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VOL. X.—NO. 32.
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•Streetn.
Th* House Fly.
llow many of our readers are familiar
with tho early history of the common
house fly, an insect that makes its appear
ance in early spring, in countless swarms,
cimin™ from some unknown locality, nnd
disappearingalinost as mysteriously? There
are few insocts at once so familiar to all,
and yet tho natural history of which is so
little understood ; and it may not be amiss,
therefore to recount a few facts which
have been ascertained in regard to it.
The order of Diptera, to which the fly
belongs, is one of great extent, and its mem
bers, in their different forms, include many
of the greatest posts in existence, both to
man and animals. The mosquito, gnat,
biting fly, horse fly, tcetze. ziiub, and other
species, are well known illustrations of this
statement, many of them being armed with
lancets and other forms of ag<*ressiro
weapons, by means of which they become a
source of torment. Tho house fly, howev
er, although provided with a somewhat
similar apparatus docs not u<c it common
ly so as to draw blood, its oflVnsiveness
consisting principally in tl.e pertinacity
with which it insists upon crawling over
the skin, or in infesting articles of food.
The of the hou*e fly are laid in tie
caying vegetable matter, such as dead
loaves, and especially in the manure of sta
ble*, about 70 or SO being the usual num
ber. Thcso soon hatch, and the larva
grows rapidly, feeding upon the substances
near it. After a short time the outer skin
hardens and becomes brown and tough,
forming a ease shaped like a little barrel
divided into rings. The transformation of
the larva is quickly made, and the animal
is-soon ready to emerge as a perfect insect.
The common blow fly is another species
of this order, which lays its eggs in de
caying flesh, and which hatch sometimes
before leaving the body of the parent, and
in any event soon become developed into
the larva. These form the well known
maggots, which are the annoyance of house
keepers in hot weather.
A fly very similar to the house fly in ap
pearance, but with the wings diverging
rtore widely when in a state of rest, is pro
vided with a very powerful lancet, by
means of which blood may be drawn in an
instant after settling upon the body of an
animal. It is a curious fact that this spe
cie* like tho mosquito, in alighting upon
an upright surface, uniformly rests with
its head upward, the true house fly occu
pying a precisely opposite direction, or
with the head downward, thus affording a
ready means of distinguishing them.
The house fly, both as grub and perfect
insect, furnishes food to a great variety of
other animals; but the destruction of the
adult is largely duo to the growth of a
parasitic fungus which attacks it, and de
veloping rapidly in its interior, soon ex
hausts its vitality.— Harper * Magazine.
BREATIIINU COLD AIR. —Cold air is not
injurious to breathe, even by the most del
icate. If it causes irritation and coughing
for a time, it is only because it seeks to
find its way into diseased and overbur
dened lungs, to strengthen as tnuch as
permitted. The injury received from go
ing into cold air proceeds from having
some part of the body insufficiently clothed
to protect it from cold and dainpneas, and
not from inhaling it into the lungs.
tSf There nre 10,000 Jews in Califor
nia.
Sfwltd to Jfeui, politics, lh«( gisstmiualiou of ®scful Jnjtoquraliw, and flit promotion «jf tltq gcst Jntfpstj of taSashiujf»n Styfitorg.
The Tbrone of lolomon.
An ancient Persian manuscript, relating
tt) the temple and house, gives a descrip
tion of the throne of Solomon. Well
wight the Queen of Sl<«ba exclaim: " The
half was never told me."
The sidea of the throne were of pare
gold, and the feet of it were emeralds and
pearls. The throne had seven steps. On
each side were delineated orchards full of
trees, the branches of which were of pre
cious stones, representing ripe and unripe
fruit. On the tops of the trees fowls of
the most beautiful plumage were repre
sented, and these were hollow within, and
m;ide to utter sounds of a thousand mclo.
dious tones.
