are all unlike. In winter, Oregon in latitude North 46 deg. as compared with New England in latitude North 43 deg. enjoys the mild atmosphere of

'Ten degrees of more indulgent skies.'

great artist, while those of Sir Joshua Rey nolds already look chalky and dead. And Sir Joshua himself confessed, after making it the study of his life, that he had never been able to discover how Raphael and the other great artists had been able to preserve the beauty and brightness of their paintings. without its burning suns and sultry nights But if we marvel at these artists, three cen- of summer. Of all its trees, very few, if turies back, what shall we say of those paint-any, will compare exactly with any variety ings found in the tombs of Egypt, more in the States. than three thousand years old, and yet kept fresh and bright, though buried for that time beneath the ground, in the damp dark caves

of the East!

With the assistance of an intelligent friend, I have made out the following probably, imperfect catalogue, which may interest strangers, of the timbers in Oregon :

Spruce, abundant. Fir, do. Hemlock, most plenty near the mouth of the Colum bia.

The very wife of Solomon is found there, just as she was painted on the eve of her departure from her father's home, to share the throne of Judea; and not only the colors of her garments were preserved, but the bloom Oregon Dogwood. Yew Tree. Soft Mais still on her cheek and lips, and the lustre ple, makes fine furniture. Vine Maple. in her is even as it then was. Black Oak, resembling Black Jack of the eye Their States. White Oak. Laurel, grows a tree paintings, too, as far back as the time of Moses—a portrait supposed to be that of sometimes two feet in diameter, and very Nice, the king who drove the Israelites into hard. Wild Cherry, fruit small, red, and bitthe Red Sea-even the colors of this are pre-man's leg or larger. Alder, grows large ter. Sweet Elder, grows to the size of a served perfectly.

TIMBERS IN OREGON.

MR. COE, Postal Agent for Oregon, bas furnished us with the following species of timber, berries, etc., the growth of Oregon. His report to the Oregonian has been revised; corrected and included in this statement:

trees, some of which will make three or four saw-logs, is manufactured into furniture, wood soft and tender. Black Ash. Yellow Pine, not abundant. Several varieties of the Magnolia, of which the Cotton Tree and Balm of Gilead are most abundant. The

latter abounds far up the Williamette, and is the principal timber on the Umatilla; the wood is of a yellowish cast, and soft, it is used for furniture. White Cedar. Box"

One of the first inquiries about a new country relates to its timbers. By these, in wood, grows very large and is very hard.

the States, the qualities of soil may be un-. derstood quite well. On entering the Territory, my attention was arrested by its exuberance of vegetable life. I have never before seen so heavy and dense a forest as here; it not only waves over alluvial bottoms, but is sustained by deep and rich soil on mountain sides and summits. This profusion of trees exhibits comparatively, few varieties. As to the soil which they indicate, familiarity with the subject elsewhere is of little value. Almost everything is dissimilar from the States. Seasons, trees, fruits and herbage

WILD FRUITS OF OREGON.

Strawberries, very abundant and large. Whortle Berries, several varieties, but all dissimilar to those of the States. One variety resembles the low bush blue-berry but the fruit is more acid and makes an excellent tart. A high bush blue-berry, acid; also a variety on bushes eight or ten feet high, the fruit pink color, acid.

Currants, blossom red or pink, beautiful. Cranberrry, same as in the States. Gooseberries, fruit large, several varieties. Sal

mon Berries, resembling Raspberries, but have time or not. God knows how many a
much larger, abundant and good. Service poor fellow has stood alone on a wreck when
Berry, shrub, in some places large as a man's a vessel had passed in plain sight, supposing
leg. Fruit sweet and nutritious. Black-it to be abandoned.

berry, vine like, on the ground, similar to
Ah, yes, it was abandoned after that ves-
dew berries, fruit abundant. Salal Berry, ev-sel passed on, and the agony of despair en-
er-green, bush the size of blue berry, but
more firm and erect. Fruit in clusters,
sweet, resembling sweet apples, abundant
Hazel, large as the English. Oregon Grape,
80-calle), is not a grape, but resembles the
grape in size and appearance, grows on a
stock, is not valuable, though sometimes
used by the Indians. There are probably
no native grapes in Oregon.

