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VOLUME VIII. ALBANY; OREGON,; MAY 26, 1876. NO. 36 BUSINESS CaKDS. SAMUEL. E. YOUNG, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In DRY GOODS, . CL0TH1NQ, GROCERIES, DOOTS & SHOES, THRESHERS, REAPERS & MOWERS, WAGONS, PLOWS, SEED DRILLS, -BR0A3CST SEED SOWERS, ETC. First street, Albany, Ortgoa. Terms : HiOv" St- Charles Hotel, Corner Washington and First Sts., ALBANY, OREGON, Matthews & Morrison, PROPRIETORS. ttonso newlv fiivnlshed throu-rhout. The best the market affords always on the table. Free Coaeh to and from the Ilouae. I. C. HARPER & CO., Dealers In- IL "ST aOODS. t lntliiu. Coots and Shoes, Hats, Uroee-t'nnr- (Moods, Notions., Khotnns mid Pistol, Stalls, Rope, Mirrors, Wallpaper, Wood and Willow Ware, Trunks and Valises, Pocket Cutlery, A.C., if., fiM very low either fur cn.th, or to prompt pe.j Raising and Jlovltig liuiirtius. WE THE UNDERPINNED BETS LEAVE TO aminuna to the citizens of Albany and snrroun-liHSt conntry I hut. having smpplied ur-M-lvea wilt the neeerwary luac-ti fner y for mis ami removing bniMin'-i. we are ready nt all time to receive orders for stu-h work, which we will do in-hort nr ler at lowest rate. We Kuarantca entire satisfciuliou in all work under taken by us. Order left at the Rkolsteb office promptly attented to. Apply to. . Alba, B ASTV. ALLKX t O. Or., April 23. 1jm5. iv7 CUA.H. B XQSTAGCE. KuBT. JlVA'.LEV. 5I0XTA6UE & McCALLEY, ARE NOW OPEN1XG A MAGSI Fl CENT stock of ' FALL .AND WIXTER GOODS ! selected with care, and bought for eoln at Scandalously Low Figures and as we bonght low we can and will sell lliein at pric?s tbut will Astonish Everybody. Come and see our selections of Dress Uoodn,-Japanese-9linwls, Pil'eM, Krllllantes, Marseilles, Poplins, Kibwons, - Collars, Collarettes, Laces A-c.t &e, for the ladles, and our complete lines of Readymade Clothing, Hosiery, 4'ottonades, nimiiasr., Cloths, ' - Mioea, " 1 toots, Caps, of all descriptions for men nn-llKye. Also, full assortments of Grccsriesr Crocfcery and Glassware. or everybody. The l"t jroods,at the lowest ratesevcry time. tn'ouio and see. Lebanon, Oregon, October 30, lwt. Furniture Varerooms. FEED GRAF, HAVING purcliaJ-e-l the entire Interest of . Collar in the late firm of Graf fl'ar'." the furniture bnsine, takes this opportunity to retnrn his thanks to the citizens of Albnn and vieinity who have so peneronsly patrpn Ired bim la the past, and respee'fully ask a timiance of the lame. EST AU kinds of tnr nlture kept on hand and nuuiufanred toorder at lowest rates. . IKhUUKH. Albany, Nov. 13-v8n8 , Bath House & Barber Shop. THE UNDERSIGN EH WOULTl i:ESnKCT fully thank the citizens of A 1 ban - and 1 cintty for the liberal imtronaKe f ? " him for the past seven, ye-".1!09 J5S future a contlaoallonof their 0-JLor'e accommodation of transient eustomc and friends in the tipper part" tow.' KSrSS da neat little shop next door . T:l: 2.17 Saloon, where a good workman wtU alsaja be n attendance to wait upon P Vu-nBEK. Itec.ll, 1874. , JOB WEBBfci" OTOVES ! rrom this date until further notice, I w-lll J t.ioicK Ktixjcxxws or Stoves & Eanges ! "m jnmpi . g- ""i ' . - paw;"'1 'J"1 - -ALS(- PUMPS, HOSE, ETC. W. I!. M.-l'iJ!UM-. STOVEO ' OUR XEW YORK LETTER. SPECIE, FOB AND AOAI.NST PRIVATE AND FROFITAlHE THEATRICALS FEMININE DEAD BEATS BLUE FREIGHT LINES A UOOD WORD FOR PAPER A CONTRAST. New York, May 4th, 1876. SPECIE, FOR AND AGAINST. Those old fogies who feared that their children would never know a silver quarter by sight, have their forebodings made vain by the little flurry of it from the treasury. It is no unusual thing down town to get dimes and quarters, and it is the correct thing for ladies' stores up-fown to pay out at least one piece of -new silver witli the change to each customer. But the streets are not exactly , flooded with it just yet, and them is not so much iu circulation as was anticipated, for the reason that when the banks paid out silver every body began to hoard it up ; those who had large sums, to sell when it was at a premium again, and those who had little, kept the first quarter paid them lor pocket-pieces. The business men and banks rind it difficult to get enough specie for their wants after all, PRIVATE AND PROFITABLE THEATRI CALS. The Aniatuer Theatrical Society made up largely of young jieople con nected with 31 r. Frolhingham's church, has