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OEEGON ITY, OH EGOX, SAT 1722 DAY, MA.I1C1I 1807.
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Cljciycckh) Enterprise.
rt'BLI?JIED EVERT EATCHDAT MOENIXG
By D. 6. IRELAND,
OFFICE: South east comer Q Fifth and
Main streets, in the building lutely known
as the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon.
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One copy, one vear in advance 3 On
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Terms ut Advertising.
Transient advertisements, one square
(12 lines or less) first insertion . . .?2 50
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One quarter " " 3.) no
Legal advertising at the established rates.
S. EUBLAT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oregon City, Orego.i.
Office over Charmaa & Brother9 S:tf
D. IYL BIcKErJNEY,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
-TILL ATTEXU PROMPTLY TO ALL
V V business entrusted to bis ear
OrKiCE One door north of Bell & Parker's
Drug store, Oregon City, Oregon. 3:1
'W. O. JOIIXSON
F. 0.(M COWK.
,oLirv Ptd'lie.
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OUKfiON CITY. OREGON.
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Will attend to alt business emrusteu
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to our care m any of the Courts of 4he State,
co!l money, negotiate loans, sea reai e.v
tate, etc
ri'articiiilar attenti- given to contested
ud cases. by I
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niultnnmail LiMlre So 1 A (A.
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b.
Holds t& regular J&:
commuuicationQ)n the lirst and third Sat
urdays of each mouth, at half past six F. h.
Brethren in good standing are inviwd to
attend. By order of W. M.
Oregon City, Nov, t.th, lS6-j. S:ly
. v:i.L''" Oifjron Iiiitrp IV . 3, "I. O
--;!iS-Z ;;r. of o. V. M eets e verv Wednes-
-aie.',,?',ri?.-v'-
TrtN day evening at 7 o'clock, in the
Masonic Hall, -f embers of the orae-arein
vited to attend. Bv order N. G.
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Willam&e 15 i . V.. T.
Meets every Saturday evening, at the rooms
S.E. corner of Mam and Fifth streets, at 7 1-2
o'clock. Visiting members' are invited to
attend. O o O j t,7 1
Bv order of W. V. T.
t-.r., j. -.. ,'.a
DENTIST.
Permanently Located at OrtiTtm City-, Oifffon.
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JAMES M. BIO 0 BE,
QamiIQj the Peace ttCtty Recorder.
nice-
hi the Court H!Hse awl CitV
Council Room, rr-jn City.
Will attend to the acknowledgment of
deeds, and all other unties (appertaining to
the othce of Justice of the Peace. '2:ly
OEr. F. Barclay, 1. R, C L.
(Formerly Sturgeon to the Hou. II. B. Co.)
OFFICE: AtQliesi 'den c,
Main Street (52) Oregon City.
Q)r. H. Saffarraas,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
OFFlCpj In J. Fleming's Book Store.
Main siicet, Orcjon City. (-
nxi i iennng.
-EALEFl iPdi GOES and STATIONERY,
Thankful for the patronage heretofore re
ceived, respectfully solicits a continuance
tI '.ie favors!" a generous public.
His sto?e is between Jacobs' and Acker
tiKiu's bricks, on the west side of Main street.
Oregon Citv, October 7 '00. (tf
Professor A. J. Ilntjos,
TEACHER OF MUSIC.
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7 ILL be idad to receive a uunber o!
O i..,.;i . I.;.. !,rt, I .,.! :;t 111;' nri-
vale residence of Mr. Charles Laus. i.e
wiil alsi oaiilimie to give instructions a.
private residences. No charge tor the use
cf th niauo. 31 v minus wdi please ,
i e me
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notice when ready to commence.
pVinSMIT(0) W. II. MARSHALL.
SMITH & MARSHALL,
Black Smiths and Boiler MaPcrs.
Corner of Main and Third streets,
Oregon City
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liiacksmithing in alLin branches. Boiler
making and repairing. All work warranted
to give satisfaction. ("2
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BARLOW KGUa
Main Street, one door north of the Woolen
Factory,
Oregon City Oregon.
Win. IJartow, Piopiiitot.
Will attend to all work in his line, con-
sisti.i in part of Carpenter and Joiner work j
fraimuti, building, etc. Jobbing promptly .
