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0 o O o o Tol. ! OSISGOHr CITY, OllSGO 'SATURDAir, JUNE 15, 1867. No. !M. i)c lUcckln .OSntcrprisc. PCDL1S1KD EVEET 3ATCUDAT MOENINO By D. 0. IRELAND, n cFfrF- South east corner of Fifth and M uxVtrects, in the building lately known the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon. Terms of Subscription. One copv. one year in advance $3 00 One copy, u j u i ddayed 4 00 Terms of Advertising. : i. roi-ispmptit.s. one scmare n(12 lines or less; urst lnoci . Weach subsequent insertion 100 t'nrMinnp snuare ner ituuuui payable quarterly 12 00 One column per annum. 100 00 Une half column -0 00 J aaarlv ' - . .. - .ill DO H advertising at the established rates. " jdi.lt noniali Lodge Ko. 1, A. CC 4h A A. M. Holds its regular MUik Communications on the first and third Sat Crd iTS of each month, at half past six P. m. Brethren in t?ood standing are invited to 1 ' order of " JV1 foTegon City, Nor. 6th, 18&. Oregon Lodge No. 3, I. O. I ofO.P. Meets every Wednes 1 .r-liaSK - -4, i JSr"" PVeninr at 7 o'clock, in the f Masonic ifil. Members of the order are in 2 ,ped to attend. By order N. G. in.-J J "o ! AVifiametle Lodge Xo. 15 I. . O. C. T. f Meets everv Saturday evening, at the rooms 1 .S K corner of Mam and Firth streets, at 7 1-2 : . . a': memiicrs are. invited to i c. OCK. lamufi """" . , , 1801 : jittena. y By order of W. C. T.' o V. C. JOUN'SOX. O. M COS". Notary Public. I JOHNSON & McCOWN, 1 n", sv. .-.vr--ioisssLSa J OREGON CITY, OREGON. I r Will attend to all business entrusted I our care in any of the Courts of the State, 1 o.llect money, negotiate loans, sell real es- 1 :l;eifIC,'articular attention given to contested fl nud cases. hll j " D.-ELMcEEHHEY, Attorney and Counsellor al Law. f T7ILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL $ VV business entrusted to his care, J Office One door north of Bell & Parker's Drug store, Oregon City, Oregon. 3:ly ' ST HUELAT, ; ATTORNEY AT LAW, ? Oregon City, Oregon. Oifics over Charman & Brother. S:tf j Dr.E. SaiFarrans, I jpll YSICIAN and S URGE ON. P . o : OFFICE In J. Fleming's Book Store. I Main street, Oregon City. (52 DrF. Barclay, LI. R. C. L. (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) O O -77- OFFICE:At Residence, Main Street f2 Oregon City. J. WELCH, DENTIST. Permanently Located at Oregon City, Oregon. Rooms over Charman & Bro.'s store. Main street. (12.1y JAMES HI. MOORE, Justice of the PeacP& City Recorder. o o Ollico In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. Will attend to the acknowledgment of leeds, and iji, other duties appertaining to the otlice of justice of the Peace. t:ly .V John Fleming, DEALER in MOOES and, STATIONERY. J Thankful for the patronage heretofore re - ceived, respectfully solicits a continuance of the favors of a generous public. I His store is between Jacobs and Acker I man's briclcs, on the west side of Main street. I Oregon Citv, October 27th, '66. tf 'z i I CLARK GREENMAN, NN'TVj, City Drayman, l feiiS OI! EG OX CITY. , All orders for the delivery of merchandise, I or packages and freight ot whatever descrip- t tion, to any part of the city, will be executed promptly and with care. 16.6m DRAY FOR SALE CHEAP ! A FIRST RATE HEAVY DRAY, IN A good order, will be sold cheap for cash upvrtk apphcauon to C. GREEXM.AN, ol.t Oregon Cit'. -O- PONY SALOON. o Main street, Oregon City, Adjoining thj Brick Store of S. Ackerman. JAMES Propr. This popular saloon is always supplied the very best quality of "Wines and Liquors, Ale, Porter, JJcer and Cider, Cigars And Tobacco. Oive me a call. -:iJ JAMES MANN. SHADES SALOON. 5 H ed Aide Malrt, Street, lelweeji Second and i Tk&l, Oregon Citj. 7 1 GEORGE A. HAAS Proprietor. The proprietor begs leave to inform his I ineiuls and the public generally that the I abtr.-e named popular saloon is open for their I aconimodation, w ith a new and well assort- f.d SuPply of the finest brands of wines, "'-juors and cigaft. 52 FashioiPEilliard Saloon. ani street, between Second and Third, O Oregon City. J. C. Mann, Proprietor. rpHE above longstalhshed and popular nTi . on is yt a favorite resort, and as aaJ r C cll01cet brands of Wines, Liquors h m lffara arc dispensed to customers a fl public patronage is solicited. J. C. MAN. ' cr CLIFF HOUSE Main Street, Nearly Opposite, Woolen Factory, W. L. WHITE, I ' pM-a- T. W. RHOADES, ProPnetors- Oregon City, Oregon. "We invite the citizens of Oregon City, and the traveling public, to give us a share of their patronage. Steals can be had at all hours, to please the irost fastidious. 