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ha mist STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. FCBLIIltRD KVEnT SATO RO AT, BY BELLINGER & BKOWN. C. 1. BSLH1GKIU " T BR0W' OFFICE IN HVMNON'S BUILDING, FIRST STREET. TERMS, ix adtasck: One year, $3; Six Month 12; OaMonth,50ets.; Single Copies, 12J cts. ror.Tyad!ts writins over af-sumed signatures ' ....Ir.mtiit make known their proper ta the Editor, or no attention will bo gcn t their communications. !i t iiinM nd Commnnicttions. whether on "r,io. r for puhlication. should h addressed to B-H"ncr Jt Brown. BUSINESS CARDS. h. Rsnrist.B p. w. trisK, F. IL REDFIELD & CO. IOXSTANTLY OX uivn ivn nrrr.iv. f! . ,Vn - t.fc r llrncvnes and rrTl Wood and Willow W'are, Tobacco, Cifiars, Confectionery, Yank. Notions, itc.etc. TTholcsalo and Retail. -Orpjlto H- C. feany. Oregon. Hill 4 Son's Dn Store. At oc9v5nSyl ' J. HANNON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. ALBANY, OREGON. OEso on Ma n street, opposite Foster's Brick. v5nlyl J. Ql TIIOI1XTOX, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Albany, Oregon, wwriTT. PPinTICE IX THE SUPERIOR 1 V ani inferior Courts of Marion, Lino. Luuc. lie aeon and lola counties. Vva nt-r eeut charged en cotucuons, o- junl"v4a4yl. . KEAJ. 11 AY BEX, Attorney and Counssllor at Law, Will attend t all busings entrusted to him by cil'uena of Folk aud adjoiaiag counties. Eola, July 26, 1S07. v-noltf OFFICE OF COCXTT SMMWEnOT, A T WATERLOO. SIX MILEa ABO b LU- 4 j. oa tats Sauliam. p.,t Oee aUrcss, J. W. MACK, v9u431y t o. Scaowi cai'cnuicuuvui S. A. JOHNS, ATTORXEV AT I A YT, ALBANY. OREGON. D tt titvt .ttontinn wnl be riven to an . . . fcnsi- llilllij tz; aess in his line. jan23vln23tf. JDEZSTTISTZESTST I . PRICES GREATLY REDUCED ! DR. C. 51. GRIFFIX is his rtttes for Dental services forthever 1S. n.n-w. xsz Full uppr and lower act of Art. Teeth. to 0 Fail pnr or lower - - - " J" f--Pivot teeth. $ .:n 4ch. F iling U-eth. from I Jo tnch ea.itv. EitraCtinj. 50 cents per t n.tb. 'l-ansiag. 50 c Dt to SI. 50. Otbe- minor ..pera- tins in proporaon Ttfrin. L. coin or iu ciuiralibt. - t i -t: TntVT s h'.je store, in the ..Id p-wt oSee ban-ling. ..Pilie I .?ter s JneL. Albany. Orer.n. UR- E. II. GRItHN. Iee. 33, v4a2'.Uf. S. II. CUASOR, 1TT0R5ET AXD COUaSELLOR AT LAW, Office In Norcro' Brick EuiMing, up-stairs. Albany, Oregon, an 4 JO IIS J. IT II ITXC Y, ATT3R5ET A5D COHSELLOB IT ani rietary Pntlic Srxtcial attentions given to collections. LAW Optics In the Court Hott?e. Albany, Oregon. vnntf. . IV. G2SAY. D. D. GRADUATE OF CINCINNATI DENTAL COLLEGE. J"iVLD INVITE ALL PERSONS UESIR iug Artificial tcet'a and firet-ciass Dental Operation., to gire him a rail. 'Specimens of Valeauite Bs with gold plate lining, and tber new styles of work, may be seen at his oSse. up stair in Pirri-h 4 Co.' JJrick, Albany. Oregon. Residw-n?e. oraer of Second and Raker streets. arjrll'GSvSnSJtf I. C. POWELL. L- I'LISS POWELL &. FLIXX, ATTHRXEYS AXD COUXSELLORH AT LA W ASD SOLICITOUS IS CHANCERY, (L. Flinn, Notary Public.) 4 LB ANY, Oregon. Collections and convey ances promptly attended to. oc20a!01y IIIL.TAI5IDEL. fc CO., TTk E LERS IN GROCERIES AND PROVI 1 I sioas. WootI and Willow Ware, Confection ery. Tobacco, Cigarif, Pipes, Notions, etc. Store o u Maine street, adjoining the Express oSce, A my, Oregon. ee2Sv:a7tf AU b THE EYES! THE EARS! DR. T. L GOLDEN, OCULIST AND AURIST, ALBANY, OREGON. Dr. Golden (a son of the not5d 011 Ophthalmic Doctor, S. C. Golden), has had experience in treat ing tha various diseases to which the eye and ear are subject, and ftsels confident of giving entire iat'ufaetion to those who may place themselves under his care. apr!0v4n34.tf F. F. El gSEIX, Att'y at Law. JAMES ELKIXS, Notary Public. RUSSELL at ELKIXS, OSee in ParrisL's fc Co.'s Block. First Street, ALBANY, OREGON. Having taken it to co-partnership James Elkins, Esq., Ex-Clerk of Linn county, Oregcn, we are enabled to add l our practice of law and collec tions, superior facilities for Conveyanjiiig, Ikamining Eecor&s, A5D Attcniin.j to Probate Business. Deeds, Bonds, Contracts and Mortgages carefully drawn. Homes ad and Pre-emption papers made and Claims secured. Sales of Ileal Estate negoti ated, and loans effected oa Collateral securities on reasanable rates. All business entrusted to them will bo promptly attended to. P..U3SELL & ELKINS. Oct. 6, 1863 v2n46tf ALBANY BATH HOUSE! THE UNDER3IGNED WOULD RESPECT fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi cinity that ho his taken charge of this Establish- uient, a.nl,by kipping clean rooms and paying strict attention in business, expects to suit all those . who may favor him with their Datronage. Having . heretofore carriud on nothing but ho expscts to cive entire satisfaction to all 33-Cbildien and Ladies' Hair neatly cut and ebampoocd. JOSEPH WEBBER. apr4v3n33tf VOL. V. AN OLD MAN'S DREAM. hesido a stream whoso liquid beam Was caroling and shining, A dewy blades and aiure flowers Ilarmouiou.