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Ml 0 .- The Weekly SwSpriseT7 r o I) t I r SO a no il r Ths Weekly Enterprise. AX tStiPSDEST PAPER, FOR THE Business Man, the Farmer Jw thtPAMILV CIRCLE. EVKBV SAttUDAY At THE OFFICE Corner of Fifth and Main streets Oregon City. Oregon. J). V. IRELAND, Proprulor, THE ENTERPRISE lias bca wry well re reived daring the time of It publication, jjr gentlemen of distinction in the Sf"l,e, v-,vlio"Tecomniend ft as a joorn' valuable for ;Ka.tm;3kc.fia'tion. f"uch we shall endeavor .no'utaue t in?ke it. THE WrZAUil OF OREGON shall at all tizies constitute the paramount interest to which our columns will be devoted. Every rcea-ure for the good of the State, whether ,r private or public intereH, irrespective of party, will find m a" a3yocate aml a de fender, to the extent of our ability. We sliall aim to attract the attention of the million of r.'U'l'LATIOX AND MONEY" seeking profit able phces, t0 that channel which is now making this the yioti of the globe, and ren- tiering Oregon wiuioinei i .u-iuu outm.s.iue graneiies f t!ie world, with a centre of trade second to none. Aii:lClE'f I'RE wi'l continue to receive that attention which it merits, at the har.tb of t-verv intelligent Journalist. " The Farmer fttb th ull. THE MAUKETS will be watched carefully, and such information as we .shall be able to compile will be published. MAN'UKACTI'UEIIS are earnestly requested .to inform us with respect to tho.se various interests, to the end that we may be able to make the Extkki'kisk as near an enojclo pa;.!i i of the business of Oregon as caa be. 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Thus any person who will iuteret himself in the matter, may secure the paper free and receive a liberal inmpfti-atioii for his services. .a lit mitt tncr to be mt'ilc at tic risk of S'l'i-'crilifrs, anil at the erptnue of Agents TERMS of AD VERTISISG : Transient advertisements, including all Iciral notires, y -. of 12 lines, 1 w.$ 2 "0 For each subsequent insertion '. . 1 1:0 inc Column, one year $120 00 U.ilf " o0 (.(i.irter " " , 40 l!ii-i!ies.- Card, 1 square one year 12 BOOK AS J) JOB PRISTJSG. e" The Enterprise office is supplied with beautiful, approved styles of type, and mod ern MACHINE IMlESiiES, which will enable tlie Proprietor to do .I,ib Piinting at all times Seat, Orich and (.'hi up .' t(T Work solicited. 1). C. IRELASD, PrcprU tnr. UisIXJ-JSS C I RD S. "JJKNTOX K1LLIX. Oregon Ci(j', Ort-gon. OFFICE hi Charman's Brick Block, up stairs. J) It. F. UAH CLAY, (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. H. 15. Co.) OFFICE At Residence, Main street Ore K'iii ity, Oregon. I M V El II AL MILLS. Savier, LaRoque & Co., ORECON CITY. Ojveep constantly on hand foi sale, flour MitlluigH, Bran and "Chicken Feed, Parties l"irc!iinn feed must furnish the sacks. YTM. lHlOUGUTOX. Contractor and Builder, Main st., OREGON CITY. ty Will attend to all work in his line, con-M.-ting in part of Carpenter and Joiner woik training, building, etc. Jobbing promptly attemled t. )AVID SMITH, Succor to SMITH d- MAE SHALL, Elack-Smith and Wagon Maker, Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregon City Oregon. ft ni r-l-amitliinr ..nii-i. . . , . " -....lis mi 11 uranenes: was- 1 to give satisfaction. ntiin .inn lej.'amu; All work warraiit- os 1 1 land Biiol:iilFrTsT" PORTLAND AUCTION ST0EE, 07 First st., Portland, Xext Door to Post Oiurp I Importers and Jobbers of Staple and I Pitney Pry tJoods. Grain bags. Burlaps, furn Wiinji (;tiods. yu We pay the highest cash pree for Wool, Furs, and Aides. M ES & DALLAM, " mror.TEits and jonnens of Wood and Willow Ware. Brushes, Twines, Cordage, etc., AX1 MAXCFACTCREUS OF Vro'Viis, Pails, Tubs, Washboards, c -i a -'17 Sacramento st., San Francisco. 113 Maiden Lane. X. Y. City. WATKINS, M. D., .SURGEON. Portland, Oregon. f'FFICEva Front street Residence cor '" M.iin and Seventh streets. James l. daly, '.Eate Dalv & Stoven-s) O !: S E R AL AG EX T, "Knee-No. Ivi Front street, Portland, 11 tva PDecial attention in fVdlwt.inr N 1 "'-justment of accounts, bills and notes; t-'otiating Inland bills; effecting loans; '.n? selling and leasing real estate; house a all and to the general atreucv business "s branches. John Nestor, Architect, OFFICE IX CAE TEE'S EF1LDING, Front St., Portland Oregon. HRST-CLASS RESIDENCES, Halls, Churches, tenements Collaoes. Suburban. Residences, and t-'F-SCHlFTl., . ' -r.. ALL buildings Designed and Planned . W ith aieutM,.,- .. , aceuracv -..a scrupulously and taitii- 'Ivd. l-nore' ;.