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ATTORNEYS ASD COUNSELORS AT LAW.
(N. B. Humphrey, Notary Public,)
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Office up stair3 in l'r.gt Office EuiiJin;.
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erf the best quality.
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julliyaulSyl
" A'. S. D57 BOiS
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IXG alare stock of Groceries and Prori
sions, Wood and Willow Ware, Tobaeco, Cigars.
Confectionery, Yankee Notions, etc., etc.
y ' Wholesale aad EctaiL '
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rilYSICIAX AXDSURttEOX,
ALBAXT, OREGOX.
3?f0flice : On South side of ilain street.
Bcsidence: On the corner of Third and Baker
troeU. aprl5v5n35tf.
; JOHN 1. HIIITXEY, ".
JITTITSXEI AXD CCKtSELOR AT LAW
and Natary Pafclic.
Special attentions given to collections.
Omce Up stairs in Parrish's Brick. .
Albany, Oregon. . . v3n33tf.
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TER from 22 to 25 cents ner nound. aod
C ft.. A - J AT,,- vmiu A .1 -
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Those who wish goods AT A BARGAIN bad
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ee for themselves. K. CUEADLE & CO.
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First-Class Hair Dressing Saloons,
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vSnStf.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
SCIO, OREGON.
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IScal Eslii.c Stealers
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ibaii in any other part of the State.
-r-lutuiro of J. M. Joiiss, Marion Station,
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JDLT GOODS!
GROCERIES !
LCLOTHING, HATS & CAPS!
Itoot.H autl Khors !
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l?iTERNATIC?ilAL HOTEL,
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PORTLAND, OP.EGOX.
31. RUDOLPH -Proprietor.
THE LXI'ERSIGNED HAVING NEWLY
furnished and refitted the above-named bo
tel. wit! henceforth conduct it on the EUROPE
AN PLAN.
Eooius can be bad by tho Bay, Week or
Month.
A ItF.STACttANT in the house, under the man
affluent of VVJI. ALBRiDiiE, conducted in
rejrular Hotel stjde.
Suits of Roomi lor the special accommoda
tion of Families.
JS Board and Lodging at the most reasona
ble, rates.
The Hotel Coach will be in attendance at each
Train aud Steamboat to eonvev passengers to
the Hotel fres of charge. 11. RUL LtH,
v6n47tf. Proprietor.
THE JUSTLY
CELEBRATED
BAIN WAGON!
ECOGXIZED EVERYWHERE AS A
FIRST CLASS FARM WAGON
X') other Wagon bas a Home reputation equal
to -Raiti" make, and it is the only wagon that
has be :n IihIiiI and known to stand this climate,
In a word it is made of the bent materials and is
the best finished wagon that conies to this mar
ket.
We hove different styles of Hounds and Reach,
Patent do. (so calle't) included
BLAIX, YOUNG A CO.
"v6n-43 Aifents at Albany.
TALLY &IIOUCK,
AVE ESTABLISHED AX EXTENSIVE
Brewery business in e
ALBASY AAD COKYALLXS,
Mr. llouck keeping the old stand of Tally in
Albany and Mr. iatly superintending the tit
tablisbment at Corvaliis. Beer furnished to
SALOONS AND PRIVATE FAMILIES
to order, and -: ,-
"WAEEABTEDD TO EE TU VEEY BEST !
TALLY A HOUXK.
April 14, 1871 v8n35tf .
Attention, Fa rmers !
; TU.fi FARMERS' UNION
WAREHOUSE!!
SHEDD'S STATION!
ill be in readiness t receive grain on and
after the lath of August: will he furnished
with CLEANIXGr and ELEVATING Machine
ry of the most approved construction.
Sacks will be furnished, and the
HIGHEST ALBAXT PRICES
will be paid in Cash for Grain of all kinds.
TERMS for storage, etc., made known on
application at the Warehouse.
au4n51m3 ALMON WHEELER,
Lessee.
NOTICE.
A LL PE2SOXS OWING ON SUBSCRIP-
Xtion or note on account of railroad comple
tion to Albany please call and settle immediate
ly. BX. HOLLADA Y,
vn6 tf. By" J. U. Foster.
THE ALTERED CHECK.
BY MARY 1IEW1NS BURN1IA.M.
CHAPTER I.
