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W Work solicited.
D. C. IRELAND, Proprietor.
BUSINESS CARDS.
JJENTON K1LLIN.
Oregon City, Or-gott
OFFICE la Charman's Brick Block, up
rtair .
j)ll.F. BARCLAY,
J.Wm AC mZZm 9i9
(Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.)
OFFICE At Residence, Main street Ore
gon City, Oregon.
"11. W ATKINS, M. D.,
SURGEON, Portland, Oregon.
OFFICE 9o Front street Residence cor
ner of Main and Seventh streets.
pi PERI AL MILLS. "
Savier, LaRoque & Co.,
OREGON CITY.
lKeep constantly on hand foi sale, floor
Midlines, Bran and Chicken Feed, Parties
purchmg feed must furnish the sacks.
TM. BROUGIITON.
Contractor and Builder,
Main st., OREGON CITY.
S Will attend to all work in his line, con
sisting in part of Cariienter and Joiner woik
framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly '
J) AVID SMITH,
Successor to SJtIIT1 d: MARSHALL,
0
J'ark-mith and Wagon Maker,
turner ol Jlain and Third streets.
v'"tuu -vicj ureson.
t5Rlackamithingin all its branches; Wag-
niaMiig and repairing. All work warrants
jsilLANJ) BROTHERS, "
PORTLABfD AUCTIOJSr ST0KH,
07 First st., PcrtUnd,
Next Door to Post Ofliee.
jv
C3- Importers and Jobbers of Staple and
Fancy Dry Goods. Grain bags, Burlaps, furn
ishing Goods. s We pay th highest cash
i niwi, r ur, una uiaes.
JltMES & DALLAM,
ivroRTBaa id jobbers or
Wood and Willow Ware.
Brushes, Twines, Cordage, etc.,
AND MANrrACTCWERS OF
roomst Pails, Tubs, Washboards, Sf
215 a 21? Sacramento st, San Francisco,
113 Jlaiden Lane, N. Y. City.
James l. daly,
(Late Daly Stevens.)
O EN ERA L A GENT,
OrricE No. 104 Front street, Portland,
, give 5f.I tiation to Collecting
pd adjustment of &cconts, bills and notes ;
egotiatiuff Inland bills; effecting loans;
f"?"ng, aeUingattd laasingrsaj estate; house
renting, and to the general Bseacr business
10 all it branches.
John Nestor, Architect,
OFFICE IN CARTER'S BUILDING,
Front st, Portland Oregon.
FIRST-CLASS RESIDENCES,
Houses, UalU, Churches,
tenements, Cottages, Suburban
Residences, and
ALL HE8CBIPTIONS OF BBICK AND PRAM-
BuUdings Designed and Planned
Mir s,cura, and8cr..
ith
lously and faith-
interests
E5r'0w2iet .
BUSINESS CARtiS.
JyADD & TILTON,
BANKERS, Portland, Oregon
Will eive prompt attention to cnlWHnno
ana omer ousmess appertaining to Banking
big tit and Jelegraphic Exchanae
On San Francisco and the Atlantic Stat for
saie. uorernment securities bought and
soia.
Ql FERRY,
BROKER, Portland. Oregon.
Cor. Front and Washington St
Agent North British and Mercantile
insurance Company, and Manhat
tan Life Insurance Company.
ESfGovemment Securities. Stocks.Iionda
and Real Estate bought and sold on Com
mission.
MACK & I1ATCM,
DENTISTS,
The patronage of those desiring First Clots
vpvruiwns, is respecuuny solicited.
Satisfaction iu all cases o-narantf-pfl
N. B. Nitrons Urmle admimstprpH for ti
Painless Extraction of Teeth. Also : th
uraqoune bpray used for those who prefer it
Office Corner of Washington anrl Pmn
Streets, Portland. Entrance on Washington
street. .o f
JJENTAL NOTICE.
HOME AGAIN.
During my 'our of two years
In the Eastern States! have
spareu neuner time nor
money to make mvseif rpr
fectly familiar with and master of mv nm.
feSSibn. Those aesirinsr the best work that
tue nature or tne case will admit of can find
me at my office, 107 Front street, two doors
above McCormick's Book Store, Portland.
Dli. J. O. GLENN.
w. c. JOHNSOi.
. O. M'C'OWX.
Notary Public.
JOHNSON & McCOWN,
Oregon City, Oregon.
HGt Will attend to. all business entrusted to
.our care in any of the Courts of the State.
