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About The Weekly enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1868-1871 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1869)
1 f C3E OEEGON '.CITY, OllEGON, SATURDAY, AFRIIi 17, TOIL. 3. IVOi 23. I-1 1 1 i 1 1- t 0 &USIJTSS CARDS. T)U:-F. BARCLAY, - Formerly hurgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co.) OFFICE At Residence, Main street Ore ryon City, Oregon. JOHNSON & HcCOWH, -: Oreg-oa C?ty, Oregon. 4 Will attend to all business entrusted to onr care in any of the Courts of the State, Collect money .Negotiate loans, sell real estate i etc. I'articnlar attention given to contested , Land cases.' ' . JU FERIAL MILLS. - Javier XaBcqne & Co., A- OREGON crr. t3,Keen constantly on hand fot sale, flour 'Midliugs, Bran and UlucKen v eea. - purching feed must furnish the sacks. YM- BROUGHTON. Contractor and Builder, Main St., OUKGOX CITY. jg- Will attend to all work in his line, con .Bisting in part of Carpenter and Joiner woik " framing, building, etc. Jobbing promptly -attended t D AVID SMITH, Successor to SMITH & MARSHALL, XJack-Smilh and Wagon Maker, Corner of Main and Third streets, Oregou City Oregon. As-Blacksmithingin all its branches; Wag on making and repairing. All work warrant ed to give satisfaction. W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since 1849, at the old Btand, Main Street, Oregon, City, Oregon. An Assortment of Watches, Jew elry, aad Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be as represented. I.'erainnirs done on snort notice, i.ind thankful for past favors. CLARK GREEHMAH, City Drayman, OB EG OX CITY. t, All orders for the delivery of merchan dise or packages arid freight of whatever des cription, to any part of the city, will be exe cuted promptly and with care. LOGt'S & ALBRIGHT, EXGELSiORiSL PMRKET! Corner of Fourth and Main streets. OUKGOST CITY. jKI" Keep constantly on hand all kinds of freh and salt meats, such ad REEF, POIJK. MUTTON, VEAL, CO UN ED BEEF, HAMS, 1'iCKELED PORK, LARD, Avl everything else to be found in their line of business. -J. F. J. W. SHATTCCK MILLER 8s. Co., J. F. MANfF ACTL'UERS OF AXD PEALER3 IN loots soul laoes! At. the Oregon City Boot and Shoe Store, Main street. THE BEST SELECTION Of Ladies, Gents', Boys', and Children's Boots and Shoes, on hand or made to order. JOSHLAND BROTHERS, PORTLAND AUCTION STORE, 9 1 First sl.y Portia n d, Next Boer to Post Office, i(W Importers and Jobbers of Staple and mcy Dry Goods. Grain bags. Burlaps, furn ishing Goods. es We pay the highest Cash price for Wool, Furs, and Jlides. piICENIX HOTEL. ilaia Street, Oregon City J. F. Miller & Co., Proprietors. The proprietors of the above Hotel take great pleasure in announcing to the public that they have made arrangements to keep a first-class house for the traveling public, and hope to receive a share of their patronage. The House is at a very convenient distance from either landing of the steamboats, and near the center of business. QLIFF HOUSE. MAIN STREET. OREGON CITY The Proprietors of thi well known IIose renew their thanks to the public for t&e patronage heretofore so libera lv bestow--ed. Ilavmg enlarged and newly furnished our house, we claim to possess accommoda tions in every respect inferior to no House in the State. WHITE &RUOADES, Feb. 13, 1S69. Proprietors. J EST AUR ANT. Mkin street, one door North of the Lincoln Bakery, Oregon City. !B. F. Newman, Proprietor. The proprietor is now prepared to turnish the public with Hot Coffee, Oysters, Pigs-feet, Game and Fish, at all hoars of the day. Xs" Boarders wilt be accommodated at $i0 per week. Give me a call and you shall :go away satisfied. JJELV1DEUE SALOON. Main Street, Oregon City. I. BROWN, Proprietor, thankful for past favors, solicits a continuance of the same FREE LUNCH DAILY, And the very best qualities of Wines, Liquors ' and Ci2ars. Pigs' Feet, Tripe, Herring, Oysters Art1 CnnKnao AAnof nl Itt tr V r, v A ruu i;aiuiuca vuuovaunj uauu. OREGON CITY BREWERY! HENRYI1UMBEL, Havwe imrMinspd t.Tnp nhnve TJrwwerv wish . 