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VOL. 2. ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1869. NO. 10. Jw Jfcrog- Agister. PUBLISHED KTERV SATURDAY BT COLL. VAIVCLEVE. OFFICE OX COR.1CR OP FERRTT ASH FIRST-STS. TERMS IN ADVANCE. One Year. ..Three Dollar" Six Months Two Dollars Siugle Copies .....Ten Cents ADVERTISING RATES. Transient advertisements per Square of ten lines or less, first insertion, $) ; each subsequent insertion, $1. Larjrer advertisements inserted on tho most liberal terms. JOB WORK. Having received new type, stock of .colored Inks, cards, a Gordon Job'wr, etc., we are pre pared to execute all kinds of priming in a better manner and fifty per cent, cheaper tnan ever bo fore offered in this city. Agent for the Register. The following gentlemen are authorized to re ceive and receipt" for subscription, advertising, etc., for the Register : HIRAM SMITH. Esq Judjre S. H. CLAU(jHTON.. PETER III' ME, Esq W. R. KIRK. Esq K. E. WHEELER. Esq.i T. 11. REYNOLDS, Esq Geo. W. CANNON, Esq .1.. P. EISHER, Esq , Harrisburg. Lebanon. . .-Brownsville Scio. Salem. Portland. .......'Frisco. . BUSINESS CARDS. J. IIAl1'03t, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ' ALBANY, OREGON. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. A New Industry. We hear that a gentleman, lately arrived in this city, contemplates establishing a broom factory in the lower portion of the city. We hope the report is true, and that our cit izens will give the enterprise the neces sary encouragement. Everything that goes to build up our city and give it im portance abroad, should be encouraged and fostered by every well-wisher of Al bany. Success to the broom factory. Since writing tho above we learn that the name of the gentleman mentioned is W. D. Belden, Esq., and that he intends commencing operations as soon as a sup ply of material can be procured, which, at present, will have to be obtained in California. The establishment of this factory creates a demand "or" a new arti cle of consumption, which our farmers will be called upon to fill, and adds an other branch of industry to build up and make prosperous our beautiful little city. i Again, we extend the hand of welcome to Mr. Belden and family, and bespeak for them a hearty reception at the hands of our citizens. OUR LEBANON CORRESPONDENT. WHEAT. I think there will be a great deal of wheat raised in this vicinity next year, though many of our largest farmers have turned their attention to the culture of flax. The " large variety' or " large seed," seems to be the most in demand. Mr. E. Cartwright, agent for the Cali fornia Oil Co., has recently been through this county contracting with the farmers for sowing this variety of seed. He says he has contracted for about one thousand acres, lie pays the farmers of Linn county quite a compliment says their farms are neatefhan the farms below ; have not so many noxious weeds as the farms in Marion, Yamhill or Washington counties. ,Hence, he proposes to have all hit. flax seed raised in trRs county. THE TREE MASONS, Of Lebanoq, have procured a tract of five acres of land for a burying ground, in a most beautiful location, about one mile northeast from the vil- Arrived. Two steamboats arrived ' from below on Sunday last. They had LASSES ON A LARK. WHAT COME OF MASCULINE HABILIMENTS. A young lady from the cquntry ar rived in the city last week on a visit to a former school companion, recently mar ried and residing in the West End. Of course ,it is no business of the public what jolly times, they resurrected from out of the departed school days, and with what glee they, laughed over the college flirtations with handsome unknown men 'advertising for correspondence; and what narrow escapes hey had from the school matron in the dark. Those good old times were gone, and, as no harm had come of them, they could well afford to be jolly over them, j Their harum scarum proclivities were revived under the joyousness of their re union, and they determined to have some fun. There was ino "school-marm" now to watch them, and, with the aid and assistance of Harry's wardrobe, they would emulate the gloiious example of Mrs. Dr. alter, and, clinging to their ' college education, would take the dark ; for it. ! No, they wouldn't say a word to Har ii rv about it. They would put on the breeches and take a look around just for lage. The order is well represented in j the fun of the thing, and surprise Harry upon their return by asking to see his wife. They would not go far in their walk, and it would be so nice just to stop and take a peep into the nasty beer saloons and see what the men do at such places. 