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Y 3 &KSSS5i --Ksasap I OREGON CITY, OKJSGOjY, SATUiiDAY, IVOYKMHI:il 1, tS&Z. IVo.04. 0 o irMTWB 1313 TQ I? ' Vol. Z)t tUcdiln OJntcrpvts G) o.i-rnniT vni'VIN'l? c. m-nMS!IF.n E Kill " p. C. IRELAND, By mrF--F'it!i cast corner of Fifth and ( v .v Vtrcets, in the buUdh.-Mclv known 'r , the Court House, Oregon , ouu. it i r h:.ifk-ii nf inn Trims nse copr, one rear in advance ?3 00 ' ' if delayed 4 uU O Tfi"8 f Advertising. Transient advertisements, one square ,! linesor less; fust insertion . . .ti u for each subsequent insertion 100 Business Cards one square pei uu. payable cp.arterly 1- ' One column per annum 'One half column " .V0 00 00 00 40 (HI ',e"ul advertising at the established rates l 'look and Job Printing ! ; iMIEEXTERPUISE OFFICE J, supplied with every requisite for doing a .upt-riorrttvlc of work, an.l is eonstant ' )v aectimiilatiiignowand beautiful styles f of materia!, and is prepared ior every variety of nook' and Jon T SATISFACTORY I'KlCKrf. r-f The Public are invited to cull and 'pxaVine both our specimens and facilities -for divii? V"v!i. PROFESSIONAL CARDS ""Dr. F. Barclay, M. R. C. L. Formerly Surgeon to the Iloa. II. 13. Co.) OFFICE: At li i.l-T.-, ' Main Street ("! Oregon City. Dr. CHARLES BLACH, rh'-sician, Surgeon and Accoucheur. OFFICE Corner cf Washington afro Front atreet.s, Parrish's Block, Cortland, Oregon. O KESIDF.NCF. Washington street, bcf-'-;?n Fourth and Fifth streets. '---:' A. e. GIBUS. C. W. IM.KIHSU, A'if'11'' I lllitu' ailil I. i rill. Of JMCilS. GIBBS & PARPwISH, Attorneys and Counselors at-Law, O PORTLAND OREGON'. u OFFICE n Alder street, in Carter's New llriek liloek. n3 0. P. MASON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, lei-front st., Cortland, Oregon. riT.L AT V Court 11,1, ATTEND TO BUSINESS IN ANY O, in the State or Washington T. 'niton'. Ineludinir business under the bankrupt Law. S7:ly I t. C. JOlTNSO.V. F. O. M COWV. JOHNSON k HcCOWN, OllIKiOX CI TV, OK EG OX. I ft" Will attend to all business entrusted unr care in any of the Courts of the State, collect money, negotiate loans, sell real es- t etc. ? cT: "Partieulur attention i;ivcn to contested land cases. l.yl V. 1HI.TUN". O K. r. RI'SSKt.L. RUSSELL & DALTON, Attoniois and Cou nxclors at Lan Solicitor in Chancery, and Real Estate A ye ids. Will praefii'f1 in the Courts of the second, third and fmrth Judicial Districts, and in the fctijirrtne Court of Oregon. Special attention given to the collec tion of claims at all points in the above nam fl .litrie:. Otliceffi l'arrish's brick building, Albany, Oregon. (:J. 1. H. MITCIIK1.I.. J. V. IlOI. Til. A. SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, O Attorney and Cmmsellors at Law, Solicitor, in Chancery, and V roc tors in Admiralty . I-r?" Office over the old PostOfiice, Front f.rrft, Portland, Oregon. (ly) BENTON KILLIN, rrs;oii City, Oregon. Cliuca iu Charman's Brick Block, np ()U:tt) D- Ifl.-Tiif KENNEV, Attorney and Counsellor at Laic. J ' flu' ATTEND PUOMI'TLY TO ALL ) 1 J M business entrusted to his care, 1 1 f Okkick One door north of Bell & Parker's 1 I LW ,0r5' O"0o'u City, Oregon. 3:ly ) J. B. UPTON, , Attorney and Cocnsklor-atLaw, J t 4 I Oregon City. Oreqon. , f, Office over the store of Pope & Co.. ' fc l-un street. l ie V C. A. DOLPH, , q Attorney and Consellcr-at-Law, !;7" Ollice 10ii Frout street, Portland. Ore Jmj (Pt..:m JAMES LI. IVLOOEE, Justice of the Peace d- City Recorder. OiUcoGln the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. VwP. aiter.a to the acknowledgment of .Ws; and all other duties appertaining to ('(; o:hee of Jtice of the Peace. v J. WELCH, DENTIST. I'-riii.!,,. I'V-U Ln-'f.d at Orr'jon City, Orojon. O 11s over Charman & Bro.'s store. Main S;re.-t. (I2.lv L.I.;ly. AV. S. STKVFNS. A"t:ir I'ublic. O DALV Ft R-TTTBTTCS. I:sTA TE tt;ojc-:K., collec- (j.! Ls AS! (jf-X.EIi. L AGEXTS, FV,,!"1:st ti)0r -l".4Txns Brick, corner of ,rr"'"!i and Front sis, Portland, Oregon. j 1 articular attention given to the ad- U'n-.', Tn of llK"'.nOs. Legal and other doe-"-'"4 tran.W...4l. -. : CHARLEYS. WHITMAN, 'lev at. T,. 1 .1 1 a- -turner of Fifth and I) streets. Waihington City, D. C. r nt ..." ,?"1a' :!t,e,l'ion given to the adjust (7 'li'ii" 'j''? of patent. for private land ' 1 'ni.tion and '.lome.