KttendM to 1
Tfitn v- -v-t l r r'.,.rl r,i.-l t:iVfn-
VV :.. r V
oflie.
or on the bluff, corner cf Ccutt and
evnth street;.
s
ri. ,.;.!. r th:i nfcfiil tor the enntiniii'd r. , t !i nuhHc tint he has nurcuased T.-i-.w'-.i.'t n;t:ni' n T?iu;i:in P:i1in5( "
."" 1 . ' ' , vln ini,,rm th.. i ' . 'iiA .!, a choice and i a - . , c can do is to oiler a iutie
f' V"-C. '.'r ..iin .;,;no i,,. ,rtm.t, , " u : .;;. : :,v :,r f..,,;, ...nd domestic h.eople : saxony, i'rotcstan. country. ruiea formula. the morning and e
uleast his guests. (o- i wines, liquors, etc., which cr.unot fail to I by a Roman Catholic : Rctasclmd. a dew, of which may be oi use to t
' ; ; thKo vvVm mav extend their tiatron ! T ,- . . . . . tt I of sendim'- five dollars bv l
tj,,,,-!--., ! uge. The best La-er Beer, Ale and Porter 'lJU-'iL'Jl - . r,. . . . j risk" :o some adveriismg
(tfdiiiclLa -iiwuai-va, ! in tn,-Statcahvuvs on drau-ht. brewbirtn oeir.g vn.iuve.ioi ui iau v- lt U as ibi'ows : 0 0 0 0.
C O XT J C; TOR and BUILDER, 3:!yJ ' K.PAYNE. rhenuer and leader of the English House
Jdiiin- nireet; Orgon tuy. t
CLIFF HOUSE.
Main" Street.
tjoU, t!
liaflii Nearly Opposite Woolen Factory,
W. L. WHITE,
T. V. RHOADES, f Proprietors.
Oregon City, O rep on.
We invite the citizens of Oregon City, and
the traveling public, to give us a share of
their patronage. Meals can be bad at all
hours, to please the irost fastidious. 15
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CLARK GREENMAN,
rvttes Cijy Drayman,
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fc423gg OltEGOX CITY.
All orders for the delivery of merchandise,
or packages and freight ot whatever descrip
tion, to any part of the city, will be executed
promptly and with care. ' l(.6m
0BEG0N CITY
BREWERY !
IIEMIY HUM BEL.
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Having purchased the above Brewery4
wishes to inform the public that he is no'w
prepared to manufacture a No. 1 quality of
LAGER BEER!
As good as can be obtained anywhere in the
State. Orders solicited and promptly tilled.
Ortgon Citv, December 2tb, 18t. Kuf
L0GUS
ALBRIGHT,
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m EKOELSIOB MARKET
Corner of Main and Fourth sts.,
Ori fjaa City Oregon,
r - pA KE thy mf,tvjod of if0rmir.g the pub
JL lie that they keep coctantlv on banc
all kinds of fresh and suit treats, such as
nr-LT.' rir.'- if i-r-rs,-- it r
bi:ei poi:k, Mirnox, veal,
CO USED- B EE ; PWKhED- P U R E,
JIAMS, LAltiA
And evervthiug else, to be found in their
line of business. LOG US fc ALBRIGHT.
Oregon City, November 1, 1560. 2.1y
IN MOSS' BUILDING, MAIN STREET,
Oregon City.
riHB UNDERSIGNED WILL-?
X keep on hand all ihe vari- fcJ3
eties of fresh and cured meats : .,-',. l
I'OULTKY, VEGETAltLES,
Corned Beef and Pork,
Bacon, Hams. Lard, Tallow,
A liberal share of pa'ronage is solicited.
as I expect to keep as good an assortment,
and of as good quality as the country alio? ds,
v. hieh will be delivered to purchasers at any
reasonable distance in the citv.
f:lv . ' B.MAYER.
iUUUt H. C. M TEES.
J. MYERS L- BROTHER,
Under ike Court- Ifoitse, itt Orcjon Cily.
Dry Goods, Coots and Shoes. Clothing,
Groceries, Hardware, etc., etc.,
?)" they propose to sell a cheep as any
li-:itse. in. Ore f fun .
Oregon City," October 2-3, I $00. 2:ly
eTOI-IT SCHEAM
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SADDLES, IIAIUVESS, d-c, dc,
Main street, between Third and Fourth,
Oregon City.
rTMIE attention of parties desiring anything
X in my line, is directed to my' stock, be
fore making purchases elsewhere.
(ly) JOHN SCHUAM.
A. LEVY,
Main Street, at the Telegraph Office,
Oregon City . . . .Oregon.
Dealer in
Kestcr's Ready made Clothing,
Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Stationery,
Cutlery, Willow and Vnodcn
Ware, Yankee Notions,
Fancv and stanle Grocei ies, Candies, Nuts,
Toys, etc.
Billiard Salosn
ain street, between Second and Third,
Grey on City.
J, C. Hann, Propristor.
"MiE above long established and popular
Saloon is vt a tavonte resort, and
only the choicest brands of Wines, Liquors
ami Cigars are dispensed to customers a
share of the public patronage is solicited,
(ly) ' J- C. MANN.
SH
ABES SALOON.
imt Side Jd-jin. Sh-"d hrfwren- Second and
Third, Oregon, City.
GEOEGSA.
D -
- Proprietor.