plenty ot laurels and substantial success to look back to at the close of its season. It has played on Staten Island, and I believe in Booklyn, foi charities, and in New Yolk repeatedly tor the Centennial and tor benevolent objects, realizing over $5,000 clear. Their last entertainment this week was by no means their least flattering suc cess. These theatricals are quite recber che affairs, the audience all that is most fashionable, as it is something of a favor to secure tickets, which are only obtain ed form the committee, and the playing is good enough to call out special com mendation from the bett critics ot the daily pajers. Mr. Geo. Win. Curtis, of Harpers' Magazine, dramatized his old sketches. "'1 he I'otiphar Papcis" ftr this society, prominent among whose members are Calvert Y-aux, the Archi tect, and Mr. Frederick Stcdman, the eldest son of the poet Stedman ; while a daughter of the artist Frank Carpen ter, counted by judges one ot the most beautiful girls in New York, is one of the favorite actresKs in iadie' parts. Judge Barrett and his daughter played iu one piece, a week or twa before the Judge left the city, in which lie took the pari of a young man, looking about tweuty-live, while the daughter was Lis sweetheart. FEMININE DEAD BEATS. There is misery enough ii the city, but there is a pitifully ludicrous side to not a few of the appeals made for aid. For instance, there is the lady usually of Southern extraction who has sud denly lost a large property, and is thrown on her own resources, anil must make a living by her talents. Mind, it is the talents, pure and single ; for she cannot wait for such trifles as train ing aid business management. She selects to go on the lecture platform or giyes readings, for which somebody has to provide her with a costume, more or less gorgeous, aud a hair-dresser. - There used to be a middleman for this sort of thing, in the shape of an unfortunate lyceiim agent, but a not very long con tinued course ot lyceum bureaus having sufficed to bring every one connected with them to bankruptcy, the fair as pirants have to do business themselves. A well-dressed woman comes iuto one's office, suave and smiling. She has heard ot you as a man of liberality and taste ; she has had occasion to admire you often for your success in anything you happen to pride yourself on a little ; she tells her piteous story of destitution, name her acdress al a four-dollars-a-day hotel, and begs you to assist her by taking teu or twenty tickets for her coming lecture. On atking the subject of her lecture, inquiry reveals she does not know she has not yet decided what tc choose and the lecture is neither written nor announced. You are J.o take the tickets, all the same, and pay for them on the spot : for the Jady wants the money to live on, and, as she. remarks, "sbo is such a.child in these matters, it is so hard for her to have to go round and distribute them in this way." This is no fancy picture, but what took place in the writer's pretence io au office net two days ago. BLUE FKJSIOHT USE. ' This name includes all the roads ex cept the Central just now, for the annual i Minnur amusement or tMUins jaica is going on in lively earnest. The 2d of March last, the roads entered into a compact to raise rates, making the price for carrying a bushel of grain to this city 35 cents a bushel on all lines. The officers cf the New York Central claim that they immediately put this rate in force on their road, acting in good faith, while other roads did not give notice of the change of terms to their agents tor a month afterward ; of" course .giving them a large advantage over the Cen tral as long aa they adhered to the old rates. Forced to defend themselves, the Central cut their rates down to 20 cents per hundred pounds, or about 12 cents a bushel; which makes good times for the grain buyers, ince the Central cut loose from the combination, their receipts of grain, which were some 40, 000 bushels per week, have. run up to 400,000. The competition so far is confined to east bound freight, but the fight is so fierce between the contend ing roads, that it is confidently expect ed that the rates on west-going freight will speedily be cut, and shippers are holding their cargoes in anticipation of the fall. Not long since the freight lines offered to carry packages at about 12 cents each, to cut under the postage packet