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CAPLES & MORKLAXD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
C. FRONT and WASHINGTON Sts.,
1'ORTLAXD, OREGON.
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OFFICE In Cree's liuildinjr, corner of
Front and Stark streets, Portland.
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C. JOHNSON. F. O. M'COWK.
Not:ry Public.
JOHNSON & BIcCOVN,
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W care in any of the Courts of the State,
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t articular attention given to contested
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Logan, Shattuck & Killin,
Attorneys at law,
Xo. lOO Front Street, L'p Slnirs,
PORTLAN 1), OREGON.
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Mitchell, Dolph & Smith,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc
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IW Office o-erihe old Post Office, Front
itreef, Portland, Oregon.
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Notary Public and Com. of Lced$.
GIBBS & PARRISH,
Attorneys and Counselors at Laic,
Portland, Oregox.
OFFICE Ou Alder street, in Carter's
brick block.
D.
M. McKEXXEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OREGON CITY. OREGON".
A- H. BEf.L. E. A. FAKKER.
BELL & PARKER.
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AXD DEALERS IX
Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints,
Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes,
And every article kept in a Drug Store. Main
turret, Oregon City.
J0I1N II. SCHIIAM. '
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SADDLES, HARNESS,
etc., etc..
Main Street, Oregon City,
"ff"Wisle to represent that he is now as
prepared to furnish any article in his line
s the larpest establishment in the State. He
Particularly requests that an examination of
2tock tic mule before buying elsewhere.
f. s. ostheTmT,
IMPORTER AXD DEALER IX
Segars, Tobacco. Pipes, Stationery
CUTLERY, YANKEE NOTIONS, &c.
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nre Proof brick store, called the
'i Corner, opposite American Exchange,
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THE TOAST FOR. LABOR.
Here's to the man with a horny hand,
Who tugs at the breathing bellows;
Where anvils ring in every land,
He's loved by all good fellows.
And here's to him that goes afield,
And through the glebe Is plowing,
Or with stout arms the ax doth wield,
While ancient oaks are bowing.
Here's to the delver in the mine,
The sailor on the ocean,
With those of every craft and line,
Who work with true devotion.
Our love for her who toils in gloom,
Where clanks and wheels are clanking ;
Bereft is she of nature's bloom,
Yet God in patience thanking,
A curse for him who sneers at toil,
And shuns his share of labor,
The nave but robs his native soil,
While leaning on his neighbor.
nere may this truth be brought on earth,
Grow more and more in favor ;
There is no wealth but owes its worth
To handicraft and labor.
Then pledge the founders of our wealth
The builders of our nation ;
We know their worth, and now their health
Drink we the acclamation.
A QUAKEU DETECTIVE,
BY JUDGE CLAKK.
We were Gve passengers in .ill ; two la
tlie.s on the back seat, a middle-aged gen
tleman and a Quaker in the middle, and
myself on the othef in front.
The two ladies might have been mother
and daughter, aunt and neice, governess
and charge, or might have sustained any
other relationship which made it proper
for two ladies to travel alone and unatten
ded. The middle-aged gentleman was very
sprightly and talkative. He eoon struck
up an acquaintance with the ladies, to-
word whom in Jus zeal to do, he rather
more overdid than was perfectly agreea
ble, bowing, and smiling, and chatting
over his shofilder in a way painfully sug
gestive, at his time of lik of a -crick1' in
his neck. He was evidently a jray Lo
thario. The Quaker wore the uniform of his
sect, and confined his speeeh, as many a
parliamentarian would save credit by do
ing, to simple "yeas' and -nays."" As for
myself, I make it an invariable rule of the
road to be merely a looker-on and lis
tener.
Toward evening I was aroused from one
of those reveries which a youns: man.
without being either a poet or a lover.
sometimes falls into, by the startling and
rather abrupt query of the talkative gen
tleman :
'Are you armed?"'
'I am not,'7 I answered, astonished, no
doubt visibly, at the questijn.