1 he programme was very prettily made o FFICE -On Brick. Main street, opposite F'atcr"a l-9 Hiltabidcl &. Co., BEALERS IX GROCERIES AXD PHO vuiona, AVood and Willow Ware, Confec tionery. Tobacco, Cigars. Pipes', Notion?, etc. Main street, adjoining the Express office, Albany, Oregon. I E. A. Frceland, "TkEALER IX EVERY DESCRIPTION OF JLf School, Miscellaneous and Blauk Books, Stationery, Gold and Steal Pens, Ink.-etc.. Post office Building, Albany, Oregon. Books ordered from New York and San Francisco. I C Mealey &. Co., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS in all kinds of Fnrniture and Cabinet Ware. First street, Mbany. this place and vicinity, by some of "Na ture's noblemen," and is quite prosper ous. We would not pas an unmerited i eulogy on Masonry, or 3Iasons ; but they lijivfi rArtainlv done a p-ood deed in PaV- 1 J o i rather a tedious voyage, the hipTh winds ! off the debts and takinsr care of the i' nroMilinir ,, s,tr,i,r ,irni. c, .. ., , , ,i ' and about eight o'clock that n ijrht there i prevailing on eaturaay drove tue ".: family of a brother who died recently; . , , i , ., , , i 3 , , sallied fort two plump-built personages, ' cess ashore, a few miles above Eola, , here. Well may the widows and orphans Wkin!, ;kc two handsome young me.,; wnere she was compelled to lay several j hc thankful that the husband and father j were it not for an awkward gait quite ! hours. Besides considerable freight the j .,a n ATicnn ' 1 unknown to masculines. visit' TO "the states i Their plan uld no douU have been t , -,r -,, n ' i -r ii- r ' carried out had not Harry got an inkling John W.Bell and Jesse A . George , rf the proposed. prouien from Mar. started last Monday on a visit to the Mis- j the servant girl. sissippi A'alley States the former on a i He slipped out after them, and keep visit to his aged mother, and the latter ! ing a respectful distance, followed in their t ..i. i - c. :.i ,fl-.; ! wake until he saw a Boliceman on the on to attend to some of his financial ailuirs. ! . T. 'i , , ; posite side of the street. It required Both are excellent citizens, and they j but a few moments for Harry to determ- carry with them the best wishes of this j iue what course he would pursue, and he Success landed three families of emi grants, about fifteen days from Iowa, who will take up their residence in this city. Oi'R New Mallet. Chas. Mealey Esq., presented us with a splendid mal let on Monday, made at his Cabinet and S. II. Clang-hton, "YTOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE jl AGENT. Office in the Post Office building. Iehannn, Orefftttt. Will attend to making Deeds and other convey ances, also to the prompt collection of debts en trusted to mv care. I J. n. JIITCHRI.I j. x. not-PH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, ATTORNEYS avi COUNSELLORS at LAW, Solicitors in Chancery and Proctors in Ad miralty. Office over the old Post 03ice. Front street. Portland, Oregon. I c. L KI.1NN. POWELL. Powell fc Fliiin, 1 TTDRXEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW 2 JL and Solicitors in Chancery, (Xm Flinn, Notary Public,) Albany, Oregon. Collections and conveyances prom ply attended to. 1 . JT. QUINT THORNTON, Attorney and Counselor at law, ALBAN, OREGON. WILL practice in the' superior and inferior courts of Marion, Linn, Lane, Benton and Polk counties. Five per cent, charged on collections when made without slicing. j!9-6 T. Jf. BEOFIFI.D. P. W. SPINK. fr. M REDFIELI) & CO., CONSTANTLY on hand and receiving, a large stock of Groceries and Provisions, Wood and 'Willow Ware, Tobacco, Cijrara,Con fectioncry, Yankee Notions. Ac. Ac, Wholesale and Retail, opposite R. C. Hill A Son's drug store, Albany, Oregon. 