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A ,...-. ..... .r t-w r--'-r.i-:- '"'' '" ' - - . - .. - .......... ...b..... . 1 iiE- --IBjEkly Enterprise ' " - - " ' - ' - 4 "11 (Vt v ill l HtT. -1 IK ens i lU t Hi nt I, ur tllf lit'!-. net' d i" U cutH f th ions. .,f Ure- -, the i- ' thci' S, end.--. an i ivlltll' , and IIIOS facf- bod.v. Knld ither :i ran ix to eases 1 u rcc - . Wl'; C UtHl u tt.i tha-' icatei en lt TOI. 3. 1866. Established. 1866. k The Weekly Enterprise. ' A N INDEPENDENT PAPER, FOIt THE Business Man, the Farmer And the FAMILY CIRCLE. FIBLISHF.D EVERY SATTRDAY AT THS OFFICE Corner of Fifth and Main streets Oregon City, Oregon. D. V. IRELAND, Proprietor. TIIE WEALTH OP OREGON shall at all times constitute the paramount interest to which our columns will be devoted. Every measure for the good of the State, whether of private or putlie interest, irrespective of part, will find In us an advocate and a de fender, to the extent of onr ability. 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The Enterprise office is supplied with beautiful, approved styles of type, and mod ern MACHINE PRESSES, which will enable tha Proprietor to do Job Piinting at all times Neat, Quick and Chcaji ! '" Work solicited. D. C. IRELAND, Proprhtor. B USINESS CA 11 D S. D U. F. BARCLAY, (Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. H. B. Co.) OFFICE At Residence, Main street Ore gon City, Oreeon. W. C.JOHNSON. F. O. MCOWK. Notary Public. JOHNSON & McCOWN, Oregon City, Oregon. 6 gr 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. JOHN M. BACON, Justice of the Peace C City Recorder. Office In the Court House and City Council Room, Oregon City. Will attend to the acknowledgment of deeds, and all other duties appertaining to the business of a Justice of the I'eace. , JMPEMAL MILLS. Savier, LaRoque & Co., : OREGON CITY. ' 1.Kccp constantly on hand foi sale, flour - Midiing, Bran and Chicken Feed, Parties purching feed must furnish the sacks. ; yM. BROUGUTON. Contractor and Builder, P Main st., OREGON CITY. . " Will attend to all work in his line, con sisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner woik a training, btilding, etc. Jobbing promptly , attended t. J) AVID SMITH, Successor to S2IITI d- MARSHALL, BlackSmith and Wagon Maker, Corner of Main and Third streets Oregon City : Oregon. . rr Blacksmithing in all iU branches; Wag on making and repairing. All work warrant d to give satisfaction. W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since lS43,at the old stand j.tium oirret, vrtgon I'tfi, Oregon. An Assortment of Watches, Jew eiry, ana teth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. Repairings done on short notice and tnanktul tor past tavors. CLARK GREENMAN, S36u . t'tty wrayman 0 REG OX CITY All orders for the delivery of merchan- t oise or packages and freitrht of whatever des cription, to any part of the city, will be exe cuted pnCTpt'.v and with ore. si BUSINESS CARDS. J. li. MITCHBLL. 4 J. 2T. DOLPH. 'A SMITH. Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Laio, Solicitors tu Chancery, and I roc- s tors in Admiralty Office o-er the old Post Office, Front street, Portland, Oregon. - '' : ! a. c. Gin as. c. w, parbisr, Notary Public and Uoii. of Deeds. GIBBS & PARRISH, .Attorneys and Counselors at Zawt ' Portland Oregon OFFICE Oa Alder street, in Carters brick block. QP. FERRY, BROKER, Iobti.4Xd. Orkcos.r . Cor, Front and Vathington &ts. Agent North. British and Mercantile Insurance Company, arid Manhat tan Life lnsnrar.ee Company. FGovernment Securities. Stocks.TJonds" and Real Estate bought and sold on Com mission. Dr. J, H. HATCH, Late Mack fy Hitch, DENTIST, The patronage of those desiring First Class Operations, is respectfully solicited. Satisfaction in all cases guaranteed. N. 13. Nitrous O.cvJe administered for the Painless Extraction of Teeth. Office Corner of Washington and Fron streets, Portland. Entrance on Washington street. J)ENTAL NOTICE. HOME AGAIN. During my 'our of two years n the Eastern States I have spared neither time nor monev to make mvse'f