"I am sorry to hear it," he replied, 'Mor
before reaching our next stopping place
it will be several hours into the night, and
and we must pass over a portion of the
road on which more than one robbery is
reported to have been lately committed
The ladies turned pale, but the stran-
btst to re assure them.
"Not that I think there is the slightest
danger at present." he resumed, "only
when one is responsible for the safety of
ladies, you know, such a thing as a pistol
within reach would materially add to
one's confidence."
Your principles, my friend," address
ing the Quaker. '-I presume, are as much
opposed to carrying as using carnal weap-
ons."
'Yea," was the response.
'Have the villains murdered any of
their victims ?' the elder lady nervously
inquired.
'Or, have they contented themselves
with with plundering them?" added
the younger in a timorous voice.
'Decidedly the latter," the amiable gen
tleman hastened to crive assurance
'and
as none of us are prepared tc offer resist
ance in case of an attack, nothing worse
than robbery can possibly befall us."
Then, after blaming his thoughtlessness
in having introduced a disagreeable sub
ject, the gentleman quite excelled himself
in his efforts to raise the spirits of the
company ; and succeeded so well, by the
time night set in, that all had quite for
gotten or only remembered their fears to
laugh at them.
Our genial companion fairly talked him
self hoarse perceiving which, he took
from his pocket a package of newly in
vented "cough candy' and. after passing
it first to the ladies, he helped himself to
the balance, and tossed the paper out at
the window.
He was in the midst of a high encomi
um on the new nostrum, more than half
the efficacy of which, he contended, de
pended on its being taken by suction,
when a shrill whistle was heard, and al
most immediately we stopped, when two
faces, hideously blacked, presented them
selves at each window.
"Sorry to trouble you," said the man
on the right, acknowledging with a bow
two lady-like screams Irom the back-scat,
"but business is business, and ours will be
soon over if things go smoothly."
"Of course, gentlemen, you will spare,
as far as consistent with your disagreea
ble duty, the feelings of these ladies," ap-
OREQOJT lTr OREGON SATURDAY,
pealed the polite passenger in his bland
est manner.
4,Oh, certainly ; they sball beattended
to first, and sball not be required to leave
their seats, or submit to a search unless
their conduct renders it necessary."
And now, ladies," continued the rob
ber, the barrel of h:a pistol glittering in
the light of the coach-lamp, -be so good
as to pas3 out your purses, watches, and
such other trinkets as may be accessible
without too much trouble."
The ladies came down handsomely, and
were no further molested.
One by one the rest of us wtre compel
led to get out, the middle-aged gentle
man's turn coming first, lie tubmitted
with a winning grace, and was robbed
like a very Chesterfield.
My own affair, like the sum I lost, is
scarcely worth mentioning The Quaker's
turn came next. He quietly handed over
his pocket-book, and watcn, and when
ask;d if he had any other valuables, said
"Nay."
A Quaker's word is good even among
thieves ; so, after a hasty good night,"
the robber thrust the pistol in his pocket,
and with his two companions, one of
whom had held the reins of the leaders,
was about taking his departure.
" Stop !" exclaimed the Quaker, in a
tone of command more than of request.
' Stop ! what for? ' returned the other,
in evident surprise.
" For at least two good reasons." was
the reply, emphasized with a couple of
Derringers cocked and presented.
" Help ! shouted the robber.
" Stop !'; the Quaker again exclaimed.
'And if one of thy sinful companions ad
vances a step to thy relief, the spirit will
surely move me to blow thy brains out,"
The robber at the opposite window, and
the one at the leaders heads, thought it a
good time to leave.
" Xow get in, friend," said the Quaker,
still covering his man, "and take the
middle seat; but first deliver up thy pis
tol." The other hesitated.
" Thee had better not delay; I feel the
spirit beginning to move my right fore
linger." The robber did as he wj.s directed, and
the Quaker took his j)laco by his side,
giving the new-comer the middle of the
seat.