-te.sd s-'tt!s 0 O O n U SINUS S CA RD s. CLIFF HOUSE. f'fr Main Street, r' . i rarlij Opposite Woolen Factory, W. I,. WHITE, I T.W. RliOADES, f 1 ropnetors. Oregon City, Oregon. We invite the citizens of Oregon City, and the traveling public, to give us a share of their patronage. Meals can be had at ail hours, to please the most fastidious. 15 Notice to the Public. I HAVE this day closed the Barlow House in favor of the Clitf House. Hope my old customers will give their liberal patron age to the above well kept house. They will find Messrs. White & Itlnades always on hand to make guests comfortable. WM. BARLOW. Oregon City, August 1, lsi;7. "AMERICAN EXCHANGE. date LLXCOLX IIOU.SE,) Xo. S I Front str -, Fort la mi Oregon. L. P. W. qriMBY, Pm.pitiKTOit, UmU of U'txtfrn IUl.) This honse 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 Bagsago Wagon will al ways be found at the lamlmg on the arrival of steamships and river boats, carrying bag gage to the house free of charge. 17. ly OREGON HOUSE, Main Street Oregon City. JACOB B0EIIM, Proprietor. ESTABLISHED 1S57. HF.DL'CTIO.V IX PRIC ES ! The undersigned wishes to give notice that from Saturday, October r-th, ls07, prices at the above honse will be as follows : Board and Lodging per week 5 00 Board v ithout Lodging 4 00 Board and Lodgiug per dav 1 00 JACOB BOE1IM. Oregon City, Oct, 3d, 1SG7. no-.tf OS W EGO HO USE! OSWEGO, OKEUON. JOHN SCI1ADE Proprietor, IS now prepared to receive and entertain aii who may favor him with their patron age. The House is New and the Booms are Newly and Neat'y furnished. The Table will be supplied with all the delicacies of the season. The House is situated near the steamer landing. The proprietor will at all times endeavor to give entire satisfaction to all who may favor him with a call, and would respectfully solicit the pa'ronage of the Traveling Public. 41:tf. Board per week ( Board and Lodging 0 0O Single Meals. fn W. F7 HIGHFIELD, Established since i -!'.'. at the old stand, Mai.v Stiiekt, Ouegon- City. An assortment of Watches, Jew elrv, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Kepairings done on short notice, md thankful for ast tavors. (y7 G -k H E M A H ST QUE! JAMES MOBJSTJLT & CO., "XT fO U LI) 1NF01LM THE PUBLIC ES V f pocialiy of Caneniuh, that they have established u Store ut that place, where they will keep on hand a well assorted stock of Merchandise and Groceries. which will be sold at reasonable rates, for the purpose of establishing permanently such a necessity at Canemah. Try us. (3-:y SHADES SALOON. ll'it Side At-1 !t. S'n,f, Iftiv-'en Sn'oad ctiul Tit If i, Vrr'iin, City. GE0EGE A. KAAS Proprietor, The proprietor begs leave to inform his ! friends and the public generally that the aoove named poputar saloon isoeu ior ineir iiccouimodation, wilha new and well assort ed supply of the finest brands of wines, liquors and cigars. 52 A. II. IJKLL. K. A. PARKKI:. SELL 8l PARKER. l IlGLT, AXn DEALERS IN Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. 33.) Main Stkkkt, Oregon City. -tff.TICE TO ALL TllO WANT First Class Fine or Coarse Made or Repaired. Especial care and at tention paid to orders for line work, such as Ladies' and Misses F'ine Gaiters, Gents' Fine French Calf Boots, etc. Orders solicited from abroad will be executed with neatness and dispatch. TERWILLIUER A; SMITH, 40.tf Green st., Oswego. Oregon. E. G. RANDALL, IMPORTER AXIS dealer int MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, Sheet Music, and Musical Merchandise ot all kinds. Sole Agent in Oregon for Mason Il'tmliii's C'ELEDIl-.TEy CAUIXET OKGAX I AND SUinway it Son" :OLT MEDAL PIANO FOItTE? ! First street, next door to the Post Ollice Portland, Oregon. 4.tf C . P . FERRY, (Late Ferry & Foster,) : cc r UGL. JSKZ Et. o No. ICS Front street, I'ortland. 551 Agent North British and Mercantile Jnsin-ance Company. And Manhattan Life Insurance Co ri OVKRNMEXT SECURITIES. STOCKS V T Bonds, and Real Estate bought and sold on Commission. 