5oct9 W. KNIGHT, House, Sign & Carriage Painter, ' ALBA:.V, OREGON, Paperhangingr, Glazing-, Kalsomine, &c. E6 Country orders punctually attended to. First street, next door to Tweedale A Co.'s. May 8, 1869-33tf ALBA.W BATH HOUSE. wood. We are proud of our present, j that state. ;-you bet your boots." , i THE GOOD TEMPLARS New Medical Journal. The first Have enlarged their hall, and are rapidly i wl-n'i t n i. 1 n niiniTS 'I'llf-V li- 1 1 1 If number of the Oregon Medical and Sxr- I ,. , gical Reporter for November, has reached I , . , , us. It is published at Salem, on the first of each month, by the medical faculty of the 'Willamette University,and is edited by E. K. Fiske, A. M., M. D., assisted by the leading physicians of the State.. Terms 4 per annum, cur rency. It contains -much valuable in formation, and in its present hands will falnjT doubtless achieve a brilliant success. j Lebanon, Nov. 5, 18G0 perate, that should a perion dare open a '.' saloon," or " whisky-mill " here, he i would be hooted out of the village. This is as it should be. A man who will dare attempt to accumulate property or money by increasing the miseries of the human family, as does the saloon keeper, should be treated as an enemy of the human A. Double Dose. John Metzler, of the 0nl0.when the Grand Jury in the THE UNDERSIGNED AVOULD RESPECT fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi ciuity that he has taken charge of this establish ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying strict attintic 3 to business, expects to suit alt those who ma favor him with their patronage. Having heretofore carried on nothing but , First-Class Hair Dressing- Saloons, he ex pec's to give entire satisfaction to all. J Children and Ladies' hair neatly rut, and shampooed JOSEPH WEBBER. scv13y2 JAMES ELKINS, KOTARY PUBLIC. E. F. RUSSELL, ATTORXEY AT LAW. RUSSELL & ELKINS. (Office inParrish A Co.'s block, First street,) Albany, Oregon. , HAZS?f tTAKE31 INTO CO-PARTNER-SHIP Jahks Elkiks. Esq., ex-Clerk of Linn county, we .re enabled to add to our prac tice ef Law and Collections, superior facilities tor Conveyancing, Examining Records, and attending to Probate business ful?yerawBn0.nd,,' COntraCte nd Homestead and Pre-emption Papers made, and claims secured. "f B,w E1taU' foliated, and 'loan. cBMted on collateral Purities on reasonable pKMW t! thenx faithfully and . Albany, Oct. 10, '6SySSELL 4 E. Chair Factory on First street, on Friday last, met with a severe accident. Turn ing from his work-bench suddenly to ! cross the room, he struck his right foot against a broad-ax, cutting a terrible gash about the middle and on the inside of the foot. Just the day previous,John undertook to split a piece of board, or plank, when a piece flew up and hit him over the eye, cutting a healthy looking gash, or, to use a flash term, put a "head on him." John says he's just killing himself by inches. The First Locomotive. The Web foot, which arrived at Portland on Sat urday night last, brought the locomotive, "J. Ii. Stevens," for the O. C. Railroad. It was to be set to work, as soon ? as put up, in the construction of the road. Geese. Wild geese have made their appearance in vast quantities. Lakes, swails and stubble fields in this vicinity are stocked with them, affording shoot ists rare sport. The Working Class. See inter, estiog card of E. C Allen & Co., Au gusta, Maine, specially directed to tho working classes. FARMERS, TAKE NOTICE I I WILL give for EGGS, 37 1-2CESTSPEr1doE! . From and after this date, until further notice. It. CIIEADLE. October 30, '69-8 September Next According to the Salem Statesman, will witness the com pletion of the Oregon Central Railroad to that city. ' Another Steamer on Monday, load ed with freight for our merohants. Look out for new goods. See the adds. An Editor Beaten. J. H. Beadle, editor of the Utah Reporter, while, at tending Probate Court at Brigham City, on the 1st inst, was set upon and beaten nearly to death by Mormons." Beadle's attacks on Polygamy are given as the cause. Further trouble was appre hended.. , Purchasing Bonds. The Treasury Department announces that it will buy $10,000,000 iu bonds and sell $10,000, 000 in gold in November in New York. The gold speculators are disgusted. Deceased Fx- Governor Wyckliffe, of Kentucky, is dead. Common Pleas Court of Cincinnati were impanneled on the 1st inst., it was dis covered that one juror had served in the Penitentiary, and that auother was the man for robbing whom he was sent therev The former claimed that he was repriev ed. The jury was adjourned until the next day, with instructions to produce a copy of the reprieve. Death of Editors. Stephen C. Mil ler, editor of the Pulaski (N. Y.) Demo crat, died on tho 31st ult. On the same day, John B. Norman, editor of the New Albany(Ky.)daily Ledger, died suddenly of apoplexy. He had occupied the edit-wj orial chair twenty-two years. lie was 45 years of age. - . ' PROHiBiTED.