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, 1854-09-30
WAsHINeToN, July 81.


We see it stated that Russian Com
missioner is about to arrive in Washington
with full power from Emperor Nicholas to
treat for the sale (our purchase of all or
q part Of the Russian possessions Of North
America. Sitka would, no doubt, be a.
capital port for our whalers in the Polar
seas, and if we got the intervening coun-
try from 40 to "a degrees 40 minutes,
which we lost by bungling diplomacy in
lS45-6 the acquisition would be invalua-
BILE. Perhaps that will also come by pur-
chase
Meanwhile our enterprising New York
ers have already their eyes fixed on the
prospective acquisition. If we obtain by
purchase. the Russian possessions on the
main land, why not add to them the Aleu-
tian Islands? There are soundings be-
tween all these islands, which, no doubt,
are the remains Of an old continent, and a
proposition may be made to Congress to-
connect them, either by filling up the inter
vening channels or to connect them byI
bridges. We might then treat with Rus
sia, (provided she still continues to be en-
gagged in the Eastern war; for the pur-
chase of the Peninsula of Kamtsthatka,
from which, by the annexation Of the Kuri-
lean Islands, we might have direct road
to Japan. This would be an overland
route to Japan, China and India, which
would knock the Isthmus of Suez into a
cooked hat.
An appropriation of some millions on
dollars and good prospective mail con
tract to serve as basis for the credit of
the company, and some fifty or hundred
millions for the purchase of the above
mentioned Island and Peninsulas, are all
that is wanted to run the stock of the
company up to par. Until the arrange
ments are completed, we shall however, be
compelled 10 make the most Of what we
have got, and improve Tehuantepec, which,
after vainly' trying to get it for $l5, ,OOO,-
900, is now ours for all the purpose Of
transit, and will eventually come to us as a
territorial possession. Let the South have
at least, its share in the mails to California
and China, and let New York enjoy the
Ramsay route to Acapulco, and the Kant
schatka route to Japan. Saum euique!
The Senate are busy with the Civil and
Diplomstic appropriation bill, and will in
all probability, bring it to vote this eve
ming.
The army bill, for the increase Of the
pay of officers and privates, and for other
purposes, seems to have hard time in the
House, where the army does not enjoy an
immunity against eensure. Mr.. Phelps, of
the ways and means opened his batteries
against it from the tribune, and the bill
may yet be lost. 1t is contended that it
does much for the officers, but very little
for the rank and file.
, 1854-09-30
FRUIT TREES.
8AWAWR8g AWASgATs

H& s. LUELLING, PR0PRIET0Rs.
WE have had number Of our varieties bear fruit
wv aud we find the size and favor 10 exceed any
in the United States We have greatly extended our
Nursery by the introduction Of many now varieties Of
Apples Pears Plums, Peaches, &C., &c--Also a varie
ty Of Flowers and ornamental Trees, many Of which
we shall he able TO furnish this fall We have further
extended our nursery business BY establishing three
Branch Nurseries in the upper country; one at Alfred
stantons Marion county four miles north Of Sa
lem one at Mr. Knoxe's. Knoxes Butte, Linn county;
and one al Joseph Kelssys near stsrrI roint, Bsnaon
county.
March II, 1873.
, 1854-09-30
ALLAN, LOWE & CO.,
COMMISsION MERCHANTS.

1913 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
Allan, McKinlay Co.. Oregon City and Umpqua,
Oregon.
June rs, 1858. Gm42 ..
, 1854-09-30