dates, but diopped it as soon as congress had taken action on the bill to reduce third-class postage. Still this action shows what we may look for in the general shrinkage of ; all rales, and the fullness of competition. When monopolies suffer the people rejoice. A GOOD AVOKD FOR PAPER. Apropos of Mr. Blaine's resolution in the House of Representatives, direct ing the committee of ways and means to consider some measure to relieve the country from the threatened scarcity of fractional currency, comes a paragraph from Macaulay's diary ia Rome, when he speaks of drawing ', one hundred pounds worth of coin from Torloria's bank, and lugging it through the streets, in a huge canvas bag, muttering, with strong feeling, Pope's Blest Paper Credit." The truth is gradually dawn ing on legislators, that both paparaud specie are necessary for convenience iu business. Those who do not think so are waiting for the return ot the good o'd days when bank officers had to sit up nights o count their coin, and trowsers pockets bu'ged ungracefully with money enough to go on aday's sporting. A CONTRAST.; : I spoke above of women who might be classed as dead betts, but there are too many worthy ones who deserve both sympathy and encouragement, to allow sport on the subjects The other day a lady went to the office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to get the particulars of a case for the newspapers While she was there, a gentleman came in to hand Mr. Bergh a check for 200 in aid of the Society. Mr. Bergh said that, with the utmost : thankfulness for his jrener- osny, ne, personally, musi protest " 1 1 . - i against receiving it, as the gentleman had already contributed large'y beyond his just proportion. The donor refused aoy deprecation of his gift, saying he had neither wife, child or relation in any way depending on him, and it was more pleasure for him to give than to withold, for "if I took it back," lie said, "I should uot know what to do with it." What sort of sickness went through the woman's heart who heard the words? She was trying for dear life to make a living for three children by writing, as she could get employment here and there, but through the winter they had suffered from want of food and fire .They had been well to do till the hard times came, when their" pretty home was swept away, and she was thrown upon her own exertions. She was well dressed from the remains ot her ward robe, and had no complaints to make, but any mother cau guess how bitterly and longingly she listened to this rich man speaking of money with which he did not know what to do, while she stood by in her sore want, forbidden to make one sign for the help which would doubtless have been gladly offered, had any one known the need of it. Cannot the rich make it part ot their bencvo lence to make work for the poor, up right souls who oulv ask to bo allowed a chance" to earn a living.' There is work enough the world would be better for having done it anyone had the wis dom and the heart to find it out, and bring it iu reach of the willing worker. In hopes that this mention may bring tho two together, I speak of one case ilat lately came to my knowledge. , A young Swedish pianist, wh graduated from the conservatory of Stockholm, after six years, study with high honors, and came to this country 10 teach music; but coming without knowledge Vof the language,anI without influential friends, has been unable to make more than the barest living. She is a very brilliant and finished performer, si I can say from acquaintance, and I can but hope that her wish to find some place where her musical services would secure her a home in any part ofthe country may be realized. . Pieiro. Rev. Addisoti Jotwis, of Sa5cm, iu an article in the Stalesrnat, makes this vigorous application ofi the principle ot sound morals to political duty : Whenever any man is trying to dor right simply because it is right, and is stoutly rejectiag the 'wrong simply be cause it is wrong, he will be slistained. He may lose his share of the 6tolen "loaves and fishes," may even lose that which was not stolen, and which rightly belongs to him, but it will be made up to him probably even iu this world, but most assuredly in the world to come. It would be well to remember that in political as well as in religious affairs, God watches nations, and rulers, and has an eye to the ballot boxes. And if