Tho carriage of M;ulamo Clarice
Spencer wliirlctl into the long maple
avenue that led to tlto heautiiul homo
of that proutl dame, ami within its
lnistrcKH lolled hack upon its crimson
cushions, tho incarnation of satisfied
prosperity. Hut at mi opening in tho
road that led to tho littlo artilieial
lake, Madatuu Kprang impetuously fur
ward ami east an angry glance at a
couple who wero just disappearing
down the shadowy path. The noise
less wheels of the luxurious coach
had not been noticed ly the pair, and
the lady alighted a few rods further
on, and, saying she would walk up by
the tlower border, dismissed tho ser
vants to tho stable, paused an instant
till the carriage was lost to view, then
swiftly turning, she followed the two
figures whose appearance in the shrub
bery had ho startled her composure.
A few steps brought her to the little
lake", whoso edge the grand walk en
circled like a huge gray snake. J So
hind the walk ran a cypress hedge,
and the lady passed swiftly in tho
shadow of this hedge to the rear of
the gentleman and lady, who hail
stopped at a rustic seat, ami were the
objects of her wrathful curiosity.
The girl was not more than eight
een, and the strong resemblance she
bore to the listener behind the shrub
bery, the rich robe that fell about her,
the diamonds that glistened in her
ears and on her tiny lingers, told
plainly tdu- was the daughter of the
lioue. And certainly the presence of
her companion as high-bred enough
the liiee noble and tie carriage
proud enough to suit even the taste
of the ambitious Madame Clarice.
Hut the tall, arisiot-ratie young man
was neverthek-s the private tutor of
a iifi-'hbor's son. and alreadv some
caMial remark among the servants had
reused the mother's su-pifioiis. She
had sHkeit to K-lith of the intimacy
which might cause idle tongues to
connect their names as she would
never like to hear them, and the
daughter, with much of her mother s
temper, had rip-lied bitterly. Though
the discussion wa-t dropped for tlto
time, and Kdith had seen less of the
tutor, still the heart of Madame was
nut piitc satisfied. "Kdith was so
iL-adstrong, and Granville Dunbar wa
so iian.isome, snc rcaoneu, mat it
eal'y uas extremely natural they
bouid be fascinated. Hut beyond a
iirtalion the ambitious mother vowed
it shouia never go.
.And "now as she crouched behind
lie hedge, where every word was
ae.iiole to me i:ieuer, site eei i;cr
i-eth and lingers together in a rage as
she heard h-r daughter, on whose lu
ture she built so many proud hopes,
over and over again assure tho beg-
arlv tutor thai she "would never
cease to love him, and w hatever oppo
sition was in store for her, she would
brave everything and become his
wife.''
Then the deep, loving tones of the
tutor's voice fell on her outrage! ear,
as he planned for the future, with the
slight figure of Kdith elaped close to
er lover s protecting oreoi.
Clarice Spencer fairly held herself
to prevent interrupting this exasper
ating interview, but by powerful ef
forts she restrained herself, as she felt
fcure interference would hasten the
catastrophe of this damning marriage
which was being planned under her
indignant maternal hobo.
,o some htrategy was necessary
to separate the lovers, which she was
eoual to. Hut no open opposition
would ever effect her purpose, and
with this determination she smoth
ered her wrath, gathered her silks
about her, and quietly Hole from the
ppot that held the unsuspecting lovers.
An hour later, w hen Kdith passed
to her own room, she spoke lor a mo
ment with her mother, who was ap
parently absorbed in a new novel.
"Edith, fcam the latter lauy, "tins
book has filled me with a desire to re
visit Europe. I really believe, if I
can arrange my affairs with my agent
and Mr. )unbar, you and I w ill get
away early next month."
"I'rav, w hat can .ur. uunnar nave
to do with your intentions?" ques
tioned Edith.
"I w ill tell you," pursued Madame
Clarice, "1 am going to propose he
shall take tho house I have empty in
the village, and open an academy of
15 or 20. besides our three, it will
make me far more comf ortable abroad
to know that Edwin and John and
Burly are all together under Mr. Dun
bar's teaching and care." Edith
thought long upon this plan of her
mother's before rdio slept, and gov
erned partly by her desire to go to
Europe before she was so situated,
perhaps. &3 to be unable to go, and
partly "by the desire that Granville
might have the opportunity of being
something more than an humble tu
tor when she became Mrs. Dunbar, as
she was determined one day to be,
she finally concluded that it was just
the thing for her lover, and madenfip
her tnind to persuade him to vie v it
in the same light.