Crab Apple, fruit very small, seedy, and bitter but is said to make excellent preserves. Tree large.

Choke Cherry, fruit large, about the size of the Manilla Cherry, from which, when cooked, it will not be distinguished. Most of the native fruits of Oregon are acid, but large and plentiful. Vegetation, with scarce an exception, acquires a much larger growth than in the States.-Oregon Spectator.

THE PILOT'S STORY.

"Now, pilot, tell us something awful,"
—; “something, for instance

said Miss D

dured by that poor soul, as the sail disappeared in the horizon, was a balance in the scale of humau joy, aud wo to all the happiness those cruel, careless deserters could ever know. Oh, I wish that people could think of this, for what is the satisfaction of a few hours shorter passage to that of rescuing a fellow creature, or of having the will to do so, from a miserable death. Yes, a man who, frm such motives has boarded a wreck' even should it prove that there was no one on board of her, can fill away the maintopsail again, with a feeling of greater satisfaction with himself for having done his duty, than if the whole world had congratulated him upon having made the shortest passage, or the most profitable voyage on record."

or

"However, as we hauled our wind, you gee it was no credit to us; it not being out of the way of our cruise. Pretty soon we made it out; it was a vessel bottom up, and might be of a hundred and fifty tons 80.She was so far under abaft, that we could not make out her name; and, I don't know as we did it for anything in particular, but, as the sea was smooth, we launched the canoe and went alongside, and some of us got upon the vessel's bottom. Think of our surprise on hearing some one knocking from the inside! At first we thought it might be some of the cargo floating about in the wreck, but, as we listened, we heard indistinctly, but surely, a human voice.

about a horrid wreck."
“Ah,” replied Mr. Mellen," the horridest
wreck I ever knowed, was the
peace of my
mind that got stoven all up by that Metho-
dist Minister's 'tinerating about in this bay,
and runnin' foul of Sue Withers. However
that schooner was an awful one, too. Let
me see, it was four years ago, last March, as
we were cruising off the capes, having run
out of Hampton Roads, just after a hard
blow from the eastward, was over, and the
breeze had sprung up from the Westward.
"We were running out under jib and main-cured the few tools that were on board-an
sail, when early in the morning, we made
something on the weather bow which looked
like a wreck, which we knowed in reason it
could'nt be, but there not being any sail in
sight, and, as we had plenty of time, we
luffed up to see what it was. That's what
people ought always to do, whether they

Vol. 7-3

"Instantly returning to the boat, we pro

axe, a hatchet and a saw-and commenced cutting a hole near the larboard, but in our haste the axe went overboard, upon the first blow, and was lost; and this carelessness, how bitterly was it afterwards repented of. Well, we worked away with the hatchet and the saw, so that in a few moments we made

a hole in the plank under which we heard the noise, large enough for a person to show his face, and for us to her from below, the ghouts of joy of those who had hailed us as their deliverers. Never were men destined to be more disappointed than these poor wretches were. For a few moments they gave themselves up to the delirium of joy, and then-when the awful truth dawned upon them, that we, instead of saving them, were sending them to a more speedy destruction-then came a contrast no pen can describe, no tongue can tell. The hole which we had made, although not large enough to extricate a man, allowed the air, which had kept the vessel afloat, to escape, and, to our horror, we saw that the vessel was every minute sinking, we ourselves coming near to the surface of the water.

"We worked with the hatchet and the saw

to Charleston nearly in ballast. When they were capsized in the late gale, two men were lost; but most of them being below, as the schooner was laying to, they were able upon her going bottom up, to get through the run-scuttle into the hold. The confined air had held the vessel up till now; but they had despaired of succor, knowing how improbable it was that the wreck should be seen, or if seen, that any would search for them.

"Thus they had been for four days, having found sufficient provisions for subsistance but without expectation of release, they had resigned themselves to a fate that seemed inevitable. But when they heard the sound of our footsteps, then they thought their preservation sure-but now their disappointment was the frenzy of despair.