10 inform the public that he is now prepar juanuiacture a iNo. 1 quality or . - LAGER BEER, as good as can be obtained anywhere in the urtlers solicited and promptly Diied LOST TO SOCIETY LOST. - Touch not the fallen one drive her away ; Guilty and soulless, but beautiful clay ; Though her heart 's bleeding hear not her plead ing? " ' At any cost I Forget what is good of her Speak, if you would of her, As lost; To society lost ! So sad and dejected, the poor broken-hearted; Love, honor, and all save life, have departed ; None proffer relief, to heal her heart's grief Oh, fearful the cost ! -No one befriends her ; Fashion condemns her As lost; To society lost ! Ileed not her sighs, her entreaties and tears Spurn her ! as one for whom nobody cares ; -Lost and degraded; To memory she '& faded ; 4 Trifling the cost! Forget you e'er blessed her ; E'er kissed and caressed her; She 's lost ; To society last ! Oh, pity her not; she has fallen from place Applaud her betrayer, receive him with grace Smile on her deceiver, but do not receive her At any cost ! For such is propriety in Christian society, When lost; To society lost 1 Innocent, Loving, Betrayed and Forsaken ; Guilty and Fallen by Vice overtaken; Let society blame her try not to reclaim her, At any cost. Forget all her beauty Do society's duty: She's lost to society lost ! Oh, merciless fashion, why do you nurttire Ilypocrisy's laws and assassinate virtue? Bow to the text, O, immaculate sex, At any cost ; Frown on the fallen one, And ycrar proud duty's done : She's lost to society lost ! WHO WILL IIA VE ME. About a year a?o, I determined, let come what would, to marry, I Lad taken a Chicago paper for three ov months, and carefully read the proceedings had in the divorce courts of that city of loose ness, without losinir confidence in myself and the " girl of the period." At the same time I felt myself a match for anybody's daughter, in the matter of an enlistment of her individual affections, but I thought it well not to give discretion the go by entirely. So I drew up the fol lowing : ."I, , do solemnly promise, that after 1 shall have be come the wife of my dearly be loved Argo. Jason, I will never, except at his solicitation, enter the city oi Chicago ; that should my dear Argo be away Irom home two or three weeks on business, I will not swear that he has absent ed himself two years- without rea sonable cause ; that, should be ac cidentally tread upon my trail, I will not charge him with such cruel and barbarous treatment as en dangers my life; that, if he should be convinced of complicity with a Whisky Ring, I will not sue for a divorce on the ground of his being a felon; that, should he at any time say that he thought any other wo man than myself handsome, I will not make affidavit that he has of fered me such indignities as to ren der my condition intolerable; that, should he conclude to reduce our expenditures, I will not assert that he has been guilty of such conduct as constitutes him a vagrant ; that, should he prefer strong coffee to weak, I Avill not charge him with habitual drunkenness ; that when I do apply for a divorce from him, such course shall be equivalent to a confession that I love some hand somer, wealthier or faster man." I say I drew up the foregoing, had it nicely copied out, packed my trunk, and started to find a wife. It is needless to say I avoided Chicago. But a few days elapsed, and I found myself in St. Louis, comfortably domicil ed, and prepared myself for a view of the situation. Letters of intro duction soon furnished me with a circle of acquaintance, and, before I had been in the city a month, I found myself head over ears in love with a large-eved, melancholy beauty, who sang sentimental songs subduedly, and sighed. A more 'boneless creature. 1 don t - - x. ' think, ever existed. In fact, for some time after I first knew her, it was a question with me, whether she existed. I give you my word, 1 never saw her inhale a Dream oi air; but she sighed, and therefore I knew, although 1 could not catch her in the act. she must have in haled. We were walkincr one day she and I when we came upon one of those patent Lun "-Testers, which scientific men. reduced m circum stances, sometimes exhibit on the streets. I persuaded her to "have a blow." tShe lacked the spirit to refuse. She applied her sweet mouth to the tube, and merelv sighed. The machine exploded with a terrible noise, and the con cussion shattered the windows of the buildings up and down the street for several blocks. I was satisfied that she inhaled. As we walked home after the catastrophe, I proposed to her and was accepted, with a sigh. When we reached her house, I entered the parlor with her, and, in the happiest and most confidential frame of mind possible, I presented to her the writing, a copy of which I have given above, and asked her to sign it. She took the paper, read a little Avay, stopped, and sighed. " Not go to Chicago ?" she murmured. , " Oh, heavens ! Why, to live in that city has been the sole dream of my existence ! Why, O why hast thou dashed the cup.from my lips ?- the cup which, I have so long fancied, contains water from the tunnel ! Go, Ar go! 