-ly were twining, An old man sut and hieded tot The bliss below above him ; f! But fished, that in a lonly s.t No iienrt was thero to love hiiu. From bower and trro the bird snd bco Flew huppily over, singin, While from a tower across the lea A tnarri.s bell was r njin. The old man wended tu tho plnco And met the people leaving 5 lie looked upon each sunny face And stayed a while his grieving. But as they left, again bereft Of joy, be looked above him And sighed, though all the sky was blue, That there was none to love him. Again he sought the wild wood treain And rested, sad and weary. Upon its mossy bauk to dream A vision bright aud cheery. He seemed to rove in a land of love, Where lutc-toned bclU were ringing. And decked with jeweled liht was tua Whose speech was more than singing. Ob. she was metu'ry's morning light. That hvaiued .u earth above him. lie Numbered, wukc and found thst right Uid, Heaven and her to love him. ma;;ii:s i,ovi:u. lie put back tho golden hair from her forehead, and kissed her tenderly. 'Good-by, little heart's ease. In De cember I Khali return, and then you shall bo all my own." There was "no reply; and though Maggie AVilmer did not lift her head from her lover's shoulder so that he could look into her eyea, he felt the half indifference with which she met hi; tenderness. "Are you not !" he asked, with alia man's selfishness to enjoy his sweet dreams to tho full perfection. "I suppose so" a little jK'ttishly. Don't tease me, John. There, I must say good-by, now; I hear auut Anna calling me." She put up her rosy lips and met the kisses he gave her very much as if she felt it a duty she owed to him ; then, breaking away from the arms that would fain have held her a little longer, she hurried tip the path to the house. John Martin's face saddened slight ly, and his bright, earnest eyes cloud ed. He could not help wishiug that she felt a little more keenly this sej aratiou. He had been engaged to her just one month, and he was going to be absent until December, and it was the lirst of May now. Surely she ought to be sad at the thought of such a parting. For himself, 4ie could hardly bear the thought of it. , Strong in truth ami integrity, reli able, find as the lulls in his principles of right and wrong, swayed by no idle fancies, he had loved Maggie "Wilmer ever since he could rcmemlcr. She was barely twenty; he was thirty-two. j A dreadful old man some of my six-1 teeu-year-old lady readers will ex-j claim. -o, my dears, he was younger than many of your brainless l?aux are at twentv! for he did not fritter awav ! the energies of mind and body in idle 'dissipation he had led that calm, quiet, honorable lile wii:cn leave men young at three-score. By prudence nifl f-ffmnmv he had cot together a i w.rv fnmfortable nronertv irotit hon- " " X i . " estly, too, which is more than can be said of the way in which most men make fortunes. Maggie had consented to share life with him, though she could not her self have told what influenced her. Aunt Anna wished it exceedingly, and was more jubilant over the engage ment than either of the parties con cerned. She was a woman of discrim ination, and she should feel pride in speaking of "my nephew, John Mar tin," before n.any years were past. And besides, she thought that Jchn would be a sort of Ijalance-wheel for Maggie's unsettled purposes in life. Maggie, though she tried to keep it to herself, was very far from being sat isfied. She was just at that stage of existence when one does not know what one wants. She had read hosts of romances, and the heroes were all dark, melancholv'-C3-ed men, with com plexions strongly suggestive of dys pepsia, and eyes "black as the raven's wing. Moreover, they always man ae to rescue the heroine Irom some dreadful danger invariably appear ing on the scene at just the critical moment, and never failing in the at tempt, no matter how desperate it was. John Slartin had light-brown hair, and blue ever, and fair skin, and had never saved Maggie from any danger, more than wet feet, by carrying her across some mud-hole, in all his life So you may readily see that he was no hero. If John had Known any thing of the condition of her mind, and if he had had a grain of sense but men m love at ins age never have- he would have gone off and left her to herself until she