15 BARLOW HOUSE, Main Street, one door north of the Woolen Factory, Oregon City Oregon. Wm. Barlow, Proprietor. The proprietor, thankful for the continued patrnnaKe he has received, would inform the public that he will continue his efforts to pleast his guests. , ' (52 AMERICAN EXCHANGE, Late LINCOLN HOUSE,) K"o. 84: Front street, Portland Oregon. L. 1 W. QUIMBY, PKorRiETOR, Late of Western Hotel.) This house is the most commodious in the State, newly furnished, and it will be the en deavor of the proprietor to make his guests comfortable. The Baggage Wagon will al ways be found at the landing on the arrival of steamships aud river boats, carrying bag gage to the Louse free of charge. L.ly SHAVING SALOON. Nearly Opposite the Post Office, Main street, OREGON CITY. rpiIE UNDERSIGNED, WHO HAS FOR JL some time past endeavored to serve the public satisfactorily in the art of Shaving and Hair Dressing, returns his thanks for the patronage lie has received, and requests a continuance of the same. C2.tf ) II. FRANZ. FHOTOtiliA'PU GALLERY ! IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO LET THE public be informed that JOHN HELM, Aktist, Has removed to the Photographic Rooms on Main street, lately occupied by Morrison C. Athey, where he is prepared to execute bet ter work than ever. For Children's Pictures the best hours are between 9 and 12 o'clock a. m. 23.1y Jfupcirisil Mills, OllEGOJT CITY. KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND FOR SALE : BR AN AND CHICKEN FEED ! Parties wanting feed must furnish their sacks. 18.3m OREGON CITY Fapcr Maimf Co. Manufacture, and have constantly on hand, a very Superior Article of Straw Wrapping Paper. Orders will receive prompt attention. 22.1yj J. D. MILLER, Secretary. G AN E M AH STORE! JAMES M0RFITT & CO., T'T'OULD INFORM THE PUBLIC ES- V pccially of Canemah, that they have established a Store at that place, where they will keep on hand a well assorted stock of Jaerch.an.dIso and Groceries. which will be sold at reasonable rates, for the purpose of establishing permanently such a i a 1 m ri necessity ai vaneman. x ry us. DAVID SMITH W. II. MARSHALL. SMITH & MARSHALL, Black-Smiths and Boiler Makers. Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregon City Oregon. Blacksmithing in all its branches. Boiler making and repairing. All work warranted to give satisfaction. (52 William Broughton, CONTRA CTOR and BUILDER, Main street, Oregon Oily. Will attend to all work in his line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attended'to. (52 OREGON CITY BEE WEE Y! Having purchased the above Brewery, wishes to inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 quality of LAGER BEER! As good as can be obtained anywhere in the State. Orders solicited and promptly filled. Oregon City. December 2Sth 1666. lQtf A. LEVY, Main Street, at the Telegraph Office, Oregon City .Oregon. le?ier in Kes lev's Ready-made Clothing, Cigars, Tobacco, Pipes, Stationery, Cutlery, Willow and Wooden Wore, Yankee Notions, Fancy and staple Groceries, Candies, Nuts, Toys, etc. (52 LOGUS & ALBltlGIIT, EXCELSIOR jS MARKET ! Corner of Fourth and Main Sts., Oregon City . 7 Oregon. riKE THIS METHOD OF INFORMING I the public that they keep constantly on hand all kinds fresh and salt meats, such as BEEF, PORK, M UTTON , YE A L, CORNED BEEF, HAMS, PICKELED PORK, LARD, And everything else to be found in theirline of business. LOGUS & ALBRIGHT. Oregon City, April 2uth, 1807. 2:ly Sunday School and Gift Books ! IROM THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE . ty and Massachusetts Sunday School Society. For sale at Messrs Hurgrea & .Shiudfer's. First street, corner of Salmon, Portland, Oregon. G. II. ATKINSON, Sec.'v and Trcas. Oregon Tract Soc.'y. S. SIIINDLER, Depositary. 25.1y Ask your neighbor to subscribe for the Enterfkise. TiijT'T Children Gone. Sometimes, when the day grows dnsky, And the stars begin to come, When the children from their playing, Come singing and laughing home. I think with a sudden sorrow, As they pass through the open door, Of the faces ot the children That we never shall see any more. - Children in snow-white caskets, Laid away to their rest, Their still hands lying faded, Over the pulseless breast ! Children who came and tarried As it were only for a night, And passed, at the break of the morning, On a journey far cut of sight. On a long aud lonely journey. Where we could not help or hold, For we saw but the closing eyelids, The fading of locks of gold, And knew how now was but silense, Where once had been prattle and song, And only a chill and a shadow, Where was sunshine tl e whole day long. A way from our caresses, 44 God knows where they are," we say, And we know that we tarry behind them Only a little way ; For we, too, haste in our journey, And we know it will not be long Till we come to the city eternal, The rest aud rapture of song. Yet oft, when the sun is setting In unspeakable splendor of light, Or the day grows dim and dusky, And the shadows stretch into the night ; When the children, tired with their playing, Come in through the open door, I think of the dear, dear children, Y'ho never will come any more. A Suoe FOit LrcK. The custom of throwing a shoe, taken from the left foot, after persons, for good luck, has been practiced, in Norfolk, England, from time immemorial, not only at weddings, bat on all occasions where good luck is required. Some