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STATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT. fl BATES 01' A1V1 :1:J1M? 0: rm tKin; On CHntnn, I'lPO ; Jlulf Colt-inn, $60 ; Quarter Cel a inn, t??,,, TranxJent Adrertn'tmf i! ? per Square often liai or first Ififerd'fZ j each stihrcfiBent huer 0.n,$l. ',.' ..... A sfjunrc h vtiz inch la spneedown theolnmn contin ctit, display line?, M.inks, kt a solid natter. Ko adrcrtisemtt.t to ho considered lesi than a s-jaare, and all frat lions counted V fall fqtjftre. All adrcftisenichts iiiserted for si lcsl period than thrc months lo he regarded as traa sient. . PCnUlttED SVEllT ATPBftAT,Br BELLINGER & BROWN. . C. B. BSM.I4CETI. M. V. ROWH. iii if OFFICE IN HJWNON'S BUILDING, FIRST STREET, TERMS, advance: One year, $3 Six Months VOL. V. ALBANY, OREGON, SAT UllDAY, NOVEMBER G, ISC'J. t2; Qaa Month, 50 ct.; Single Copies, 12 J ets. NO. 12. n!v i me i iii it j rt i ill 1 1 i l i i - - 1 1 i I 111 J Corrcf pondo-its writing over assumed signatures or anonymously, most raako known their proper Dames to the Editor, or no attention will b given to their communications." . ! All T.ttr .nd flonimnnicattons, "whether on business or for publication, should bi addressed to B . linger A Brown, BUSINESS GAUDS. .r. . KBDFtBL9. r. W 9PISK. F. Mi REDFIEID & CO. C" OXSTANTLY ON HAND AND RECEIV INQ a large stock of tlroceries lind Provl ions. Wood and Willow Ware, ToWeo, Cigar, Confectionery, Yankeo Notion?, etc., etc. Whole sal o and Retail. iiJ-Oppositc It. C. Hill fc Son's Drug Store, Al bany. Oregon. ocVvSnSyl J. HANNON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. ALBANY, OUFGOX. Office on Main street, opposite Foster's Brick, vjnlyl j. qri.w tiiouxtox, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. Albany, Oregon, "lriLL PRACTICE IN THE SUPERIOR and inferior Courts oi Mari;n, Linn. Lane, lie'.uon and P-dk counties. Fire p? r cent charged co eo!L-ctiun, when made Without sucing. juulSvlaJtjl. J5EXJ. HAYDKX, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ViU attend t all business entrusted to htm ly eUticnsof I .j Ik un l adj'jtaiug coauties. EoU, July '.'5, lsuT. v2a51tf office of conn srnooi scperimevt, i T WATERLOO. SIX MILES ABOVE LED ojc, a ihi Sautiata. Po.-t fiir address, Leo in n. J. V.. MACK, T9a4ily C". School Superintendent. S. A. JOHNS, A"TTORXEY AT LAW, ALUAXY, OREGON. "HILTOENT attention wii! be giver to all bust- nets in i;n ::ue. jan2.-5vln2otf. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED! Prinoej t niakn hU raie-4 f r Dental services for the jear & Ml.w-. v:z : Full cpTcr an I lower svt of Ar:. Teeth. fc'O to $!0 Full upper r l-wer " " $!5to$2j Pivut teeth. $2,50 each. Filling tict'i, frm $t to S1ic'.ici.i;f. Extra- tin;, ail ciati per tomb. TWELVE HUNDRED CHINESE. "Twelve hundred Chinese arrlrod to-day" Mechanic, did you hear? They have conic to labor; from far away To toil by the month or year They will work with hauitncr, ami ads, and saw. And trowel, and plumb, 1 fear j And the trifling wages they will draw ? Will secure them a welooiao hero. "Twelve hundred Chinese arrived to-dny" O. Clerk lav down Your lcn ; They will take your place at tua desk, they say Ah, what will you Jo men i They i" the figures in long array They can live i-J a filthy den. Eating an ounce of rice a day, More like rats thau tncu. "Twelve hundred Chine.Mj arrived this worn' 0. Laborer, do you care? They have come to plant aud reap the corn, And to labor lure and thero; They will take Ihe food front the native born, "Who may live if ho can, tn air, Aud see his poor family droop and moura In poverty's icy blare? "Twelve hundred Chine? will bind to-night" Women, who toil fr brrad. B ready to suffer and starve 'tis right That the heathen should be fed I 0, give tbcm the work that is soft and light Their fingers are nimble. 'tis said ; They will toil ail day and half the night. To clutch at your children! bread. Twelve hundred Chinese" within the week, And thou.iauds within the year J'om 'twill soa be cotuo to sevk Fr a home aud living here. O, welcomo the Pagan, low and meek. From b'na we have naught to fear; U'e have no cuntrjiuan poor and weak, On whom to lavish ibeer? Send them on to the river and lake, In the Valley ut the West Give thtiu employment for lucre' sak, Aud feather tho rich mait'a n.t. ; Never mind the taoaiu iLat break From the powr white tuilfr's l-rcat, Nor the !ar biz children atjl bcatts that ache, ' fur fui-d au l rct-t. tl d-leti CUT. From tho Willamette 'Vtruter. AXMJAIi AIIDUI SS. 11V HON. A. J. THAYKll. ;i:sE:nAii m:ivh. Gt-a. lioaurcgarJ U about to ninrry New Yurk has a C!;inee schoul. 