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O o o o o 0 G o O o " - o ' y it- o C o 0 r-- 3 Vol. OISECSOX CITY, OSEGM, SATUHBAY, ISOTEMSE'R JIO, o 1 J 1 Era HI J 1 r JI)c llkckhj ntcvpvtec. rl BI.HHKn EVKHT STt RrAY JIDHMXfi ftv D. C. IRELAND, o'FICK: South east corner of Fifth nnd M u -troet-, in flu- building lately known i the Court IIoHse, Oreiron City, Oregon. Term of Stsbsci ipt ic.ii. One enpv, one vear in advance $3 00 .. " ' " il delayed 4 UU Term of Advertising. Tr-nsicni advertisements, per square , 12 lines, or less) li li-t insertion . . .f'2 "' for each snb.seipueut insertion 1 00 Jhisiness Curds one square per annum payable quarterly 12 " ).,, Volntmi jer amiuiii -'" On- half column " V '"- One quarter " 0" "" ,e'id advertising at the established rates. Book and Job Printing ! rrui: i:.'rr:itPiti.sE office - vr.. i .. :o. .n-rtcT- u "sito for dfiin ' s'ljH'riors'yle of work, and is constantly- areii!iiulaiin.Lr new and beautiful styles ("f material, and is prepared for every TJ6"ty 01 Q liiWK ai .ton i - xr -vT r-si T T.i. ? ' AT SATl.-TACTOUY TIUCKS. . . . . - - r. Ti. li.'.ii,' !( ineitoil to enll nnd cxniine both "iir specimens and facilities: fnPh'in-T work. I'll UFESSIOXA h CARDS Dr. F. Barclay, EI. R. C. L. 1Fortntily Surgeon to thj Hon. II. B. Co.) OFl-'iC.'::At A. ... Main Street r.V'i Oregon Ci'r. Dr. CHAELE3 ELACH, Vhijiician, iSurijcoit and Accoucheur. OFFICII Corner of Washin-iton and Front streets, IJan ish'.s Ulock, l'oi thmd, Oregon. KF.S1!;:NCF, - Wuhiiigfon street, between fuii:th ai.'. Fifth streets. 1 iy (', Ul KUS. c. w. r.uajMi, X"f'trl I'' "-I'll (.'m. 1 '':!,. & PAHE1SII, .Wormy s u i ul Omi'svlurs u(-Laivt O I'ORTI. an n , or. E Ci ox . OKFICK On Aider sireet, in Carter's N-w Kriik lihuk. n i 0. P. KAS0?J, A TToU N' EY AND CoL'XSEI.Oll AT LAW, ')I-rotit .-t., Portland, Oregon. 11,1. ATTi:X!)To HUSINF.SS IN" ANY it in the State or Washington Territorv. Ineliidiii-' business under the M. (.'. JoH.V.(.V. r. O. M env.-v. .v...'..-., . .'.;;. JOHNSON h VTcCOWn, oiiKiiOX (mtv, ni:(Kx. O I y'" Will a'tetsd to all bur-iness entrusted i ii'ir rare m auv of the Courts of tii" Mate, c.O.b-et money, lie ,'oti.ue l.Ans, sell real es- t tr, rte. I fVI'articnlarnt tention ;;iven to contested 1 ind ea-e-i. 1 -.v I y. v. i 1'. ! LTo.v. RUSSELL & DALTON, Atf'trnvts .i nil Con iisi l'ra ul Luw, i Xvticit-trx in Chancery, and QJ'ntl Estate A at' its. Will practice in the Courts r.f the second. Ihird and f'.tsrth Judiciid l'!?i'ict, and in the ' Sfupreinr Cmtrt of ( (reon. j I ."s"Sp i.d attentimi iven to the collec- , ti-ii .it ehuiiis ai ail puints in tiie above nam- i ! ili.-triets. I Oltiet" ui Purrish's brick building, Albany, i Oregon. -t :J:. O i. n : t t tiKi.t.. j. x. noi.iM. a. smith. Mitchell. Dclph & Smith, Attorneys an-to Ciainsc'iors at Late, Solicitors in Chancery, and P roc O tars in Ad mi rally . IfTOiTice over the oh! Pest'otlice, Front trrt, I'oi thur.l, Oregon. (iy) SEN T 0 N KJ L L 1 11, ttr'g.i: C ity, Oregon. 0;:i,-e in Charman's Brick Block, tip it.ms. Q (.V:tf) D. H . Vu cKENNL Y, A'torncy a, id Cjuns(l!r til Law. H1.L ATTl.:N'l) IMiO.MPTLY TO ALL y business entrusted to his care, I'r'Fici: -Oiii- liuiir north of Bell A Parker's I'rujr t.t.re, thvon City, Oregon. j:t:lv J.QB. UPTOII, AiTOKNEY AND C 0 C X S E LOU - AT-L iW O Oregon City, Grey on. I OtVu-c ov cr the .tore of PoPe A f,, i 11 Street. j C. ..A. 33 OL PH, ' Attorney and Cou.sskli.cr-at Law, ; OiV.cc 1-., Front street, Portland, t)re- JAMES ni.Ii'00RE, J'tflice of the Peace ( Ciy Recorder. q Office In tie Court House and City Council Koottt, Oregon City. Will attend to the acknowledgment of ieeds, and ;!1 other i! a i ies e.voei t aini n " t o f .Mir-tiee of the Peace V DENTIST. --'' .a i v- .-, dt.., (,,. 'i'-Ui.s over Charman k Bro.'s store. Main JA E. I'.-.!. w. s. st;:vkxs. Xo'.try I'ui'l ic. DALY & STEVENS, '':ir. ;:r.i ti; jupkkus, coi.lkc- tOUs AS C.F.SlhUAL AC, EMS, Orr.-Kisj floor Yatiiihn's Brick, corner-of 'b'l riSoll I'i-,..,t"f l,,i-t!-i.t i Particular attention given to the ad justment of accounts. Legal and thcr doc meiits transcribed at she it notice. o CHARLES sTwHITMAwj At'urney at Lair; Omc8 Curner of Fifth and 1) streets. o Washington Cii', .. D. C. f-p'-'Ciid r.tti-n'.ion given to the adiust l','""t issuing of patents tor pi ivate'iaud 'J;i,i1- Pre-.-..-, pt ion aii-1 1 ie mie.-le: d settlj u,l i H classes of business before tit, Sttlvs L:::il OLh.c. l'j 'Ja. o JuicC V O ; usixess ca r d s. CLIFF HOUSE J.Iain Street, T. W. IUI0A0KS, , Iropnetors. Oregon Cit . Oregon. We invite the citizens of Oregon City, and the traveluii; public, to give us a share of their patronage. Meals can be had at all hours, to please the n.ost fastidious. 