with yew bows and quiv ers, nnd giants stalked, shaking spears. The gray chronicler smiled, and, tak ing up his pen, wrote in lines of light the annals of the chivalrous and hero ic days of autd feudal Scotland. The nation then, for the first time, knew the character of its ancestors ; for those were not spectrf-s not they, indeed nor phantoms of the brain but gaunt flesh and blood, or glad and glorious ; baseborn cottage-churls of the olden time, because Scottish, became famil iar to the love of the nation's heart, and so to its pride did tho bigb-bom lineage of palace kings. His themes in prose or numerous verse are still "knights, and lords, and mighty earls," and their lady-lovo3 chiefly Scottish of kings that fought for fame or freedom of fatal Floddon and bright Bannockburn of the De liverer. If that be not national to the teeth, Homer was no Ionian, Tyraius not sprung from Sparta, and Christo pher North a Cockney. .Let Abbots ford, then, bo cognomened by thoso that choose it, the Ariosto of tho Xortb we shall continuo to call him plain, simple, immortal Sir Walter. Tur.Y still cremate a body occasion ally at Washington, Pa. The last con tribution toscienco in thi way con sisted of the remains of a young gen tlomnn who ouly weighed eighty-fivo pounds and bad had the consumption for two years. IIo was sent back to tiis sorrowing Relatives in a tin box eighteen inches square. Tho noxt step should be, by means of a con crete process, to transform a man in to his own grave-stone, stamped with a complimentry epitaph. Thore is no limit to tho achievements of science, Thk present Parliament in England, savs the Now York Sun, was com menced on the 4th of ALinm, 1874, nnd assembled on that day. If it should onlv survive until tho 14th of Anril no:t it will havo run into n seventh session, and will have ex ceeded in duration any previous Par liament summoned since tho Union, nnd will havo I ecu the longest-lived Parliament for a contury. A coi:ui:si'o.ur.N'Y in tho SontUo 'oo7 calls attention to tho quartz lodges on the Skykomisb rivor, of which thoro are many known to exist all silver bearing ns far as yet proa pected.nnd in some instances assaying very rich. Nothing has yet been dono to bring thorn into prominence, with tho exception that 11 town site tins 1 0, n located and named Silver City. Tho town site probably has suimithing to do with tho richuoss of tho mines. TimiiK has been organized in tho city of Loudon what is formed the Salvation Army. Its members ninreh through tho street to tho sound of trumpoU, and they cull their church a SaTnittou Factory. Somo now-fnngled method of saving gnuls by tho use of machinery has probably been vented, .