per fectly familiar with and master of my pro fession. Those desiring the best woik that the nature of the case will admit of can find me at my ollice, 107 Front street, two doors above McCormick's Hook Store, Portland, Oregon. DR. J. G. GLENN. JAMES L. DALY, (Late Dalr t Stevens,) G ENEJi A L AO ENT, OfiticF. So. 104 Front street, Portland, Will trive special attention to Collecting and adjustment of accounts, bills and notes; Negotiating Inland bills: eilectinir loans: buvinjr, seTiinirand leasing real cr-tate: house ntina:, and to the ireiieral arenrv business in all its branches. Oregon Sccl Store I R. E. CHATFIELD, Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Garden and Field Seeds of all Kinds. PUODl'CE AND COMMISSION. First street, Portland Oregon, Near the IVe stern Hotel. J EMOVAL ! Till' T V XX.' Vt T V Establishment of J. JJ. Miller n.VS BEEN KGMOVED To JVb. 101 Front st., corner of Aider Carter's Xeto Building, Portland, In Chas. M'oodard's Drvg Store T Where he will be ready to attend to all manner of workmanship in his line. Htcues and Jowclry repaired in tns most workmanlike manner. J. li. MILLElt. CHAUNCEY BALL, Successor to ff radon it Co., MANCFACTCHKR OK Wagons & Carriages, 201 and 203 Front st., Portland, Oregon. OCT" JVagons of every description made to order. GeneralJobbing done with neatness and dispatch. A. H. BELL. E. A. FAKKER. BELL &. PARKER. BUGG1STS, AND DEALERS IX Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And even' article kept in a Drug Store. Main Street, Oregon City. LOUIS ALllltlUHT, EXCELSIOR MARKET ! Corner of Fourth and Main streets. OREGON CITY, it- Keen constantly on hand all kinds of fresh and salt meats, such as BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, TEAL, CORNED BEEF, HAMS, PICKELED PORK, LARD, And everything else to be found in their line of business. F.MILLEK. jr.W.SHATTtTCK. J. F. MILLER & Co., MAXCFACTCRERS OF AXD DEALERS IX Hoots and Slioes At the Oregon City Boot and Shoe Store,' Mam street. THE BEST SELECTION Of Ladies'. Cents', llovs'. and Children's Boots and Shoes, on hand or made to order. ANDREW WILLIS. W.M. BROUGHTOX. WILLIS & BR0UGHT0N. Having purchased - the interest or S. Cram, in the well known LIVERY STABLE One door west nf Ftcnimr 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 day or week. JOB FRIXTIXR SEATLY EXECVT ed at the ENTERPRISE-OFFICE. sri I OR-EGQIV CITY, OREGON, SATUKBAY, FtBRTJAKY G, 189. ' - THE MIDSIGHT Mournfully! O, mournfully, , - r This midnight wind doth sigh, Lite some sweet, plaiutire melody Of ages long gone by ! It speaks a tale of other years, Of bopes that bloomed to die, Of sunny smiles that set in tears, And loves that mouldering lie! Mournfully! O, mournfully" This midnight wind doth moan. It stirs some chord of memory In each dull, heavy tone ; The Voices of the much lored dead Seem floating thereupon, All," all my fond heart cherished Ere death had made it lone. Monrnfully ! O, mournfully The midnight wind doth swell. With its quaint, pensive miustrelsy, Hope s passionate farewell To the dreamy joys of early years, Lie jet grief's canker fell On the heart's bloom, ay ! well may tears Start at that parting knell ! William MoihcnceH A OllKCl V.V SATIIIE. When lovely women stoops alas to frolic And rues the ruse, too late, What balm .shall soothe lier melancholic? What art shall set her back up straight? The only thing for her disaster The only way her woe to end, Is to apply a mustard plaster If she won't do it, let her bend. V. II. V,'ebb. A SEAKCII VOll A VOCATION. (Concluded.) Lifk. Life was of course a vale of tears. Years rhymed with tears, so it was a length of years. " Life is a weary vale of tears, A dreary, dusky length of years, Where not a ray of light appears. ?' Then I got life out again gradual ly. Mark, Dark, Spark. " But pilgrims o'er its paths may mark Ilow lights of Faith transform the dark And Hope illumes it with her spark." 