15 Notice to the PnWic. IIIAVK this day closed the Iiurlov IIon.e in favor of the Cliff Iloe.se. Hope my old customers will rive their liberal patron age to the above well kept house. Thev will iind .Messrs. White & Khoades always ou hand to make guests comfortable. WM. liAULOW. Oregon City, August 1, 1siJ7. AA IK 1 1 1 CA X i:X C f I ANGR T,tt." LIXCOLX HOUSE,) Xo. SI Krosit street, Puritaml Oregon. L. P. Ql'IMUY, J'Ko.Mjnmjit, Lit- (j Wn-ta-n Hold.) This house is the mot conirnodious in the State, newly furnished, and it will be tbe en deavor of the proprietor to make his truests comfortable. The iiaga'-o Wajjon will al ways bo found at the land'n on t!ie arrival of steamships and river boats, carrying ba gage to the house free uf charge. !"'' OREGON HOUSE, Main Street Oregon City. JACOB BOEHM, Proprietor. ESTABLISHED 1857. IlKI)rCTIO. IS PKICES! The undersigned wishes to give notice that from Saturd y, October 5th, 1 sii7, prices at the above house will be as follows : Hoard and Lodiiintr per week Jf5 Co Hoard without Lmiii! 4 Oo Uoard and Lodging per dav 1 oo JACOB liOEIIM. Oregon City, Oct. 3d, 1;. fr.i:tf OS W E G 00 iTs eT OSWEtiO, OjiK'JON. .1 0 ! I X S C 1 1 A 1 ) J : Proprietor. IS now prepared to receive and entertain all who may favor him wi'h their patron age. The House is New and the Kooms are Newly and Neatly Furnished. The Table will be supplied with all the delicacies of the season. The Ilotiro is' situated near the steamer landing. Tiie ptqrietor will at all times endeavor to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor him with a call, and would respect full v solicit the pa' ronatre of the Tr:i eling Public. 41:tf. Board per u eek "o oo Bourd and Lodging G 00 Single Meals ' W. F. EIGHFI2LB, Established since ! -;:. at the old stand, Main Stuket, Oaiioox Crrv. An assortment of Watches, Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight (.'locks, ail of which are warranted to be as represented. Kepairins done on short notice, sand thankful for fast favors. (o7 G A N E M A H STOKES JAME3 M0E.FI TT & CO., roUI.H INFORM THE PUBLIC ES- lieeiallv of t 'un. tmih, that they have etaOi!.-nel a ."-.ore at thai pi. ice. wueie tney will keep on hand a Well assorted stock of Ilorchaiidisa and Groceries. which will he sold ::t reasuiiabk' rates, for tbe purpn.-e of c fablishing perm a uen ! iy such a ii-.-ec.-sit v at t 'ancmuh. Trv us. (t,;::y SHADES 8AL00K. Wot JiJe Main Strut, ticern- s'vcvnJ and 'Third, Vi-'-j n City. GEORGE A. HAAS Proprietor. The propr'etor beers leave to inform his friends and the public general iy that toe above named popular saloon is open for their accommodation, witha new and well assort ed supply of the finest brands of wines, liquors and e-;.gars. Sti A. Tl. liliLL. E. A. PAKlvEIJ. BELL &, PARKER. 1 IlUCfHlSTS, AN-I) DEALERS t.V Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, rarnixhes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. jo. 'I Main- Sriihirr, 0;;kgox Crrv. NOTICE TO ALL V HO WANT First Class Fine or Coarse Made or Repaired. Especial care and at tentimi paid to orders for line Work, such as Ladies and Misses Fine Gaiters, Cents' Fine French Calf Boots, etc. I Orders solicited from nbroad will be executed with neatness and dispatch. TEUW1 LLIOEU A SMITH, -Fl.tf Green st., Oswego. Oregon. i E. Q. RAKDALL, nil'OKToR AND DEALER INT gQ A IHSTRUMENTS, Sheet Music, and Musical Merchandise ot alFkinds. Soie Agent in Oregon for ?! :i mo i A !!:. ui'tJii's CKTjKISII V I K t'AIJIXKT OHCiAX ! AND Sicinuav i Son's Gnu) ?st;iji. i'l.vxo foktks t First street, next door to the Post OHiee Portland, Oregon. (4.tf C. P. FERRY, vLate Ferry A Foster, "t 33 5TJ? ?C. SO 'JSl-iZ T?1S e No. loS Front street, Portland. Agent North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. And ilauhattan Life lusurance Co 1 OYF.TIN'MENT SEC17T1 ITIES. STOCKS T(' Bonds, and Real Estate bought and sold on Commission. OREGON CITY BEE W E It Y ! iiKXKY 111173151:1., Having purchased the above Brewery, wishes to inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 quality ot LACrER PEER! As good as can be obtained anywhere in the sir ' , . O r.l ers st dieited and nromptlv tilled. Oregon City, Decern uber ''Mil. 1 '. i"tt A. J. MONROE. A- K. MEI.LKX. SlOrJROE & EIELLEW, Dealers in California, Vermont, and Italian Marbles. Olclisks, Monu ments, Head and Foul stones, SaIEM OilKfioX. Mantles ai:J Furi::tuic Marble furnished to order. i S-.tt Ml t 'O.VSniJIATICX. A sjuest was in my house a suest unhid Who stayed without a welcome from his host ; So loathed and hated, on such errand bent, And armed with such resistless power of ill, I