On the first step were vino branches, |
with bunches of grapes, composed of pre
cious stones, arranged in such a manner
as to give the different colors of purple,
violet, green, and red, so as to represent
the fruit in its various stage* from green
to ripe. Oil the seeond step were two
lions of pure gold, and terrible aspect, as
latj;c as life. The properties of the throne
were such, as when Solomon put his foot
on the first step, the lions extended their
paws on the second step, and the birds
spread their wings and made a fluttering
noise in the air; on his reaching the
third step, the whole assembly rcpeatod
the Deity ; when lie arrived on the fourth
step, voices were addressing him thus:
'• Son of David, be grateful for the bless
ing the Almighty hath bestowed upon
thee," and the same was repeated on his
reaching the fifth step; on his touching
the sixth step, all the children sang
praises; on his reaching the seventh step,
the whole throne became a motion, and
censed not until he had taken his seat,
when all ijic lions, birds, and animals by
secret springs discharged a shower of deli
cate perfumes on the king, and two of the
birds descended and placed a golden
crown 011 his head. Before the throne
was a column of burnished gold, on the
top of which was placed a golden dove,
which had in its peak a roll bound in sil
ver. In this roll were written the Psalms
of David and the dove presented the roll
to the king. lie read a portion to the
children of Israel. On the approach of a
wickcl person to the throne for judgment,
the lions set up a terrible roariug and
lashing their tails; the birds began to
erect their feathers, nnd the whole assem
bly set up such loud cries that for fear of
them no person would dare be guilty of
falsehood, but would instantly confess
their crimes. Such was the throne of
Solomon.
A RICH DKPOSIT OF MANURE.— The
New England Farmer says that ono of
the most remarkable occurrences of the
last six years is the discovery of a vast
body of phosphate of lime, two feet and a
half in depth, which underlies the city of
Charleston, South Caroliua, and several
districts around it. Under the city it is
sixty feet below the streets, but in the
county it comes to the surface in a bfcd of
marl, and is easily excavated. It is com
pbscd of the bones of antediluvian mon
sters, whoso teeth and vertebras are often
distinguishable, and it is now used for the
cotton fields, and shipped both coast-wise
and to Europe. It commands a price of
eight to ten dollars per ton on the pier at
Charleston.
It was said before the war, in 18G0, that
every pound cf guano was good for an ad
ditional pound of cotton. The phosphate
of lime, duly prepared, is noarly as effect
ive, a fact which shows clearly the almost
incaloulable value of this discovery.
NICOTINE TN TOBACCO.— Professor See,
of Pari*, recently delivered, at the Hos
pital de la Charite. a lecture on tobacco.
He pointed out that the proportion of
nicotine varies according to the kind of
tobacco. Thus, that produced in Ger
many and Alsace contains from 7 to 8 per
cent, of nicotine, while that from Havana
and Maryland has only 2 per cent. In
email doses nicotino acids respiration, and
does not effect the heart, but in larger
quantities the professor showed that it
produces convulsion of tho respiratory
muscles', an accelerated and intermitting
pulse, and a tremulous condition of the
muscl&.
Eighty odd meiubers of the South
Carolina Legislature can nsithor read nor
write, and they are all Radicals. In the
face of this astounding fact there are fel
lows stupid enough to twit Democrats with
ignorance I
CiT Virginia oysters are sent to Eng
land packed in mud, so that tbey may
reac'a there alive.
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, SATDRDAY MORStSG, jflNtl Ji, 1870.
The Latest Snake Story from Indlt:
The following in an extract from a let
ter written by an officer of £ugiuecra now
serving in India:
The last time I was in camp with K.,
was when I was on my first tour of in
spection, and wo were very jolly. On
that occasion a fearful accident befel nie,
which has formed the subjeot of everlast
ing chaff unto this day. Wo wore halting
in a small inspection building. It waa
dusk, and I went into the bath room to
have my tub. In the bath room waa
erected a masonry bath, with high walla;
but I preferred my tub. It was as I said,
before dusk, and a pretty strong wind waa
blowing through tho open door. I took
off my clothes and put them on a chair,
and was standing on the wet floor of the
bath room, just stepping into nty bath,
when a great, long, black, cold, sliuiy
snake coiled round my lem and rushed
between them. I gave a tremendous howl
and leaped into tho tub, when I gave three
more dismal howls and shuddered eotitin*,,
ously from head to foot as I saw that
brute had taken up his station between me
and the door, barring all escape. -I was
afraid to take the chance of dashing water
over him, because it was just possible that
he might spring at nie; so 1 hoisted my
self up on the edge of the tub, standing
against tho corner of the w»ll-—the farthest
I could got from him—and nttered anoth
er melancholy howl of helplessness, and
stood looking at him and he at me. There
upon Che following conversation ensuod
between K., in the next room, and we.
K.—What the devil's up?
Myself—Oh, a snake—a great big black
snako and he won't budge, and 1 can't get
out.
K.—Hold hard till I come with a light
and a stick and sonic niggers.