While Edith turned over her moth
er's proposition, that mother sat brood
ing in her own room over her deeply
laid scheme for punishing Dunbar's
presumptuous hopes, the young man
himself was writing In an upper room
of old Winter's house, to his dearly
loved twin-sister Nell, who was then
at a celebrated seminary, kept there
by the generosity and self-denial of
her brother. U pon the large loois
cap sheetof Ms weekly letter, he de
scribes to Nell his charming Edith :
he dwelt long and fondly upon the
love he hoped to see grow up be
tween the two. ,
And the sister to whom this letter
was .addressed was well worthy the
confidence ol her devoted brother.
Ellen Dunbar was no common girl,
either in personal or mental attrib
utes. She was strangely like her brother.
Every feature of his handsome face
was reproduced with more delicacy in
Eleanor's. Tho mono sad eyes, blue
almost to blackness, fringed with
jetty-curled lashes ; tho sumo proud
curl of nostril and lip, that gavo a
hauirhty look to both facts: tho same
high-born air, made Nelly tho very !
imago ol her brother, and n very beau
tiful girl also.
Quick to be won by gentleness and
affection, she was a person w ho under
circumstances could bo nu avenging
fiend. She asked no happier fate than
to share tho homo of her loved broth
er, and though her beauty nnd grace
had already brought admirers, eager
lobe accepted as lovers, Nelly Dun
bar indulged in no dreams of tho fu
ture save tboso connected with Gran
ville. CHAPTER II.
"Oh. madamc, how strangely I have
misunderstood you; how deeply I
have wronged you !'' spoke Grauvillo
Dunbar, in the enthusiastic gratitude
of his heart, to Clarice Spencer, when,
after a long confidential interview, she
proposed to loan him $.",0U!), with
which to fm uii li his house and begin
his career as Professor of "Dunbar's
Preparatory College for Voting Gen
tlemen." its title and its specialties,
its political and religious tenets, were
duly discussed, and tin; astonished and
fluted gentleman left his wily patron,
to seek out ami share his happinesss
with the lovely Kdith.
It was now understood between
mother and daughter that after a
vear's sojourn in Europe, there would
1 i ... : .... i.' i i ... i : . t. ..
ou no uojeciiuns to i .uiin i sii;u wg inu
fortunes of her tutor loier. All the
shadows that had hung over their
early love seemed mysteriously dis
sipated, and they looked forward to
the end of the probationary year with
lolitrhted anticipations. Immediate
preparations for the departureof Mad
ame Clarice and her daughter were
made, and Granville, already in pos
session of the mansion assigned f..r
the academy, accompanied his lady ,
hue and her mother to the city, to see j
them off on the steamer, and to make j
various purcha-ies for himself. It was
the morning of their departure. Kdith
went out for a few minutes on some
tr J'ing errands, and Madame and her
prospective son-in-law sat together.
"Hut if this astronomical apparatus
is neeessary, you should have it, Dr.
Dunbar, and the clos of studies to be
pursued at your institution will render
this library of reference another ne
cessity." said this lady.
Verv true," replied Dunbar, "but
it would take fully a third of the
money you have so generously fur
nished. Kui'.ling the dormitory will
certainly cost mo fully gJ.W'j, and
therefore for the present I must do as
w ell as I can without them."
"Mr. Dunbar," rejoined Madame
Spencer, '"I may at once add a bit to
the original sum, and at once place
you beyond the perplexity of doing
without these things. I have no more
checks with me; let mo see the one
you have. I believe I can render that
available."
Granville Dunbar fairly glowed
w ith pleasure as he handed the paper
to the lady.
"Ah, madarne." he said, "I am con
fident of the success of the academy ;
it will be but a matter of a little time.
I can amply repay you, principal and
interest, of this money. Hut never
can I repay the noble generosity you
have shown in placing in iriy i.ower to
become worthy of your beautiful
child and the proud position of son to
so magnificent a woman as yourself."
"Foolish fellow," returned Madame,
as she took the paper; and there was
a strange glitter in her dark eyes as
she bent them on the enthusiastic face
of her daughter's suitor. Kor a mo
ment she read tho paper irresolute.
"I believe"
"That sum is sufficient, dear mad
arne," interrupted Dunbar; "yon will
need your ready money. Kdith will
see a thousand things in Europe that
she should have. Tho darling! She
ought to be a duchess."
Mr. Granville Dunbar by these
words turned the wavering scale. If
rnadamc had felt a moment's compunc
tion, the aliusiou to Edith confirmed
her original purpose, ami firmly grasp
ing the pen, she smilingly swept into
the adjoining room.