-,:-.Jf -iiiav;ri.'u 1'' BUSINESS CARDS. JADD & TILT ON, BANKERS, Portland, Oregon-. TTiil give prompt attention to collections and other bus.ness appertaining to liZuug. bight and Telearanhir Fh,? Francisco and the Atlantic States for Safe. trr-'rnYm. vj. . - sold. Securities bought and LC. FULLER, BROKER, PoBxraxn. Or'koon-, Cor. FROXTund IVanhington Sis. Pays the Highest Price for Gold Dust Legal Tenders and Government securities bought and sold. Q P. FEIUIY, BROKER, Pomxaxi). Okegox. Cor. Front and Washington Sis. Agent North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and Manhat tan L,ite Insurance Comnnnr. ids 547 Government Securities, Stocks.Bond.s I ' ' uiu nuai iaiaie Dougut and sold ojq Com mission. MACK & HATCH, DENTISTS. The patronage of those desirinjr First Oat Operation, is respectfully solicited. Satisfaction in all C:lSs crunvarit fnA N. L. Nitrous O.ctjde. administered for the rainless Extraction of Teeth. Also : the lihifjole.ne Spray used for those who prefer it Office Corner of Washington and Vmn streets street. Portland. .utrauce on Washington 42.tf JJENTAL NOTICE. HOME AtrAIN. During my 'our of two yea: 3 in the Eastern States I "have spared neither time nor money to make mvse'f per fectly familiar with and master of my pro fession. Those desiring the best work that the nature of the case will admit of can rind me at my oftiee, 107 front street, two doors above McCormick's Hook Store, Portland, Oregon. DR. J. G. GLENN. W. C. JOI1NSOX. V. O. M t'OWN. Notary Public. JOHNSON & McCOWN, Oregon- City, Oregon. &S Will attend to all business entrusted to our care in any of the Courts of the State, Collect money, Negotiate loans, sell real estate etc. Particular attention given to contested Land cases. J. II. MITCHELL. J. X. nOLPlt. A. SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty. JT-Office o-er the old PostOffice, Front street, Portland, Oregon. A. C. lilniJS. C. XV. PARUl.Sif, Si'tary Pultlic and Cimi. of Deeds. GIBBS & PARRISH, Attorneys and Counselors at Lau Portland, Oregon. OFFICE On Alder street, in Carter's brick block. JOHN M. BACON, Justice of Ike Peace & City Recorder. OfTice In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. j&IT Will attend to the acknowledgment of deeds, and all other duties appertaining to the business of a Justice of the Peace. smetTiJnc Nun7 Boots with Wire Quilted. Bottoms o These Boots are made on the American standard last. They never fail to fit and feel comfortable, and require no "breaking In." The Wire Quilted Soles liave been proven by practical experience to last twice as long as the ordinary soled. A splendid assortment just received at II. I). WHITE & Co.'s, Boot and Shoe store. 54.1 1 SI First st. Portland. JJILDBUUGII, 131lOS.,'& Co. P. If. Ill LD BURG II, ) LOUIS KIXSTEIX, j Portland. L. HILDKCRUH, tan Francisco. Importer and Yl1in!eale Dealers in AH Kinds of Coiasics ! Scotch and Irish Whiskies, Rum, Gin, Domestic Liquors, Wines, FOR TLA SD Opposite Failings, Front Street, next door to A. R. Richardson's. CHAUNCEY BALL, iiutvtsxor to Gradoib d: Co., MANUFACTURER OF Wagons & Carriages, 201 and 203 Front st., Portland, Oregon. 0O Wagons of every description made to order. GcncralJobbing done with neatness and dispatch. A LARGE jNVOICE OF NEW Sunday School and Gift Books ! "T?ROM THE AMERICAN TRACT tSOClE JL1 ty and Various other Publishing Houses ! ror sale by the subscriber, on Jeflerson st. between -2d and Sd, Portland, Ortgon. O. H. ATKINSON, Secretary, ."2.1 y and Treas. Oregon Tract So c CLARK GREENMAH, gCity Drayman, toS- On EG OX CITY. ti. All orders for the delivery of merchan dise or packages and freight of whatever des cription, to any part of the city, will be exe cuted promptly and with care. W. F. HIGHFIELD, EstiJblished since 1919, at the oht stand, Mim Street, Oregon, City, Oregon. An Assortment of Watches, Jew elry, and 8c tu Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. liepamngs done on short notir.A ind thankful for past favors. A. II. CELL. E. A. PAHKEK. BELL & PARKER. I RUGGISTS, AXD DEALERS IV Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. Main Street, Oregon City. Robinson & Lake WLL CONTINUE THE STOVE AND Tin-ware trade as usual, at the estab lished EMIGRANT STOUE, Cvrdcr ot Front : th., Fi'rtUnd, Ore-vm. OREGON CITY, OHEGOIV, SATUinAY, NOVEHBEK 28,1868. KEVEK LOOK SAD. Never look sad nothing's so bad As getting familiar with sorrow; Treat him to-day in a cavalier way, And be'll seek other quarters to morrow. Long you'd not weep, would you but peep At the bright side of every trial; Fortune you'll find,is often most kind, When chilling your hopes with denial. Let the sad day carry away Its own little burthen of sorrow, Or you may miss half of the bliss That comes in the lap f to-morrow. When hope is wrecked, pause and reflect If error occasioned your sadness; If it be so, hereafter you'll know How to steer for the harbor of gladness. Tribute to Printers. The chap lm of the New Hampshire Peuiten- L$ try, in reviewing the e??nts -ot nis A 1 n fe since his connection with that in institution, pays the following com pliment to journeymen printers: I have the happiness to number amousr my mends manv nrintprs Lnt nougu it may seem to imply either a , . - j r- ot aouity on the part of the m the want of the qualities are necessary in order to nnnrppinto good preaching on the other part, yet I will reveal "the fact, that I have never succeeded well with that class. For the nine long year?, with all the inducements offered, not one of that trade has connected himself with my congregation