-The Cincinnati Board of Education, by a yote of 25 to 13, passed a resolution prohibiting the reading of the bible in the public schools of that city. On the 2d inst. Judge Stover, of the Supreme Court, granted an injunction j restrain ins; the Board from carrying the resolution into effect. ' A Noted Chief Dead. Santana, Chief of the Kiowas, leader of the Indi ans in the desperate Washita fight with Custar's forces about a year sjnee, recent ly' died. ' Seriously III. Gen. Wool was pro nounced seriously ill on the 2d, at his residence in Troy, N. Y., and grave ap prehensions were felt as to his recovery. He is 86 years of age. Railroad Scheme. A scheme for the Canada Pacific j Railroad was formed at Montreal on the 2d inst. Length of tho line 2,500 miles ; capital, 20,000, 000. . - I Tho fear of the rivalry of the blacks, entertained by .the Rebels and Demo crats, is shown t be well founded in cur rent history. The j negroes around Ma con, Ga., are now bringing into the city three thousand bales of cotton, valued at 8300,000. A population more thrifty, industrious and prosperous, cannot be found among the white residents around any city in the country. The money thus obtained will go far toward estab lishing tbem in independent circumstances. Appropriate Laborers. A San Francisco paper gets off the following: In his "speech" at the Chamber of Commerce rooms, Friday evening, Mr. Mooney stated that he had met a China man on the stairway who was engaged in the menial occupation of scrubbing stairs and cleaning out spittoons. Mr. Monney raised his voice in protest; Chinamen should not be employed when there were so many of his own race, better fitted for such occupations, lyinj around tho Labor Exchange with nothing to do. lie wan ted the spittons and stairs reserved as the special perquisites of the glorious na tion which has produced an O'Connell, an Emmet and a Mooney. He demand ed as a right Mr. Sneath explained that no disre spect was intended toward the white race in tendering the position in question to a Chinaman instead of to the gentleman last up; in fact, the Chamber of Com merce could wash their hands of the whole matter, for the Chinaman was simply a sub-contractor, the original job having been let to colored men. Mr. Mooney attempted to resume his speech, but was choked off, finally, by a combination of the bloated Insurance Companies', assisted by the Bank of Cal ifornia and other influential institutions. And thus truth has been crushed to earth once more. A young man recently wrote to his sweetheart, saying: ''There is not a glo bule of blood in my heart which does not bear your photograph." What a bloody lot of pictures! Omaha, according to her best judg ment, now contains 22,000 inhabitants- i Furniture Factory, corner of First and Broadalbin streets. It is made from a j eutire community for their happiness and : at once communicated with the "night curly maple knot, and a neater or more I prosperity while absent. Another one I (ruardian," and it was agreed to give the I . . : . .... i 1 - 1 . . . i ladies a tood scare. serviceable printers mallet isn t manu- I of our citizens, Mr. Geo. Lckler, migrat- j ri " , . , ,(., , 1 . . i ; J'iarry kept out ot the way, anu the factured anywhere. Charley, in addition , ed, not to the " States," but to the stale i p0ce officer hurried after the pseudo to being an expert in the manufacture of j of matrimony a few days ago. - He took young men, whom he finally arrested. cabinetwa-e, furniture and sich, is al as his traveling companion Miss Kate 1 " Yes, they were the very persons he had genius in the mechanical line, and can j Carothers, a very estimable youns'lady i weu .ooKing aner-uspecte.1 ourgiars j . ' ,i ' J j r j . luVLSi Q t0 the staion-house be exam- repair or make almost anything under ; of your city. They did not go on a visit j ;Dej etC- the suu that can be manufactured out of ! but have become permanent citizens of! Here was a dilemma, sure enough.! rlora, the visitor, begged hard, in a sil very, musical voice, while Laura remain ed silent, and seemed to be racking her brain for o mode of escape. " No, could not lot them go." Five dollars was of fered. No '. ' Ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, and still the offer was re fused. Flora's heart couldn't stand it