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r ' V J I III OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRtti 11, IStiS. No. So. Tol. 2. & , ,.;M... .... , -""-jjm r . t n, Lui'Ti" I mj. O I OREGON CITY ILldl N JL ILJ-1L wAL LL UylLkJ'lLJO I i 2lI)c lUcckln (Enterprise. PUBLISHED EVEBY SATURDAY MtBISO .By D. O. IRELAND, TTTirE- South east corner of Firm and Maiv streets, in the building lately known ' . S the Cwrt'Uo-ae, Oregon City, Oregon. Term, of Subscription. "One copy, one year in advance tj 00 ., A " il delayed 4 vO f Temu of Advertising. Transient advertisements, per square : (12 linesor less) first insertion ' For each subsequent insertion 1 w business Cards one square pe- annum payable quarterly f One column per annum One half column ....... ; ; --- ?c"gea?Uaavertising at the' established rates. 'professional cards. . vIj a d d&TTlt on, BANKERS, TonTLAXn, OREGON'. Vfiil eive prompt attention to collections, nd other business appertaining to banking. -Sight and Telegraphic Exchange On San Francisco and the Atlantic States for sale. Government Securities bought and ...Id. Xlil ; " L.G. Fuller, BROKELl, I Pays the Highest Price for Gold Dust Leal Tenders and Government securities bought and sold. 'o. 103 Front st., xi.if Portland, Oregon. Dr. F Barclay, M. R. C L. : (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE: It fietiJenc, - Main Street tv. ....'Oregon City. Dr. CHARLES BLACH Phytician, Surgeon and Accoucheur, OFFICE Corner of Washington and Front ' streets, 1'arrish's Block, Portland, Oregon. HES1DEXCE Washington street, between Fourth and Fifth streets. '22.1y J. WELCH, rrmaneidly Located at Oregon City, Oregon. Rooms with Dr. Saflarans, on Main street. y. c. joussox. f. o. M COWN. Notary Public. JOHNSON & McCOWN, OREGON CITY, OREGON. Jt-y- Will attend to all business entrusted t. our care in any of the Courts of the State, c.llest mouey, negotiate loans, sell real es t tc, etc. .rl'articular attention given to contested l:tud cases. - BENTON KILLIN, Ortznn City. Orfgon. Office iu Charman's Brick Block, up tairs J. B. UPTON, 'Attorney and Cocnselor-aTvLaw, Oregon City, Oregon. .-VJ " ' ----- . 1 . ' iniia rTr rr i miiii-k ill I lint' iv i.u.k , rr- A, . i C It t. - Main street. irt.tt J D. M. McKENNUY, Attorney and Counsellor at LavO. WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL businesiutrusted to his care. Of riCK One door norih of Bell k Parker's lrug store, Oregon City, Oregon. 3:ly JAMES M. MOOflE, Justice of the Peace t- City Recorder. O Office In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. Will attend to the acknowledgment of ieds. and all other duties appertaining to theoilice of Justice of the Peace. 2:ly J. H. MITCHKLL. J. N. DOLTH. A. SMITH; Mitchell, Dolph 6c Smith, : Attorneys and Counsellor at Lawt i SolicitoPs in Chancery, and Proc ) tors in Admiralty, i lf Office oer the old l'ostOlGce, Front street, Portland, Oregon. U. C. GIBBS. C. W. PARKISH, Xotary Public and Chin. (f ' Veeds. J GIBBS & PARR- SH, ,v Attorneys and Counselors at-Law, X TORTLAND, OREGON. OFFICE On Alder street, in Carter's New 11 rick Block. n3 " 0. P. BIAS0N. Attorney and Counselor at Law, ' 102 Front st., Portland, Oregon. WH'I' ATTENDTO BUSINESS IN ANY Court in the State or Washington Territory. Including business under the Bankrupt Law. S7:ly DALY & STEVENS, GENERAL AGENTS, Orr .CR Removed to No. 104 Front street, ;$t Portland, Oregon. , Opposite McCormick's liook-Store. yfTlLL OlVE SPECIAL ATTENTION to the Collecting and adjustment of Recounts, bills and notes; Negotiating Inland bills; effecting loans, selling and leasing real estate ; house renting, and to the gen eral agency business in all its brauches. JAS. L. DALY. . WARP S. STKYKXS, Notary Public. P. FERRY, (Iafc Ferry &. Foster,) jib jqcl a. nc "o. 103 Front street, Portland, Agent lyorth British and Mercantile Insurance Company. And Manhattan Lite Insurance Co &OVERNMENT SECURITIES, STOCKS Bonds, and Real Estate bought and Bold on Commission. f3!lj A. H. BELL. ' E. A. FARKER, BELL &. PARKER. DRUGGISTS, AND DEALERS IX Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept irt a Drug. Store. 33.) Mais Streft, Oregon Citt. BUSINESS CARDS. William Broughton, CONTRACTOR and BUILDER, Main, ttreit; Oregon, City. "VVill atterid to all work in his line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner work framing, building, etc Jobbing promptly attended to. (52 JOHN H. SCHRAM, Manufacturer and Dealer in SADDLES, HARNESS, etc., etc., Main street, between Third and Fottrth, 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. Clark greenman, City Drayman, OltEGOX CITY. All orders for the delivery of merchandise, or packages and freight ot whatever descrip tion, to any part of the city, will be executed promptly and with care. 16.6m W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since 1S49. at the old stand, Main Street, Oregon City. An assortment of Watches. Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Hepairiiijjs done on short notice, xnA ttiankful for past favors. (37 I. GKADOX. CHAUXCY BALL. GRADON & Co., M AXCFACTl-BERS OP Wagons & Carriages, 201 and 203 Front st., Portland, Oregon. OCT" Wagons of every description mode to order. General Jobbing done ith neatness and dispatch. Orders from the country promptly attended 19. DAVID SMITH, Sf.w to SMITH MAUSIIALL, Black-Smith and Wagon Jlfalcer, Corner of Jloin ard Third streets, Oregou City k i Oregon. Blacksmithing in all its branches. Wagon making and repairing. All work warranted to give satisfaction. (39 Removed ! itemovud ! The old and well known IoitIani 'Fonlry, D. M OSXA S TES, Proprietor. PORTLAND. OREGON, HAS NOT DlSCONtlN'tJEb WORK! but has been removed to Second street, between Alder and Morrison streets, where business will be eouducted ou as large a Scale as iu years oaU 2:ly I. S. ROSENSAUIiI & Co., No. 43 Front St., Portland Oregon. WHOLESALE DEALERS IV Tobacco, Cigars, SmtF, Slationery, Yankee amotions, and Toys. Orders promptly attended to: t. C. Mann. TIIOS. LEAHY. Fashion Billiard Saloon. Main street, between Second and Third, Oregon City. MANN & LeARY Proprietors. rpilE above long established and popular I Saloon is yet a favorite resort, and as only the choicest brands ot Wines, Liquors and Ciirars are dispensed to customers a share of the public patronage is solicited. fcff N: B. Families supplied with the choicest Liquors, English Ale and Porter, in bottles, on the most reasonable terms. SHADES SALOON. West Side Main Street, bttwern Second and Third, Oregon City. GEORGE A HAAS ----- Proprietor. The proprietDr besrs leave to inform his friends and the public generally that the above named popular saloon is open for their accommodation, with a new and well assort ed supply of the finest brands of wines, liquors and cigars. 52 ISAAC FARR. JOHN FARR. FAER & BE OTHER, Butchers and Meat Venders. Thankful for the favors of the commnnHy Irt the past, wish to say that they will con tinue to deliver to their patrons, from the wagon, as usual, On Tuesdays and Saturdays of each icerl all the best qualities of Beet; Mutton, and J'ork, or any other class of meats in the market. 9:tf Imperial Mitlsj OREGON' CITYi KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND FOR SALE f BRA N AND CHICKEN FEED ! TT Parties wantin-j feed must furnish their sacks. SO.tf A. J. MO.ROE. TV. A. R. MELLEX. MONROE h MELLEN, Dealers in California. Vermont, and Italian Marbles, Obelisks, Monti- meats, Head and Fool stones, Salem ....Okeoox. Mantles and Furniture Marble furnished to order. 32.tf RANCH FOR SALE. s ITUATEI) BETWEEN THE CLACK- amas and the OREGON CITY TOWN PLAT ! In the vicinity of the place of T. J. Unnsaker. ;? Will be sold cheap for cash. Apply to LEVY & FECKHEIMER, Sl?.tf Main street, Oreou City. WM. oinr.TTT, San Francisco. D. MACLEAY. I'ortland. Corlift A: Msiclcay, Importers & Wholesale Grocers, 74 FRONT STREET, Portland Oregon. GOODS SOLD FOR CASH AT A SMALL advanefs fipon SAX FRAXC1SCO JOBBIXG PRICES! Would thank merchants visiting the citv to price ttreirstock before pnrchasing. li.ly THE LADY'S DUE AM. Alas ! I hare walked through life, Too heedless where I trod Nay, helping to trample my fellow-worm, And fill the burial sod Forgetting that even the sparrow falls Kot unmarked of God ! I drank the richest draughts ; And ate whateter Was good Fish and flesh and fotvl and fruit. Supplied my hungry mood ; But I never remembered th wretched ones That starve for want of food 1 i dressed as the noble dress, In cloth of silver and gold, With silk and satin ftnd costly furs, In many an ample fold ; But I never remembered the naked limbs That froze with Winter's cold ! The wounds I might have healed! The human sorrow and smart! And yet it never was in my heart To play so ill a part ; But evil is wrought by want of thought As well as want of heart ! She clasped her fervent hand3, And the tears began to stream ; Large and bitter, and fast they fell; Remorse was so extreme And yet, oh, yet, that many a dame Would dream that Lady's Dream ! Leaf from a Lady's Diary. Among the many pood things sent to the Farmer's Club of the American Institute U the following leaf from a diary of Mrs. M. J. 13., of Tioga, Pa., sent to show the manner in which her daily time is occupied j August 15. Arose early, had breakfast at six went to the shop and wove three yards of rajj carpeting helped about dinner while my mothtf took her afternoon nap, copied the web my brain had woven while at the loom, and prepared it for publi cation, laid aside my pen to receive visitors, entertained company and sewed until six, then devoted one hour to drawing1, laid aside my pencil for the milk pail; after milking work ed one half hour in the yard, retired, feeling cheerful from the conviction of time well spent in labor, relieved by pleisatio recreation. AfrAid