forty years ago, a cattle dealer de sired his wife to throw her left shoe after him when he started for Norwich to bur a lottery ticket. He drove off on his er rand, he looked around to see if she per formed the charm, consequently he re ceived the shoe-in his face with such force as to black his eyes. lie went and bought his ticket, which turned up a prize of 200 ; and his son has assured me that his father always attributed his luck to the extra dose of shoe which he got. Where he went To. The Mariposa correspondent of the Merced Herald says : The " honest miner'' who used to come to town of a Sunday, with his buckskin purse plethoric with dust, and would sometimes get on a big spree and " make Rome howl," has subsided, emigrated, re solved himself into another sort of being married and running a ranch got into a fight and lost his scalp fell into a water-hole and was drowned while on a big drunk gone home to the States got croseed in love and " went to the wars'i to get even by getting decently shot went through on fancy-women, and was noticed by a " coroner at the bay' with a verdict of " accidentally drowned," " man, name unknown" took to politics and went to the Legislature- went to Montana and was hung by a vigilance committee turned preacher, and well, no matter, went to the devil in some shape. . " A Eetteu Tiuxg." A few days since a friend of ours, (says the Flacerville Cou rier,) who was returning from a tour of in spection in the hills near town, overtook a small boy who asked his protection, fear ing that some of his school-mates were go ing to flog hiia Being assured of protec tion, the little fellow became quite talka tive, and rattled away about various things until they reached the Post Office. Our friend entered and inquired for a let ter, and as he stepped from the window, the little boy walked up and said : " Please, sir, is there any letters to-day for Miss ?" The following conversation then ensued : " Who is Miss V " O, she's my sister, I get a letter for her almost every day." " Who writes to her so often, my little fellow ?'' " O, her lovers she's got lots of 'em." ,;IIow old is your sis ter V " She's over uineteen or twenty." Why, my little fellow, your sister is old enough to marry." " O, she's got a better thing than that. She's got lots of beaux, and she bought some new dresses, and one of them was yellow, and when one of her fellers came to go walking she put the yellow dress on to make him think she was jealous ; and then sometimes when some of the others come, she puts on' a red dress." " Why does she put on the red dress ? ' 44 Because, you see, that means love." 4' Is your sister handsome ?" '4 1 guess you'd think so if you'd see the lots of fellers that's after her." At this stage of the conversation our friend parted company with his communicative compan ion, and entering a saloon, drank to the Miss who had a better thing" than mar rying, and success to her many suitors. t - Thirty-four per cent, of the children in the public schools of AVashington belong to the families of Government employes. The Board of Health of Chicago have ordered Bridsrenort Slough, a cholera breeding ba!n. to be drained and cleaned out. A Montana paper says the morality of Helena is extraordinarily gooa. uniy seventeen men were killed during the past two weeks. A Practical Immigration Scheme. v We had occasion recently to notice the organization of an association in Texas, which promotes immigration: by furnish ing facts about the location, character and price of land offered for sale, and acts as agent to negotiate for its occupation and improvement by immigrants. The plan is similar to that adopted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and contemplates bringing over Europeans only upon precise information and fixing them at once where they will become producers and add to the wealth of the State while making a competence for themselves. The Texas papers say the scheme is work ing admirably there. The Galveston News of a late date announces the arrival of the Bremen bark Luba, with 100 Ger man emigrants, who came on the invita tion of the association mentioned, and who are spoken of as a remarkably intelligent and respectable party. The lands which they were to occupy were already selected for them, and they were to go upon them at once. It was by a plan of this kind that the settlement of the Northwestern State3 was greatly accelerated. Some ol the railroad companies in that region, which had grants of public land, acted upon the hint and introduced thousands of the very best class of foreign emigrants. In Illinois the Central Railroad Company has established a regular land bureau, and has made very favorable terms with Amer ican and German emigrants who went west on its assurances. The California railroad compauies that have received public aid in grants of land are about to take a hint from this example to their own advantage aud that of the State. The Central Pacific has already been very