Collect roonej' .Negotiate loans, sell real estate
etc. I'articular attention given to contested
ana cases;
J. H. MITCHELL. J. JC. DOLPH. A. SMITH.
Mitchell, Dolph & Smith,
Attorneys dnd Counsellors at Laid,
Solicitors in Chancer, and Proc
tors in Admiralty .
Office 0"er the old Post Office; Front
street, .Portland, Oregon-.
a. c. GIBBS. c. W. PARItlSir,
Notary Puldic and Voir'i. of Deeds:
GIBBS & PAEJEtlSH,
Attorneys and Counselors at Laid,
Portland, Oregox.
OFFICE On
Alder street, in Carter's
brick block.
JOHN Mi BACON,
Justice of the Peace & City Rtcorder.
Office In the Court House and City-
Council Room, Oregon City.
tar Will attend to the acknowledgment of
deeds, and all other duties appertaining to the
business of a Justice of the Peace.
CHAUNCEY BALL,
Huccttsor to Gradon t& Co.;
siaScfacturek OP
Wagons & Carriages,
201 and 203 Front st., Portland, Oregon.
OCT" Wagons of every description
made to order,
General Jobbing don
tcith neatness and dispatch.
A LARGE INVOICE OF NEW
Sunday School arid Gift Books !
I7ROM THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIE
ty and
Various other Publishing Houses!
For sale by the subscriber, on Jefferson st.
between 2d and 3d, i'ortiand, Uregon.
G. II. ATKINSON, Secretary,
52.1yl and Treas. Oregon Iract bo c
CLARK GREENMAH,
City Drayman
OREGON CITY.
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,
Established since 1849, at the old stand,
Main Street, Oregon City, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watches, Jew
elry, and Scth Thomas' weight
Clocks, all of which are warranted
to be as represented.
Repairings done on short notice ,
and thankful for past favors.
A. H. BELL.
E, A. FAICKER.
BELL & PARKER.
DRUGGISTS,
AKD DEALERS IV
Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints,
Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes,
And every article kept ia a Drug Store. Mam
Street, Ouegon City.
Robinson & Lake
WILL CONTINUE THE STOVE AND
Tin-ware tra&e as usual, t the estab
lished EMIGRANT STORE,
Cvmer-of Front and Salmon st.,
Portland, Ort'jon.
i. i. KQVBOt. 'W. A. K. M ELLEN.
HIARBMS WORK.
MONROE & MELLEN,
Dealer in California, Vermont, ?
Italian Marbles, Obelisks, Monu
ments, Head and Fool stones
SwLKh Oregon.
to or4Ug Furn"-e Marble furnished
. G'2.t
ASPKEW WILLIS .
WM.
WILUS & BR0UGHT0N,
Jiaving purchased the interest
of S. Cram, in the well known
LIVERY STABLE
une aoor wesi oi ceisior JIarket. Oregon
City, announce that they will at all times
keep good horses ard carriages to let, at
reasonable rates. Horses bought and sold
or kept by the dy or week.
f . f r --
JOB PIUVTIXtt JfEATLT EXFAI T
ed at the ENTERPRISE OFFICE.
JUSTICES' BLANKS, of every descrip
tion. for sale at the Enterpkisk offiee
ILL HEADS PRINTED.
At "the Enterprise Office.
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OREGON CITY, OBEGONi SATURDAY, DECEMBER & 1 868,
: TWO PATHS.
Let him whose soul is qnick with thought,
Who walks aloof with hi
And glimpses through the smoke has caught
ui me etnereal fire,
Still keep the elevated way
Where be discerns the most of day.'
Let him whose soul is dull and blind,"
Who plods the slums of grosser sense.
Ana pierces not the earthly rind
To the sublimer recompense,
Still keep the lower path, nor sigh
To grope his way along the high.
For unto him of vision keen,'
The lower path is base and. void,
And all its 'broidery of green
Is mould, of dust and damp alloyed ;
And all the flowers of praise that blow,
Exhale but odors vile and low.
And unto him of vision weak,
The upper path is bare and cold,
No interests to his nature speak.
No radient promises unfold ; -Nor
does he hear the dulcet Voice
That bids the lofty soul rejoice.
To each the other's gold is dross,
Insane to each the other's greed ;
Each counts the other's gain as loss,
And wise is each in his own creed :
Nor botn are false, nor both are true,
And one will come to bane and rue.
A RETIRED EDITOR'S FARM.