found out her own heart; but, instead of that, he pressed his suit with ardor, and bound her with a promise. Now he was going to a western city on a business engagement which wouk occupy him until December, and at Christmas they were to be married. Maggie went into the house, after parting with John, full of a vague sense of relief, though entirely conscious that she ought to bo very blue, and, perhaps, shed a few tears. But then people do not do what they ought to and Maggie, instead of indulging in a good cry, sat down and went to mak ing pink ribbon roses to wear in her hair to the pic-nic at Shirley s grove the next day. At that same pic-nic, Maggie me Victor Burton, a young artist from New York, who had come to the coun try foi his health and to take sketches He boarded at the widow McDonald's about a mile and a half from Aun Anna's. ' otr wm I--., tr y : ''yj ALBANY, Maggie had strolled away from tho others of the party, and was just cross ing tho brook on a slippery log, when Mr. Burtun'a dog, Fido, sprang out of me inicKet ana nowiea at nor. iuag gie screamed and fell into tho water. It was not moro than ei inches deon. so thero was no irreat danger of drowning. But Mr. Burton leaped forward as though he thought mere might do, ana brought her sale jy xo snore, ui courso sno was very grateful, and it waslilce anovel.onlyif the water had been a little deeper, but n was not air. iiurton b fault, ana sure ly he had done his part to perfection. Jiaggio was suro that her hero had come, nut alas I he had made his aj pearanco too lato I Sho was pledged to another. Well, they met after this daily. Mr. Burton was always coming over to sketch tho lake just behind Aunt An na's cottage, and it took such a long tunc to accomplish it, and he had to ask Maggie's opinion so frequently, that the summer slipped by, and it was tho last of August, and tho sketch es were quite as far from completion as ever. Meanwhile, tho old story had been told, and Maggie knew herself beloved by this man, whom sho fancied tilled uer heart to tno exclusion or every other image. She confessed to him her engagement, and, with his sanc tion, wrote John a brief little note ex plaining to hira how it was that sho do sired to lo released. In due time tho answer came back. John wrote very kindly almost too kindly to please Maggie". He had not loved her much, she said, poutingly, else he would have felt more at giving her up. He w as glad that she had such a beautiful prospect for happi- ness- ue wroie, mm wouiu neip mm to bea his disappointment. He hoped that she would be blessed in the choice she had made, and she must consider him as her friend always. Maggie went off to her chamber, and cried over the letter ; it was so cold, she said, and he had pretended to care so much for her. Tho silly little gxse would doubtless have been much bet ter pleased i John had spoken of sui cide and discounted largely of poison, pistols and hemp. In September, Victor left Chelms ford. They had a very affecting leave taking. Maggie firmly believed she would die if she did not see Victor every day. As for Victor, he looked quite lean and hollow-eyed when he mounted the stage coach to bfgin his journey the next morning. He prom ised to write twice a week, which was modest considering the fervor of their love. For three or four w eeks he kept his promise, and his letters raised Maggie to the seventh heaven, but by-and-by the thing got old, and it was" irksome to be always writing letters, even to her. After a time it came to pass that weeks went by and tho girl did not hear from him. Before the end of Feb ruary he ceased writing altogether, and there was a blank until May. Maggie was proud, and scorned to ink an explanation. Life was void and lull to her, but she bore her pain st ent Jy. John Martin was in Jsew Or eans, and said nothing in his letters to his sister, who was his only relative, about returning home. One day toward the close of May Maggie read the notice of Victor Bur- on s marriage to Miss Letitia Stan- hope, ohe rcaa it twice ueiore she seemed to realized the meaning of the printed words. She had heard of Miss Stanhope a beautiful wealthy young lady, and the ward of v lctors father. Aunt Anna found Maggie lying on the carpet with the paper clutched in her hand, but to all her cries and en treaties the poor little girl returned no answer. For days she lay in that dreadful stupor so closely resembling death, and when there was a change it was to the wild delirium of fever. It was August before she was able to go out, and few would have recognized the beautiful, light hearted girl, Mag gie, in the pale faced, sad-eyed wo man who