3:H 0EEiKN CITY B I1 E W E It Y ! (JID IIEMiY U UMBEL,, Paving purchased the above Brewery, wishes to inform the public that he is now nreiiared to manufacture a No. 1 quality of LAGER 1U:ER! As good as can be obtained anywhere in the Strafe Orders solicited and promptly tilled. Oregon Citv, December -'Sth, 1m:H. lotf A. J. MONROE. W. A. K. M ELLEN". MOKSGE & KELLEN, Dealers hi California, Vcr.aont, and Jtaliau Marlles- OUdisks, Manila vtculs, Head and Foot, stones, Sai.em Oregon Ll'CIFEIl MATCHES. There's a legend, maybe you've seen it some day. That conies like the sunshine from far in the Last, With a hint in the matrimonial wav. Showing bow it comes, there's " "the Devil to pay, And no pitch hot," as the sinners say, How the toothache springs from the rrfarri uge feast. Marriage, of course, is a blessed thine, Especially so to beginners ; Then angels wave each dazzling wing, And love is the only tune they sing, While heaven is seen through the weddin" ring But " Where do they bury the sinners ?" Asks little smarty, while lurking rouud, And spelling the epitaphs he found, Where saints seemed thicker under ground, Than we commonly fiud them over; Where? oh, where? and echo repeats The question, but never an answer meets The inquirer, that I could discover. The lover, suing for heart and baud, As his darling's charms are fondly scanned, Life seems a romance loftv and grand 'Tis a blissful state that f know of. But wedded, sometimes all that's reversed. Love's early fondness, for folly is cursed, And of all sad fates, " ill married is worst" That poor mortals can sutler the woe of. But married and happy Jerusalem ! blisa Don't half express the delight of this, Any more than it does for two she's to kiss, When of course the flavor is missing ; But married and happy, two foiid souls thrilling, Each the other with rapture filling, And both obedient to love's dear willing There's power and glory iu kissing. Alas and alack I must hurry back, But if you hanker to try a smack, The first sweet Web-foot girl you mcctj In country lane, or city street, Pitch in, and for her love entreat; If she says 4-Xay," don't turn away, Their " No's'' mean " Yes," some other day, A woman wins by her own defeat. But my legend has'nt come as yet, I'll try again, if I dou't forget. IIauuy IIorPLEHs. Tilrsi. .Joil:mtJ Lesion. BY F. II. SLACFFER. Mrs. Martin sat in the office at the terminus of one of the street rail roads. A car was expected to move out in a few minutes. It was a clear frcsty morning in December, and bitter co'd. Bat she did not mind the cold just then, bound up as she was, and the fire burning bri&kly in the office. A !oor opening into a drinking saloon was ajar. Two men wero at the bar leaning lazilv against it, each CD 1 O 7 with a glass in his Land. One of them was a young man of her ac quaintance, C'ay Jordan by name, lie was a worthless, dissipated young fellow, lie had broken over the barriers of religious training and companionship, fearing not the threats of his father, turning a deaf ear to the entreaties of his mother, and of t'jn bringing the blush of shame to the cheek of his sweet tempered, love ly sister. 1 1 is eyes were bleared, his face bloated, his clothes shabby. His hair had dropped over his fore head, his beard was tangled, and his hands shook nervously. " Oh, Clay Jordan!" said Mrs. Martin to herself with a sigh. " A mere wreck in life, tossing about Gpon the billows of sensuality and passion; no pride, no shame, no man liness. How strange it is that some young men will thus throw them selves away, sacrificing all the social and educational advantages of the past and all the brilliant prospects iu the future." " Say, Clay, how did you make the raise!" asked young Jordan's companion. " Yesterday you was dead broke." " So I was, Musser. 1 got h6Id of the old woman's watch and chain, and up the spout it went. It's at liazier's in Ninth street." Clay Jordan called fur moro Iiqnor; the car was starting out, and Mrs. Martin took a seat in it. Though not familiar with the slang of the brothel, she correctly surmised that to put a thing up the spout, meant disposing of it at the pawnbroker's. When Mrs. Martin reached her home, she went up to her room, to lay aside her bonnet and furs. " Ma," said her little daughter, opening the door, ' a woman is wait ing for you in the kitchen. She came about an hour ago. She is in search cf a place. "I will be down directly," said Mrs. Martin. She found the applicant to be a young woman, tidily dressed, with ruddy cheeks, clear eyes, and honest looking face. " What is your came?" asked Mrs. Martin. 