aud I do not think a man could be found, of all who ever tenanted our prison, -who could set up a column of type. I leave the reader to make his comments, only remarks ing that this cannot be accidental, nor can the explanation be that the em ployment keeps them ignorant of the prevailing vices and immoralties, nor yet that young printers are removed from the large masses where corrup tions engender and spread. In all these respects this class are exposed. It is evident, we think, that the em ployment has an elevatiag tendency, and is favorable to intellectual and moral improvement. Mountains Around Jehusalem. Jerusalem docs not lie in the hollow of an Amphitheatre ; it is situated, on the contrary, on an eminence, having deep valleys running nearly all around it. But is true, notwithstanding, that the mountains girdle it about, as the Psalmist describes. On two sides. ! the north and east, it is enfolded by the Mount of Olives ; on the south, the Hill of Evil Counsel the rvputd jsite of the country palace of Giinphas, ine Jligli-l ne&t, where the conspira tors against our Lord met on the night of his seizure in Gethsemane overhangs the valley of Ilimmon and looks right over it on Mount Zion ; and although upon the west the hills are at a great distance, they are on that side the highest of -all. In that direction are Kamah and Gibeon ; and not farther away than five or six miles is the remarkable height known by the name of Neby Samwil, upon which height tradition tells us that Samuel, the prophet, was buried. Standing on the top of Neby Samwil, the eye ranges from Jafft on the Mediterranean Sea on the west, to Jordan valley and the mountaius of Amnion aud Moab beyond it on the east. Jerusalem is thus in the heart of a mountain land. For nearly 20 miles on either side there is nothing around it but hills. Earthquake Pictures. - Besides the many sketches, photographs and drawings which have been made of the Earthquake scenes in our city and vicinity, says the California Farmer, there are others which have not yet been taken and to which we wcu,d call the attention of our best artists, for we esteem them the best views, and they are important, too. We al lade to cur streets at the present time, where the numerous buildings are being propped up while undergoing repairs. Ve think if our artists should take pictures of several streets, just now, it would give a better view of the general effects of the earth quake npon our city than any de scription that could be written. Take for instance, California St., Sansome st., Sacramento st , and a few others, and they would be worth preserving. Amone; recent " hints to travel ers" we find the following : " Insist upon smoking whenever and wherever you choose. This is a land of free dom, where every one may annoy his neighbor in an independent manner. Old prejudices are dying out. If you are seated near a deaf person, insist upon carrying on a conversa tion with him. By so doing you will not only entertain him, but also the rest of your fellow-travelers." -- It has just been discovered in Rondout, New York, that one of the hotels has for twelve years been steal ing its gas from the gas company. The proprietor long ago erected works as if to manufacture his own gas, and then ran a pipe nnder ground and tapped the main pipe which sup plied customers of the company. Old Crabtree, the father of Miss Lotta, the actress, advertises in the New York papers that he has opened a rum mill at No. Broadway, where he will be glad to receive the patronage of " all admirers of his tal ented daughter." California 13 shipping potatoes to Jaoau. GIFT ENTERPRISES. From Hours at Home, for October. I have an aunt in the country one of the nicest women in the world a widow, a little past the prime of life, prim, precise, a good Presbyte rian and the mother of two pretty cousins of mine. She lives on the banks of the Geuesee river, near the beautiful city of Rochester, and reg ularly every Sunday rides into town to listen to her favorite pastor. Her ' week-days are usually spent among her chickens, pigs, cows and other poultry, or in putting up pickles and preserves. Occasionally, however, she is obliged to go to the city Jo make purchases, and it was on one of these occasions that she was re- entiy inveigled by CC:? mei), mijLa little speculation by means of whicn she lost a few dollars, and succeeded in bringing nie in contact ith a number of" Gift Enterprise " windlers, whose tricks to entrap the unwary I propose to write about. Rut first let my aunt tell her own story, which she does in the following letter, and then I'll tell what came of it: ' Rochester, Nov. 22d, 1S07. ,:Mv peak Nephew: l'y reading this letter patiently through you will discover that I have some queer business on my hands, and need your assistance to help me out. Some time since I thought to make my evcrlastin' I'orhm' ' by invest ing the sum of one dollar in a Gift Enter prise, the proprietors of which advertise that their headquarters are ia that iniqui tous city ia which you reside, at No. Broadway. I was going to be- very sly about it.so I assumed the name of" Mrs. Sarah Dutton. V. ben they sent me my ticket mey also sent sixteen others, with the assurance that if I would dispose of thorn they would guarantee to make me a present valued at S1"0. in case my ticket did not draw a valuable prize. Being a credulous body I put faith in their protiv iscs. and induced some of my friends to buy the tickets. Yon will probably laugh at the idoa- of your aunt Sarah becoming the agent of a Gift Enterprise, but it is so. Well. I sent th money for the tickets, and have just been notified that one of them has drawn a prize valued at $200, and that I can have the same on payment of five per cent, of the value. 