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About The Weekly enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1868-1871 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1868)
f " " V 7 ' , i 11 J e 11 . .- - . M , ' r . . "5 OREGOIY CITY, OliBGON, SAT tTK DAY, BECEHBER 20, i80S. V J ) 4 The Weeioy Enterprise. as ixDEerJxpsyr paper, : FOR THE . ) Business Man, the Farmer tiu lUJULV-X'IRCLE. 1 ' AT TUP. ' )mer-Cnmer of Fifth and Main street, Oregon Cg.v,, rrfpWrfor. i.. ..n very well re ft!!- FATH i J l-1' .. . reived daring tit . Slate ,,y gentlemen of distinction iu the State who recommend it m a journal valuable for i mn Saeb Ave shall endeavor Kastern circulation- :mk--. IMTWnr Site . - LPS constant the paramount interest to ehoarroiuiuns will te devoted, livery 'rr. -rtr4or the irtor J'uVic- if'rf, irrespective .of 'of p f ipurty' ir I iinu 111 an advocate anu a oe- lender, to tlie extent u u" j- to attract t!ie attention of the r hhall aim I uii!li"iirf of . ,. .. i I'OI'I-L VTION' AND MONTA sceing profit- I aWr places, to that channel which U uw I ,,kin- tlii- the or the -lobe, and ren- ' derin" W..H wilh other l'aritto Stutes.the I crranen'es of the world, with a centre of I 7.... i .-i t..,-on(l to none. I . ,.,.t,-t-r TP1M-: will continite to receive that I J Itlnxim which it merits, at the har.d of rvrrv intelligent Journal. " The tarmcr .-...rlll, nil. I thi-' MUKKTS will be watched cafnHy, iind surh lnioniiAuou - ,.m,,ne will be publushet. M XrFACTUlU-:i:S are earnestly i-questev ' to inform m with respect t those varions imere-ts to the end that we may be able to the KNTi:itt-KiBK as near an eiioj'clo- pit.lU of the business of Oregon as cau be, T FIIMS of SUJJSCKU'l'IOX: 3 06 Rnglc Cfy "ne year Six months - u ' 'J'hree months 11,11 C.t'; KATES: Five Copies. 1 year, ?. Si 30 each.. . .212 0 fij- In which case ofc extra copy will be P..iit to the person forming the Club, and as a,i indiieenient to snrh persons, with a View rir extt'iuinir our circulation, Ow' Dollar tind Tm-nty-five Cehfs WW. b.- allowe-l as Commission on each addi tioii'al fiv" SubKcr.h'rx. Thus any person who will interest himself in the matter, may ,-ure the paper freeand receive a liberal Oomjieiuati.m :r his services. ItrmMancrs be mode it the risk of Snhcrihr, and at the expend of A genii: TERMS of AJ1VFRTISIXG : Transient advertisements, including all . notices, v' so,, of Pi lines, 1 w.5 - 50 Krr each subsequent insertion. . . . Ote Column, one year Half - ' Quarter " " Harness Card, 1 square one year. i oo $120 00 f.t 40 12 nook' ,UB PJUXTIXQ. The Enterprise office is oiipplied with hatuii'ul, approved styles of type, and mod ern MACHIXK PRESSES, which will enable the Proprietor to do 3h Piinting at all times Xaat; Quid; and Cheap ! Ki Work solicited. i). c.jnr:r.Axn, rnpr;tnr. Ji USINESS CA 111) S. JjHNTON KILLIN. cr .-. -C-" "-'.n" hsl9 Oregon Ci1 Oregon. OFFICE hi Chavmau'.s P.rick Rlock, up "fairs. J ) 11. F. BARCLAY, JBlSl.a -- "! 9 (Formerly surgeon to the lion. II. 15. Co.) nFFICI--M P.enideuce, Main street Ore rf'in City. Oieoii. YH- WATI-INd, M. D., SL'RGEON. Pi)i;xr.A.Ni, Okkgox. OFFICE-?: Front street Residence cor nvr of Main and Seventh streets. plTEUIAL MlIfLS. Savier LaHoque & Co., on eg ox ci fv. t.Keep constanth' on hand foi sale, flour M.diias. 'Uran and "Chicken Feed. Pal ties pnrcliiay fccil nvist furnish the sacks. y.I. lUlOUGIITOX. Contractor and Builder, M iiu st OREGON' CITY. , f Will attend to nil work in his line, con siiuK in inirt of Carpenter and Joiner woik framiiijj, bui'.Jini;, t-tc. Jobbing promptly UeiM t ,, o i i j avid smith; .iuccwor to SMITH MARSHALL, ., Nad-Smith and Waaoii Maker, Corner of U'm aud Third streets, Orcgou City Oregon. Ps-niacksmithin-in all its branches; Was: Mi iiuiktng and repairing. All work warrant ! to Hive :itistaction. jOSULAXDIJiiOlllERs; PORTLAND AUCTION STORE, 07 First st., Portland, Next Door to Post Office. ffi Importers ;,nd Jobbers of Staple and fancy Dry Goods. Grai bass. Burlaps, furn- 1'?, V- We P"v the highest cash PJeJor.,oI, Furs.im.i Hides. UMES tfc DaYlaM IJf.fCHTKKS AND JOBBERS OF Wood and Willow Ware. brushes, Twines, Cordage, etc., J, AX" -M"-ACTfKKRS OV Pails, Tubs, Washboards, $-c -cramento st., San Francisco. . Jj; -Maiden Lane, X. Y. Citv. J AMlvS L. DALY, " (bate bah- i stov ,-tnis t GEXEi'ir , r-rr v. FlCE o- I'M Front street, Portland ':ll cive sdccikI n,.,; ! ""'djusttnerTtor , lJ?cUn Inlaw I Wig; effecting loa Ml John Nestor. Arnhitorr OlULEix CARTER'S F.UILMXG, iru St., Portland Oregon. FIRST-HT a oo Li y.v ),,.. it ' Ifvlls, .Churches, tenements. c.nitnnP, c.. ' Collages., Suburban Jesidcnces, and L mi0S F BM AND FRAME gildings Desisned and Planned full v surtntI'l8 rupnJously and faith faiiid p.r ,'v, IPwners interests BUSINESS - CARDS. jADD & TILTON, BANKERS, Porttxd, Oregon-. "Will rire prompt attention to collections, and other business upper-mining to Hanking. Sight and Telegraphic Exchange On San Francisco and the Atlantic States for jjde. Government St-curiiie bought and nid- FK 11111", BROKER. 