41 chel Pierce," answered the girl. " Have you any recomendatiens?' " Xo ma'am." "Where were you last?"' " With Mrs. Jordan." " Why did you leave there" " I was dismissed" " What for?" " I was charged with theft.' The blood for a moment colored the check of the young girl, and her eves moistened. " You are very candid," said Mrs. Martin. " And after such a confession, you expect me to hire you?'' " I did not make any confession. I did not steal anything." "There must have been Eome ground for the charge." " None beyond the fact that the article was missed. I did not take it, nor do I know who did." " What was missed!" " Mrs. Jordan's watch and chain." " And you do not know where it is?" " I do not; indeed I do not. Pray. Mrs. Martin give me a place, if but for a while. Please do. This is the fifth place that I have applied at to day, each time telling my story as 1 have told it to you, and each time quietly dismissed." The young girl bravely crushed the struggling sobs and tears. " Are you badly in want of a place;" asked Mrs. Martin. "1 am. My reputation is to be re-established, my character to be restored. Time will do that. Then wc are in distress mother is an in valid, and the winter is here. It is as much as brother and 1 can do to support her." " Your air, your f.ppearance, your language, betray that you have seen better circumstances." " I have, indeed. Reverses will come and sometimes in spite of watchfulness, economy and integrity of purpose. I might have taught school, or turned governess; but too many seek those avenues. I hired out as a domestic; such help is cons stantly needed. I had no pride to be wounded, no false ideas of con ventionalism to be shocked. I took up my new ideas as a woman should have taken them up; I do not feel that I have in any manner disgraced myself or my family. I do not wish to be anything more than you en gage me for a hired girl, with a stout heart, strong arms, and a will to work at a stipulated price per week." " You may stay Rachel," said Mrs. Martin, kindly. ' I am pleased to say that I am in possession of facts that will thoroughly viudicate your character." A bright light flooded the young girl's eyes. She brought her hands quickly together. " What are they? How did you learn them'?"' she asked. " Mrs. Jordan's watch was stolen by her worthless son, and pawned. I overheard him tell as much to a companion, net more than two hours ago. This evening I shall write to Mrs. Jordan about the matter." Three weeks afterwards Mrs. Mar tin called on Mrs. Jordan. Thev were old friends. The latter wore her watch and chain. " You have found your watch, I see," said Mrs. Martin. " Did you know that it had been lost? I recovered it the next day." Who had stolen it!" " Ob, I had mislaid it." " Mrs. Jordan!" said Mrs. Martin, reprovingly. Mrs. Jordan colored. " How much do you know about the matter?" she asked. " 1 know all about it," said Mrs. Martin. "It was I who sent you the unsigned note, informing you where the property was." "You make me blush for the shame of my son, Mrs. Martin. To shield him, I departed from the truth, when I said I had mislaid the watch." " I have something else to say in connection with the matter, Mrs. JorJan. You will not take offence?" " We are old friends. You have spoken plainly to me before." " But not vaingloriously not in the spirit of self-righteousness. You charged Rachel Pierce with the theft of the watch?" "1 did." " And dismissed her?" " I did." " After you found out almost the next day that she was innocent, what steps did you lake to vindicate her character to smooth her wouud ed spirit to remedy the wrong you had done her?" Mrs. Jordan bowed her head. Her cheeks tinged with mortification. " To my shame be it said, I did nothing, I have grievously wronged the poor girl." " Indeed you have. A warm hearted, honest, sensitive girl, she was thrown into the channel in which she moved, by a current that may some time carry our own children thitherward. Peremptorily dismiss ed, without recommendation, her character seemingly disgraced, she t..u... COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY and was repeatedly refused. Driveu to despair, crushed by the necessity of circumstances, fair in face, and fine in form, what was to save her from dashing headlong into the paths of wretchedness and shame? Perhaps the strength of iutegrity within her own soul; pernaps the religious train ing of her youth; perhaps nothing but the direct interposition of the provi dence of God." Mrs. Martin paused. Her friend was sincere. 