1 understand that tho prices sent out by this concern are mostly petroleum stock, and as I am nei ft ther an til dealer nor a Wall street specu lator, I do not propose to send them $10 until I know what sort of a prize I have drawn. Now, I want you to go and pee these persons, and if I am really entitled to a valuable prize, pay the charges, and send tho same, together with tlj- bill, to your affectionate aunt. Sarah. 'P. S. Address me in my right namer as usual, and don't let the girls know that I have an alias. Enclosed with the above letter were the tickets w hich aunt " Sarah " had purchased, and the letter which hud induced her to invest in the gift Spec ulation. I insert the letter tt show by what shallow devices unsophisti cated persons are induced to part with their money. With the excep tion of the name of the enterprise, (for which the reader may insert that of any gift scheme known ) and the names of the persons signing it, (the real ones are omitted to avoid legal annoyances the truth being some times considered libelous) the letter reads as follows: Office of thr Garroters and EMers' Grand Premutation Enterprise. So Broadway, N'. Y. ) Jlrs. Sarah Dutton Madam: Yours re ceived, containing one dollar. Your tick et is correctly registered. Enclosed we send you sixteen tickets ana a propo sition that we think will prove satisfactory to you, and a great beneOt to us and our enterprise. It is this If you will send us thirteen dollars for the enclosed sixteen tickets, we will register them to you with tho understanding that. rr case the tickets do.uot have a valuable prize awarded them, we will send you a present valued at $10, if you will agree to exhibit it to your friends, and state that you received it from the " G. and It. P. E. Go;' Yours respectfully, Bakk, Bite & Co. This absurd proposition is found by the gift enterprise people to work so well that it has been neatly printed, and scattered through the country broadcast. Their theory of human credulity appears to be, that when a person is foolish enough to put one dollar's worth of confidence in their advertisements, by purchasing a single ticket, he or she can be easily induced to swallow a few more dollars' worth of eztra promises, and pay for them accordingly. As their deajintjs are mostly with country people, this the ory is found to work well practically, aud to bring many dollars to their pockets. On receiving the above letter my nunt Sarah was overcome with visions of a speedily acquired fortune, and forthwith bestirred herself, as became a duly accredited agent of the Gar roters and Robbers' Grand Presenta tion Enterprise," to dispose of the tickets which had been entrusted to her. In the course of a few days she discovered several female friends quite as credulous as herself, who" hastily seized the opportunity to squander their husband's money, and thirteen tickets were 6pecdily disposed of, and the proceeds duly forwarded to "Bark Bite & Co." Scarcely a week elapsed before the good lady was thrown into a great flatter by the receipt of a let ter, neatly printed, which read as follows : Office or the Gareoters and Robeeks' Grand Pukskntatiov Enterprise, ,'o. Broadway, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah Dctto.v : Madam You are hefeby notified that one of your tickets has drawn a prize valued at $201). Five per cent, on this amount will be $10. This amount tf assessed per centage must in all cases be sent on receipt of thw notice, with directions by what express you wish the prize sent. Yours respectfully, Bark, Bite & Co. This was the notifkatiou which ruy aunt forthwith sent to me with her letter, and now commences mv con nection with " Bark, Bite & Co"." i had lived in New York long enough to know that the scheme was a swindle from first to last, bHt I de termined to recover, if possible, from the swindlers, at least the value ot the thirteen dollars which mv nonnfrv friends had invested. First calling upon a police magistrate with whom I am acquainted, and obtaining his signature across the back of one of my card?, I proceeded forthwith to the office of- Bark. Bite & Co. I found it as designated in their adver tisements and circulars, located in the lower part of Broadway, surrounded by the offices of bankers, brokers, in surance companies, &c. Their rooms were handsomely fitted op, in the manner