There she hurriedly Kcarched amid
the articles in a satchel for the neces
sary pen and ink, and with them she
brought to the table a small vial of
acid, with which she catefully erased
the written word "Five." anil then
writing in the space the word "Fif
teen," she added the figure 1 to the 5
in tho left hand corner; and behold,
to tho order of Granville Dunbar,
there stood the noblo sum of $la,000
Words fail to describe the astonish
ment of the young man as this check
lay presently m Ins hand.
"Hush," said the lady, "do mo a fa
vor say nothing to Edith of this ad
dition to your funds ; I desire it to be
a secret between us. Whom should I
benefit," she continued, "if not the
chosen of my only daughter's heart.
The sum seems large, but you will
nnd a w ay lor every dollar ot it.
Edith's entrance, and the fast ap
proaching departure with its attend
ant hurry, prevented.any further out
break of gratitude on Dunbar's part
At noon he saw the last of the lovely
1 T . 1. S" 3 1 .1
XiUiin anu uer generous mouier.
Shortly he retraced his steps to his
hotel, and spent the evening dwelling
in mourniul tenderness on his depart
ing Edith, and in cheerful anticipation
of her return. The next day, after
the bank was well under way with the
day s business, he presented his check
to the paying teller, who went and
communicated with the cashier, who
went inside to consult the president,
After still more delay the first gentle
man returned with the second, and
asked him to walk inside and see the
third, Granville began to be exceed
ingly confused at the suspicious scru
tiny of the trio. The president sat
with his check in his hand, and a mi
croscope lay on the desk before him.
"Young man," he said sternly, "I
suppose you want the money for this
check."
"I certainly do," returned Gam
ville. "Well, can you give me any infor
mation concerning this business V Aro
you the Mr. Dunbar to whoso order
this is payable ?" said the banker.
"I am'
"Humph ! I suppose you know you
have to bo identified V"
"I had not thought of that ; but I
can produce responsible parties who
know me. I presume I can find them
before banking hours aro over ;" and
Granville reached his hand to recover
his check.
"Not so last-, youug man. This
check has been altered from a small
amount to the largo one it now repre
sents," Granville was becoming irritated by
tho manner of tho man, and rather
strongly burst forth :
"Well, if it has' Mrs. Spencer al
tered it from S',0y0 to $lo,000, the
day sho sailed."
"Oh! she did? And that's strange,"
said the banker, slowly. "For she
has. not a dollarat her credit, over and
above tho sum you first stated
g.i.OOO."
Granville Dunbar fairly gasped.
"Why, Madame Spencer must have
known tho amount shu was able to
draw upon you for?"
"I should think so, too. Well,
young man, your story may be cor
rect; but in our business we generally
take the benefit of the doubt, and, un
til Madame Spencer can be communi
cated with, we shall have to detain
vou. And tuns it came about that
Granville passed this night much
more sadly than the previous one.
Day after day passed on. The steam
er that bore Madame Clarice and her
laughter arrived safely at Southamp
ton, and that lady found a telegram
awaiting her at her banker's in Lon
don :
What was amount of check in favor
of Gram ille Dunbar? One presented
for $15.Ui0, claimed to have been al
tered by yourself.
Alsl.i: Nt)i:Tll.VM,
l'rts't Fifth National Hank.
And apeed'.lv across the Atlantic
lla-hed the reply :
Cheek to G. Dunlmr for So,Ul)-) ;
never was altered bv myself to a lar
ger sum. Ci.auk e Spencer.
London, Eng.
And Gram ille Dunbar woke to the
lorrible plot that, miccesfulh carried
out. had ruined him, when he thought
his fortune was brightest.
The officer of the bank, incensed
tt what they c:.!lcd the unheard -of
impudence of this hwiud'er, prosecut
ed him for the offence charged, with
out delay. Clarice Spencer's deposi
tion was sent front iAMidou, where
Kdith was overwhelmed with sorrow
and agony at this terrible act of her
lover, and within one short month ol
that fatal day, when the victimized
voting iiiau had accepted the bouuty
ofthe deep scheuiicg mother, Grau-
vule Dunbar was tried, convicted and
sentenced.
Who shall describe the agony of
that one friend of the convict poor
Nelly? She had left her school at
the first unhappy adventure of her
loved brother, and as tho horrors of
his situation gathered quickly about
him, she struggled with her own
sinking heart, and bent every faculty
to cheer and support the poor, help
less, injured fellow.
