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Year: 1860

SIR:-I had designed answering Mr. ].
P. Shockley's last communication relative
to the Capital question, at some length, but
sickness has prevented my giving the sub
ject that thought which | should desire, be-
fore offering anything further in reply.
therefore. simply take the occasion to say,
that feeling somewhat easier, or rather not
so much fear Of the removal Of the Capital
as did when the subject was first mooted
during the past session Of the Legislature,
having great confidence that ere another
session comes of, the people will have suGi-
ciently understood the whole subject, and
have judged rightly Of the practicability Of
such q move, deem il unnecessary for me
say anything further in public; and as
have no desire to become conspicuous in
politics or political discussions, nor to see
my name in print, shall, therefore, respect
fully take leave Of my friend, Mr.. Shock
ley, and the public, only adding, that what
l have said heretofore, wGs prompted in a
spirit of candor, only wishing that the peo-
pie Of the whole country might be enabled
to sec little Of both sides of the question.


URBAN E Hicks
Year: 1860

RAILROAD CoNvENTIoS-On the FIRST
page will be found the resolution Of the
legislative assembly Of Washington Terri
tory, calling q railroad convention to
assemble at Vancouver on the goth day Of
May next. On the part Of this Territory,
delegates thereto have been appointed
Their names will be found in the published
resolution. We hope the people of Oregon
will prove themselves sufficiently interested
in this subject, to take early action in the
Of delegates to meet US in this
convention. The expense to be incurred
by them will be small-the advantage 10
accrue therrfrom may prove incalculable.


The Oregon Times favors the holding Of
this Convention, and suggests that Govern
or WHITAKER appoint day, by proclama-
tion, for the selection Of delegates, and
calls upon the people to respond. The
OregOnidn exhibits a stoical indifference in
the matter, and contents itself with sim
pie publication Of the call. For one who
has always manifested SO decided a partial
ity for the rail as has Mr.. DRYER this
silence is unbecOmihg. May we not enter
tain the hope that he is not so irretrieVably
linked 6y prejudice and partiulity to the
California road and convention, as would
permit him to throw "wet blanketp on
ours2
Year: 1860

ICE.--Our ice-men are taking advantage
of the cold weather, to relieve the Canal of
some of its overplus CONCEALED covering,
and are filling their cellars with this cooling
substance. Besides the ice dealers, we no
tice private persons preparing for the heat
of summer in this way.


The ice is from five to eight inches thick,
and about rs compact and solid as it ever
gets to be, in this latitude. We should pre-
fer to see it taken from some uncontamina-
ted lake, but this far south we must bury
the business before thaw, and do the best
we can. The ice now being put away,
though not immaculate, will not be hard TO
take in midsummer.
Year: 1860

nsa-A south wind yesterday raised the
temperature of the weather, which for sew
eral days had been extremely cold. Night
before last there was halo around the
moon and prismatic appearance to the
clouds passing across the face of that orb.
All this indicates, we judge, fall of snow
soon, and probably a general thaw and
rain within week. The cold weather has
given good supply of ice with which to
alleviate the oppression of summer heat.
Year: 1860

FRESH OYsTERs.-We are indebted to
Mrs. A. KURTz for a can of delicious oysters
on New Years day. Remembering the
printer was beginning the year right, and
we have no doubt the old concern, under
its present management will prove more
popular and profitable than ever.
Year: 1860

q. some time past several
of our grocers have been missing small
sums of money from their drawers, which
disappeared so mysterlously as to be beyond
accounting for On the 28th of last
month, Mr. John H. Bremen, on First


street. missed a five and two dollar bill
which were taken out of the still, and on
the 3Oth five dollars more. Determining to
catch the thief if possible, he placed some
counterfeit money in the drawer and retired
from the room, placing himself on the Gel
lar steps in such position he could see all
that was going on in the room. He was
hardly ensconced in his hiding place, when
stranger entered the room, proceeded to
the money drawer and helped himself
He was retiring from the room in quiet
and unostentatious manner when he was
suddenly Intercepted by the proprietor
The thief on ascertaining that he was fair
ly caught, Immediately proposed to refund,
if Mr. Bremen would say nothing more
about the whole affair." and accordingly
handed over Sl2, asking if that was all
Mr. Bremen said it was all he had missed.
The fellow, who gives his name as George
Vanblaricum, was taken before Justice Nc