usual to Lrokers and bankers. An iron railing, behind which were several desks, separated the maniru latorso. tue 'Sir roters and Robbers' Grand Presentation Enterprise" from the ordinary mortals having business with them. At each one of the six or seven desks sat a sickly looking clerk, engaged in entering names in ledgers, addressing circulars to con fiding victims, or preparing fresh an nouncements to catch new ones. A brisk young Englishman, who spoke with a truly British disregard for his " hY' and who pronounced "g" like "k," bustled up to the counter and said : " Can hi do anythink for you, sit 2" ' Is Mr. Bark in ?" I asked. " No, sir," was the reply, " 'ees gone to Washiukton," " Is Mr. Bite in ?" " No, sir, 'ees gone to Boston and won't be back till Chewsday week. Can't I attend to you, sir f pressed the young gentleman. "is Mr. Co. in?" continued I. " Mr. '00? sir 4t Mr. Co., the other partner, or any other partner or agent, or man ager. I wish to see some responsible person. 'T " Oh, no, sir," said the clerk, " there's none of the partners seldom 'ere, you knowthe business 'ere is hall done by a manager, but 'ees hout at present.'' gave the young man ray card and said 1 should be very happy to see the manager at my office at bis earli est convenience. The clerk looked at my name and then at the signa ture of the Police Magistrate, with which he seemed to be particularly impressed. 1 1 is manner changed in stantly, and dropping his half impu dent, self-important " chaffing tone, he said respectfully, that the man ager would be sure to call on me at once. I may here rerairk that 1 have since called at the office several times and have never been able as yet to see any one ot the gentlemen who are announced as the directors of the scheme. The business is always transacted through the medium of cheap aud impudent cleiks, who are employed principally on account of the readiness with which they can badger, blackguard and bully persons, who, like mye'f, call to " obtain sat isfaction.'' In nine cases out of ten they will so abase the seeker for in formation that he would rather aban don his claim than again ran that gauntlet of profanity and obscenity. Baik, Rite & Co. may possibly exist in the flesh, but if so, they keep so completely in the background that one is led to believe that " there ain't no such persons." In accordance with the promise made to me, a person styling himself " the New York manager lor the Garroters & Robbers' Enterprise," called to see me. He was a sharp, 3hrewd, business Iike.Tbquacioosyoung man, and we soon got int-y a general conversation regarding the Gift En terprise business, during which he gave me some information regarding that particular branch of swiudling which I deem it worth while to re peat. The name of my friend, the magis trate, was undoubtedly the key which unlocked Mr. Manager's tongue Although the gift enterprise busi ness has been in existence for many years, it was never more successful than at the present time. The many "gilt concerts," " presentation festi vals," etc., which were conducted during the war by patriotic ladies and gentlemen, for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers, or for the widows and orphans of those who had nobly perished on the battle field, in de fence of their country, served to pop ularize such schemes, and apparently to rob them of that gambling ele ment which would otherwise have rendered them obnoxious to the pub lic. The holy and patriotic purpose to be served caused people to over look the means by which good was to be done. And even those who did stop to consider, thought that in such a caue it was well to ' do a little evil that good might come." While these truly honest, charitable schemes were really the meaus of gathering in many dollars that otherwise would never have reached soldiers, they created a sort of lottery mania throughout the country, and opened the door to swindlers and rascals. There was not a city, town or viU lage in the land that did not present some scheme to raise money for the benefit of the soldier, and the princi pal attraction of all of them was a lottery whereby some fortunate tick" et holder was to be made wealthy for life by a simple turn of the wheel. Elegant and valuable prizes were often distributed fairly and to the satisfac tion of the ticket-holders. Those who "won were of course rejoiced, while those who , lost snapped their lingers and consoied themselves with the idea that their contributions had done some good to the soldiers. But these honorable managers of charitable gambling schemes were speedily pushed from their ilbote by speculative sharpers; who hastened to cater in their own fashion to that depraved public appetite which had been unwittingly aroused by these patriotic pioneers. These swindlers imitated their predecessors in an neuncing their " gift concerts," " dis tribution enterprises,'' etc., for the benefit of soldiers, soldier's widows and orphans and the like,but followed no further in their footsteps. For valuable prizes they substitute