5?ett'ers are puurhrj: into Kaunas. Victur Eiuuianucl is aii to Lc a g violinist aud a .slct.d.d singer. Wall street umlkr dcuouoce- afscciation in ;a fcr,t-1-. Ji.so. prop tr;: n. TttJ.s, Other ramr opera- U.-S. eu'.n or it CKansia, tims in equivaiet.t. N. II. 03ce cer Bent'ey's fh.e tore, in the old p -t oRiee build'.ng. ir.?e Fters brick, Albany. Ore-n. DlL' E. II. GRIFFIN. Dee. 30, rli2nf. Every a nciglriiur as a thict". There U a "horse thief Mu-eatine cuuuty, Iowa. Na-b? was unused lV'troU'titn because he suggests iiuihin but a bore. Lon iua ha ihsrty-thrce ra l.a of beer JJananas grow ;n the opeo air at Au- Omahrt, rccorJin; to her bet ju!jr uteat, uow cu;:ains 2-,tlv) iuhabiiaut. The .survlhs of I)etr:t dress afier por traits of Ueore Washington, and think they eau revive thut f shiutj. X. II. CUAXOIt, ATTORaET j.ND C0LSELL0a AT LAW, OrriCE In Norcrojs Brlek Building, op-stairs, Albanv, Oregon, au-1 JOII J. U IIITXKY, ITTOSXET AXD COFXSELLOS AT and Notary Public Special attention given to collections. Orrics In the Court liou.-e. Albany, Oregon. LAW T3n33tf. G. IV. !SAY, I. D. S., GRADUATE OF CINCINNATI DENTAL COLLEGE. WOULD INVITE ALL PERSONS DESIR iag Artificial teeth aud firt-clas Dental Operations, to girt htm a call. Specimens of Vulcanite Bas with gold plate linings, and other new styles of work, may be seen at his office, np stairs ia ParrL-h k Co.'t Brick. Albany, Oregon. Residence, corner of Second and Raker streets. aprir63v3n31tf . C. POWELL. L. TLISX. PO!VLIf fc FI.IXX, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LA W AND SOLICITOUS IN CHANCERY, (2. 'lkn N035 Public.) 4 LBtVV Ore-ran Cdlecf'oos and convey j aaejproitptij attenae t0- c " 7 ZIIliTAUIDClt & CO., DEALJllS IN GROCERIES AND PR0VI fions, Woai and Willow Ware, Confection ery, Tobaeeo, Cigir?, Pipe. Notions, cte. Store a MVme street, aijoiain the Express office, At fcaay, Oregon- se2Sv-3a7tf THE EYES! THE EARS! DR. T. L GOLOEN, OCULIST AND AUR1ST, . - ALBANY, OREGON- gentlemen ic Xew Votk have fateu hteps to impi-rt ll'U Miifcerfc van lor their own households. ter- Mr. VrcaUUiit, and Mauler of (h Jgriarflural ftfjvivty of Out State, of Orcyott: lellow Citizens: By invitation "of your Exec alive Committee, and in ac cordance with an cstablUlied custom of your Soci.ty, 1 appear before you upon this occasion, to luldrcHH you upon the topics connected with itn objects. I regret that tho time for preparation for so important a duty hud not been longer, especially as other duties have engaged a great part of the liutited pe riod allotted to me. Fellow citizens, I cannot but ex press my sincere commendations of the noble objects your organization has in view, for I fully believe that the thrifty improvement, and the advancement oi the commonwealth of the Htato of Ore gon, depend upon tho successs of agri cultural alTuir.s. Our nrt, mm.uiac tures und navigation, must ilouritdt and prosper, or decline ud perish, upon the success or failure of our agricultu ral UiUie.U. in met, all other occu pations iu'our community, mechanical uud prfessional, are but brunt-hen do peuttmg lor httccess ami viutlity upon this parent stock. An interest there fore so impoiiuiifc to the well being of our community, should receive the en couragement it so richly merits. No reasonable effort should I. mi spared, which is calculated to promote it. Fellow citizens, we have u tenitory iucituUtl williiu the boundaries of our S;at;, which comprises nearly one hun dred thousand square luilen, an extent of countrv a- large a:i N,w i u.k at.d ienns . hunia combined. We have four htiutired miles of river navigation, ami about that number of mileofhcacoa-it, indented with good Lays and keetiiv harbors. Our climate- U mild and healthful, our Kni rich and produc tie, rniigcH of motintain.-i traeH,' our Slat- Htato and County .Agricultural Hocio ties havo been mainly instrumental through tho inlluenco which they havo exercised upon tho community, in bringing about this gratifying result. Experience teaches us that tho ag- TII IS PA KNEIJ, LI2TTI2IIM. To Ifaravc (hreley ; Hahiu: I must onco more revert to is 41 than they could do more prac raising rtiidering tht surface portion of it broken and fagged, wniiu other portions are and ami in a measure ster ile, but luxuriant aiuiexteurivc valleys are imenspcmd throughout .its lengih ami breadth ; and in such convenient proximity to the ocean, that when our laculti' s for transportation are fullv elablirthed, their preil Jet; can Ixj ship ped at Husail expeitM? to ery poxt. Willi such aivautagci p-o.-sej.iett by American people, who have already by the act of immigrating to this far sec tion, evinced a ehatr.cte.