'Twas ever thus! Go!" She didn't sigh-h ! I looked about among my ac quaintances and, in a short time, found that I preferred a high-stepping creature, with an arched in step which she rather archly dis played eyes and hair as black as a first-class funeral, cheeks and lips as red as a new express wagon, and a laugh which was as infectious as applause from the galleries. She loved horses like Grant and Bon ner, and a drive was her Elysium. In less than two weeks, I had my collar bone broken, four buggies ditto, two horses used up, and was the dear, delightful creature's affi anced husband. With my arm in a sling, I called upon her one morn ing, and presented the agreement for her signature. I have told you she loved a drive. On this occa sion she insisted that I had driven her to destraction, and also insisted upon driving me out of the house. 31y hat was pitched after me. The next was a lady of literary tastes, who was not so young as she had been. Oh, the happy hours we spent at the library, where we Avere compelled by the rules, to converse in whispers ! I proposed to her,not so much because I was in love with her, as for the reason that I thought myself some what indebted to her for the time she had Spent in persuading me to read 1 upper and Buckle. 1 con fess I really did read the works of the two gentlemen, but, by way of penance, have for some time been investing pretty larsrely in church raffles; and as I don t win 1 1 i S "I "" 1 . anything, x londiy iancy l am re ceiving an account for cash paid for the shares. I was accepted, and with my aioretime coniidence re newed, I asked her signature to the paper. She read it through deliberately. She read it again. She read it a third time without having spoken a word. When she did speak, it was in Latin. I did not understand it, but Iknewrwhat she meant. &nc is not my aviic So soon as niA-collar bone AA'as i 1 " t 'I' knit firmly, I returned to my work, and Avas soon lortunate enough to make the acquaintance of a young lady of seAentccn summers, Avho had a fourth interest in some ad dition," in her own right. If there Avas anything in the world she loA'ed more than another, except myself, that thing was a moustache. As our acquaintance ripened into love, she began to insist on my cul tivating my upper lip. I lived but to gratify her, and bought all the preparations known to the trade as infallible beard producers ; lotions, onguents, plasters, etc. In a short time, 1 had the most noticeable upper hp m the citAr. It AAas blist- ered and SAVOiien into a remuiK- able prominence. It was excrutiat- mglAr painful, and the neATsboys took it under particular patronage, thereby forcing me to keep within doors. I intreated her -to forego the moustache, but she declared it her ultimatum. When I Avas no longer able to go out, she used to come to my hotel and inspect my lip." A month of the most exquisite solicitude upon both our parts, fail ed to produce the slightest sign of a moustache, and she, in despair flung herself into the arms of a German doctor, Avho Avas blessed with a moustache as big as a lap- dox. The news of her marriage reach ed me by a polite note from my charmer, accompanied by a card nhotoorranh of her husband. His moustache was really sublime. There Avas nothing for it but to try again, so I " palliated" my lip, and, in a AA'eek or tAVO, found my self lrpsentable. This time the fates snarled my AA eb A-ith that a svloh. Avho was delicacy itself in inrr but her appetite for Thp commerce of a first class nation Avould have exhaust ec itself in supplying the demand ls, x used to ro down tOAvn " shoppin with her, and this is about how we " shopped." She bought a paper of pms at V andervoorrs and then Ave would cto over to Freund's and get her "a dozen fried." These de spatched, we would buy a yard of narrow ribbon at Hafdon's, and go back to Freund's for1" a dozen raw." Then at Ubsdell's we would get five cents' worth of boot laces, and return to Freund's for a game dinner. When the season for roast chestnuts came around she left a streak of shells behind us as we walked, which other: people stum bled over. Every how and then she would be taken sick; and had to go to Freund's to lie down. But she never left reund s without eating something. One night we had been to the" theatre, and, after that, of course td Freund's. My angel was m high feather. She had eaten nothing from the time we entered the thea tre, until Ave arrived at Freund's, except a quart of pea-nuts, six aj ples, an orange or tAro, and a pound of mixed candies. The fast had been too protracted, and like a famished Avolf, she " went for" oys ters, Irish steAAr, raAV cabbage, cele ry, pickles, quail, roast A