The driver, who was frightened half out
his wits, now set forward at a rapid rate.
The lively gentleman soon recovered his
vivacity. He was especially facetious on
the Quaker's prowers.
You're a rum Quaker you are. Why.
you don't quake worth a cent."
" I'm not a 'Shaking Quaker,' if that's
what thee means.''
" Of the 'Hickory or rather of the 'Old
Hickory' stripe, I should say," retorted
the lively man; but the Quaker relapsing
into his usual monosylables, the conversa
tion flagged.
Time sped, and sooner than we expect
ed, the couch stopped where we were to
have supper and a change of horses. We
had deferred a re-distribution of our ef
fects till we should reach this place, as
the dim light of the coach lamp would
have rendered it difficult before.
It was now necessary, however, that it
fhould be atttended to at once, as our jo
vial companion had previously announced
his intention of leaving us at. this point.
He proposed a postponement until after
supper, which he offered to go and order.
"Nay," urged the Quaker, with an ap
proach to abruptness, and laying his hand
on the other's arm. " Business before
pleasure, and for business there is no time
like the present."
" Will thee be good enough to search
the prisoner?" he said to me, still keeping
his hand in a friendly way, on the passen
ger's arm.
I did so, but not one of the stolen arti
cles could be found !
"He must have gotten rid of them in
the coach," the gay gentleman suggested
and immediately offered to go and search.
' Stop !" thundered the Quaker, tighten
ing his grasp.
The man turned pale, and struggled to
release his arm. In an instant one of the
Derringer's was leveled at his heart.
'Stir a hand or loot and you are a dead
man: 7
The Quaker must have been awfully ex
cited so completely to forget both the
language and the principles of his persua
sion. riacing the other pistol in my hand
with directions to fire on the first of the
two men that made a suspicious move
ment, he went to work on Lothario, from
whose pockets, in less time than it takes
to tell it, he produced every item of the
missing property, to the utter amazement
of the two ladies, who had begun, in no
measured terms, to remonstrate against
the shameful treatment the gentleman was
receiving.
The Quaker, I need scarcely add, was
no Quaker at all, but a shrewd detective,
who had been set on the track of a band
of desperadoes, of whom our middle-aged
friend who didn't look near so middle
aged when his wig was off was ihe chief.
The robbery had been adroitly planned.
The leader of the gang had taken passage
in the coacb, and after learning, as he
supposed, our defenceless condition, had
given the signal to his companions by
throwing out the scrap of paper already
mentioned. After the unexpected cap
ture of the first robber, it was attempted
to save the booty by secretly passingjt to
the accomplice, still believed to be unsus
pected, who counted on being able to
make off with it at the next stopping
place.
The result was that both, for a season,
-did the State some service."
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
We are permitted to make the follow
ing extract from a letter received by Mr.
Alexander Watt, of this place, from D. J.
Yergain, a resident of Yamhill county.
Mr. Yergain writes from South San Diego.
"I am in South San Diego, one of the
points I had in view when 1 left home. I
have been here about a month, or have
made this headquartrrs. I have spent
much of the time looking over the coun
try, going from one place to another, by
land and water, and I assure you I have
enjoyed it hugely. I have made two trips
into Mexico have visited many of the
old Spanish ranches and villages built
hundreds of years ago. Everything is
new, strange and interesting to me. I
never dreamed that one thousand miles in
distance could make such a complete
change in everything. I can't say what I
think of it. It seems a desert. Sagebrush
and cactus is the only timber to be seen in
any direction for fifty miles. I have not
seen a stream of running water since I
landed, but the people say that in the
winter the dry beds become large rivers.
The general appearance of the country is
that of the plains a dry, sandy waste.
