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VOL. 2. ALBANY, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 28. 1870. PUBLISHED ETERV SATURDAY BT COLL. VAXCLEVE. OFFICB OS CORSETS OF PERCY AND FIRST-STS. PORTLAND CARDS. E. F. RUSSELL, I Attorney at Law, t TERMS IN ADVANCE. One Year .'.....Three Dollars Six Months ."...Two Dollars Single Copies Ten Cents ADVERTISING RATES. Transient advertisements per Square of ten lines or loss, first insertion, $3; each subsequent insertion, 81. Larger advertisements inserted on the most liberal terms. . JOB WORK. Having received new typo, stock df colored iabs, cards, a Gordon Jobber, etc., wo are pre pa ed to execute all kinds of printing in a better manner and fifty per cent, cheaper ttian ever be fore offered in this city. C. P. FERRY, "Notary Public. RUSSELL & FERRY, Real Estate Brokers & Colle'ctiiii Agents, Portland, - - - Oregon. Agents for the Register. The following gentlemen are authorized to re ceive and receipt for subscription, advertising, etc., for the Register : HIRAM SMITH. Esq Ilarrisburg. Judge S. H. CLACtf UTOX... Lebanon. PETER HUME, Esq -Brownsville TV. R. KIRK, Esq E. E. WHEELER. Esq Scio. T. H. REYNOLDS, Esq Palcm. Geo. W. CANNON, Esq Portland. L. P. FISHER, Esq 'Frisco. BUSINESS CARDS. A. WHEELER, otary X u b 1 i c . BROWNSVILLE, OREGON. - f EG AL INSTRUMENTS OF ALL KINDS Ji made an ' attested. Conveyances and col lections attended to. 1269 BCRMCSTER & BELLINGER, 4 TTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW, J Albany, Oregon. Oefice in the Parrish Brijk. 23 J. UAMO., Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ALBANY, OREGON. FFICE On Main street, epposito Foster! Brick. I-oa o HUtabidel & Co., DEALERS IN GROCERIES AND PRO risions. Wood and Willow Ware, Confec tionery, Tobacco, Cigars, Pipes, Notions, etc. Main street, adjoining the Express office, Albany, Oregon. I E. A. rrecland, DEALER IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF School, Miscellaneous and Black Books, Stationery, Gold and Steel Pens, Ink. etc.. Post oface Building, Albany, Oregon. Books ordered from New York and San Francisco. I I , S. XI. Clang-Mori, NOTARY PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. Office ia the Post 03ka building, Lebanon, Oregon. Will attend to making Deed? and other convey ances, also to tha prompt collection of debts en trusted to my care. 1 I J. H. HITCtlEI.L. J. S. DOLPH. A. SMITIX. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, ATTORNEYS aso COUNSELLORS at LAW, Solicitors in Chancery and Proctors in Ad miralty. Office over the old Post Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. I JAMES A. WARNER, Civil Engineer & Surveyor. IS PREPARED TO DO SURVEYING AND Engineering. Uses improved Solar Compass. Orders by mail promptly attended to. ResHeuce on 4ih St., opposite Dr. Tate's residence, Albany Oregon. eI9 Cm . POWELL. ,1.. FLIXS. Powell & Flieisj, A TTORNEYS A COUNSELLORS AT LAW and Solicitors in Chancery, (L.'T'linn, Notary Public,) Albany, Oregon. Collections and conveyances jpromply attended to. 1 SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO TIIE Sale of Real Estate, Real Estate Litigation, and the Collection of Claims. Office, North-west eorner of First and Wash ington Streets, Portland, Ogn. feb2C-70-25 8. D. EMITB. GEO. B. COOE. THE OCCIDENTAL, FORMERLY western ECotol, Corner First and Morrison streets, Portland, Oregon. , . Messrs. SMITH & COOK have taken this well known house, refitted and refurnished it tbruugbot, built a large addition, making thirty more pleasant rnoms, enlarged tho Dicing and Sitting rooms, making it by far the Best Hotel lu Portland. A call from toe traveling public will satisfy them that the above statements are true. SMITH COOK, Props. N. B. Hot and cold' Baths attached to the house for tho benefit of guests. 50 Portland, August 15th, IS69. AMERICAN EXCUAKGE, CORNER OF Front and Washington Streets, PORTLAND, OREGON. L. P. W. Quimby, - - - - Proprietor. (Late of tho Western Hotel.) TIII3 HOUSE is the most commodious in the State, newly furnished, and it will be ths endeavor of the Proprietor to make his gueste comfortable. Nearest Hotel to the steamboat landing. S-SS" Tho Concord Coach will always bo four at the landing, on the arrival of steamships ar river boats, carrying passengers and their bag gage to and from the boats free of charge. Mouse supplied Kith Patent Fire Extinguishers. COSJIOPOEITAIV IIOTEt,. (formerly arrigosi's,) Front street : Portland, Oregon. r. m. redfiem). p. w. SPINE. F. M REDFIELD St CO., C10NSTANTLY on hand and receiving, a J large stock of Groceries and Provisions, , Wood and Willow Ware. Tobacco, Cigars, Con . feetionery, Yankee Notions, Ac., 4c, Wholesale and Retail, opposite R. C. Hill 4 Son's drag store, Albany, Oregon. 