any longer, and visions of a' loathsome dung eon, among spiders, rats and mice, filled her brain, while tears filled her eyes, and she sobbed most piteously.' Laura did not weep, but she saw into what trouble they had been brought, and resolved to get out of it. She said she would go to the station house, but it was all a mistake. T hey proceeded up a street, and opposite the door of their house Laura made a break from the policeman, and plucky enough cleared a low iron fence in a bound, and rushed into the house screaming for Harry. That individual was standing on the side-walk immediately opposite, and was enjoying the discomfiture of the pair hugely. Flora was released by an appa parently real intercession of Harry, and the two proceeded indoors only to find that the married vixen had secured a re volver and was about to proceed to the rescue of her chum. The scare was severe though, and the shock prostrated the visitor on a bed of sickness for two days. Harry has learned of new qualities in his wife, never dreamed of, and thinks she i3 fully able to vote, whether in panta loons or petticoat. A Romance In Real Life. A Paris correspondent says ; "A very extraordinary story was recently narrated to me,.for the truth of which I can vouch. An American gentleman, a man of mid dle age and wealthy, who has a splendid suite of apartments in a fashionable quarter of the town, had a curiosity to enquire of his landlady who and what were his fellow tenants. After she had described the nsual families, an troiseme, the clerks, strangers, etc., the actors, mil liners, and musicians, who inhabited the highest flights, madame recalled a remote garret corner, inhabited by a young lady, whom she described as afflicted by a dreadful eruption, which rendered her hideoas, and who was to the last degree, poor, neglected, aud hopeless. ' Still, she is a lady a true lady. Poor soul, she cannot live long in such misery !' " My friend visited the invalid, and found her in dreadful circumstances.-He ascertained that she was cvidenly a Ger man, though speaking several languages like a native. lie bade the 'landlady remove the sufferer to a good room, pro vide her with comforts and medical at tendance, and call upon hirii for weekly allowances for her support, after which he almost forgot his charity, or if he did recollect it, it was with a shudder at the dreadful wretchedness which he had wit nessed. "One morning the landlady came and stated that the poor( lady had recovered, that his allowance had been so carefully managed that she was provided with a traveling outfit, and thaf before returning to Germany she wished to return him her thanks. " lie assented ; and what was his sur prise when, instead of the pale, shrunken, horribly repulsive object whom he had seen, there entered a young lady of ex traordinary beauty, whose every glance and movement, despite the plainness of her dress, indicated style and elegance. " Her gratitude was unbounded ; she seemed almost to worship the man who had been so generous. She did not, however, hesitate to accept from him a further gift of money, after which she departed. " All this took place some time ago. Last autumn our American traveled. At every town he found rooms engaged for him ; distinguished people called on him; every comfort seemed to fall on him as if by luck. It was to luck he attributed it, for though a mysterious hand was at work, he did not for a long time suspect it. " While at Berlin hg was, however, amazed at receiving an invitation from one of the first of the Hanovarian nobil ity to visit him at his estate. He w;nt there, was overwhelmed with kindness, and found in the castle, as only daughter and heiress of his host, the young lady whom he had relieved in Paris. "The next day she explained the mys tery. I regret that I cannot do it. It was one of those long stories of dreadful crime, shame, and an innocent victim agony and flight, which hang over most noble families, and once in every generation or so, bear a sufferer to the abyss. In the last instant of hope, the American had rescued such a victim, and circumstances had enabled her to return to her former station." Colfax at Salt Lake. The Hel ena (3lontana) Jferald, of October 10th, says : From a gentleman just arrived from Salt Lake, we learn some particulars of the visit of Vice-President Colfax and suit to the Mormon city last week, and of the grand festival