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0 i : . .. :: i: - ' ' "'!!glgM" . IT1irmftltr. """" ' M , ' 5 ' - . ----- " . o r- : - Oregon Oity "5nterprisje 0)BEGON CITY, ORJGGfOiV, SATURDAY, JAOTABI 259 1868, No. 14. Vol. S. m o; ffiljctocckln' enterprise. PUBLISHED ETE&Y BATCBDlY KOBSWO By D. C. IRELAND, prirp- South east comer of Firm find .'tE J in the building lately known V the Court House, Oregon City, Oregon. Terms of Subscription. Oa eopT, oe rear in advance $3 00 VMcopy, m jj delayed 00 Tcrmi of Advertising. Transient advertisements, per square ! lines or less first insertion ...20 For each subsequent insertion 1 00 Business Cards one square per annum payable quarterly " 15 8S Dnexilumn per annum if One half column " One quarter " " 40, 00 Legal advertising at the established rates. 3ook"and Job Printing ! fJ-MIK EXTEIIP It I S E OFFICE Is supplied with every requisite for doing m. superior style of work, aad is constant ly accumulating new and beautiful styles of material, and is prepared for every variety of 0 book a NO Jon 3 IX T TV rX X W G ! XT SATISFACTOUY THICES- J&r- Tb-e Ftrbttc are invited to call and examine both cat -Epoctaaens aad facilities for doing work. PR OFESSIONA L CA R0 S. Dr. F. Barclay, M. R. C. L. (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE: At Rtslltnce, Main Street Oregon City. Dr. CHARLES BLACH, physician, Surgeon and Accoucheur.' OFFICE Corner of Washington and Front trt, i'arrish's Block, 1'ortland, Oregon. O Fourth nd Fifth streets. f22.1y .0- P. MASON, JLtToWsV AND COUNSELOR AT Law, 102 Front t. Portland. Oregon. TTII-Ii ATTEND TO BUSINESS IN ANY W Court in the State or Washington Territory. Including business under the Uankrupt Law. . . S7:ly " B. 1YI. JIcICENlVJSY, Attorney and Counsellor al Law. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL business entrusted to his care. Ot ricK One door north of Bell & Parker's Irug store, Oregon City, Oregon. LS.ly .a. c. amns. c. w. parrish. Notary rublii and Com. of Deeds. GJJB8 & PARRISH,. Attorneys and Counselor s-at-Law, PORTLAND, OREGON. OFFICE On Alder street, in Carter's yvr Brick Block. n3 f. C. JOBNSOH. r. O. X COWK. Kotary 1'nblic. JOHNSON & lYIcCQWN, n OREGON CITY, OREGON. Will attend to all business entrus ted f the (Courts of the State, collect money, negotiate loans, sell real es . t te. etc. ."Particular attention given to contested land cases. ' O : : . r. rcsskix. r. OALTO-V. cRUSSELl. &. DALTON, Attorneys and Counselors at Laic, Solicitors in Chancery, and Real Estate Agents. "w"ill practice iu the Courts of the second, third and fourth Judicial Districts, and in the Sapreme Cur-t of Oregon. ISf Spcial attention given to the collec tion of claiius at all points in the above nam ed districts. Ollice in I'arrish's brick Wilding, Albany, O regou. (33. J. M. MITCHELL. .11. K. BOLrH. A. SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty. -Office o-er the old Post Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. BENTON KILLIN, Oregon City, Ortgon. OtEce in Charman's Brick Block, p tairs. C50:tf) JAMES M. M00RE, ' Justice of the Peace it City Recorder. Office In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. WiU attend to the acknowledgment of deeds? and all other duties Appertaining to theoitice of Justice of the Peace. 2:1y o J. B. UPTON, Attorney and Cocnselor-atLaw, Oregon City, Oregon. $f Office over the store of Pope k Co., Main street. 46.tf C. A. DOLPH, Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law, j Office 106 Front street, Portland, Ore- go"a. (.45. 6 m UC. P. FERRY, (Late Ferry fc Foster,) H QC jar&. tfZS Tlfc JBC m No. 103 Front street, Portland. Agent North British and Mercantile Insurance Company. And, Manhattan Life Insurance Co aOYERNMENT SECURITIES, STOCKS Bonds, and Real Estate bought and sold on CommissiOB. f S:ly J. A. MacDONALD, Green Street Oswego, Oregon. Post Master and Dealer in GENE RA L MERCHANDISE, Groceries, V Iic aim Hqucrt I - Fred. Muller, Th e Or i g i n a I Pararatia Beirs to announce to his old customers aud the public, that Ilia New Restavraxt, Two doors from Alder, on First street, Tort land, is now open. OyateiJ, Came, Chop, etc. txi.3 BUSINESS CARDS. CLIFF HOUSE. Main Street, Kearhj Opposite Woolen Factory, WHITE I RHOADES, Proprietors. 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 Barlo-sv House in favor of the Cliff House. Hope tny old customers will give their liberal patron age to the above well kept house. They will lind Messrs. White & Rhoades always on hand to make guests comfortable. WM. BARLOW. Oregon City, August 1, 17. OREGON HOUSE, Main Street Oregon City. JACOB B0EHM, Proprietor. ESTABLISHED 1S57. REDUCTION' IX PU1CES ! The undersigned wishes to give notice that from Saturday, October 5th, 1867, prices at ihe above house will be as follows : Board and Lodging per week ?3 00 Board without Lodging 4 00 Board and Lodging per dav 1 00 JACOB BOEIIM. Oregon City, Oct. Cd, 1867. 