in some instances galvanized jewelry, fictitious petroleum stock, or some equally worthless , but far more fre quently absconded entirely, after having sold as many tickets (and as many people) as possible. Notwith standing all the exposure s which have been made of these swindling con cerns, and the large" sums of which the public have been robbed by gift enterprise sharpers, they still flourish and thrive in our land, receiving thousands of dollars dailv, for" which they give no equivalent whatever. The gift enterprise business has come to be recognized as an ordinary calling, and the men who are princi pally engaged in it are recognized in Wall street as are other business men, and hold their heads aloft, ac cording as they have money in their pockets. Their nefarious transactions have been exposed - and denounced time and time again by the press, they themselves have been frequently arrested and confined in jail, but still the business goes on, the number of dupes is the -same, and the money still flows into their purses. The gambling spirit invoked by the war is still abroad in the land, and any scheme which promises to give a for tune to some one who has not earned it, or offers two dollars for one, "netr lamps for old ones,'' is sure to find plenty of people credulous enough-to invest in it as did my exceedingly J proper a-ant. The manner of conducting these swindling schemes is pretty well in dicated by the letters received by ray aunt. The concoetors of the " En terprise" by liberally advertising in the rural papers, and sending circu lars to every person whose name can be found in the Directory of every city Jand town in the country, find purchasers for their tickets. An in dividual having bought one ticket, various means are sought to make him or her purchase still more. Promises of presents are unsparingly made, and not unfreqnently .the individual is quietly informed that the managers have so arranged matters that they can control tie drawings of the prizes, and if the individual addressed will beitrr himself and sell one, two, or three hundred tickets, he shall not only have a liberal commission on h s receipts, but the managers will gna -antee that his own ticket shall draw such a priza named in the schedule as he may most desire. Ibis bait fakes well i is so natural for one person to wish to have an advantage over others it is like betting money on a certainty. Of course such promises are never kept to the sgent any more than are those made to ordinary tickst holders. The agent is put off with promises or with some almost worthless " prize," which is booked to him as ,; valued" at $200, $300 or $500, according to circumstances. There is no law prohibiting a person from putting such "value" on his troods as he pleases. I received from Bark, Bite & Co., for my aunt's tick- j et, a "fine gold watch, valued at! $200'' the same watches C8n be j bought at wholesale for $20 each and if the purchaser grumbles at that price, the manufacturers will throw in a barrel or two of them. j These Gift Enterprise swindlers j conduct their business so as to heep within the law, and although the at- i tempt to panisb them has frequently been made, it never has succeeded. They have been arrested by the po lice authorities, their places of busi ness entered, their mails, consisting of hundreds of money-letters, have been seized, yet in every instance the rascals have escaped punishment, and in the end succeed in compelling the authorities to restore all the prop erty seized. The reason is this every ticket which they sell claims to be a ticket of admission to a " Grand Concert," and this is held to be a val uable consideration for the money paid, and hence a perfectly legitimate transaction a simple case of buying and selling goods. The tickets which my annt purchased read as follows : "Ticket, Gurroters & Robbers' $1. Grand Presentation Enterprise. Capital, 1 1,237,14. . This ticket entitles the holder to one ; share in the 12 GRAND DISTRIBUTION ' At Irving Halt Bark, Bite & Co., 6 Bankers and Managers, ? No. Broadway, New York." These are printed front a nicely engraved plate, in all the gcrgeous ness of blue ink, with a vignette rep resenting the Goddess cf Plenty, scattcrirg her favors broadcast over the land. " Yoa pay your money for that," said the New lork manag er to me." " It promises nothing, and you get what it promises. You may be notified that jorj have drawn a prize, valued at $500, and you send us the five per cent, asked for we send yoa a watch valued at 50OO, but worth 5U wnat are you going to do about it ? v hat does yonr ticket call for ? We admit the swindle, but what are yoa going to do about it ? You've got no .claim on us beyond an admission to Irvine Hall come to Irving Mall and we'I admit yoa when we agree to we haven't fixed the time yet." . Nearly all. the prizes given out by -barK, .bite & Co., consist of what purports to be shares in the "Thieves and Burglars' Petroleum Stock Com pany." These are valued at $100 each; . but, it scarcely necessary to say, they are