5oet9 ST. CHARLES HOTEL, Comer First and Washington Sis., OREGON. Proprietor. ALBANY, - ' - II. BRENNER, WITH A .NEW BUILDING, NEWLY Furnished throughout, the proprietor hopes to give entire satisfaction to the traveling public. The beds are supplied with spring-bottoms. The table will receive the closest atten tion, and everything the market affords palatable to guest will be supplied. ... jan20-2I FRANKLIN MARKET, Main street, -- Albany, Oregon. 2fTe a t s of All Kinds, ISO OF -THE VERY BEST QUALITY, Constantly on hand. . 30-6m' G. B. HAIGHT. THE, UNDERSIGNED, nAVING PUR- i chased this well known Hotel are now pre- ' pared to offer the traveling public better accom- i modations than can bo found elsewhere ia the ! city. j Hoard, and Lodging- ?2 OO per day. The Hotel Coaeh. wi11 be in attendance to con- vey Passengers and baggage to and from the : Hotel free cf charge. J. B. SPRENGER. j Office Oregon 4 California Stage Conipanv, B. G. WaiTEHOCSE, Agent. 2tf Xcxv Colmnbiaii Hotel, N:'S. 11S, 120 and 122 Front street, POETLAriD, : : : OREGON ED. CARNEY, PROPRIETOR. The Largest, Best and mo-t Convenient Hotel in Portland! Located in the center of business and near all the. steamboat landings. Board ani Lodging From one to two dollars per day according to the room occupied. 559- Rooms newly furnished and well ventil ated. Snperior accommodations for families. The New Columbian Hotel Coach will be in attendance at all the landings to convey pas sengers and baggage to and from this Hotel 17 J-Treo oi Charge ! -S2 69 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. LADIES' EMPORIUItl. MRS. A. J. DUNIWA7, SEALER IS FasMonaMe Iinmeryaii-1 Fancy Goods. Follows Dress and Cloak Making in all their varied branches. BLEACHES AND PRESSES STRAW GOODS In Latest Style and best manner. STAMP FOR BRAID AND EMBROIDERY. Corner First and Broada'bin streets, Albany, Oregon. janlnl7-T0 C. ME A LEY DEALER IN 4 MANUFACTURER OF. and !E2 2 CABINET WAHE ! 13 e titling, XHtc, Corner First and Broad Albin streets, ALBANY, OREVON. ALBANY SHAVING SALOON. THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING OPENED a New Shaving Saloon, en First street, Al bany. Oregon, invites ail those wishing a Clean Share, Hair Dressing, or Shampooing, to give him a ealL " J. H. BACKSNSTO. Albany, April 2, 1870.-39 v ALBASY BATH HOUSE. THE UNDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi cinity that he his takeu charge of this establish ment, and, by keeping clean rooms and paying strict attintic ? to business, expects to suit all those who d) favor him with their patronage. Having heretofore carried on nothing but First-Class Hair Dressing' Saloons, ha expee'a to give entire satisfaction to all. fsS- Children and Ladies' bair neatly rat and hampeoed. - ;- s JOSEPH WEBBER. - ' - C).I9y2 PAtTTItCLAB ATTEHTIOJI PAID TO -32i ORDERS OF ALL EZNBS LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. Give them "iVork. Every ocean steamer plying between San Francisco and Portland conveys an addition to the population of Oregon, a portion of whom -are young men without families, whs are induced to come hero in the hopes ot being able, by industry and frugality, to make for themselves a home among us. : Many of these young men are finding their way to Albany. In a majority of cases they are supplied with but little money. With but very little more than enough to cover necessa ry traveling expenses from their Eastern homes to the far West, they arrive among us, in some instances that have come un der our observation, without a dollar left, relyiug u5ou the statements mado to them previous to undertaking tho jour ney, that plenty of work, at remunerative wages, could be obtaiued for the asking as soon as they struck our shores. Gen erally they are composed of the very material Oregon wants men of brawn and muscle, inured