To Learn. It is related that Galileo, who invented the tele scope with which he observed the sat elites of Jupiter, invited a man who was opposed to hitn to look through it, that he might observe Jupiter's moonai The man positive ly refused, saying: ,lIf 1 should see them, how could I maintain ray opin ions, thich I have advanced against your philosophy?" This is the case with many. They will not look at the truth. They will not hear it; for fear that the arguments which they have framed will be destroyed, and they raay be obliged to give up their vicious indulgence?; Walking in tiie Sea. Some in teresling and very successful experi nientSi with aft air tight dress, iutend cd for the saving of life at sea, were made lately in the presence of thous- ands of spectators, at Holyhead, in Wales; Mr. jtees, tif Marionetshire; the patentee, attired in his single aip light dress, Went through three evo lutions. In the first, he threw him self on the water' and Was buoyed up by the air-tight dress, and amid great plaudits, paddled himself along at the rate of three hiileS ati hour. This would, according to the opinion of experienced seamen, be of immense service in the case of shipwreck, or, indeed, whenever life is endangered on water. His second evolution was somersaults, and the third walking up right in the sea. Weeping Willows. It is said that the poet Pope planted the first tree of the willow species in England. Having received a present of figs from Turkey, he observed a twig of the basket, in which they were sent- putting forth a bud J this he planted in his garden at Twickenham, and in the course of a few years it became a fine tree, from which all the beautiful Weeping Willows in that country have sprung. Salt Lae City. " This singular town covers an area of about nine square miles that is three miles each way. It is one of the most beautifully laid outcitie3 in the world. The streets afe very wide, with water running through nearly etery one of them. Every block is surrounded with beautilul shade trees. In fact, the whole nine square miles is almost one continuous orchard. An English paper indicates a strange analogy between the age of men and the age of ships. Many per ish almost at their birth during the last eight years no less than 1,135 newly built ships have been wrecked on their first voyage, while others, bearing as it were a cliatmed life, stir vive to ninety or a hundred years there being four on Lloyd's list that are more than one hundred vear3 old. The Africanization tof the SoutH. When slavery was in absolute pos session of the South, it subordinated all the organs of society to its be hests; At last, determined to domi nate without question morfe than half of the continent, it threw itself mad ly against tbe invulnerable bulwarks of freedom, and MI shattered in the conflict. The debris of the peculiar institution still encumbers thecround. Like the old rafters and walls of a city which has been shattered by an earthquake, the laws and habits of slavery fill the eye with their unsight ly presence. We cannot rebuild the city Without clearing the ground and restoring things to order. "The punishment of faults," savs M. Thiers, " must be too buhl, indeed, if to cease persisting iu them sufficed to abolish the consequences." The troublesome consequences of slavery are r.ot yet ended. The sdcial con vulsions resulting frocl its attempt to Africanize the South hate not yet finally abated. We use this terra ad visedly, as the pet Word of the reac tionary party, which, with the incon sistency to which it is fated, now charges the Republicans with trying to do what it tried, but failed to ac complish. The war having ended in our favor, the slaveocrat3 and their partisans arc in great haste to adjust the terms of settlement. They wish to save all they can of their former power, to be used again at the first opportunity in furtherance of oli garchical government and a forced system of labor. They take advan tage of the" situation to charge us with trying to Africanixe the South. From the lips of Andrew Johnson down to the whine of his Maryland Governor, the cry and yell of the whole pack is: " You are Africanizing the Sou;h." " The whole legislation of Con gress," says De Bow's Review, " for the last two years, which has been under the guidance and direction of the New England Radicals, shows the deliberate purpose, skilfully planned, but artfully concealed, of Africaniz ing the extreme Southern or Gulf States." This Review, the vade mecum of the Southern planter, was devoted during Us entire existence to the ex press purpose of accomplishing the very thing it now so untruthfully and unblushingly charges upon Congress. It was the unceasing advocate of slavery and denouncer of free labor. It is the organ of despotism and barN baristn, and the impudent assailant of every cherished principle of our re publican fort-fathers, it advocated, without