Granville agr.in and again detailed
to her every word atid act of that
morning, until it was if she had been
an actor in the fearful scene, where
the beautiful woman, with smiling
face, had schemed and accomplished
her brother's ruin. Utterly crushed
in mind and body. Granville lay yet
in the city ptjson, too ill to bo moved.
Aud, as if to destroy the last gleam
of light his darkened life w as ever to
know, one moring Nelly failed to
come. Hut at night the warden came
to him with a note from the poor girl.
Sho begged him to hold body and
soul together for just a little time, for
her sake for Edith's. She had en
listed the sympathy of a prominent
official, who had promised her he
should not be moved from his pres
ent quarters for two months; under
plea of his illness he should be de
tained until she got back ; where she
was going she wrald not say. Hut
again she passionately burst forth and
begged him not to consign her to
madness, by giving way to tho trouble
that beset him. To wait patiently
only two months. That was all she
asked, and with this prayer Nelly was
gone.
CHAPTER III.
If Clarice Spencer had, by her dar
ing plot, saved her daughter from
what sho considered an awful fate, the
wretched mother now began to think
it was only to consign her to a grave.
For after the first awful shock Edith
had lailcd to rally, but laid languidly
about her apartment, never smiling
and scarcely speaking, her slight fig
ure growing more slender each day.
Madame Clarice saw with unspeaka
ble terror the rings on tho transpar
ent fingers becoming looser, the beau
tiful eyes large arid restless.
No effort was spared to 'win the
suffering girl to health and cheerful
ness. Hut in answer to all her moth
er's entreaties, she would say, " Moth
er, I cannot forget him. Unworthy
as I have proved him, I love him yet,
and I can no more forget him in his
sin and shame, than if he had been
lost to me when I believed him ill
that was good and noble."
The doctor said time alone could
deaden the Buffering she endured, and
the guilty mother, with a Binking
heart, asked herself if the girl could
last till time brought comfort with its
changes.
Then there came a day when Edith
had a stranger, visitor, who after a
brief interview, left only to return
and spend half the night with the
sick girl, and on the morrow there
was a new aud strange look on Edith's
face as she met her mother's gaze,
that made the strong woman tremble
and turn away. Edith was more si
lent aad preoccupied than ever.
Clarice t roposed their getting away
to Home itn mediately. Hut her
daughter said " Never. I shall never
leave this hotel Imt for my grave."
And completely unstrung bv the
girl s manner and looks, the unhappy
mother burst into a torrent of tears
beseeching her child to leavo such
gloomy thoughts, to come with her to
change of scene, forgetting one so ut
terly mi worthy of her love as this
man had shown himself, to live for
the mother who loved her better than
all the world besides.
At the instance of Dr. Crary, the
French maid, Hortonse, was supersed
ed by a very quiet-looking English
nurse, whose smooth gray hair and
close cap, grave manners and dress,
stained to Madame Spencer's jealous
eyes, but to increase the sombre sur
roundings of the sick girl.
Edith, however, took a fancy to this
nurse who certainly showed great
sympathy for her charge since, on
several occasions, Clarice found Edith
weeping on thJ nurse's breast while
the third attendant evinced almost as
much emotion as her patient.
Hut now Madame Spencer began
to show symptoms of illness herself.
There was a haggard look that spoke
of bodily suffering, as well .is mental
uneasiness. Finally she consulted
the physician she believed her mind
was giving way night after night
she had been awakened, to see stand
ing beside her bed a young man she
knew to be in America. She knew
he was awake she knew it was an
objet created by her imagination.
Therefore she was becoming unspeak
ably alarmed at tho condition her
hitherto strong intml must be in aud
tho doctor prescribed soothing
draughts. Hut all in vain. Ilorlense
was startled by her screaming mistress
in the dead hour of bight, and add
ed to the terror of Madame Spencer
by swearing she saw a cloud of vapor
like smoke roll from the door leading
to Mademoiselle Edith's apartments.
It was late the next day before the
victim of these midnight visitations
was sufficiently comixx-tcd to appear
before her daughter, and when the
did, she loutid Edith ghastly, as,
shrouded in w hite, sho reclined upon
the nowy bed, was draped with heavy
lace curtains. Her small arms thrown
over her golden head, and the beauti
ful face as white as the lace and mus
lin that surrounded her.