- for energy ami peie trance, whatglorioiw uopes England ues 220.000 piund f.f paper annually; rrauce lUO.Uuo pounus, ana the United States, 4UO.U0U. An Atucrian uatneJ (Iritnmcll ha iMJen aipoin!cl admiral anl in.pcct"r tn the Japan navy, at a fa'ary of $13,U00 a year Two hundred thousand dollars in gold have been found in the stale house ground nt Little Hock, Arkansas. The Davenport brothers are exhibit ing and creating rjuite a sensation at Cin ct inati. The President has appointed the 18th of the present month ad a day of thanks giving and prayer. One hundred thousand dozen eggs have reached San Francisco from Chicago and hac been readily ft Id at 50 cents per dozen The charge on freight from San Fran Cisco to Marjsville by the Orcgoo and California Kai'road is per ton. Connecticut farmers are astonifdicd at pickerel having been found in their corn fields after the recent stcrni. A. T. Stewart has sold twenty shawls tht eea.:'m wortn cacn' anc onc worth S5.7UV. One woman run up a bill of 820,000 in two piontlw.- - The Commissioner of Agneunrc efitl mates the total valueof the crops of the United States for the year 18G9, at $1,811,008,015 A "quiet, inoffensive person," in De catur, Ala., killed 13 out of a party of 10 desperadoes who attacked him 'the . . . a lll A III t ! lr. tioiaen (a son or tue nof.a oia upninsisiis nti1(1- rirrlit Doctor, 8. c lioluca), lias uau experience in ireai-1 Img the rarious diicaaea to whieb tbe eye and ear svre sabject. aai foels eonfideat of giving entire catufaction to these who may rflace themselves under Jiis eare. apr!0v4n34tf to cultivate urn, nds tico has resulted in their not very much grain, and what they havo raised has been uuiuferiorquahty. If each ono w as to till ono half of the ground in tho future, that ho has form o:ly tilled, and apply the same amount of work to tho part so tilled, ho would produco nearly as much and that of a supeiior quality, aud in this way he could Continually improve his koii. Tho Oregon farmer has been too much inclined to follow the beaten track, to pursue the course pursued by others, and to rely upon tho fertility of the soil, tho seasons, and good fortune for a crop, indulging in tho vain hope that high prices would 'compensate for tli uiinishcd quantity and an inferior quality. Ho has never taken into con sideration, that tho soilneed'i food and nourishment as much as the patient team needs to bo fed, in order to per form well. Ntitherhasho studied the nature of the noil, and the adaptation of the kind of grain to each particular kind of soil. Too often has he nown one kind of graiu on the same piece of ground year after year, thereby ex hausting the particular properties of the soil, which is required to grow that particular kind of grain. A better practice would be, never to rai-: tho same kind of produce on the Fame piece of ground oftener than once in three or four crojss, this would give the. s oil time to re-gain the peculiar properties destroyed by the crops. Again our farmers have not taken Ktif iicient pains in selecting the seed uad and sown by them. They havo very frequently sown the same seed which 1 for Kcv- This cotir. e a the vitality Notary Public. f, r, Bl-SSELt,, Alt'j at Law. , RUSSHXX tfc.ELIIIXS. OSce ia Parrish'rf & Co.' Block. I"irt Street, ALBANY, OREGON. 3sq., tx-Clerk of Lmn couuty, Oregon, we are enabled to add to our practice of law and collec tions, saperior facilities for Conveyancing, Examining Eecords, ASD Attending: to Probate Business. Newspapers are uncertain whether Fisk, Jr., made 85,000,000 or lost 830,- 000 by the recent speculations in New ork. a t n 0 a A -vast amount ot grain in packs was rendered worthless or greatly injured by recent rains in uaurornia. i he los is said to amount to several hundred thou sand sacks. The grain was Ivinz on the banks oi the rivers awaiting 'shipment Mark Twain say that Bcecher's most . - . a ; . r aisasirous. experiment in iarmmrr was wnen ne inea to raise an inmmene crop of dried apples. He planted 81.500 worth, but never one or them sproute Deds, Bonds, Contracts and Mortgages carefully and Beccher has not been ab C to under drawn. Iloincstcal and Pre-emption papers made j stand the reason why to this day. and Claims secured. Sales of Real Estate negoti-1 ated, and loans elected on Collateral securities on i reasanable rates. All business entrusted to them will be promptly attended to. ' RUIjcELL & ELKINS. Oct. 6, IS6S v2n4Ctf C JAMUEL DENNY, TT 1ST 3D 23 33 T J. IE3 IR , --ASD DEALEB IX ALL KINDS OP CABINET WARE ! ALBANY, OREGOX. Store on First st eet, under tho Democrat