Myself—For God's sake don't stir or
you'll drive him at me. Don't come, I
say—don't come.
K.—All right then, I won't.
So the sna!;e and I continued to stare
at each other, and I revolved plans of es
cape. I thought a jump from the edge
of the unstabled tub over the masonry
bath wall, about five feet off, into the bath
might save me, if it even broke uiy leg.
It was my only chance of escape, and I
should probably have to take it, althoueh
I didn't know for the life of me what
might be in the bath, and it was getting
as dark as pitch. I shivered away on the
edge of the tub ; at last a gleam of hope
crossed my mind.
« f say. K."—
K.—Well, shall I bring a light?
Myself—Yes, bring it gradually and
carefully, and not a nigger, and don't
come beyond the corner or you may come
in for it yourself.
So a faint gleam spread itself over the
floor, which only magnified the terrors of
the situation. Suddenly, with a despe
rate resolve, I stopped and scut a whole
souse of water over the snake, who didn't
budge an inch, but was savagely mad now,
and I made at him and clutched him by
the collar, and 10, and behold! It was my
black neck-lic, which had been blown in
by the wind, got wetted on the floor and had
blown about my legs, and put me in the
worst fright I ever was in. Fancy a man
shying at his own neck-tic.
INSULT TO FOREIGNERS. —GarfieIde, in
his speech at Stevens'saloon, indulged in
an unnecessary and milignant fling at
foreigners—such as could only cnine from
a man who had been poisoned by Know
Nothing virus. lie referred to the Dutch,
the Irish and English as a low-bred class,
who could live upon black bread and mo
lasses, varied in the case of the Irishman
who necessarily required a dish of pota
toes; and said these foreigners thought
they were in luck if they had a piece of
meat on their table once a week. More
than one foreigner who heard this foul
slander, turned away in disgust, and was
heard to hiss out maledictions upon the
head of the man who praised the nigger
and insulted the free white foreigner. A
few more speeches like the one described
and Garfield's friends will be compelled to
lay the " silver ton;;ued orator" a way among
the worthless rubbish of the past. — Walla
Walla Statesman.
Ot-n CT.O\ —lt is now stated as the rea
son why the Radical leaders made hnstr.
to grant the widow of tho " Late Lamented'*
a pension of $3,0(10 a year out of the peo
ples' treasury, while the widows and or
phans of dead soldiers are crying for bread
throughout the land. They were afraid
Mrs. Lincoln would return to America—
put her old clothes on the market again,
and publish an exposition of the rotten
ness and corruption which marked the
action of the leaders of the Radical party
during tho administration of the " Life
Lamented." Her appearance in this
country again, would undoubtedly neces
sitate the opening of their private purse
stringy to keep the old lady from " squeal
ing."
FP* It is reported that the Parisian
.demi-monde are about to inaugurate a
| change in their costumes. They will
adopt a most rigid style of dress—high
necks, no Isee or diamonds, and no other
ornaments than flowers. They say they
must distinguish themselves in some way
from respectable and this revolu
tion is their only resort.
*n *r i *— ■;
„ , The Basalts of Oregon. _
Frpm a Washington paper wo learn that
■t t)«e lata session of the Academy of
Sclehee at Washington the most interest
ing feature of the last day-g proceedings
waa a graphic lecture on the Baaalta of
Oregon, Washington and Idaho, by R. W.
Raymond. After speaking of the Dallfes
themselves, he said that on the road from
Duties City to Canyon City, along the
Sante river, was a tremendous thickness of
basaltic overthrows two' thousand feat
high. The river had taken ita way
through the chasm of the original up
heaval and worn it deeper. lie explored
the singular phenomena of the caves north
of the Dalles. There was no ice in Port
land last summer when he visited the
place, but a few miles further it was
abundant; and, on inquiry, he learned
that, it was mined from the ice caves forty
miles up the Salmon river, near the fool
of Mt. Adams. An expedition set out for
the caves. They were not large but beau-!
titul, and filled with the purest ice in mid
summer. Here was a possible bint of the
tho lost rivers which puzzle the discoverer.
This was a volcano country, and the cen
ters of lines of eruptions could be traced
by the terraces. The ground under the
horses' feet sounded hollow from the fall
ing in of tho roofs of old caverns from one
to four miles in length, which wero old
ducts of the lava. He had seen the same
thing on Vesuvius in tho eruption of
1859-GJ, which w;,s not from the crater,
but at the sides as from a bleeding wound.