went so sadly about tho cot tage. A month later there was another no tice in the weekly paper the same pa per which had contained the marriage notice the death of .Letitia, wife of victor Burton; thrown from a car nage and died from injunes received. It was very soon but he excused himself by one of the many sophistries which men in his position use. that Victor came to Chelmsford! think it was no later than the middle of No vember. He sought Maggie, and told over to her again the same story he had made so sweet to her cars in tho summer that was a year gone. He had only loved her always. Pecuniary em barrassment had forced him to take a rich wife, but his heart had never wan dered from its allegiance to Maggie. And when a proper time had elapsed he wanted her for his wife. Maggie listened quietly until he had finished; then she put away the hand that would have taken hers, and said, coldly: "My love for you died long ago, I know my heart now, and you have no place there. Go and leave me. He entreated, and got angry, and she left him to himself. A week af terwards he sailed for Australia. It was December again the night before Christinas. ' Maggie was lying on the sofa before the sitting-room fire kept there by ono of those wretched headaches which seem to be the espe cial birthright of some women. Aun Anna was away, and Susan, the house maid, busy with her lover in the Mtch en. The sitting-room door opened soft ly, and some one came in. Maggio did not look up; she thought it was Aun Anna. OREGON; FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3; 1800. But instead; it wan John Martin. He had returned tho day before, and had come to pay his respects at tho cottage. He had intended to bo very friendly and dignified, but tho sight of tho hushed face on tho sofa pillow softened hini at once. ' "What is tho matter? Aro you ill?" he asked never thinking how strange ly it would sound to -greet Mairino thus after such a long absence. Swift as light Bhe opened her eyes and looked at him; and then sho did tho very silliest thing in tho world- she hid her face and began to cry. She would not have done so for a thous and dollars, if she could have helped it; but somehow she could not seem to lelpit. John looked on in amazement. ""Why M.iggie I my dear little Mag jie !" ho exclaimed, unconsciously, erhap, adopting the phraseology of ormer times, "what is tho matter?" And Maggio for rtply. only cried the :iarder. John knelt down and lifted up tho bowed head until he could look into the shrinking yes. Something that ho read there changed wonder- ully Ins countenance, and mode him x)ld and confident. He clasped her close to his heart and kissed her puck- cred-up little mouth and flushed, con torted f orehead. "Maggie, my darling, arc you glad to sec me ? And going to be what I want? Shall we blotout tho time of my absence and go back to that sweet May night, when I thought the world wrdly large enough to hold tho hap iness which tho assuranco of your ove gave me? "Oh, John ! she cried, clasping her two anus tight about his neck. "I never loved anvbody but you. I thought I did; but I didn't. And oh, John will you forgive me ? ' "I did that Jong ago, dearest, and lirectly Maggio forgot that her head ached, and the pain and unrest went out of her head forever. A ItOMAXCX IX HEAL LIFE. That "truth is stranger than fiction" was forcibly illustrated by the brief his tory of two persons which culminated Wcdnevlay eVcning at the Aator House ti New York and is thus related by the ''About '22 years ago Mr. 31., a North cro gcotlcoian, married a .Mi N., of this Slate. To all appearances it was whit tho world denominated 'a happy our ria"e.f About one year after Ibis union. Mrs. 31. presented her husband with a fine boy, whrwe appearanco nceiucd tu be an additional living and breathing bond of affection. The 'happy couple' lived together for about ten yeara, when by re verso of circumstances in 31 r. 31. 'a busi net, over which he had no control, he cecamc qmfe poor. )'atog over details, AuCico it to say that a divorce criminating uciiher party was easily obtained to a court in one of those States, whose looae aws now offer inducement to the discon tented to violate the solemn ordinance of rriage with impunity. But this was out a trap sprung by one party without the knowledge of the other. It was a mutual divorce. 3!rs. 31. was a healthy, fine-looking: woman, ana in a lew years became the wife of a well-to do gentleman. This was a happy matriage throughout. 