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The Oregon—The Voice of an Immigrant.
One of the leaders of an Emigrant Par
ty to Oregon, has written a letter to the
Sangamo (Illinois) Journal, dated, “Bank
of the Nebraska, May 13th.” The Emi
grants were encamped on the north hank
of the Platte River, and the teams, wa
gons, cattle, &c., had thus far stood the
trip remarkably well. He says:
“The present emigrating party con
sists of about five hundred wagons—one
hundred and seven are in our company—
thirty-five are a few miles ahead, and
some seventy are a few days behind.
But it is impossible to speak definitely ns
regards the number of teams. The num
ber of souls is said to he bet wet n six and
seven thousand. The number of cattle
is immense—exceeding in all probably
ton thousand head. Our teams, horses,
mules, ponies, cattle and w agons,stretch
ed out in procession, some three miles in
length on the broad prairies, present a
grand spectacle. The Caw Indians flock
around us like crows. Their business is
to ‘swap’ ostensibly, but in reality it is
begging and stealing. More or less cat
tie are stolen every night. These Indians
are great cowards, poor and faithless.
They meet you with an air of courtesy ;
extend the hand of friendship with grace
ful waveing circles to all, and shake hands
most neartily with anv one of the compa
ny who notices them most; and the next
business is ‘swap,’‘swap.’ In this traffic
the supplying of their present wants is the
standard value they attach to their mo
ney. To all appearances these Indians
are in a wretched starving condition.”
He describes the soil and the face of
the country, from Independence to the
Nebraska River, as fu.l of heaty and fer
tility. Timber is scarce, hut small groves
of excellent quality are found along the
streams. He adds:
“The prairies are beautifully rolling—
the soil rich and deep. The Nebraska
river has shallow banks, and its bottom
is quick-sand. The creeks which we have
crossed, however, that empty into the
Nebraska, have deep banks and muddy
bottoms —on some the soil is more than
fifteen feet in depth. These deep chan
nels and muddy bottoms have given us
much trouble. Quite a number of cattle
in crossing them get mired, and some
times we have had to haul from fifteen to
twenty out by their horns.
“Limestone is abundant on the prairies.
A stratum of rock lies on a level, showing
itself above ground in almost every de
clivity which passes its level.
“Our road so far has been very good,
although apparently not very direct in its
course. I can say but little of the pros,
pectsofthe Oregon emigration. lean
now only give you a faint idea of its mag
nitude, and the character of the people
who compose it. From the best informa
tion lean obtain the number of emigrants
will be five fold to what it was last year;
but you must bear in mind that it was
then greatly exaggerated. Os its char
acter, I assure you, as far as I can judge,
I can speak in the most flattering terms.
Agreeable acquaintances every day
formed. Gentlemen and ladies too, of
liberal minds and means, are in the midst
of our social circle. Finally, there is
something ennobling in the very idea of
an expedition fraught with consequences
so self devoting in its effect. No narrow
minded soul is fit for Oregon. If such
embark, discord and confusion follow—
they will shrink from the undertaking,
and escape to the States. But those who
are congenial to the enterprise, present
their shoulders to its hardships, their
breasts to its dangers, and their means
and talents to the accomplishment of its
purposes, will, I doubt not, be well re
warded.”
“Our Last DayJ”
“ How many reflections and associa
tions crowd upon our minds at the men
tion of those words! Sometimes the
thoughts connected with the last day to
some parties it seems are pleasing, and
sometimes they are painful; but they are
always striking and noticeable. We re
member, when we were children, hoc
much we thought of the last day of the
school-term: next fortnight, or next week,
or to-morrow, is the last day, sad or joy.
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ous to us. in proportion to the pleasant
ness or irksomeness of the school con
finement. The last day of the year—
what solemn feeling it is calculated to
produce within our minds. One more
year has fled; its events are numbered
with the past. One year less have we,
in which to prepare for eternity ; its last
moment has sped, its last opportunity
gone! The last day of one’s life—what
a solemn day is that! We look upon
some person, upon whose frame disease
has fastened. We see him in his grade
uni decline—we feel that the lamp of life
is wasting a wav, and that his last dav
has dawned upon him ! Earthly joys will
soon no more animate him, earthly hopes
no more excite him, earthly sorrows m>
more depress him. His time to serve
God, and to prepare for eternity, has
gone. ‘The golden bowl is broken, the
pitcher is broken at the fountain, and the
wheel at the cistern. The dust returns
to the earth as it was, and the spirit of
God who gave it.’ Higher joys than those
of the earth, or deeper sorr ws, are now
his inheritance. Hope is lost in heaven
ly fruition, or in black despair. The last
day of our mortal life—what a day!”
l'netry—Lots ot it.
In the advertising columns of the
Schuylerville Herald we find some de
lightful poetry —beautiful stanzas sur
rounded by dull, barren prose, like roses
blooming in a desert of sand. The fol
lowing are samples of the bowers contain
ed in the gay parterre.