The stream of lava cools at the sides and
top, protecting the hot stream beneath.
Finally the orifice becomes choked with
stones and clotting lava at the eruptive
point, and tho lava flows' away, leaving
the iluct empty, ending at some elevation
of the surface which tore up the duet. In
the ice caves, {he roof had fallen at corn
ers. but on the sides and floors the smears
of lava could be seen in fibrous masses,
spirting on the roof-like door. In these
caves the water trickles front thawing
snow, in winter freezing as it falls, form
ing bergs of tons of ice rcacbiug nearly to
the top of the cave. This is much colder
than common ice, and lasts all summer.
Just below the lower line of Mt. Adams
was to be found a miniature paradise,
where all the flora of the l'ucific Coast
grew luxuriantly, attended by myriads of
humming birds which disappear for other
regions with tho flowers. The great
Shoshone Fulls, second only to Niagara,'
carved their way through basaltic rocks,
remarkably distinct in their hexagonal and
columnar form. Geological surveyors
here can make no uiistako in reading the
text. He stood at one time over a cleft
ten inches wide and five hundred feet
deep. The river had eaten out below the
basalt, which by gravity and elearage had
settled into a broken line, different columns
separated by tufa settling sometimes with
out breaking. Four hundred feet the
river has cut through the basalt, and there
are two hundred feet of porphyry below
the basalt. The Lost River is found on
entering the canon of the Snake ltiver,
where, from perpendicular face of porphy
ry midway of the cliff, a cascade issues
from the rock iu a furious, large stream.
No water is to be found on the surface,
but the settlors pretend to identify it with
a river one hundred miles to the North.
This was probably a volcanic drift from
which the tufa had been wrought out of
tho way, and formed a channel under
ground for the water. The speaker
wished to see this interesting region
thoroughly surveyed by the Government.
MARRIAUE IN RUSSIA. —The ladies iu
Russia arc very anxious to inurry, because
they have no liberty before marriage.
Tliey are kept constantly under the ma
ternal eye until giten up to their husbands,
and then they tako their own course.
Almost as soon as a girl is born, in the
better ranks of society, her parents begiq
to prepare the dowry she must have wli<jq
she goes to her husband. She must, fur
nish everything for an outfit in life, even
to a dozen new shirts for her coming hus
band. The young man goes to the house
of his proposed bride, and counts over hoc
dresses, and examines the furniture, and
sees the whole with his own eyes before
he commit* hinlself to the irrevocable bar
gaiu. In high life, such things are con
ducted with more apparent delicacy, but
the facts arc ascertained with accuracy,
the business being in the haotls of a bro
ker or notary. The trousseau is exposed
in public before the wedding day.
fy Senator Revols is lecturing on the
" teudeneies of the age." He thinks they
point toward an eradication of all differ
ences in color and blood between the
white and black races. The adulation
bestowed upon this darkey at Washington
has evidently turned tho poor fellow s
head. He imagines, from the conduct of
his fellow-Senators, that the white people
of the country have fallen in love with
his race, and are eager to " absorb" them.
For himself, he will never be satisfied with
anything Jess than a white wife. lie
would HOOU got one if Senatoc Morton were
only a woman. ' ~
FSP Another Colorado editor has been
driven to tho painful necessity of shooting
a man. Why cau't people let newspaper
men alone ?
OS"" I?o#ton keeps 3,509 dogs
Buckingham Palace—The Residence of
Queen Viotoria,
Queen Victoria has but one residence
in London, namely Buckingham Palace.
Drawing-room and other ceremonies con
nected with official Mate are held dt the
old palace of St. James, but tliat building
his been deserted as a regal home. Her
Majesty having taken possession of Buck
ingham Palace in the first year of her
reigni Windsor, Osborne and Halmoral. are
frequently honwred by her preseueo.- Ilor
Majesty has also spe»t souio time at the
\V*hitcLodge, Richmond, but Buckingham
Palace is her dnly town residence, and
thore virtually is held the Court of St.
James.
The good taste of Iler Majesty baa
made Buckingham Palace a graceful and
imposing structure, l>y removing tHc most
objectionable portion of the building, and
by adding to it tho magnificent eastern
frontage which looks out upon tho park.
The eastern front is iili'J feet in Lentil,
and was formed iu 1846, under tho direc
tion of Mr. Bloro, at a cost £150,000.