dared not look I im in the face. I heard His tireless footsteps in the lonely halls, In the chill hours of night ; and, "in the dav, They climbed the stairs, or loitered through the rooms With lawless freedom. Ever when I turned I caught a i;'umpse of biin. His shadow stalked Between me and the liirht, and fied before My restless feet, or followed close behind. When'er 1 bent above the couch that held My fading wife, though looking not, I knew That he was bending from the other side, And mocking me. Familiar grown, at last, He came more closely came "and sut with me Through hours of revery ; or, as I paced My dimly-lighted room, slipped his lank arm Through mine, and whispered in my shrink ing ear Such fearful words as made me sick and col;!. He took the vacant station at my board. Sitting where she had sat, and mixed my cup With poisoneil waters, saying in low tones Thai none but I could hear : " This little room. Where you have breakfasted and dined and supped, And laughed and chatted in the days gone by, Will be a lonely I dace when we are .'one. Those roses at the window, that were wont To bloom so freely with the ladv's care, Already miss her touch. That ivy-vine Has grown a yard since it was tiedjand needs A training hand." Rising with bitter tears To flee his presence, he arose with me, uiu wanucreu taromiu the roo: " This way ! Let us take our stand Beside her bed. Not quite so beautiful To your fond eyes as when she was a bride. Though still a lovely woman ! Seems it strange That she is yours no longer? that her hand Is given to another to the one For whom she has been waiting all her life, And ready all her life? Your power is gone To punish rivals. There you stand and weep, But dare not lift a finger, while with smiles And kmdiy welcome she extends her hands To greet her long-expected friend. She knows Where i will take her to what city of God, What palace there, and what companionship. She knows what robes will drape her love liness, What flowers bedeck her hair, and rise and ftll Upon the pulses of her happy breast. And you, poor man '. wi;h all your jealous pride, Have learned that she would turn again to von, And to your food and furniture ol life, With d appointment. "Ay, she pities yon Loves you indeed; but there is One she loves With holier passion, and witn more entire And gladder self-sun'enter. She wiii gr You know that she will go and go with joy; And you beirm to see how poor and n'.ean, When placed beside her joy, are all your gifts, And all that you have won by them. " Poor man ! "Weeping again ! Well, if it con-fort von. Bain your salt tears upon her waxen hands. And kiss th'-m (Ir at leisure ! Press her lips, Hot with hevtic! Lay your cold, wet cheek Araiust the buvi.imr scarlet of her own; Only remember that she is not yours, And that your paroxysms' of rief and tears Are painful to her." Ah! to wait for death ! To see one's idol with the signature Of the He-ii-ivt r stamped upon her brow, And know that she is doomed, beyond hope ; To wateli her while she fades; b see the form That once was Beauty's own become a corpse In all but breathing, and to meet her eyes A hundred times adayjwhile the heart bleeds; With smi'es of .smooth dissembling, and with words Cheerful as morning, and to do all this Throiurh weeks and weary :onths, tiil one half longs To see the ;-pell dissolved, and feel the worst That death can do : can there be misery Sadder than this My time T passed alone, And at the bedside of my dying wife. She talked of death as children talk of sleep, When a forgetful blank it lies between Their glad imputiuce and a holiday. To-morrow ah: the morrow! That was name For hope all realized, for work all done. For pain all past, for life and strength re newed, For fruitage of endeavor, for repose, For heaven 1 What would the morrow bring to me? The morrow h: the morrow: It was blank; iS'ay, blank and black with gloom of clouds and night. Never before had I so realized My helplessness. I could not find relief In love or labor. I could only sit, And gaze against a wall, without the power To pierce or climb. My pride of life was gone My spirit broken, and my strife with God Was finished. If I could' not look before, 1 dared not look above ; and so, whene'er f could forget the present, I went back Upon the past. Dr. Ifdlovti " KatJirlna:' The Social Evjl. The New York Independent, treating of what it calls The Blackness of Darkness, declares: The true remedy for tho social evil, is not in a license system, nor in the board of health, nor in the excise law, nor in anything under heaven except in a multiplication of honorable and profitable employment for dependent woman. If tho thousands of