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THE ULi'EDELL.
There is mie spot in a' the world,
Sae bonnie and sac fair,
As wbere the modest Blnebell grows,
And scents the balmy air.
It blooms in every mfeadow green,
In Scotia's woods and dells "f
?Tis O I the sweptest, bonniest flower,
Amang the Heather Bells.
O, monyra time, an" mony a day, ?
In other climes I've strayed,
And seen the flowers that blossom there.
In sunshine and in sha le.
But, ah ! benealh auld Scotia's skies,
And in my native dells,
The Blnebell is the sweetest flower
Amaug the Heather Bells. -
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The winds may blaw across the moor,
The tree bend to the blast :
The birdies cease their winsome san.
And skies be overcast ;
But, oil ! where'er my feet may roam,
My heart with rapture swells ;
For there my favorite flower 1 see,
The queen of Heather Bells.
STATISTICS OF OREGON.
BY A. J. DU FUR.
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NO. o.
CIACICAMAS COUNTY,
This county is situated on the
navigable waters of the lowe Wil
lamette river, and probably holds
out greater inducements to thq cap
italist who wishes to make success
ful investment in the various man
ufacturing enterprises or to the in
dustrious mechanic with limited
means, than any otlfer locality of
equal size on the Pacific coast, or
even in the United States.
Tlie following information rela
live to the present resources and
natural advantages of this county,
was furnished the Committee by
I). C. Ireland, Esq., editor of the
Oregon City Enterprise, a gentle
man who has taken great pains to
obtain and circulate valuable in
formation through the columns of
his paper, relative to tlie mineral,
mechanical, and agricultural wealth
of this State.
First There are no public build
ings in Clackamas county worthy
of note, if we except the Seminary
at Oregon City. Tlie County Jail
is a miserable structure, but Ave
have very little use for a jail in this
region.
Second The average price of
farming land, improved and unim
proved, is from three to five dol
lars per acre. "Wild land is abund
ant at from one dollar and twenty
five cents to two dollars per acre.
Third The assessed value of
property in Clackajnas count, and
the tax levied, is as follows, for the
four years past :
Years. Valuation. Jl fills Tax
1SG . .$1.238. 8J7
1865 1.G05.394
18r,( 1.02-t.75; 5
1So7. 1,648 S7fi Oh
The last levy was for extraordi
nary expenses in purchasing
bridges, etc., by which, all of our
bridges were made free from toll.
The figures under the head of valu
ation, show a healthy increase in
the development of the resources
of the county since the damage by
floods of the winter of 1SG1-G2.
Fourth The general nature of
the soil for farming purposes is
srood. Grain, "vegetables, and the
various kinds of fruit grow m
abundance here, even on our poor
est lands. Stock raising and dairv
ing could be gone into at a small
expense. There ns no better coun
try for timothy grass than this; its
growth on our highest hills is luxu
riant, and it serves to kill out feVn.
"We have all the varieties of tim
ber common to Oregon, in Clacka
mas county. Oak and ash, suitable
for wagon timber and the wood
work of agricultural implements, is
said to be morB abundant and of
better quality in this than in any
othercounty, and has been worked
out by parties Lji years ast with
profit to themselves, and the op
portunity still remains. The amount
of material for building, fencing,
etc., is inexhaustible in this county,
and a general lumbering business
is now being carried on by ten or
a dozen companies, with available
space for a hundred more.
ith The quality of water for
family use m Clackamas county
cannot be excelled pure living
springs and mountain streams
course through every section. The
amount of water available for
power, is far in excess of any other
single county in the world, per
haps. The falls of the "Willamette, at
this cit provide man with more
than one million horse-poAVjer. The
factories ot Lowell and Lawrence,
were they here, would consume but
a portion of the water adapted by
naturedto milling and mechanical
purposes in this town. Oswego
ORJGGOI? CITY, - OKE
can be made to furnish one-quarter
of that amount, while Milwaukic
has significant value in this respect,
and tlie Clackamas, 3Iolalla, Butte
creek, IMill creek, Tualitin, and
many, other streams which we
might mention, furnish valuable
locations for mill sites and water
power. &
Seventh The temperature of
this locality is even. Excessive
heat and excessive cold is very rate.
The general health of the county
is good. Billions affections are but
little known among our people.
Eighth Nc can offer better in
ducements to mechanics and trades
men, who can bring capital with
them, than other counties of the
State generall v. "We could do
better by them had our citizens
capital' themselves to develop our
resources. Professional men and
teachers Ave have but little use for
at present. Such 'places are now
ably filled. "We want blood, and
muscle, and money.
Ninth Immigrants can obtain
anything in this county they desire
at reasonable cost.
Tenth Opportunities for school
ing and meetings for religious wor
ship are good in Clackamas county.
In this city alone there are five
churches Methodist, Episcopal,
Catholic, Congregational, and Baptist-
"We' have also in this city
three private- select schools, ami
one excellent public school capable
of teaching the higher branches.
ElcA'cnth Tlie facilities for mar
keting and means of transportation
in this county are equal to any on
the Pacific coast. This is a com
munity of consumers, chiefly oper
atives Q,and laborers. The same
may be said of Oswego, Avlicre
miners, choppers, 'teamsters, coal
burners, furnace-men, etc., form the
bulk of population. "We have three
steamers running daily (Sundays
excepted)betwcen Oregon City and
Portland, to Avhich Avill soon be
r: i i 1 ro a 1 c o m n i u n i c at io n c o 1 1 n ec t i n g
us with the present sea-port of
Oregon, only ten miles distant.
Twelfth We have two woolen
factories in Clackamas count v.
The leading one, located in Oregon
City, is about 100 by GO feet, four
stories, built of stone and brick,
and contains twelve sets of the
latest improAcd machinery. -The
Oswego iron smelting Avorks were
erected in 1SG7, at a cost of about
8100,000. There are several lum
bering mills in the county. The
celebrated Imperial flouring mills
are located at Oregon City, and the
famous Standard flour is made at
Milwaukie. The only iron made
on the coast is made at Oswego ;
it is equal to the best Scotch pig,
and is sought for by California
foundrymcn. