W'v a V 
body is nothing at all bnt water—tins main sub¬ 
stance of his scattered members is to be looked 
for in the reservoir, in the running streams, at the 
bottom of the well, in the clonds that float over 
his head, or diffused among them all. 
How to Preserve Hrai.th. — Medicine will 
never remedy bad habits. It Is utterly futile to 
think of living in gluttony, intemperance and 
every excess, and keeping the body in health by 
medicine. Indulgence of the appetite, indiscrim¬ 
inate dosing and drugging have ruined the health 
and destroyed the lives of more persons than 
famine or pestilence. If you will take advice, 
you will become regular in your habits, cat and 
drink only wholesome things, sleep on a mattress, 
and retire and rise very regularly. Make a free 
use of water to purify the skin, and when sick, 
take counsel of the best physician you know, and 
follow nature. 
[Special Correspondence of Moore’s Rural New-Yorker.] 
A TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 
Departure from Oregon — Vancouver'! Island, and f ic- 
taria —*• British Men-of-War"—ClooU-hman Indians— 
Their Hates and Revenges—Pint Townsend—Olympia 
and its -‘Reds" —Erports of Ship Timber—J Mystery 
Explained—Northern Scenery—A Few Act of an Old 
Play, by Heptane—Picture of the Elegant Portal to 
the Commerce of the Pacific—On Terra Firma Again. 
Portland, Oregon, Junn 6, 1860. 
At 4 o’clock, P. M., the signal bell announced 
the departure of the steamer from her duck in 
Portland— a thriving city of 3,000 inhabitants, 
GETTING RICH. 
are told, often went forth on expeditions of love 
and business with just such a “ traveling rig.” 
The chief wealth of the lviflir consists in his 
herds of cattle, ami we quote from Warralivis ami 
Adventures of Travelers in Africa, the mode Ot 
bartering, as practiced ut their lairs: — ‘‘The 
Kaffir having articles to dispose of, Bits down 
amidst his comrades, waiting the approach of a 
colonial dealer, who jiroducea his beads and 
other species of traffic. Neither party under¬ 
stands the other's language, yet it seldom happens 
that an interpreter is present,and the negotiation 
is therefore carried on by signs. Should the 
beads or other commodities oHfeted not be con¬ 
sidered by the Kaffir sufficient lor the transfer of 
his own ptodaoe, ft shake of the head adequately 
denotes his dissatisfaction. More beads, perhaps, 
are then added on the one side, dissent being 
still manifested on the other, until, us the dealer 
is not disposed to make any further advance, the 
affair terminates, without agreement, to the vex¬ 
ation of the bead-merchaut, whose time and pa¬ 
tience have been so unprolitahly exhausted; but 
to the utter indifference of the Kaffir, whose im- 
perturable coolness is an additional source of 
chagrin to the unsuccessful bidder. A second 
and a third dealer often display their ornamental 
treasures with similar failure, and it not unfre¬ 
quently happens that the tenacious Kaffir departs 
without disposing of his commodity, which he 
brings to tho next fair, and perhaps exchanges 
ultimately for articles of less number and value 
than had previously been offered. 
When a bargain ot any magnitude is concluded, 
the chief is generally at hand to substantiate 
his claim, considering himself entitled to a cer¬ 
tain portion of the profits as his tribute, in con¬ 
sequence of his territory having been made the 
scene of traffic. His retainers are therefore dis¬ 
persed throughout the fair, to watch the various 
negotiations, and summon their chief at the 
close of any considerable bargain, no fraction of 
the payment being touched by the salesman be¬ 
fore his arrival.” 
The difficulty of getting rich is commented on 
by the Albany Knickerbocker in noticing the 
failure of Jacob Little. Fie was once worth two 
million dollars in ready money, and had credit 
for five millions; but just as much as when he had 
only two thousand he wanted that to become 
four thousand, he now desired to change h s two 
millions to lour millions, lie was not satisfied 
with an Income of three thousand dollars a week, 
but like Oliver Twist, he wanted more. Reverses 
came, and the great Bear of Wall street was pros- 
ecoveri'd 
trate. Again ho recovered; and again he fell 
before the changing tide; and we believe he has 
suffered live failures, each time, however, like an 
honorable mm, paying In full all demands against 
him. At his present, age it is doubtful If he will 
be able to overtake tho fortune he has bo long 
been in pursuit of, but he will undoubtedly yet 
make Wall street feel that ho is alive. 