'The sec ond huabrnd died little more than a car ago, leaving tho widow a small for une of twenty thousand dollars. During these eight or nine years of life with hr second hasband, the lady did not forget her firs'-birc; nor did the son lose sight of the mother. The affec- ion in both was titrong. The boy was the divine maynet which attracted tho divorced and widowed mother sod the wandering father from his Fearch for bus inesH and happiness in distant Costa Rica At the death ot the second husband the son had reached the manly age of twenty. Imagine his feeling as ho came to real ize the situation of his father and moth cr. une a single man i tne otner a wid v a , t . ow. ; One an unhappy wanderer still without' sufficient worldly goods to make hie worth living for ; the other the occa pant of a hu$baud!e?s house with a plcn tiful larder. Ever present was the thought that one yet lived whom she had sworn before God to 'love and cherish. He waa the father of hor son. The fon who loved his mother, loved his father not let. The mother could not gaze into the Face of her ouly born withont beholding the image of his father. Time passed. The son brought his divorced father and widowed mother again. They talked over the past. Thoy talked over the present. I hey agreed upon the future. The boy was the centre of attraction. lie was flesh of their flesh, bone of their bone. The tics of nature were too sirens for resistance. Like two drops of quick silver the two hearts united. YcRterday, in this city, the eon had the happiness to celebrate the auniversary of his twenty first birthday, by witnessing tho extraor dinary scene or tho marriage of his own father and mother ! I his was joy enough for one day. History probably does not afford the parallel of this truthful picture Mr. nod Sirs. 31., accompanied by their son and several friends, dined at the As tor House yesterday afternoon, and after wards left for Boston to enjoy his second and her third -honeymoon.' The son who is a promising, fine-looking young man, is a telegraph operator of excellen abilities and employed in this city. 1 a t. "' i a a -' w Alter tne 'Honeymoon, ,wr. ana Mrs 31., with their son, will visit Costa Iiica where- the nasi business experience o 3Ir. 31. in that country, with the little capital of Mrs. 31. and the profession o the talented and enterprising son will un douotedly provo the foundation tor greater and more permanent fortune. May- happiness and prosperity go with them." s ' Mrs. Horace Greeley is a confirmed in valid. the i'Aiti:i: i.i:tti:i:!N. No. 10. 7b Horace Greeley : Sahib: Perhaps no country in the world uses moro umbrella than India does. Tho European cotton or , silk umbrella in as much a ttapln in the Bombay market as iron or shirting. I naturally tried to find out whether I could not buy umbrellas here in tho United States as cheap or cheaper than in Europe. Strange as it may seem, I really prefer the Amcncan-mado silk or cotton umbrella to fhoso made cither in Manchester, Birmingham, or Lon don. Thero is a perfect magic about the Yankee touch in' manufacturing goods ; it combines the grace of H ranee with the durability of England ; alxve all, everything an American manufac- urer makes is practicable. Thero aro several considerable um brella manufacturers in New York. I called on the largest and made tny in quiries. Tho goods . suited, but the mce was, teyoml all reason, out of the way. Of this I complained, when the umbrella-making sahib, who was very polite, said that it was perfect madness to think of manufacturing umbrellas for a foreign market. "Let us," said he, "go into tho de tails of an umbrella. Here, take this 20-inch brown silk umbrella. The silk costs CO per cent, duty alone." "Stop 1 said I. "The silk of this umbrella lias -never been imported it is American silk." "Very well," said tho umbrella sa hib, smiling, "since you aro so ready a judge of silk, will you please tell me what such a silk measuring .! inch es in width would cost in France?" I quickly answered, "two francs fif- y centimes a metre." " Yen' well," said tho sahib, "and how much, gold at forty cents premi um, is it ycr yard in currency i I again calculated, and found it to jo iut fiftv-one cents, curreucv. a 4 - r - 4 w yard, allowing nine per cent, for the metre. Now," said the umbrella sahib, "I will show you my invoieb. I paid eighty-seven cents for this silk a yard, and it in American mad?. Now, have not paid the sixty per cent, duty if not to government, at least to the Pat- erson silk man? "But let its go on. Tho steel ribs and brass furniture are, as far as the bare material alone goes, the ono sev enty-five per cent., the other forty-five ur cent. , taxed by government. ow may go and import the umbrella ntnies and only pay thirty-five per cent, ad valorem duty ; but