OEce. . A-lbany, Oct. 1, 18G8 v4n7tf. . JOB WOlia N?atly and cheaply done a this OSce. The Imperialist, a paper started in the interests of a strong central government by Ex-Secretary Boric and John A. Lo gan, head of the Loyal League, is dead. , The official figures at the Department estimate that vthe cotton cron of the Southern States this year will bo worth 8240,000,000; while the total value oi the exports of the South is set down at 8328,500.000. ' - ; $2,000 worth of grapes and pears, sent from Srn Francisco to Chicago were so damaged upon arrival in the latter city that the iJoard ot Health had them all carried out of the city and destroyed. for list- future may we not anticipate? Hut, fellow citizens, . great ta-,k is bo fore you. While a benellcitni Provi dence has provided ys.u with a full share of all earthly blessings eoiihiht ent with nian's condition in this world, yet the work of rendering thete gift lit to administer to your immediate wants in yours. W'o cannot liefcupu!elv down and reasonably hope to be supplied with ! these necesiuines of life suitable to our condition. The fat of the Almighty has gone forth, ' tliat must shall eat his bread in the sweat of his face,"- and tinker that high behest, he is com pelled to wring from the reluctant earth his Mibhistcncc. Since the event ful day, when it was decreed that thorns' and thistles should be planted in man's pathway, an lrrepressiblo conflict has existed between tne human family and these pernicious exotics, introduced as a penalty for primeval transgression. J3ut 1 will not dwell longer upon gen eralities. The subject leiore you (should be considered in all its various ramifications. All are willing to promoto tho cause of .agriculture, m our State and coun try. Some are ready to lend an act ive co-operation, and every ono is grat ified, when he learns that airy new and valuable improvement in this great branch oi produc:ive industry has been invented and successfully used. Many imrdements of husbandry have been in troduced into this State, within the past fifteen years, which havo pro duced a radical improvement in the mode and manner ot fanning. They have materially decreased the expense in raising anuirepanng i0v market the various products of the soil. 1 "We uiC indebted t.othc inventive m renuitv of some oi pur own citizens, lor the invention and introduction of many, which have proved very beil licial and useful. The fanner now is able to make the horse perform much of .the labor which was formerly done by man, and not only that, hin work is done much more expeditiously, and, in most instances, lar better. "Wheat, which is one of the staple productions of the countrv, can . now (through the invention of machinery) be raised and sold in the market for one-third less than formerly, and as great profit made tliereby. I have re- cenuy ueen miormeu bv a highly, re spected farmer residing in Benton county, that, within the last year witl his own labor and that of two boys, both of whom are less than 15 years of age, aided by two gang plows, onc header, and one-half interest in an eight-horse thresher, he prepared tne, ground, - and raised thereupon fit ted lor market 0,081 bushels of wheat, and about 2,000 bushels of other kinds of grain, and had paid out for other help, less than $200 in money. Be sides his header, and thresher ha earned more than that sum in working for his neighbors. , This example lllus i.ko J Vm ...t.i , t ,:.c UUl.cn ujo cixccii Wi-UOH tlltJ USU Ot lllUi chinery has had in "raising ''grain in Oregon, better than any, thin'' I can refer too. . , , -'-. I believe I can safely state, withou fear of successful contradiction, . tha the labor of one man now, aided by machinery, is equal to that of twenty fifteen years ago; m connection wit then m use. Our rionlriifnlistf 4lim Kfn.fft l.nvn "OftCH, HaillU Ot 1110 i101gan IlOll tivato too much land each year, that! W"rks 11,0 fon 'inanufacluro ox- ytviii Jk tain rvuuuj , n, juuutu. liiU revtdations mado to me by him are of tho most ;t startling kind, I felt naturally intescsted iu tho iron manufacturing bunineiTs, and ' made many . inquiries; and tho following is tho result which, O Greeley! I give you verbatim of course, in "a con densed form: Twelve years ago there were, in the City of New York, tho following great iron-works: The Allaire "Works, employing 700 hands. Etna "Works, employing 000 hands. Morgan Works, employing 700 hands. Neptuno "Works, employing 500 hands. Novelty Works, employing 800 hands. Delamater Works, employing 800 hands. These six great workn employed 1,100 hands. To-day the following is the melan choly exhibit: Allaire