Mr. Paul C- Wells does blacksmithing
and such like.
‘On the middle floor there's wagons made,
By L Bartlett, master of lus trade,
On the floor above, they're painted by
J Osborn, and set out to dry.’
Pretty, very pretty indeed, as far as it
goes. L. Bartlett makes the wagons, and
.1. Osborn paints ’em ; hut why not give
the name of the ought-to-be distinguished
individual who set them out to dry !
That’s what we want to know, who sets
thfin out to dry ?
Mr G. It. Lewis has a boot and shoe store
Near the bridge, and just next door,
To John Gale’s dry good store,
Close to the mills in open sight,
Opp. site a pile of boards, both new and bright.
When we go to Schuylerville we shall
know where to find Mr. Lewis’ store,
provided they dont remove the pile of
boards, and they are kept ‘new arid
(bright.’ This puls us in mind of the
; Dutchman’s house, which stood generally
(about six feet behind a little speckled
dog.
‘ Losse & Mott have a dry good store,
In Schuylerville, where in days of yore.
Burguoyne was taken as you well know ;
Without being able to strike a blow.’
Served the old fellow exactly right;
( but what a queer dry goods store Messrs,
j Losse & Motte have 1 They have cali
[coes, drugs, brandy, bibles, turnips, new
(testaments, potatoes, pots, kettles, whis
key, prayer books, pig yokes, catechisms,
bonnets, bustles, Baxter’s dying thoughts,
and putty. Do you call them dry goods ?
—New York Mercury.
From itiv Savannah Cicoigian.
The Snake and the Squirrel.
On the 29th day of May last, I was
riding on a small road in the 12th dis
trict of Dooly county, near the Allappa
haw, when I saw a common sized fox
squirrel sticking on the side of a pine
tree, some six or eight inches from the
earth. When I got opposite the squir
rel, saw him move a little on the side of
the tree. I rode some 20 or 30 yards
past the squirrel, when the idea occurred
to me, that it might be charmed hy a
snake. I immediately turned back in
the direction of the squirrel, and when I
got within eight steps of the tree where
the squirrel was, all at once I heard a
rattle snake commence singing, appa
rently under the feet of my animal. I
slapt spurs and got off a few yards, stopt
(and looked back, and saw a very venom
ous looking rattle snake not more than
4g or 5 feet long. I immediately dis
mounted from my animal and took up a
light wood limb that lay near, and gave
the snake a pretty heavy blow, which
caused him to sing loud and strrong. and
at the time I struck the snake, the squir
rel leaped from the tree, I think about
three feet and it seemed to me the
squirrel leaped higher than far. I gave
the snake the second blow, and the
squirrel leaped again, and so on, until I
gave the snake a third blow, when the
snake sung weaker, and the squirrel
seemingly got weaker in the same pro
portion. I then went to tho tree, think
AUGUSTA, GA. JULY 5, 1845.
ing to find the snake that had charmed
the squirrel, hilt it was not there, nor no
nearer than eight steps. 1 looked at the
squirrel, could not see any thing the mat
ter with it, but it appeared to be tired
almost to death, panting and struggling
for breath, I returned to the snake, and
with the same limb I pecked iiis head
soft. I again returned to the squirrel
and saw him in about a minute or less,
i breathe his last. I took up the squirrel,
! and the blood had run out of its left nos
tril down the jaw and neck, and down
the left fore leg, and of}' at the foot. I
|am certain that the squirrel was never
j hurt by me. After partly killing the
j snake, when I first went to the squirrel,
I touched its thigh with the toe of my
boot—it never moved nor even tried to
get out of my way. I give it as my o
pinion, that killing tho snake was the
cause of the squirrel’s death. The
snake was not larger around, I think,
than the wrist of a large man. He had
five rattles and a button.
B. 11. HAMILTON.
Libertinism.