to labor, who are not only willing but anxious to secure some kind of employment by which they can obtain an honest livelihood. Wc have invited them here, and it is not only our duty but to our interest to give them employment, that we may retain them in our midst. They arc the kind of men that make good citizens; they possess the energy and muscle necessary to aid us in more fully developing the great natural resources of our country ; they will build our dwelliugs, clear our lands and make them ready for the plow in fact, euter with spirit and zest into all I the various channels of industry opened to them. We know that times are dull at present, and money "tight," and of course the demaud for labor and laborers limited ; but the busy season is approach ing, when all the labor that can be ob taiued will not fill the demaud. Our j farmers not only have a prospect for lar-e ! yields the coming harvest, but the-indi- cations are that prices for grain will rule j much higher than for some time past, j therefore it is to their interests that the entire crops should be secured. Last J harvest great complaints were made that j Sufficient forte could not be obtained to j save the crops, and a large amount of grain was destroyed iu consequence. Looking at the matter from this stand point aloae, would it not "pay" our farm ers to incur a little extra ' trouble and expense note to take care of and retain this labor element as fast as-it reaches us that we may reap its benefits iu the future ? So far as we are iufoimed, these unemployed hands are willing to stay with us until harvest arrives, creat ing a demand for their services, at mere nominal pay for their present labor, and in some instances are willing to make themselves useful until that time in con sideration of their board and lodging. This is cheap enough, in all conscience, and there are few of our farmers who could not board and lodge one or more of these new comers with decided profit to himself. In Portland and other places they have organized -societies, whose duty and pleasure it is to find employment for all applicants. In lieu of such society, those of our farmers who are willing to take one or more persons seeking employment, are requested to leave their orders with any of our' merchants, stating at the same time the kind of employment and the amount they are willing to pay therefor. In this way, honest and industrious young men, arriving in this community from the older States with little or no. means, may be furnished with homes until places are opened for them, enabling thetn to become permanent and honored citizens. Without such encouragement we need not expect to retain among us the very cream of the incoming tide pt emigra tion, so long wished for, that ia now fairly set in toward these shores. Will not each and every citizen of Linn county take hold of this matter, and do whatever may be in bis power to lend it aid and encouragement? ; Vlshtl's Message.. "But the Queen Vashti refused to come at the King's commandment by his chamberlains.' Book of Either, 1:12. Say to the King : I will not come his Queen That am not, and never have been. Say to the King: I will not stand again, A beauteous lie, among his princely men.' Say to the King : Cold pomp, and regal state, And glittering servitude but mock my fate. Say to the King : I am his slave my lifo Made all a splendid irony for wife. -Yet, say ye to the King : 'Twcre street to wear A sackcluth-gown, aud knetl before him there, Unsaudeled, mean, among that rieh-robod throng, Braving its wonder when I passed along, So he would raise mo with one true, pure kiss ; This were my wifehood, and my queenhood this. HOW I GOT MARRIED. BY GEORGE TOWN BRIDGE. Yes,. I'm a married man. at last ! That is my .wife sitting overahere in the great arm chair that slender, delicate crea ture, with the soft, creamy face, and lus truos golden hair; aud that queer little thing in her lap, over whicfli the coos so tenderly, that ia my son and heir, Charles Townbridge, jun. - Heavens! what a feeling of importance it gives a fellow'to know that his name will live after his body is under the soda ! I never knew what it was to be a man before. I'm one now, every inch of me, as Lear was every inch a king. A woman-hater ! Thai's what I've been called all my life, and