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Newspaper Page TextI t- F . if ft OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1866 jXo 1. 3 '-It ; PCBLISHED EVEET iATCHDAT MORNlrtv By D. C. IRELAND, OFFICE : South east corner of Fourth and Maix streets, in the building lately known as the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon. Terms of Subscription. One copy, one year in advance. .... .$ 3 00 . &" il delayed 4 00 , Terms of Advertisin g. Transient advertisements, one square 412 lines or less) first insertion . . ,2 50 For each subsequent insertion 100 Business Cards one square per annum payable quarterly ............... 12 00 One column per annum 100 00 On feif column " 50 00 Onfc artei''' ... ..- 30 00 LHMOvertising at the established rates. C. JOHSSON. F. O. M'COWN. JOHNSON & McCOWN, OREGON CITY, OREGON. rgp Will attend to all business entrusted to our care in any of the Courts of the State, .iiutt mnnw. negotiate loans, sell real es- X.V'.. J 7 O i . tate, etc. w1 j74. MITCHELL. J. N. DOLPH. A SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty Office over the old Post Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. (ly) BARLOW HOUSE, Main Street, one door north of the Woolen Factory, Oregon City Oregon. Wm. Barlow, Proprietor. The proprietor, thankful for the continued patronage he has received, would inform the public that he will continue his efforts to pleast his guests. (52 LINCOLN BAKERY. West Side Main Street, Oregon City. L. SILLER Proprietor. The Proprietor would inform the public that he still continues the manufacture of Uread, Pies, Cakes, Pilot Bread, Boston, Butter, Sugar and Soda Crackers. In addi tion to which he will keep constantly on hand a large stock of the best staple and family groceries, provisions, etc. JOHN SCJ I RVJVI Manufacturer and Dealer in SADDLES, HARNESS, d-c , t-c, Main street, between Third and Fourth, Oregon City. THE attention of parties desiring anything in my line, is directed to my stock, be fore making purchases elsewhere. (If) - JOHN SCIIUAM. VV. B. PAKTLOW'S Livery, Feed & Sale Stable, (ESTABLISHED 1852,) Main Street Oregon City. rrUiE proprietor, after an experience of I fifteen years feels his ability to serve his customers in a satisfactory manner, and still continues to let horses and carriages on fa vorable terms, also to feed, buy, sell or ex change horses. (ly) John Fleming, DEALER in BOOKS and STATIONERY. Thankful for the patronage heretofore re ceived, respectfully solicits a continuance of the favors of a generous public. His store is between Jacobs' and Acker man's bricts, on the west side of Main street. Oregon City, October 27th, '00. (tf A. LEVY, Main Street, at the Telegraph Office, Oregon City Oregon. Dealer in Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Stationery, Cutlery, Willow and Wooden Ware, Yankee Notions, Fancy and staple Groceries, Candies, Nuts, Toys, etc. (52 SMITH & MARSHALL, JBlack Smiths and Boiler Makers. Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregon City Oregon. Blacksmithing in all its branches. Boiler making and repairing. All work warranted to give satisfaction. (52 h.w. ross, m. a, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. (Office over Charman Bros., Main st.,) Oregon City ly Dr. F. Barclay, M. B. C. L. (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE: At Residence, Main Street (52) Oregon City. Dr.H. Saffarrans, PHYSICIAN aud SURGEON. "OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book Store. Main street, Oregon City. (52 William Broughton, CONTRA CTOR and BUILDER, Main street, Oregon City. Will attend to all work in his line, con 8stng in part of Carpenter and Joiner work iraming, building,etc. Jobbing promptlv uiienaea to. (52 JOHN NESTOR, AND DRAUGHTSMAN. Front Street, Portland. Oregon. if Plans, Specifications, and accurate woiMiig drawings prepared oa short notice -alter the latest approved style. (ly) .HE MARCH OF LIFE. t marching! Who are marching ? e children by the way, v. ong the dusty wayside, They are treading day by day : And the heart of earth is throbbing. With the music of their feet, Up time's stern and rugged pathway Like a lar off echo sweet. They are marching! Who are marching? Youth in might, and manhood's prime. Golden visions beckon onward, Joyous hearts beat measured time; O be wise, bright gems that glitter, Earth born treasures soon decay, -Let the goal be ' life eternal," And thy labor " while 'tis day." They are marching! . Who are marching? Just adovvn life's sunny slope, Aged footsteps slowlv falter, Rett of strength, but calm with hope; Just beyond the light is gleaming, And the race is almost won. Courage, twilight shades shall gather, Golden with the setting sun. We are marching, we