The interior of Buckingham Palatfe is
magnificent. The grand staircase is of
white marble; the walls richly decorated
with frescoes by (iruner, emblematically
portraying the progress of the day and
night. The library is admirably arranged
and well stored with literary treasures;
the famous collection of books made by
King lit. is not there, having
been removed for the use of the nation to
the British Museum. The vestibules and
waiting rooms are, as might be expected,
gorgeously decorated with draperies, paint
ings, gilding and plate glass; and in the
sculpture gallery are some of the choicest
works of modern sculptors. But the pic
ture gallery is usually more interesting to
a visitor than any other portion of the
Palace; it includes the choice collection
of Sir Thomas Baring, and the pictures
aro, with scarcely an exception, first-rate
works of art.
The portraits arc chiefly hung in the
state-rooms, and are the productions of the
most celebrated painters. Tlve collection
is exceedingly interesting, and is frequent
ly by freah additions.
The throne room is a magnificent apart
ment. It is sixty-four feet in length, the
ceiling riebly emblazoned; tbc frieze of
white marble, representing the Wars of
tho Roses; the walls hung with crimson
satin, and the whole of the furniture and
fittings arc on the same scale of regal
grandeur.
The green drawing-room is about fifty
feet in length, hung with green satin, and
enriched with splendid mirrors. Tho sa
loon and state ball room arc decorated ill
the most brilliant style—seagliola columns,
gilt capitals, ceilings glowing with color
glass and gold, and satin and velvet, sculp
ture and pictures; everything that can
add to the splendor of theso spacious
apartments is there to be found—a dis
play of Oriental opulence, guided by cul
tivated taste.
The gardens of the palace arc extensive
and wcil arranged. They cover a space
of forty acres, aod couUiu an octagonal
summer house, decorated with frescoes by
Eastlakc, Maclise, Landsccr, Dyce, Stan
fiold, Ewcns, Leslie and Rose, illustrative
of Milton's " Conius."
The Uoyal Mews contain stabling for
the state hones and house** for forty car
riages. A room is expressly devoted to
the state harness. Flere also, is the state
coach, in which Her Majesty is conveyed
on state occasions. It cost nearly
was designed by Sir W. Chamber*, aod
painted by Cipriani, in 17U2. The Mews
contains a spacious riding school for the
use of Her Majesty and the royal family.
Permission to Tiew Buckingham Palace
is granted only during the abswico of
Her Majesty from town. Permission is
given by an order from the Lord Chamber
lain. Permission to view the stables is
given by an order from the Master of tbo
ITorsc.
COST or LOAFKBIBM. —Does the young
man who persists in being a loafer ever
reflect how much less it would cost to be a
decent, respectable yollng man ? I)oes he
imagine that loafcrism is more economi
cal than gentility? Anybody can be a
gentleman, if ho chooses to be, without
much cost, but it is mighty expensive
being a loafer. It costs time in the first
weeks, months of it—in fact,
about all the time he has, for no man can
be a first class loafer without devoting
nearly his entire tiino to it. The occupa
tion, well followed, hardly affords time for
eating, sleeping, dri—we had almost said
drinking. but on reflection we will except
that. The loafer finds time to drink
whenever invited. It costs friends. Once
fully embarked on the sea of loafcrdom,
and yn bid farewell to every friendly sail 1
that floats under an honest and legitimate I
flag. Your consorts will only be the J»ic- j
cancers of society. It costs money; for j
though the loafer may not earn a cent, or j
have one for months, the time lost might
have produced him much money if de
vote:! to industry instead of sloth. It
costs' health, vigor, comfort —all tlip true
pleasures of living, honor, dignity self
respect, and the respect of the wt»rW
living, and finally, all regret or considera
tion when dead. I>e a gentleman, then,
it is far cheaper. _
The tea trade of London is deereua-..
in-.
I WHOLE NO. 500. ,
■ ■ I ; ' X J
| [From oar Extra of last Maaday-]
Evans' Opinion of Garfields's Honesty , •
Few Year* Afo. ■ >
At Mr. Evans, in his speech kit data#
day, Mioac to go bchibd editorial rpopoo
sibility, and hold the writer of aft aiticle
responsible for its rentimcnts, we will
excused fi>r quoting the following arliclf,
furnished by Mr. Evans to the WAftHflKl- t
TON STANDARD June 22, 1861 : „
FACTS FO* TH* PKQTLM I , j .