A writer in the St. Paul Pioneer
describes the fine stock farm of Col
W. S. King, three miles from Min
neapohs, Minnesota. Col. King is a
veteran newspaper editor, who some
years ago retired from active life, and
uuw ueyoces ms attention to his
bJooded stock. His farm comprises
-iuu acres, of which 100 acres are in
grass and 50 in forest land. The
writer says : Col Kins has given to
Minnesota by far the most valuable
herd of shorthorns ever brought into
any Western State. Among them
is the " Sixth Duke of Geneva," a
pure Duchess bull, red and white, not
yet six months old, but thus early ex
hibiting thostJ remarkable points of
excellence and beauty which have
given to that Family of shorthorns
their world-wide celebrity and im
mense value. The .young Duke is
marked with the significant figures
$3,000. Then follows Blush' a five
year old cow of magnificent form and
proportions, with five distinct crosses
of the Duchess in her blood. This
cow Col. King esteems his best, if
any "best" can be distinguished in
the splendid herd : her cost is $1,000.
By the side of Plus, stands Vartina,
noble animal, equal in size and
beauty to her companion, and high
up in the Duchess blood, being fifteen
sixteenths. With these two 1 also
notice Nani'th, a beautiful specimen
of the high bred shorthorn, fino cut
head, large full eye. delicately tapered
neck well set on to the deep breast
and shoulders so characteristic of this
breed of cattle. At her side is her
bull calf sired by Royal DvXtof Ox-
ford.
The stOck bulls to be used with
this noble herd are Wellington and
the Sixth Duke of Geneva. The for
mer was two years old in April last,
was bred in INew lork, is a deep
red, of wonderful length and propor
ion, and one of the finest animals I
have ever seen, uudging irom his
dam and s;re and his present promise,
Col. King estimates his weight at full
maturity at from 2,500 to 2,700 lbs.
le is as gentle as a lamb, and is
highly valued by his owner.
Since las arrival from the East
with these animals he has purchased
of N. M. Prescott, of St. Anthony,
! his Jersey or Aldermey stock, con
sisting of the well-known bull AT
nesota, a magnificent animal, of un
questioned pedigree, and his cow
Sukey, with her yearling heifer calf.
To these Col. King will add some
ten or twelve head of Jerseys from
well known herds at the East, the
coming spring. Of the value of these
breeds of cows much may be said ;
the milk far exceeds in richness that
of any other stock, and I have seen
2i pounds of the best quality of bat
ter made from 3 pounds of their
cream. The milk is of such consist
ency in the fuU blood as not to be
easily run through a common tra'nrr.
The Ayrshires, ofNvhich Col. King
is so proud, are all from the herd of
those celebrated importers and breed
ers of Ayrshires, Waleott & Camp
bell, of New York Mills, Oneida
comity, New York. At the head
of these I find his stock bulls Scottish
Chief and Rob Roy, the former one
year old iu May last, a beautiful spe-
cimen of this breed of cattle.
While thus devoting himself more
exclusively to the breeding of fine
cattle, Col. King is not " blind1' to
good horses, and lie last fall pur
chased a high bred and beautiful mare
in New York. She also will reach
here the coming season.
Mr. W. T. Shanahan returned
from" San Francisco by last s'teamer
with a splendid assortment of pictures,
musical instruments, and other arti
cles in his line, which are now opened
and on exhibition at Lis Art Gallery,
Portland. Among other things
worthy of particular note is a picture
an oil painting of the old garrison
and the river at the Cascades. Those
who have stood on the north bank of
the river, near the old garrison, look
ing down the river, will recognize in
the picture a most faithful delineation
of the scene. The coloring is high,
approaching almost the brilliancy of
the chromo pictures, but it is not at
all too bright, as the faces of the
crags and mountain sides on the riht
are lit up by a clear afternoon sun.
The picture 13 elegantly framed in
carved and gilt work, five by eight
feet in size.
A UTBOAt TLKX OP 5nAD,'
The Irish bull is the result of a foz
u mo miiiu. liuie 15 auumer nu
morous method of expression, which
is the result of too much litendness
and acuteness of mind
Human thought and language hare
come, of course from much use, to
run in grooves or ruts, but there ore
occasionally people .who persistently
refuse to be influenced by anything
mat has oeen done before them, and
who are consequently all the time
saying grotesque and, unexpected
things. . -. ,, t
Ul such a character was a particu
Iarly practical student, who, at the
examination of the College of Sur
geons, was asked by Abernethy
" What would you do if a man was
blown np yith gunpowder He
replied, " I would wait till lie cam.
down." " True," replied Abernethy,
and suppose I should kick you for
such an impertinent answer, what
muscles would I put in motion 1
it tl n . i ,
a ne iiu.urs ana extensors 01 mv
arm," replied the student, " for
should immediately kuockyort down."
My son,' said an anxious father,
what makes you chew that nasty
tobacco ?" Now, the son was a very
literal sort ot person, and,
to consider the question in the spirit
in which it was asked, replied, ' To
get the juice, old codger."