Bride and bound over in the sum of 5000.
In default of bail he was committed TO Jail.
Year: 1860

We are glad 10 ESQ TINT the attention Of the
eading Republican journals is being turned
70 tho financial, commercial and industrial a..
pscts OF tho great Presidential struggle. We
print elsewhere in this paper IN article from
the Cincinnati Gazak, in which the interests
OF the industrial classes, sofar AZ they are in
volved in this slavery question, arc review
I'd. We invite for it the attention Of our read
sn-all who look upon the contest as one
which concerns the black man alone. The
Gazette will undeoeive thsu,
Year: 1860

ilT 1t is said that only a minority of the South
Carolina Legislature would unite in the PROPOSE
ton To have South Carolina represented in the
Democratic Convention, to be held at Charleston.
South Carolina Is disposed at present to wait and
ses.D
Year: 1860

The Know Nothing press is IN the
daily practice Of charging that the
party which neminated Breckenridge
and Lane is asectional party. This
we deny most positively. The plat
form Of the party is not sectional,
the candidates nominated sre not
from one section, nor WAS the con.
veption that nominated them COM
posed of delegates from only one
section. If the party that nomina-
ted the truly national men, Breckin-
ridge ard Lane, be a sectional party,
every other party known in the
the contest is sectional, some o.
them extremely SO. Could We find nc
party with which to act but a sec
iional party we would always aot Will
and for our own section rather thar
to GO with party against our ovl


section. s&s
Year: 1860

The following definitions are not
to be found in the abridged dic!ion-
aries generally used:


Intervention. for Congress to de-
eide that negro slavery shall not
exist in certain sections Of the Union
The passage of the Missouri com.
promise was an example of it.


Non.interusntion, permission by
the government to any and every
territory when it forms a eonstitu.
ton preparatory to being received
into the Union as a State, to decide
on the subject of slavery for itself;
that is, Congress shall not rcqnirs Of
such territory constitution protect
ing, ror prohibiting slavery but leave
the subject to the decision Of the
voters Of the territory themselves.


Sqaatter Sovereignty, a power
claimed by the first two or three
wild adventurers who get into a
territory to decide against tbe right
Of shareholders who may come after
them to hold their slaves as property
in the territory. II they decide
against the institution Of slavery,
their decision is sustained. If they
decide in favor. Of slavery, as was
the case recently in New Mexico, a
black republican Congress at once
declares their act q nullity. =


Protection, is the shield which
the general government, as the agent
Of the several. States, throws around
every citizen, defending him in his
right to hold property in the common
TERRITORY until.the. territory becomes
a sovereign State by bfing formally
admitted into the confederacy. with a
REPUBLICAN constitution OF IFS own.
Protection to property in a terri
tory is not inconsistent. with permls-
siou to form a constitution, at the
proper time. by the voters OF that
territory, either protecting or pro-
hibiting slavery; only that no law
can be passed destroying the right OF
individual property Mu,f. News
Year: 1860

The Union demonstrations cow taking place
in the South strengthen us in the belief We


have heretofore expressed, that the mass Of
the people in that section are conservative
and patriotic The secession feeling is likely
to DC localized in South Carolina, with other
nuclea of discomfort in Georgia and Alabama.
But before it can find time to act, the con-
servatism of the other slave States will have
spoken, and the secessionists will find them.
selves far less important than they now sup
pose. The fact is now fully demonstrated
that all the recent commotion was rot solely
in consequence of the election of Mr.. Lincoln.
In South Carolina, the sentiment of disunion
is forty years old, and at stated intervals its
take place. The people are getting
used to it, and it don't frighten them quite as
much as formerly.
Year: 1860

wPostmaster-G General Holt has adopted
a short and sensible policy towards the dis
union Postmasters in the South who resign
their offices. He informs them that, if they
will name successors who will give the usual
securities to the department, they will be
and business permitted to 60 on as
before. Otherwise, the Offices will be dis
continued
Year: 1860

( II In philadelphia. on Sunday afternoon, the
child Of negro woman named Emma Anderson


was nearly eaten up by vermin. The woman


went out and left the child an infant only nine
weeks old, In care Of woman named Davis
who locked the child up In the room occupied
by It's mother. Some time afterwards, hearing
the baby crying piteously, the woman went TO
the room and found that the child had been at
tackled by rats. The animals had eaten away the


nose, part OF one cheek, and destroyed one eye
The poor infant presented shocking appearance