1 was puzzling over the next verse when the dinner-bell rung, and I had to take measures to sustain life; but in the course of the cfiernoon I cot through four verses more of the same stamp, and arrived at my grand liuis: Forests of crosses block the way ; All round the lowering sky is gray And dim and dark, look where we may, Put still, as farther we advance, And unknown beauties meet our glance. Triinting, we deem that good may chance.'' I wustxhaustcd. I was unused to severe mental labor; still the su preme satisfaction which the reperus al of these lines gave me repaid me for all; and when I had it in an en velope ready to dispatch, I felt that I had laid the foundatiou for great- ness. The glory of having written that poem lasted me a week. I consider ed that I could now sit down and wait for events. A fortnight went by. I began to be doubtful. Three week?; and I found little encouragement in the re membrance ' that the " American people are slow to appreciate genius; and Mr. Bryant, their first poet, is obliged to edit a newspaper for sup port." Wasn't Mr. Bryant? One evening Sue came dashing in from school and tossed a letter on my lap, saying, merily. " Are you an aspiring young wo man, Janet? That looks suspicious.'' I had been sitting idly in the win dow, in the most romantic and mel ancholy style possible. Sue ruined my attitude; for, without waiting to answer, 1 raced out of the room un- dignifiedly and broke open the en velope with trembling fingers. Alas! I drew out my own lines; then a printed " form'' of refusal: " We hereby return to Miss Spin ney the poem ' Life,' and regret that it will not suit our columns.' Not suit their columns? What were their columns, that it didn't suit? What mental blindness was this, that let such a poena go unwel- comed! This was a downfall, and an inter val ot blankness followed. 1 began to appreciate my own description of life, considering that it was truly a vale of tears. I was tempted to despair; but that immortal sentence which has long comforted struggling humanity came to my aid: "Rome was not built in a day;" therefore Jane Spinney couldn't electrify the work! in a day. wasn't grandiloquent as I had been before, but I determined grimly that a master-piece should appear and it should be the work of Jan Spinney. I took time for it ; I mean I was going to take time for it; but my time was taken away from me Louisa Grant, a friend of Sue's came to visit us, and I was forced to re main in common place.". The one advantage of my situation was that I had my chamber to my self. Sue and Louisa occupied another apartment; so I could write after eleven . .o'clock at night, if I could possibly keep enthusiasm so long. I thought I would come down to the level of other people's minds: " Life" had been a great deal too deep. I would write a ballad a ballad that should be entittled " The Lady's Despair." I will not inflict the particulars upon the reader. Suffice it to say 1 went to work and burned midnight oil for six consecutive nights, thus attracting numberless comments from the family. I must sny that it was hard work. The necessity of rhyming interfered tvith conclusions dreadfully. Noth iDg but my faith in the result carried me through; but on the sixth night I did get through. The family hud grown tired of hre that evening, for a wonder, and had iuclined toward slumber generally at ten o'clock. I had bade fcue and Louisa good night in the passage, and had sought my own apartment, invigorated by the thought that I had only one verse more to write; however, that verse occupied me till after eleven. By the time I had looked over the whole thirteen verses it was half past eleven. I didn't hear the crirls' voices any longer; I supposed they lad gone to sleep. I was solitary alone with my grand thoughts. 