Tho rsmnrielor begs leave to inform bis
iViends'and the public generally that the
above named popular saloon is open fur their
accommodation, wttriu new ana wen awi i
ed supply of the finest brands of wines,
liquors and cigars.
:'! Sired, opp
PAYNE
0OSit-r Post
Citv.
. .Proprietor.
The undersigned taWs this method of in-
aseci
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1 Y SALOON.
IS' Main street, Ore-on City,
&y?rs5. AdJoini"g tho li-ck Store of
tJA'a S. Ackertnau.
This popular saloon is' always supplied
w t i the
,-crv best quality of Wines and
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lie Gentle, Forgiving and Ki.nl.
Oh ! why are we always so ready
To hear what another may say,
To canvass the faults of a neighbor,
Forgetting our own. by the way?
We know not the heart that we censure ;
Be gentle, forgiving and kind
One drop from the fountain of pity
A wound that is bleeding may bind.
A word, like an angel of mercy
The sunshine of gladness may hear;
May cheer a lone spirit forsaken,
Or add to the weight of its care,
A word ! do we think of its import?
Though uttered perhaps with a smile
A heart may be writhing beneath it.
Or breaking with anguish the while.
A word that in coIuupss is spoken
May sever the friendship of years,
The flowers of feeling may wither,
And leave them in sorrow aiid tears.
Then why should we always be ready
To hear what another may say,
To canvass the faults of a brother,
Forgetting our own by the way?
Noble Sentiment. " This is an agreea
ble world, after all. If we would only
bring ourselves to look at the objects that
suiTOund U3 in their true light, we should
see beauty where before we behell de
formity, listen to harmony where before
we could hear nothing but discord. To
be sure, there is a great deal of anxiety
and vexation to meet ; we cannot expect
to sail upon a summer sea forever 5 yet if
we preserve a calm eye and steady hand.
we can so trim our sails and manage our
helm as to avoid the quicksands, and
weather the storms that threaten ship
wreck. " We are members of one great family :
we are all traveling the same road, and
shall arrive at the saiua goal. We breathe
the free air, we are subject to the same
bounty, and we shall lie down on the bo
som of our common mother. It is not be
coming then, that brother should hate
brother ; it is not proper that friend should
deceive friend ; it is not right that neigh
bor should injure neighbor.
" We pity that man who can harbor en
mity against his fellow, lie loses half
the enjoyment of life ; be embitters his
own existence. Let us tear from our eves
the colored medium that invests every ob
ject with the green hue of jealousy and
suspicion ; turn a deaf ear to the tale of
scandal ; brearhe the spirit of charity from
our lips ; and from our hearts let the rich
giishings of human kindness swell up as
from a fountain, so the ' golden
will
become no fiction, and ihe ' island of the
blessed' bloom with more than Hesperian
beauty7
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ArruF.ctATiNG Humor. A humorous lec
turer, going to Paris, Ivy., recently sent
his agent on a couple of days in advance,
to smooth his way. On his arrival, the
lecturer found the agent most thoroughly
Bourbonized. Whether or not there is a
" Bourbon among us," he had certainly
been among a good deal of Bourbon. The
following dialogue ensued between lec
turer and agent :
Lecturer "What are the prospects?"
.Agent " Splen'id prospects."
Leeturer ' What sort of a house do
you reckon we'll have '.'"
Agent" (hie) Full."
Lecturer " About how full ?" -
Agent Fuller 'n a tick."
Lecturer '-Do you think the people
here appreciate humor ?"
Airent " 'Preehato humor? Well, if
ask'n a feller to drink every fifteen min
utes is 5preshiition "f humor, they've (hie)
got it I"
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A Yeau?3 Tiiocbi.e. Sometimes I com
pare the troubles we have to undergo in
the course of a year to a great bundle of
fagots far too large for us to lift. But
God does not require us to carry the whole
at once. lie mercifully unties the bundles
and gives us first one stick which we are
able to carry to-day, and then another,
which we are able to carry to-morrow,
and so on. This we might easily manage
if we would only take the burden appoint
ed for us each dav. but we choose to in
crease our troubles over again to-day, and
adding to-morrow's burden to our load be
fore we are required to bear it.
No
ns. A bankrupt merchant
returned home one night and said to his
wife. " My dear, I am ruined ; everything
we have is in the hands of tiio Sheriff."
After a few moments of silence his noble
wife looked him firmly in the face and
said : " Wiil the Sheriff sell yon ?"' " No."
Will lie sell me'.'" " No, no." "Then
don't sav that we have losfc everything.
j pL (jKlt m.jit r; otitable is left
to
manhood,
have but
industry.
womanhood; childhood,
lost the result of our skid
tnd
V, e can toon maseanotner for
tune if our Hearts and nan
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ts are
us.
The Rkugiofs Liijeutt o? the Times.