are marching, From the cradle to the grave, And we may not cease our journey Slay not stay time's rolling wave ; As our path is ouward ever, Let our course be upward, too ; Dark the skies and rough the weather,'' Angel nngers beckon you. The Oregon Central Railroad. We take pleasure in notinr that there seems to be a general anxiety upon the part of the people to take hold of some means to develop the in erior of the State. The Straight Jacket, which the Constitution im posed improperly enough a few years ago, is now felt to be an obnoxious barrier to the healthy development and prosperity ot the Slate, and many plaus are being suggested to avoid the stringency with which it prohibits the State from aiding works of in'er nul improvement. The most hopeful of success of any of the railroad en terprises now before the people ofthe State, is doubtless the one lately pro jected by the ' Oregon Central Rail road Company, the articles of incor poration together with the name? of the incorporators given below : Know all men by these presents, that we. by associate ourselves together as a private incorporation, under and by virtue of the provisions of the General Incorporation Laws of said State. 1st. The corporation hereby created shall be known as the " Oregon Central Railroad Company," and its duration unlimited. 2d. The object and business of the incor poration shall be to construct and operate a railroad from the city of Portland through the Willamette Valley to the southern boun dary ofthe State; under the laws of Oregon and the laws of Congress recently passed, granting land and aid for sucU purpose. 3d. The corporation shall have its prin cipal ollice in the city of Portland. 4th. The capital stock of the corporation sh ill be five million dollars, divided into general and referred inteiest bearing stock, in such proportions as incorporators, or Boaid of Directors, may deem proper. 5th. The amount of each rduu e ofthe cap ital stock shall be one hundred dollars. 6th. The termini ot the railroad proposed to be constructed by said company, shall be, for the northern end, the city ot Portland, and for the southern end, at some point on or near the boundary ot the State, as may be hereafter determined by actual survey. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal, this day of September, A. D. 1806. . S. Smith, I. R. Moores, J. II. Mitchell. E. D. Shattuck, Jessie Applegate, F. A. Chenowelh, Joel Palmer, II. W. Corbett, S. Ellsworth, E. R. Geary. By an Act of Congress, approved July 25th, 1860, twenty sections of niblic land per mile, have been do nated hy Congress to aid in the con struction of a railroad from this city to the southern boundary of the Slate the land to be selected within thir ty miles of the line of the road. A oint resolution is now pending be fore the Legislature, if it has not al ready passed, designating the above named company as the corporation which shall receive ana manage tnis and grant. This land, if all secured, nd it is believed that ad or most all of it will be found, will constitute a security for the basis of the Com pany's bonds in the Eastern money markets, and will enable it to raise money there, after the work is com menced here, no matter what we in Oregon may think of the present val ue of the land grant. But in addition to this grant from the general gov ernment, Oregon herself must do something for the enternrise. By the terms of the grant the company cannot iret nossession of anv Dart of the land donated, or in any way de rive any benefit from it, until the first section of twenty miles, commencing at the northern end, has been finished aud put in operation to the satisfac tion ofthe Government Commission ers appointed to inspect it. It will cost from twelve to fifteen million dollars to construct a rai.road to the southern boundary of the State and probably ab mt four million to build it lo the head of the Willamette Val ley, which last portion will pay divi dends as soon as it can be finished. The money to accomplish so large a work as this cannot of course be raised in Oregon or even on the Pacific Coast. We have not even the mon ey to build the Willamette Valley portion, so greatly needed as it is, or even one half of it : but there can be no question bat the State, and the towns and counties of the valley are able to secure the interest on at least two million dollars of the company's bonds. The State is abundantly able to take at least one-half of this sum, while thft incorporated towns and counties of the valley conld make up the interest on another million among them. This is the true way to ren der assistance to all such enterprises While the annual interest on these sums would be a small matter to the whole masses of the