the cognomen was not missapplied. I did hate women, and excluded myself fiom their society, aiid sneered at their frailties until well, until that little woman yonder glorified the whole feminine gender for me. I'm a changed man. 1 can't pass a bit of fe male apparel in a shop wiudow a chig non, or a knot of ribbon without a ten der thrill at my heart. I'm an old fool, that's about the amount ef it. : Twenty years ago! Bless my soul, what a long wavs to look back ! Such a misty, winding road, cut across at every i dari;R boy how turn uy tuu $iu?3 icuu gru.ua ui ueau friends and b'ighted hopes ! Ah me ! I would net go back and tread it all over again if I could ! Twenty years n''o I I met with my first disappointment, and ! it made mo a misauthrope, a woman- ! hater. I was a young stripling then, just six teen, the sjle idol and com fort of an over fond mother. -We lived all alone iu a neat little villa at Shepherd's Bush ; and mother was bent on making a great man of me poor, fond mother ! She confi dently believed that I possessed any amount of undeveloped talent, and denied herself a thousand little comforts in order tosecurefor me the advantages necessary to bring it into action. Looking back upon these days now, it affords me a kind of melancholy satisfaction to know that she went to her eternal rest, happily un conscious that ail her selfish labor had cloath coat with the corner of her apron, and twisting my well oiled locks over her thin fingers ; " aud she'll take you, too, it she's not devoid of appreciation." My heart swelled with gratified vanity as I put the glittering toy in my pocket, and started. She ; followed a c out, and then down to the garden gate. " Good by, my boy," she called, as 1 hurried through. Something in her voice made me look back, and I noticed that her face had a strange,. white look, and her eyes running over with tears. ' " What is it, mother?" I asked, turn ing and taking her hand. " Nothing nothing at all, my dear. Only this new joy won't make you quite forget mo, will it, Charley ? " " Oh, mother, no," I cried, throwing my arms round her neck, and kissing her white cheeks. " I shall never love any oneelse as I loxa you.' - .r " My darling, my pride," eho mur mured.' "No, other mother ever had such a son you never caused ine a mo ment's sorrow, Charley." " I'm glad of it, mother. Good bye." " Good by, my boy." I left her standing there in the autumn dusk, and went up to Major Weaver's. The fates were propitious; I found Jessie alone in the parlor, singing to her guitar. " "lis you, Charley," she said care lessly, as I entered. " There, sit down while I sing to you." I obeyed reluctantly enough, for I was in a fever of impatieuce. To this day I have no idea of what she sang ; but the instant she Gnished, I was at her side. " Jessie," I said, unfolding the scented paper that contaiued the brooch," liere's j a present I've brought yjju, and liut sno cut snort my acciaration, which i had " cut and dried " weeks be forehand, with a scream of delight. " For me, Charley ? " she cried, as the clittering toy flat hod on hei sifiht ; "" 'tis the very thin" 1 wanted. lou dear. shall i ever thank I made up my mind to take his advise. I threw away my pens and paper, and bought a small mercantile business. It was a tedious life ; yet I soon grew to love it. Twenty years after I found my self a' rich man, the propriotor of the Walnut Hill Estate. I had ample means, so I gratified my love for travel. I wandered all over Europe, launched my bark upon the Nile, and sat beneath the shadow of the Pyra mids ; returning home again, sunburned and footsore with a weary, loveless heart. I shut myself up, having no intercourse with my fcllew-men, and regarded wo mankind with a bitter feeling of hate and distrust. One sunny, autumn afternoon I have vivid remembrance of it, even to this day ; it was early in October, and the sunlight, streaming down upon the great walnut trees in front of my dwelling, and gliuting through the tawny chestnut leaves, seemed to have a peculiar warmth and brightness I lay on a little hillside, watching by turns' tho blue smoke curl ing up from my mcershaum, and the busy village folks down below me. There was a fair, or something of that kind, on loot, ana an unusual bustle prevailed, you V and siezing me round the neck, the gave me a hearty kiss. The touch of her red lips fired my blood like wine, and set my brain in a whirl of excitement. In a breath I. was on my keces before her, pouring out my love, and the hopes I had cherished, in frenzied accents. At first she stood amazed, then, as the full sense of what I -was saying dawned upon her, she broke into a gay lausih. " Oh, Charley ! you silly, silly boy ! " she cried ; "you are too amusing. 