1'orti.avd. Ohesonv . Cor. ftwit and Washington titt. Agent North British and Mercantile Insurance Company, and Manhat tan Life Insurance Company. f"Governnii:nt Securities, Stocks.Bonds and Real Estate loaj;lit and sold oa Com mission. , vr. c. joujjsojr. k. o. m'cuws. -.-.- XoUry Public. JOHNSON & RIcCOWN, BC-ju'Sk 'W""Sr333!3l'--iSi Orrgoii City, Oregon. 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 cuiit-ted Laud cases. J. U. MITCHELL. J. N. HOLl'U. A. SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph k Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Laic ' Solicitors in Chancery, and Froc- tors in Admiralty IT Office o' er the old TostOtfice, Front street, Portland. Ore-iron. . C. G1JJUS. fiitUliH, Xiitary Public and (Aim. j iMtdj, GIBBS & PARRISH, AtlSrtnvs and Counselors at Laic, I'outlanp, Oregon-. OFFICE On Alder rtreet, in Carter's brick block. JOHN M, BC'ON, Justice of ike Peace t Cilj Recorder. Office In the Court House nnd City Council Room, Oregon City. 65- Will attend to the acknowledgment of deeds, and all other duties apoertaining to the business of a Jutice of the Peace. Dr. J, 11. HATCH, Late Mack 4- -Hatch, DENTIST. Trie patronajre of tnose defil ing First Claim 'Oj-'craid)", is respectfully .solicited. Satisfaction in all cases iinrautced. iS'. IJ. Xifro-im (Jxydt administered for the Painless ExtVacti'oii" of Teeth. Offk:k Corner of Washington andFron streets, Portland. Entrance on Washington street. E NT A L N OT 1 0 E . HOME AGAIN. Burins; my 'our of two years in the Eastern States I have spared neither timt n o r nioiiev to make mvso'f per fectly tamiiiar wth arid nia.steof my pro f'eshion. Those tlesii iii!; the best work that the nature of the case will admit of can find me at my office, 1"7 Front .street, two doors above MeCormick'd Rook Store, Port laud, Oregon. BR. J. G. GLENN. CHAUKCEY BALL, tS;-'cc'- to O'r'iJoi- it Co., HANl'FACTl'KiiJl Of Vagons & Carriages, 01 and 2ij'- Front st., Portlaud, Oregon. (K?" Wagons of every description, made to order. General Jobbing done with neatness and dispatch. A LARGE iXVOlCF. Ol' XEW Sunday School and Gift Books ! ILOM i'UE AMERICAN TRACT SOCID A ty and Various other Publishing Houses! For sale by the subscriber, on Jellerson it, between" id and :.:d. Portland, Oregon. G. 11. ATKINSON, Secretary, o2.lv an. I Treas. Oregon Tract So c CLARK GREENMA1I, ?x. City Drayman, OREGOX CITY. i . ! 2. All orders for the delivery of nierchan 1 di.-e or packages and freicht of" whatever des cription, to any part of the city, Hill be tSe cu.ed promptly and with carti. W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since lSl'J.at the old stand. Main Strict, Oregon. City, Oregon. An Assortment of Watches, Jew elrv. and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of uhicll are warranted to .e as represented. Repai rings done on short notice, i md thankful for past favors. A. U. BI.I.. BEIilj &l K. A. lUKKBK. PARKER. 5 BFGdrlSTS, AVO fEALEItS IV Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Bmg Store. Main street. Oregon City. A. J. UOXROR. V,-. A. K, MELLEJf, rVIONROE Sr. TtlELLEN, Dealers in California, Vermont, and Italian Marbles, Obelisks, Monu ments, Head and Pool slones, Salem Oregon. Mantles and Furniture Marble furoiihed to order. .t AVDBKW WILLIS. WM. UROCOHTON. WILLIS & BROUGHTQN. j Baving purchased the interest of S. Cram, in toe wen mioh u r.m:hAr STABLE One door west of Excelsior Market. Oregon Utr announce that they will at all times keeo ood horses ai d carriages to let, at reasonable rates. Horses bought and sold ! Oregon Seed S More K. e. chatfield, Wholesale aud Retail Dealer in Garden and Field Seeds of all Kinds. PRODICE A-VD C031MISSIOA. First street. Portland Oregon, Near the Western Hotel. Robinson & Lake -i A TILL CONTINUE TUB STOVE AXB , Y V Tin-ware trde as tunil, at the titio lisheJ KMHiUANT STORE, Corner Fntnt tih'l