But what seems the most strange is that it
is the most productive soil (or sand) I
have seen on this coast. This is the first
year that any farming has been done by
Americans, and they have been so success
ful that land has gone up lo almost fabu
lous prices. Hitherto the country has
been occupied almost altogether by Span
iards, who held large grants of land, and
o farming consisted of only a few
acres of vineyard, tropical fruits, melons,
squashes and red pepper. But for the last
year the rush for this place has been great
and the lands are fast going into the
"Yankees," who will soon make a flower
garden. Many parties are preparing for
the culture of oranges, figs, lemons, dates,
olives, coffee, black pepper, etc., etc., all
of which may be seen growing on some of
the old ranches. I know one man who
has already planted several thousand al
mond trees which look fine. But the cli
mate is the greatest source of attraction.
1 can't say how it is in the winter, but
they tell me the weather is more pleasant
than in the summer. Then the grass
grows, and the hills and valleys are fra
grant with a thousand varieties of flowers.
The old settlers say last month (Angust,)
was the wannest they ever saw, and 80
dog. was the highest point reached, and
that only for a few hours. I thought it
pleasant. The Bay of San Diego is one
of Ihe finest in the world, and the only
one for a thousand miles going south af
ter leaving San Francisco. I know no
reason why a few years may not see a
large commercial city here ; as it is al
most certain that this will be the terminus
of the great Southern railroad from Mem
phis to tho Pacific. The bay is not so
large, but is in every other respect supe
rior to that of San Francisco. The en
trance is easy and safe for the largest class
of vessels, and once in the bay they can
defy old Neptune. The bay is about 20
miles long, and extends parallrl with the
ocean, from w hich it is only separated by
a lowr, barren neck of land. The fishing
is magnificent. I have had some fine
sport in that line.
The town site is a public grant by the
Mexican government and confirmed by
the United States government by the
treaty of ISIS. A more beautiful site
could not be found in the world. To give
you some idea of the town, and its rapid
growth I will state that ore year ago there
were but three dwelling houses in the
place now it is as large as Salem. Lots
that then sold at $25 are now worth $100,
and still going up. We have a steamer
every five days. Everybody seems de
lighted with the place, and excited with
the prospect of the "good time coming."
I alone hanker after the flesh-pot.s of Egypt
(Webfoot) ; but I am here and shall re
main yet awhile. Par ific Blade.
Under the proper title of "A
Mistaken Idea" the Los Angeles
News says :
The Sacramento Union thinks
that a better acquaintance with
the Chinese will cure the preva
lent dislike of them among our
people. This is a mistaken idea of
the Union. All old Californians
know that our dislike of the Chi
nese has grown more intense as
we have become better acquain
ted with their habit and morals.
There was no prejudice against them
in '49 and '50 in California. How
ever when thev crme here in great
numbers, and displayed their utter J
uqaii), uiuiiiiiuiitMii m-hsu Ul
decency and honesty was outraged,
and hence came what the Union
OCTOBER 23, 1869.
is pleased to term the "aversion of
the ignorant masses towards the
Chinese.
Death of Catherine T. Washington.
The Cincinnati Gazette says:
Mrs. C. T. Washington, the nearest
relative of the Father ot his coun
try, died on Saturday, at the resi
dence of her son-in-law, 33r. J.
Alaekcnsic, in Delhi, She was
born on the 25th of August 1790
and was consequently in the
eightieth year of her age. The de
ceased was the wife of the late
Samuel Washington, who died
two years ago, and he was a grand
nephew of Gen. Washington. She,
too, was a Washington though
bearing a remote relationship to
her husband.
They came to the West from Vir
ginia about twenty years ago stop
ping temporarily at Wheeling, and
finally settling at Xcwport, Ivy.,
where they both remained until
eight years ago, they came into the
family of Dr. Mackenzie in this
city, and removed with him to his
residence in Delhi, when he left
the city
She M'as for many years a promi
nent and devoted member of the
Methobist Ediscople Church. Af
ter their removal to Delhi, without
a change of membership, she atten
ded the Presbyterian Church, and
was earnestly engaged in its work
until her failing health about a year
ago admonished her that her labor
on earth was rapidly drawing to a
close. She retained her physical
vigor to an unusual age, and was
distinguished for high character,
and one that was singularly well
balanced.