"But the captain was a man! There he with all the energy men are capable of, but hung on by the floor timbers, and told his could only cut the plank. In vain we hack-story; gave his name and the name of his ed with our little hatchet upon the close tim- crew; bade us good-bye in a firm and manly ber of the schooner. Our axe! we would voice, which only faltered as he gave his last have given worlds for it now; it might have message to his wife and children. saved them. But soon they, as well as ourselves, began to perceive that all our exertions were useless, and they crowded the two small apertures we had made, putting thro' their hands, and seizing ours with convulsive

grasps.

“Oh, hope, long deferred, thus to drown in ecstacy, and sink in despair! They yelled, they blasphemed. and prayed. They cursed the light of Heaven which broke upon them, the sooner to shroud them in eternal darkness, and then they vehemently implored forgiveness.

"Amidst this confusion, the Captain of the schooner made his way to the opening, and arresting the disorder beneath, asked of us in à cool manner and perfectly calm voice -how much of the hull seemed yet to be out of the water. We told him and then heard him communicating the information to those below, and giving his orders to maintain silence, while he related to us his story, which was necessarily short.

"Put your hand through," he said to one of us," and let me kiss it. When you land go to my home, and let my dear wife put her lips to the same spot. Tell her it is all I can send her from here, but that my last breath shall be a prayer to God for her and her little one! And now, good-bye, my kind friend-you have done all you could do for us-God will reward you look to your own safety."

"It was time indeed, lest our canoe should be swallowed up in the vortex of the sinking vessel; and with feelings to which nothing of wretchedness can compare, we shoved off to our pilot-boat.

"In a moment the boat went down and the last vestage of those it contained was the arm of her noble hearted master, as it seem

ed to wave an adieu to us, and to all things

of earth."

"Do come and see us," sounds very well--but how much heart is there in it in

"They were from an eastern port, bound nine cases out of ten?

PROGRESS OF THE WEST.

could be travelled in forty-two hours!The man who at that period woull have And the west! where is it? What was ventured the pre liction that the combined it a few years since, and what is it destined science, enterprise and wealth of the world, to become? The pamphlet now lying be- could have produced such a result, would fore us, containing the reports of the Chicago have been pronouncel a suitable tenant for and Rock Island Railroa ls, calls to mind a mid-house. And yet after a lapse of only vividly our recollection of the past. Thirty thirty years, this apparent impossibility has years ago we were a lieutenant in the army been achieved.—Courier & Enquirer.

stationed at Chicago which was then a frontier post, two hundred miles in advance of our most western settlement. There were then five sail vessels and one steamer on the

Lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron, Michigan; and to reach Chicago under the most favorable auspices was the journey of more than a mouth. Now it is performed with ease and comfort and safety in thirty six hours! Rock Laland situatel in the Mississippi, and ap proached from the south in summer; while our post of Chicago belonging to the East, and was approached and supplied by way of the Lakes during the summer. It became necessary in the winter of 1822 to apprise the command at St. Antony's falls that the Sioux Indians were about surpris ing them and had entered into a league with the Winnebagoes for that purpose.

THE AMERICAN BONAPARTES.

Most of our readers are aware that Jerome

Bonaparte,the youngest and favorite brother of the great Napoleon, married, while undor age, a young American la ly, Miss Pat

terson, of Baltimore. This if we mistak was at the time in command of a frigate not, was in 1933, and the young Jerome craising in these latitudes. Soon after the marriage the prince sailed with his bride for Europe, hoping, but scarcely trusting, we presume, that his imperial and imperious brother would sanction the connection. Napoleon's action on the mitter was very sumhis conolineats to Pius VII., requesting mary. Hse it the laly from France, and him to declare the marriage null and void.— Bat the Pope, who had a consci notused, whereupon the emperor took the respousibility of pronouncing a divores himself,and, by way of clinching the matter, welded Jerome out of hand to a daughter of the King of Wurtemburg, and afterwards made