1 cave o F ALu KIXD3, printed at the very lowest -'-" o' itrea, at tnis omce. in his line. October 1888-8 TURNING. - - TURNING. ? SM!?MJ 4 55S 3 - cl --- 2 .mm xn 2 w w f OQ I All PREPARED tO BO, ALL KINDS OIT TURNING! I ke'p on hand and make to order RAWHIDE-BOTTOMED CUAIRS, AUK ' .; ' Spinning- Wheels. afl Shop near tho "Magnolia Mills." JOHN M. METZLER Albany, "Sov. 25, IS6S-I2 Tub Pixley Sisters Assisted by a good company, gave our citizens two of the best entertainments in the theatrical line we have ever had. They danced well, acted better and sang superbly, ort Friday and SatunJav nichl3 of last week, in both instances to fair houses. It is probable that they may return this way in ft fnw iranlr. n mThijtti n ian nnii nltlTpns win nave the pleasure of hearing them Agricultcrai, Machinery." At Messrs. Blaio, Young & Coa the farmers of the valley will not only find a large stock of elegant dry goods, etc., but they wm De aoie to procure threshers, headers inowers, and various other agricultural implements mat are necessary to the sue eessful and profitable tillage of the soil Call and examine. - been spent for naught; still fancying, in the egotism of her love, that " her boy," as she called me, would ene day cover himself with the luster of'great deeds. I shared her belief then, and when my sixteenth year and my academical course both culminated at once, I thought my fortune made. As a matter of course, the next step to be taken was matrimony. By way of beginning, I set myself to work to get up a poem, to be dedicated to the fair one of my choice, Miss Jessie Weaver, lhe composition consumed a round week. Day. after day I shut my self up iu my bedchamber, aud racked my brain over rhyming syllables. At last it was finished, and elaborately copied on scented rose-colored paper. There were some two dozen verses, Containing swash sentiment, and morbid melancholy,' suffi cient to stock a regiment of ordinary novels ; but mother listened while I read them to her in a confident, declamatory style, her loving eyes full of subdued ex ultation. . . j : ' I always thought so ! I always thought you'd make a great man, my boy, she said, proudly j I sent the poem to Jessie, witn no ; doubt about its reception. I had too j big an opinion of her good sense to be lieve, for an instant, that she would fail to appreciate it; and she didn't, as her gay laugh and djneing eyes attested at our Dext meeting. ! " You'll be famous by-and-by, Char ley," she called after me, -over the garden gate : " a second Byron." ;- 1 stroked my sprouting mustache witn serene self-complacency, running my eye ever the gardens surrounding per lamer s mansion. She was an only child, and wouli inherit all his wealth. had made up my mind to propose to her on my nexi'visit ; and it would be a proper thing to make her a present oo such an occasion. ; There was a ear ruby brooch on exhi bition in one of the shop windows at Not- ting HiH, and oa this I had set my heart; but the price was five guineas. How could I ever manage to get it ? I made known my desire and intentions tt; moth er on my return home. She looked seri ous and thoughtful for a moment ; then she arose, and going to the. corner cup board, took down the blue china bowl, in which she kept her money. I can sec her dow, with hr slight figure and pale face, as she stood in the glow of the fire light, counting over the heaps of silver pieces she had poured upon the table. " Onlv five euineas," she said, with a suppressed sigh, as s"he returned the sur nlna ihrA : or four half crowns to the bowl; "but take it, toy boy, and wel Mmi." : " - 1 f nrK if and houcrbt the brooch for " Isn't it splendid, mother ? " I said a few evenings after, as I was giving the finishing touches to my toilet, prepara tory to the all-important, visit. " She'll be sure to take it, won't she ? " " To be sure she will my boy," she re