enison, pies, cakes, puddings, ices, etc. I paid the bills like a man, and we started for home. There Avas no moon, the gas Avas as lifeless as the crastric iuice of a dvsveptic. and therefore the streets tvere dark. Just as AA'e A-ere passing the mouth of one of the darkest aleys I eATer saw, the fair creature gaAre a lurch and a half sujipressed scream. I caught her in my arm to prevent her from falling. She Avrithed and groaned, and exclaimed Avildly. In less than a minute, i policeman had me by the shoulder, and the next morning I was arraigned in the Recorder's Court as a garroter. While waiting for my trial, in the dock, my someAvhat respectable ap pearance attracted the attention of the newspaper men, and 1 Avas just about to pay them for keeping the thing out of the papers, Avhen my name was called and my trial be gan. You should have heard the story that policeman told. It Avas one of the finest efforts in the do main of fiction I eA er heard. I Avas about to be remanded, when a notice Avas handed to the Judge, Avho, upon reading it, burst into a laugh, and directed that I be re leased. As I Avas leaving the mag nificent Hall of Justice, 1 overheard the Judge say to the City Attorney something about colic. I ncA cr Avent near that gorman dizing fairy again. I often see her on the street, going towards and coming from "Freund's. About three months ago I gaA'C my heart to a young lady Avhom I saw at one of the Philharmonic concerts. She Avas a performing member of the Society, and en couraged me to join it also. See- :n that it vas mcumDent upon me r,fi i,. otolith learsals, I concluded that I might 1 as well become the recipent of a ittle musical culture, so I joined. I Avent into training for the next concert as a sort of a "heavy." There was but one thing for me to do, and that Avas to sing, in falsetto double bass, (I think that's Avhat they called it,) the folloAving line: 'And he stole a ma-a-a-a-rch upon Jemima." 1 hese AA'ords, rou an kiioav. occur m xuozart s oratorio oi Jiendeis sohn, Avhich is considered, in musi cal circles, to be Mozart's chef de cuisine. When I Avent into train mg, 1 boarded at a house where a feAAr respectable gentlemen were treated as one of the 'family." I used to lock my room door and go at my practicing AA'ith the v igor re- oramended ana enjoined oy tne Societ;'s Director. The first day the "family" .stood it like a man that holds the ace, and has only one to go. The next day one of them sent to enquire Avhether I Avas sick. The third day 1 was politely re quested not to make so much noise, and before the Aveek was out, my board was raised to nity dollars a day. Of course I left. Before that infernal concert Avas OAer, I had moved eleA'en tunes, and 1 gaA'e a standing order to the driver of a baggage wagon to call for my bag gage every third day, iust alter breakfast. At last, the concert was over, and I had acquitted myself to the entire satisfaction of everybody but the -I IT audience. iiv enslaver Avas in an ecstacy of delight as Ave walked home that night, and would stop me every now and then, and insist upon my giAmg : 'And he stole a ma-a-a-a-rch upon Jermima! in the street. She Avas all smiles and complaisance, and didn't hang fire a second when I asked her to be my Avife. I had my little agree ment in my pocket, and she had hardly time to take her bonnet off, after we reached the house, before 1 presented it to her. t She really did love me, I believe, and it Avent hard with her to refus to sing. She would read a little way, and then pick up some arti cle of the parlor table, and gently throAv it at me with all her force. Before long she had all the bijoute rie in the room broken in pieces, and Avas reaching for the mantel clock, Avhen I thought it best to leave. She sent me the agreement next morning, done up in a piece of music entitled, " Then You'll Re member Me." I'm in the market yet, prepared to make any sacrifice except that of dispensing Avith the signing of the agreement - -Who Will Have Me, on these Terms? a svbsibTzed press. From the Salem Democratic Press". It has been priATately dnd public ly charged that the Herald has been subsidized in the interests of the West Side Railroad Company. This charge, inA'olving the integri: ty of the paper which claims to bej and but recently Avas, the leading Democratic organ of the State, has been a matter of public notoriety for the past two Aveeks, without calling out any explanation or de nial from that paper, while its posi tion on the railroad question only goes to confirm the charge. V e have maintained a strict neutrality in all matters of conflict between the tAvo companies, and aatc allude to this