The dignity which characterized
the family also manifested itself in
no small degree in her, and a serene
temper, with which she was blessed
was constantly speaking from a
placid face. The traces of the
Washington physiognomy were
quite discernible in her, and came
out with strong resemblance to
Gen. Washington after her death.
Though her strength has been rap
idly failing of late, she was serious
ly sick only about six weeks. Her
last words were those of affection
for her family, and unfailing trust
in the Savior.
She leaves two children who sur
vive her, Captain Thornton, J. and
John F. Washigton, both well
known citizens of this county.
HISTORICAL ItOMAXCIXG.
Of late, professed historians have
indulged somewhat freely in ro
mancing, especially when they at
tempt to give elaborate and elo
quent portraitures of their leading
personages, in which the most lav
ish use is made of effective epithets
and of pointed antitheses. Jfa-;
i-auhnj, among the recent historians,
has set the fashion very decidedly
in this direction. In his efforts to
make history minute, vivid, and ef
fective, he has often described like
an impassioned advocate, and
painted like an retained attorney,
with the most unsparing expendi
ture of contrasts and epithets.
Carlile gives sketches alternately
in chalk and charcoal, that exhibit
his saints and demons, now in
ghastliest white, and then in the
most appalling blackness; and yet
in these bold and grotesque out
lines there are many lines of which
Michael Angelo would not have
been ashamed. Fronde, by re
search, eloquence, and audacity
combined, attempts to reverse the
settled historic judgments of all
mankind in respect to the charac
ters that had been "damned to
everlasting fame." Jiancroft and
Afotky abound in examples of this
tendency to paint . historical
yicral characters so much to the
life, that the impression is made
that the result is only a painting
to which there never was a reality.
The ghost of the miserable Philip
II. would suffer more than the pur
gatorial tortuses which he dreaded
and deserved so long, were he
made to writhe under the unspar
ing pertinacity of Motley's invec
tive, from which there is no re
lease, and to which there is no ter
mination, while the spirit of William
the Silent would be more reserved
and reticent than ever were he
forced to listen to the perhaps not
undeserved but the certainly tin
qualified laudations of his admir
ing narrator. jLhe elaborate por
traits of Bancroft, if they do noth
ing more, do most effectively set
forth the historian's own concep
tions of what sets off a man well in
description, so intense is the color
ing and so abundant arc the adorn-
ments wll;cll lie employs. The dis-
position to use colors certainly
makes striking contrasts, if it does
nothin
t nini-i'
The hero in black
is drawn with deep shadows, if
they are few. The hero in white
is as white as is practicable, and
allow him to be distinctly visible.
Gradations in color as well as gen
tle outlines, if less effective in the
excitement with which thev shock
and excite the nerves, are more
pleasing to the taste that is truly
refined, as well as ordinarily more
true to nature, and just to the re
ality of tilings. Prof. Noah Por
ter, in J fours at Home for Octo
ber. ,
KIRDER AXD SUICIDE.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
A fearful tragedy was enacted yester
day afternoon, at a locality beyond the
Mission, in which a young and very pretty
girl, was shot and killed by, a ferocious
lover,. who afterwaid lodged a bullet in
his own brain.
Annie Wagner was about seventeen
years of age, a native of Williamsburg,
New York, who had resided with her pa
rents, in this city, for some years past.
For the past ten months she had been at
domestic service with a family named
Borl.eimer. who resided on Webster street,
betwean Ilaight and Page. A man nam
ed Anthony 11. Knettle was employed by
the same family as laborer and man of all
work. He will be remembered as the
party who shot one Nottingham in an out
side land disturbance, some few weeks ago.
An attempt was made at the time to hush
the matter up, but the facts leaked out
and were reported in the newspapers. He
was a native of Boston, about '65 years of
age, forbidding of appearance and unami
ble of disposition. He appears, however,
in his savage way, to have fallen very
deeply in love with the maid, Annie
Wagner.