people, acting through their Stats, county and town organizations, it would be a large matter to a railroad company in the infancy of its organization and earn nigs ;? while the principal sum of the bonds, payable all at once wrou!d be a heavy matter for the people to pay at any time yet in twenty years the railroad company will have grown strong enough in the development of the country, and increase of its earn ings to easily float a bonded indebt eciness representing the entire cost of the whole work. In another view, this plan of rendering the enterprise the needed aid, recommends itself to the consideration of the Legislature, viz: that it is a matter which will benefit tiie whole State, and all the bitants... Nine tenths of the pop ulation of the State live along the general route of the. proposed road, .and while money thus invested by the State might not benefit the peo pie of Eastern Oregon so much as those west of the Cascades, yet if it is shown that any aid rendered by the State will not increase the rate of taxation in the aggregate, there can be no reasonable objection urged from that quarter. While it is the interest of all to have, the railroad and trie increase of values, business and property which it will bring with it, it w. u d not be the inclination of all to aid it from their individual purses; and because a tax, which would fall equally on property, to aid the enter- prise, is tie just one Icr aiding it, therefore it is the one which should be adopted. It may be suggested that the Con. stitution even interposes objections to this, but after investigating the sub ject we are ot the opinion that there is no barrier to aiding the matter, in ! this direction. When the subject was before the Legislature two years ago, ii was preuy tnorougniy investi gated, and the Legislature concluded that it had the power to levy a tax ami appropriate the same towards paying the annual interest due from the railroad company, and in pursu ance of that view a bill was passed into a law unich provided a fund of 200.000 in the aggregate, in five annual installments of $40,000 each. This off r on the part of the State being entirely too meagre, the com pany which was incorporated in this city at that time to construct a Wil- 1111117111 f I 'I J IlttlllV'WU VJIA IW tl W I A AA r,rt art C'tit the oiler. Since that time the i . . r c! . e r rr I .lut.s. hit nre or triA St:te nt I : liform:i passed an act agreeing to pay interest a. r,n rrf e . u r i o c n $1.5()0,00f of the Central Pacific , T . j .l iailroad Company, and the Consti- on t; an road Company tution of that State being similar to our own on that subject, the matter was brought before the Supreme Court of the State of California in order to test the law, and after a lengthy discussion by the ablest law yers in that State, the Supreme Court power to grant the aid ottered, and that therefore the law was a constitu- tional enactment. We hope to be ii. ,, i . 'f i able to publtsh a synopsis of that de : e a . 1 cision in a few days. The. niWinlA nf aw no- nnn n pi ooi mtiiiii t L'ev;itn iha iu niu 111c 1 l i .., . -j , ruiii uau uuuipauy uy I'".v "'S ",l(rlr81 ta hnnflc Kiii.r rUnftrl Iw tha .. .:i 1 i, . ;.,,.t . ri ifo Iwnlw Stoto u o nctn cpp tin reason whv tht Legislature should not authorize the incorporated towns, cities and coun- l,,luin ties to use the same principle, .nd A,r- Nlcho,S aert of,one of fur render all the aid which in their col- co'"Pmes engaged in the manufac- lect.ve capacity they might be able nre of repeat.ng nfls, has just left r J here, having had communication with to flTlVG 4tt , 'u t nioinfura the Government with reference to or We hope to see the Legislature T i t 1 1 r u - .i ders for a supp v of these arms. io take hold of the matter in earnest and - . , o. . i contracts have yet been made, as the enable the. State to do something to- J . , , . . i , l moment of greatest exigency is sup- ward- developing our vast and huh- fo a . r posed to be passed. An American erto unknown resources. It will be J, . r , P r Company is about to establish a man the making of Oregon over again, . y J . , r , i c . . j , i , ufactory, in which this class of arms and be the first step towards that .,. ,J' , , . . . udicious action. It will double the J , , c q,. . tax.ible property ot the estate, and 1 r t j 1 permit a reduction of the rate of tax- I . ' . j , . . . t . ation instead of increasing it. Let tiwu r the Letris ature promptly second the ... , j f un r ,Qn,i liberal donation from the General c Government, and we are assured that j the company which has been , .nc..r- porated to construct the work w l eneretica ly push it forward to final completion. . The extent of land under cultiva- 1 tion m x ranee has