that will alone bo sufhcient reason for not being able to make umbrellas for export. Give mo the material in this umbrella upon the same and equal terms as mv European comtetitors have it, and 1 will soon show you whether wo will not be able to compete with them for the world stnarkets. "And is that all you need?" said I, rather dubiously. "ICS, said he, "that is all we need." "Sahib," said I, "how is it you say nothing about tlio cheaper labor of Europe 7 "3fy friend," said the sahib, "if the material wmcu tnis umureua is com posed of were freed from monopoly everything else wants to be, of course, in proportion relieved by government from obnoxious taxes our workmen would work for less dollar, but would get more commodities. Wo do not want our people to work for so few dollars as the European workman gets; we want him to get more wages tlian the. European, and bo ablo to buy more for the wages than his European competitor. The extra wages wo pay we get bock in skiil, in superior skill ; what with our superior intelligent working classes, and, above all, the creat ingenuity of our machinery. which we apply to every branch of trade, wo can very "well afford to pay more wages than Europe and still be equal with them, provided you givo us the articles of whicii our goods are manufactured on the same terms.' The umbrella sahib further said : - "Behold tho cunse of a home market onhu and no other. Hero aro 400 silk umbrellas ; they cost me original ly $5.25 each. I am ready to lose $1.25 apieco on them, because they are moro of a flashy color and out sizes than aro used here, but you tell me that even at that price they are fif teen pei cent higher than in England. Now, thero is no factory that has not got every year this class of what may bo called odd goods.' England, France, and Germany do nothing else but send us hero their odd goods after supply ing tho homo trade hrst : but toe, as manufacturers, have no market, seek for no market ; we, aro told tho home market is the best, and so it is, but we cannot thrive without an outlet forth immense accumulations of odd goods. We are like a steam boiler full o steam and not allowed to blow the surplus off, and tho consequence is that, for the very excess oi steam which is so great a blessing wo fro quently 'burst up.'" These were tho words of tho um brella-manufacturing sahib, which most faithfully relate. Now, great master in the art of po litical economy, I want your opinion whether tho "bursting up" of tho manufacturers is an . unavoidable and essential element to perfect the event ual industry of a country ; for I "am . . , l . 1 . 1 - -i !L L!t somewhat sicepucai auoui ic unui you take the film from mine eyes. -1 With the greatest respect, Yours admiringly, - , A. CURIOSIBHOY. Parseo Merchant of Bombay. No. 17. b Horace Greeley : Sahib : Dining yesterday with some NO. 1G. very intelligent American sahibs, our conversation turned upon the present high price of cotton, tho important part that India necessarily plays in tho matter, and tho astonishment express ed by my entertainers why India con tributes comparatively so limited an amount of cotton to commerce, not withstanding tho high price the article commands in tho markets of Europe. It struck mo at the time that I would leave rny own personal woes, of not leing able to buy goods in your market, for a few days alone, and fur nish you with such information which a political economist is apt to relish. Up to the year 18C0-C1, tho highest price we paid in Bombay for Dhollera. Amrawutti, Akote, or Hingunghuat cotton was 95 to 105 rupees for a can dy weighing 781 pounds, English. But the houso of which I am a partner, Itoustamje, Daddebhoy, Essebhoy & Co., often bought cotton as low as CO ruxocs a candy. The average price was 80 rupees. Taking tho rupee at 48 cents, tho cotton would cost in Bombay alxmt 51-3 cents a pound : and in England,- laid down, about 4 pence. It was always a great eyesore to us in India, that, whilo your cotton fetch ed readily 7 and 8 pence a pound, ours would only sell for 4 pence or 4k pence at the highest. There were, however, several good reasons for this discrepancy. Firstly. our cotton is of short staple ; second ly, it always did contain at least 20 per cent, moro wast than yours, which alone was a good 11- penco a jound ; and lastly, it was little used in England for spinning as long as Amer ican cotton could bo found. As the machinery then in use was entirely adapted for the long staple cotton, our India cotton was chiefly used up by the German, Belgian, and French manufacturers, who adapted their ma chinery purposely to the cheaper cot ton . It was also used