tendered him by the Gentile citizens thereof. The ball was given at Odd Fellows Hall, at which some three hundred persons were present none but Gentiles being invited. The affair was a brilliant success, and reflected great credit upon the good taste, refine ment and liberality of the citizens. Our friend says that among the invited guests was Madame Scheller, who appeared dressed most exquisitely, and who was 'almost as much an object of attraction as 31 r. Colfax bimselt. As the Vice-President and party ap proached, the city, both Mormons and Gentiles dispatched Committees of Re ception; but when the Mormon Commit tee offered him a carriage, Colfax said with emphasis, "Thank you, gentlemen, I have already accepted the hospitalities of my brethren." In his speech, subse quently,' at Free-masons' Hall, he ex pressed himself very decided in his views, made several caustic allusions in regard to the "peculiar institution," and declared that "the laws of the country must be ir revocably enforced." In referring to the late memorial of the Mormons for tho ad mission of Utah as a State, Mr. Colfax proclaimed tho truth that Utah never will be admitted while polygamy remains the dominant power within the Territory and scarcely while the institution exists at all therein. He refused all invitations and attentions teudercd him by the Mor mons, justly rebuking them by his rigid reserve, and keeping himself extremely distant from them. The Georgia Gold Mines. The Rome (Ga.) Commercial, speaking of the gold diggings in Barstow county, and of the gold mines owned by a Boston com pany, says that discoveries will be exhib ited that will astonish all the searchers after mineral wealth, and nothing the like whereof has ever been heard on American continent. "Some of oar most truthful citizens have seen speoimens of the oar and bear witness to the great value of it. It is represented that one ton of the ore, recently taken from the shafts, has been tested and examined, and will yield 820, 0001" . ' '. If you go in a store and find the clerk lying on the counter asleep, you may know that the firm don't advertise. Any thing for a quiet life. A Strange Story. , The following story as was told to us, happened near Lake City, Indiana, where there lived at the breaking but of the war a wealthy farmer whom we will call Blank. This man kept a number of servants ; among them was a good and. religious young girl, possessyio; unusual personal attractions. She was courted by an officer of some rank in the federal army, while at homo recruiting his regi ment. When the day of his departure came he mado know to the servant girl how deeply she had interested him, and begged to know if there was any hope. She confessed that his attachment was reciprocated, and they were at once affi anced. " Should Mr. Blake," said Jennie, " come to know of this, I should at once be discharged. He believes it was his daughter for whom your visits were in tended." - - " Should this be so.'? returned her fond- lover, " only write and let me know, and. you shall not suffer." With an affectionate kiss, and promises that both would be punctual m letter writing.they separated, he -to join his re-rimeut among the boys on the Poto- j mac. ' . ! He waited long and anxiously fr tid- j ings of his loved one', but not onql word j was received to ease his troubled mind. j Finally his own letters were returned. i What could all this mean ? Was Jennie I. false ' He could not believe it. t ' After the soldier's departure, Mr. i Blank took Jennie into a room, fastened j the door, aud, with a rawhide in his j hand, commanded her to tell him if she I was betrothed to Col. . When she I had told him all, he had her blind-folded i and taken to the great city of Chicago, and lei t there without f riends or money. He reported that she had died of chol era, and to make the deception complete, he built a false grave. When the war was over, Col. re turned home, and made his way at once to the old graveyard, and sought out that of his lost Jennie. After bathing the little mound with tears, he made his way to the house of Mr. Blank to learn the particulars. While he was there the guilty man ordered the tombstone for the false grave. In due time they were placed at the supposed grave, with some evergreens and flowers. Col. had been a mourner three years after the war closed, until Deceni4 ber, 18G3, when business called him