That while Receiver, the sale
Lands not being brisk enough, Oiriwdtl
received on special and prirtUe deposit,
thousand of dollars of the earnings of the
farmers of the Territory, to be applied to
tho patnictit for their land.
That though long siucc out of cficO fee
continues to act as sjxciul banker and
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"V W WWTWWW
fu, w«- I 1 / f ■ I fj„
Tlmt tlic money so deposited with him
to be paid into,the United Stales Treasury,
should have been paid oVef and accounted
for long ago, or refunded to the port
tors. '■ <•
That the people of tlic Territory had no
occasion to import a man to take care of
their inoney and receive the interest
therefore, and that every dollar he_jhns
received was paid to liitu because of his
official position.
That the cx-rcvcrend p«Tlticif«ti, iii thutf
assuming to take charge of tlitse funds
upon deposit; for our people, displays a
tumidness for.our material and J'kltmauy ,
interests highly recommending him as an
agent for the collection of our War .debt,
and the transmission of the receipts irw»
ing out of the same.
That the special depositors of funds to
extinguish the title to their land'claim**
(did not deposit their uiouey with the «y
--reverend Receiver as an electioneering
fund to promote his election to Congress.
That the people should at this time
elect one of their own citizens (Jclegate to
Congress ; that they have had sufficient it
/>rnfh.iional poHliciant aiid
Jice-ltoldcrs. I: ■
That in order to secure (lie eight ro'.ea i
of Clark county in the Convention, 1m
pledged the support of his party, oji tho
Sound in the next Legislature, for (tiff fe
moral of the capital to Vancouver.
The Nutmeg.
The nutmeg of comaierco in a nntiva of
the East-ludies, pod is confined chiefly id |
the Molucca, or what is known as the Spice
Island.. Nutmegs found their way into
Europe long before the discovery of these
islands by the Portuguese; but it was not'
until (lie British took possession in 1709
that trees of this valuable spice were
planted elsewhere.
The Dutch succeeded tlie Portuguese
in the control of the Spice Islands, an<f
they guarded them so carefully that nd
nutiueg-treo was never permitted to be take*
away while they held possession, The
English adopted a different and utore lib
eral policy; and at the present tiuio nut
meg-trees aro growing in almost cvtiy :
island in the tropics whore the peoptehave
taken the trouble to plant thetri. Tie
fruit is of a pale yellowish color. „TM
outside or husk is nearly a half inch tnieli/
somewhat fleshy, and abounding in an ii-' '
stringent juice. When the fruit is rfj*.
it cracks open, longitudinally, allowing r
the nut surrounded with a bright scarlet
arillu* , or.what is known in oommerftt qg
maec. Whet) the mace becomes n
changes its color to a yellowish brown aft
seen in the shops. Within the Uteoe KM
the kernel, or truo seed so well k Oow'm
nutmegs. In preparing the nutmeg for
market, its'vitality is destroyed »>y its bci?U[
soaked in stilt water, and then dried ana
impregnated with lime,
i Nutmeg culture has made slow
in the West Indies, owing to the want iwt *
cncuuragoincut of those in authority; hot
when these fruitful islands come
the care of our government, all this will
he changed, and spices of all hinds Witt
be grown there in abaodanee; "
- il "I-.
CF* The Shadows of Empire
every week adding to their glpomyjrfj-'
tents. We have already a centralised
government, limited only by Ihe diwrre-'
tion of Congress. This disevitioa < Si*et .
i also become concentrated. The taratttfeqi i
I to an empire at once would he too abrupt,
and, perhaps, attended with violence. It
! must be gradual, or hastened slow)/, htn v
nothing could hare been conceived:
calculated to facilitate the result than thhf
bili before Congress to establish) % s *jst#t»; j
of national education. Millions of dollars
are to be expended annually j "to teach
the young idea how to shoot' 11 '
oordanee with wishes of th«
meat. The last Motion itclln the: whote -
: tale and- points tlw
optional with
| by stem will not be intromited Irrjo aft top t
, States, and //« Is clot hod with absedtfte
' power trt decide whrthwoay Sbdo-'eJfUcai »
inetiu Kb views m»d wbhw,
the naiiou ;! sebouw will ho
sr to it. We aro linigres*ia u.—JifaWfftf
, , 1 ° .• . s£cnb«3Pv(a
Journal.
Hi .'l' in. **" '"mill bsjhtt*
m A >e;rly of
is to roquircl of all who <urry fird-iiriM.
in Rn^taa.