1 thought, myself, it would be very nice to " sit, on winter nights, by a solitary fire, aud hear the nations raising me, a far off." I didn't doubt I should have that experience. I thought I would read the poem over; read it aloud, to get a better idea of it. I tilted myself back in my chair comfortably and began: " TIIE LADY'S DESPAIR." " A lady with a weary face Sat at a turret window high, And watched the sky." Good; gave you the idea of pa tience. " A lady fair, with lofty grace, She sat and wept full drearily, And none were nigh." I thought I heard a sound. I lis tened; but it was not repeated. I had been mistaken. " A knight went riding far below, Looked up and waved a sad farewell, Careless of what befell." There was a queer noise again: perhaps rats in the wall. He rode upon a steed of snow. And in that fair and pleasant dell Had loved the lady well." Certainly no sympathetic person could read this without tears. 'Three strokes rang from the tower bell ; She forward leaned, and looked to see Ilim passing slow and silently, ISoth were so sad rtwas hard to tell Which was the saddest of them, he Or" A perfect scream of laughter rang in my astonished ears. It proceeded from the hall. I darted to the door with the rapidity of lightning, and flung it open wrathfully. 1 here was Sue doubled op on the hall floor, in convulsions of laughter, and Louisa holding by the stair rail ing, with the tears running down her cheeks. " Or she," gasped Sue, going off again as 6he caught a glimpse of my indignant countenance. "Oh, Jane, Jane, you'll kill uit!" I was near wishing I could; but my utter stupefaction prevented the expression of the wish, and it seemed quite impossible for either Sue or Louisa to stop laughing long enough to say another word. " I really think; Jane," gasped Sue again, making a great effort to speak, " that this will suit our columns. Don't you, Louisa?" " Its pathos P Louisa managed to articulate. " And its beautiful flow. Have her die, Jane, do. TTave her leap down into the dell; it's fair and pleas ant." "But get the knight out of the way first," suggested Louisa, wiping her eyes. "The full might crnsh hira." And they both relapsed again. "If you thiuk this is honorable," I began, regaining my voice finally, ' I must say I differ with you.'' M We aren't exalted," said Sue, "not at all. We're in a state of abasement, Louisa and I. But a cat may look at a king, you know, or we may listen to a poetess." I shut the door in their faces an grily, and locked it. Sue shouted her " regrets that she didn't hear the whole of it'' through the keyhole; but, as I made no answer, they both departed ai?d went to rest. 1 flung the poem into the fire; and then all my dignity didn't save me from crying. That most woeful of troubles had come upon me, viz: my faith in myself had been shaken. I was afraid the ship hadn't any pilot, the traveler hadn't any guide,. and I hadn't any vocation. Not a moment did I sleep that night; and in the morning my eyes were so red I would not go down, but locked myself in my chamber, reflecting pleasantly that Sue was probably amusing the breakfasters with an account of the ' Lady's De spair." I was very unhappy, and had an idea of making a hermitess of myself in future. By-and-by there came a tap at the door, and my mother's voice, asking to come in. "Jane," she said, " I have brought you your breakfast, and some advice. What a faculty you have for making yourself miserable!'' " make myself miserable?' " I know it was unpardonable in Sue to annoy you so; but you should be aboTC such tlrngs." "Above such things?" " What ever put it into your head," continued my mother, " to think you could write verses?" " You think a girl should do noth ing but wash dishes and iron shirts?" said I, indignantly. " I feel myself Gt for somtthiu": higher.' " I don't want to hurt your feel ings, Jane, but " " And I want some work especial ly mine." " Did you always feel fitted for something higher?" 