prostU tutes of this city had originally had a fair chance of earning a livelihood by a decent trade, not five hundred of the whole number would have set their feet in the path of shame. Awful, horrible, tragic is the re sponsibility which justly rests on those respectable men and women clergymen and church members', who create and maintain a public opinion that denies to women nearly all the opportunities which it accords to men for earning one's daily bread.:' A Happy Woman. Is she not the very sparkle and sunshine of life A woman who is happy, because she can't help it whose smile even the coldest sprinkle of misfortune can not dampen. Men make a terrible mistake when they marry for beauty for talent, or for style ; the sweetest wives arc those who possess the mag ic secret of being contented under any circumstonces. Rich or poor, high or low, it makes no difference ; the bright little fountain of joy bub bles up just as musically in their hearts- COL.. FOUXKVS LETTERS. In the reign of Charles the Fifth Antwerp had twenty-five hundred vessels at one time moored in its har bor, laden with the products of all quarters of the globe; had in circular tion annually more than five millions of guilders (more than two millions of dollars), and assembled five thou sand merchants twice every day in the great hall of its exchange. It is now an object of great interest to tSe traveller, though its modern pros perity bears no comparison to three hundred years ego, w hen it was the richest commercial metropolis in Europe. The shipping at its wharves, the strong warehouses, the broad and princely streets, with their long rows of beautiful shops and " stores' in dicating lare and increasingopulence, and the vast depot of petroleum, re minded me of the new source of traf fie that has lately been added to the wealth of Pennsylvania. Yet among all this forest of masts and steam pipes I looked in vain for a lino to Philadelphia. There were several successful steamers to New York, and a company had just been organ ized to put on one betweeu Boston and Antwerp, but nothing was done or doing to open similar communica tion with a city of nearly 600,000 soul?, which boasts of extraordinary facilities for commerce, and which, at the beginning of the century, cons trolled the foreign trade even to the exclusion of New York. Questions were asked of me bv intelligent busi ness men to account ibr this hvdiiTer ence, and I could give no satisfactory answer, especially when I recollected that we had no steam communication with Liverpool itself. Boston, and even Baltimore, have their Hues, and are doing well ; but Philadelphia is still inert. It is folly to argue that we cannot cstablis-h a splendid li tie of steamers if we resolve to do it. How long do you think Chicago would have waited, with a river so near tiie 1 sea, added to railroads rtmmntr thro' ! valleys richer than the Nile, and ex tending their iron arms to grasp the priceless trade of the Pacific; ? Ant werp, like all these old cities', abounds in works of art. Here the painter Jaibcns achieved his grandest tri umphs, and here his dceendants are living in great wealth and respectabil ity. The Academy of JSt. Luke, for the encouragement of painting, in this city, one of the oldest in Europe, was establi-hed in 1551, by Philip the Go :d, and patronized by succeeding monarchs, and is regarded as the cra dle of the French school, of which Itubcns was the impassioned and un tiring interpreter. His pupil, Van dyek, and his contemporaries and successors, are recalled in many of their best productions, but Rubens is seen aid worshipped everywhere. The labors of this one man were prodigious; and as you are pointed to tho originals of his genius in every gallery of Europe, you are impressed as much by his fertility and sleepless ness as by his conceded genius. His master "piece, " The Descent from the Cross," hanging in the magnificent Cathedral of Notre Dame, copies of which you see everywhere, is always surrounded by crowds. Sir Joshua Beynolds pays it the highest tribute of praise. He says : "Rubens' Christ is one of the finest figures ever in vented ; it is most correctly drawn, and in attitude most difficult to exe cute. The hanging of the head on the shoulder, and the tailing of the body on ore side, give it such an ap pearance of the heaviness of death that nothing can exceed it." One of Rubens' characteristics was to paint his kindred in nearly all his holy pic tures ; and his first and second wives, his children, his father, his fathers-in-law, and even his uncle, are respect ively made to figure as the Marys, the Infant Saviour, Joseph, the Wise Men of the East, ecc; and in one of his