'At eleven o'clock last night," re sumed Mrs. Martin, " after the ad journment of the lecture, I passed a drinking saloon. Some men rudely thrust a girl out of it upon the pave ment. The light from the window streamed upon her. She was stag gering drunk. A horrid impreca tion burst from her crimson lips. She was a mere wreck of a once superb loveliness now devoid of virtue, shame every redeeming trait. It made me shudder." Mrs. Jordan got up from her chair, in her excitement. There was an expression of horror on her face. Her hands worked nervously. " Was that Rachel Pierce?" she asked huskily. " No; it was not." " Thank God!" cried Mrs. Jordan sinking back in her chair. " It might have been her." " Oh do, not mention it, Mrs. Martin! Oh, how I have wronged the poor girl! How shameful and negligent has been my conduct! I will hunt her up at once." " She is safe," said Mrs. Martin. " Where?" " With me. She has been with me since the day she left you that you sent her away. Had not 1 been aware of the true facts connected with the theft of the watch, I too, per haps, would have sent her away. That knowledge may have proved her salvation. I have found her to be a most excellent girl." " That she was, and is, Mrs. Mar tin. I have learned a bitter lesson. I shall make Rachel Pierce the fullest amends that I cau." On the Sabbath following this in terview Rachel Pierce called on her mother. She was a pale intellectual woman, confined to the house, and much of the time to her bed, by a diseased spine. But she bore her disease patiently, never complaining and generally in good spirits. " A gentleman called yesterday, Rachel," said her mother. " A dark, stern featured man. It was a Mr. Jordan, quite likely the one at whose house you lived a while. He will take Charlie in his store next week, at very good wages. He also said that we must remove to one of his houses one more comfortable than this one, and nearer to the store. We are to live rent free." o . Morganatic Makriaues. Every body has heard the term " morgan atic marriages," and many suppose that marriages of this kind are a spe cies of concubinage, iu which the kings and princes of Europe arc fond of indulging. This is not the case, however. A morganatic marriage is just as binding upon the parties as any other, and precludes any other marriage. The term is derived from the German Morgengrabo, which means a dowry. It signifies a mat rimonial contract in which one of the parties is greatly superior in rank to the other. If it be the bride who is of inferior rank, she agrees that she and family shall be entitled neither to the rank nor the estate of her hus band, and that the dowry which is settled upon her at the time of the marriage shall be accepted by her in lieu of other privileges. If the man be the inferior, he gives his assent to similar conditions. In the bridal ceremony the party of superior rank gives the left hand instead of the right, to the other whence these marriages arc sometimes styled "left handed." Some of the ladies of Venango have organized a female base-ball club. The married members are said to be good "catchers," and are instructing the unmarried. The married are also good at the bat, having practiced "batting" at the cradle when its in mates raised "base-bawls." They admit no spectator and are good on the "short stops" and "home rnns" when travcliera puss their grounds. On "fowls" they are superb. What next. Break steers while young, if you would have them gentle, and you can do many small jobs with them BANCROFT LIBRARY, OF CALIFORNIA, Col. Forney's Leisters! Journalism in Europe is a hun dred years behind journalism in America. The chief London news papers, though claimiug a higher editorial tone which is only true in the fact that their leaders savor more of the essay style have little of the freshuess of the great dailies in the