plied, fondly fluttering round me, polish- . i incr the bright brar.3 buttons on my blue you credit for more sense than this. Get up, and stop this foolish nonsense." I'm to be married in six weeks to Sir Wal ter Dunbar." . j What I said or did, how I got- out of the house, I never .knew. .1 found my-; self in the meadows, making my way toward the canal. A dull pain throbbed ' through both heart and brain, aud one strong, irresistable impulse impelled me on. My mother's loving watchf'ullncss had hitherto kept my life from all care and sorrow ; and I shrunk from pain, and only thought of ridding myself of it. The great autumn moon was just up as j I reached the bank, pouring down her silver splendor on the water. I sat down beneath the shadows of a drooping willow, listening to the moaning rustle of the branches overheadn, Kensal Green Cem etry was plainly visible. A solitary bird, a nightingale, perhaps, sang mournfully from a neighboring thicket. All these sights and sounds were as familiar as my owiiidentity ; and I felt an infinite pity for myself, looking upen and listening to them for the last time for the last time it surely was ; after the cruel blow I had received, life was out of the question. One plunge in those dark waters would end all ! And then, when . Jessie heard of my sad fate, she would repeut of what she had done, and love wheu it was too late. I even fancied how my funeral would be conducted, at that very cemetry after my body was found ; and actually suffered a good deal from fear that there would not be an appropriate epitaph writ ten for my tombstone. If I had had a scrap of paper and pencil, I should have composed and left one myself ; but not bavin?: the requisites, I had to resign inysellito my fate. - Divesting myself of the new blue dress coat, and hanging it very carefully and conspicuously on the branch of a tree, I prepared myself to make a final plunge. But at that instant my mother's face, full of beseeching love, seemed looking up from the moonlight waters. A keen pang shot through my heart. - How would 6he bear ay loss, sne who nad alawys loved me so! I could not do this deed with out even bidding her lareweil I could not break my mother's heart ! Snatching down my coat, I struck across the fields at a rapid pace. At the villa gate I paused, chilled to the very soul by a feel ing ot awe and dread. The moonlight streamed down. There sat my mother in her great arm chair, I could see her white face plainly. I opened ' the gate, and went up the gravel walk with sup pressed steps. She might be asleep, I thought and she was, that quiet, dream less sleep that knows no waking. She was dead. - ; . ... - Two or three days after her funeral, our old parish clergyman came down to see me. " - ". .- . " Well, Charley, my lad," he said after a few moments' comforting conversation. " what do you propose doing In the way of a profession r " I am undecided, sir, I havn't thought much about it. I ve been writing a good deal of late, and thought, perhaps- But ho cut me short by a gesture. C - a Bzure, wcarinz a Drown robe and a lann- ty little hat, coming up from the town in the direction of Walnut Hill. I watch ed her with a feeling of interest, in spite of myself; and when she actually turned into the lane that led up to my door, I felt my heart pa'pitating like a boy's. Could it be possible that any woman would have the audacity to force herself into my house to beard the lion in his den ? On she -came, her brown veil and streaming ribbons fluttering in the wind, her little boots beating a brisk tattoo on the gravel. I lay quite still till she passed me, then, rising on my elbow, I watched her covertly. On she went (straight up to my house, up the front steps; and then, bang ! went the knock er. I heard the door open, and knowing that she had been admitted, I rose and sauntered up myself, thoroughly vexed at tho tremulous eageroes I feltto know who and what she was. She rose from her seat as Centered, saluting me with a pretty bow. " Excuse me, sir," she said you are Mr. Charles Townbridge, I lieve, and I am Jessie Dunbar." The silvery voice, the familiar face, the name, and seme glittering ornament in her bosom, all struck me at once at the same moment. I felt any head spinning round like a top ; but I managed to ask her to be seated 