The Lord Mayor of London, a Jew. ruling
over a Christian city ; King Leopold II.,
of Commons ; and the Catholics of Ireland
banqueting the Quaker John Bright.
a Tv- Cutnors Scot. The story
is
afloat of aScotehman who removed from
Massachusetts to Michigan, changed his
; name, and destroy ei.. every
written evi-
deuce of his identity, to avoid arrest for
desertion, aud who ha; thus missed secur
ing an estate in the old country.
Etliics of Svumliing.
Rascality seems to be the only perennial
thin in ihe world. Virtue has its ups and
downs : disappears for a season, and then,
at the universal call of mankind, is gener
ous and forgiving enough to come back
again ; truth and justice are resorted to by
distracted and despairing society, as the
passengers of a foundered ship betake
themselves to life-preservers ; but there
is no question about it half mankind love
to cheat, and the other half find an equal
though evanescent satisfaction in being
cheated. It isn't our infantile confidence
in each other which is so sad ; the mourn
ful matter is our fatal confidence in our
selves our over-estimate of the profundi
ty of our own perceptions ; our belief that
Mercury himself could not cokii us.
While ve think we stand, we stumble :
while we feel armed at all points against
fraud, we are continently reduced to a
stale of roast-pigeon brownness : a3 every
man must eat his peck of refuse, so every
man must expect to have some other man
come it over him" in that one fatal sec
ond when he is oil his guard. How should
it be otherwise when all the power and
dignity and grandeur of Government itself
cannot save it from voracious sharpers,
and there is a, howl in all the public of
fices over "whiskey frauds'" with the con
comitants of private stills, mendacious
brands, unfaithful inspectors, and liquor
fatal to the bowels of the toughest drink
er ; frauds upon the income-tax, by which
some wicked person undervalues bis re
sources, and for the truth of his lying
statement appeals to his Creator until he
is sable of countenance : and the fine old
venerable Custom-House frauds backed up
by antique and staple perjuries? Bui; all
this seems to be dull aud stale in compari
son with the brilliant exploits of the Jere
my Diddlers of private life, like this gen
tleman, for instance, of whom we are
about to speak, who lately reduced to a
state of disconsolate discouragement, the
too confiding citizens of St. Joseph. lie
was a colonel. They are always colonels,
or majors, or captains, or military mag
nates of some degree, starting with the
meek virtue of Capt. John Gilpin, and end
ing as unscrupulous IMnaldo Kinaldinis.
In an evil hour the great Col. Brantley
(regiment unknown), appeared "in St.
Joseph ; began install tly to speculate in
real estate with pluck and enterprise atid
evrumng except money; eaued upon
bewildered men of substance to indorse
for him. and straightway they did indorse;
called upon other men of substance i"y dis
count the notes, and forthwith th.'y dis
counted them, until, having made abouj;
thirt y thousand dollars bv tne ex-.-rcjse
hiri y thousand dollars bv tne ex-.-rcjse of
his
genius, he disappeared like the vision
of a dream.
cut stick," as tiie phrase is.
" vamoosed th
California absconded, to sjak without
any idiom. But for once, we are gratified
to say, he miscalculated. He fuliy com
prehended the credulity of makind. but ho
uiu no; iiiuhe in iuiowitiioc 10
w ivu wmea uiose who are
raoun ted
UOOU
a iot:s
o,'i
b
eir muiries- may pursue iue
in i
fugitive, especial Iv when it i.-
that he has the ill-gotten gains still in his
pocket-book. The Colonel, albeit swift
footed, was caught and carried back again
and caged, and ultimately, we presume,
will be convicted.
Now. if we may be allowed a bull, the
rarity of such cases is in their frequency.
I)e Foe might have dressed up such a
stale story, and made it fresh and present
able ; a newspaper can do no more than
give the naked outlines. The boners are
such a numerous company, darting away
from every point of the compass, by rail,
by steamboat, in their own vehicles, on
foot, that a public journal can oniy pre
sent their exploits iu outline and leave the
rest to the imagination ol the gentle read
er. We can give a general wail over that
fatal confidence of man in man which it
would please us better to find less gener
ally and less successfully practiced upon
by the designing. Confidence mr.y. iu the
happy, primeval times, have been a plant
of slow growth ; but in this wicked cen-
iurv. ny a kind of practical oarauox. it
springs up and increases, and spreads like
the gourd of Jonah. Does a man an
nounce the discovery of some miraculous
tincture, with a novel name and a nasty
taste, and warranted to banish pain and
prolong existence? He is believed, and
armies of valetudinarians swallow his mix
ture without a cough. Voa can hardly
open a newspaper without finding appeals
to the poor and needy to put. down two
dollars and take up twenty ihou-aad. in
numerable are the devices resorted to by
the foxes to persuade the geese th.it some
thing can come of nothing. Alas ! it is al
ways coming. The business cf half man
kind is to set traps for the other moity.