utterly worthless. There is no such petroleum company, and if there is it don't own any land, and if it does it hasn't got any oil in it. Tbe whole thing is simply and purely a nction, having no better foundation II Al. J i-' - t man i,ue pruuea scrip, wnicn is a wicked waste of white paper. These bogus shares are sent out by the thousand, and not one in a hundred of the number who receive them ever takes the trouble to complain or de nounce the swindle. He has been victimized, first to the amount 6f one dollar paid for his original ticket; sec ond, to all other tickets he has been induced to purchase, and third, to the amount of the five per cent, assess ment of which he was notified. Recognizing the swindle, he is chary of prosecuting the matter fur ther for fear of being bitten strain. When the New York manager (whom I afterwards ascertained was but an ordinary clerk) had learned from me that I held a number of tickets which were said to have drawu prizes, he did not hesitate to inform me that they never intended to give prizes of any value, and jastitied such a course by saying that every person who bought a ticket did so in the pe of gaining an advantage over some one , else of getting a prize worth five, ten or fifty times the amount cf money he invested. To use the expressive language of the manager, " they hope to ' beat us so we make sure of beatino-' them they want ten dollars for one, while we take ten for nothing where's the difference between ns 1 They try to overreach us and we do overreach them morally considered which is the worst ?" The answer to this it simply that the chances are not equal or, rather, that there are we chances. The Gift Enterprise people so conduct their business that the person who invests money in their tickets does so with the certainty unknown to him) of losing it, not with the chance of doubling it. During one of mv visits to the office of Bark, Bite & Co., a farmer looking man entered, and pre senting a notification to the cleik de manded the prize which it informed him he had drawn, valued at $000 The obliging clerk offered him three shares in the " Thieves and Burglars' Petroleum Stock Company." The man didn't want them, aud after con siderable talking refused to take them, threatening to call in the police. He said that he lived in Connecticut, had bought a ticket, had been notified that he had drawn a prize, had sent the five per cent, demanded, amount ing to $15, and not hearing from it had come down to see about the mat ter. The clerk denied having received the $15, and refused to do anything for the poor man but give him his petroleum stock. A detective police man was summoned, but he couid do nothing the farmer had no ground of action ogainsC the swindlers which would legally warrant their arrest. So the victimized farmer returned to his pigs aud poultry in Connecticut, adding the expense of his trip and his lost time to the other sums to be charged against Bark, Bite & Co. Perhaps the most notable instance of Gift Enterprise swindling was that recently perpetrated by the Gettys burg Asylum Company. This com pany proposed to purchase, on the battlefield cf Gettysburg, a large tract-of land and erect thereon a home for disabled soldiers. To secure the means to do this a " gift" scheme was institated. An individual in New York having been victimized by a diamond broker found on his hands a lot of bogus diamonds for which he had paid full price. These he pro posed to put rnto the scheme for a much larger sum than he had paid, and consequently for an amount equal to five or six times their value. An other person put in a farm for $00, 000, the assessed value of which was $5,000. A great variety of other prizes were put m the schedule, all bearing a greatly exaggerated value, (excepting the principal prize, which was 5jiuu,uuj in grcenoacKsj ana tlie company was ripe lor action. A charter was, by some means, obtained from the Pennsylvania Legislature, and several prominent generals in the army were induced to lend their names to the scheme. The total value of the prizes, aacording to the advertisements, was about $700,000, and they were to be distributed among 1,200,000 persons, provided that number of persons could be found to buy tickets at cm dollar each. Having acquired a quasi legal recog nition from the State of Pennsylvania, the company commenced the sale of tickets. By a liberal course of ad vertising a large number were dis- pnsed of, and finally the day of draw ing was announced. 