subject now, not in the in terest of anAr company, but in the interest of the people, whose inter ests are being trafficked icith, and in the interest of the democratic party whose chief newspaper has be come the subsidized organ of a pri Aate corporation, rejiresenting spec ial local interest. Of 820,000 contributed towards the establishment of the Herald as a Democratic organ, Democrats of Salem contributed more than tAA'ice as much as Avas contributed in Port land ; and now, after having been cheated out of their stock in the paper insult is added to injury, by making it the medium of assailing them in their material interests. This is the personal phase of the wrong ; the icrong to the public is equally manifest not in the fact that the interest of the Avest side road is soutrnt to do promoted, out hat the cast side road is sought to be defeated, or at least embarrassed and impeded in its construction. The necessity of railroads not onl' to the development of the un paralleled resources of the State, mt to infuse into the people that spirit of enterprise and emulation Avhich is calculated to promote the groAvth and prosperity of the State is obvious to every intelligent man. it is just as apparent tnat our chief, if not sole reliance for realizing the advantages of rail roads, is in capital and enterprise breign to the btate. lo assail t . i xi. .i: men avho come jiere wnu iuc dis position and requisite means to en gage in such an undertaking, is a dog-in the manger policy unAvorthy of an enlightened people. We do not say this in the interest of any man or company, but as a general principle. What AAe want, and Avhat the public interests demand, is a railroad, or all the roads which men with capital can be found to build. Mr. Ben. Ilolla day comes here with a national reputation for wealth and the prestige of success m all his business enterprises. He has giAren an earnest of his determination to build a railroad, by the expendi ture of vast sums of money m gra ding and preparing lor the super structure over fifty miles of road, in having ties and stringers saAved for nearly the same distance, and by keeping in the field several corps of engineers and surA'eyors on other portions of the proposed route, HoAr much of this monev has been furnished by citizens of Orego What citizen has been injured by it to the A'alue of one dollar.'' What section ot the country have the surveys passed through in Avhich the price of all property hasn't been greatly enhanced there by, in the aggregate amounting to more than double the cost of the road when completed? Mr. Hol- laday's projected line of road in Or egon, from the Columbia River to State line, will cost, when comple ted, not less than $10,000,000, and the most that has been asked o the citizens of Oregon, is stock subscribtions to the amount of ten per cent. This road, Avhen com pleted, Avill add to the assessable ralue of the property of the State not less than 20,000,000, at the loAvest estimate, What Avorse than follv it is then to assail the man and strive to defeat the projec from Avhom and by which such in calculable ad A-antagcs are offered to the people of the State. ' In view of these facts what hon est man dare say that the majori ty of the last Legislature were not actuated by an enlightened public policy, and did not fairly represent the best interests of the State in awarding the Goverament sub sidy to this Company? Yet Ave have heard the men Avho composed that majority among whom Avere some of the most trusted Demo crats of . the , State characterized by leading men in xwai interests as "subsidized scoundrels;" and a paper which assumes to be the lead ing organ of the Democratic party sells its influence to this crusade against leading members of its own party ! In regard to the disposal of the Land Grant, Ave think there is truth and justice in ,the following calm, and well-considered reflections of the Eugene City Guard: Just as Oregon fnakes an application to the Government for some aid for rail roads, we find a growing disposition to withold aid altogether, at least till the national debt is either reduced or in pro cess of redaction. But in this paragraph we propose to call attention to the pres ent "situation" 6f a land grant already made to Oregon, but which is likely lo be lost. Our readers are familiar with the history of the grant and claims set up to secure it by two railroad compan ies, now operating here, known as the "East Side" and" West Side." Recently, ho wever. the matter has assumed a diff erent shape. In January, the Secretary of the Interier, after full investigation, de cided and so reported in writing to