It may be supposed, having made men
tion of the mischief just now so active and
so widely-spread, that, we have some rem
edy to 'propose ; but we have no inclina
tion ourselves to indulge in the charlatan
ry which we condemn " Keep your eyes
p'eeled, is a .rude but useful maxim, for
those who are capable of that kind of
otitic:! 1 ti i vhv : and there are oilier like
proverbs widen are loo popiuar to nee
d
tuiotaUoti. Tie trouble w.
tithe.-e morse ss
of wisdom is. tha
they are as wea Known
to the wicked as to the virtuous, and. hive
a two-edged sword, cyt both ways. The
world is' a knowing world, bin ii is no
match for the wide-awake Colonels, ittey
are sure to come to grief at ia -t. but they
are equally sure to leave behind them a
groaning company of phlebotomized
mourners, wailing their misplaced trust
.ml their plundered pockets, iue best
aru nine Lie a i
verung study
hose in danger
.nail" at our
philanthropist.
The following model of testamentary
conciseness is eiven in the account oi tne
will of the late Mr. Sergeant Storks pub
lished in the II .irtraiei London Aetc.v;
1 Ip-.ive to mv son. Robert Reeve Storks,
all my personal property absolutely waieu
is not specifically bequeathed. To Reams
'') a vear. r:r 11
T.Tsm.- M-.vrv are pro
vidod for. Torn I omit,
a
... s s.t s
ioriune. Dated oetooer li. f'-'- , "
brief document disposes of 1-0,0 : say
13.000 per word.
Let tUe Tlieory be put into Practice.
The San Francisco Tones some weeks
since had a leader deprecating the policy
of the press discussing the fitness of men
who are candidates for office, and urging
that so far as the newspapers are con
cerned the politicians should be allowed
to make their own fight for the nomina
tions, and. that done it was the duty ef the
Union press to help elect them. This is a
detestable doctrine, and one which, if car
ried to its results, would put the Govern
ments of the State and Nation into the
hands of the profligate and worthless.
The man whose antecedents will not bear
discussing before nomination had better
not be a candidate. That policy then ad
vocated would favor only the evil doers
and cause able, faith fa!, upright men to
abandon the filthy pool," for in very
truth it Would then be abominably so. In
deed it was on its very face so obnoxious
that the Tijues could not long tolerate it,
lor that journal in a later issue strikes out
i?i the opposite direction and comes up to
the work fully and fairly thus :
"It is totally absurd to say that bad
men can be safely trusted with power, un
der the pretext of carrying out good prin
ciples or measures. All reliances upon
the promises of the bad. and the pledges
of polUiciansmerely.aro as unsabs'iamialas
chalf as senseless as the idiot s dream.
Every man who is elevated to office carries
with him something of a borrowed influ
ence ; and. whenever his character is bad.
as well as when he differs from the mass of
the people on the great 'principles of human
freedom, he is a dangerous man, aud ought
not to. be trusted witli. anything more than
Ids own independent iraiueneo. When
fierce political partisavis. in their scramble
for oCiee. cry out measures, not men. as
the watchwoid by which they expect to
rally the hosts of freedom to iheir support.
and as the passport by whi
profiigale and unorincipled
iue most
e to ride
into power over the honest-minded men, it
is the duty of the people to chock such
madne'is. and repudiate the demagogues,
whether thev have been nominate;! by do
eepUon in respectable conventions, or
forced upon the party by frauds at the
p r i ru ary elec t ion. 7
Strike then at improper men before they
receive the nomination, and thus save the
party the disgrace of having them as stan
dard bearers, aud the country from the
evil consequences that would surely flow
from their success.
Beatttv of IiusH Womex. Men-;. Felip
Belly, one or the writers of the Consii'n
iionel'.e, having made a tour through Ire
land ia- t summer, pronounces the follow
ing culogium upon the women of the
The moot remarkable element, the ric'a-
est
aad eertalnlv the most full of life, cf
this land so life full, is the population it
self. No European race, that of ihe Cau
casus excepted., can compete with it in
beaniv. The Irish blood is of a purity
aad d
nnh-s
Unction, especially among the fe-
which strikes all strangers with as-
.tonldiment. The transparent whitene-s of
the skin, the absorbing attraction, which.
m i rauce, 13
in a thousiu
Toe daugiit'
ule ot one woman
i is here the genera! type.
c oi" the poor man. as well as
tne lire lauy, possesses an opal nuik
the arms of a ;- al .ie. the foot and iu
tint,
id Of
l. In
a auceess, ami tue ueanug ot a que
iu t iv: :u buck.b oi iitc viu."o
quarters of Dublin, the most ideal tintings
of the pencil would grow pale'before the
beautv of the children ; and in the coni-
met crown
d which each
day occupies the
ralieries oi' Merrion
ouare. there is cer
tainlv the most magnificent collection of
human beings it is possible to meet.