shame, the reopening of the slave trade, and justified the ex tremcst measures of the pro-slavery party; It declared in February, 1 8G1, as a reason why white men should not te permitted to vote, that " the majority of the people, in whose hands the powers of government are vested, be ing condemned by the inexorable law of necessity to material occvpution unfavorable to the development of thought, and as a Consequence pre cluding the attainment of that degree of intelligence and political informa tion requisite to an enlightened exer else of the elective franchise, never select the best men for their rulers and representatives." The reasons, then sufficient to justify its opposition to poor white men, and its advocacy of an aristocratic government with an hereditary Senate based upon the landed interest,- now apply to the new element which the war has en franchised. The opposition to the poor whites is transferred to the freedmen, and it strives to invoke the bitterest prejudicrs of race, by charg ing Congress with Africanizing the Sonth; What cftfes Africanizing mean? We need only refer to the programme of Southern preachers, and writers, and statesmen before the war. for an answer to this question. The Rev. Dr. D. M. Palmer, of New Orleans, in his Thanksgiving sermon, deliver ed November 29, 18G0, declared the duty and " providential trust"' of the South to be " let conserve and perpel vale the institution of domestic slavery as note existing. To the South is assigned the high position of defending before all nations the cause of all religion and of all truth. It establishes the nature of our present trust, to preserve and transmit our existing" system of do mestie servitude, with the right un changed by man to go out and root itself ichercter Proviience and nature may carry it " This is what they called "preaching the Gospel" down South, a section always devoutly in clined and opposed to " political (reaching.'' Governor Adams, of South Caro ina, in his annual message of 1856, advocated the reopening of the slave trade- and in the course of his argu ments uses the following language: " If We cannot supply the demand for slave labor, then we must expect to be supplied with a species of labor tohich ive do not want, and which is, rom the very nature of things, an ogoni3tic to our institutions.-1' At that period, less than one fourth of the land in South Carolina was improved; only a little over one- ourth of that of Virginia only one- sixth of the land of North Carolina was improved) less than one-sixth of that of (jreorgia ; about one Curhth of that of Alabama and Mississippi; oue-fiflh of the land of Tennessee; one-twentieth part of Louisiana; one- thirty-third part of Arkansas; and not a thousandth part of Texas was under cultivation. The population hits hot increased very rapidly during the war, and the area of land in these States, respec tive is the same. It was admitted on all hands that they must haVe la bor; that the resources of their coun try could not be developed without abor; hence a total disregard of the aws against slave piracy and the Open advocacy of reopening the slave trade by Governor Adams and other prominent men. The Hon. L. W. Spratt; of South Carolina, in 1801, Wrote an able essay on the "Philo sophy of Secession, ' froill the South ern standpoint; and, in advocacy of the renewed importation of Africans, said that " in the Republic of Athens of white slaves there were four to One; and in portions of the Roman Empire the proportion was greater still; and npon this ratio the slaves (negroes) might be increased to forty millions without a corresponding in- crease among the whites, and yet oc cur no disaster; but on our rice lands- isolated to a great eAtent, where ne groes are employed in thousands, there is oftpn not one whiVe man id one hundred slaves-. Nor is there greater danger of ah over-crowded population. Slaves may be held to greater density thatl freemen; order will be greater, and economy of re sources will be greater. Athens had seven hundred to the square mile; while Belgium, the most densely pop ulated State of modern Europe, has but about three hundred and eighty- eight to the square mile; and with a population only as dense as Belgium, South Carolina could hold the popu lation of the Southern States and Texas three times the prt-cent popu lation of the Union." Thus we see that the tendency of the Southern movement was to dis courage white immigration and to Af ricanize the South. They would have overrun the largest half of the Union with freshly imported Africans to supply the demand for labor upon their untitled lands, and openly des clared that they did not want free laborers or white men, w ho were of necessity antagonistic to their Afri-. canixing system, ior this purpose they severed their connection with the United States- and it is only the strong arm of the friends of freedom, the Grand Army