work is a car tbh Etna belongs to 1 loach, sahib, and is "ehol up:" Neptune, sold to! loach, sahib, "rhuf Novelty makes hou:;e car tings and no i'iijlti Belamater makes Cuban gtmlHjat, and employes, at present, 5(.M) men. Morgan work employ 150 men. To'.al, 050. Tims tlie -1,100 working-men who made the river banks glad with their iwihv work, have dwindled down to 050, and if tho gund'ont bufcinesH ceases, not COO will 1s employed iu manufacturing engines or machinery. The lluo uitu who were employed in these works, Ik fore tho monopoly, earned about 2,000,000 annually, or fill average of $10 a week. The' 1)50 tl at are at work t arn now, on.an aver age, $15 a week, ami their earnings, together, amount to $liti)V,0iurrt'itry. Twelve years ago, m fays I loach, B.ihib, there were no drill, nodi!rrx, eiiher fur work ar iitKufiiciency of wages; the men could live comfortably, and mvv even a little. Now, lloach s-ihib. tells me. notwith.'daml:.'' the tgher wage his fuw men can:, thev are alwavs in di.strc.;;-?, and cannot make he two ends meet. Twelve year:, ago ho Neptune Iron Works, vvhich are now tmit up, wcro empiovea elnenv m building marine engines winch were exported to China. The lats were jtult tht iv, but the Chinese preferrtt as ratM-d on the name roum era! vera. in ;ueccision. degenerate and de itr winch the j-eed oiiiually pohyesixd, and nuail cnqs are the inevitable con rt.quei.ee. 'lhi bttter practice would be t change the h'ced every year and obtain that, if po:ible, rawed iu home dintaut locality und upon soil posne-i-sing tui many dissimilar properties as i,oi4f.ibh, iu this vuv, tht quality of the gr. i i r poibn e raided w ould bo ma- .eiully iiiiproved. No one hhould ever txp t to realize a large crop t:nSe.i hi i ground ia first prepared for the i t ed unil thb cannot s done uukvai his ground U ivi d phj and thorough ly plowed. The syhteui of shallow plowing, or Kkimmingover the ground, hui Ix-en completely exploded m Ore gon. The drouth here is such after the crop U planted in the spring, ami before th wime matures, that every effort is required to give the -ecd moisture and nourishment. Deep plow ing, and having the ground otherwise prepared, wilt have this result. 1 all and winter plowing has aLso had the same tiled , v hen prepared in the sam e way. Sunimer-fallowmg has been neglect ed more in Oregon thau any other process of fanning. No piece of round shounl ever produce more than three crops Without being summer- fallowed, if the farmer wished to keep his ground free from obnoxious plants and weeds, and in proper condition. If it was summer-fallowed even other crop it wotdd bo far better and more proiitablo in the end. JJut l turn Irom this subject. The early settlers of Oregon have had many advantage. over the early settlers of tho Atlantic States, m bein provided with a bountiful donation ol land, and finding here broad and ex tensive prairies which had been pre pared for the plow without toil and la bor; in liuding tho soil rich and pro ductive, destitute of stones and rocks that vex and annoy the Eastern farm er, ail these conveniences they have at. ." possessed irom tne oeginuing. rev ertheless they have labored under many disadvantages. The mineral re sources of this Stato havo retarded the progress of agriculture and manu factures, by inviting the husbandman and mechanic from the toil and labor incident to his occupation or trade to the mining camp, thero to delve ant labor for untold treasures too frequent- si ly only realized in imagination. It true many have succeeded and realize 1 whftii their most sanguine expectations had anticipated, VT.'uie others havo sig fnib-fl. AH havo returned to 7 " " the farming tools why do I do it. My answer is, I live and hope. I mado my money in this business. I know that not only can money bo made in it, if we had only fair play, but that we could benefit the world with our ingenuity and work; and I am determined to mtand by it as long as my resources last. Yet it is very hard, when I can show you by my books that, in 1858, 1 built an en gine within 200 pounds of the snrno weight, for which I then trot $23,000. and fully cleared $4, COO, while now I lose $5,000." Ah we were speaking, the owner of the steamship Olympia came up, and lloach, j-ahib, introduced me to him. This gentleman, whose name is Wright (sahib), began to complain about the cost of fitting the steamer out. He a;;sured me that ho paid $225 for the stove he put in the Olympia, which ten years ago could be bought for 85. yiln fact,' wiul this ,ahib. "our tar iff or cost oft' goods, or whatever it is, reminds me very much of the Chinene women