United States. In one respect only may we take them as examples their almost complete impersonality. You never hear of a respectable London editor assailing his rivals by name. It is the honest boast of the Times that its principal writers are as eutirely hidden from view a3 the Chinese kings, a characteristic more or less observed by its cotempora ries. The principle is correct. The readers of a leading journal should no more be annoyed by the recrimi nations of the men " who make it up," than the readers of a book should be afflicted by the griefs or eccentricities of the author, or the audience in a theatre made to endure a recital of the quarrels behind the scenes. A good newspaper, like a good book, is a sufficient monument to the projector, and a source of in cessant pleasure to those who con genially assist him; and if it is really published to subserve the common weal, and to disseminate a wholesome influence upon the world at large,that should be a sufficient substitute for hollow notoriety. In Paris, when a press is utterly in chains as our fors mer slaves, and where no man can safely print his honest thoughts on vital questions, the government order compelling every writer to sign his name to his productions, restrains in dependent thought, and invites the basest servility for how can a fear less reformer give his convictions to his fellow men when he knows that every word is to be weighed in the balance of a despotic hypcrcriticism, and every offence punished by the severest penalty that can be inflicted by irresponsible authority ? I sat some evenings ago in Paris, with the venerable Emile Girardin,the veteran editor of La Libertie, ard it did not take long for me to see how his proud spirit chafed under thegalling restrict tion. He spoke of the perfect free dom of the press in the United States with all a Frenchmnn's enthusiasm, and when I told him that there was absolutely no limit, now that the re bellion was overthrown ; that there cent chattle and the recent rebel wrote and printed exactly what they pleased that public opinion always punished the profligate and corrupt writer by ceasing to encourage him, he exclaim ed : " That is, indeed, a genuine, as it must be a lasting democracy !" I notice of late that his trenchant and terrible pen seems to bo clothed with a new inspiration, and much I fear that as the Mexican expedition continues to canker and agitate the public mind, his powerful protest against the Emperor's policy may again place him under the imperial ban. Imagine a host of impassioned spirits like Girardin held down under such a law, while they see tho work ings of untrammelled opinion in America, and you have at once a key to the ever-present perils of France. In Prussia there is even less present liberty of the press. King William's rule in Frankfort, Hanover, and other subjugated provinces, is excer tionless against any criticism of his conduct ; and when I sought to find a book in German, in that city, that would give me some idea of the pepular side" of the question, (of , course there was none in English, I sought in vain. In Switzerland everybody speaks, and writes, and publishes what he chooses. Berne, Zurich, Geneva, Basle, are the centres of learning and of liberty. You can get what you want in the book stores, and publica tions excluded in Paris, and sent out of Prussia, are here openly exposed for sale. Just before leaving Geneva 1 saw a pamphlet against Napoleon's Mexican experiment, which would certainly send the author to prison if he avowed his name to the Prefect of Police in Paris. The effect is very significant. The universities ofSwit zerland are crowded with students, and the most eminent scholars natu rally prefer a country where they can'refiect, and impart, and proclaim their ideas with uone to molest or make them afraid. The Windsor county, Vermont, farmers, at their recent club meeting, were all agreed that thousands of tons of hay were injured, rendered almost as worthless as straw, by be-ino- out loo late, and they proved t their position by incontrovertible j f;;cts. AU agreed also to commncft HOIlAh EDL'CATIO.V. The subject of moral education is one of so much importance that it is a wonder it meets with so little prac tical attention from