What is true of Jacob Little, Is true of every¬ 
body, for ho has only acted out hutuau nature. 
Meu are never licber on their millions than on 
their thousands or hundreds—they are never sat¬ 
isfied, whatever they have; they never are blessed, 
but alway s to be blessed. We start out into the 
world without a cent, and think, while we toil for 
a mere pittance, tb it if wo had a house over our 
heuds wo could call our own, we should he inde¬ 
pendent and contented; then wo waut, five or ten 
thousand dollars; and hythe time that has accu¬ 
mulated, the expenses of living have pressed up¬ 
ward so fast, t hat we must double It to keep clear 
of absolute want. Next the man may have his 
fifty or a hundred thousand; but the value of 
money has changed to him; a dollar once wa3 
bigger ibau a doubloon now; and there is the 
same desire to be rich, as when the half eagles in 
his pocket were only pennies. 
Happiness is not iii riches; wealth is notin 
abundance; independence and contentment de¬ 
pend not upon the extent of lands, the number of 
ships, or the list of stocks, one calls his own; it 
all depends upon the state of mind; and he who 
learns to do without what is not absolutely ne¬ 
cessary, la making just as much progress towards 
contentment—perhaps more—as be who has ac¬ 
quired the means of satisfyingthat needless want. 
The actual wants of mankind are few and simple, 
and easily supplied; it ia the artificial—the luxu¬ 
ries—that make us slaves; and beyond these we 
have imaginary or anticipated wants, which may 
never come to us, that burthen and perplex the 
soul. We have not the least confidence that the 
future will supply Us own needs -that to-morrow 
will be as abundant as to day; we have no faith 
that God wilL temper the storms to the condition 
of the man, or give supplies when required, and 
to tho exact amount needed; and therefore doing 
our own work, and assuming God’s supervision, 
living in to-day all the future, and seeking at once 
to supply natural and artificial wants for all time, 
civilized society ia in a state of servitude. 
Paris. A single plant, brought, there in 17 I t, be¬ 
came the parent stock of all the French ooffee 
plantations in the West Indies. The Dutch intro¬ 
duced it into Java and the Eust Indies, and the 
French and Spanish all over South America and 
the West Indies. The exteut of the consumption 
can now hardly be realized. The United States 
alone annually consume it at the cost, on its land¬ 
ing, of from fifteen to sixteen millions of dollars. 
At last we are again through the Golden Gate— 
fit name for such a magnificent portal to the 
commerce of the Paciflc! Yeiba Buena Island 
is in front, southward and westward opens tbo 
renowned harbor, crowded with the shipping of 
the world, mast behind mast, vessel behind ves¬ 
sel, the flags of all nations fluttering iu the breeze. 
Around the curving shore of tiic bay, and upon 
tho sides of three hills, which line steeply from 
the water, the middle one receding so as to form 
a hold amphitheater, stands the city— the eighth 
wonder of the world. But yet, not on shore. The 
gtm of the Panama aononuees our arrival, people 
orowd the wharves, we glide with the tide, round 
up to tho dock, the signal bell is giveD, the p iddle 
wheels stand still, oar voyage is over. s. b. n. 
is smart and durable. A ship load of spars Is I 
valued at $75,000; the cost of transportation to I 
England, $10,000 more; making a total of $115,- 
000 for a full-rigged clipper ship's cargo of ship- 
masts. At this present time, an American vessel 
is being loaded with spars, destined for China, 
where dismasted ships are accustomed to haul up 
and repair. 
The chief exportH from this region are lumber, 
which finds a market in California, iu the Sand¬ 
wich Islands, in South America and Australia, in 
England and China. The world is put under 
contribution, and pays tribute to this north-west 
coast, for its house and ship-building muteiials! 