we vote for ring masters, and swearers, and .scoffers, and Sabbath breakers, and whore mongers and adulteiers, He will Dunish ns. If we try to do them good (but not by putting them iu office !) lie will help us. - Fmatilla county is betttr adapted to the grazing of sheep, cattle and horses than any other county in the State. Along its rivers the winters are com paratively mild, while the bottoms aj id low hills afford abundant whiter pas turage. Cattle and horses require but little attention after marked and brand ed. Sheep are closely herded to pre vent straying and to keep back the wolf. As soon as the sheep are clipped they are driven away to the mountains, 'where they are kept till winter. Fern grass and shelter from the summer's sun are the inducements for driving to the mountaius. V The excitement . at Constantinople continues. The representatives of for eign governments loci called upon to exercise tho utmost vigilance . and be prepared for any emergency. An event of little moment in itf elf seems likely to produce consequences of serious import to tho civilized world. If the end should be such au involveut of the Ot toman government as to disturb , its re lations to the Western powers aud make way for its overthrow, the world would be much benefited. Married at Ox Hundred and Thirteen. A letter to a St. Louis paper, from a correspondent in the vi cinity of that city, says : Old Uncle Ben Webb Greer, aged one hundred and thirteen years, was married, about two weeks ago, iu Marshall county to Mary Harrison, aged 57 years. 'Uncle Ben waa boru (according to the sale bill found among the property of his old X moctor James Greer, ; deceased), in L176S. He u-a a Mmnti,. th war f 1812, under General Jackson. Tlie old man can cut and split one hundred rails a day. ' , , ' - -:v'- : The Richmond (Va.) Dinpatch says : Mr. Pendleton cannot explain away his sin. It is useless to tell the people that there was any honest way of earning $80,000 as a consideration fr going to Washington and drawing twice that sum from the Treasury. He either used his social position to procure money wbiclvthe Government did riot honest ly owe, and thus earned his tae as some other persons earn black-mail, or if the debt was honestly owing and if anybody could have got it for the asking, he pocketed his exorbitant fee under lalse pretenses. , Tho Democrats, it would ieoora, have been counting their chickens bofore the interesting process of incubation com menced. In making up their estimates of Presidential chances they have inva riably put Colorado on their slid ot the house; but the Denver the editor of which isabout as well acquainted with public sentiment in that part cf the country as anyone else, says that it the Centennial State casts her three elector al voes for anybody, it will be lor the Republican cpndidaU Mrs. Myra Clark Galxic?, fortlfleJ by the recent decibicn cf the Snjrcrie iourt, goes to A ew Oi lcans to renew suits for her estate. It is said tV.j Las been ofiered S220,GC0 cu ih ?jwn cr.d one-fifth ct the proceed U J .t; when recovered. The liy ill bly com promiss with i:i r, c ". bonds for a quit clil-i propcrtj cu which the c:iy hi -.3 v pvl i Why is a tiers t' like Enoch A-n ? UO ta!c iI'LEl J.r.- to TWO IOVERS. Sally Salter, she was a young teacher who - taiiicht. Ami her fi-iend, Charley Church, was a - , . nreacner wna Drnuzut: Though his enemies called bun a screacher who scntught. His heart, when be saw her, kept sinking . anu buiik; While she, iu turn, fell to thinking and v thuiik. He hastened to woo her, and sweetly he wooed. For hU love grew, until a mountain it , - revcu, And what ho was longing to do", was doed. In secret he wanted to speak, and he sioke. To seek with his lips which bis heart long had soke ; So he managed to let the truth leak and it loke. -, " . , " " He asked her to ride to the ehtircli, and tuev rode. " . They so sweetly dkl glide, that they both thousnt they glorle. And they came to the place to be tied, and were toeu. ; 'Then homeward," he said, "let us drive," and they drove 1 And as soon as tljey wished to arrive, they arrove. For whatever he couldn't contrive, she controve. The kiss he was dying to steal, then he stole. At the feet where he wanted to kneel, then i he knole. And he said, 'I feel better than ever I lole." So they to each other kept clinging, and clung. While time his swift circuit