We agree with a late number of the
New Haven Courier, that the public press
has lately employed its influence against
licentiousness with considerable effect,
and there never was a time, probably,
since the settlement of this country by
civilized people, when vice became mote
obnoxious to stern reproof, than at pre
sent. Low wages occasioned by the
surplus female operatives, in our large
cities, and want and self-abandonment as
consequences, have opened the floodgates
of pollution, and drawn into the vortex of
immorality many who once would have
shuddered at the thought of even a trif
ling impropriety. Nor is the evil con
fined to the teeming haunts of trade, and
the noisy thoroughfares of commercial
places; it spreads like a ripple upon the
water, until its withering miasma con
taminates tho atmosphere of towns and
villages. Young libertines innoculated
with tho vicious sentiments and practices
of metropolitan life, bear the plague with
them into the bosom of virtuous commu
nities and unsuspecting families, while
rank and affluence render their example
doubly dangerous, and give eclat to a
course of behaviour, which ought to ex
clude them from all but the society of
brutes and monsters. Preachers may
vainly denounce licentiousness, and
threaten the transgressor with the anger
of offended Deity, the press may idly ap
peal to the honor anil magnanimity, the
hopes and aspirations of the young and
ambitious, call for legislative action, and
endeavor to awaken the vigilance of pa
rents and guardians, so long as the disso
| lute are upheld in their degrading courses,
by being permitted to associate with the
elite of the land, and the misery w hich
they have brought upon the humble por
tion of the female sex, is rewarded by the
smiles of the other. Refined and elegant
women can do more to make the libertine
odious, and compel him to relinquish his
habits, than ail the other portions of so
ciety combined. But so lar as the sedu
cer is welcomed as a favored guest in
their parlors, is allowed to escort them to
places of public amusement or worship,
is selected as tho companion of their
walks, and made an appendage of their
persons, so far they encourage laxity of
morals, strengthen the hands of the des
troyer, and by showing him how lightly
j they estimate virtue in his sex or debase
ment in their own, invite him to test
(those acts upon themselves, which have
proved so ruinous to the peace and repu
tation of their neighbors.— Amer. Eagle.
Substitute for the Bath.
The following plan was adopted by
Sir Astly Cooper during bis life—and is
worthy the example of those who can
not enjoy the blessing of bathing in their
houses:
“Immediately on rising from bed,and
having all previously ready, take off all
your night dress, then take up from your
earthen pan of two gallons of water, a
towel, quite wet but not dropping; be
gin at your head rubbing hair and face
and neck and ears well; then wrap your
self behind and before, from neck to
chest, your arms and every portion of
your body. Remand your towel into
the pan, charge it afresh with water, and
repeat once all I have mentioned, ex
cepting the head, unless that be in a
heated state, when you may do so with
advantage. Three minutes will then
have elapsed. Throw your towel into
the pan, and then proceed with two
coarse dry long towels, to Ecrub your
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head, and face, and body, front and
rear, when four minutes will have you in
aglow; then wash and hard rub your
feet, brush your hair and complete your
toilette; and trust me, this will give a
new zest to your existence. A mile of
walking may be added with advantage.”
New Invention in Printing. —The
Vincennes Gazette states that Mr. Josiah
W arren, of New Harmony, Indiana, has
made an improvement in tile art of stcreo
| typing, which, if it be made known, will
I of incalculable benefit to printers as
well as others. Ihe improvement puts
it in the power ofevery printer to stereo
type whatever he chooses in an almost
incredinly short space of time, at little or
(noexpense, and with the utmost precis
!ion ond accuracy. The composition of
j " hith tho plate is made is nearly as hard
as iron, which it resembles a good-deal,
and can lie melted on a common fire as
easy as lead. Ihe editor of the Gazette
has seen plates cast alter this new princi
ple, and lias not a doubt that it will en
tirely supercede the old method of stereo
typing.
"'filch Will you dot
One of two things must be done in
this country. Parents must spend mo
ney to educate their children, or they
must pay taxes to build penitentiaries
and t<» punish crime. There is a great
mistake about what is called education.
Some suppose a learned man is an edu
cated man. No such thing. That man
is educated who knows himself, and who
takes accurate common sense views of
men and tilings around him. Some very
learned men arc the greatest fools in the
world ; the reason is, they are not edu
cated men. Learning is only the means
not the end, its value consists in giving
the means of acquiring, in the discipline,
which, when properly managed, it gives
the mind. Some ot the greatest men
in the world were not overstocked with
learning, but their actions proved that
they were thoroughly educated. Wash
ington, Franklin and Sherman were of
this class; and similar though less stri
king instances may now be found in all
countries. To he educated, a man must
learn to think and reason, compare, and
decide accurately. He may study met
“physics till he is grey, and languages
till he is a walking polyglot, and if he is
nothing more, ho is not an educated
man. There is no class in the country
who have a stronger interest in the edu
cation of their children than farmers;
and the subject should receive from them
the attention it deserves.
Ladies at Work.
'I lie Lowell Offering—which, lie it re
membered, is edited hy the factory girls 1
—contains some excellent remarks in re
ference to the too common prejudice a
gainst women earning their livelihood.
We copy a portion of the article.
“Whence originated the idea that it
was derogative to a lady’s dignity, of a
blot on female character, to labor ? And
who was the first to say, sneeringly,
“Oh, she works for a living!” Surely,
such idle words and expressions ought
not to grow on republican soil 1 The
time has been, when ladies of the first
rank were accustomed to busy them
selves in domestic employment. Ho
rner tells us of the princesses who used
to draw water from the springs, and
wash with their own hands the finest of
the linens of their respective families.—
The famous Lucretia used to spin in the
midst of her attendants; and the wife
of Ulysses, after the seige of Troy, em
ployed herself weaving until her hus
band returned from Ithica.”