A lady was once conversing with
a sailor who had suffered shipwreck
and, as she took great pleasure in the
analyzation of feelings and emotions,
she asked him compassionately, "How
did you feel, my dear man, when the
cold waves broke over over you ?"
Uut the seaman knew nothing of met
aphysics, and answered simply, "Wet,
ma am : very wet.
smau cuiia Demg nsKea by a
feunday school teacher, " What did
the Israelites do after they had
crossed the lied Sea V answered, "I
don't know, ma'am : but 1 guess they
anea themselves."
Queer answers are very often re
ceived by grown people who talk to
children, for the reason that the lat
ter have hoi yet become accustomed
to the subtleties and figurative mean
ings and roundabout ways of words,
and, therefore. look at tinners verv
practically, "Sam,"- said a young
mother to her darling boy, " do you
know what, the difference is between
the body and the soul ? The soul,
my child, is what you love With; the
body carries you about. This is
jour body (touching the boy's shoul
ders and arm,) but there is something
deeper in. You can feel it now.
What is it?" ,; Oh, I know." said
he, with a fldsh of intelligence. in his
eyes-, " that is my ltannel shirt."
"A passive verb," said a tsaciier,
x is expressive of the nature of receiv
ng an action, as ' Peter is beaten.'
Now. What did Peter do ?" "Well.
don't know," said the scholar, de
iberating, ' unless he hollered."
A youth who was being repri
manded for playing marbles on Sun
day, was asked, " Do know where
ittle boys go who play marbles on
Sunday ?" He bad not been suffi
ciently taught in regard to a future
state, and answered quite innocently,
Un, yes. borne on 'em goes to the
common, and some on em goes down
IU IUC 1 1 V Cl .
An Unexpected bit of information
sometimes elicited by this literal
understanding of questions as when
Sabbath school teacher was at
tempting to teach a, Very small boy
the meaning of wages in the passage,
J. he wages of sin is death-" and
asked him, " What does. your father
get on oaturday night r ' "Drunk.
ma'am," answered the bov. without
any hesitation.
A lecturer in Portland, Maine, or
somewhere else, was explaining to a
ittle girl how a lobster cast its shell
when it had outgrown it. Said he.
hat do you do when
jtgrown your clothes ?
you have
lou cast
"Oh, no,"
ve let out
them off, do you not ?"
replied the little oue, "
the tucks,"
Again, a teacher was explaining to
a little girl the meaning of the word
cuticle,
face and
freckles,
" What is that all ever my
hands ?" said he. " It's
sir," answered the little
cherub.
This same literal turn of mind is
sometimes used intentionally, and
perhaps a little maliciously, and thus
become the property of wits instead
of blunderers. Thus we hear of a
very polite and impressive gentleman
who said to a little boy in the street:
" Doy, may I inquire where Robin
son's drng store is V ' Certainly,
sir," said the boy, very respectfully.
" Well, sir," said the gentleman, after
waiting awhile, ' whefe is it ?" " I
have not the least idea, yer honor,"
said the urchin. There Y?as another
boy who was accosted by an ascetic,
middle-aged lady, with : ,l Boy, I
want to go to Dover street." "Well,
ma'am," said the . boy, " why don't
you go there, then ?'7
Woftns. -Words are little things,
bnt they strike hard. We wield
them so easiiy that we are apt to for
get their bidden power. Fitly
spoken, they fall like the sunshine,
the dew, and drizzly rairt but when
unfitly, like the frost, the hail, find
the desolate tempest.
-Au exchange says : " It is said
that there are more editors unmar
ried than any other class of profes
sional men,'' and adds, " for the rea
son, we suppose, that the majority
of them are men of fine sentiment,
and don't wish to starve anybody's
sister.''
A. WASTED LIFK.
h at life 1? wasted that attains
none of life's great and worthy ends
To one who really believes this what
a sad spectacle presents itself wher
ever e i.rns. mere is one com
pany in gay attire, running hither,
running thither, dissatisfied yet al
ways seeking something that will sat
isfy, and the eager inquiry of every
one is " how can I be happy?" There
is another company of sterner visage
and more anxious mien, oppressed
with care, carrying burdens tha
seem enough to crush them at every
step, pushing aside their fellows,
trampling npon honor and honesty,
when in their path, and asking with
earnestness that sometimes startles us,
" how can I be rich? can you tell me
where there is money?"