parents. The greater portion of evil extaut is im planted in youth. Boys or girls who behave well until of age seldom be come abandoned characters afterward. They may, it is true, form evil hab its, but they by that time have gen erally acquired, if nothing better, at least a pride of position and a degree of control which restrains them from becoming entirely abandoned. From whence then does crime come ? The answer is plain from bad associa tions. One bad boy or girl in a schcol will make a dozen more. Yet how many parents there are who, knowing that their boys or girls as sociate with boasting, lying or dis orderly children, tolerate it, rather than take the pains to provide them with better associations. In fact, when these dangerous friends belong to a " higher class" iu society, how few care to see them break off im proper intimacies ? There is a fas cination ia " good society" which seems to make weak-minded and small-ambitious people reckless as to risks. Parents cannot take too much pains or incur too great expense to provide proper associates for children. Among the most dangerous friends for a certain class of boys arc those who have more money than them selves, who have freo access to more expensive amusements and luxuries, and who thus awaken the envy of the less favored. Discontent breeds more dishonesty than deprivation. The shrewd, small-minded, vulgar boy who sneers at everything, is a common and dangerous type. The lying boy is a pest the confirmed liar who does not " go to the bad" is an exception. A very undesirable character is the proud and " stylish" school-girl who criticises and ridicules everybody. Cruel children, such as one finds in abundance iu the South, and malignantly mischievous . ones, also exert a vast amount of evil. From many sources wc learn that, withiu a very few years, and espe cially in New England and New York State, deeply corrupting influences have been introduced into many schools. Those who have detected them have been amazed to Cud how well the secrets have been kept, and for what a length of time, by num bers ot very young children. Books of a most immoral character at-e manufactured by the scores of thou sands weekly in New York and Bos ton, and circulated among schools. Some time since we read of a dealer of such wares, who contrived to get tho addresses of seventeen hundred young girls, mostly at school, and sent to each a catalogue of books cf tho most forbidden and unmention able kind. To this wc may add that, iu America, children share with their parents those luxuries of life which always stimulate precocious develop ment, to a degree entirely unknown in Europe. We do not, even from all thecc, infer with some writers that Young America is going headlong to ruin. The majority outlive the effects of bad companions, and grow strong and good, in spite of bad books and pampering. But, of late, all evil in fluences have increased out of due proportion to the increase of morals and social education, and it is to this that we would call the attention of those who have charge of the young. Raising sheep and growing wool iu the Southern States was ignored in the prosperous days of King Cot ton; but since the close cf the rebeU lion, many planters, especially in the mountainous districts of Georgia and Tennessee, are turning their attention to sheep husbandry. A contributor to the Southern Cultivator, writes of tho natural advantages of this branch of agriculture on iho denuded and abandoned slave cultured planta tions. The great obstacle has been heretofore, that there were no indi genous grasses; but the writer says the Bermuda and Mcsquit grasses can be acclimatized, and will thrivo throughout the South. Further, lie says he can raise a thousand pounds of wool cheaper than the like amount cf cotton and the former will net twice the amount of money. Then go ahead, and make your broomsedge fields and old pine barrens into sheep pastures. --- A correspondent of tho Maine Farmer recommends that the State College Farm at Orouo be sold, and one bought where the stable manure of a city can be purchased, and where marine mmurc can be githcrcd from tPEGOX The subject of the Lost Emigrant mines is interesting, so we give place5 for the following from the Herald It