masterpieces Rubens paints him- self as the Centurion. When I stood before this renowned achievement it was on a lovely sabbath morning, and the immense Cathedral was crowded with woi shippers, through whose reverential and kneeling ranks we had to thread our way to get a sight of it. The effect was inexpres sibly fine. The interior of this great temple, divided into seven aisles, is three hundred and ninety feet long and two hundred and fifty feet wide, ! and the vast and lofty choir and nave, j with three great divisions on each side, is very grand. The Cathedral I was c;ird;rri Lv thf IponOf-lsfS in 15G0. . ,,i i men, and before thev have completed : when its rich altars, ornaments, and , , , - j ' their fit or-'iturv, have been com- spn nturos were burned or carried.""" - ' i , oil ; but they have been qorgeously replaced, if we may judge by the COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIF0P2JIA. splendor and beauty of tho existing treasures. Rubens came after this Fpoiialion, and las intellect has im mortalized everything it has touched. There is a treble idolatry of the man. Before his great picture of " The De scent from the Cross" were not only admiring strangers like oursclves,nnd students sketching rough l;nes of the famous conception, but numbers of the faithful of the Church, who, on bended knees, prayed to " Mary, the Mother," and to the " Crucified Son," and it seemed as if their devotions were not less sacred because the ob jects of their worship have been drawn by the almost inspired pencil of their beloved Rubens. The ex pression of these figures and the whole nPi, so full of love for the illustrious painter, proved not only that art was still alive among these people, but impressed upon my mind a lasting lesson ; and as I passed through the other churches, and saw the numer ous statues in honor of the man who had done honor to Antwerp, I forgot that most of this wealth was ex tended in the days of bloody re ligious proscriptions. The wretched attempts or rather caricatures of art which are allowed to disgrace the noble rotunda of the American Capi tol, s;o often denounced by men of taste, looked more than ever like in sults to those they aspire to typify. But this is not all tho intelligent American gathers as he gazes npon these tributes to tho illustrious dead in foreign lands. Rejecting the fre quency with which the Saviour is represented in the most excruciating and repulsive forms, for the purpose' of terrifying the ignorant and riveting the influence of a dissolute priest' hood, and also the obsequious prac tice of preserving the features of cruel kings and sensual nobles, we coull copy one settled habitude of the Old World and profit immensely by the experiment. I moan the gratitude that perpetuates the memory of those who have done good to mankind, whether in religion, in statesmanship, in science, in art, or in aims. You meet these monuments cvt ry where in Great Britain. Iu London you j lutve Shr.kespi are, Milton, Addison, ! Dry den, Pope, Ben Jonson, Sam i Johnson, Robert Barns, their associ I atcs ami successors and the great of I late r generations ; Watt, of tho steam engine, Oe-orgc Stephenson, Harvey, i the discoverer of the circulation of the blood. Walter Scott, Ilerschel, ! the astronomer, Wilbcrforee, Short dan, Burke, Wellington, Pa'mcrtoti. In Pari, though tho fresh fires of revolution, and changing dynasties, with changing doctrines, have de throned many just and uplifted many unjust men, genius, benevolence, and bravery are everywhere kepi in reverence ; while in Germany you find these symbols of public gratitude on every hand. While the Catholics excel in the memorials to their saints, tho Protestants delight to honor their tire at leaders and chamnions: Luther, Melancthon, the Elector of Saxony, William of Orange, Calvin, Russ. Goethe, Schiilcr, Humboldt, Gutten berg, Cosier, M zart, Mendelssohn, and other intellectual kings, are re membered, if not as ostentatiously as the traditionary pillars of Romanism, at least as affectionately and perma nently. One of the most suggestive illustrations of the habit of honoring genius in the Old World, is the story of Quertin Massey, the Antwerp blacksmith, who, falling in love with a painter's daughter, changed his pro fession, ami succeeded better with pencil and palette than with forge and hammer. His fine painting in the Museum is the result of his am bitious resolve, and near the foot of ef the. tower of the Cathedral the visitor is pointed ouS an ele gant gothic canopy of wrought-inm over an ancient well, the conception and work of the same versatile me chanic. Surnmuuling the canopy is a beautiful iron figure of a