was winging, and wuncr: - And this was tho thing lie - was bringing - anu nrung. The man Sally wanted to catch, and had caught That slie wanted from others to snatch, and had sunlight Was the one she now liked to scratch, and she scraught. And Charley's warm love began freezing, and froze. While he took to teasing, and cruelly tose The girl he had wished to be squeezing, and stmoze. "Wretch ! " he cried, when she threatened ' to leave him and left; "Ho.v could you deceive me, as you have deceit?" And she answered. " I promised to cleve, and I've cleft. ' ;c(i:e .n. pixnky. UE IS discovered with 'HALF-BREEDS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF MONTANA. Not only our citizens, but those of the eutire Pacific slope, will read with amazement the following : Doubtless a vast number ot our readers will incline to the belief that we have been imposed upon. that in an eager desire to fur ii'tHh our patrons with the news at the earliest possible moment, we have be come unwittingly the promulgator of a purely sensational story. Be that as it may, we see our duty clear, and, as chrouio'ers of passing events, do not see how we can avoid priuting that which we consider as issuing from a reliable source. Portions of the following may be sensational, and we incline to the be lief they are, but yet events have come to pass more marvelous, and why should we hesitate in giving credence to this. About three weeks ago an old hunter who passed his early life among the Chinpewas of the Red river ot the north, and whose later years have been with the Piegan and Blackfoot Indians, is our authority for this - O Kli WONDROCS TALE. One morning he left his camp near .a small spring, situated in the main range of the Rocky mountains, between Cut Bank creek and Chief Mountain, near the British line, for the purpose of hunt ing, lie had proceeded but a few miles when his horse suddenly became fright ened. Dismounting, he led him up a gully, aud cautiously retracing his way, peerea over ana into a neignoonng ravine, where he saw three half-breeds seated around a camp-fire. On a. pile of blankets and robes, he discerned an object which he conjectured to be that of .:-.-- A WOUNDED MAX. : As the sequel will show, his conject ures were verified. In a moment he was in their camp, and as the hour was fast approaching for dinner, he remained, at their invitation to partake of it. Learning that the person on the robes was a wounded white man, aud impell ed by a desire to assist iu alleviating his sufferings, -he approached and offered his (services, which were gratefully ac cepted. Possessing, like all mountain eers, some knowledge of surgery ,he soon fashioned some splints,- and properly bandaged tho broken limb. It seems that the sufferer, while riding his horse at break-neck speed the day before, was thrown to the ground, resulting. in tho breaking of his leg. After everything was arranged for his comfort, he opened conversation with the old hunter, and plied him with many questions concern ing the States, especially ne western portion. At last the hunter said: "Par don me, but it seems that for one, whom I consider to bo an Englishman, yon are well acquainted with the country on this side of the line. Who are you V The stricken one raised on his elbow, and with Lis glittering grey eyes rivet ed on the one before him, in eold and rr.t-arnfHd tones said ; ' " S ho tin it l am one who once Vri. d irf tho name of an American citia; hu I, yes I, betrayed them. Jc it n.y i o i? n-acL X out her hand tor me: - 1 , are passed away, the spies vf :. - f-.ro uogguig' my toot-steps, I a i a f'Une iioa the land of my : -,: .e a. i innzt. -.;pt u;c, but listen to my i- j rci recital. " You can see me here on my way to Helena. I met with this acci dent, and therefore must retrace my steps to British soil. It was my inten tion to. visit my old haunts, the scene ot so many . happy, and yet so many dreary hours. I flattered myself that by traveling incog, I could with these trusty fellows you see around roe, pass a few pleasant 'days in the mountains near that Montana town. The fates have ordained otherwise. Pay close attention to what I now have to say concerning ray wanderings, and if you make mention of it to the world, speak it as I tell it. The entire country is at fault concerning the direction I took when fleeing from San Francisco. Strange as it may