largely for wad ding purposes ; and had it not been or the American war our India cotton would certainly have remained the sluggish and neglected article in the nglish market. Perhaps you, O Greeley, sahib, and your countrymen, are not aware that our chief market for raw cotton was China, and has now again become so. The sudden nso in cotton in 18C2, which lasted fully in a feverish state up to the early inonth of lbt-j, gave to India cotton the importance it never would have attained. Your war, which prevented any cotton coming from the United States, compelled the English w aiier tneir macninery, ana adapt it to tho short-staple cotton. The price in Bombay during the months of April and 3fay,18fi2, rose from 150 rupees a candy to 300 rupees. v were all cotton mad in India; we scoured tho country and brought cotton to Bombay, Kurrachee and Cal cutta, by extraordinary exertions. e stopped our shipments to China, for we saw that the Chinese actually ex ported a great deal of their own cotton to Europe, and by that means we made a very respectable appearance in the European markets. Bnt we never did believe in India. during all the years that your war lasted, wliat the English people would have us believe, viz : that your war was chronic. We all felt certain that vou would shake hands sooner or later rather sooner than wo all, I must con- ess, wished in India. Often did I hear my senior partner, Roustamje (who is a very shrewd old sahib), say: "The American difficulty will and must bo settled amicably at last. The energy of the people is such that they will in a few j-ears retrieve all they have lost, and will raise again four million bales of cotton a year: and our India cotton will then, as be fore, be neglected, and only be worth two-thirds of the American cotton. This idea was so prevalent in India during the years of the American war that we did not go into tho raising of catton systematically or scientifically. mm ma Much of the plant grows m me cen tral provinces, in Sheagaon, in Anvee, and Wurdah, in on indigenous state, and we found no difficulty, as long as any rubbish would sell in Bombay and could bo drawn against on England, to bring a good deal of it down to Bombay from the interior. To move cotton from tho Indian prov inces down to the coast in largo quanti ties and at a given time requires ready - t at. money, xou can it ncre "moving tne crops." This facility wo found during the American war, to a very great extent, in Bombay. Confidence was in its height ; banks sprang up like mushroons: any body could get money from the banks who was engaged m bringing cotton down from the provinces. I can assure you, O G rceley, sahib, that our clerk, Hnrrichund Mehadoo, who was then only twenty years old, got on his own name 5,000 . rupees from the Central Bank of India to bring cotton irom Hingunghaut." All at once the day of reckoning came. March and April, iobo, many ot our most useful and energctio merchant sahibs failed. I need but mention the houso of Cama & Co., who failed for more than 18 million dollars : tho great Hin doo schraff and speculator, Payehand, who was chairman of the Bank of Ben cal. Besides these, there were many many better men, although not so large in business, who went to the wall. This at once broke the energy in the cotton trade from the interior, and you will roc ollect that in a few months later the prico of eotton went up again. - But tho mischief, was'done. Things would, however, have coma around again had cot the panio of 18GG taken - place "What the hail left, tho locust eat." Tho following banks daring the year failed The Royal Bank of India, tho Commer cial Bank of India, the Asiatic Bank, the Bank of Bombay, tho Agra and .Master RATES OF ADVERTISING s PtBttAsj On Colama, $100 Half Column, $60 Quarter Col Column, $35 ) 7;'-r; i - ; ' V Transient Adrertiieinents per gqnars of, ten., lines or lens of this sited typtsj first insertion, $3 . each sattseaaeot Iniertioti, $1. . ; A siiaare is one inch in space down the column counting cuts, display lines, blanks, Ac, as solid matter, No advertisement to be considered lees than srjttare, and all fractions counted fall square. All advertisements inserted for a lestf period than three txonths to be regarded as transient. man, and a dozen smaller local banks in Bombay. Confidence was gone, and the'1 usual channels for facilities to move the crops to the coast were dried up; heace our Indian friends could not make thd show in cotton during 1867-68 that oth erwise they udonbtedly would have doner I find, Greeley sahib, that triy letter til getting too long, t will therefore, give, you a little more ia my subsequent