THE KEGIXXIXG.
A suit was on trial all day yesterday,
in the Fourth District Court, about the
land for which Nottingham was shot, and
Knettle had been attending as n witness.
He got off about three o'clock in the after
noon, and started for borne. Crossing the
graveyard near Market street, he was car
rying his pistol in his hand, aud was over
heard to say aloud, talking to himself,
that he was a great fool not to have kill
ed the girl before. He arrived at the
house about four o'clock.
TIJK TRAGEDY.
Mrs. Borheimer and Annie were alone
in the house. He called the latter out
saying that he wanted to talk to hf r. In
the course of the talk he said something to
frigheten her, and she ran into the house ;
where she said to Mrs. Borheiiner that she
must go away, " That man wants to kill
me." Mrs. Borheimer reassured he, -and
bade her go on an errand to a neighbor's
house, saying, " He will not hurt you."
The girl started, and Knettle called out,
" Come back and get my supper." She
started, and at the same time he caught
ber by the dress. She screamed that he
was going to kill her. Mrs. Borheimer,
who had gone into the house to put a
shawl over her shoulders, came to the
door, attracted by the girl's cries of terror,
when Knettle said, " You Dutch .
What are you doing there ?" The girl
broke from him and started to run, w ith
her face turned toward him, looking over
her shoulder, lie fired the first shot di
rectly into that face. It took effect in the
neck, below the jaw, coming out near the
ear. He fired a second shot, striking her
in the skull, behind the ear, and, glancing
round, coming out near the temple. She
staggered, when, in quick succession, he
fired the third and fatal shot, which took
effect just back of the ear and entered the
brain. Hie girl tell, and, as she did so,
the murderer raised the pistol, and plac
ing the muzzle to his forehead fired. The
ball, which entered in the very center of
the forehead, coarsed downward into the
brain.
FIXIS.
Dr. Breeze was called to attend the girl.
but nothing could be done for her. At
12:11 v. m. she breathed her last. Her
agonized parents arrived at the scene a
short time before her death. They re
turned to their home bearing the body of
their beloved daughter. Knettle was ta
ken to the City and County Hospital,
where he gradually sank. At midnight
he was still breathing ; but his extremities
were cold, nor could he survive but a few
hours. He was of course insensible, and
had been so from the moment of firing
the shot.
And thus is completed one ot the most
shocking tragedies in all details that has
been enacted in San Francisco for many a
year.
Hands and Fekt. I went into a shop
the other day to buy what the drapers
call "gents" hose. A smiling young lady
was behind the counter ; and when I had
made an appeal to her to show me some
socks I was somewhat at a loss to know
what C3urse of action I ought to pursue
in order to demonstrate to her the length
of my foot. As I am not a burlesque
writer, it was clear that I could not lay
my foot on the counter and say, "With
all my sole ;" nor could 1 paraphrase
Dibdin's Jack Tar, when he spoke-of the
dancer "who so lightly handled her feet."
The little woman, however, speedily re
moved my first perplexity, though enly
to plunge me into another.
"Will you," said she, please to double
up your fist, and lay itou the counter? '
1 replied I did not want gloves, but
socks,
'And I want to take your measure,"
she said.
"But," I urged, "it is the measure of my
foot that you require."
"Yes," she replied, "and I can get it
equally as well with your hand. Once
around your clenched fist, at the knuck
les, is the length of vour foot."
Aud she took the measure of my fist,
and I took the socks on the faith of the
damsel's representation : and, in due
course. I found that she was quite right.
and fitted me to a nicety. Curiosities of
fcuopping.
NO. SO.