fi'i?n,i. J-art Ainu, I'l-fi i'i. PAST, PRESE.KT AJk'D FLTIHK. ' Look not mournfully into the Past, J t comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present, It id thine."' O why should we sigh lor the Fntnre, , Or the Past fo wrinkled and grey. While the golden hours of the Present Are rapidly flitting away ? The Past is a thing to dream of. And the Future none may know ; But the bright substaatisi Present , Is ours wherever we go. She offers us priceless treasures From the boundless mines of thought, And points io her glowing pages, With thejkir'e of jfges fraught. Many live in the Past and Future, And traverse aerial ground, Unheeding the gems which the Present So lavishly scatters urouud. And while they aimlessly trifle With Imagination's foils, Comes knavish Procrastination. And snatches the princely spoils. The Past is a beautiful phantom. That brings us both pleasure and pain ; The Future is shrouded we cannot One glimpse of her featuies obtain. The wandering step will falter, Pursuing her mystic trail ; And the eyes grow dim with striving T6 peer through the murky veil. As well might w'e strive to follow Life's last faint flickering breath. Or fathom the shades that hide from Our vision the vale of death. Then why when the Present is fleeing, With steps no mortal can stay. Should we fritter, in idle dreaming, lis priceless moments away? Jlr.--. H. A. Dcmlng. Antctlote uf .lluila mc- Alljonl. When Mndame Alboni "vns in Oerlin, the Director of the Theater Delia Scala, at Milan, determined to engage her for a week or two. . He accordingly set out for Berlin, fn a village near Innsbruck, some part of his carriage was broken, and the Ini presgaria W;is obliged to halt. In a very bad humor he set out for a promenade through the village while his coach Vras being repaired ; saun tering listlessly along, he suddenly heard delightful, charming singing ; never had he heard so sweet, so clear, so heavenly a voice. He approached the house from whence the music came, and soon found himself in the presence of the songstress, She was a htndsotne Tyrolean maiden, of un common grace and dignity, nnd was singing to three children, who were intently listening to her. lie apolo gized for his intrusion, and begged to know if the fraulein understood music. The director drew from his pocket some sheets of " La Fille du Regiment," which he chanced to have with him, and requested her to sing a few passages. The Tyrol ese com plied with as much good nature as talent. ' Mademoiselle," exclaimed the enraptured director, " I was on my way to Berlin to make an engage ment with Alboni, the great Euro pean celebrity, but I have found you and will go no farther. Alboni could stilt tne no better than you do. I offer Von 2,000f per night, and en gage you for twelve representations." 'How much would vou have oiL-ied Mme. Alboni ? 'Mine. Alboni J Oh, that is d if- ferent. I should have given her nt least 5,000f. But consider, she has au unrivaled name and fairn;, while you are wholly unknown." " Yet you told me that Mme. Al boni could suit you no better than I. Am I not, then, entitled to the salary you intended for her T' " ihat is impossible, MadenjoueUe. Will you accept 3,000f ?" ,l No." " Four thousand ?" " No." " Then, Mademoiselle, adieu. I can give you no more, for you are entirely unknown; I risk everything, vou nothing. You might make your fortune and that of your family ; you refuse. Adieu. The director reached Berlin, aud inquired for Mme. Alboni, and was told that she was in tne country. Where ?" " Iu Tyrol." In Tyrol I At what place ?" n jnj ; two hours' ride from Innsbruck." Returning, lie sought Lis peasant maid. " Madame," he said, yoo are no long-er unknown, lou have played me a nrettv trick." " I ? Listen, Monsieur, you know me ; but as you were this morning so unwise as to resign me for the peasant maid, I now refuse to enter into any encngement with you. The director was in despair. He fell at her feet ; bm Mme. Alboni did not relent until after the most earn est solicitation, and a promise 01 G,000f per night. Olive. Logan thinks that any wo man who can protect herself iu a horse car is qualified to trote, and exclaimsr ' Now,, girls,- be men !' iNevcr conhue secrets to rour rslstivts bl-j' d will tell. PERSO.X At. SKETCHES. . "PETER COOPER. H ' ' Peter Cooper's name is a familiar one all over the country on account of his persevering efforts to educate and elevate the poor and laboring classes, and , the erection of