50:tf AMERICAN EXCHANGE. late LISCOLX HOUSED No. fii Vro;t s'rtct, Portland Ortgon. L W. QUIMBY, Proprietor, Lattof Western llvtel.) Tiw-s house is the most commodious in the State, oewly furn.:s?ied, and it will be the en deavor of the proprietor to make his guosts comfortable. The Bu ?jage Wagon will ai wavs be found at the LninS on the arrival of steamships and river b 'at?, carrying bag gage to the house free of charge. L.ly OSWEGO H0USS! OSWEGO, OREGON. JOHN SCHADK Proprietor, IS now prepared to receive and entertain all who may favor him with their patron age. The House is New and the Rooms are Newly and Neatly Furnished, The Table will be supplied with all the delicacies of the seasou. 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 cail, aud would respectfullv solicit the paroftttg of the Traveling Public. 4!;tf: Board per week f 5 00 Board and Lodging 00 Single Meals 60 Imperial Mills, OREGOX CITY. KEEP CONSTANTLY OX HAND FOR SALS : IP&SIflB, IHHILOHC&S, BRA N AND CHICKEN FEED ! l-?f Parties wanting feed must furnish their sacks. 30.tf JOHN H. SCHItAM, Manufacturer and Dealer in SADDLES, HARNESS, etc., etc.. Main street, between Third and Fourth, Oregon Ciiy. THE attention of parties desiring anything in my line, is directed to my stock, be fore making purchases elsewhere. (ly) JOHN H.SCHRAM. W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since 1S49. at the old stand, ' Main Strekt, Oregon Citt. An assortment of Watches, Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all ot wtiicti are warranted to be as represented. Renairings done on short notice, fcand thankful for past favors. (37 I. S. ROSENBAUM & Co., No. 45 Front st., Portland Oregon. WHOLESALE DEALERS IS Tohacco, Cigars, Snuff", Stationery, Yankee Notions, and 2oys. Orders promptly attended to. (4.tf A.'J.ARSHALL, ' Wagon and Carriage Maker, Main street, Oregon City. Wagons made to order, and all work in this line executed in the most satisfactory manner, at reasonable rates. jy" All kinds of country produce taken in exchange for work, at cash prices. Give me a tiial. 47:tf William Broughton, CONTRA CTOR and BUILDER, Main street, Oregon. Ciiy. Will attend to all work in his line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attended to. v.-js SHADES SALOON West Side Main Street, between Second and Third, Oregon vtzy. GE0BGE A. HAAS - - - - Proprietor. The rronrietor bess leave to inform his friends and the public generally that the above named popular saloon is open fortlveir accommodation, with a new and well assort ed supply of the linest brands of wines, liquors ana cigars. J. C. M AXS. THOSi LEAHVi Fashion Billiard Saloon. Main street, between Second and Third, Oregon City. MANN & LEARY Proprietors. ' IIIL above long established and popular JL Saloon is vet a favorite resort, and as only the choicest brands of Wines, Liquors and Cijrars are dispensed to customers a share of the public patronage is solicited. T N. B. Families supplied with the cuoicesi r.iquors, Jr.ngiisn Ale and Forter, in bottles, on the most reasonable terms. A. n. BELL. E. A. PACKER. BELL &. PARKER. BltUCrCrlSTS, ASD DEALERS IS Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. 33.) Mais Street, Orkgos Citt. L. ZIGLER & SON., ggg COOPERS, Oregon City, Oregon. THE UNDERSIGNED ARE NOW mil pared to make ali manner of ware in the line of cooperage, from a well-bucket to a hogshead, of both bilge and straight work, on short notice, and at reasonable rates. Call and examine samples of our work, aa ' it i its own recommendation. j PS.Sm) L. ZIGLER 4 SON. W. L. T. W. AN EVENING WITH BOOKS. To-night we take from ';its place in the corner of the top shelf of our book case, a casket, (or as it is quaintly spelled Cas gud of Gems, ) and lind that It contains choice selections from the poet?. It is published in handsome style at Edlnburg, and, naturally, includes a large portion of selections from British poets. But as this field is a very exlensive one we will glean in it alone, to-niht. In the table of con tents the first division i3 that of " Sacred : Earlier poets, from Chaucer to Cowpeiv' Of these, none have excelled rare Ben Jonson in the following lines : THE GOOD I.IFK, LONG LIF2, It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sere. A lily of the day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die ihat niglit It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be. Mattbiew Trior's beautiful lines on Charity, based on the 13th chapter of First Corinthians, conclvd-? hus : The constant Fait!i and holy Hope shall die, One lost in certainty, and one in joy, Whilst thou, more happy power, fa'r Charily, Triumphant sister, greatest of the three. Thy office and thy nature still the fame, Lasting inJ lamp, and nnconsumed thy flai,; Shalt