Edith was very weak, the nurse
said, had passed a troubled night, and
madamc shudered as she thought up
on her own experience. There w-as
little said between mother aud daugh
ter, but far into the night Clarice stole
into her daughter" room, and dis
missing Mrs. Elliott, the nurse, pro
posed to sit with her suffering child.
Kdith had fallen into a restless
sleep. Sho weakly rait-.cd her thin
hand as if beckoning to an unseen per
son. She murmred faintly, and
Clarice, kneeling bedside the bed, bent
over her child till she caught the
hardly uttered sentences:
" I w ill, Granville," said the girl, " I
will. She has parted us on earth, but
I sliall join you soon. Ob, mother, to
lose my faith in your love ; to lose all;
I have uo other charm to hold lue.
Vou need not press my heart so,
Granville, I will cone. Take your
hand off my heart, take '
Kdith raised herself upon her el
bow. The distracted mother stretch
ed forth her hand to waken her
laughter, and prevented her rising.
Hut as she leaned forward, the cur
tains on the oposite side of her bed
parted. Within the lace, framed by
a misty vapor, stood Granville Dun
bar, the pallor of marble upon his
lace, the big, sad eyes fixed upon
Edith in a garment that looked to
her startling vision like the habit of a
grave. Slowly he passed his hand
over her sleeping daughter's head aud
laid it on her heart.
The girl fell from her halt risen
posture back upon her pillow. And
Clarice Spencer fainted with horror
beside her.
An hour after the faithful Mrs. El
liott had restored the poor woman to
her senses, and had won from her, in
excited and half frantic condition, a
full confession ot her guilty device to
separate her daughter from Granville
Dunbar.
" Oh ! be sure, Madame" said the
worthy person, " Miss Edith will die
ami you will never know peace unless
this wrong is righted. Miss Edith
has seen in her dreams the whole
thing, for she goes on pitious to hear
about her mother and the awful guilt,
which is to be avenged by her death
only. I think this Mr. Dunbar ain't
dead, but he's the same way as Edith.
I do believe they aro both dying."
"And all this is in consequence of
my sin," Robbed the miserable mother.
"Mrs. Elliott, ask Dr. Crary to see
me immediately." And tottering to
her room, Madame -Spencer, utterly
broken down by the events of the last
ten days, covered her aching eyes
with her trembling hands, aud waited
the doctor's coming.
lhe result ot this interview was
speedily known, for tho first returning
steamer bore with it Madame Spen
cer, Edith and the nurse, Mrs. Elliott.
It was strange to watch this woman's
impatience when the journey was
near tho end She paced the deck
continuously. The faded gray hair,
the greenish hued sectaoles, the rest
less figure, came to bo types of anxie
ty and unrest to the passengers.
Hut Madamd Spencer was too much
pre-oceupied with her invalid daugh
ter and her own thoughts to notice
much that passed around her. And
after they reached New York no time
was lost in seeking her lawer. Long
anil fiprmns nfinlt.ationa Pnanpd hi -
tween the officers of the bank and
those of justice.
A full confession of the whole
transaction was drawn up, signed and
sealed by the repentant and broken
Woman. Oh, the mortification and
humiliation that that proud woman
suffered, as she read in the faces of all
around her the scorn they felt for her
discovered sin.
The day of Gravillo's release he Avas
conveyed directly to the bedside of
his faithful Kdith. whose joy can be
scarcely imagined, and the nurse, Mrs.
Elliott how she clung about Gran
ville's neck and wept tears of such
heartfelt happiness as seldom wet the
eyes of mortals.
"And Edith is not half as sick as we
made out, dear boy," said that worthy
woman. "And you will go now to
Paris, away from all that can remind
you of the last sad months. Oh, I am
hardly able to realize that this is not
a dreun," and tho good woman stole
a tearful smile from Edith's pale face,
as she deliberately marched Ufta glass,
pulled her cap and the gray front off
her head, wrapped up her spectacles
in them, and throwing them out of
the window, stood confest iu all her
beauty, the loving, faithful Nelly,
who, by her wonderful resemblance,
hal personated her brother's Spectre,
till the guilty heart of Clarice Spencer
could bold its secret no longer.
And could the party have seen the
look of consternation that crept over
the face of a person concealed in the
next room, as she saw the whilom
Mrs. Elliott's metamorphosis, they
would have felt that, cunning as her
wicked ingenuity bad proved her to
be, iu a simple girl she bad tcet her
match, who opposing plot to plot,
had beaten her.