The attending physician has no hopes Of It's re-
Year: 1860

A MARRIAGE DiLEMMA.-Some short time back
a gentleman was unlled TO lovely and accom-.
pshed lady at village near Cambridge, Eng.
All passed off pleasantly enough the bl idc aud
bridegroom were On their wedding tour, when
mnulih dictn! il WIS discovered that the mar
rlage had been IN illegal one, and that the clergy
man was probably liable to severe penalties for
performing the ceremony. Tho Bridegroom had
never thought Of providing liccnse-the clergy
man never thought to inquire for it. So here were
two persons married without either banns or


license and entirely contrary to the statute in that
case made and provided Here was Il dilemma
What was to be done? At the end of three days
a special messenger was sent after the happy
couple Their wedding tour was arrested and
buck they were brought. when the ceremony was
Year: 1860

little document, the abseucs Of which had been
productive Of 90 much mischif and the travellers
resumed their tour. their sudden and unexpected
return being known BY very few persona. Not
wthstanding the false start. Let a. hope that the
journey through life may be q pleasant one
Cambridgc Independent.
Year: 1860

We learn from Washington that the census re-
turns are rapidly pouring in from the several mar
shals throughout the country, but returns from nc
State or Territory have yet been received to indi
cate the population.
Year: 1860

| The indications are that the Spanish Govern


ment is in earnest in its desire to put an end to


the slave traffic in its colonies. 1t is stated that
orders have been given by the Spanish Government
for the immediate construction of ten steamers,


destined to suppress the slave trade and for the de-
fap of Tnb
Year: 1860

The Baton Rouge Gazette and Comet learns from
gentleman who came down from the Plains, that
on the 18th a fire broke out in the town of Port
Hudson, La, in the northern part of the parish,
and the entire place, with the exception of one
house, was reduced to ashes.
Year: 1860

la MOUNTAINS LAST BALLOON AsCEYsGoY-PERIL-
Gus DEsCENT.-Mr. La Mountain met with serious
accident during his recent ascension from Albany
n. l. lie was caught in tornado when over East
dashed against stone wall, and dragged until he
came in contact with tree tearing the netting of
his balloon. lie was then carried on at fearful
rate until caught in another tree bursting his bal
loon, leaving the aeronaut in a senseess condition
and was then rescued by some farmers who were
attracted to the spot He reached Lansineburr
on Saturday. The balloon travelled thirty miles in
| twenty-nine minutes.
Year: 1860

Our little Key has generally been considered as
entirely dependent upon wrecking for sustenance;
but recent census tells different story. For in
stance, the Sponge trade alone for the past year,
amounted to S72000; and the trade in live fish to
something considerable. More of this anon.-Ke5
of the Gulf, 8th inst.
Year: 1860

we ave.age two or three divorce cases {"
week. If the cause for the application is
the only one permitted in Scripture, the
officers of the Court are prohibited by law
from exhibiting the papers to any person;
and all divorce suits rs soon us they make
their appearance in court, are turned over
to n Referee. His report is viewed by the
Judge, and the decree is granted or denied,
without any of the particulars coming un-
der the eye OF the reporters. Occasional
lv, as in !, suit to which one of our most
frequently named citizens was party, a
motion was nude by the Referee that the
papess he sealed as soon as decision is
rendered. never to be opened again except
by an order from the Court. An immense
amount of filth is thus kept out of sight.
Year: 1860

THs throat ofJudge Douglas continues
to be in so painful coalition that he has
not been able to take his seat in the Sen
ate. 1t is extremely difficult, it is said for
him to hold conversation with the thou
sands of visitors constantly calling at his
residence.
Year: 1860

THx Japanese brought eighty tons of
baggage with them. 1t is said that they
carefully preserve al the newspapers
which describe their visit. If this is SO,
they will take back more than eighty tons
of luggage.
Year: 1860

The n Y. Commercial Adreriissr'S Wash
ington correspondent, "Omicron," under
date Of Nov. %, writes as follows -


1t was remarked, few days before the
Presidential election, by an eminent citizen
of the South, himself pro-slavery man of
the strictest sort, that he hoped Lincoln
would be elected, because it would test the
question whether we had government or
not His idea was that if tho Southern
States could with impunity and at their
pleasure, in Il moment of passion or caprice,
withdraw from the Union, and make coali-
ti0ns with each other or with foreign powers,
then we had no government. The Southern
States had threatened all this, and he wanted
the experiment tried. If we have no govern
ment the experiment Will succeed any State
may withdraw at pieasure-not one of the
original thirteen States only. but any of
those States whose territory we have bought.