s feet, which are prevented from growing by means of iron shoes put on their feet, which the poor things cannot get rid of. This steamer," said Wright, Kahib, "I built for the pur pose of mm ing between Vancouver's Ifdand and Olympia. Washington Ter ritory, I can use three steamers, but. although I am well to do in the world, i liiHL mat mis oiu' already swallows up my resources. Now, what is the consequence ? If I could run two or three steamers on the Pacific coast. between the two points named, tho frequency of communication alone. would tend more to d':vthq the re sources of our hidden wealth than any other means that could be devised. As it w, lay country's laws stint my re Kource.H ; they make me pay 225 for a ntove which formerly I bought for 85. and 10,000 for the engine which I could havo got formerly for $23,000, and all the rest iu proportion, ami they dqirive of making moncvand 1vamiiixcjtox iitvic;'s i.ovi5-j a hi.v(;li,ai: mpk romaucd. Front the I'hilaJclphia Inquirer, ' About tho bachelorhood of Washing' ton Irving thero always hung a cloud of mystery, which even his familiar ac quaintances tried in vain to dispel But the grave, that more generally, hides than discloses the wellkept se-' crets of a life-time, having just closed over tho late Miss llebecca Grata, of this city a Hebrew lady of exemplary goodness, and who was noted for tho grcatncHg of her 1ounty to all poor persons avc are informed that fthe was the occasion of Irving's single life. In regard to the matter a correspondent: of the Jewidi Messenger writes ; Twenty yej?rs ago I heard a story, a story- that ban long been current in ; Jewish circles among her friends and acquaintances, and which has again" been revived f:incc her death. , It runs1 thus. : Many years ago, when Miss Urate was a young girl, Washington Irving, then already- risen in literary reputation, came to Philadelphia andi ' became a visitor at the house of her family. It is said that in youth she was very beautiful and very good, and! as her acquaintance with Irving in creased, the beauty of both her char acter and her features, together with the fact that kLc way a living represent tative of that nation whose whole his-' tory is romance, so wrought upon hw heart that he became deeply enamored with her. It if needless to nay that had his attachment been ever so strong, with her strength in her faith, it would have been waited, Irving kf t the eityr but did not forget the lady of his love But the romance docs not end here, ; for the correspondent v&yn that when Irving met Sir Walter Scott abroad, he told him tho story of bis attachment to" the beautiful and good Jewes: of Phil adelphia. At f he time, Scott was about' to write the novel of 'Ivanhoe." and he.wai so :mpre:-.ed with the rortrait- the countrv from btiiig swiftly devel- ure of the object of Irvings love, who oped." though loving, was t;till so faithful to' Well," wiid I, "the inflated cur- her religion, that he gave to his hero- rencyis a great draw back." me the isamo of llebecca. True or not, Said Wright, f-abib: ''It h. But the story is a beautiful one, and there Itok here" and taking a pencil out of is nothing jn it tltat is not honorable to hi t pocket he figured on the comer of all. 3ILsj Gralz died aged eighty eight the well, Greeley, ahib, if I must years. tell you the Tribune, the followimr: Add cveij 49 per --fit, premiuat. Ana .(J tllui-r 4t. 40 1 tlie so-called b am ci"jai' for their Htcandxjats, and at Americans are adept in building these marine en gines, they were exclusively made icre. Now not only are the Neptune works Kimt up, out no! on" marine en gine is made here for expert. The oi lers for this kind of work, as well a for sugar-mills or anv other skilled- ,'Jor machincrv, go entirely either to Scotland or Belgium, or even to France. All this, lloach, sahib, says, is owing to the high tariff on pig-iron, boiler-plate, fcteel, bar-iron, copper, brass, lead, &c. It is owing, no he avs, to the high trriff cn vvjolens. cottons, hardware, household utensils, to tho high price of rent and eatables. Men cannot live, though their wages never had nor have a parallel in his ton, because all tho.so necessaries of life' which thev buy with their wages have advanced 20 per cent, more than the advance m wages thev earn. The iron monopoly has driven 3,000 men away irom jew lork city alone, as lloach, sahib, truly showed me. New York, which twelve years ago ex ported more than ten million dollars' worth of machinery, does not now ex port of the same kind ten cents worth. During the excitement of the war, these six works I mentioned were, of course, busily employed