the Cooper ..Institute for' the instruction of the workingmen of the country. Cooper was born in New York City iu the winter of 1791, and is of the Revolutionary stock bis father and grandfather , having served as officers during the war. His father was a hatter at the, close of the struggle, Und Pttof assisted Kim in Abe shop, and had a hard experience, as his parent was in straitened circum stances aud had a lorge family to support. The boy was very anxious to learn, but lie was unable to attend school more than half of each day during a single year, which was all the regular education he ever re ceived. When seventeen he was ap prenticed to a coachmaker, and he followed the trade for some years. Ie afterward engaged in the manu facture of patent machines for shear ing cloth ; then of cabinet ware, and at last he entered into the grocery jusiness in Burling Slip. He con ducted the grocery business fur some years with profit ; but retired from it to embark in the manufacture of glue and isinglass, which he has carried on ever since a period of more than thirty years. He has been interested for many years in iron manufactures, and in his works near Baltimore he built, after his own dfsigns, the first ocomotive ever constructed in the United States. lie has shown much nterest in the extension of the tele graph, and is a stockholder nnd an o flicer in the Atlantic Cable Com panies, lie has served in both branches of the New York Common Council, and, what is extraordinary, he proved himself a most honest ami lonorable member an exception that few have been tempted to imi- tate since his titnr. The difficulty he iad m obtaining an education made j him solicitous of securing advantages for others, when he had become rich, and C'oper Institute is the hue rc- suit of a self-promise, made forty i , -. . . . years oeiore us erection. 1 tie lnsti- tute embraces a school of design for women, evening courses of mstruc n for mechanics and apprentices, .t ,. . especially ns respects the application of science to the practical affairs f de ; a free reading-room, galleries of art, collections of models of iuven- Hons and a polytechnic school, the building co-t $o00,000, which is not far from half of Peter Cooper's fur tune. He is still healthv and viiror- ous, and no one would believe he was near his eightieth vear. He is a peculiar looking and noticeable per son, under the medium size, with a sharp, thin visage, a profusion of brown hair, very little grey eyes, al ways wears o!d spectacles, and seems as amiable, kind and generous as he reallv is. No one ever doubted Peter Cooper's honesty. He is pon- ular with all classes, and is never seen in public without eliciting ap plause. He has lived a true life ; the renuine Republican, the earnest frieud of the people. GEORGE LAW. A very different mau is George Law. Once a famous personage, he has so sunk out of siht of late years that the great public has almost en tirely forgotten him. He was born in Washington county, New York, and his parents being poor, he went to the metropolis to st ek a livclihooJ. It is said he worked for his passage and arrived there penniless. He was iu his first teens then : but being ! very stout and hardy, he worked on the docks and in warehouses for sev eral months. At the end of that time he had saved $100. With that sum be began to barter and trade, and soon iucreascd it to $1,000 the hardest amount to get, millionaires tell us, though the statement is not always true. He had a talent for making money out of other people ; but he reniaiued in obscurity till he was fully thirty. The first known of him by the public was his appearance as contractor for the building of the High Bridge for the Croton Aoue- duct. He made the job profitable, and soon obtained other contracts from the city that rendered him pros perous. He purchased an interest in different ferry and street railway companies, and became an operator in Wall street, where his shrewdness served him to advantage. Ho was not a bold speculator, but had the sagacity to buy and sell at the right time, and rarely lost. At one time the Herald in the campaign of IS53, we think nomi nated Law for the Presidency, and gave him the sobriquet of " Lire Oak George," which long adhered to hira. No one except Law imagined for a moment the journalistic weather cock in earnest ; but he was greatly flattered bv the nomination, aud re- ally cherished aspirations for . the ' White House. I . During the Lopez expedition, in ! Cuba he bought a lot of muskets.and placed them on board the Grapeshot. The vessel was seized while lying in port, on the charge that the muskets were intended for the filibusters, which no doubt was true. Law made a fierce protest against the seizure, nnd appealed to the Courts. While this case was pending the attempted revolution failed, and Lopez was gar roted. The firearms afterward proved of very little value, and if they had been used in Cuba, would have beeu moro destructive to their bearers thauto the enemy. A great deal wassfCl and written at the time about the George Law muskets, and their worthlessness grew to be a proverb. That venture was one of the very few in wTuch he was not successful. He has the reputation of having made money out, of whatever he touches, and he ought to make it, for he is totally regardless of the feel ings or comfort of others. He is still a large owner in ferries and railways, one of the most unpopular men in the metropolis, a fact he cares nothing about so long as his coffers are full and his digestion is perfect. His conscience is easy, for it lies in his bank account. The good he does must ho in secret, since it rarely be comes known. Law has a handaome house in Fifth Avenue, and is probably worth $5,000,000, though it wotiii not be imagined from his appearance and manner that he would be admitted to his own house, or that his income was $1,000 a year, lie must be about live and sixty now j has a strong constitution and muscular frame, nnd promises to be active and interest calculating fur thirty years yet. lie is very large vertically aud horizontally ; dresses shabbily ; has coarse features ; resembles a carman more than a millionaire, and is per sonally known t few. He is fre quently to be seen walking aud driv ing about on his private business ; occasionally appears nt Fulton Mar ket in quest of oysters, which he swal lows voraciously, as if he were more savage than hungry ; and now and theu (inures as a vice president of some public meeting, which lie never attends. Such is Live Oak George i who, as has been said, is a self-made man, and worships his creator. j i-etei: n. sweeney ir..-e r,J n,..m;nn ! , , , i na tuc -rcat NIo?lil of ?my 1 1 ,. ii T I :,i l .. i icoubiucicu as cue vi iu; shrewdest of Democratic politician: ; makiiir nolitics his trade, and thrives j , Tr . e T . . U till IM, lil J.kl.ii LAUUtHVll, . . , i uwugn native nere, ana seems to oe a man or lorce more than limitless. i He is a lawyer bv profession : but he has quitted law for more lucrative, if not more honorable, pursuits, within the magic circle of the City Hall. He is the present City Chamberlain, and has made himself famous by pay ing over to the municipal Govern ment certain monthly sums of inter est ihat have heretofore been kept by the incumbent of the office. Such a proceeding was so unprecedented that few New Yorkers have been willing to believe that any man who would do such a thing acted from disinter ested motives. Until recently a bank president has usually been made the Chamberlain, and the bank has re ceived the deposits of the city without interest. The balance to the credit of New York is often $"20,000,000, and it is estimated that the interest on the account is not unfrequcntly -$200. OOD per annum. It is alleged that Sweeney does not give more than one third of the interest to the Treasurer ; but that he pays any proportion of it voluntarily, and when there is no law to compel him, should certainly be interpreted to his credit. Asa wirepuller, caucus controller and manager of men, he is said to eclipse many of his astutest prede cessors, lie is the power behind the throne in the City Hall, and certainly the champion of the rinir. No Demo cratic body in that region Can get along along without Sweeney ; and no Democratic caucus is complete without him. lie is steadily in creasing his influence, fnd in the stronghold of the unterrified will find it to his advantage to stay. lie is wealthy probably 81,000,000 would not cover his fortune in the prime of life ; small, dark haired, dark eyed, swarthy complexion ; feels proud of his political importance, and may long to have engraved on his marble monument in Greenwood, ' Here lies the late leader of Tarn manv Hall.'' I Beer was iuvented by the Egyp- ' tians, and was calied the Pelagian liquor, because it was first made at Pelusinnij, a city near the mouth of the Nile, j he invention is supposed to have taken place about 1,200 years