T'he question has been brought before
| President Buchanan, whether we have a
government or not. So far as it depends
! upon him we have none at all. He will not.
as is generally believed to-day lift finger or
say a word for the maintenance of the gov
ernment when the crisis arrives. Had he
taken any distinct and decided ground IN
support of the government against rebellion
or secession, he would not now have had
full Cabinet There is no longer any dan
ger of Cabinet rupture, because there is no
danger that the President will put anything
in his message that will be unfavorable to
the secessiOnists.


The views presented by General Joseph
| Lane, in favor of State secession, show that
he was not misunderstood by the country
How MI. Breckenridge stands upon the ques'
ton, since the election, we do not know, bu'
a few weeks hence the whole subject will ot
before Congress. -,


Some suppose that the coming session vii
be one of great excitement and disorder
Among the Democrats there will be much
mutual elimination and denunciation. Eacf
clique will accuse the other Of having rulne'
the country.
Year: 1860

PInks and similar plants, sawdust, tan and
leaves we do not consider as good as straw,
which affords sufficient protectien and abund-
ant ventilation if not spread too thiekly.-
tor most plants coarse stable litter is pro-
gaOiy the most convenient and best covering.
ltshould not be so thick as to be liable TO heat
much; In the spring the finer part may be
torked INTO the ground and the coarser re-
moved. 1t leaves are employed, little soil
or some other material must be thrown over
them to prevent them from being blown
away.


For shrubs, if very small, few evergreen
bOughs thrown over them, will form an ex-
cellent protection. If large, the branches
should be drawn closely together and then
wound with straw. Climbing plants, if
tender. must be detached from the trellis or
wall, wound with straw, or laid upon the
ground and covered with leaves or earth.
Year: 1860

1t is said that every Episcopal Clergyman
in Charleston has omitted the usual prayer
for the President of the United States. Let
ters mention that one of the most eminent
statesmen of South Carolina, on noticing
this omission, rose from his pew and lett the
church where he had gone to worship. There
are Union men in South Carolina.
Year: 1860

Tomorrow three millions of happy families,
scattered over t,centy broad states, keep
! Thanksgiving. To-day the trains run loaded


with returning wanderers from the paternal
roof tree. The joyful scenes of reunion,
which we can imagine though we can't des-
cribe them are under full headway tonight.
What good time it is !!


This yearly recurring festival means some
thing, if the reader will stop to think of it.
And thinking of it ourselves, it occurs to US
to say, that among other things it implies
aud is solely possible for, people possessing
homes. The Partisan, whose language has
no word for home, can have no idea of
Thanksgiving either. 1t is not religious
observance simply, or it would be confined
to the services in the churches 1t is not
general public rejoicing or it would be public
ly celebrated in great concourses ofthe People.
1t is not n barreH festival, or it would take
place in harvest time. No, it is something
different from and more than these
After the ont door labors of the year are over,
alter the amber treasures of the wheat field
and the golden in gots of the corn have been
garnered, when the most inclement season of
the year has begun, and the days are grow
ing short when the enjoyments and comforts
of life are those of the freside and the home,
then it is that we reunite the severed links
Of the family circle, and feel it most if any
link has dropped then cIasping the dear
well known hands and smiling into the fond
familiar faces, without the check of the
stranger 5 presence, we celebrate our New
England jubilee. Il is the Festival of HoxE.