increasea in pro- poruo. tu inhabitants, and the number of hec tares under cultivatin amounted to 5,999,376, whilst in 1861 the popns lation had increased to 37,386,000, and the number of hectares cultivated to 6,754,227. From a return just presented to Parliament it appears that there are fifty townn in Ireland, with a popula tion of upwards of 3,000 each, which are unrepresented in Parliament. The total rateable valuation of Ire land is 13,000,000. lation of Salt Lake is be ino- ereatlv aoornented by miners Idaho and Montana. The Pulse. ; ; The action of the pulse will be of much interest to our readers. It probably is not known to many that the pulse of a female' exceeds in fire quency that of a "male from ten to lourteen beats per minute. Many circumstances influence its action, such as muscular exertion, mental excitement, the state of the digestive organs, and the position i f the body, wliether ly ine, sitting or standing. Muscular action and men tal excitejivent, as also the process of digestion naturally increase it, it be ing much quicker during the process of digestion' that when digestion has taken place. In healthy males, from twenty five to thirty ears of age, the average of the pulse per minute, in a standing position, is from 79 to 81 ; sitting, from 79 to 91, aiid l ing down, from 66 to 67 making a difference of from nine to ten beats between stand ing and sitting, from four to five be tween silting and lying, and from thirteen to fourteen bents between standing and lying, In healthy fe males of the same age, it will be found to be 81 to 91, standing; 81 to 82 sitting ; and 80 to 81 lying. Ttie variation in the different positions is produced by the muscular action induced by the change of position. At the different periods f the day the pulse varies, as, for instance, in a healthy person it is most frequent in the raornjr,g, and gradually decreases towards evening. After excitement. the diminution is greater and more regular in the evening than in the m0rninii. Food has the same effect on it at these periods, for in manv instances, the same food that will in- crease its amount and duration in the morning will, in the evening, have no Uffect whatever. Durini: the hours Gf sieep there is a irreater diminution Th follnwW thl',-iU show its variation at different periods of life, being greater m childhood than in old age, and gradually u limnisning as we grow older Beats per minute. Newlv born infant ISO to 140 During the first year 115 to 130 During the second year 100 to 115 During the third year .t0 to 100 At the seveuth year 85 to 90 Age of puberty 80 to 85 Manhood 70 to 82 Old age 50 to 65 American Industry and Inven tion in Europe. The Paris corres pondent of the X. Y. Times says : Our countrymen carry their enter . , It. " ," , . , ' , I itv of our skill is acknowledged, as J o ' we are constantly having evidence. Mr. Gooual , agent of the Amerie; , XT ... Bank ISote Company, has just coi " - in con eluded a contiact with the National Bank of Tuscany for a large quantity of Notes, of the denomination of two and ten francs, to be furnished with, in the short space of three months. The National Bank of Tusc-ny will probably be consolidated with the National Bank of Sardinia, and the . fatuf..if ion ini'iin hi. Mir n ri rr im lilu . ? . , J .. specimens of bank note printing will fbatIy obtain for our engravers large orders to bo n eo in the future, . . , , , . . Within a week past, gold has been at . I " w-m wiiu a "i eai ueinanu 101 nuirs wi i .-' t cm.i I Hinn gy- i nn 1 1. , .1 e uun utuuuiiiiiiiuNin The price of 11 " i K'd IS ICSS now, and small bills, for the convenience of trade, are much tu?llt Jor at about the same pre- nmtit in Js a-1 1 r.-rlioirl , ihe Austrian Government has or- . dered from the owner of the patent . 0 . , , . 1 f in England a large number of the . 9 American Spencer breech-loaders, . r Mai. Huse, formerly artillery tflicer J T , J . e ,ltlT nQ rha linn tho .wr ) i f rt ThP cifed at Paris andondoP for of arms-has gone to XT. t c . -n t- i . dirpft nt Vienna the construction of a certain proportion of the guns. their love is generally more strong and sincere than that of tha young milk-and-water creatures, whose hearts vibrate between the joys of wedlock and the dissipations of the ball-room Until the heart of the young lady is capable of setting firm ly and exclusively on one object, her love is like a May shower, which makes rainbows, but fills no cisterns. The marble beds of Kansas are immense. The marble is reached at a depth of from twenty to a hundred feet below the surface throughout a larcro extent of country. Finished specimens have been sent to Wash of ing ton, whf re it is decided to be ot a I nnerquaiuj iian any roreign