1 was obliged to confess that the attack had como ou suddenly. " Bat I want an object to work for." " Then," said my mother, " make binding shoes the object, rather than writing verses; for you are sure you could do the first well. Cultivate any talent you have, Jane, only be sure you have it." Binding shoes can't be a voca tion for me." " A vocation? Why do yon want a vocation? Why should you hate a vocation more than the girls around you? Duty is a vocation, Jane." " I can't do common things."' " Then pray don't consider that a proof that you can do tmcommon ones, l tninK, it l were you, i wouia make common-sense a speciality." And so I lost the only glimpse of a vocation I ever was favored with; for I hadn't the obstinacy to persist in the face of everything. I aban doned my stand-point with as good as I could, lost the hope of distinction, and fell back into stocking darning and obscurity, where I have remained ever since. Long study has made ma mistress of the ab-c of life, and I am at present a peaceful old maid, whose chief use is to look after Sue's children, and whose principal occupa tion is gossiping and tea-drinking. Children need smiles as flowers need sunbeams. If they meet them at home, they will be happy and con tented there; if not, they will be like Iv to seek elsewhere for them. And who can blame them? Egg3 are 80 cents a dozen in Salt Lake City, and lager beer 25 cents ft glass. . . . . , LETTEIl fko.u imulif ritz. Washington Citv, Jan. 4, 18C9. Editor Obecoxiax : We reached here in nine days trav eling time from Boise City, probably the shortest time ever made o ver this part of the continent, as we took a construction train" 85 miles west of Bryan, the usual' passenger depot, thereby saving over 60 miles of tedi ous staging. EXPEXSIS OVERLAXD. I will give you alist of the expens es on the route, as this will probably become quite a thoroughfare for our NorthwestenTpebple." " I took my own conveyance to Boise city, a distance of 253 miles from Walla Walla; faro by stage, 40 gold, and about $12 for meals, etc., time three days. From Boise City to Salt Lake, 402 miles, wo took the stage time three days and a half; fare $100 currency (it is all currency after we leave Boise City), meals MA -rr T? c.1i T t r vi v to. a i u in ottit jaKe io enu oi track, 80 miles, $23. To Bryan where we took the regular passenger train, 67 50, meals 83 00; to Oma ha, $64 25; meals and sleeping car, -$7 25. To Washington City, $40; meals and sleeping coach, $6; mak ing a sum total from Walla Walla to this city of $323 25 currency, each. This is the entire expense without laying over. Bryan is about 200 miles west of the Rocky Mountains. NATURE OF TIIE ROAD. We took a niagniGcent sleeping coach on the west side of the Rocky Mountains and awoke next mornin at Cheyenne city, entirely out of the Black Hills, a distance of nearly 200 miles from where we took the coach. We could scarcely realize that the day before, we had been three or four hundred miles West of the Rocky Mountains. The road is well built and a great portion of the way very straight, so that when everything is properly reg ulated, good time can be made. There is one stretch of GO miles aK most as straight as a line. Coming down to Xorth Tlattte we ran one stretch of 1G miles in 17 minutes. Saw no buffalo on the route, and but two or three droves of antelope. We did not see a wild Indian on the route. They have crone with the buf faloes. When it becomes desirable and necessary for the Government to open op a mail route or an emigrant high way over the continent, there is no cheaper nor more expeditious way to establish such a route than to build a railroad through that country. It effectually disposes of the Indian ques tion. RECEIPTS OF THE ROAIT. The earnings of this road are enor mous. 1 was told tuat at tne little station of Bryan, the receipts for passengers alone during Kovember, were over $43,000, and that the ac tual receipts of the road each day, will almost pay for the next day's work at the end of the track. This is perfectly astonishing, as co one thought to make any particular ac- count of the way business through this barren country. It shows what our Northern road will do when built through a rich agricultural, grazing and mineral country, such as it will pass through, AT OMAHA. The company are at work on their new Dridge at Omaha, and have a temporary bridge on the ice for this winter, so that trains can now pass without breaking cargo. I saw one red Boston car that had strayed away from the ' Hab" and was west of the Rocky Mountains, goicg on to the end of the track. I have not seen a point on the en