still survive Shalt stand before uie host 'tf Heaven con fessed, Forever blessing and forever biVssed. Coming down to the modern poets, reach Wordsworth, who died as recently as 1S50. Though not fully appreciated at the present day, yet he has written that which " the world will not willingly let die." What prettier picture of a perfect woman have we, than this ? She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparation, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's too. her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn Fro" 'ay-time and the cheerful dawn; A dancing rhape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle and waylay. j i i I saw her upon a nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too 1 Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did tnet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not loo bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles. Fraise,blanHlove,kisses,tears and smiles And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine, A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveler :twixt life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned. To warn, to comfort and command, And yet a spirit, still and bright. With something of an angel light. How similar, in thought and expression, to Dr. Holland's portrait of the model wife, in KaOirina, is this When at our board All viands lifted by her band became Ambrosial ; and her light, elastic step From room to room, in busy household cares, Timed with my heart, and filled me with a sense Of harmony and peace. Daj s, weeks and months Lapsed like soft measures, rhyming each with each, All changed with thoughtful ministries to me, And not to me alone, for I was proud To know that she was counted by the good As a good power among them by the poor As angel sent of God, on whom they Called His blessing down. The following familiar lines from Addi son, on a review of a life crowned with mercies, have much in them to recall gen eral sentiments of thanksgiving: With all thy mercies. O, my God, My raising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I hi lost In wonder, love and praise. Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy. Through every period of my life, Thy goodness I'll pursue ; And after death, in distant worlds, The glorious theme renew. Through all eternity, to Thee A joyful song I'll raise ; For, O, eternity "s too short To utter all Thy praise. We cannot close these extracts without a plea in favor of works of this kind. In the multiplicity of books, even of good, standard works at the present day. it is impossible to become possessed of a com plete library, even in a single department of literature, without a fortune : but a comparatively small sum invested in choice volumes of selections will give one the best thoughts of the best miads, to counsel to cheer, aid and ins met. Jesse D. Bright, who was e.x pelled from the United States Sen ate early in the war for disloyal practice?, turns op afresh in the Kentucky Legislature. Hartford has a fire-ahrm bell j weighing 9,000 pounds. A Story of "Woman's Love. Seven years xigo last June, says the New Albany, Indiana Ledger, of October Gth, a yonng roan named Esterly paid his addresses to and won the heart of a young lady named Maria A. Pearson, and married her. They both resided in a pleasant little city in the State of Ohio. Esterly was a gentleman of high social stand ing, was engaged in a good business, and was apparently prosperous in his financial affairs. His family was es teemed highly, and he was consider ed a good match for any young lady. Miss Pearson was also of an excel lent family, highly educated and ac complished, possessed of rare person al charms, and the life and joy of tho circle in which she moved. For a year after the marrbge they lived happily together, he treating his beautiful wife with the utmost affec tion. But the war fever running hi"h in his city, he finally sold out his bu?i ness and entered the army, being ap pointed to the position of adjutant in an Ohio regiment. While in the ser vice, like tens of thoa?andaof others, he fell into habits of intemperance, and so completely did the fell demon of strong driuk gain the mastery over him, that before he had served two years he was apparently a hopeless drunkard. He was persuaded by his friends to resign his position and return home, tbey hopiog he might reform if his army associations and temptations were broken off and re- I oved. He did so, and went home; bui ihCv ke continued his course of intempernC". and soon by gambliug, tho natural aoji'ti ()f intemperance, ran through all his property and re duced himself and family to absolute poverty. During all the time ot .! rapid descent, tho young and loving, but now nearly heart-broken wife, clung to him, pleading with him to cast out the hellish de mons