mini, life in Hotels vs. Life at Home. The introduction of coffee into'Eu rope in the seventeenth century was soon followed by the establishment of places where the new beverage was retailed to such as conld afford it, much in the manner that beer is now sold in the German shops or "saloons" at this day. These coffee houses soon became very, popular in a 1 the large cities, and ultimately, in London and Paris, came to exercise a marked in fiuence on the political and literary opinion of the day. They furnished a rendezvous for the notable and witty men of the metropolis, who dis cussed familiarly the new publica tions, criticised public characters and measures, and thus iu some sort t r ganized and led opinion at a time when newspapers were not known beyond their incipient 44 news letter'' form, and when public discussions on current topics were not tolerated. While the coffee houses thus furnish', ed a vent for the expanding thought of the time, it is a remarkable fact that they largelv abated the tendency to intemperance by substituting fr strong drinks the innocuous exhila rant that is now common at every breakfast table. The coffee houses were ultimately displaced by the English " club'' or French salon as social and intellectual c litres, just as these have in turn been rendered comparatively unnecessary by the moaern newspapei, cheap books, and the privilege of holding public meet iugs; but the influence of coff-e houses on mind and manners was Ion felt, and constitutes one of the most curious chapters in the history of in- tellectual development durng the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We have nothing at all analogous to this influence in our time, consid ering it exclusively as a social farce, except the great hotels that have grown up m all American cities, and in some ot the cities of England and Europe. Originating in th plain inn or tavern, designed for the temporary accommodation of travelers or for the enjoyment of convivial guests, they have assumed palatial charac terisMes and have come to supp'e ment or supplant private dwellings as permanent abiding places for a large and growing class of people, who prefer to have everything done for them and all housekeeping cares taken off their hands by contract, at so much a week or month. At one of these hotels, which ma) be tenant ed regularly by a large number of families, you are upholstered, fed. wined, newspapered, amused, attend ed, without concern except as to how the bills shall be met. If you wish to make a neighborly call, you have but to step bareheaded into the next room, or go through the next passage way. If you want society and music, you have but to lounge in the parlor. lou play billiards in a crowd, drink iu a public bar, read at a general file, and dine at a mass meeting. The ad vantages of the hotel system seem at first enormous. An English period ical sums them up as follows : " You pay no rent, sitm no leases or agreements, you have nothing to do with taxes, no servants' wages, no butchers' bills. You have no trouble in engaging servants, in drilling ser vants, iu getting rid of servants. If the pipes be frozen in the course of a hard winter, or if they happen to burst when the said winter breaks up, they are no business of yours. The young man does not call to speak to you about the new kitchen range, nor does the gasman wish to see jou in the hall relative to the state of the meter." Then, what you want is al ways to be had. You want a bottle of soda water the last thing at night ; you are not told that there happens to be none in the house. You want a sandwich in the midd'e of the day; no uncompromising servant informs you that "there is no cold meat in the house." You want a basin of broth, and you are not Obliged to wait till the next day for it. You want to know where somebody lives; there is the last Postoffiee Directory to re f t r to. lou want a messenger : he is ready in the hall. You have a tel egram to send off; here is a form and in another moment it is despatch ed, tor all these advantages you pay one weekly bill. When you think of the number of bills to be considered once a week bv anv hmse keeper, the file of little red books o be gone through by some trustworthy person r other, this seems something more than a small advantage. A check is drawn once a week, and al is over. Rent, taxes, wages, hou.se- keeping, are disposed of in five mitt utes. If the check in question do sometimes strike one as rather large, it is but f ir to comider how very much it represents." Resides these minor conveniences the hotel is sought, in America at least, because it enables many per sons to maintain a style of living hich, in private, they could not af ford. An application of the associate