tire route that I consider as good a place for investment as Council Bluffs or Omaha. The bridge at Omaha, which is es timated will cost $6,000,000, is bound to cause a large number of railroads to concentrate at this point, as the company have the power to dictate terms to other railroads sending freight or passongrrs over thp east NO. 13. ern part of their road, so ay almost! to compel them to pass on tlieir bridge. This U. P. Company is already art immense corporation, exerting a pow erfal influence npon alt roads pointing towards it. railroads ix gexeral. Railroading is being reduced l& a science here in the East, The large and more wealthy companies are com bining in most every direction and becoming powerful monopolies, crosh cut al! smaller enterprises that may start near them. The earnings of the Pennsylvania Central companj hv? reached the enormous sum "of $18,t)0O,O00 per month. TALK OF A STATESMAN, I tailed on Governor dearv as I passed through Uarrisburg. I found him a statesman of the most libera! and generous ideas, entirely alive to the interests of our coast, and partis ularly to those of the North Pacific R-ailroad. He said it would be his: policy for the Government to assist in building the Northern and South ern Pacific roads, if it took the Ias-8 dollar in the Treasury ;: but he agreed in the opinion that it would' not be necessary to nse a single dollar irt cash for that purpose. He is a prac tical civil engineer and promises to. come to Washington this winter to assist in bringing the matter before Congress. With the influence and hearty co-operation of a few such men as Governor Geary there will be but little difficulty in getting our different bills passed, cud be the means of es tablishing and building up such a ca reer of prosperity on our owp coast as has never been dreamed of by the' most sanguine. .Governor Geary in vited me to deliver a lecture before the Legislaiure in Uarrisburg this winter on the character and resources of our North Pacific coast, which I have promised to do. I will endeavor to- keep you posted: on railroad affairs during the winter Yours truly, rillLIP RITZ. MI1S. SCIIVTLEU COLFAX. Harpers Bazar, for December 5 th , devotes a page to Schuyler Colfax: and his bride, Miss Wade, giving ex cellent portraits of both,- with s rep resentation of the bridal gift from Mr. Colfax. . The Bazar, in speaking of Miss Ella . Wade, now Mrs-. Colfax, says the picture shows a' sen--sible, earnest, and thoughtful face,- the owner of which would be likely to give none but good counsel to her husband in his responsible position. A friend who knows her well says " she is just thirty-two,- and not ashamed of her age. She is' hot tall, nor short, nor stout, but wiH average 140 pounds. She is not handsome. but good-looking. She is quiet, re served, repressed, self-poised, and self-controlled to a remarkable de gree. But you think of her that still tvaters run deep. She seems to have had a life a quist country town, village, and farm life that had not been congenial, or rather ha3 not drawn her ont at all; and her repress ed manner and nature are due possi bly to this. There is no gush, or brilliancy, no show, no exuberance in raaDnef, appearance, and style Her new life will bring her out; but she has nothing of what is called ' society manners,' and will make no impression upon the multitude. Fastidious and feminine to a very high and rare degree in one of snch experience, she is a most admirable selection for a wife for' Mr. Colfax a sweet, true, self-adjusted woman, with a younger heart than I ever saw at thirty odd years, who never would make a career for herself, but would accept and fill whatever place came to her in the way of duty." With such a woman as this for the wife of the Vice President, and such a wo man as Mrs. Grant in the White House, we may expect a new order of society matters at Washington which shall exert a beneficial influ ence throughout the country. The day of plain common sense, which suits the character of the American people, dawns nt last tl Cftt- ; .., VtVCtl' ft t inci-