to make war material ; Put lor the . last hvo years they have dwindled down, as stated, and will soon become extinct altogeth er, and, said lloach, sahib, further, suould this go on lour or live years longer, dud a foreign war break out, tho fos of tho United States would have easy work, as there would not be a workshop left to make a suitable of fensive or uejoHfivc war engine. Such, O Horace Greeley, sahib To !s.. .. ' 'There still remain $i'Al to bo account ed for. Where i it? Who is the l-ctter for it? Government is not ; for I am told the material therein iron, brass, &tv is home-made metal. Who lias got it those ?" I mentally made a vow to write to my esteemed political economist, Horace Greeley, sahib, to give the '.somewhat excited Wright, sahib, owner of the Olympia steamship, 1 vim; foot of Ninth and 1-CLL LP. In Virginia, where , tho law fixes the nmrriaire fee at one dollar. there is a reiuini.-ceuec of a caunla who many years ago called on a parson and requested him to laarry thee. W ncrc u my fee V said the function-' ary. I he parties who were to unite thcii furtuuei tcarched their pockets and found tLe joint amount to be wen'y-seven cents. "i can't marry you for this sum," said the parson. A httie bit of Fcrvtcc will go a lorn way, suggested the male applicant. "Ah, no, said the parson, "you don't . treet, a solution of who has benefited Pav for lIse -o-l you hope it will do you. nd got the missiii'' i'CG. Ihc las intent on marriage, began t I hope, great sahib, you will not "?' bu,t l'e Par5n WBS inexorable, and disappoint me. Yours, ever, respect- lltc CouI,Ie tntuCil dj to depart. Just fullv, A. CfKuosmuoY. t,,en a haPi hou2ut seemed to strike bo r homes and TUC'SdCfi with iliuei ... . . . . i. : i. ent habits aud inclinations, which lave rendered them less qualified to be successful farmers or mechanics, and, consequently, less qualified to bo useful members of society. The possession of mineral resources by a State, does not always produco min eral wealth or permanent prosperity or its inhabitants. The prospect of immediate gain operates so powerfully upon tho human mmd that it not un- requentiy induces individuals to pursue a phantom, until real and substantial prosperity is beyond their reach. It also creates an inordinate desire for speculation, thereby attempt ing to acquire wealth by some other process, than by patient toil . and silent perseverance. It has recently been stated by a distinguished editor m the Eastern States, that "the dark est day in any man's earthly career, is tnat wnerem ho first fancies that there is some easier way of gaining a dollar man oy squarely earning it. A great er truism has never been uttered either . in ancient or modern times Whenever' a man plans how he can ob tain tne nrst dollar, without getting i fairly and honestly, he has taken the first step towards becoming an unprofit able citizen and a useless member o society. ' (concluded' next week.) Parsee Merchant of Bombay. ALASKA. the foiloru maiden, and die tamed and cried through her tears : i'ka-e, sir, it you can t marry us full . won t vou marry us ta-entv-KPren The party of inspectors who went) cents worth ; we can come for the rcs o the iarkou country on the Ilevenue some other time ?" cutter Lincoln, have returned to bitka, This was too much fur the parson. n and make the following report: married them "full up" and they went i f .... . l ..:n x i a tl I . . . . - xuc luuuu u vittiigu oi lvuia mey i on tnetr wav rc oic u-r. ... 1 A 1 - 1-1. T 1? It I - 13 hiqqiybfu to ou jvuko xuuians, me tribe whoso villages on Kou Island ulution faster than the cities do. The re verse is true of Massachusetts and all the' eastern states. r great political economist, is truly the stato of your industry. 1 cannot see how these facts can bo refuted , as I have them from such beat authority and convinced myself with mine own pva ' yet, so powerful is your grea mind aud inutgation, that you may iprlnns. after n 1. convmC? me mat u is absolutely necessary to shut up four immense iron foundries m a (treat city in four years, to reduce 4,100 busy workmen to UoO, and to demolish iu million dollars worth of labor export annually, to make industry and trade i t- iii. ... uourisn. x ray, ennguieii mo ou ,ui subject, and believe me, yours always, with great respect, A. (JUMOsumoY. Parsee Merchant of Bombay. fT . a !. 1. T m fi nna l.n.i .iLtr,..i I-.. ,. iiit.4 lakeuie staic census in iowcf as one of tlie Chiefs imd n. o K:cucLthaa anywhere else m the coun- rvtiK..