appear, . I WD HOT OO TO PF.RU, But on the contrary, reuiained in Sao Francisco four days" after Vny rumored departure on a Peru-bound bark. In a disguise that would baffle the scruti ny of the keenest detective on earth, I boarded the train and kept traveling day aud night until I landed in New York. . Crossing the Courtlandt street ferry, I walked into the city and took up my quarters at Earle'a Hotel, in Canal street. I forgot" to say that I was unaccompanied, and the report that A WOMAN. WAS WITH ME Is a base fabrication, and gotten up by sensational San Francisco reporters. After a few days stay at Earle's Hotel, 1 engaged passage on a Cunard steamer ior Liverpool, me weatber was pro pitious and the trip was a splendid one in every respect save one. I could not fly away from my conscience. Oh, how it gnawed my very vitals. At tiroes I feared I would go mad ; I, who often boasted of possessing none of the finer feelings, and having a heart of adamant. 15 ut this is foreign to the subject in hand. Heaven seemed to smile even upon me, a criminal, for I landed in the best ot health at the GREAT LANDING STAGE tF LIVERPOOL. Taking a cab I was soon at tho N. . R. li. depot. I went to London by way ot Crewe and Rugby, and one Light about dusk arrived at Kaston Square Station. For a long time I remained at the Sussex Hotel, near the Strand, and strange as it may appear, six hours atter the first breakfast 1 par took of at this house, I became aware that detectives from Scotland Yard were upon my track. I was literally surrounded by spies. The city ot fog was too hot for comfort, and I bid adieu to it and left by tha N. S. S. line for Osteud, and soou- WAS OX BELGIUM SOIL. Sick and tired ot this country and its inhabitants, aud having a troubled conscience only to be partially appeased by travel, l crossed the frontier and journeyed to Paris by Chemiu de lore du t ord. Here as in London, I was under surveilance, aud the geu-d'armes persistently kept track of all my move ments. Leaving the cay capital I pro ceeded to Italy by. way. of the Mont Cenis tunnel and lingered tor a few days in Brindist. There I took the P. O. S. S. Co's steamship Arabia, and passing through the Mediterranean sea, arrived at PORT SAID, IX EGYPT. Here, for the first time my health gave way. Skilled physicians and care ful nurses brought me out, and soon I was passing through the Suez Canal. I will not tire your patience by relating how I passed from there to Melbourne, aud the sufferings I endured while SHIPWRECKED Between that place and Victoria, Brit ish' Columbia. You can easily see bow easy it was for me to reach here from the place last mentioned. Now, lriend, farewell. You will see my Hele na friends ; to them give my undying regards, and say that while 1 have black ened my name with infamy, I dare to hope that some ot them will still think of me as one who is not irrevocably lost. You will hear from me again. -1 know nut where I will direct my steps, but of this be assured, that though 1 am A SECOND "WANDERING JEW," The world will at all times learn of my where-a bouts. lake the Helena Her ald my former sworn enemy- and ere long you will see in its - colums the startling truths concerning my past, aud the life before me. Heaven bless you for alleviating the sufferings ot an out cast. "Farewell, farewell V -Helena Jxerald. Five months gone, yet nothing has been doneiy a Democratic House ex cept to conduct expensive investigations, in the vain hope that some act ot Re publican dishonesty may be discovered that will add to Democratic capital in the coming Presidential campaign. It is said that the printing and the binding ot the testimony taken before the Naval Committee will cost at least $ 100,000 j and will coyer fcboufr 20,000 pages. This is but one ot many investigations that are now pending. Thus," while preaching economy, the Democrats are practicing extravagance, and this while the nation U suffering tor legislation that has been too long delayed. A London telegram of the 16th says that Prince Alexander Anersperg has died from the effects of the wound re ceived in a duel at Prague with Count Kalowrat. The Count had been arrest ed and would be court raartialed. j A Few Centennials and Millennia ' 100 .years ago American Iadepn dence r 200 years ago King Philip (tho In dian) defeated and slain; habeas eorputr in England. 