of the Republic, sustained by the Uepublican party, that has prevented the rebels from if 'ricanizing the South. Instead of forty millions of negroes, there are but four millions against more than double their number of whites; while counting in the white population of the whole country, there is a majority of twenty-eight millions against the terrible bugbear of Afi icanization. In 1861 De Bow's Review, in fur thefance of the Africanization of the South, said that " The poorer classes are born to, servile labor in the North as in Furope," and declared that " We of the South must so modify our State institutions as to remove the people farther from the direct exercise of power." It cl. timed that " aristo ctacy is the only safeguard of liberty, and that the Southern peop'e were the most aristocratic people in the World. It denounced in unmeasured vituperat on the whole tribe of North ern people as mudsills and scum, and professed to despise their work- ingmen as slaves. Now we find the same periodical using the .following language The laboring people of New Eng land are also deeply interested in i-reventini: the Southern States from becominir neero colonies. Ivabor of all kinds agricultural, mechanical and manufactuimg is in great de niand in the South, and commands high prices. If tbe laboring people of JNew England wefo permitted to settle in tie South,- thoe who emi grated would improve their condition and increase their wealth, whilst those who remained would then be able to obtain better prices for their labor, since It would be in more demand on account of its scarcity. The war between capital attd labor has al ready commenced. The wealthy capitalists wish to close the South aainst the Northern emigration by Africanizing the Gulf States, whilst it s the interest of the Jabdrers of the North to haVe the rich fields of the South open to them. The white people of the isouth desire the settle ment of Northern men Among them, but they know fall well that no Northern men are going to emigrate to anv country where the negroes are equal in number With the w hites, and where they enjoy equal if not superior political privileges. It is absurd to say that two races so dissimilar as the whites and blacks. when their numbers are equal, can live in peace where they enjoy equl political privileges, where they sit on the same juries, serve in the same legislature, and hold similar offices. It is an impossibility. One race or the other must be subordinate. So it has always been, and so it will al ways be. This is a fragment enly of the old sons set to a ditterent tunr. The war has at least whipped out ot them the vindictive denunciation of the Northern laborer and they actually appeal to that hated and despised wretch to come down South and save them from the negro. Many foolish thiiigs are done every day by persons who think themselves wise. Perhaps no follies are more common than these: To think that the more a man eats, the Fatter and stronger he will become. To believe that the more hours children study, the faster they learn. To conclude that if exercise is good- the more vio lent it is the more good is done. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep Is an hodr gained. To act oh the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in; To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediate ly better is good for the system", with out regard to more ulterior effects. To eat Without an appetite, or to con tinue to eat after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. To eat a hearty 6upper for the pleasure ex periencea during tne onei time it is passing down the throat, at the ei pense of a whole night of disturbed sleep and a weary waking in the morning. Its Origix U. S. It has been as serted that the dollar mark () is a contraction for U. S. It has, how ever; generally been supposed to stand for the figiire eight; and to mean S reals, which was the Spanish dollar, from which the American dollar Or iginated. The two parallel lines were drawn across the '8'' to distinguish it from the ordinary numeral. There is another or -gin Sometimes given to this design which refers to the old pillar dollar. There were on that coin; two pillars or columns" connect ed by a scroll, and the bears a rude resemblance to this device. Murder. The iower branch of the Legislature of Minnesota passed a bill on February the llth, leaving capital punishment for murder at the discretion of the jury. That's capi tal; If the jury find a man guilty of murder In the first degree they have only to say " hang him," or if the poor culprit is a u man and a brother" of the majority cf the jurorS, and can not skate, the verdict will be " Let him slide." If the bill becomes a law it will relieve the Judge ot a great deal of heartbreaking doty in regard to passing sentence of death on innocent men-and-Women slayers. O.MtNous. A Chicago paper thinks it ominous