Still another company is composed
of those wrangling, struggling, hurl
ing each other to the ground, in their
strife as to who shall have the great
est number of inferiors, on whom to
elevate himself, until at last, perhaps,
one rises above the rest, and though
right and the happiness of others are
sacrificed ; declares that he will be
great. While, here and there, may
be seen one who separates himself
from the whole number, and going to
some retreat, buries himself in its
depths, saying to the world in the
midst of which he should bo a re
forming and saving power, " be far
off, ye dissipating, distracting influ
ences, I desire to be holy!"
Alas! what a waste of life in all
this throng of men! What a surx
render of the soul to the control of
selfishness! What a sacrifice of all
that is pure, and noble, and lovely
and good! The earliest lessons, of
childhood are often lessons of selfish
ness. The follies and dissipation and
blight of youth, are the outgrowth of
selfishness. Ihe distrust and knavery
and outrage of right, among those in
mature years, have the same source :
and, strange to say, old age trembles
on the grave's verge,"selfish, miserably
selfish slid. How refreshing and de
lightful to turn from this vision to
the few who will not prostitute them-
elves ; who feel the S3cred impulses
of benevolence, and uniting their in
terests with those of other men, seek
how they may be useful in the world.
Their path does not take them from
ami J the throng," nor is their good
ness lost, l.ke the rain upon the des
ert, in the waste around them, but a
green line of verdure and beauty
marks their progress through the
world, and a worthy life makes them
l.ippyj wllile it blesses others. All
tnow this and confess it, yet upon
,he majority of tombstone- the hon
est epitaph would be, as to the really
valuable ends for which years are
given, this is the monument 01
wasted life!" And among the
number of those who should lie beneath
that inscription, would be many whom
the world has been pleased to honor.
The time is coming when we shall be
weighed, and everything that has not
abiding worth will be removed from
the balance.
OSIEGO.V PIOXEEU SOCIETY.
Perhaps owing to the heat of the
political canvass, the first annual
meeting of the Oregon Pioneer So
ciety was neglected. The following
is the constitution adopted at Salem
on the 7th of October, 1867 ':
Art. I. This association shall be
called the Oregon Pioneer Society.
Am. II. The . following persons
may be admitted to become members
of this society :
1. Persons who emigrated to the
Pacific coast during and previous to
the year 1849, and who for seventeen
years previous to theiradmissiou have
resided within the original boundaries ;
of Oregon. I
2. Persons born within the orig
inal boundaries of Oregon, and who
are now twenty-one years of age-
3. Any person may be admitted as
an honorary member of this society
upon such regulations as may here
after be prescribed for that purpose. '
Art. J II. Members shall only be!
admitted by a vote of a majority of
the members present at an annual or
called meeting.
Art. I V. Tue officers of the so
ciety shall be a President, Vice Pres
ident, Secretary and Treasurer, who
shall be elected" by the actual mem
bers of the society by ballot at each
annnal meeting. Their duties shall
be such as are usually performed by
such officers and as may be pre
scribed by the society from time to
time-.
Art. V. the funds of the society
shall consist of an initiation fee of
three dollars, and of such contribu
tions as may be made thereto.
Art. VI. The annual and called
meetings of the society shall be held
at such tunes and places as a majority
of the officers chail designate, two
months notice thereof to be given by
the Secretary in some newspaper of
general circulation in the country.
Art. VJL twelve members shall
constitute a quorum for the transac
tion of business, but a less number
may meet and adjourn from time to
time or without day.
- Art. VIII. AH actual or honorary
members, when appearing in a public
procession of the society, shall be re
quired to wear in a conspicuous place
upon bis or her persuu, a badge ber-
ing in plain figures the year of his or
her arrival in the country, and shall
take place in such procession accord
ing to the number of such year.
Aut. IX. This constitution and
any bylav that may be made by the
society, may be altered or amen Jed
by a vote of the members present at
any annual meeting.
Art. X. No person is to be deemed
an actual member of this society
until he or she shall have paid the
initiation fee and signed the roll of
membership.
Art. XI. The society shall have
power at any annual meeting, by a
vote of a majority of tha-members
present, to expel a member.
Adopted at a public meeting cf
the Oregon Pioneers, beld in the hall
of the House of Representatives, at
Salem, on the eighth and niuth days
of October, 18G7.
Gustavus Hines,
M. Crawford, 4
President
Secretary.
David Leslie,
M. Crawford,
J. B. McClane,
Joseph Watt,
It. It. Thompson,
M. P. Deady,
W. Chapman,
David Delaney,
Alex. P. Ankeny,
J. M. Bacon,
W. H. Gray, .
Gustavus llines,
M.M.McCarver,
J. W. Nesmith,
I. N. Gilbert,
Geo. L. Woods,
Joseph Cox,
N. Humphrey,
11. C. Crawford,
David Powell,
S. Coffin,
A NEWSPAPER AITOCIUT.