that were polluting his soul and surely and swiftly leading him on to the most certain and irretrievable ruin. But lie heeded not her entreaties ; he did worse, for he beat her; and when her heart was breaking under its load of woe, and her white face would be turned up imploringly into his in mute appeals for his reformation, he would slap her cheeks with his bru talized hands until their ashen hue was changed to deepest purple. A man would have cursed the bru talized husband lor such conduct. But not so this loving wife. To all appeals made to her to leave his Wretched home and return to the pleasant one other parents, she turned a deaf ear, and answered only : "I love him, and I cannot desert him now. I will still save him, through the help of God." But matters grew worse instead of better. The wife and her two children were often without food, and the husband and father seemed to have become more fiend than human. Still the faith ful wife clung to him ; still she prayed for him ; aHd still her faith was un shaken that he would ultimately re form, and again become to her all that he was in the first years of their love and wedded life. One night in December, 165, the husband came home at a late hour. The poor wife was crouched over the fast dying embers, with her help less babe in her arms. She noticed that Esterly looked more wild and crazed than usual, and that his nerves were twitching at a fearful rate ; yet she did not fear him. Finally he asked her why she had not a better fire. She replied that she had no more wood. This seemed to make a maniac of him, and the demons that had been lurking in his wake or besetting his footsteps, seemed sud denly to possess his sonl, and seizing the infant from his wife's arms he hurled it upon the coals, and for a time would not allow his wife to re move it. He was delerious the mind had yielded to the demon pres ure, and he was a maddened, despe rate fiend. Finally the child was rescued from the fire j but it was too late to save it. In agony it lingered for two days, and then God, in His mercy, took it up to Heaven and gave it a home among the angels. The maniac father rushed out into the niglit, shrieking and screaming; but soon afterward he was seized by some of the officers of the townj tak en to his wretched home, and there confined for days, until, through the skill of a physician, and the constant nursing of his wife, he recovered At first the wife told that while sit ting over the fire she had fallen asleep and the child had dropped from her arms into the fire. And it was this 1 8ccidcrt, she said, that had crpzed her husband and caused him to flee from the house. It was nearly a year before even her parents knew to the contrary. When Esterly had recovered, the wife told him how the child came to its death. She avers with the ut most solemnity that this was the first knowledge he had of it. Then, she says, he resolved to live a sober life in the future. In a few months he left home, went to Southeren llii. nois for employment, and once more engaged io business for himself. On Tuesday night the wife arrived in this city, on her way to join her hus band again. She remained here with a relative, from whom we derive the above facts, until yesterday morning, when she left on the train of the Lou isville, New Albany and Chicago road en route for the home of him who has filled her heart with such anguish, and darkened so many years of her life with sorrow that might otherwise have been bright and hap PJ- And all this is woman's love all thi3 is a wife's love. How deep and pure and exhaustless is that fountain! Nothing in heaven above surpasses it nothing in this World equals it. A loviig wife faithful forever. May the holy angela keep both the wife and her husband, so that her faithful, lovhg heart may never again know soriovv. -3 -- S:xgvlar Coincidences. Vesuvi us turst forth with fearful grandeur on the 14th of November, as report ed by telegraph. Seven streams of lava were in a full flow at the latest date?, and the display is represented as most magnificent. On the same day the inhabitants of the city- of Le on, in Nicaraugua, were startled by he sudden and almost simultaneous breaki'.',T out of a number of volcanic vents on the Pacific slope, and near the base of the lo. ctinct twin vol- canoofKoto. On the morning ci the 12th of November, the I:)axiA of Jamaica was severely shaken by tu violent shocks of earthquake. On the evening previous the most re markable electrical phenomena were witnessed off to the southwest of the harbor of Kingston, during a terrific thunder storm. The account says: The lightning looked as if it sprang upward from the sea ; at one time it was forked lightning, at another time it appeared like large balls of fire rising up from the water and burst ing with great brilliancy in the clouds." On the 16th of November the