-. i,;i, ATifiA,i if lry That of 1509. the aggregates of tribe. This stream empUes into the w . V 1? ' sno,f 3 tf popu l,v nlvif..n.w ,v Tr.. Ta I tation of considerably more than a mil- land, a little' north by west. They SLro 9,00U in 1807, and 675,- found five other streammntvin., info 00. ,n. .lfeG0: ? wood lf ih -aUon. i amination found gold'in all Jt them ; Jowa ,1M ncr.easc'J uj since 1SG0. -Its l,nf fhn n'M.OBf.lAnieit n-nafmnw1 c- I targCSS CUV IS DOW UaXCUpOTU Wltn A . 1 -nniMd-iftAM fi!-i m . I I O 1 four or live miles up the main stream i'"i'":"" ,v, u vi a-s per - at the foot of a fall or cascade of some :0V , ' . WBIVS"V hundred feet or more. They stato the w"n , ' , -v . , " water issuflicient to furnish miners 3.l,81?nfi , w,t 1 p'034 poun with all the water power necessary to BIufEj has o9, and Ottumwa 45o4. work the entire flats. All the creeks " 18 a curious wci mat the two cities are so situate that thev can be turned Davenport and Dubuque, taken together, nA infn rmniW have lewer inbabitauta than in 1SG7. On lkits dry. The Indians say these o olo o country places gain in pop- creeks are nearly dry in tho summer. One California pump worked with water power from the falls would drain a section. In the beds of these creeks they found scale gold. They Corns Cured. Hall's Journal of commenced panning out and averaged Health gives us this mode: " J he safest twenty cents to the pan: but as soon I the most accessible and the most efficient as the Indians found they were keep- j cure of a com on the toe, is to double a ing the littlo particles iound in . the piece ot thick buckskin, cut a hole m it -sand, they became troublesome, threw largo enough to receive the corn, and down the sand as fast as they shoveled biud it round the toe- It, in addition to' it up, took away their ammunition, this, the foot is soaked m warm water for gome of their provision, and stripped five or more minutes every morning and Douglass of all his clothes. They night, and a few drops of sweet oil, or asked if the Boston men intended to other oily substance, are patiently rubbed build houses-there, to which the men in after the soaking, the corn will almost rordied thev did not know. They said infallibly become so loose in a few days! .a" "1 1 lit . TB 1 - A I I t - lv AsdM S.MbA.l k 4k a K thev liu not want; me juostons to live as w uv eunv pnwu hic uui;r there, and they would not let them, nail : this saves the necessity of paring' i 1.1 ' ... 1 ,1 . . . . i!... I - . They ordered tne miners away, ana mo corn, wmcu operauou uas Komeume, " . t . i-i-i., il t-1ll, .. 1 . 11 11 .1 i Ttf threatened to Kill tnem n mey uiti noi neen louoweu oy uangcrous sympioma. xx rrn Thev spoke severely of Gen. the corn becomes inconvenient again re- Davis, and said if they had hini there peat tbe process at once. they would cut on ins neaa. xney : . NO. 11. To, Horace Greeley : Sahib: My very good friend, John "Roach, sahib, of the Morgan Iron , . t wnrlrs. foot of JNmth street, invitea me to inspect the steamer Olympia - . .. . , m 1. .1. 1. 1 ilL lying at his wrhari, lor wmcu ne uuuo th a Rt,pn.m-eninnes. .we went; over tho vessel and inspected the work which, as far as I could seo, is splen did. V 'Seel friend Curiosibhoy," said he "the utter prostration and disorgani zation of our steam-engine, building I receive S-10.000 for tho engmo I pu in this steamer, and I lose more than $5,000 by tho contract. You will say also denounced the Tarkou Indians.1 Total assessment of Marion county, 83.095,842: number of polls, 1720: number bushels of wheat raised last year, 429,400; number bushels of oats, iil4,- 820 ; number pounds ot wool clipped, 72,109 j number ot cattle, 4,d8i; horses, exctusive of colts, 6,848 j sheep, 20,327, exclusive of lambs. Mr..Catr enquired about the loss of wheat by tho rain, and from all the information ho could gain, ho estimates the damaged wheat at 150, 000 bushels, most of it has, however, been turned to some account either for feed or market in some shape or other. This will swell the wheat total to over half a million bushels, and not a good year for wheat either. Statesman Mark Twain, in noticing the recent donatiad by George Peabody of $40,000' to the Peabody Institute of-Baltimore,, s yi that it is about time he was figuring-' up to see what he has got lett. Ihe nrst thinir he knows he will have to be bor rowing money to get home on. Wuen Pririca Alfred, the" midship man, happened to be in some British har bor or other, he went ashore and iuquired ot a carpenier iur u picvu ui wuuu. xwu n I address the Duke of Edinburgh ?" ask ed the carpenter, quaking and removing . a -r w r . .a- i ' .1 . his hat. : les, l ra ine xmice oi XiUiu bursh." said Alfred, 14 but I don't want wood." ' . " .