before the Christian era. The intoxicating drinks of the northern nations were made from honey, and were known under the names of mead metheglin, the latter bearina the same relation to mead tbat small beer does to XXX ale or porter. Ihe climax of a Scandinavian warrior's glory and happiness was to drink mead from a cup composed of his iailen foe s ekull. : . " Jones, that must have been Brown that passed : Wonder why he didn't speak? Oh,.t remember I lent him to the Ia-jt time I saw biuj." The following is sublimely splen diferous, and we recommend it as a model to letter writers : Mr Dear Miss F. Every time I think of you my heart flops up and down like a churn dasher. Sensa tions of unutterable joy caper over it like young goats over a stable roof, aud thrill through it like Spanish needles through a pair of tow linen trowsets. As a gosling swimmeth with delight in a mud puddle, so swim I in a sea of glory. Visions of ecstatic rapture, thicker thau the baits in a blacking brush,- and bright er than the hues of a hurrtming bird's pinions, visit me in my slumbers j and borne on their invisible wings, your imagfi stands before me, and 1 reach out to grasp it, like a pointer snap ping at a blue bottle fly. When I first beheld your angelic perfections, I was bewildered, and my brain whirled around like a bumble-bee I under a glass tumbler. My eye Rt.onn nnon lL-p ro up Hnnrs m n (nnh. . . , , T , . j jfVju, anu j. iiiieii uu ir:y cms 10 catch the silvorv accents nf vnnr . j voice My tonirue refused to war, VAi---.lWV1W4iV'--t'14'l,-iViT-' ... D , tl . man swalloweth a tumbler of hot whiskey punch. Since the light of your face fell upon my life, 1 some times feel a.s if I could lift myself up by my boot straps to the top of the Presbyterian steeple, and pull the bell rope for singing school. Day and night you are in my thoughts. When Aurora, blushing like a bride, lisen from her saflren couch ; when tne jay Dim pipes ins tuneiui lay in i the apple tree, by the spring house ; j when the chanticleer's shrill clarion I heralds the coming morn ; when the awakened pig arise th from his bed and grunteth, and gocth for his morning refreshments ; when the drowsy beetle wheels his droning flight at noon-tide, and when the low ing cows come home at milking time, I think of thee ;aud like a piece of gum elastic, my heart seems to stretch clean across my bosom. Your hair is like the mane of a sor rel horse, powdered with gold ; and the brass pin, skewered through your waterfall, fills me with unbonded awe. Your forehead is smoother thau the elbow of art old coat. Your eyes are glorious to behold. In their liquid depths, I see legions of little Cupids, bathing like a cohort of ants in an old army cracker. When their fire bit me upon my manly breast, it permeated my entire anat omy like a load of bird shot would go through a rotten apple. Your nose is from a chuuk of Parian marble, and your mouth puckered with sweetness. Nectar lingers on your lips like honey on a bear's paw, and myriads of unfledged kisses are there ready to fly out and light sornewhere, like blue birds out of the parient's nest. Your laugh rings on my ears like the wind-harp's strains, or the bleat of a stray lamb on a bleak hill side, The dimples in your cheeks are like bowers iu beds of roses, or hollows in cake of home-made sutjar. I am dying to fly to your presence and pour out the burning eloquence of my love, as thrifty house-wives pour out hot coffee. Away from you, I am as melancholy as a sick rat. Sometimes I can hear the June bugs of despondency buizing in my ears, and feel the cold lizards of de spair crawling down ray back. Un couth fears, like a thousand minnows, nibble at my spirits, and my soul is pierced through with doubts, as au old cheese is bored with skippers. My love for you is stronger than the smell of Coffy's pateut butter, or the kick of a young cow, and more unselfish than a kitten's first cater waul. As the song bird hankers for the light of the day, the cautious mouse for the fresh bacon in the trap, as a lean pup hankers after ntjw milk, so I long for thee. Vou are fairer than a speckled pullet, sweeter than a yankee dough nut fried in sorghum molasses, bright er than the topknot plumage in the head cf a muscovy duck. You are candy kisses, raisins, pound cake, and sweetened toddy altogether. If these few remarks will euable you to see the inside of my soul, and me to win your affections, I shall be as hafpy as a woodpecker on a cheery