knight in armor, and at the side of the west door of the Cathedral is a tablet set into the wall, upon which is engraved these words in Latin : " 'Twas Love connubial tan gat the smith to paint." The w hole history of our Repub lic, down to tiie terrible episode cf the war for its preservation from which, indeed, a higher civilization dates, a new and brighter future be gins abounds in objects deserving the best efforts of human genius. A people who have been absorbed in tho mighty task of building a refuge against onoression for the tribes of w 11 pelk'd to rut down the bloodiest re (A ( . bcliiou against natural rights tu tfic world's experience, have had little opportunity to imitate, much less to excel, those nations w hose victories in art have been grand and numerous in proportion as their populations have been kept down. Yet I cannot but long for the day when American painters and sculptors will rise to compete with the oldest masters, and when their first and most successful achievements will be to copy and preserve the faces and forms of those heroes in peace and in war who have contributed to the organization and to the salvation of our liberties. Female IxntisniY. Mrs. Betsey Smith, of St. Paul, Minnesota, writes to the Institute Club: I wish to know why wc have no National Industrial Exhibitions. Please have the Club see about it, will you? I would like to see some prizes offered for pro moting industry among women, so that tiie hard-working part of wo mankind may receive some of the honors lavished upon the delicate, b; jeweled fair ones who do the " fine arts'' of riding, painting, and em broidery for our State Fairs, and look with contempt upon the plain countrywomen who disyrace them selves by doing their own housework. The sririt of "gadding," known by the genteel name of " caliinti '' is abroad in the land, and women will even neglect babies and husbands to show their fine clothes. 1 beg of you do something to promote indus try among women, and make them appreciate- the importance of devot ing a part, at least, of their lives to making Lome beautiful and comfort able To excel in the " fine art" of house-keeping, .making home so per fect that its infldc-nce thai I send out into the world perfect men and wo men, is to achieve sometuin-i irrealer than anything yet performed by any fine lady who will waste her bus., band's money trailing costly silks iu the dust, or clspcnsinir cake and wine to callers, w hile her puny baby , t r .... -i cries us weary n j out in t he nan. is ot soma Jji'Ktget, r.tti her nusuauci toils away at his trade or farm. By the way, what would become of all such housekeepers if their husbands went cailliKt every afternoon! IIos- tality is a subject also which needs - . . IT! a gitalin::. u nen a man is away from homo all day without his meals, one would naturally expect some Lady Bountiful to offer him a lunch, but it is not the custom here, and when our men come home from a day's wandering up and down the earth on matters of business, so faint and weary, I am almost ready to go ou a lecturing tour. Temptation. A waggish journal ist who is often merry over his per-, sonal plainness, tells, this story of himself: " I went to a drug store early the other morning for a dose of morphine for a sick friend. The night cicrk objected to giving it to tr.e without a perscription, evidently fearing that I meant to destroy my self.'' " Pshaw!" said I "do I look iike a man who would kill himself 1" Gazing at me steadily for half a min ute, he replied, " I don't know. Seems to me if I looked like you, 1 should be greatly tempted iu that di rection ." Outrageous. " Betsy, my el-?ar," said Mr. Stubs, giving his wife a pair of damaged unmentionables, " have the goodness to mend these trousers. It will be as g-ood as go iug to the play to-night." Mrs. S. took her nced!e, but confessing she could not see the point, remarked: " How soT' " Because, my dear, you will sec the wonderful ravels in the pant o' mine.v Mrs. Stubs finished the job, and handing back the unmen tionables, told Stubs : " that's darued good." A "Tall" Aiinsx. An artist has painted a dog so natural that the animal had the hydroyhobia during the hot weather. He's the same man that painted a copy of a beer bottle with such ski!! that the cork fiew out just as he was finishing it. And after he was married he painted a picture of his first baby so life-like that it cried, and his wife spanked it before she discovered her mistake. Ax A noi'MF.N'T. In an argument in behalf of female suffrage one cf the reasons adduced is as follows : The angels in Heaven might have not rebelled had both sexes made up tbe pop-.tlatioii. We hear of no more