Let US all, then, with deyout gratitude to
God, for the countless blessings which clus-
ter round these our christian homes, Join in
the Feast of St. Jonathan and let US try to
make other homes, less blessed, happy like
wise. Let Us. as We - eat the fat and drink the
weet," not forget also, to " send to those
for whom nothing has been provided -
Stocks are uncertain, nowadays; try an in
vastment under the vest of your poor neigh
Dor see how you can walk into his afec-
tions with leg Of mutton; spare for him at
least a spare-rib; show him the connection
between piety and pumpkin pie if he don't
understand English " talk TURKEY " to him
he viii understand that. So shall the day
be good and happy one for you, dear reader,
and many returns of it may you see.
Year: 1860

a room has been finished, this last sum
mer, in the Senatorial wing of the Capitol,
for the use Of the President on the last day
and night Of each session, when it IS desira-
bic to have bills signed without delay. 1t
will supply want long felt
Year: 1860

WHAT PREsIDEST.-"Old Abe Lincoln would
not and could not travel in all the States of tho
Union, so inimical are his principles TO those OF
the people of a large portion Of this country'-N.
7 Day Book


1t may strike a good many that there Is
much need of Personal Liberty laws in the
States to which the n. Y. Day Book refers.
Year: 1860

All free negroes are ordered to leave the
State within ten days, or they will be waited
upon by a Vigilance Committee and dealt
with to the extreme of the law.


VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Year: 1860

Baked Pudding Butter a suitable dish.
then lay slice Of bakers break, then shred
ded beef suet and few currants, until you
have sufficient. Then take three eggs, pint
of new milk, little nutmeg essence of lem
on, and sugar, beat them well together, and
an hour will bake it. Ad! little pastry
round the dish.


Applc Crcant.--Put into pan twelve ta-
blespoonfuls of the pulp of baked apples, the
whittier the better, the same proportion Of
cream beat well together with a pint and a
quarter Of lemon Jelly, made with ounce and
quarter Of Nelsone gelatine. Lemon juice,
peel. and sugar to taste. Clear the Jelly witk
white Of egg.


american Pvfets for Tea or Brcdk|dsi-
One pint Of cold milk (which has been boiled)
cne pint Of homemade yeast. half pound
of butter, half pound Of sugar, and five
eggs to be mixed into STIFF paste, or rather
batter, which must be put into tho baking
tins to rise, and; without taking out, be baked
in tie usual manner


Lemon Pudding Boil two n-peels in
water till quite tender; beat them WE'LL
then melt not oir half pound of fresh
butter: in basin before the fire beat six
eggs; mix we'll With loaf sugar, brandy,
and the juice of lomou. Put puff
paste around your pie-dish. and bake
half an hour.


For the Breath Persons who suffer
from difficulty of breathing and oppres-
sion of the chest, will get great relief from
the following contrivance. A tea-kettlc
is to be kept boiling, either over FIRE,
or over n common night-lamp or nurs-
ing -candles.iek. A tin tube is to be ft-
ted on to the spout of the tea-kettle, Of
such length and form as to throw the
the steam in front Of the sick person,
who will then breath in it This pro-
vents the distressing sensation occsioned
10y inhalling the cold night air. which
will be felt by persons suffering from
asthma or water on the chest. and which
is not obviated either by clothing or FIRE.


Rich .Smcetn,cat Gingerbread Nm..--
Put pound of good treacle into basin.
and pour over it quarter of a pound
of clarified butter, or fresh butter, mel
ted so as not to oil. and one pound Of
coarse brown sugar. Stir the whole


we'll. While mixing, add an ounce each


of candied orange-pell and candisd an
gelica, and quarter of an ounce Of can


died lemon peel, cut in very minute pie


ces. but not bruised or pounded, With


half an ounce of pounded coriander seeds
and half an ounce OF caraway seeds.


Having mixed them thoroughly together


break in an egg, and work the whole "
, with as much -four as may be necessary e
form hue paste, which is to be made
into nuts Of .ny size. Put on tue bare


tin plate and set in rather ttis. cvca
Year: 1860

CORRECT SrEAKING We advise all
young people to acquire in early life the
habit of good language, both in speaking
and writing, and to abandon, as early as
possible, any use of slang words and
phrases The longer they live, the
more difficult the acquisition of such Ian
guagc will be; and if the golden age Of
youth the proper season for the acquisi-
ton of the language, be passed in its a
buse, the unfortunate victim of neglected
education is very probably doomed to
talk slang for life. Money is not neccs-
sary to procure this education. Every
man has it in his power. He has mere
ly to use the language which he reads,
instead of slang which he hears, to form
his tast from the best speakers and poets
of the country to treasure up choice phra-
ses in his memory, and to hahltuatc
himself to their use avoiding. at the
same time, that pedantic precision which
shows rather the weakness CT vain am
bition than the polish Of an educated
mind - Home Journal.