tree, or a stage horse in a green pasture. If yon canuot recip rocate my thrilling passion, I will pine away like a, poisoned bedbug, and fall away from the .flourishing vine of life, an untimely branch j and in the coming years, w hen the shad ows grow irorn the hills, and the philosophic frog sings his cheerful evening hymns, ydu, happy in anoth er's love, can come and drop a tear and catch a cold upon the last rest- injr place of Jtt.its Er.tMiN'JMAi MtutiiN - - How' Monkeys ake Takes in ( Dartour. Monkeys are pretty com- toon, yet as all the faraib are re- markably canning; has it ever Occur- red to the reader bow tbey are ta- j ken? Pitfalls will take alien, and the farrrished mouarch of the forest will, after a few days' starvation, dart j into a cage containing- food,- and thns be secured. But how are monkeys j caught ? The ape family resemble man. Their vices are hurratt. They love liquor, and fall. '. In Dartonr and Sennaar the natives iriake n fer- rnented beer of which the monkeys are excessively fcfnd. Awarei of this, j the natives go to the parts of the forests frequented by the monkeys and set on the ground calabashes full Of the enticing liquor. As soon as a monkey sees and tastes it he utters lottd cries of joy, that soon attract comrades. Then an orgife begins, and in a short time the bertsts show 1 all degrees of intoxication. Then the negroes appear. The few Who 1 The drinkers are too far gone to dis- ... ' J (rr lctrrror cnonipj fif tbfJr Anl rrpniK I -r .... b..... . J, - - I immediately begin to weep and cOv- ei iiicui viLii luuuuiiii ii lieu l . . I . - . . t.iAi.rf ,n I - . 1 . 1.An I a neprro takes one bv the hand to lead . . - - him off, the nearest monkey will cling to the one who thus finds a sup- port and endeavor to go off also. Another will grasp at him, and thus I iH turn til! the neSf a stagger- ing line of ten or a dozen tipsy mon keys. When finallj got to the village I they are securely cdred aud gradu j allv sober down : but for two of three davs a gradually diminishin supply of liquor is given them, so as to reconcile thpm by degrees to their fctrltft fif r o n 1 1 7 t t v U...vw v. v.,... . Josephine Gallmeyer is a charm- ing soubrette, and when starring in Hamburg she attracted the attention ; of an enthusiastic young man, Whom she allowed to visit her saloon. The acquaintance ripened Until the eve of her departure, when the young man paid her another visitt She-saw that something lay heavy on his heart. What ails you, my friend" the asked, in, the most encouraging tone, and the youth replied hesitatingly, " I wish to ask a favor, which you coma easily grant me. .just wait a moment : I will hasten home and fetch the casket." The soubrette awaited his return in eager expecta- tion. " Is he so timid." she said to herself, " as not to venture to present a souvenir to hie?'' A few in i n utes afterward her friend re entered the room. He held a verv neat little box ! in his hand. "Look,Miss Gallmeyer," he said, opening the lid, these are the finest Bremen cigars ; you have many distinguished acquaintances in Yienna ; please take these cigars as samples, and recommend them to the Yienna cavaliers. I am a cigar dealer, and win give you ten per cent, dis count on all you sell." The Solar Eclipse next Summer On the 7th of August next a total of the sun will be visible in a part of the United States. The eclipse will be partial throughout the Union, but (nt..i : i o,.. .i in- , lulttl " "" cnirai ,amois outl-- ' V iennessec' Kentucky anu ,ortn .aronna-loliowing a line ,um. w u,ves l souuieasc' DpSn- ning in owa, between 4 and 5 p. m., and ending on the Xorth Carolina cutisi) u ie uiiuuics nasi it. inestin .,, , , . 1 7 iu ou iicuii au us greatest distance from the earth, and the moon at its least, so that the obscuration will last longer than usual. There hare been only two total eclipses tisible in any c .i -t- -. i c. j large part of the U nited States dur- . . , O eclipses wave uwmeu, -uo ui -UK u . i ,e t. most remarkable of which was that of 1833. In the Atlantic Almanac for 1S09, Charles S. Pierce gives full tables of calculations showing the path of this eclipse, and the time of its duration at different points. The average duration of the total eclipse phase will be about two minutes. At central points like Springfield and Bock Island, in Illinois, Terra Haute, in Indiana. Louisville and Frankfort, in Kentucky, Abingdon, in Virginia, and Ilaleigh and Wilmiugton,in North