lib eral in its dealings with settlers, and has thereby increased the population and wealth of the country through which it runs, so far as it has received patents. Other roads upon the Pacific Coast which will have land grants to dispose of, may in like manner benefit the country, and can even do it to a greater extent perhaps, be cause they will have more valley land, which is preferred by most immigrants. By proper efforts they might induce some thousands of immigrants to aid in the con struction of the road for very small pay ments in cash and the remainder in land ; and if payments were made on this plan, they could then easily afford to offer high er wages. Every laborer engaged on these terms would have a peculiar interest in the prosecution of the work, and rail road enterprises would be finished with more rapidity than if the full cost of labor had to be met weekly in cash. The great valley railroad companies would do well to act upon this suggestion in conjunction with the Chamber .of Commerce. They have said they prefer white labor to Chinese, if they could get it. The com panies already at work have undoubtedly tried in vain to obtain the former, but it has never offered in sufficient quantities, for the reason, chiefly, that the mining ex perience of our white laboring population has made them averse to receiving such wages as railroads pay, aiid has inspired them with an indisposition to work for others when they may possibly " strike a fortune" by perseverance in the diggings By the plans suggested white labor enough to build all otir railroads can be obtained, at reasonable prices, and a new element be introduced, free from the demoralizing influence of mining and willing to till the soil they buy instead of hanging around the towns. Jim Townsrxd's Tunnel. Jim Town- send, writes " Mark Twain," was a stock holder in the 44 Daly " mine, in Virginia City, and he heard that this Company had let a contract to run a tunnel two hundred and fifty feet to strike the ledge. He visited the premises, and found a man starting a tunnel in very near the top of a very sharp hill. lie said : 44 You're the man that's got the contract to run this tunnel, I reckon ?" 44 Yes." 44 Two hundred and fifty feet, I hear?" 44 Yes." 4 Well, its going to be a mighty trouble some tunnel and expensive." "Why?" ' 44 Because you've got to build the last hundred and sixty-five feet of it on trestle work it's only eighty-five feet through the hill I" Josn Billings ox Euchre. Yewker is a molatte game, and don't compare with old sledge in majesty any more than a game of pin duz to a square church vafile. I never play yewker. I never would learn how out of princi ple, ' I was born close to the Connektikut line, in Nu England, whar the name of 7 up, or old sledge, was born, and exists now in awl its pristine virginity. I play old sledge tew thi3 day in its na tive fierceness. But I won't play enny game, if I knoo my character, where a jack will take my ace, and a ten spot won't count for game. I won't play sich kind of a game, out of rcsnekt to old Connektikut, my native sit to A mother trying to get her little daugh ter of three summers to sleep one night, said to her : "Anna, why don't you try to go to sleep ?" 'Iam trying," she replied. 4 But. you haven't shut your eyes' 44 Well, J can't help it, "'urn's come unbuttoned." Jim Greeley's Jumping Jfrog. In "Mark Twain's" last letter to the Alia, from St. Louis, he related how he wa3 invited to address a populous Sunday School, having assured the 44 solemn old Deacon" that addressing Sunday School children was his 44 strong suit," and how, when he got up before the children, he told them a story that won from them hearty applause, which the 44 solemn old Deacon" could not check. The story was the legend of 44 Jim Greely's Jumping Frog," which 44 Mark" heard when he vis ited 44 Angel's Camp, at the request of one Artemus Ward," to seek information of a friend of his the Rev. Leonidas W. Gree ley. 4tMark" was referred to an old resi dent of the camp since '49 One Simon Wheeler, who was dozing over a bar-room stove, and when questioned about the Rev. Leonidas W. Greeley, he blockaded his interrogator, and gave him the follow ing information about the only Greeley who ever lived in the camp. Imagine the Sunday School children watching for the "moral" of the story : There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Greeley, in the winter of '49 or maybe it was the spring of '50 I don't recollect exactly, some how, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume wasn't finished when he first come to the camp ; but anyway he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side, and if he couldn't he'd change sides any way that suited the other man would suit him any way just so's he got a bet, lie was satisfied. But still, he was lucky uncom mon lucky ; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance ; there couldn't be no solitary thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it