HLLUW u DkEW.
Watch Makers and Jewellers,
OLYMPIA, W. T.
II EEP constantly on hand, aud are receiving by
IN every steamer, new and rich invoices Of
Watches, Clocks and JcWclry,
which they offer at the lowest prices,
-CUSSIsTING OF
Gold and silver Watches Of Every Variety,
Clocks of all kinds, Gold Fob and Breast
Chains, Guard Chains, Seals, Keys
and Charms, Finger Rings Of
Oregon Gold, Ladies'
4 Gentlemen's
BOSOM PINS, GOLD AND SILVER THIMBLES,
Silver plated Tea and Table spoons, German
, silver and Wire strengthened spoons
Butter knives 4 salt spoons,
Britannia Tea and
Coffee Pots,
Fea Rels, Shell, Ivory and Buffalo Combs, Acc0rde-
ons, Music Boxes, Britannia Casters, Pocket Cut
lery; every variety of Coral Necklaces and
Armlets, Fancy Beads for Indian trade,
Fancy Bead Bags and Purses, French
Fert Mannies, &C., &c, Nc,
PILLOW & DREW.
Aug. 5, 1854 4stf
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BRIrANNIA's SCENTED HANDXERcmEF.-
The wealth Of England is aptly illustrated
by showing what Brittania spends, and the
duty she pays to the Exchequer, for the
mere pleasure Of perfuming her handker-
chief. AS flowers, for the sake of their
perfumes, are on the continent principally
cultivated for trade purposes, the odours
derived from them, when imported into this
country in the form of essential oils, are
taxed with small duty of s. per pound,
which is found to yield revenue of just
$4,000 per annum. The duty on Eau de
Cologne imported in the year 1852, was in
round numbers 100000, being s. per
bottle upon 10000 aacons imported. The
duty upon the spirits used in the manufac-
ture Of perfumery at home is at lenst R2O..
900, making total of R42, 900 per annum
to the revenue, independent of the tax upon
snuff, which some of the ancient Britons
innnlge their noses with. If $4,000 rep
resents the small tax upon perfuming SUBJ
stances for one year, ten times that amount
is the very lowest estimate which can he
put upon the articles at their average retail
cost. By these calculations-and they are
within the mark-we discover that Britannia
spends g42O, 900 a year in perfumcrv
fissso IN Annals of CYcmiSfrv.
, 1854-09-30
p UYALLUP
STEAMER FASHION,

TNHE FASHION is now plying and will continue to
l. ply regularly between
MONTICELLO AND PORTLAND,
twice week, connecting with the boats and canoes
on the Cowlitz river, and with the PEYTORA, Cant.
Hatch, from Portland TO Oregon City.
Passengers may confidently expect to meet the
Fashlon at Portland every Monday and Thursday
mornings and al Monticello on the evenings Of the
same days, J.o.VAN RHRGEN.
1S5T
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
A Homestead Bill for Kansas.

1t appears that we hsre Homestead
law for Kansas, Nebraska, and New Mex
leo. We learn from the New York Her
aid of the 9th ult. that. in bill Hprovi-
ding for surveys, &c." the following sec
ton is found. The bill has passed both
Houses of Congress. and been signed by
the President.
SECTION 2. And be it further enacted.
That, to every white male citizen of the
United States, or every white male above
the age of twenty-One years, who has de-
clared his intention to become a citizen.
and who was residing in said territory
prior to the first day of January, eight
cen hundred and fifty-three, and may be
still residing there, there shall be, and
hereby is, donated one quarter section,
or one hundred and sixty acres of land.
And to every white male citizen of the
United States, or every white male above
the age OF twenty-one years, who has de-
clared his intention to become citizen.
and who shall have removed. or shall re-
move to and settle in said territory, be-
tween the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and fifty-thres, and the first day
of Jaf1uary, eighteen hundred and fifty
eight, there shall in like manner be dona-
ted one quarter section, or one hundred
and sixty acres, on condition of actual
settlement and cultivation for not less
than four years: Provided, however,
That each of said donations shall include
the actual settlement ard improvement
of the donee, and shall be selected by le-
gal subdivisions, within three months
after the SURVEY Of the land where the
settlement was made before the survey !;
and where the settlement was made after
the survey, then within three months af-
ter the settlement has been made and all
persons failing to designate the bounda-
ries of their claims within that :itne, sliall
forfeit all right to the same"
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
VOLUME Is.
Supreme Court Decisions.

That the recent decisions of the SUI
premc Court of our State, have taken the
whole State, and every lawyer therein,
with complete surprise, as glarlngly IN
consistent with each other, is unmistaka-
bly, apparent.
The following from the Lancaster Her.
aid but expresses the universal opinion :;
ID.
We don't believe there is lawyer in
the land, from one end the State to the
other. but what is ashamed in his very
soul of the two decisions. They first de-
eide the 1850 negro law to be unconsti-
tutional; they discharge S. NJ. Booth
when committed by a warrant from u.
S. Commissioner on the ground that this
act denies the right of trial by jury, and
because it ccnlers judicial powers on mere
Commissioners. But, when the same in
diyidual is taken under warrant issued
by a Federal Court, to answer an indict-
ment for the same pretended offence, our
Court is terrified at the broad seal of the
United States; it fears and trembles at
the ghostly thought Of collision Its
first decision against the authority of a
United States Commissioner, did howey-
crchallenge collision. The Federal Judges
sustain the negro law, and the authority
of these Commissioners. If our State
Supreme Court has the right to pronounce
said law void, the consequence necessari-
~ follows, that they must delirer all per-
sons seized under that act, or held to an
swer for violating it, no difference by
whose warrant arrested. The right to
declare an act Of Congress, or State Leg
stature void, absolutely carries with it
the right of arresting the execution Of
proceedings under the void act. Any
man, with or without eyes, or even much
brains, can see that
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
The Higher Law,