An article in Packard's Monthly
for November gives further descrip
tion of the arcana of the Tribune
office, New York. Packard is not
very accurate as to some of his facts,
but we presume the picture he draws
ia substantially true. We extract a
passage concerning the managing
editor, and some of his visitors
Young writes by spasms. He pay's
strict attention to the business details
of the office. Every letter, every
bill, every rejected communication is
filed. He is able fo furnish at a mo-
meniVnotice a filed voucher for every
cent cf expenditures during his ad
ministration. Such strict attention
to business requires a vast amount of
time.- But when a great national
emergency arises, especially during
the absence of II. G , he throws
himselt into the breach with charac
teristic eiiergy, and thig columns of
the Tribune are red hot with his
short, sharp, ringing sentences until
the storm has passed. II is were the
stinging editorials on the Philadelphia
Convention ; his were the columns of
invective poured over the impeach-,
raent renegades ; his Vrere the fierce
attacks upon the far-born movement
to nominate Grant before the Gen
eral had defined his position, and his
are the showers of sarcasm launched
upon John T. Hoffman. The phrase
" Impeachment is Peace" is Young's;
so are the words '"Let us have peace."
He it was who tailed Grant "a
sashed corded sphynx." He it was
who Wrote the brilliant book reviews
of Buchanan's Defense of his Admin
istration, Greeley's American Con
flict, and Richardson's Life of Grant:
There are no lazy hairs in his head;
each one seems to be inspired with
electric energy. As Butler was the
author of the word ' Contraband,"
applied to slates of rebels, so is
Young the author of the word ' Cop
perhead," as applied to the members
of the Democratic party.
Tie motions us to a seat. Dickens
had ccedpied this same chair. Sber.
idan, Sickles, Longstreet, Meade,
Pry or, Butler, Hill, Howard, Itose
crans, and fifty other Generals of
more or less renown have ground
their elbows on this table. Colfax,
Ashley, Wilson, Wendell Phillips,
Sumner, Grow, Washburne, Bur
lingame, Griswold, Kelley, Botitwell,
and a hundred other distinguished
statesmen have played with this paper
cutter. Miles OT.eiliy, Bancroft,
Sam. Bowles, George William Curtis,
Theodore Tiiton, A. D. Richardson,
Anthony trollope, It. B. Rhett, E
A. Pollard, Mark Twain, Petroleum
V. Nasby, Col. T. B. Thorpe, and
three score of well known authors
and editors have bruised their shins
against this table leg. Abraham
Lincoln spent a bight in this room,
in a revision of his Cooper Institute
speech, 5u the winter of 1859. The
writer of. this article read the first
proof sheet, and, had he saved the
manuscript, would have been, at this
time. 1,000 in I113 pocket. Edgar
A. Poe used to borrow mouey of
Horace Greeley in tins apartmeut.
Jolm Brown, .Henry Ward Beecher
and Lloyd Garrison have gazed at
this library. Viscount Chalrol, Lord
Morley, Lord Camperdown, Thurl'Ow
Weed, Kossuth, Jay Cooke, Edwin
Forrest, Mrs Yelverton, Hawthorne,
Webster, Clay, ChaseO'Daldwin and
Seward have all trodden this floor.
While we are conversing the boy
brings in a dozen cards. First we
have General Butler; out be goes,
and Sig. Blitz appears ; then follows
John Allen, " The W ickedest Man,"
with Oliver Dyer at his side ; next
comes the Rev. O. B. Frothingharn.
and after biitt Robert Dale Owen,
both editorial scribblers cf the Trib
une ; Billy Edwards, the pugilist, is
bowed out; and Max. Maretzek ap
pears : Governor Ward, of New
I Jersey, pays his respects, and Kate
Field follows suit all having busi
ness with this blue-eyed boy. And a
lively time they make of it for him.
He may thank his lucky stars that
he ha a cottage at Spuyten Duyvel, (
to which be can retreat when over- J
burdened with the carts of office.
ORIGIN OF EGRO SLAVERY.-
Mr. Bancroft, in the first volume
of his History of the United States,
gives an account of the early traffic
of the Europeans in slaves. In the
middle ages the Venetians purchased
white men ond Christians, and others,
and sold them to the Saraceus in Sic
ily and Spain. In England the. An
glo Saxon nobility sold their servants
as slaves to foreigners. The Porlu
geese first imported negro slaves from
Western Africa into Europe in 1442.