th Senate, that owing to informalities and in equalities, both companies had failed in their efforts, to secure it, and the grant had lapsed to the General Government, and would be lost without fitrther legis lation by Congress. Where upon a bill was introduced for that purpose, leaving the decision as to which of the companies should get it, to the Courts in Oregon. This bill was referred to the Committee on Public Lands, and was reparted favor ble nnd about to pass, when Senator II. W. Corbett interposed an objection, ma king a statement as to the date of the or ganization of the "West Side Company," and its consequent right to the land false in fact, which he must have known was false if he had investigated the sub ject as a Senator from Oregon ought to have done. As a natural consequence he was reinforced in his objection by that larcre class who oppose all further grants, and the bill instead of being passed promptly as it should have been, was re committed, and though it had been unan imously reported again a few days ago. yet the pressure against land grants and the rush and scramble of other business. makes it extremely doubtful whether fa vorable action will be had at this session in which case it is most likely that the grant will be forever lost, and the Gov ernment, by a technicality, will take and hold the land justly ours m every point of view. We propose in that event to hold the aforesaid Senator Corbett ac countable for the loss, and shall fear that there may be too much truth in the rumors that are gradually gaming cur- reney. that uoi uett s interest in me iviiu- tarv Koad, of which he is one ot the lar gest stock-holder's (that company having a pet railrod project or its own.) ana nis truckling subserviency to the O. S. N. Co. of Portland a company notorious for its fierce opposition to all railroads in this valley, under the shallow pretence of ad vocating the West Side have conspired to overthrow Ins judgement, and perhaps to undermine his morality. It it needless o remark that if the land grant is lost. or rendered unavanaoie. it win greaiiy delay and demoralize, if it does not de stroy the railroad enterprise now under wav in Oregon. Ibis paper has no inter est in either Company, but we feel deep- y the necessity of railroads, and it is ob vious ti the. dullest comprehension that the land grant should first of all be se cured to the State, and then let the com panies decide as between themselves, or the Court's, or by arbitration, or compro mise by a division, or in some way cr other as litigants do. What are They Wanted Foe? Several of the war vessels of our naA'y haA'e been ordered from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The order seems significant. There are many Americans Avho are v olunteering to aid the Cubans, and a disturbance may arise betAveen our Government and Spain. A resolution has been introduced in Congress to recognize the Cubans as belligerents, and should it pass, the "rebels'Vf Spain may piit on airs and make it a casus belli. There are many American volunteers in Cuba, and these sol diers of fortune, if taken prisoners, must not be shot, but treated as prisoners of Avar. If the Captain- General ot, Cuba orders his soldiers to raise the black flag, it Avill be the duty ot our Government to in terfere in the name of humanity. The call for the return of the Pa cific squadron gives the impression that our Government intends to see fair play in the Cuban revolu tion. V e Republicans very natu rally believe that If Spain can re bel against Queen Isabella, the Cu- bans are justified in forming Government for themselves. Cu uaus wouiu oe a set oi crininor slaves to consent to await and ac cept such a government as the Spanish Generals may estabUsh ou -i" il. - n . i oi i lie remams ot the late mon arehy. Mary sville Appeal. dEPAsk your neighbor to sub scribe lor the EnteepkisEj THE INDEPENDENT PRESS. We endorse the expressions of Mr; BoAvles, Editor of the. Spring field Republican; when he was ten- dered the sympathy arid heart v congratulations of the . publishers, of New York, and there learned of the indignant feelings" tOAvards Fiske, of Erie Railroad hotoriety by the proffer of a public dinner,, and an' offer to assume the cdsts of the Fiske libel suit, in order that "they might testify their respect for his character as a man and for his ccfurse as an independent edi tor." Mr. Bowles Avrites: While I receive your compliment with gratitude and pride, I beg you will excuse me Irom the dinner. I cannot feel that I have done or suffered so much more than many of my bretherfl for the cause of in dependent journalism a3 to justify me