to Chicago. There, in a street car, with a j bundle of soiled clothes which she was taking home, to wash, he found his buried Jennie. lie flew across the street, and, taking her in his arms, he almost scream ed for joy. He had found hor at last. Kansas City Journal. ' " Romance in RebI Life. An Iowa paper of recent date gives the particulars of a romantic story which borders some what on the marvelous : Years ago a Pennsylvania farmer loved and married a charming youug girl that lived near him. The marriage time pass en on. and soon the farmer contracted a taste for liquor, which frequently got the best of him. His wife remonstrated with him which on one occasion ended by the husband stabbing ber with a butcher knife. He left precipitately, supposing he had killed her, hid himself in the West, where in a few years he became a prosperous and wealthy merchant. The wife in the meantime recovered, and after living alone for five years, married again. Her husband, however, died at the expi ration of a year; and she also went to the West. Then the incredible part ot the story appeared. The parties met again after their long separation, and became acquainted, but neither recognised the other. An engagement was entered into, resulting in marriage, and upon the wife disrobing in the evening he notices the' scar made by his hand years ago, and suddenly recognizes her as his wife of former years. Hero is a chance for story writers. 1 How it Originated. Concerning the phrase " everything is lovely and the goose hangs high," an Illinois gentleman says : " A practice prevailed in some parts of the South, before the war, to have a ' goose pulling' frolic about the holidays, conducted as follows:-A goose would be tied by the feet to the limb of a tree, just high enough for a horseman in passing under, by rising in his stirrups, to reach the head of the foul, and give it a pull. The string not being strong a sharp jerk would bring the bird down. Each ' sport ' paid the owner of the bird a ' bit for a chance to ; pull it from the limb. If he succeeded, the goose' was his. Sometimes the goose would be hung a little too high, and so elude the grasp of the catcher as he- rode under the branch from which the web-footed, bird was sus- j-pended. In such cases as the horsemen galloped patin quick succession, the re mark would be made by the laughing and hooting bystanders, that everything was lovely and the goose hung high." . The vote in the Methodist Episcopal Church on the question of lay delegation is reported by the New York Metlutdist as follows : For lay delegation, 104,410 ; against, 67,044. Majority for, 73,360. Returns from , twenty-two conferences give the clerical vote on the question as stated: For lay delegation, 1,600; against 412. Majority for, 1,118. To carry the amendment it is necessary that it should receive the votes of three-fourths of the members (clorioal) of the annual conferences. . . . ' ' Hitherto no Jews have been admitted to any Austrian university as professors. This prohibition has now been removed, and the first Jewish professor .has been appointed in the person of Dr. Mauthner who has obtained the Chair of Opthal mic Surgery in the University of Innsbruck. ; . Seals. ... '."'.!. The talents of the seal are manifold, from the agility which it displays in catching fish for its master, to the capac ity ne has shown in actually learning to speak. More than one seal has been taught to utter distinctly the word papa, and several animal of the kind are re ported to have gone even beyond, and to have pronounced several words at a time. Nor must their love of music be forgot ten, which is so great that they will rise from the water and remain nearly stand ing upright as long as the instrument is played, to which they listen with unfeign- 1 ed pleasure. It is not so very long- since one ot this verv remarkable race catua every day for. six weeks from the waters of the Mediterranean, to take her rest under the diTan of a custom-house officer in Smyrna. The latter had tamed her, and placed a few rough plunks at the dia'ano : of about three feet from - tb- water s edge under his couch, and on these boards the seal loved to rest for several hours, giving vent to her delight edly enough, in a profusion of sighs like those of a suffering man. She ate read ily the rice and the bread which were offered her, though she seemed to have some trouble in softening