that, just as Chicago, the city, is being swept by fires, the City of Chicagd, ocean steamer, gets on the rocks and is lost; and the City of Chicago sleeping car; of the Pullman line, also the Silver Palace Chicago, of the Allentdwn line, is burned up. The hope is expressed that these par tial and Vicarious icorchings may not herald the coming of that more com plete purification by fire which the city bo greatly needs. ThcOneida community are troub. led with the thought that the Young Men's Christian Association of Brook lvn are organizing an effort to break up their community. They do not think the attack is to be made by the association as a body, but by individ uals belongitrg to the association,- and combining for this purpose.- They al ready feel the force of the n6w battery brought to bear n thertr. Flxrrti. Minnesota makes r.o fuss over turning out six thousand barnl of flour per day. A Tratmlng-SUip for Boy. The qiiestloh bow to dispose of the boys who, by the decease or criminal neglect of their parents are left to run unrestrained in our streets, has elicit ed several answers Every propos al that offers to keep them out of public reformatories should be care fully examined. It is a drawback in life to any boy to have to acknowl edge that he was once an inmate of a place so nearly allied to a prison. tlpprenticing them to farmers has becu recomruendedj and now we have the proposal to establish a naval school, where they could learn sea manship and navigation. Every busi ness which engages the attention and satit-fies the natural desire df all healthy boys F.r active and noVel em ployments is deserving of trial, and none would be more popular with the boys themselves thau a well managed training ship. But, if boys ate to be educated for sea, the managers must afterward look out for humane and moral captains With whom to appren tice them. It would be no ilse taking a well trained, honest, civil and obliging lad cut of an excellent school, and sending him to sea with a reck less, foul mouthed, brutal captain, holding his own by force among a crew composed of shanghaed sailors, shipped in a state of intoxication; by boarding-house keepers. Any boy of 16 would either be ruined by such associations, or lead a life of moral torture with such companionship and under such a government. But that is no argument against the school but rather an argument in its favor, for any scheme which will tend to sep arate captains and officers and crews into classes, and make rrioral charac ter as well as seamanship a passport to employment, will do good; The Commercial Record and Mar kel Review, in San Francisco, has the following excellent remarks on the topic which is now being so generally- discussed : It is bur Hpinlon that norie bht vie ious gi' Is, and unhealthy, vicious bovs should be placed in a reform school Healthy, vigorous bys will run away and escape from its confinement when ever a good opportunity offers. Then they are punished with an inhumanity which leads them to believe mankind is determined to wreak vengeance np on their persons. This style of dec'p line only hardens the boy and increas es his desire to get away frbm Such a Gehenna. Every member bf the community has nn interest in this matter, either direct lir indirect; and every effort should be made immedi ately to reform the Reform Schoo by taking away the boys now confined theie and .lacing them instead on board some well appointed vessel to to be used as a Naval School. The very nature of their employments on board a vessel would instil into their minds something like love for the business. Reeving off different kinds oftackels; making spunyard, sennit, and various styles of mats; workinjr capstan covers ; making all sorts of knots; splicing and working rope into j fanciful shapes, and a thousand other things ot like character, would amuse and instruct the pilpil; inducing: him to take ah interest in his employ rheht and diverting his mind from mischief. The Oppbrtnriiiy he would have to see all the different kinds of craft en tering and leaving our harbor: would also fender him far b?tter satisfied with his situation thatl if kept a close prisoner in an Industrial School. We doubt not Government would willing ly lend it3 assistance to further the es tablishment of a Naval School of this character, and it is certainly a sub ject in which every one Should feel a lively interest: A citizen of New York, Mr. Towiisend, has placed in the Con gressional library an invaluable Cob leCiiortof the Contents of American newspapers relating to the war. He began this important labor in the first stages of the rebellios; and has gath ered and edited an iiilmense iriass. which he now offers to sell to Con gress. Tbe work seems to have been with him A Work of affection, and those Who haVe examined it pro nounce it a contribution to the liter ature of that great conflict which, if purchased, would be