and take any side you please, as I was just telling you ; if there was a horse race, you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it ; if there was a dog fight, he'd bet on it ; if there was a cat fight, he'd bet on it ; if there was a chicken fight, he'd bet on it ; why, if j there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first or if there was a camp meeting he would be there reglar to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here, and so he was, too, and a good man ; if he even saw a straddle-bug start to go any where??, he wouhjl bet you how long it would take him to get wherever he was going to, and if you took him up he would foller that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Greeley and can tell you about him. Why, it never made any difference to Mm he would bet on anything the dangdest feller. Parson Walker's wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn't going to save her ; but one morning he come in and Greeley asked how she was, and he said she was considerable better, thank the Lord for His inf'nit mercy, and coming on so smart that with the blessing of Providence she'd get well yet and Greeley, before he thought, says, " Well, I'll risk two-and-a-half that she don't, anyhow." This-yer Greeley had a mare the boys called her the fifteen minute nag, but was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than that and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and had the asthma, or the dis-" temper, or the consumption, or something of that kind. They used to give her two or three hundred yards' start, and then pass her under way ; but always at the fag-end of the race she'd get excited and desperate like, and come cavorting and spraddling p, and scattering her legs around limber, sometimes in the air, and sometimes out to one side amongst the fences, and kicking up m-o-r-e dust, and raising m-o-r-e racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose and always fetch up at the stand just about a neck ahead, as near as you could cipher it down. And he had a little small bull pup, that to look at him you'd think he wan't worth a cent but to set around and look onery, and lay for a chance to eleal something. But as soon as money was up on him be was a different dog his tinder jaw begin to stick out like the for'castle of a steam boat, his teeth would uncover, and shine savage like the furnaces. And a dog might tackle him and bully-rag him, and bite him, and throw him over his shoulder two or three times, aad Andrew Jackson which was the name of the pup Andrew Jackson would never lot on but what he was satisfied, and hadn't expected nothing else and. the bets being doubled and doubled on the other side all the time, till the money was all ui and then all of a sudden he would grab that other dog just by the joint of his hind leg and freeze to it not chaw, you understand, but only just grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Greeley always came out winner on that pup. Well, this-yer Greeley had rat-terriers and chicken cocks, and tom-cats, and all them kind of things, till you couldn't rest, and you couldn't fetch nothing for hha to bet on but he'd match you. He ketched a frog one day and took him home, and said he calkerlated to educate him ; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump. And you bet you he did learn him, too. He'd give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you'd see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat. He got him up so in the mat ter of catching flies, and kept him in prac tice so constant, that he'd nail a fly every time as far as he could see him. Greclev said all a frog wanted was education, and he could do most anything and I believe him. Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Web ster down here on this floor Dan'l Web ster was the name of the frog and sing ont "Flies! Dan'l, flies!" and quicker'n you could wink, he'd spring up and snake a fly offn the counter there, and flop down on the floor again as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin' any more'n any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straight for'ard as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see. Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit, you understand, and when it come to that, Greeley wrould ante up money on him as long as he had a red. Greeley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywhere, all said he laid over any frog that ever they see. Well, Greeley kept the beast in a little lattice box, and he used to fetch him down town sometimes and lay for a bet. One day a feller a stranger in the camp, he was come across him with his box, and says : " What might it be that you've got in the box ?" And Greeley says, sorter indifferent like, 44 It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, but it ain't it's only just a frog." And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this wray and that, and says, 44 H'm so 'tis. Well, what's he good for ?" " Well," Greeley says, easy and careless, 44 lie's good enough for one thing I should judge he can out-jump ary frog in Cal averas county The feller took the box again, and took another long, particular look, and give it back to Greeley and says, very deliberate, " Well I don't see no points about that frog that's any better'n any other frog." 44 M aybe you don't," Greeley says, 44 Maybe you understand frogs, and maybe you don't understand 'em ; maybe you've had experience, and maybe you aint only a amature, as it were. Anyways, I've got my opinion, and I'll resk forty dollars that he can out-jump ary frog in Calaveras county." And the feller studied a minute, and then says, kinder sad like, 44 Well I'm only a stranger here, and I ain't got no frog but if I bad a frog I'd bet you." And then Greeley says, " That's all right that's all right if you'll hold my box a minute, I'll go and get you a frog j" and so the feller took the box, and put up his forty dollars along with Greeley's and set down to wait. So he set there a good while thinking and thitking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prved his mouth onen and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot filled him pretty near up to his chin and set him on the floor. Gree ley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller and says : "Now if you're ready, set him alongside of DanT, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l, and I'll give the word." Then he says, " one two three jump !" and him and the feller touched up the frog3 from behind, and the new frog hopped off, but IanT give a heave, and hysted up his shoulders so like a Frenchman, but it wa'nt no use be could budge ; he was planted as solid as an anvil, and he couldn't no more stir than if he was an chored out. Greeley was a good deal sur prised, and he was disgusted too, but he didn't have no idea what the matter was, of course. The feller took the money and started away, and when he was going out at the door he sorter jerked his thumb over his shoulder this way at DanT, and says a-ain, very deliberate : " Well, 1 don't see no points about that frog that's any bet ter'n any other frog." . Greeley he stood scratching his head and looking down at DanT a long time, and at last ho says, " I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw"d off for I wonder if there ain't something the matter with him he 'pears to look mighty baggy, somehow," and he ketched DanT by the nap of the neck and lifted him up and sai'S "Why blame mv cats if he don t weVh five pound." and turned him upside down, and he belched out about a doable handful of shot And then he see how it was, and he was the maddest man-he sc. the frog down and took out after that tel ler but5 he never ketched bim. And rilere Simon Wheeler heard his name called from the from the front yard, and got up to sec what was wanted. And tvvxinz to me as he moved away, he said : 44 Justiet where you are, stranger, and rest easy I ain't going to be gone a second. But by your leave, I did uot think that a continuation of the history of the enter-prKm- vagabond Jim Greeley woulu be likelyto afford me ranch information con cerning the Rev. Leonidas V. Greele, and so I started away. . vWVr At the door I met the sociable Wheotr returning, and he buttonholed me and re commenced : ,, 44 Well, thish-yer Greeley had a yaller one-ey ed cow that didn't have no tail onljr just a short stump like a bannaner, and J 44 O curse Greeley and his afflicted cow!' I muttered, good naturedly, and bidding the old gentlemin good-day, I depart d. Yours truly, Ubk Twain. Yamhill Central liailroad tf-orri the Revisiff. : ? A few weeks since we published a short article relating to the Oregon Central , Railroad, stating that proposals had beenrj received from Eastern capitalists for the construction" of one hundred and fifty , miles of road from Portland south. Tho company which organized to consider,- and which finally accepted this proposi tion contains some of the most prominent, influential and reliable men in the State. The project has been explained to ns with freedom and we commend this feature that the company has not cared to (jttake ; its plans known and create an expectation in the public mind w hich may be disap pointed. These gentlemen expect to pay all tbe preliminary expenses themselves, and do not intend to ask any one to invest a dollar in the enterprise until capital has o commenced the work or is most assuredly secured in its aid. There seems no room for objection t this, but objection is made, and very ridiculous opposition threatened, because the road as projected is not to run through Polk and Yamhill counties. Those who build the road will naturally loeatfi it wherfi thn intorcsf. rn tbolr tnnnmr r will be best secured. The present plan contemplates passing through the princi pal towns and the "largest grain growing0 counties. It strikes us as very sensible in , being