has beeii reported that an emigrant train which came the " plains across' in 1842, discovered, or rather passed through, a country fabulously riclPSi gold that nugget3 lay around loose upon the ground. This has beeri doubted by some, and by btheruU faith and credit has been given the story. IloVever, Stephen II. Meek; brother cf the celebrated " Jde'' Meek, knew that such was the case having been pilot of the train, of which L. W. Hastings was the capA tain, and for two years has beed hunting the locality, and has found it: Of course the story as told by some was exaggerated, but Mr. Meek found nuggets upon the surface, in termixed with quartz rock, wbrtli from ono to eight dollars. lie pros pected six feet below the surface, and found dirt which paid ten dollars td the pan, although the bed-rock had not been reached. Ue is satis fieci from his discoveries that nothing Iri California, Idaho or any other coun try ever equaled these mine3. It ia the intentiou of Mr. Meek to organs ize a company in the spring, of hii own choosing, and return to the dig gings. One great peculiarity of tho section of country in which the min'ei are, is the disappearance and eye appearance of a vast lake, sixty mileS in IeDglh; In 1833 Mr. Meek passe'd over the identical country, and found the magnificent sheet of water, idnd actually caught fish and trapped beaver from the same. Ho was with a train belonging to B. L. E Bainville & Co., fur traders of New Y"ork. In 1845, when piloting tho emigrant train through the wilder ness, he found the exact spot whffo this lake had bzen bat where ho lake then existed. The train of emi grant wagons passed over the spot, which a few years before had been covered ly a magnificent sheet water, and followed through the vaU ley left by the same, sixty miles, to what had been the end of the lake In 1SGY Mr. Meek again returned to tho same spot, and imagine his amaze ment to find the lake as he first wit nessed it in 1833 there before him lay the apparently same magnificent sheet of Water, looking as beautiful as it did before its entire disappear anc's. Now, that there may be no doubt of this singular fact, we can produce the evidence of Mr. Meek'a own observation. Doubting his own senses, he searched the conntry over until he found the wagon trail made in 1845, and traced the same to tho end of the lake, where it entered the same (the old track, of course, being covered with the water of the lake mentioned.) He then followed the rim or beach of the lake around to the opposite "end, (sixty miles,) and there found the wagon trail making its appearance from under the water, and where, so many years beforCj the emigrant train had passed over the self-same spot covered now witl water. This, to us, and perhaps to the reader, may Seem a strange story to relate but our bid citizens know Mr. Meek, and know that they can rely upon his statements. Although now Cfty-eight years of age, Mr. M. looks hale and hearty, and much younger than his brother, ' Joe" Meek, who is his junior. Tho Agriculturist advocates a na tional tax oh dogs. It says they are a luxury, from the white.haired poo die, down to tho bull-dog that shows his teeth and holds on perhaps ft your posterior, if you excite his fe rocity. Our dog population ia seven millions not counting the short tailed ones and they are an cxpenP sive nuisance. There is some set?se, some philosophy, also sOme do-matio ideas in tho article of our contempo rary, but when it advises Government to tax dogs when all inveterate pol iticians are rabid We think it will bo taxing tho law makers themselves. That would be "cruelty to animals." Poach trees should be budded during the first season's growth in tho Inst half of August and first of Sep tember. Select a smooth, clean placo on the tree near the ground, and make an incision in the bark. From the stock of buds in your hand cut off one ; then raise the bark with some smooth implement, insert the bud, and tie up with basswood bark, . so as to leave only the bud exposed. After ten or twenty days remove this bandage. The safest investment for spare funds, the surest safeguard against their misuse, is found in noving hon 80 - 1 M 1 ' it: s -. if ii. i - -1. : o Q O o o O o o l" O o f J o o o JO I f 4 o O o o 5- i O