principle, under the management o a shrewd landlord, puts within their reach more costly upholstery, richer carpets, a better servta ana more varied cuisine than they could sup port enfamille. But, after all these apparent economies, what a waste does hotel life make of all the finer social instincts and all the sweeter, mor retired joys of social intercourse! How it saps he virtues U.at origin ate in the private household ! How it dissipates health! How it de stroys the pure ideal of home ! How it blights womanly modesty and di vests childhood of its simplicity ! The unmarried or the childless may pass thiough the ordeal of hotel life com paratively . unharmed, but there is nrthing in it that can compensate families for the loss of those restrain ing and refining iufluences which Vie long alone to domestic life. All the flash, and glitter and excitement, the extravagance in diess, the broadness of manners, fh fondness for display. the spify scandals, that characterize these showy caravansaries ot modern . fashion, are a natural outgrowth of the diffusioi. of wealth among the un cultivated. Thy indicate the un healthy cravings of minds lacking in ferior resources. The modem hotel! is an admirable temporary substitute fr home, and can he availed of for what is best in it, when it must be, with advantage and without demoral iz.itioti ; but every American who is anxious for the growth of a strong, manly, healthy National character, must deprecate the growing tendency to prefer hoti 1 to domestic hfe. The preference is altogether abnormal and mischievous, a no we can trace to it much of that domestic infelicity which is oflen asserted to be peculiarly common in the unsettled Society of take the first ride aloi.e. and the time our new State. Nine times out otWoily come when I should lsk back ten it will be found that there is more eco.tomv and more genuine comfort in maintaining one's own private home, than cat be found under the brilliant veneering of the most sty-l lish" hot 1. We want simplicity of character, modesty of taste, quietness of manner, as essentials to a truly refined society, anil these can be cul tivated with success only at home. The typical woman who is to be the future Mother of America cannot be formed in six story palaces; she must develop in the private dwell ing; ami even now, the gaudy dahl ias ot hotel lite, staJely but scentless, can well be spared for the sweet vio lets of domestic retirement. Bulletin. Not a Christian, but a Baggage- mast ifR. An accident recently haps pened to a train on the Atlantic and Great Western railroad The bag gage master sat reading at ihe time, )ut perceiving by the motion of the car that a great danger was threat ened, he attempted to jump out, when ie was unfortunately caught between two boxes, and bud ly jammed. He was taken out iu an insensible condi tion, and hting laid upon the ground, an attempt was made to revive him. which proved successful. As he open d his eyes to a consciousness of things, a clergyman stepped out from the circle which surrounded him, to offer prayer for his cmpl te restora- tion. He kneeled down by the side of the victim, but, before he proceed ed with his work of mercy, he in quired, ' Are you a Christ iau 1" 4N, sir," as emphatically as his weak con dition would allow; I'm a baggage master on the Atlantic and Great Western railroad." Nashville i?- publican. New Adaptation of Fibrous Ma- V I I I terial It has long Deen Known inai the stalk of the cot ton plant contained a fibre not unlike toarse fltx, but it is only lately that this fihre has been wrought into practical use. It has been found by actual experiment that 120 pounds of stalk, when steeped and dressed with nnchinery similar to that used fjr fltx, will make 40 pounds of thread suitable for weaving bagging and other coarse cloth . A joint stock company is being got up to establish a mill in one of tht Southern States to carry on thi- new manufacture, which it is to be hoped will lie successful. It any lucky in ventor could discover a method of re- duccing cotton sta ks t pulp, and making it either alone or mixed witn rag pulp, ino paper, he would make a fortune. Newspapers, book makers. and fifty other trades, are dependent on paper; and while the demand for their productions increases rapidly, the supply of the material enlarges very slowly. A flock of alpacas, purchased some years ago, by the Australian Gov ernment, was sold in June. The government discontinues the ex eri ment of breeding and acelimitation, and.it now passes into private hands. The results are said to be satisfactory; the animals increasing rapidly and being in healthy condition. An English journal sas : 'The first delivery of the new breech-load-ers for the army is due at the war oEBceon the 4th of August. The in stalment is small, being only loo. The issue will, nowever, soon, averagej of wujcu ,,unibtr Donizetti aJoue h 1,500 to 2,000 a week. 