Blondes with black eyes and bTunet.es
with blue, are by no means rare. The
race is as strong as it is nana-ome. as. .g
orous as it is charming. The girls of Conne
mara. with their queenly shoulders and
eyes of fire, would put to shame, at this
day. those daughters of the East from
wiiora they are said to have descended'
Aktkmus Wakd. Artemus "Ward is one
of the drollest creatures on earth. Besides
being a humorist of the most original and
eccentric stamp, he is a thorough actor in
every movement end every sentence. The
introduction to his Mormon lecture keeps
the audience in an almost continuous roar
sparkling n3 it is with point, and deliv
ered in the most finished high comedy
manner. Wo scarcely need recommend
ail the town to go and see him ; if any
body comes away disappointed it will be
at the shortness of
ejuertammcnt.
Brevity is too much the sotii of Mr. Ward's
wit; but perhaps his health (which, we
are sorry to say. scorns- deiicute.) has a "lit
tle to do with, the only fault that we have
to find with him. Tin; natural and easy
way in which Ariemus Ward glides from
the l.voly to the serene, and then dives
into his native element of inn agam, is one
of his most pleasant character. sttcs. Un
interrupted humor of his wild kind would
have become almost perilous, espoetaily
to those happy people who laugh con -id-orabiv
when they hear a joke. A liit'te
sLTious talK anoros
again alter ihe Ik
one time to got cool
tintr process ot caciii-
nation. E.viuh Paper.
-r -d
Borax Lake. Dr. ilacgowan, in a letter
to the New York IW, gives a description
of Borax Lake and Sulphur Springs, near
Napa Valley, and the proce-ts of collecting
the borax. Of the lake he says ;
Borax Lake is about one hundred miles
north of San Francis
Prop
iug, it is only a pond, being only one mile
long and a hair mile wide. It is situated
in a penmsuia wtuca juts in iiear iaive.
from which it i.-. separated bv a mountain.
It is. iu brief,
cano, or at le;
the crater ot an extinct voi
,sl presents that appearance.
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That mv rea
rarity of tne can jsitv betore him. I will
sav that probably no white man ever sa-
its like
-there being no other of the sain.;
i kind save in i in bet. leiore tne discovery
! of Borax Lake in California, there, were
I ,-. o.i.i w5 rf svmrslv of borav to
- i "'ll . ', , n r . .---i. .e
, ., ,..! .,.. rS n fi-.-m m I f eom n
P
.',A .,-,.,iilV!etnred the article bv a chem
j -
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Solituvle in riion.
Bat one thing would strike the looker-
on, and that is. amid1 all the hum of ma- !
cltinorv find iMflrr.rsr nf lwnmor r hnm!iT
. , . . .
voice h neara. no song rises up to jam
cnorus wit a tiie dm oi toil to relieve the
burdened mind or the stained muscle. It
is a strange sight, to see hundreds of hale,
hearty men at work working with noise
overhead and on every skl, head bent
down to the bench, permitted to turn j
neither to the right nor the left, speech
less, with the power of speech, deaf, with
the faculty of hearing, blind with the
blessing of sight, and the desire to enliven
labor with one of childhood songs smoth-
ereu m tae breast, so that even the tbton f -
at his elbow shall hear him. A friend, a
brother, even your own father, may come
to voiir bench, look nvt r -rr.r.r 'i i;!,1vr
and you must blind yourself to his pres
sence ; he may whisper a kind word in
your ear, but you must hammer on, and
be deaf to ail that is whispered ; you dare
not reniv even hv s.m-ii. rot ev:n fivettu
hauu a hearty shake, una sav as it were : !
i'"-5 Ul" V1 ? n
leave me." Yuu dare not speak, you dare j
not recognize, and like an automa
you must sit or stand at your bench, with
a soul siufied, the tongue cleaved to the
roof of the mouth, and the eyes blinded, or
if they chance to look on a familiar face,
they must look as it were into space. The
passions must be controlled until lodged
up for the night iu the loneiy cell, when
nature, in darkness and in solitude, is per
mitted to give vent to iw fei
That is
13 ie in the workshops of a State Prison.
The only thing that cannot be imprisoned
is the soul when alone in the solitude and
darkness of the cell. Life hi the Wvrk-
fthftr, fit S,nn S.
Sfectuc of Hr: vvi:xiA' Bonnes. A lec-
e
tare before the Britisii Association on the
results of spectrum analysis, as applied to
the heavenly bodies, by William Iluggms.
F. R. S., lately published, concludes as
follows :
1. All the brighter stars, at least, have
a structure analogous to that of the sun.
2. The stars contain material elements
common to the 'sun and earth.
3. The colors of Ihe stars have their or
igin in the chemical constitution of the at-
mo-paeres wiuen mjitouuu tnera.