We do not think our neighbor of the
Democrat exactly understands the higher
law" doctrine or if he does, we do not.
Let US put case or two. Suppose the
Legislature passes'a law making me, who
am an opponent of capital punishment,
a public executioner. Am bound to be-
come public executioner, or may | re-
fose to obey, and resist the application
of the law? Here is the point. We do
not hold that mans duty under the
higher law" makes it obligatory on him
to seek to get up a revolution every time
a bad law is passed, but we do hold it to
be duty of every man who is himself
commanded by the law to do that which
his conscience condemns, to resist in his
own person the application of that law.
The fugitive law calls upon every member
Of society to violate the plainest princi-
piles Of christianity. Now, we have no
quarrel with any person in the matter.
We have only this to say. A man who
has any christianity in his composition
will refuse to obey the law, and man
who has none will obey it. Wemay So
phisticate as we please, but the whole
thing resolves itself simply into this -
Bad men only obey bad laws.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

The Board of Trustees have employed
for The coming year Mr.. J. G. McKISD-
LEY. . graduate Of one of out Eastern Col
leges. and late Principal Of CoRNINe
UNION School, n. Y.
Mr.. McKindlsy made flying visit TO
osir place few days ago, and was so well
pleased with our place, its prospects, and
educational facilities, chat he concluded
to accept the call which our School Board
had previously made to him. He accepts
the post at a salary of $500 per annum.
The School to open on Monday the 18th
Of September next.
OF the many complimentary notices
that we see in the n. Y. papers, of the
success Of Mr.. McKindley as teacher
we subioin the following from the Elmi-
RI Republican:
OF one thing in particular, the citizens
of Corning should be proud, and that is
their Union School, under the superin-
tendcnce of j. G. McKindley, Esq. The
school occupies g handsomely-located
building on Church Street, which has
been fitted up good taste throughout,
and is especially adapted for the purpo-
ses for which it is used. During the pa st
term, we understand that about three hun
dred scholars were in daily attendance
upon the school. and received instruction
in all the branches of a complete English
education.
Having heard the school highly spo-
ken of we concluded to visit Corning on
Friday, for the purpose of attending the
closing exercises, which were to take
place in the Presbyterian Church on that
day and evening. We went with high
expectations-but, like the Queen of She
ba when she visited Solomon, the half
had not been told us. 1t was during this
examination that we learned to realize
the reason OF the great success of Mr..
Mckindley as teacher. In all his in
structions he impresses one great truth
upon his scholars, and that is, the neces-
sity Of thorough understanding on their
part, of all their studies. Each scholar
is necessitated to be perfect in his lessons,
or he cannot keep pace with the other
members of his class. His pride and am
bition is properly excited; and while he is
thus induced to apply his mind to his
studies, he realizes the Importance Of de-
pending upon himself, if he ever hopes
to accomplish any thing of practical i'm
portance.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
The --latest aspects Of the War.

According to the most recent tele-
graphic communications, and the Minis
terial announcements in both House last
night. two points of infinite importance
to the future course of the war are now
assured. 1t is affirmed with confidence
both the Emperor ofRussia will maintain
the occupation of the Principalities by
force of arms, and that the Emperor of
Austria will, if necessary, by force of
arms expel him. If these resolutions
have indeed finally taken at the Courts
of st. Petersburg and Vienna respective
", there will be an end to all those de-
lays and uncertainties which have hither-
to attended the land operations of the
war. Austria in virtue of her double
engagements with Europe and with the
Porte, will enter the Danubian provinces
in imposing strength, nor is it to be rea-
sonably assumed that the forces of the
Car, distracted as they will be by the
expeditions to the Baltic and the Crimea.
can withstand the juction of these new
allies with thea already victorious troops
of Omar Pascha.-LOndon Times Jltiy
25.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
The Deaf Speak.