the former suf ficiently to swallow it with ease. After an absence of several days the affection ate creature appeared with a young one under her arm, but a mcnth later she plunged one day, frightened, into thtf water, and was never seen again. Nearly about the same time, another 'seal appeared suddenly in the very midst ot the pjrt of Constantinople, undisturb ed by the number of caiques dashing to and fro, and the noise ot a thousand ves sels - with their crews and passenreri. One day the boat of the French Lega tion was passing over the Pera, loaded with' wine for the embassador. A drunk en sailor was sitting astride on a cask, and singing boisterously, when all of a sudden the seal raised himself out of the water, seized the sailor with his left arm, and threw himself with his prey back into the waves. He reappeared at somo distance, still holding the man under hia fin, as if wishing to display his agility, and then sank once more, leaving the frightened, sobered, sailor, to make his way back, to the boat. "- Surely, nothing more than one such occurrence was needed to give rise to the - many romances of former age ; if tbe same, even, had happened in earlier days, the seal would have been a beautiful Nereid, who, having conceived a passion for the hapless sailor, had risen to take him down to her palace under the waves. 1'ut nam's Magazine. v ' Fctvbe Politics. The following are four of the leading measures that will en gage tho attention of the American : peo ple henceforth as national principles: First, A consolidation and refunding of the national debt at the lowest possible rate of interest. Second, Such a modifi cation of the tariff as will cheaper the oost of living among tbe mass of consu mers without materialy curtailing our -home industries. Third, A reduction of internal taxes so as to leave riot more than $40,000,000 surplus revenue per annum toward the gradual extinguish ment of the debt, whereby tho inoomo tax may be dispensed with entirely. Fourth, A law for the ownership or man agement of all inter-State railway lines by the Government. Removal of the Federal Capi tal. It is a settled idea in the Western mind that the Capital shall be removed to some point in tbe Mississippi valley. The convention recently convened at St. Louis represented very energetic, inter ests. Their proceedings sum up the con clusion that it was nbsurd to suppose that the handful of inhabitants in 1798 passed, or desired to execute, the authority to fix the site of the National Capital forever on the banks of the Potomac: that the people have endured the present ill-located Capital three-quarters of a century, patiently wating for that vast territory of the Union to be peopled and organized into states, and- until the centre of pop ulation, area and wealth could be deter mined, when'a permanent location for tho seat of Government could be selected ; that the time has come when all sectional The Boston Advertiser publishes a letter from Europe, written by an cmin.,.. Boston banker, in which the fact is stated that the dishonorable propositions in finance which are pnt forth by a political party in this country give a feeling o insecurity in regard to American bonds; and though many Europeans , have been tempted by a high rate of interest to in vest in them, such investments have been made in the face of supposed risk - and by the more daring and less conservative class of investors. The intciest is thus kept up at a high rate by the action of the baser sort of American politicans. .This Democratic party is costing the ouuotry a good deal more than the principal of the debt which was ereated by their unfaith fulness and want of patriotism. ; Trial on a Copt. In the U. S. Cir cuit Court at Cincinnati, a short time sinoe, a motion was male to quash an in dictment on the ground that the original had been lost, counsel , for the defence being suspected of having stolen and making way with it. The Judge unhes itatingly overruled the motion and order- . ed the case to be tried on a copy of the ' missing, indictment. Let this ruling become general and we shall hear. less, frequently of lost indictments. ( " A newspaper was started not long ago,' the first number of which contained a let ter from a correspondent who signed, bim self a constant reader. Mark Twain says Vanderbilt is 104 years old and yet never drank' anything stronger than kerosene in his Efe.