And now once more upon an out
ward bound vessel, behold Edith and
her husband, who, in the happiness
of the present, is fast forgetting the
trials through which he lately passed;
and beautiful Nelly deems her cup of
carimy unss iuu; mat the sun w
brighter for the storm just over, and
mat. uiiuihicnn w orauvnie ana me
new sweel sister, tho will be forever J
l.'l, t.,- C. t.,.r. t l
i l ' muj mill unuj W t U C 1 1
home in beautiful Puris, where Gran
ville has very fine business prospects,
which, however they may all, can
not bring poverty to the loving xio,
for Madame Clarice ha3 added many
thousands to the sum of that fatal
check, striving to buy of those sho
has so deeply injured the forgiveness
she feels bhe has no right to expect.
Iu after years she find her sons care
more to be in foreign land.s with
their sister and her noble husband,
than with the poor, broken woman
who once plotted, and schemed, ad
sinucd to such fruitless, bitter ends.
OllPARE THE CECORDS
On page XXXI, Finance Report
for 1870, there is a table prepared by ! such, and that they knowingly de
the treasurer of the United States, j frauded the county out of the taxes
which shows the total expenditures i due from these lands if held by bona
of the government from 17'Jl to 1870 fide purchasers. We charge upon
inclusive. From that table it ap- j Samuel Colver, the great Apostle of
pears that the total expenditures of i the Anti-Swamp Land Dispensation,
the government
for the year 1839 was
$83,078,012,112.
Aud that cf this amount there was
paid on account of the public debt
Principal $14,033,043 15
Interest 2,C37,C40 79
Total...
$17,222,CD2 85
Total expenditure, ex
clusive of public
debt payments $CG,SS5,950 07
For the year 1SG0 there was ex
pended in all $77,055,125.05, and of
this amount there was paid on ac
count of public debt
Principal $13,854,250 00
Interest 3,144,120 94
Total
.$15,998,37094
Total expenditure, ex
clusive of public
debt payments $00,050,754 71
We have here tho official statement
of the Treasury Department, that
the expenditures of the Government,
less the principal and interest on the
public debt, under Democratic ad
ministration, were
For the yearlSSG.
For the year 1859.
.$CG,3S5,950 07
. 00,050,754 71
For both years. . .
$120,442,704 78
(being an average of
$03,000,000 a
year.
From the same page of the report,
and from the same tabular statement,
it appears that the expenditure of the
Government for the year 1SC9 was
$5S4,777,99G 11.
And that of this amount there was
paid on account of the public debt
Principal $201,912,718 30
Interest 130.GS4.242 80
Total...
..$392,000,931 11
Total expenditures,
exclusive of pub-
lie debtpayments..$193,17J,03G 00
For the year 1870 the expenditure
of the Government was $702,907,-
842 SS.
And of this amount there was paid
on account of the public debt
Principal .$393,254,2S2 13
Interest 129,235,498 00
Total..
.$522,4S9,780 13
Total expenditure,
exclusive of pub
lic debt pa yent.. $180,418,002 75
So that the expenditures of the
government under Grant's adminis
tration, less the payments on account
of the pubho debt and interest,
were ...
For the year 1SG9. . .$193,171,030 00
For the year 1870. . . 180,489,780 13
Tot both years. . .$373,000,816 13
(being an average of about $187,000,-
000 per year. ;
Hero is an official statement of the
n 1 1 1 -S fl ( It . t a-n
1 ivepuoncan secretary 01 tne i-reas-
f at it costs the, country $187,
uuu.uuu a year to conduct the gov
eminent under Radical administra
tion, and only cost $03,000,000 un
der a Democratic administration.
In other words we find that it costs
annually $124,000,000 more to con
duct the government under a Radical
than under a Democratic administra
tion. And this is the testimony of
their own Secretary of the Treasury
3TAME OF
Sam Colver has found a new griev
ance. Having demolished whisky,
destroyed slavery, annihilated his op
ponents in the Hadical party, and
made of himself a nuisance generally.
he ban gone off on a crusade in
Northern Oregon against the Swamp
Land Law. He did not commence
his crusade nearer home than Eugene
City, because we know him and his
antecedents' so well here that Samael
concluded it would be an nphill bjs
iness. As many persons in the north
ern portion of the State do not know
this new Apostle of the Anti-Svamp
Land Dispensation, we 2ropose to
enlighten them a little.