Island of Porto Rico was visited by a severe earthquake, and on the 1 9th it wa3 repeated. The great earthquakes of St. Thomas, St. Johns, Tortola and other Islands in the vi cinity, of which accounts have been published, occurred on the 19th of November. And, finally, the grand meteoric shower took place on the 14th of the same month. Is there no significance in these fat'ts ? In these days of progress our scientific men should be able to " put that and that together " and study out a sat 'sfactory explanation of the causee of such phenomenas and their relation to each otuer. Most of General Grant's good qualities have had a hearty recog nition, but we are afraid the peo ple have not yet appreciated his fine sence of humor. It seems that An drew Johnson got frightened the other d3 because two or three hun dred colored men in Washington had organ'zed themselves into a volunteer militia regiment, and General Grant was ordered to disband them as "unauthorized by law". The Gener al thereupon issued an order disband ing all military organizations in the District which were unauthorized by law, and the blow which Andrew aimed at the freedman has spread havoc in the camps of his own friends The Fenians and the Schutzen Corps have had to give up their guns,and in trying to damage the negroe?, the Presidentt has roused the ire of the men whom he especially delights to honori -A London paper says the plate at Windsor Castle, for the use of Her Majesty and the court, " weighs uearly 30 tons, and that its value may be roughly estimated at 3, 000,000. It is secured in stone chambers with vaulted ceilings, which form part of the original build ings, and are thoroughly proof against burglars. The Belgian Government opens a school in each district where any of its soldiers are situated, and grants no special favors to any illiterate sol diers who do not avail themselves of of it3 benefits. Sixty- F"eet ITmler Snow. In one of the interesting series of papers on Coast Life in Newfound, land, " Skipper Nat" thus tells how he was snowed up in Labrador: In the fall of '37 I volunteered to remain on the Labrador all the win ter, because there was a good deal of stuff of one kind and another that our vessel could not take away. As there was a small settlement further down the coast, I thought I shouldn't want for company, although indeed it was a dreary prospect I had before me, and not without considerable danger. However, when the schoon er put to sea, and I found myself all alone, I contrived to make the best of it, and went about preparing things for the long winter. My tilt was built under the brow of a steep hill, not far from the shore; and with a little fixing up, such as covering the roof with sods and stog ging the scams with moss, I contrived lo make it a snug enough little nest. Then I had a good stock of wood, plenty of ammunition, a Bible, and some other books, with a large sup ply of provisions. I soon began to like my Crusoe mode of life, and en joyed myself much more than one could suppose. Sometimes just about tea-time mostly a fit of lone liness would come over me; but it gradually wore away, until it seemed like a dream that ever I had mingled with my fellow-creatures in a civilized land. It took me some weeks to get my hut in order, my wood cut, my provisions stowed away, and every thing put shipsshape in comfortable trim against the dreary days ahead. It was well I didn't dally in my la bor; for no sooner was I in a condi tion to face the winter than he be gan to face me, and almost every day he assailed my fort with wind, frost and snow, hail, sleet and rain. About the first week in December it began to come down in real earn est, and the wind being low, there was, in two days, an even fall of sol2c s'x or C'ght feet, which, indeed, was almost level with the eaves of my house. R7 J)ard shoveling I kept an open path to !y well, that gushed up at the foot of a rork, and, being a spring, never was much- frozen, I thought it a wise thing, hewerer, to set up a pole, with a remnant of a.? old sail near by, so that in case the well were covered up, I should know just where to search for it. On the third night of the storm tho sno"a' came down thicker and faster than ever, the wind increasing from the northeast a perfect hurricane. I got in a good supply of water, piled up a roaring fire and sat down to lis ten to the howling wind, to read my books, smoke my pipe, mend my togs and cook my meal such being my in-door employment. Somehow I did feel low-spirited that night. I couldn't help thinking of those who were so far away from me. I felt ray utter loneliness weigh upon me, till 1 actually began to pity myself, as" if I was some poor, forlorn creature, cast adrift from the world and all its cares and comforts. Tears came into my eyes, and I almost repented that I had undertaken to remain at all. However, when