Carolina, astronomical observers will probably gather to witness the phe nomecon. Scientific expeditions were sent to Africa and ludia to observe the eclipse of this year, and the ob servations there made will be of ser vice to the Americaii astronomer next year. The Bonrbous left Spain, and a deficiency of twenty-five thousand pounds iu the treasury at tne same 1 tun-- , - Flax SEErThere ' without donbt be ai large ntimbef of ttcres gown in lias the coming season, ood it becomes interesting to' determine' wbt kind of seed to sow. The past year there were two varieties growrt in this valley the common Amen can and the Darabay flai. Wherei fibre is desired at the expense of the seed, the American variety is con sidered by far the best,- as the stalks grow much taller j but vr be re seed is desired, the Bombay variety is supe- rior.- The seed grairt3 are about a third larger than those of the com mon Tarittt, and craseqiiently tbo': same bulk of seed will produce motd oil. Crops my be harvested with greater ease and less shattering, ns the horse rake can be thed without breaking the seed bells; In clenn- ing; the seed being heavy ia not wast- by being blown hwbt. It has aft advantage in threshine over the common taiiety as the straw 13 shorter h is thought to be moro I' u-j., Last summer in one experiment, front . F"u"u v' '-'-VJ ou"" ? f t.t .. t,r 111 t....l.l r Wl Ja.iU vi uuailclo U4 J- " siring seed for mowing Can procure it J I Llll. II '1 I L II ,,11 V It I 1 I 111 1 V , tr.l. Ill I r j Winter Evenings. Wiatet etren ghou,a be deroted t0 te&&att and familv intercourse. The neWs- mner is ;ndisnenSabl in tnakinLT th fireside chet;rfljI. Oet enc!y in tho mornilKP rinhh Vnur dnv .0rk before supper-timcj and devote the j j - ming to mental culture and thd nqnisition of knowledge. The family newspaper is the farmer's schot book, and the Winter evetmigs his school tima. . ... . , uescriuing an impromptu wen1 ding, the St. Paul Pioneer sV9 : " Judge Barnard, nothing loth, United the loving pair in Hymen's fetter aud a general scramble occurred for the bridal kiss, the chief of police be ing the fortunate individual Who first Succeeded in kissing the maiden's chefry lips, and Col. Flint the second, The bridegroom took it all la goad humor, saying that ' if that was tho custom it might for that time, but he'd be ' gol-dafhed if he didn't want to do the balance Of the work himself.' " Adelaide Itistori recehllv said to some friends in Venice, that during her sojourn in America, she received evert dav several love-letters i but I the sentimental gentlemen who ad- J dressed them to her, were probably ignorant of the fact that her husband nnoned all her lettrrs. find that the billets doux always exhilarated the , , fimilJ at lhc breakfast table. A recent medical wtiter states that the vices of the American char acter may be briefly summed up as fellows ; First An Inordinate pas sion for riches. SecondOverwork of the mind and body in the pursuit of busiuesSi Third Undue hurry and excitement in all the affairs of life. Fourth Intemperance in eat ing, drinking and smoking. Fifth A "eneral disregard of the true laWs of life antl liealtu I " " How do you like the character of St. tauir asked a parson of hi ,andladjf dluing a conversation about the apostles. "AM he was a good oId fof he once saidj kn0Wt that we mtJSt eat what u sct before I t , ., us, a,d nsk no questions, for con- science sake. I always should like him for a boarder. A lit tie boy, on coming home from chufch where he had seen a - person performing on an organ, said H , . , rto his mother : " Oh ! mamma, I Wish I ...... I 1 I .1 .U thm I tun ; a man was ntiintmrj music out - ' . ' " r- o ot an old cupboard. Sometimes in obituary notices, the newspapers give us the causes of death. "Why not the causes of mar riage ? Wc should be vastly more entertained. For instance t "AfU-r a lingering flirtation, Joe Smith to iss Kate Fling. Mr. Peter Cunningham, whose Shakespearean forgery, in the shnpe of the lleVel s Hook,' has exciteu so much attention in England re- cently, is a son of Allan Cunningham, the Scottish poet, the friend ot Mr Walter Scott, and the neaa wur- man of Chan trey, the sculptor. A stingy husband accounted fof all the blame of the lawlessness of hia children in company by saying; " his wife always gave them their own way," 'Poor things.it's all I have to give them," was her prompt reply. Are men ucessarily grammatfs cal when, they are iu the icipcrati vi mood iT O