Spain soon engaged in the traffic, and
negro slaves abounded in some places
of that kingdom. After America
was discovered, the Indians of His
paniola were imported into Spain and
made slaves. The Spaniards visited
the coast of North America.and kid
napped thousands, of. the Indians,
whom they transported into slavery
in Europe and the West Indies.
Columbus himself enslaved 500 na
tive Americans, and Sent them to
Spain that they might be publicly
sold at Seville. The practice of sell
iug North American Indians into
foreign bondage continued for nearly
two centuries. Jegro slavery was
introduced into America by Spanish
bondholders, who emigrated with their
negroes. A royal edict of Spain au
thorized negro slavery in America id
1503. King Ferdinand himself sent
from Seville fifty slaves to labor in
the mines. In 1511 the direct traffic
in slaves between Africa and Iiispan
iola Mas enjoined by a royal ordi
nance. Las Casas, who had seen the
Indians vanish away like the dew be
fore tlie Cruelties of the Spaniards,
suggested the expedient that the ne
groes, who alone could endure severe
toils, might be still further employed.
This was in 1751; The mistaken be
nevolence of Las Casas extended the
slave trade which had been previously
established.
Sir John Hawkins was the first
Engl'shmari that engaged in the slave
trade. In 1562 he transported a
large cargo t f Africans to Hispan
iola. In 1567 another expedition was
prepared, and Queen Elizabeth pre
pared and shared in the traffic. .Haw
kins in one of his expeditions set fire
to an African c.ty, and out of 8000
inhabitants succeeded in seizing 259.
James Smith, of Boston, and Thos.
Keysep, first brought upon1 the colo
nics the guilt of participating in the
African slave trade. In 1G45 they
imported a cargo of riegrOes from Af
rica.. Throughout Mass ichusetts the
cryr 01 justice was raised ngainSt them
as malefactors and murderers : the
gdilty men were committed for their
offence, and the representatives of the
people ordered the negroes to be re
stored to their native country at the
public charge. At the latter period
there were both Indian and negro
slaves in Massachusetts: In 1G20 a
Dutch ship entered James River and
landed twenty negroes for sale. '1 his
is the sad epoch of the introduction
of negro slavery into Virginia. -Fur
many years, the Dutch Were princi
pally concerned in the slave trade iu
the market of Virginia.
GRVTITIDE ASD II03fEYi
A story is told upOn R,iyer, the
eminent physician Of Paris. He was
called in some weeks ago tO attend a
sick child. The child it was the
only child of wealthy parents re
covered its health. A few days after
RaVer had discontinued his visits, the
mother of the little invalid called on
the doctor. She Said My dear
doctor, there are services tendered in
this world, for which money could
not pay. I know hot how we can
adequately reward you for your kind
ness, attention and skill to poor Er
nest. And I have thought that per
haps you would be good enough to
accept this porte monnaie a mere
trifle, which I embroidered."
"Porte monnaie !'-' roughly ex
claimed the doctor. " Medicine-, ma
dame, is not a sentimental jprofession.
When we are called in to visit a pa
tient, we want their money and not
their gratitude. Gratitude a humbug!
I'd like to see gratitude making the
pot boil, and I have not only to make
my pot boil, but I have got a horse
to feed, madame, and a driver to pay,
madame, and daughters to portion,
madame and gratitude won't aid'me
to do any of these things. Money is
what is required, madame yes,
money I'
The lady was, as you may imagine,
corfonded by this burst of indignant
talent and she could only stammer,
n But doctor- what is your feel"
" My fee is two thousand francs
and I tell you, madame, there is no
use screaming about it. 1 will -not
take one sou less!"
The lady did not scream, she
quietly opened the porte monnaie,
unrolled the five bank notes in it,
gave two to the doctor placed the
other three in the porte monnaie, and
the latter in her pocket, and bowed
profoundly, "Good morniug, Doctor,"
and then made her exit.
Apr-ROVED It. A Quaker, on hear
ing a man swear at a particularly bad
piece of road, said :
' Friend, I am under the greatest
obligation to thee. I would myself
have done what thou hast done, bnt
my religion forbids me. Don't let
my conscience, however, bridle thee I
Give
thine indignation wines, and
suffer not the prejudices of others to
paralyze the tongue of justice and
Suug suffering yea,' verily
NtTjtfUERcz!.
FASIIIO'ABLi it ATI1IN D,
A correspondent at Aix-Ies-Bains,
Savoy, giVes the following descriptiori
of the heal thseek ing proceedings 'of
a lady patient at that popular place'
for one day, the waters of which artf
suppofOl t be cfSicious in rhtuma
tism and goutj diseases of the skin,
throat,- indigestion, and nearly every
other kind of malady:
At five o'clock iri the, morning a
servant knocks at the door ; the lady
is already supposed to be in her morn
ing robas. 1 Two men put the patient
into a sort of sedan chair, which is a
seat surmounted by a canvass roof
and screening curtains. The lady
finds herself suddenly shrouded - iu
this yellow arid striped drapery, like c
an .Eastern Princess on her travels.