Never have we seen trees whose diameters for 
the first 75 or 100 foet varied so little. We rneas- 
tliau every other building as a saloon or restau¬ 
rant for the relatiment of cheap whisky and 
lager beer, and the manufacture of drunken sailors 
and crazy “ red skins.” 
The road from Victoria to Esquimalt harbor is 
lined with squaws, and ia often chosen as the 
spot where hates and revenges are to be wiped 
out between their pugnacious masteis. Just alter 
sunset, this placa und time ia selected by the 
hostile tribes, to blot each other out! Woe be¬ 
tide the unfortunate wight belated on the Esqui¬ 
mau road; for, as the Indian takes good aim to 
fire in all directions, in these nightly demonstra¬ 
tions, it is hard guessing where the stiay sliver 
of a cleft bullet might sue for quarters. It might 
be in the flat head of a Hongiah Clootchmun, or 
under the right breast pocket of an Anglo-Saxon’s 
coat! 
As an instance of the polite usages adopted by 
these infuriated tribes, we observed two warriors 
with rifles leveled at each other's heads, and just 
ready to blaze away and blow to the winds each 
other's brains, or anybody’s else that might hap¬ 
pen to be in a iine with tire barrels. Fire they cer¬ 
tainly would, only that a dozen courageous and 
by no means tongue-tied 6quaws suddenly inter¬ 
posed tbelr own persons between their hostile 
braves, and so ont-talked and oat-jostled them, 
that at length they retired, having concluded to 
defer amiable intentions toward each other until 
‘‘a more convenient season.” 
At length we left this redoubtable old town, 
and in due time touched at Fort Townsend—a 
port of entry, having a custom bouse, two hotels, 
one or two stores, two or three saloons, a Protes¬ 
tant school, aud a 7 by 9 Catholic church. Thence 
we made our labyrinth!an way to Olympia, the 
capital of Washington Territory, which is at the 
extreme southern terminus of the Sound, just 
south of the 47th parallel of latitude. It has now 
500 inhabitants, and, iu all human probability, 
will, at no remote period, have more . Its location 
is favorable to its growth. 
On landing, we were beset by some twenty 
who, in ceaseless jargon, clamoied for 
PHYSICAL BENEFIT OF SINGING. 
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 
It is just sixteen years since Prof. Morse put 
up the first Electric Telegraph in America. The 
first piece of news sent over it was the nomina¬ 
tion of James K 
Polk for President, made at 
Baltimore, and announced iu Washington ‘‘two 
hours in advance of the mail.” 
No one at that day, brobubly not even the pro¬ 
fessor himself, dreamed how closely the electric 
wire would be interwoven with our daily life. 
Now, railroad trainB are run by electricity. Fire 
bells are rung by electricity. Watches are set 
and clocks strike by electricity. Armies march 
and fleetB sail at its bidding. Treaties ore nego- 
ciated at its word. Two friends in remote towns, 
by its help, sit down aud have a friendly game of 
chess. Two emperors, a thousand miles apart, 
by its aid, carry on the siege of a distant city. 
By night it Hies all over the world, gathering 
news to serve up to us at breakfast. By day it 
flies all over the world, here congratulating a 
bride, there ordering a funeral, here warning of 
disaster, there summoning help to a wreck, here 
boying pork by the hundred barrels, there selling 
grain by the thousand bushels, arranging for 
feasts and fights, for sermons and stock bargains, 
for the harmonies of a concert aud discords of a 
convention, for law making and for law breaking, 
the fall of empires aud the fall of thermometers, 
the candidates for the presidency and the candi¬ 
dates for the penitentiary. Truly, the romance 
of the Arabiau Nights is tame beside the reality 
of the Electric Wire 
Exercise. — Throughout all nature, want of 
motion indicates weakness, corruption, inanima¬ 
tion, and death. Trenck, in his damp prison, 
leaped about like a lion, in his fetters of seventy 
pounds’ weight, in order to preserve his health; 
and an illustrious physician observes:—” I know 
not which is most necessary for the support of the 
human frame—food or rnotiou. Were the exer¬ 
cise of the body attended to in a corresponding 
degree to that of mind, men of learning would be 
more healthy and vigorous,—of more general tal¬ 
ents,—of more ample practical knowledge; more 
happy in their domestic lives; more enterprising 
and attached to their duties as men. In iine, 
with propriety it may he said, that, the highest 
refinement of mind, without improvement of the 
body, can never present anything more than half 
a human belug.” 