'again and, as she com plied, I satisfied myself in regard to tho ornament she wore. It was my ruby brooch, tire one for which J had given the savings of poor mother, I could have sworn to that. What could it mean ?" " We are holding a fancy fair,' Mr. Townbridge," she began, "for tbe benefit of the Queer Fellows' orphans; every one is giving us something, and I've comp up to see it you would help us. You will. I am sure.". " No," I answered, assuming a stern ness I did not feel ; " 'tis a principle with me never to encourage such insti- NO. 38. Mamma used to tell the ttbout you whetr I was a little girl; aud I always thought it wroug in her to take your poem and your brooch, and then laugh at you ) though, of course, it was right for her to like papa. But I've always ; felt very sorry for you; it must have been terrible when you .went home and' found your mother dead. I've got the poem and tho ruby brooch you gave Tiiamtna j and I am very glad you love me so much, Mr. . Townbridge. Yes, I'll be your wife) and I'll try to make your life so happy that you'll never remember the sorrowful past." So I married the daughter of my old sweetheart ; and there she tits in the great arm-chair, before the blazing fire; and that little thing on her lap is toy son and heir, Charles Townbridge,-jun. And in tegard to myself, Charles Townbridge sen., 1 am the happiest man that ever the sun shines on. ; JJe Citeerful Laugh. ''Pear me, I wish our minister would laugh some times." A child said it, and said it earnestly, too.' Doubtless her minister had his laughing times, but she had nev er heard the musio of his 'lauehter. His After a while, I noticed a trim, girlish nature had its bright side, but she had ... : .. l . i . i . r . i i i n never seen tue gleaming oi it on ma isce, A child likes sunshine. As for that matter, we are all children. We like ministers who are genial, sunny ; who can smile and laugh ; whose faces sparkle sometimes with merriment. . I think it was Charles Lamb who said that " a laugh is worth a hundred groans in any state of the market." He was right. A smilo is better than a frown any day. for reformatory purposes. A scowl is never a means of grace. A gloomy face is never a pursuasive one. Melancholy is never a nourisher of piety. That min ister whose life is earnest for Ood and man, and who, at the same time, carries about with him a joyous heart,, which sends its brightness to his face, and gives its musio to his words, shall, by his cheerfulness, help men toward heaven. Solomon says, "thee is a time to laugh." At tho right timo let every minister laugh. When you feel the laughter coin ing, don't drive.it back let it out. It has its mission of God in this world. Every theological seminary ought to have another Dr. Griffin among its Professors. One evening, ia Andover, he called the students to his room; told them they were growing thin and dyspec tio through neglect of the duty of laugh ter, and he insisted that they should go through a company drill in it then and : thero. . Then the tall, broad-chested Doctor said to the first student, "Hero, you must practice ; now hear me." And the Doc tor laughed a rich sonorous laugh; one by one the students joined till all were " but be- vocation. "Go into a No, my'lad Give that up; litera ture isn t your trade." ' ' I was cut to the very heart, but, some how, his words stuck to me. The moro I thought of them, the more was con vinccd of their sense ; aud after awhile convulsed : " That will do for once, said the Doctor; now mind you keep in practice." Most worthy Doctor ! most Christian Counsel ! . .."' , . tutions " Sir," patting her dainty foot impa tiently against the carpet, " not encour age feeding the orphans of dead Queer Fellows ! Do you mean that 1 " Her clear, dove-like eyes embarrassed me with their steady gazo. I arose, and took out my pocketbook. " How much shall 1 give you, Alisa Dunbar?" " What you can afford, sir. ' I handed her a fifty pound note. Her eyes gladdened so, they fairly dazzled me. " Oh, Mr. Townbridge," she eyed, " I did not expect this. You are so good, so generous. ehe took out a aeucate nine purse. and crammed it into it; then she turned" to go. " Good by. JUr. Townbridge, sne said pausing in the doorway, and holding out her hand. " 1 tnanic you very mucn, in deed; but won't