discords there. Piquant as Ever. A Washing ton dispatch says: " Mrs. Cobb, sometimes styled 'the female brok er,' is iu town, looking as piquant and fascinating as ever." At! vice for JioiU S:Us. A countryman wa'ked into the of fice of a lawyer one day, and began his application: 44 Sir, I have come to get your ad vice in a case that is giving me some trouble-." " Well what's the matter?" "Suppose now," said the client, " that a man had one spring- of water on his laud, and his neighbor living below should build a dam across the creek through both farms, and it was to back the water up into the other man's spring, what ought to be done." " Sue him, sir, sue him by all means," said the lawyer, who always became excited in proportion to the aggravation of his clients. " I'ou can recover heavy damages sir, and the law will make him pay well for it. Just give mo the case, and Fll bring the money from him." " But stop' cried the terrified ap plicant for legal advice-. " It's! that has built, the dam, and it's neighbor Jones that ow:n the spring, and he threatens to sue me."' The keen lawyer hesitated a mo ment before he tacked his ship end kept on. " Ah ! well, sir, yen say you built a dam across the creek. What sort of a dam was it, sir P " It was a mil! dam." A mid cam; for grinding grain, was it V " Yes, it was j ist that." 'And it is a good neighborhood mi!!, is it 1" t; So it i, sir, arid you may well say so."' "And all your neighbors brincr their grain to be ground, do they V " Yes, sir, all but Jones." "Then it's a great public conveni ence1 is it not V " To be sure it is. I would not have built it but for that. It is so Lr superior to any other mil!, sir." " And now," said the lawyer, "you j those schools where brutality and ig tell me that Jones is complaining m.-rinee take the place of proper gov- just because the water from the dam j eminent and ability to teach, are ex happens to put b:i k, into his little j posed to view. The reforms which spring, and he is now threatening to S have been cfiUrled by means of these sue you. WtU, nil I have to say is j and similar dc'.incatior.r-, are, in value, let him sue, and he'll ruo the day, as ! beyond all calculation. Such a writer sure as mv name is Barns.'' t . r ... . . is one ol U:c greatcet ce tie factors of . o-o--c I Tin: Srrt-ATio.v. The President i his r .ce. And what reader contem would be infinitely clad to control ! r!:iti: L5s portraitures of individual the arrav, but so lov.tz as Grant is Genera! he can't do it, to any illegal end, unless he can first bene1. Grant to his designs. All orders, issued to the army cither by tbe President or Secretary t f War, are required by law to be issued through the General of the army, whose headquarters are ; rcquircd bv law to be at Washington, ! , L" i , , , : and cannot oc removed elsewhere ex-i ; cept by his own consent. This is our sole security now against John ; son, for we have no fear that Grant will permit an illegal order to be j executed. A Loose Fit. The following good old anecdote is going the rot.mds : When Dr. Holmes was on his way to Dartmouth, some years since, to deliver a literary addre-s in place of j Rufiis Choate, who from ill health was unable to be present, some one asked him if he was going to fill Choate's place. Fill Choate's place ' fill Chvatcs place !" exclaimed the Doctor. " No ; I'm going to rattle round in it." This is claimed by the New Bedford Mercury to be what Andrew Johnson is doing, in the place once filled by Lincoln. The life of a city local is not as smooth as velvet ; he has to cater to lb.-, t.itne -if il-.n nmirlr-'Ar-i rvrir. Ol" Lie. tu,..., e.-. ,.., j-.-i less, to the readers of the paper as well when their temper runs in a s-neo'th rrt nro o must his items: , , ,. , as very smootn ano ticitcate peopie aro sometimes milled by a rougir edred item, and sometimes the reader will imagine that he- is the original that the local may refl-r to, when, in fact, the writer may not know of such a being on top of the earth, much less care. Still, such is life, the life of the itemi.cr. rS . O Newspapick I i ems. Ile-nry Ward Beech er says the " item" column in a newspaper is worth all the rest, for "like a caravan, it stretches eiong countrymen . ' , . , ; IPs former visit to America was with packages and parcels, spaces anu ; h, ycar 1Sh,? a,,d nott as ie re gems, bits of fragrance or cunningly . lurn5 ;i(u-r a lapse of twenty five wrought metals, gathered from the' years, he may jret impressions of our Orient, and from the whole world be- i people very dmerent from those he r , , ri received be ro re. But whelher he wnl sides. The items of the paper, hko ; - Mr3. Ilommys. J, fer tile