ones With great respect, always yours, A. Ccriosietiot, Parsce Merchant of Bombay. J ON II I!ILLIX;H PAPERS REMARKS, When a man hain't got ennr thing id say, then iz a good time tew keep still thare iz but few people who hay mist a good opportunity to ventillate their opin ions. Just about as cercmonys creeps into on end ov a church, piety creeps otit of the other. - - - - Thoze who have the fewest failins sco the fewest in others. - Pride iz az universal as hair on the head -sum are proud ov their virtews, sum ov their vices, and sum having net' titer themselves, brag on other people sv Love looks thru a telescope: envy.. thru a microscope. An industrious man is seldom a bad. man. Men will believe their pasbuos quick cr than they will their consciences, and yet their pashuns aro generally wrong and their consciences alwus ri"ht. It ain't much trouble to bear the pain uv somebody's clses lame back, but to have the lame back oneself am t so stylish. Despising fortune is not a snre way to gain her lavors pipe to her anasnemay. dance to you. Take awl the ntere$t out ov this world and there wouldn't be friendthip enough eft for seed. Sekrets are a burden, and that is one a m m reason why we are so anxious to hay sumbody help us carry them. I hcv seen men to full ov vanity that tha coed not endure the sight of a peacock with his tale on parade. The most excruciating bore I know it excessive politeness. If I was cilled upon tew describe EIo- quencc, l snouia aojt as x would a suit of clothes "ov suitable texture and a perfect fit." Gravity iz no more an evidence of wis dom than it iz ov ill natur. Tho greater the man the less hiz vir tues appear and the greater his faults. Don t mistake vivacity for wit; thare iz just az mucn uiuereoce az taare is be tween lightning and a lightning bag. . ro man ever undertook to alter hi& natnr by substituting sum invenshun or his own but what he made a botch job uv it. Relignn in these days iz composed ov vanity ana piety, and each man and wo man iz a better judge ov the proportion than I am. Lovers feed upon mvsteries ; but aftef they are married and the pork and beans arc brougnc on, iney nave a cnance to test the real qualities of their a ppe tights. An insult tew one man iz an insult tew all, for it may be our turn next. I don t know ov enny thing that would use the whole of us up more thoroughly than to have our wishes gratified. Thare iz 2 kind of obstinacy -obsti- cacy in tne ngnt and obstinacy in tno wrong; one iz the strength of a gratd mind ani tbe ether iz the strength ov a little one. Lazyncss iz like molassis, sweet and sticky.. . I think a bear in hiz claws iz ureters". ble to one with gloves on. I kant tell now which I admire least. an old coquette or a young prude. 31isanthropy don t pay thare am t no man livm whooze hate the world cares a cuss for. ... Hash men kan he correckted. but it don't pay to labor with a phool. The man who hat never enjoyed the plczure of bein forgiven has mist one ov tho greatest luxuries ov life. - I have seen coquetry that had no more malice in it than a ewe lamb frisking on tho green. , . When I cum aortas a man who utters his opinions with immense deliberation, and after tbey are uttered don't amount to ennything, I write him down, "mystef- :ous phool. . ; v The grate ov the world now daze ia "What's trumps." Love iz a weakness, but it iz the same kind of a weekness that repentance iz ; both ov them are creditable to our na tures. . ; - ; A man iz hiz own best friend and worst enemy. Jealousy iz one of love's parasites. We can endure vices in the young that we would despife in the old.. (Plea make a note of this, old phellows ) Friendship is like earthenware if it iz broken it kan be mended, but love is like a mirror once broken, that ends it. I don't know of ennything on the face of this earth more remorseless than 7 per cent, interest . Thare iz a great deal of difference be tween enduring misfortunes because we expect -to and enduring them because we aro obliged tew ; one is patience, th other iz mere sul!enness. When I see an old man marry a young wife, I consider him starting, out on a bust, for I am reminded ov the parable in the Bibel about new wine and old bot tles. -Arcw York Weekly. J ; A western politician, in speaking of, a rival, said : "Pilkins is of great use to observing men. . Straws show which way the wind blows, and as a straw Pilkins bar no eqaal ia the country."- "If there is anybody under the canister' of heaven that I have in utter excres cence," said Mrs. Partington, it is the' slanderer, going about like a boy-constructor, circulating his calomel upon the; criterion of hon;st peoplo." . :