so planned. This Yamhill bluster amounts to just this : A certain adventurer, about as fit for the presidency of a railroad to which he is elected, perhaps, on paper as for a seat in the United States Senate to which he lately aspired, has determined that he must be king of all Oregon Railroads, and has pursuaded Yamhill to back up his pretentions. We can show up his preten sions, if needful, in a manner to astonish the railroad men of Yamhill and the read ers of the Courier. A prophet is not without honor save in his own country, and this is all that ails the would be Senator and try-to-be presU dent of the Yamhill Central Railroad. Quarrelling about the franchise is experted to drive off in disgust monied men who might build the road. It must run thro' . Yamhill and this gent with the senatorial profile must control it, or else the thing must be killed. That is the evident game, but while we deprecate such conduct we don't fear the result. This individual's powerful mind runs on collections aid as sessments, and for six months past he has been trying to persuade the railroad men on this side of the river to send him as 44 general canvassing agent" through all the State, ,but they could see no excuse for taxing the people unless there was some certainty of success ; it is also more than possible that they did not like to make themselves responsible for his acts. Ciesar was a Roman senator ; this man aching to become a senator, the similarity is apparent. Imitating his great prototype in a very small degree, he crossed the Rubicon ; leaving the east side where his talent was not appreciated, he made over tures to YamhilL Friends across tia river, you owe his interest in your fortunes to his discovery of your willingness to subscribe. " That and nothing more." Yes, tbe people west of the river are about to be called on for money ! They are about to- contribute grand cash " to pay preliminary expenses" and 44 defray expenses of suit" which means the ex penses of his last suit, perhaps. The dis interestedness of the plan vanishes when the hat commences to pass around. We recommend to the distinguished adventurer with tbe senatorial profile, that be take up a " preliminary" contribution to be in vested in the purchase of an organ aud monkey (his friends east of the river can be relied on to that extent) so that when he makes his raid upon the credulity of the natives of Polk and Yamhill he can at least give them a trifle of gratification for their money in better music and more original antics than his own. Yamhill should have music as well as Gastonade for their money. But if the folks west of the river are willing to lend their fingers to rake chestnuts out of the fire we have no right to object. Good people of Yamhill don't be so sanguine about our road being bujtt, and don't be too hard upon us if we want it built. We ask you to x-ecollect that there are several interesting settlements this siJe of the river, and all bow to Yamhill and know the great advantage of a " start" in that classic region. Don't therefore compel us to foot it through the mud for ever, but let ns have arailroad, if any body is able to build it we have no ex-, pectation of doing it ourselves. But se riously and finally, any subscription paid now will prove a "bilk," and when the Courier talks of schemes 44 instigated by bilks" we simply advise it to look at home. A Mixed Masl. A member of the Legislature w-ho in dulged himself in afternoon-naps, request ed his frieud to wake him when the lumber act came up. He omitted by forgetfulness, but accidentally gave him a jog as tbe House was discussing a bill to prevent fraud.- Oid Sleepyhead started, rubbed his eyes, and exclaimed : 44 Mr. Speaker, a word on the bill ; far more than one-half of my constituents get their living in no other way." & A manufacturer at Balls ton. Sn "NT V has invented an arrangement for lighting his factory with kerosene oil, conveyed from a reservoir in the upper story by means of gas pipes to all portions of his milL A lady asked a noted doctor if he. did not think the small bonnets -tvbieli ib ladies wore had a tendency to produce congestion of the brain. 44 Oh, no," re plied he, " ladies who have brains don't wear them." A rural contributor savs he has enlrrr1 his establishment, and now keeps a head of oxen, a head of hen. and several hear? of cabbage, while be i3 also trying to keep i .1 ii. . j.: u iieuu oi ims times. Chief Justice Chase proposes to call oar acquisition 44 Arctic Territory." Greeley suggests 44 Walrussia." Bayard Taylor has written two or three long letters lroni London to friends hi New York, giving very interesting ac counts of his feastings and communings with bwmburne, trie poet, wno appears to take very Kinury to nis American aurnirer' A country paper in Ohio prints thi marriage notice : 4 Marrird, up town tb Other day, at Mrs. Wiljiams', Mr. WllHanj Williams, of Willjamsport. to his cousin, Miss Lizzie Williams. For particnhirs d$9 small -CiiZj."