When few years ago Mr.. HORACE
MANN communicated to the Legislature
of Massachusetts, as the result of his ed
ucationary investigations in Europe, that
in Paris, he found a school of deaf schol
ars who read aloud, who talked readily,
and so well as completely to deceive him,
for he had heard of the fact and visited
a public school to see it for himself, and
after being shown into one department
and listened awhile to the recitations, he
asked to be shown the deaf department,
and was surprised to find he was already
IN 1t, and had been listening to their rec
itations without knowing it, and that the
gentlemanly attendant who waited on
him was himself deaf, the whole country
was taken by surprise and almost incre-
dulity. But we have. in our midst, liv-
ing illustration of the possibility of all
Mr. Mann related.
Mr.. TRUEMAN Blossom. the brother of
Levi Blossom, who lives on the Racine
Road, just without the City limits, comes
into our office regularly for his paper, and
frequently to read our exchanges and
he calls for his paper, asks for the news,
and converses with us quite readily
And he is utterly deaf He understands
what is said to him, simply by the motion
Of the ips.-D.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

Change OF Postmasters.

ID. c. BURGESS has been removed as
post master at Salem, and G. A. Hodge
appointed in his place. This change is
made entirely on political grounds, Bur-
CESS being free soiier and Hodge an
administration man. Independent of po-
htical considerations, Burgess is in all
respects the better man for the place-in
addition to which he kept public place
of business, while Hodge, although as
well located, keeps the Office in private
house. The Salem public we are sure,
desired no such change. 1t was done at
the suggestion of the petty clique of pol
iticians around this place, and is another
lesson to the people at large how little q
voice they have or can have in the gov.
ernment which is ostensibly theirs.
Appropriate to the above is the fol-
lowing, which shows the condition to-
which the present administration is re-
duced, and the contemplate shifts to
which it resorts. 1t is significant of an
other thing, to wit: that the Nebraska
bill is to be made test of democratic
orthodoxy:
PURGING THE PARTY.-We learn from
the Monroe (Green County, Sentinel,
that Mr.. MARTY, post master at Month
cello, in that County, has been c-bed to
account by HoRATIo KING, First Assis-
tant P. VI. General, for an improper
exhibition of partisan feelings against
the friends of the Administration" the
said improper exhibition" consisting
i'll manly and consistent opposition to
the Nebraska Iniquity.-Mi. Sent.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
Life Boats OIL Lake Michigan.

In the General Appropriation Bill,
there is an item of ST., 500, to be expen-
ded under the direction of the Secretary
of the Treasury, in the purchase of Me
tallC surf-boatS, to rescue lives and prop
erty and to be located as each of the fol-
lowing ports: Chicago two boats. and
one each at Michigan City, New Buffalo.
St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Manistce, Grand
River, Muskegon, White River, Pier Mar
quette, South Clacll River, Kenosha, Ra-
cine, Waukegan Milwaukee Port Wash
ington, Shepboygan, Manitowoc, Two
Rivers, Deaths door. Washington Har-
Dor, South Manitou, Kelley's Harbor
and Calumet. The Secretary of the
Treasury is further directed to adopt such
measures as shall be necessary for the
preservation of these boats.
1t is quite considerate i'll the Govern
ment to provide places with life boats
which it refuses to provide with harbors.
We wonder if the Secretary of the Treas
ury cannot build us harbor under that
clause Of this law which directs him to
adopt such measures as shall be necessa-
ry for the preservation Of these boats.
We suggest the idea to President Pierce
as means Of extricating himself from an
unpleasant position.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES! UpTGo,,

Elk AID. Bacon has placed upon our
table the Bean the boy planted, and upon
which he climbed up to the giants house
that is, it looks as near like that as
any bean we have ever before seen. 1t
is bean pod, five weeks old, and t,centy
inches long, and it certainly presents a
singular appearance.
Mr.. Bacon saps he don't know the
name of the species, but it is a kind
which he says, can be cut and dried. in
the pod, and can be used in the Winter
as green beans.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