1 his produced quite a farore, and the rush for tick ets was immense. About this time it was discovered that the managers of the scheme were well known lottery swindlers, and consequently the 1 enn- sylvania Legislature withdrew the license previously given, the whole management wa3 denounced in Con gress, and by tho press, and the prominent men who had lent their names to aid it withdrew their eap- port. All tbia denunciation nly DUMBER 3. stirred the. swindlers to renewed ef forts, and their advertisements became more glowing hi their descriptions and more brilliant in promises. At length a concert ,was given in this city; hd Irting Hall was unable t hold one half the ticket holders who sought admission. Speeches were here made; the golden , promises re newed, and those who had been dis- posed to be suspicious came away satisfied. For a week longer the company , flourished; their business office on Broadway being thronged at all hours with an eager crowd, who jostled and hustled each other in their efforts fo. obtain the Coveted tickets. One bright morning the' greedy vic tims awoke to find, the showy offica closed and the landlord's sign of "To let" conspicuously posted on the wiu dows. The mafinorpra t.Kft rlrnmnnr? the desirable farm, the ' $100,000 iu greenbacks'" had all disappeared "all at one fell swoop" with up wards of $1,000,066 6f the people's money. From that day to this no trace cf the Gettysburg Asylum scheme has been found; , althongbk many anxious ticket holders have made ; serious endsa-rofs to', obtain some information regarding it: , It is somewhat remarkable that barefaced aid gigantic a swindle could be carried on so publicly, and successfully too, in spite of the'liitter opposition to it, and that a million of dollars could be thus easily taken from the pockets of confiding victims, most of w hom were uneducated,- igno rant men and women. But such are our laws :: the fact that each ticket sold entitled the holder to an admis sion to a concert, enabled them to1' evade the laws against gambling, and was, legally considered; a valuable consideration for the money paid. These same Gettysburg managers are still in the Gift Enterprise busi ness, and niay be seen promenading Broadway almost any day, enjoying their ill gotten gains. But as they conduct their business thron 'h the medium of impudent clerks, and are never visible to ticket buyers, they are known to but few,- and conse quently escape that well-merited per- sonal chastfsrmsni which many of their" victims would cheerfully administer, did the opportunity and the eaan pre sent themselves. I trust I have given sufficient illus tration and explanation of the Gift- Enterprise business to convince every one of my readers that each and eveiy such scheme is nothing more nor less than a swindle a deliberate fra'pset by unscrupulous, sharp, designing? scoundrels to rob the ignorant and unsuspicious cf their hard-earned money. . Their viJlany n the more' atrocious in that in most cases they assume to be acting from patriotic or philanthropic motives, and by ap peals to" the popular love for oaf brave soldiers,or onr soldiers' orphans autT'widows, extort money from thoso--who can illy afford to lose it. For all of my aunt's tickets I re ceived a ' pinchbeck'' watch and the foregoing information. The lat ter my readers have without baying: a ticket, and the former they are bet ter off without. MotKTAIX CuSiBlXCi IX TIIE CAU CASUS. Referring to the late ascent by three Englishmen' of the Elbrsa and Kasbeck mountains,, in the Cau casus, a German paper remarks tbat it is a mistake to suppose these moun tains were then ascended for the first time. In 1820 Adolf Knpffer, the mineralogist, K. A. Meyer, the bot anist, and other philosophers, were sent on a scientific mission into the Caucasus by the Academy of Science at bt. Petersburg, and asCetided El brus with some Circassian! guides. The history of this expedition is civen iu KupiTcr's " Voyage dans les Envi rons da Mont Eibroiiz dans ie Cau-cas-5, enterpris par odre de sa Majeste -L.mpereur en IS'J. liapport fait a FAcad. Imp. des sciences lie St. Petersbourg," St. Pet. 4to., t830; and also in Klaproth's Nouveau Journal Asiafique'rfor Jannary,1831, .No. 37. As for Iasbeckr it was as cended by the ceocrrapher Moritz Warner, brother of Puidolnh Waff-. ner, about the year 1844. The same paper describes the4 central ridge o5 the Caucasus as a hog-e mas3 of black porphyry, specked with white, Usq summits forming a vast plateaa. from eight to ten thousand feet high, which stretches for several miles from east to west, with deep valleys on both sides,and a narrow ridge covered with eternal snow rnDning alonp; tho whole of its length. About the mid dle of this ridae is a very wide but not deep chasm, out of the centre of which rises a bold peak almost en tirely covered with snow. This 13 the Elbrus, called bv the natives llbordsh (a watershed.) Bishop Heber had a brother who Fpent his entire life io collecting books. A journey of several huadoed miles was often taken to secure a single copy. He rented houses in Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, and other European cities, and filled them from basement to attic. When he died, his library, which numbered five hundred thousand, volumeswas dis posed of at auction the sale lasting two hundrtd and twodaysyrndtlie Dt returns being over a million dollars. Men called Mr. Heber eccentric. William B. Astor,of New Yor. reported to be worth one hundred 13 and twenty millions of dollars. lie pays a tax on one-half of that sua, and his estate is worth double its as sessed value. o G 0 -