I began to consider that the same God who wai watching my loved ones at home, was also present in my humble abode, amid thestorms, and snows, and night; I say, when I thought of this, 1 gained comfort, and, wrapping myself up in my blankets, lay down to rest like a little child that goes to sleep holding its mother's finger in its flat. But oh, how the wind roared, and howled, aud whistled! Sometimes a great gust would come, carrying a shower of bright sparks up my chim ney, and then howl down as if it was some demon that wanted to get into my house. Then again the gale would moan and whine like some one in pain; or pant and shriek, as though some poor creature were perishing in the drifts; then would come a roar like a furiou3 wild beast! At length the sounds grew gradus ally fainter and fainter; the wind seemed to be dying away, until at last all was as still and silent as the grave, except, it may be, a low, muffled growl, very, very far off. I dropped to sleep. How long I slept I know not; but when 1 awoke all was dark, and my fire was nearly out. I jumped up and laid some splits on the ashes, but there was not draught enough to kindle, them, 'and the room was full of smoke. When I opened the door, 1 found one solid wall of snow filling up the entire doorway. This, however, was no more than I expected. Going back to my fireplace, I looked up the flue, and the snow seemed to form an arch over it. Can it be possible; thought I, that I am buried beneath the snow? Taking my shovel 1 dug into the white mass that blocked my door; but after excavating five or six feet, no daylight appeared. It was evi dent that the tilt was very many feet beneath the surface; being situat ed at the foot of the hill, which rose some sixty or seventy feet in the rear, I came to the conclusion that from the brow of the hill out to the frell, or perhaps even beyond, was all one solid block of snow, which I could not expect to see removed for three or lour months. To dig my way out would be difficult, if not impossible, and certainly dangerous; for should the tunnel cave in, where was I Smothered! To remain idle would never answer, on the other hand; for rny fire would not burn, but only smoulder, and fill the premises with smoke, bad enough to blind one, and then my stock of water would very soon be exhausted. After pondering the matter over for a long, long time, I resolved at last to risk a tunnel at any rate. I thought, as I had no difficulty in breathing, and as my lamp burned pretty well, that air must come in from some hole or corner, and per haps the drift might not be so high after all. So, tying a string around my waist, and fastening the other end to the staple of the door-lock, I commenced to work my way along. It was dreadful hard work, and no mistake that it was; for, as I could not remove the snow, I had to trample it down and press it each side, and melt it, and so make away with it as best I could. Atid then the air was so close and hot that 1 was in a bath of perspiration all the while. One night I woke up with the cold shivers; and the next day if I may call it day I was proper sick a violent cold. The way I cured myself was to get up and diT for dear life at the snow tunnel, until I was dripping wet, and as hot as a plum pudding just out of the pot. In a day or two, I began to hear a faint roaring sound of wind, and then the light grew stronger and stronger, which gave me hopes that 1 must be coming out. This caused me to re, new my labor with fresh vigor. At every shovelful almost, the noise of the yind and the glimmer of light in creased until at last, all at once, the top of the tunnel caved in; and, after considerable struggling aud pufilng, I came out cr.ee more to the blessed light of day. Shaking the snow from myself, I found it was as I supposed. There was a snow-drift of sixty feet piled over my house, from the brow of the hill to within a few feet of the well. I had occasion to rejoice that 1 had myself tied to the door-post, otherwise I should never have found my way back, or, at least, cot for a long time. As I said before, there was a settlement down the coast; as soon as I could I set off and got some men to corne and help me dig out the house. But I can tell you that the next year tvhen he came to the Labrador, there was a good heap of that drift in the valley still; and, for that matter, it remained all I r ha c n m ri n r V A A V U Ui U-l v A SiNGttAii Well of Water. There is a singular well of water on the farm of Mr. Bacon, about three miles west of Lafayette, Indiana. It is forty -seven and a half feet deep, with another about twenty feet from it ten feet deep, and still another fif ty feet from it thirty-six feet deepi The water from this veil, when first drawn, is very cold, and has art exs ceedmgly pleasant taste, but after standing a few minutes it is impossi ble to drink