SETTLEMENT or NEBRASIA.-Fhe St.
Louis Evening News says there is a town
now being lain ont in Nebraska called
Omaha City. 1t alreadi contains five or
six buildings and more in progress. \
large brick building is to be put for the
use OF the Legislature. After the survey
is made, large number of lots will be
given 10 those who wish to settle and
hui'% upon them. \ weekly paper call
sd the Omaha Arrow is to be started
there shortly. \ st. Joseph paper says:
] he people are crossing into this new
territory with a ruch. Town and city
cites are being surveyed; houses. stores,
and cabins reared; men. beams movables,
and building materials are being hurried
from one place TO another; blows are
turning over the broad green prairies
and everything is hustle, life and ANNA
ton on the river borders. At every trir
Of the Marion her decd is crowded
with anxious or serious beings, some
seeking new homes, and others the plea
sure of treading the soil of Nebraska.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

The Homestead bill. though not exact
" what it ought to be, is very much bet
ter than nothing. 1t will, we should
think, specially benefit Wisconsin by for
cling to a sale lands which have been long
in market unSold, and promoting the
growth of our state. This law is the
best that in the circumstances could be
obtained. Let us receive it as an earnest
of better things to come.-DemOcrat.
Precisely let us receive it; but the
unfortunate feature of the thing is, that
although considerably better than moth
ing, it did not happen to become law,
and therefore amounts to just nothing
neither more or less. Our neighbor had
better rub up his specs and try it again.
Probably he COMPOUNDED the Territorial
Homestead bill with the general bill be-
fore Congress-
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

ON School PA EsRYrERIAN CuERcH
The annual statistics of this body have
recently been published. From them we
learn that the denomination now num-
bers 2,203 ministers. 235 licentiates, 3
90 churches, and 225, 404 communicates.
There were added during the ecclessasti-
cal year just closed 63 ministers, %
churches, and 3,433 communicates on
profession of their faith Twenty-three
ministers additional to the foregoing were
received from other denominations. The
amount contributed during the year to
congregational and benevolent objects,
has been 50 O36724
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

More KIDNAPPERs ABoUr.-Two of
these gentry came into town on Sunday
and started for the west in private team.
The name of one of the hunters is A. d..
Graves, that of the owner is Goodrich
who lives in st. Louis, the slaves have
been absent from home but about eight
or ten days. 1t is hoped that the citi-
zens of the county will all turn out, leave
their harvest fields and other business,
and help return to these injured men their
peripatetic property. 1t is too bad that
the guarantees Of the constitution cannot
be carried out in good faith.-Racine I'D.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

4 New SPECIES OF COUNTERFEIT Com.
DYES Bank Mirror says large amounts
of counterfeit ten cent pieces are being
circulated in New York and Boston, OF
the most dangerous kind ever invented.
They have a goddess and liberty pole,
cap, stars and date on one side, and Gni-
ted States of America, wreath and "One
Dime" on the other, and appear to be
manufactured out of type metal, and are
GALVANIZED over. they have exact weight,
size, thickness appearance of the genuine.
but break as easy as type.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

ANOTHER NUNCIo CoMING.-A feud is
said to have arisen between the foreign
and American born Bishops of the Catho-
lie Church in this country, and that the
difficulty has been referred to the Pope
at Rome. 1t is also said that the Pope
will dispatch another Nuncio 10 this
country, in the hope of healing the dis
sensions notwithstanding the bad success
of BedinI.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

E A pretty large sale of land, on
execution took place on Saturday last,
consisting mainly Of town lots. The
prices brought, we consider good--indeed
more than we should have supposed they
would have commanded at private sale.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
Iowa Election.

We hear from nine counties. GRIMES,
Wing and Anti-Nebraska candidate for
Governor, is three hundred ahead; and
Hampstead for Congress the same. The
returns look well, though they are yet
too meagre to Judge Of the State.
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18
Su,pp 3xswER.-Tbe Albany Arot

SHARP ANswER.-The Albany Argus
says:
The New York Tribune knous that
Congress has no more ''legislated Slavery
into" Kansas or Nebraska, than it has
legislated Slavery into New York or Yer
mont,
To which the Syracuse Chronicle re-
plies:
Clearly not. When farmer orders
the fence taken down between his hog
yard and his field of corn, he does not
order the hogs into the corn-Oh, no!
Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-08-18

MARINE DIsASrER.-We learn that the
schooner Marquette, of Cleveland, bound
from Chicago to Buffalo with load OF
Oats, went ashore, Tuesday morning, in
a 'og on SkiligaEee reef BY the help OF
the crew of of the brig Banner. she was
got aflost again. after throwing over
board COCO bushels of her cargo.