4. The changes in brightness of some of
the variable stars are attended with
changes in the lines of absorption of their
spec ire.
.". The phenomena of the star in Corona
appear to show that in this object at least
great physical changes ? re in operation.
i. There exist in the heavens true
uebalx. These objects consist of lumin
ous gas.
The material cf comets
very snui-
lar to me matter ot tne gaseous neouue.
and may be identical with it.
8. The bright points of the star clusters
may not be in nil cases slurs of the same
ortu
as the separate bngnt stars.
it may be asked what cosmic:
of the origin and- relations of tho heavenly
bodies do thcs-e new facts suggest? - It
won la oe
speculate, out it appc
to me that u would v.oc be p-Titosootncal
to dogmatise at present on a subject of
which we know so little. Our views of
ihe Universe are undergoing important
changes. Let us wait for more facts, with
raiiuls unfettered by any dogmatic theory,
and therefore free to receive the obvious
teaching, whatever it may be, of new ob
s c r v a 1 1 o n s .
I.MroETANCS of ArvzKTisrxG. The fol
lowing, from the rilteburg Gazette, a sketch
of a business house in that city, illustrates
this matter :
In a brief interview with one of our most
liberal patrons a few duys since, we in
quired his experience of advertising. We
regard hi:? answer as noteworthy, and com
mend itlo the consideration of others. lie
said ihe same kind of business in which he
is engaged had been carried on at the
sauie s.and tor ten years by one, and
nearly ten years by antdher predecessor.
That these men gave diligent attention to
their business, and were sober and frucal,
but spent nothing for advertising. They
wero just barely able to eke out a living.
That he bought out tiie concern ten years
ago, and I hen begun debtor for the whole
establishment. lie felt poor and only ex
' p ended fifty dollars per annum in each of
the bas.ness papers, the firs I year, tsiaf sub-
ie?n;y
-ed bi.:?
penses to
mousa
s annually for ad-
vr;
nd tiie result has demonstrated
iia - utn ii y.
is he is to-day worth
j olTo.000, and his annual profits are con-
stantJv mere;
:m
v CT.CA.-i..i- ut...i. .... ii. is. .v ijOiiuon
paper of recent date has the following :
With, reference (o a notice in our pages
to the effect that a manufactory for mak
ing primers' type, of vulcanized India
rubber has just been started at Dalstoa.
U. S.. the Patent Printing Surface Com
pany write : We beg to slate that the in
vention is English, and is protected here
and on the Continent by several patents,
the first being about three years old. The
pro
ocess, presses, and print will be sr. own
in iflo KirUiconiHig Jiisei iiuiiouat j,.no.
tion at Paris. Models aud other informa
tion were bv us. years ago. forwarded to
t " . . i ' . 1 ....... i ...
tne v. nite l r?.:'.te-, anu ine.-e na e ueen ap
propriated by our cute cousins,
we had to pay."
'or which
About Vice IhiEsinEXTs. Fred. Doug
las, the colored orator, lately said in one
of his speeches :
I am for the abolition of the Vice Presi
dency: There is no need of any extra.
i n-ut-iii. i ...-... m, n.vt'1. m me coiu
I waiting io come in. rso more need oi
electing a Vice President than there is of
eb-ctimr a second hnsb'aTd for ft,ir 'ich
ters in case tne first husband dies. I
would abolish the Vice Presidency, and
remove so thin a veil as assassination be
tween a man and the tempting place of
President of the United States. A Vice
President is a standing menace to the life
of tho President.
"it I
The newest, Yankee notion is a umbrella
- I with a cutter aronnd th ftrln-n. tP.rm-lnn.iT.f'
ma enont.
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OnrChip Basket.
MrE. J. Evre, late Governor of Jama-
ka. k busy on a " history of the Jamaica
Insurrection."
A man in Palmer fassachasetts, recent-
lvrccovered $U25 in a laAttit. and had
to handover S90U of it teahe lawyers.
" There are 200 boot ana shoe factories
in Lvnn, Mass., with annual productions
estimated at $12,000,000.
Hamilton College, at Utica, New York,
has received S 10.001) in bequest and do
naticrs during the last two years.
Jane G. Swisshelm has just figlshed a
work of fiction, which it is said photographs
a number of Government officials in Wash
ington. The Independence Beige states that apart
ments have been engage! at Boniforthe
m!,rcSS Eugenie, and Hhat Her Majesty
will surely pay a visit to the Pope.
Sixteen missionary societies are laboring
on the Western coast of '-Africa, of which,
six are British, seven, American, two Ger
man, and one West Indian.