.Advantages or Planting Fruit Trees
On Declivities.
we deefn it rather remarkable,
that we found in visiting fruit grow
ing districts in Europe, in our last
visit live years since, the best culti
vators there, when they could, plan
ted their orchards or vineyards' on
a, gentle sloping hill witha south
eastern aspect, experience having
taught them as they stated to us,
that such was the best situation for
an orcharh or vineyard, godart
first observed that trees pushed
their branches in a direction paral
lel to the surface of the earth. If
a tree stands on a steep hill side it
pushes both towards the hill and
the declivity; but on both sides it
still preserves its branches, parallel
to the surface. As there H attrac
tion between the upper surface of
leaves and light, we are also persua-
rt t -i . ii . i
oei, anti more man mat, certain 01
it from experiment, that there is an
attraction of the same nature be
tween the under surface and the
earth. This we consider the true
cause of the phenomenon; we had
long observed that the most fruit
ful orchard and most fertile trees
are those planted on a declivity and
the steeper it is, though not quite a
precipice, the more prolific they
prove. It is well known that the
spreading of trees always renders
them fruitful. On a plain they in
cline to shoot upwards; and there
fore art is employid by skillful
gardeners, and applied in various
ways to check their perpendicular,
and promote their lateral growth.
But this point is obtained on a de
clivity by nature. There a tree
loses its tendencyalthough its char
acter of growth may be that way,
to shoot upwards, and in order to
preserve its branches parallel with o
the surface, is constrained to put
them in a lateral direction. Hence
an important rule in the choice of
orchards and fruit
ralist.
TnT"1n5 Titi.-
iD
PERPETUAL MOnOV.
The French Academy of Science havo
interdicted all essays, discusaioSs, ete., on
the subjectof "perpetual motion." That
the savans of that institution have "the right
from their monarchical stand-point, to so
decide,we admit ; but the man or body
of men who dare set bounds to the results
of scientific discovery, will have the su
perscription, "Old Fogy' inscribed on
their tombstones by the intellectual ages
that are destined to characterize the ex
istence oi our planet in the luture.
All motion is the resulL of some pre-existing
cause a result of force. Difficult
combinations and relations of forces re
sult in different phases of motion. Per
petual motion is a fixed reality, and re
sults in a speciffc "arrangement and dis
tribution of force, which arrangement
when understood and applied will pro
duce perpetual motion as an ultimate.
This specific combination of force, though
we see its practical workings in the heav
ens, still rests in the realm of the undis
covered : Hint snmi Newtnn. Mnrs nr . ,
Fulton, will yet grasp it, and practically
demonstrate its working.
Forces are susceptible of an infinite di
versity of arrangement and application';
and to assume what, does, and what does
not exist in the bounds of infinity is not
the province of finite intelligence. Be
fore an Academy of Science in France, or
anywhere else, are authorized to pro
nounce perpetual motion an impossibility,
they must become acquainted with the
effects of an infinite combination of for
ces, which can alone be performed by in
finite intelligence. Inseparable relations
exist between the infinitely great and in
finitely small. The dew-drop represents
the mightiest planet that rolls in space an
well as the rfrocess of its formation, and
the same law that rounded the one ren- -dered
spherical the other. Corapajrative
reasoning is reliable when the data are
correct. The central sun of our solar sys-
tem, and its family of planetary orbs, con
stitute reliable data from whence can be
derived conclusions proving the possibili
ty of perpetual motion beyond te power
f disputation. So soon as we can secure
a similar arrangement and distribution ot
forces on a diminutive scale, we will
therewith secure the necessary result
"perpetual motion." Gravitation and
friction have so far constituted the princi
pal obstacles to this achievement ; but to
say that these obstacles will not Bome day
be overcome by an adapted arrangement
of forces, is to libel the progressive spirit
of our age, and discourage the advance
menl of science.
Time will yet prove that the -wisest of
our age have not yet crossed the thresh
hold of knowledge ; and that scientific
discovery is yet in an embryotic condi
tion. W. S., in Inventors' and Manufac
turers' Journal.
J2 In a very old copy of a work now
extant on necromancy, is the following
quaint passage : Question How to raise
a devil ? Answer Contradict your wife.-
Untamed sweetness wild bottr.
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