it. Potatoes or other vegetables boiled in itj instead of get ting soft aud eatable, remain hard aud tough, and do not seem to cook at all, though heated through ; while the outside of them soon becomes covered with a shiny substance, very much like grease. The hands or face, when washed in it, also become covered with grease, if soap is used. What is more strange, the stock, at first, will not touch it, but afterward get to like it so well that they will driuk no other, not even when ex- ceedingly thirsty. A sample of it is to be taken to Lafayette, when Mr. George Cumming will analyze it, at least sufficiently to ascertain what are its principal component parts. It is said that, is the future, the oath to income returns is to be ad ministered as is the oath of allegiance to the applicant for naturalization the party repeating it after the Assessor. Tom Paine Was he jin AtheisT or a Deist? There are some curious old documents stowed away in the safes of the Surrogate office of this city Glancing over the pages of those ancient tomes, we yesterday stumbled upon the last will and testament of Thomas Paine..' This will was recorded 19th of June, 1809. More than a half a century ha elapsed since the spirit of that bold explorer of the realms of metaphysics passed the mystic domain where ha must meet the proofs or the refuta tion of bis philosophy. The impres sion has generally prevailed that Thomas Paine was an atheist. We find in his last will and testament conclusive evidence that such was not the case. A few extracts will establish the fact that he was au earnest believer in the existence of an Omnipotent Being, his Creator and his God. Thus says the will: " Reposing confidence in my Crea tor, God, and in no other being, for I know of no other, nor believe in any other, T, Thomas Paine, of tho city of New York, author of the work entitled Common Sense, written in Philadelphia in January, 1776, which awakened America to a Dec laration of Independence on the 4th of July following, which was follow ed as fast as the work spread through such an extensive country, by the American Crisis on Peace, Rights of Man, Age of Reason," etc. He be queaths a legacy to " Margret Bon nerville, in trust for her children, to bring them well, up, give them good and useful learning, and instruct them in their duty to Gud and the practice of morality." As this, will was recorded on the 19th of June, 1809, five months after the date of its execution, it may be considered as the testator's death bed confession of religious faith. That he was not an atheist, or, at least, that at the eleventh hour he recoD-nifc; D ed the Supreme Being, is evident; but his peculiar expressions in regsrd to his religious faith, and the ah sence of any allusion to the Saviour, suggest that he rejected the doctrines of Christianity, and was what is termed a deist. N. Y. News. Georgia has a Colored Educa tional-Convention. The Republic of San Domingo have commenced to issue Postage stamps-. .. The city of Northampton, Mas., is to have a music hall, costing about 81,000,000. Nebraska city, has one thousand and forty-seven youths between the 5T3 ui live auu twenty-one years. The Louisville Journal Bays that the new tobacco cron is nn.m. ing into market in large quantities, t ; There was an immense immi gration of Mormons into Salt .Lake hst fall . Many of them are Danes. The first Agricultural Fair hQd in the State bf Virginia since the close of the war, opened a few months since tn Danville The Typographical ,4Jn!on of Kansas city, has purchased a hand some cew seal, with a cut of Artemus Ward iu the centre. Be faithful to vour trust, and de ceive not the man. who confides in you; In the opinion of an old au thor, it is less sinful to steal than be tray. . A Chicago firm has built a pack ing house in LevenWorth, Kausas, with a capacity for stowing avav 200,000 beeves, or 490,000 barrels, per year. Wait .Whitman threatens tho public with one of his barbaric yaups in reply to the Shooting Niagara. This annihilation of Carlyle will be in prose. ; -It is proposed to test the ques tion how long a " return" ticket ee a railroad is good for a passage. A conductor in Maine is under arrest for ejecting a man who had no other ticket from the cars. Tfca tkket was four days overdue. Rev. Dr. Mufenburg, who wrote uIwouldnot live always' is con. tentedly going through his seventy first year, and has- made no pa-bla an nouncement of an intention to com mit suicide as yet. Perhaps he has changed his raind since he wrote the verses. Boston is suffering for the want of dwelling houses. A Boston papr says that so great is the demand that when a wheelbarrow, loaded with bricks, passes along tic street?, the progress of the vehicle is checkmated, until a curious crowd has eliciied from the proprietor thereof where the house is to be built, and its pn-babU rent.