You are taken off by the official por
ters down-stairS; tbrotrgh the streets,
until you get tr the: watering estab
lishment a large building, most
elaborately constructed for every con
ceivable description, of bath,ovcAg
and vapor application. Screened and
hidden from the iVorld in your pala
quin, the careful porlcurs place you
ia a chambcTj where appears two fe
males in short blouses, with all tl.o
other prrts of the form nude, and
looking red and brown from the con
tiniial action of the water. The p
tieut enters a second vaulted cham
ber, introduced tb the douche woman
referred to, precisely in the condition,
as regards toilet, its your first female
parent took her bath Here the lady
is placed iu a chain All about are
mysterious pipes and receptacles for
water; and ropes, and India rubber
tubesj with ' metal-pjgrced months
syringes, queeivlooking pumps; ahd
on a shelf-holding j some bottles con
taining restoratives Allthese rnr
dia for squirting keep tip a peculiar
conversation of their own hissing,
faint whistling; dtibbMng sounds otig
inating in an intense anxiety on the
part of the water to be let off. The
bathing women; according to the of
ders Of the medical mab; manipulate
the effete limb or -toe; Whilst the
douche is simultaneously applied, hot
or cold; Or both. After aboct fifteen
mmutes of the furious rairt ahd kneed
ing the patient is Wrapped tip lit
blankets; without dressingj and again
put into the sedan chair; well screen
ed; then Carried to the hotel; and by
the porters in this State put into bed.
The half muffled respiratory organs
and enveloped body sooil cause the
patiettt to prespire-; and this is let
tainly a proved remedy for rheumatic
. . 1-1 -. .
a lections, such as originate in accw
dent; and are not coustitational. The
maid ere long unrobes her mistress
mummy; dresses her in ia Very fash
ionable costurile, it may be, and she
goes down to a breakfast of fish, flesh
and fowl at ten o'clock tneet'dg an.
hundred other fashionable bathers,
who have a,U that morning been bath
ing or steaming, Or nnder the pleasing
sensa-'ion of fierce irjectious from
snaky tubes. "
z.4.- : -
From a recent report on the
earVey of Yaquina Bay harbor and
bar, we learn that tarough the beet
channel Vessels Will not get a shonler
cast than 9 feet at mean low, or 16
to It at mean high Water. - At its
most narrow part, thefe la a width of
163 feet carrying 9 feet 420 feet
carrying 8 feet , and GOO' feet carry
? feet. The shoal water is GOO feet
across in the channel, vessels getting
IT and IS feet up. to it and inside
The shoal water in crossing the bar
through the channel continues so short
a distance, and the channel itself is so
straight and well defined in ordinary
weather, by the breakers on each side,
that with a pilot, rr thart to guide
them, Vessels drawing 10, 12, or even
13 feet, can, by choosing the time of
tide, enter and deport with perfect
safety. In this it has a decided ad
vantage over the more tortuous chan
nels of other places oh the coast.
Should the harbor become of suflici
tnt importance to justify it, a tug
tO'ild take vjss.Is out and ihj drawing
tv.Q more tban the above mentioned
depth of water.
: ; -OO -V --
Printers. Printers 'are unlike all
other classes of men. Their vocation
imparts to them an intelligence that
does not result from any other busi
ness. Dealing with language exclu
sively; in eombiuation of letters,
words, sentences and paragraphsthey
are constantly brought into com
munion with thoughts and their work
ing, and thus insensibly become im
bued with the ideas of. those minds
whose creations they Ip.to embody
in those forms that give them to the
world. They literally get grammar
at their fingers' ends while picking up
the type?, With which to form sen
tences that are grammatical. Spell
ing comes to them ns naturally as
breathing, for they fall into correct
orthography through' force of habit
The characteristics of printers are
not so favorable to personal thrift a
those of other professions. They
partake cf the nature of the artbt 111
some degree, and are general tO &
fault, thoughtless of the future, and
frequently improvident for the past
flush when In a good situation, and
dead broke when on a tramp. They
may be said to be the working Bo
hemians of the world of operatives.
, . r.
.Gov. Ballard, of Idaho, has re
cently expended some $12,000 - in
legal tendersj for f tock and tools for
the Nez Perces Indian?. .' 0
-The bity of Bar
cwiJA is m
favor
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