you come down to the fair to-morrow. evening? Please do, Mr. Town- bridge. I did not promise her, but I went nevertheless; and after the fair was over, T attended Jessie home. Sly old sweet heart, Lady Dunbar, grown intoabuxion matron, met mo in the ball. " At last, Charles, she said, grasping both hands ; but you have been an un friendly old curmudgeon all these years, and we may thank Jessie for luring you out of your den, l suppose, one won her bet by it, too. You see, the girls were all here laying plans for the fair, and they got to talking about you ; and young Mr. cmyier ouerea to doc nve pounds that none ot tnem naa me cour age to go up to Walnut Hill and ask you for a donotion. But Jessie made tbe venture; and now that you have come out of your seclusion, do be sociable, Charley, for the sake - of our old friend ship' ' v i -r X took her at ner word. Almost every evening after that found me at Sir Walter Dunbar's pleasant home. And one spring night, when tbe air was eweet with balm and the moonlight soft and mellow, and the great apple tree, beneath which we sat, was white with tragrant bloom made the same proposal to Jessie that made to-her mother twenty rears before not on my knees, "however, but sitting by . . i , - ,.., , i - ner siae, witn uer uiue aaDain mine. " i lovea your mother years ago Jessie." I said; "but I was a silly bov ! then. I'm a man now. and I love you as no man ever loves but once. Do you temk you can be my wile 7 " I think I can, Mr. Townbridge," she answered eimply. " and I'll do my best to make you a good one. I've thought of you a creat deal all mv life, and loved you, I believe, even before t knew you Certainly Dissolving. Tbe fol lowing from the Chicago Republican, will probably be true of the Oregon De mocracy after the coming election t The Democracy aro breaking up their organizations in many of the States, and concentrating under a moro general need ing, as an " Opposition." The old ma chincry is offered for sale. It is a uri " ous mixture of material, embracing ev erything from a patent ballot box stuffier to the regalia ot a Hmght ot tbe U olden Circle. Tricks and traps, carricatures and banners, the lost causo and the spread eagle, the Constitution as it was, and the public " ruin " as it is, with model sam ples of the Lincoln despotism, and bleed ing martyrs all are going. , in Aiissoun, mey aecune even lamui ... .-. an. opposition, whicb is uniortunaie. Nothing keeps a party so well trained es to have an oppoeing element. As the Yankee said, " it wrenches a man terribly to kick agaVast nothing." The danger of the Republican party lies chiefly in stand ing in this position. It has conquered in all its chief measures, and theie is noth log left to kick.. The debris of the Dem ocratic wreck may aggregate itself into some shape yet but what shape has not yet disclosed as a " visable fact'-' The old anti-war bulk has gone under, and the political sea is strewn with struggling " leaders of the party,", whese chance look slim enough. The world looks with satisfaction on the spectacle of righteous- justice, but the mourners are few. Wheth er the name itself u to disappear with th cralt, will depend on tbe ability to insert another catching to the public ear. It should be soft and euphonious, as its pur pose will be low. ; - -' i s a i - V; ' jOld Dominion. It is stated that th term " Old Dominion," as applied to Virginia, originated from tha following facta : During the protectorate ot Crom well, the colony of Virginia refused to acknowledge his authority ; ana sent to Flanders for Charles II. to reign over them. Charles accepted, and was about to embark when he was recalled to the throne of England. Upon his acce.-wioa, as a reward for her loyalty, he allowed tho Colony to quarter the arms of Eng land, Ireland and Scotland as sri indepen dent member of the " Old Dominwo. The historical facts upon which this state ment is based seem well founded. Yedo, Japan The great tc.ty or x eao is on the northwest angle of the gulf of that name. Alarfe flla. LT,d the heart of tbe city, which , bridges, i ne nou. -c- many Une rmagw. t t. r wide are very well built, tho w' My of'tbVawolling. and tg have park like grounds and .S"" .round them. This city much hrger SS' New York, and is next in sue to j LouJon. '' ' '. "- " ; ' '