found to be wholly indispensable. The index alone will be a small library in itself. Those only who are identified with journalism can understand the ex traordinaty nsi fulness bf such a col lection; There not an hour during a session of Congress when some fact, to confirm history to refute misrep resentation, is not found necessary; and the difficulty of obtaining place to which immediate and relia ble reference can be had is constant. ly felt. Mr. Townsend has- 9pplied tm nuporiani aesmerat&m i A question whtch we have never yet seen ai-wered " If bonds are to !o paid irr greenbacks, in what are the greenbacks to be paid! Touch Stort. The San Francisco Bulletin of the 13th says: A fort night ago the dook atSturgis's Hotel Martinet, Contra Cdsti county, cut the heads off two young roosters and threw them into a shed to bleed. The next morning lie sought fof them, bat only one remained; and the other was found rtinnlng In the yrd aliVe; and blindly butting the stun.pof its tieck against the fences, unable to guide itself. A guest In the house Under, took to rear the maimed bird; fitii has succeeded in doing so. The wound, though unsightly, has healed, and the creature is apparently as healthy and its plumage as bright as when iu its normal condition. Its keeper administers food, Water; and gravel by the aperture in its neck, and it seems to take in sustenance as readily as when it had bill and ton, gue. The creature has now subsisted fourteen days, and the wound being healed, there is no reason why it should not live fof years. As a nats ural curiosity showing that the head is not necessarily a T?ital member of a vertebrated animal, it has few paral lels. Who can say hdw; with this case before them, of life, motion, di gestion and sense of touch remaining in full force after the loss of the ens tire head and part of the heck, that the victims of the guillotine may not retain some sensibility after de capitation? Every kind ot paper is kjiowri by the stationer, by its narrfe: quartd post, 8 vo post, foolscap, etc. The1 term foolscap, to designate a certain kiud of paper, nodoubt has puzzled many a young inquirer. The origin" is not only amusing bat historical. Charles I., of England, granted numer ous mbtidpolies forothe support of1 the Government. Among others was the raanufadttire of paper. The wa ter mark of the finest soft was the" Roval Arms of E-nglattd. The con sumption of this artic!ewas very great at that time; and large fortunes were made by those who had pur chased the? exclusive right to vend it This; among other monopolies, was set aside by the parliament that brought Charles I to the scaffold; and by way df showing their contempt for the king, they ordered the Royal Arms taken from the paper, and a fool with his cap and bells to be sub stituted. It is now over two hun dred years since the foolscap and bells were taken froih the paper; but str.l the paper of the S;2e which the rump Parliament ordered lor their journal-1 bears the name of the Water-marl then ordered as an indignity io Charles. THk tfufFALoKs. Among other. strange changes on the Western plains made by the Pacific Railroad, w ill be its effect Oh the great buffalo migrations north and south daring the summer and autumn months. The immense buffalo trails that sweep from the State bf Mexico to the British dominions, and over which countjess herds mce northward, o t begins to fade, will be entirely broken up by the railroad and th trains of cars that will constantly be in motion over it. TheQ buffalo, which, like the Indian has been for ever retreating before the advance of the white men, will thus have hi last great stamping ground destroy ed, and as there is fio further retreat possible for him; he will have to pre pare, for his final disappearing from the soil of the United States. It now nppears that it wasn't either Mrs. Akers nor Mr. Bell, who first in verse desired their respective mothers to rock them to sleep As long ago as 1859, a blacksm hh resid ing in Lexington, Georgia, nasref? Edward Young, contributed the poer.- to the 'Southern Field and Firesfde.' This is vouched for in print by the compositor Who set it up. If the com positor will show a copy ot the orig inal in print we shall believe him. Some people never think of a revenue stamp when writing a leltt; yet some letters require stamping ns much as a note or deed. Under t! q internal revenue laws, letters acknowl edging the receipt of either drafjt?', checks or money, exceeding $20, subject to a stamp duty of two esats, the sama as if a formal receipt hat) beert gtvea fir so ranch money, Thiai fact b sometimes forgotten, or is n t irvowr., even by good business men. -Two hours reading a goo$ paper is as profitable as sis work oat of twelve Tba laitatvr asd the produce dealer equally should derstand the markets. 0omet?fes know a thing is tbe same as er one hundred tuoaaand dsitars. O C V I t IS i l.5P. sty J-