'written more than '70. The first Locomotive in Amtiica. , Major Horatio S. Allen, tbe En- 5 gineer ot the New York ai ti Erie ! Railroad, in a speech made at a re cent festival 'occasion, gave th fl lowing interesting account of the first ' trip made by a locomotive on this continent: " . hen was it? Who was it? And who awakened its en ergies and directed its movemen-f? . It as in the year 1823, on tl e banks of the Lackawdeii, at the com mencement ot the Railroads connect ing the canal ot the Delaware and Hudson Ca .al Cr patiy with their coal mines mi he who addresses ou was the only person on that In -Comotive. The circumstances which led to my being alone ou the engine were these: The road had been built in the sum.er. The structure ws of hemlock timber, and rails of large oiuieti-iona iMtohed on -sips placed far apart. The timber had cracked and warped from exposure to the sun. After about 300 feet of straight line, the Lack iwa.ien creek on trestle, work about thirty feet high, with a cure ol 355 to 400 feet radius. rl he impression was very general that the iron moniter would either break down the road or it would leave the track at the curve aud plunge it into the creek. My reply to such apprehensions was that it was too late to consider the proba bility of such occurrences; that there was no other course than to have a trial made of ihe strange animal, which had been brought here at great expense; but that it. was rot necessary that more than one should be involved ill its fate: that I won d to the incident with great interest. As I placed my hand on the throttle vaivtt handle. 1 was undecided wheth er I w uHi move slowly or with fair degree of speed; bnt believing that the road would prove safe, and pre ferring, if we did go down, to go handsomely, and without any evis deno ot timid. ty I started with con siderable vel.-city, passed the curve over the creek safely, and was soon outot hearing of the vast assemblage. At tae end of two or three miles 1 reversed the va ve and returned with out accident, having thus made the first railro d trip by locomotive on the Western Hemisphere.'' Lost Arts In regard to colors, we are far behind ihe ancients. N -ne of the colors in the Egyptian paint ings of thousands of years ago are iu the least faded, except the green. The Tyrian pnrpule of the entombed city of Pompeii is as fresh today a it was 3.0'l0 years ago. Some of the stucco, painted ages before the Christian era, broken up and m xed, rt vealed its original lustre. And yet we pity the ignorance of the dark- ! skinue.i children or ancient Egypt. The colors upon the w lis of Nero's festal vault are as fresh as if painted yesterday. So is the cheek of the Egyptian prince who was extempo raneous with Solomon, and Cleopa tra, at whose f-et Cajsar laid the riches of his empire. Aud in regard to metals. The edges of the statues of the obelisks of Egypt, Rome, and of the ancient walls of are as sharp as if but hewn yesterday. And the stones still re main so closely fitted that their seams, laid with mortar, cannot be penetrated with the edge of a pen knife. And their snifice is exceed ingly hard so hard that when the French artists engraved two lines upon an obelisk brought from Egypt,., they destroyed, in the tedious task, many of the best to-ls which could be manufactured. Aud yet these ancient monuments are traced all over with inscription placed upon them in olden time. This, with oth er fact-of a striking character, proves that th y were far mere skill d in metals than we are. Quite recently it is recorded that, when an A-neri can vessel was on the shores of Africa, a son ot that benighted regi;i made, from an iron hoop, a knife, superior to any on board ofthe vessel, and another made a sword of Damascus excellence from a piece of iron. Fiction is very old Scott had his count rparts 2,000 years ago A story is tolii of a warrior who had no time to wait fo the proper forging of his weapon, bnt seized it red hot, nide forward, but found to his sur prise that the cold a;r had ten peid his iron into an excellent steel weap on. The tampering of steel, there fore, hich was new to us a century since, Was old 2,0( 0 t srs ago. Ventilation s deemed a i rv mod ern j.rt. But his is mt a f .ct, for apii lures, unquestionably made mr the purpose of ventilation, are found Jn the pyramid lombs of Egtt. Yes, thousands of ears ago, the bar. barous pagans went so fr as to vni tilate their tombs, while we y ct scarcvly know how to ventilate our houses. Since 1842 there have been 889 operas and ballets con-posed in li;.,v V .