Colver denounces what he calls the
"Swamp Land King," and yet be
longs to a land ring so despicably
mean, that all other rings sink into
utter insignificance in comparison to
it. We charge upon him, without
fear of successful contradiction, that
he and three or four of his confreres
on Link river sqnatted on State lands,
and held the sarna fur four years,
without paying one cent to the State
for them or a mill to the county in
taxes. We charge further that this
"Colver Iting" fenced in thousands
of acres of swamp land to which they
had no shadow of claim, and used
the same for their benefit and exclud
ed bona fule settlers by their pretend
ed claims. We charge further, that
this "Colver Ring' fenced in and
claimed every available spring and
watering place in their vicinity on
the west si le of Little Klamath Lake,
and thus gained control of thousands
more acres ot raage lor taeir own
cattle, to the cxclasion of bona fide
settlers. We charge further, that
when settling up their claims to these
hinds, springs and watering places,
the "Colver Ring" well knew that
they had no legal and valid claim to
those lands, and could not have un
der the limitation laws of this State,
and by their claims they knowingly
perpetrated a double swindle on the
State first, by defrauding it out of
the prices of these lands, which
would willingly have been paid by
bona fide settlers, and, secondly, by
defrauding the State out of the reve
nue due from the taxation of these
lands. That tbey knowingly perpe
trated a fraud on persons desiring to
purchase some of these lands by in
forming them that they were the
owners, and by fencinjr them in a3
; the Chief Howler of the Squatters
Synagogue that Le.jhimself , individ
ually, was engaged all laat spring in
a frantic search after swamp lands;
that he visited Langei Valley and de .
sired Mr. Arthur Langei to point out
some swamp land for Lira. H
wanted 2,000 acres at first, and then
begged for 200 aeres; and then only
wanted a little hay ranch bike the
office seeker that went to (Jen. Jack
son for a Cabinet appointment, and,
on refusal, begged successively and
unsuccessfully for every minor office,
finally going off contented with an
old pair of boots and a pair of seat
less trousers. Sam wanted a little of
that swamp land -'chicken pie," too.
We charge upon fho "Colver Ring,"
that they have dene more to retard
the settlement of the Klamath Lake
country than all other things combin
ed, by fencing and claiming the avail
able springs and watering places,
and thus gaining control of the stock
range to the exclusion of honest set
tlers who were willing to buy the
land and pay for it. Finally, we
charge upon the "Colver Ring" that
they never opened their pious mugs
about the enormities of the Swamp
Land Law until Hon. J. N. T. Miller,
the Swamp Land Commissioner,'com
menced the survey of these lands and
discovered the swindle the "Colver
Ring" were perpetrating on the State
and the people. We affirm that it
was only when their little game was
discovered that Colver armed himself
for his crusade, and now we submit
is he not a precious deciple to talk
about "rings ?" Is he not a deligtf ul
duck to shriek about land swindlers ?
Let some person iu his audiences
north ask Sam how much land he
had control of by his fences on link
river to which he never had and could
not have any right! The game is
not worth the candle, certainly, but
we cannot resist the temptation of
again paying our respects to this in
effable humbug at aa early day.
Jacksonville 2'imes.
Ox-Tail Socp. Not long since, at
a fashionable hotel in this State, a very
witty and intelligent lady was at the
dining table. The first course, of
course, was soup; ox-tail being the
principal one. It was observed, how
ever, that its flavor did not find favor
with the numerous guests, and it was
discarded on one pretence or another,
until it came to the lady in question. '
She received her share of the fluid,
and as the aroma ascended to her nos
trils her look was one of extreme
doubt. Calling the waiter to her, she
asked, "is this ox-tail soup ?" "It is,
madam, said the waiter, expecting
some compliment in return ; when she
replied, "then all I have to say is that
it lias been cut off entirely too short, or
kept entirely too long. Spirit of the
Times. . . ;:':x ,
Ast Irishman noticing a lady pass
down the street, espied two? strings
depending from under mantle. Not
knowing that these were; styled,
sashes; and were hanging in their
right place, he exclaimed: "And
faith, ma'am, your gallusses are loose!"
This recent crosa-examination is
reported; Lawyer "You have prop
erty, you say?; "Yes." "Did you
make it yourself?" 'f Partly." , ."Are
you married?", "Yea." . "Did your
wifo bring anytliing ?' ; ' "Yes."
"What?" "Three children, sir."
A PARTY I$Y THE
COI-VER.