in so far violating my fconviction of the desi rability of maintaining the impersonality of the Press as a great means of its growth, its power, and its independence. Besides, no dinner, with speeches and presence, however brilliant or attractive, could add force or influence to the brief word you have wriiten; When gentlemen of so widely different associations as yourselves, representing opposing political parties and all the leading interests and profes sions' of society, unite to speak for the in tegrity and independence of journalism, there is cause for rejoicing and hope foe us all. "The ccrruptions in politics and th? corruptions in business affairs have be come offensive and startling within the last few years; and the moral sense of the community seems at times to have become blunted by the successful display and rep etition of practices that violate every prin ciple of fair-dealing and integrity, and put the control of government and the value of many kinds of property at the mercy of political adventurers and ruth less stock gamblers. The Prpsa really seems to be the best if not the only instru ment with which honest men can fight' these enemies of order and integrity in government and security in property. I know it is often crude in its reports and wanton and careless in its comments; these evils must and will be corrected with its growth, and, compared with its future. American journalism is now but in its feeble iufancy; but Ave have more to fear at present from its good-nature, from its subserviency, from its indiffer ence, from its fear to encounter prosecu tion and loss of patronage by the expos ure of the wrong and the exposition of the right. A courageous independence and integrity of purpose, coupled with a fear less expression of truth as to all public individuals, corporations and parties, afe the features in its character to be m'ost en couraged now. We can be patient with crudeness even with a degree of reckless ness, if we can have these other and neces sary qualities in vigoiirous exercise. The Press of to-day should be what Russell Lowell describes it, ' a dreaded mastiff, with a scent so Keen for wolves in sheep's clothing, and for certain other animals in lions' skihs," rather than the crouching spaniel, begging for fo'od from every quar ter, licking the hand that disgraces it.and only mildly protesting against outrages updo itself and the Community it is set to guard. "My own observation is, that the Press rarely does injustice to a thoroughly hon est man or cause. It may be deceived with regard to a prirate individual, and misrepresent him for a time; but with ref erence to public men and measures, its knowledge is more intimate and complete than any other agency possibly can be; and I know that it withholds unjustly to the public one hundred times, where it sneaks wrongly once of the individual.- Certainly, nine out of ten of all libel suits against the Press are brought bv adven- ers and speculators and scoundrels whose contrivances to rob the public have" been exposed. 4 1 thank you again, gentlemen, lor the compliment to myself; I thank yon much more tor the encouragement and inspira- " tion you have given to the cause of inde-' pendent journalism." A.T. SteAvart employs an army of little shavers, Avho scamper to' and fro, bearing money received from customers. Curiously enough one neA-er hears them addressed as' James or Elihu, or Bob ; the reason of which is explained by a lady rom Ulster county, Avho made her first Aasit to .New York quite re cently, and on returning home re cited her first sight-seeing, etc., to the family. She A'isited Stewart s.. Such heaps of goods ! Such lots ot people ! And then, said she, there were so many pretty little boys named Cash, and all about the same size! I didn't see Mrs. Cash;- but I tell you she s got a mighty A Sneering Head. The mana ger of a Berlin theatre got up a drama in which a human headAvas offered to a tyrant. In order to produce as milch effect as possible he resolved to use a human head. On the stage vas placed a tabid covered Avith a cloth ; on the tabid Avas a basing and an stctor conceal ed under the cloth, poked up his head through a hole m the table, so as to seem to be placed in the ba sin. The effect, was prodigious; the audience applauded and, trem bled. Unluckily a Avag whd had been strolling abefut over the fctage,, sprinkled & spoonful of Snuff on thcr basin, and just as the tyrant had finished his address to the severed head of his enemy, the beawL re plied by a hearty fit of sneezing,' changing the audience from grave; to gay with remarkable expedi- tion. o o o o o o Mi . ) : 1 i (I S.'-'