It is stated that the Fjpe is about to
promulgate reforms, accompanied by a
declaration of the reasons l'or which these
reforms were deferred while tl French
A --.,-. .-i o T-'yi'v- " V i-viinicf T frT T? rrn Of
has boon vovn-in.v innd th vvnrld. and
v,-hile in Otaheite x&) eldest daughter of
Queen Poniare fell in love witlPhim. and
the? are now betrothed.
The Boston Transcript regards it as sing
ular that nowhere in Massachusetts, and it
believes nowhere in New England, was
there any celebration this year of Fore
father's Day.
A peat bed has been discoveredrin Ala
meda county, close by navigation on the
Bay of San Francisco. The bed covers Q
about one hundred acres, and is some sev
en feet deep. Partio bare leased .tho
properly and intend making peat.
In view of the rumor that Confederate
notes are again coming into circulation in
the remote South, the Mobile Times says :
" We can add that Mobile will take them
even cord for cord. If this be treason,
make the most of it."
M. de Lnmartine has been appealing
again to the public, asking them to sub
scribe to the lirst four volumes of his .
" Memoirs," which are finished and ready
for press. In the event of his not living to
complete the entire work, these will form,
he states, a separate series.
hiring the recent grand meteorological O
exhibition several enormous aerolites fell .
in Spain. One of then!. Which vras nearly
five feet in circumference, and intensely
hot when discovered, completely buried
itself in the earth, by the velocity of its de
scent. The returned soldiers and sailors of Chi
cago are taking measures to influence the
Illinois Legislature to pass a law reorganiz
ing the militia of that State upon an effi
cient and permanent basi& so that in eBse
of need the State may bg orie of (tie first
in furnishing troops.
The St. Louis 'City Council are about to
.prohibit the driving of wagons through
the streets covered by signs or placards,
or accompanied by music, and to abolish
the practice of dressing men or boys in
a fantastical dress as a means of advertis- O
ir.g.
Young Bennett offered to' give his fiDe
yatch. the JItnrie'ta. to Prince Alfred, Q)f
England, as a New Year's present, but the
Prince would not accept. Alfred is said
to be quite a yatchjnan himself, and no O
doubt would like to have taken the ollfor, O
if he had been permitted.
A Milwankie paper tells of a butcher in
that city who killed a cow a few daj-s
since, and found a live mud-turtle in her
stomach. The shell was much eaten by
the acid of the stomach, and the turtle
lived but a few hours after its release.
Only a Milwaukie cow could have swal
lowed it.
The Geographical )ciety of France ar
raising funds to enable M. Lessaint to ex
plore certain unknown parts of Central
Africa, especially the territory between
the basin of the upper Nile' and the
French Colony of Gaboon. M. Lessaint
believes the central plateau is fertile, and
its inhabitants will doubtless furnish in
teresting subjects for ethnologists.
Recently the reputed head of Cardinal
Richelieu, which was stolen from the
church of Sorbonne. France, in 1793, was
re-interred with great pomp and religious
ceremony. Another party now comes
forward and declares that he is in posses-
i sion of the actual head of-the Cardinal,(and Q
that the one buneu was not tne genuine
article.
The total exports of wheat, (and flour
reduced to wheat.) froisPSan Francisco,
for the period of G months from July 1st
18(16. amounts in the aggregate to 2,550,
000 sks : Barlev 105. 000 ; and Oats 82.
000 ?ks valued at $4,673,000. The bulk
of tin v exports are to New York, and oth
er parts of the Atlantic sea-board. There
is a continued good export requirements.
The English papers believe that Mr.
Keith Johnston and the other gentlemen
engaged in the exploration of Palestine,-
have uiscovered at leu Hum tliCQancient
temple of Capernaum, nearly, if not quitc
entire. The interest of this discovery is
very great , since there is no cither building
at the present day which can be identified
as one of those in which our Lord actually
was.
Just now there are sold in Paris and
elsewhere small packets of cards purport
ing to lie " tickets for Heaven ;" " billets
d'entree pour ie ciel." They are publish
ed by authority, to wit, by C. Lataille,
Ed'uenr Pontiffeale, Pue Garanciere, Paris,
and consist of sixteen' embossed cards, on
each of which is an engraving depicting
I the particular mode of reaching Heaven
for which that. ticket is good.
A Veteran Typo. John Saxton. senior
editor of the Canton (Ohio) Bcposetory.
who is novy in his 75th year, set type dtt
the President's message recently from 8
o'clock until midnight, patting up in that
time 3.500 ems. The old veteran has pub
lished his Repository continuously for tho
period of nearly o2 years. He has helped
- to produce every issue of the paper from
tue period u was started m till the
present time. 0
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Bltsteued Feet. Pedestrain3, whose
feet are apt to blister during long jour
neys, should rub the- feet at night "with;
spirits mixed with tallow, dropped from a
candle mp the palm of the hand ; on the
following morning no blister will exist, for'
the spirit possesses healing power and the
tallow keeps the skin soft and pliant.
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