The common notion that school-teach
ing is the only lady-like employment in
which a lady can engage, is as* false as
it is ridiculous. It would be far better
for the health of many a female, if she
had to earn her livelihood bv employ
ment suited to her strength "and capa
bilities for exertion.
American Coin.
It is stated that the Secretary of the
Treasury ha 3 late'y sent to the Mint,
$250,000 in foreign coin to be coined
into dimes and half dimes. The object
is to have a supply of small change for
Post Office purposes under the new sys
tem.
Now that our Government has con
formed its Post Office rates to the estab
lished currency of the country, would it
not be well to withdraw from circulation
all foreign coins of different denomina
tions from those issued by the United
WASHINGTONIAN
TOTAL ABSTINENCE PLEDGE.
1—
YVe, whose names are hereunto an
nexed, desirous of forming a Society for
our mutual benefit, and to guard against
■ a pernicious practice, which is injurious
to our health, standing and families, do
= ] pledge ourselves as Gentlemen, not to
i drink any Spirituous or Malt l.iquors,
! or Cider.
States? And would it not be desirable
for merchants and traders of all sorts to
adopt the Federal currency in all their
transactions? “TArips” and “Sevenpen
ces are inconvenient and unnecessary,
and should no longer be retained in cir
culation. The whole matter is in the
hands of business men. Let them have
no prices for goods requiring change of
this hind, and it will soon find its way to
the Mint and be re-coined. This would
save a great amount of trouble and incon
venience. especially in those parts of the
South where copper coin is not used.
VY ill not the merchants of Athens bo
Pioneers in this work of reform ?
[Athens Banner.
A newly discovered l.and Renovator.
The German papers give currency to
the statement that Mr. Liebig, the cele
brated Professor of Chemistry at the
University at Giesseen, has discovered a
mineral substance, which, when com
bined with Guano, will produce one of
the most fertilizing manures known. It
is added that a joint stock company, with
a capital of £120,000 sterling, composed
for the most part of leading English
capitalists, was, immediately on the dis
covery being made, formed for the pur
pose of carrying on upon a large scale
the manufacture of the new compound.
Among the subscribers, are, however,
several eminent professors of agricul
ture, who, according to the Impartial du
hhin, give out that the application of
this substance to the culture of lands
will pro'iuce an entire revolution in the
agricultural system. If one acre of land
may be rendered as productive as two
now are, not only is the first cost of the
land saved to the proprietor but half the
labor of the cultivator. It will be in
fact equivalent to giving to land holders
two acres to every one now possessed.
This last consideration, in this new
country, where land is more abundant
than labor, we are unable properly to
appreciate. But even here, in the Uni
ted States, in the counties adjacent to all
the Atlantic cities, land is of great val
ue, and it every farm, through the ope
ration of this new manure, maybe ren
dered equal to two, we may begin to es
timale its value in the old crowned
countries of Europe. The agricultural
interest is the greatest interest of the
world, and whatever relates to its im
provement is of the first consideration.
On Sows devouring their Offspring.
Some have supposed that this is caused
by a desire for meat, and they have fed
pork to their sows to prevent the evil.
Hut it is a mistaken view of the case.
When they are confined to asinail sty or
pen, they are deprived of pure earth, and
various condiments that conduce to their
health, consequently a feverish habit is
induced, which causes an appetite unnat.
ural, and the unfortunate animal in her
frenzied state attempts to satisfy it by
eating her own offspring.
It has been found that when hogs run
at large, seeking various condiments ns
they please, they do not devour their
young, Allow the sow as much room in
the yard as convenient, and throw in
Iresh, pure earth, if there be not a supply ;
and if she be limited to a small space,
where there are no green vegetables, give
her weeds and grass sods, also charcoal
and rotten wood. —Boston Cultivator,
A Secret lor a Farmer’s tVife.
While the milking of your cows is go
ing on let your pans be placed in a ket
tle of boiling water. Strain the milk
into one of the pans taken hot from the
kettle, and cover the same with another
of these hot pans, and proceed in like
manner with the whole mess of milk,
and you will find that you will have
double the quantity of good rich cream,
and that you will get double the quanti
ty of sweet delicious butter. Try it
Tenn. Agri,
Hemp is now rotted by the aid of steam
in Kentucky. Five minutes application
of steam makes the stem ready for the
brake. The fibre is thought to be better
and more beautiful than when water rot
ted. .
Antidote for the bite of a Rattlesnake. —
An intelligent lady from Tioga county.
Pa., informs us that the settlers in that
section of the country care little for the
bite of a rattlesnake. She states that a
piece of common indigo made into a paste
with spirits of camphor, and applied to
the wound, will prevent any serious con
sequences occurring, and in fact,at once
neutralize the poison.