And we hai the pleasure of being the first white man in all that region, who was known to have crossed from Chicago to the Mississippi in the winter season. We walked the distance between Chicago and Rock Island in ten days through deep snow and over bleak prairies, with the thermom-him King of Westphalia. Miss Patterson, ter below zero, through a tribe of hostile In- to all moral and religious intents and purdians-the Winnebag es—whom we avoid- poses the real wife of Jerome, had a son, ed by avoiding the comforts of the woods Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, who now reand keeping the praries. We however ac sides on a noble plantation in Maryland,and complished our purpose, and were none the is comparatively a young man. He, too, has worse for our exposure; but little did we a son, who graduated with distinguished dream at that time, that in the brief space honor at West Point this year, and has enof thirty years all that region would be tered the United States army. It is said densely populate 1, boast its million inhabi- that this young officer has a face of the Natans west and south of Chicago, and we be poleon mould, and possesses a high order of called upon to invite attention to the con- talent. We have given this brief sketch of struction of an iron way, destined to con- the origin of the American Bonaparte, benect that distant spot with this city, by anse we have frequently been asked what means of which the intervening distance degree of relationship existed between young

Bonaparte of West Point and the Prince compensate him for disturbed slumbers

President of France. They are second cousins.-N. Y. Times.

PARISIAN DWELLINGS.

He replies to all questions relating to his charge, pays postages, receives and distributes all letters and parcels that have own ers within his domain, uses your fuel as if it were his own, and is always ready to do the amiable-for a consideration.

The floor above the entrance is called the

The different manner in which the AngloAmerican and the Gaul build their family nests, is pointedly brought home to the for-entresol," being as its name indicates be mer the night of his arrival at Paris. We live in perpendicular strata; they in horizontal. Our houses stand side by side, each

like a tub on its own bottom. Theirs 80 far as relate to families, are spread one upon the other, like a pile of gingerbread. With the exception of the principle hotels, and a few recently constructed in the English mode, Parisian houses are arranged after the following fashion.

tween sun and earth, and it is generally inaccessible to the former, at any season of the year, except in the widest streets or avenues. Being low, it rents low, compared with the floor above, which forms the apartment Number 1, in height, finish and decoration, and is, consequently, much the dearestThey then progressively decline in pricə each story, and also in quality, until they

terminate under the roof in a series of lit

the chambers, for the servants of the mansion, two or more of these rooms belonging to each apartment.

The apartments themselves are of every variety and size, to meet the wants of the diversified positions of the inhabitants of this metropolis. Some are of sufficient grandeur and sumptuousness to rival the iuterior of the more pretending hotels, while others dwindle to the means of the most economical bachelor or money-saving grisette.

In general they form a hollow square, allowing a court-yard of sufficient size for a carriage to turn. This shape admits of two riuges of apartments, equivalent in accommodations to houses with us: the one facing the street, the other the court yard, the kitchen and other conveniences, being the two connecting arms. Houses thus constructed accommodate two families on each floor, and are from five to nine stories high. The ground floor is devoted to shops, stables and the porter's quarters. It is entered by a huge "porte cochere," which is always guarded by the family of the conceierge, who act as agents for the proprietors in letting their apartments, and watch all the outgoings and incomings of the mansion.-admit of more architectural ornament.— Each range has its wide circular staircase for the gentry, leading as high up as what was once considered the only abode of genius, and another-small, dark, and narrow, like the worm of a ramrod-for the use of domestics.

The porter must be on the "qui vive" at all hours of the twenty-four, to slip back the bolt of the outer door, by means of a string connected with his office, upon the warning ring or cry "Lecorden, s'il vous, plait." Those who enter after midnight bestow trifling gratuity upon this Argus, to

This mode of building has some prominent advantages over ours. Externally the houses are more uniform, of greater size, arə being built of a soft grey sandstone, and

They economize also in ground-room and material, consequently in rent. All the rooms of a family being on one floor, much of the stair work, of which our ladies complain, is saved.

In enumerating these advantages, I have enumerated all, unless it may be considered one to be able to bring together the different branches of a family under one root.

The disadvantages are more palpable.— Each floor having its separate kitchen and drains, contributes its quota to an assembage of odors, based upon the fragrance o.