squaws, 
customers to purchase their baskets of oysters 
and clams, which they gather from the slimy 
beach at low tide. They did not cease their 
importunings until their waies were all disposed 
of to the officers and crew. These Indians are 
very degraded. They are the very personifica¬ 
tion of filth, miserably clad, with most revolting 
features. With all their sluttish habits, the 
squaws exhibited the universal Indian traits, by 
wearing what they regarded a3 ornaments, in 
great profusion—such as brass rings around their 
wrists aud fingers, and around the ankles of their 
papooses, glass beads strung round their necks, 
aud gilt buttons strung and suspended to their 
hair, Ac. This array of ornament, in connection 
with old, dirty, cast-off garments, hauging in 
slouch style from their sun-burnt limbs and 
browned shoulders, gave them a ludicrous and 
pitiable appearance. We could not suppress tbe 
question:—“ O God, who hath made us to differ?” 
WHAT WE ARE MADE OF. 
The following is from an article by Oliver 
Wendell Holmes: 
If the reader of this paper lives another year, 
his seif-conscious principle will have migrated 
from his present tenement to another, the raw ma¬ 
terials even of which are not yet put together. A 
portion of that body which is to be, will ripen 
in the corn of his next harvest. Another portion 
of his future person he will purchase, or others 
will purchase for him, headed up in tbe form of 
certain banels of potatoes. A third fraction is 
yet to be gathered iu tho southern rice field. Tho 
limbs with which he is then to walk will be clad 
with flesh borrowed from the tenants of many 
stalls and pastures, now unconscious of their 
doom. 
The very organs of speech with which he is to 
talk bo wisely, plead so eloquently, or speak so 
effectively, must first serve his humble brethren 
to bleat, to bellow, and fur all the varied utter¬ 
ance of bustled or feathered barnyard life. His 
bones themselves are, to a great extent, j« posse, 
and not esse. A bag of phosphate of lime, which 
he has ordered for his grounds, contains a large 
part of what is to be his skeleton. And more 
than all this, by far the greater part of his 
A Good Paper for Taking Impressions. — I 
have seen paper for transferring impressions of 
leaves, Ac., made as follows: — Take a sheet of 
thin letter or stiong tissue paper, and give it a 
coat of boiled linseed oil; when dry apply dry 
colors (in powder) with a heavy camel's hair 
brush; enough will adhere to the surface to make 
a first rate impression paper. — E. Taylor, Cin¬ 
cinnati, Ohio. 
!—Albany Evening Jour. 
HOW COFFEE CAME TO BE USED, 
It is somewhat singular to trace the manner in 
which arose the use of the common beverage of 
coffee, without which few persons, in any half or 
wholly civilized country in the world, now make 
breakfast. At the time Columbus discovered 
America, it had never been known or used. It 
only grew in Arabia and Upper Ethiopia. The 
discovery of its use as a beverage is ascribed to 
the superior of a monastery in Arabia, who, 
desirous of preventing the monks from sleeping 
at their nocturnal services, made them drink the 
infusion of coffee, upon tbe report of shepherds, 
who observed that their flocks were more lively 
after browsing on the fruit of that plant Its 
reputation spread through the adjacent countries, 
and in about two hundred years it had reached 
The Timid Man.—A timid man can never 
become great; if he possesses talent, he cannot 
apply it; he is trampled upon by the envious and 
awed by the swaggering; he is thrust from the 
direct path which leads to honor and fame, by 
every aspirant who possess more spirit than 
himself.” 
There is culture not less in carriage than be¬ 
havior. The seneschal in old castles could rank 
all the guests without error, by their conduct. 