300 years ago Massacre of St. Bar tholomew; Spanish Armada preparing, 400 years agoPrinting invented; Isabella the coming q'neen. ' 'ii ? 500 years ago The day of Tamer lane, the Turk, and Chaucer the Ea glish poet. - . 600 years aeo Baliol and Bruce, Richard, Bacon, Thomas Aquinas; House of Hapsburg founded. 700 years ago Richard Cueur del-ion aud Saladin, Sultan of Egypt,tnea nring swords in Palestine, j S00 ,, years ago William - tfcrCon queror. i , . .".'. ' " '7:"i i 900 : years ago Hugh " Cauet, the; Frenchman. ., 1,000 years ago Alfred the "Great - 1,100 years ago Charlemagne and. Haronn l Raschid. 4,200 years ago Mabomedanison making lively work in Constantinople- ; and other places. v 1,300 years ago Old Chosroes, the Pcrsian.lives by murder, and. tho Pope is made a secuiar judge among kings.. 1,400 years ago The Saxons lively in Britain; Clovis establishes the French monarchy and the Visigoths conquer Spain. " 1,500 years ago The Roman em pire, having legislation many years in. favor of capital against labor, begins, to- j lall to pieces. ' 1,600 years ago The world has. -nothing better to do than to broach and denounce heresies and get up religious' persecutions. ' ' 1,700 years ago Marcus A urelius,. Tacitus and Plutareh. 1,800 years ago Jerusalem destroj--eJf and Ilerculaneum and Pompeiii burned. 1,876 years ago All the world Jab. peace and Christ born. " 6,000 years ago Adam jrose to the dignity of a large real estate owner; but by poor management was driven fcito involuntary bankruptcy. - Chicago' Journal of Commerce. Proverbs f the Billbi-p Fanally. Don't swap with yer releshuns unless; ye ken afford to give them the big end of the trade. 1 Marry young, and if circum6tsdiccs require it, often. ' Don't take yer tobacker-box out im kornpar.y. - If you kant git euu elotfia ana edika. shon too, git the cloths. bay how are yer to everybody.. Kultivate modesty,, but mind and) keep a good stock ot itnpidenoe on hand. " Be charitable. The sent pieces was made on purpose. Don't take anybody elte's advice butt your own. If a man flatters yuv yu kan kalki- late he is a rogue, ov yuse a fule.. Keep both ize open; dout 6M more o halt yu notis. Don't mortia the flesh too much r 'twant the sores on Lazzarus that sent. . him tew heaven. If you itch tor fame, go inter a "rave- yard and scratch yerself against a tume- stun. .. , Beggars don't have tu ad vertize Iod- runawadogs. " 'Tis a long lane that never turns,' and 'tis a good mill that alwase dus. 1 oung man, be more anxious about. the pedigree yur going to leave, thait you are about the wan somebody - is going to leave yu. . .Nature is nature ; yu Kant alter the- krook of a dog's tail much aod preserver, the length of it tew. I would say to all the young men,, go in," and tu all the old fellers, ?kum out." About as sure a way tu git rich as- enny I no of is to git inter, dct for a-. hundred thousand dollars, and then go to work and pay oph the debt t llosophers tell us that the world re volves ob its axes, and Josh Billings tells as that full bat the folka on th arth think tha are the axes. NL B- These ere proverbs her stood f or ranre'n a hundred years, and hain't gin out yet. Postage Rates. All attempts to make any ' essential amendment in the present rates on' third-class mail matter have failed in the Senate. That body passed the new postal bill, which retains merchandise iu the mails as third-class matter, and fixes the rates of postage at one cent an ounce. The law of 1874 fixed tho rate on this class, which includes tran sient - newspapers, magazines, books, , merchandise, etc., at "one cent tor each two ounces or fractions thereof." Iu an obscure two-line amendment to an appropriation bill passed in 1875 it waa provided that "ounce'? be inserted in place of "two ounces" in the statute. This of oourse, bad the effect to raise the postage from a half cent an ounco to a cent au ounoo., The bill, aa now passed, retains that rate, and what ia worse, letaina the merchandise clause, which has tarnished the excuse for thm tinkering with the law as it exwtad previous to 1875. Senator Haailui says that when he offered his blind y amendment raising the postage on ttutd class matter, be thought be was oulj preparing legislation for posta-s oy merchandise in the mails. He has ad mitted that this was au over:--' ;r.t. NevertlielesSj. be persists iu his error, and the Senate has juit voted to cr petuatQ it.