stuffing of the Thanksgiving tur-; jj,.:c.s r Odor.eJ Divers among key. represent everything in ihe ; ,,5 or Jia ceriain'y will not find house, crusts of bread, cracker;, and , a'nv ac0' otl the Ohio river or!se ailspiees.'' ! w here" to locate another Eden. ' y--.;e t'e re are those, who will not A great many persons construe : ior'ro j,;m foV what he has Paid the proverb: "Eat, drink and bo : America, tbt-re u i.'I be muhi- be merrv, for to-morrow ve die," into : t0Jc-s throughout tiie country t. .e,.:,,! to disregard all mend and ' awaid him a cordu.I oc me .;a " : therebv meet death : -fve his rcaomgs a mr-tCUuI ucut- move than half way. ' i o Wherever the English language is read, and a knowledge of the Eugj lish language, is now as wide as tho O globe, Charles Dickens is recogniz ed the greatest living writer of fi effort. It is recorded by a traveler who a few years ago was pass4g through the wilds of what was then known iu our country as the "Far West," that he saw a worn copy of Thomson'' s Seasons lying hi the window of th3 humble cabin in the wilderness where he stopped for the night, ud on sce iug it the expression broke from his o lips : "This is fame !" Who jjiat scs how vr idedy Dickens' works are cir culated, who that appreciates the powers of his genius and beholds the world delighted with his writings and united to Co him homage, does not realize that hU also is a true and en during fame, far more real and sub-Q stantial than that which has been achieved by many a cot.quereu- of kingdoms, or many a Ibunder of a race of kings? Probably no writer ever etjuailed Dickens in the number O variety, and originality of his charac ters. The most cunning portrayer of human nature since Shkspeare, very many of the characters with which he has peopled the realms ot imagination are fir better known to the generality of readers than are the famous names which have played a distinguished pait in the actual histos ry of the world. His power is uni versal! v acknowledged. No pen Las beer; so potent as his to correct social evils ; none has dgpe so much to introduce reform, not only in individual diameter but in organized systems of absurdity and O wrong. In J'cctl- Home the chancery system of England is he-Id up to de testation ; in Little Dorriti the Cir cumlocution Oirtee is made the olct of merciless ridicule; in Xicholas Xkhlcl-y tiie flagrant outrages of the ver-alilily and resources of this wondeiiiil mind; l.vcry humor cf the mind, every quality of the heait, evry passion of the sou!, obtains a character kiiciou. The world knows by heart the story of Winkle's ludi crous disasters ; of Sam Weller's shrewd eccentricities ; of Tom Phiclfs trustful simplicity ; of J c-nas Chuzzle- wi? unnat;,ral m' cdm!naI avarice ; of Sairey Gamp s endless garrulity ; , f , , , J ' ol -uaih. iapiey s py.lv good humor ; 0f PeeksnkPs and' ih iah Ile ep's des- picable hypocrisy ; of Bun shy's and Mr. Dick's rare wisdom ; of Captain O Cuttle s eccentric good nature and ex- emplary fidelity ; of Micawbcr's daily disappointments ; cf Turvey drop's pompons deportment ; of Skimpole's pretended childishness and ignorance of the use t-f money ; ef Mrs. Jc!!y by's telescrpic philanthropy ; of the Checrybles' generous and hearty be nevolence : of Chad band's and Sti- T 1 1 1 . I gins cierieai n pe-ci i -y, ami or i tic j thousand other peculiarities belon irg to the varitus characters which have been portrayed in the narrative's he lias sent forth in swift succession during more than thirty years. In describing the sorrows and sufferings of childhood, no author has equalled him, r.nti the stories of rjliver Twist, Little Paid, Poor Jo, and tlft early :iic of David Copperfic'd, are among the most beautiful and effective of all his touches. It is impossible to read his w oiks without feeling his Seep sympathy for what is most iioble in i man. and his abhorrence ot all thats , hypocritical, bigoted, sordid cr crueb ! Many American readers have been r;'i::i ' !'V Passages in Martin Chuz ! man. and his abhorrence of all that(i? ; sh t: It and the Anarican- Xoks J?but as this plea salt trr was not aUotrclhcr undeserved, we ought to be able also to laugh at such a portraiture of our owu eccentricities ami follies. Be sides, Dickens has dealt with his own countrymen qtut r-s severely as he has dealt with us. If lie: has painted a Pogram as a member of Congress, he. has also painted a Gregsbury as a member of Parliament ; and if he litis laughed iu AiiH-ricttn Xvtcs at the manners of s omr of our people, he has laughed in Pickwick with even ; greater -t at the manners of Lis rag.-Or I "-tl. ft 0 0 O o o o O Q o G o o G O O O o o 0 0 Ol o o ' i "4 .!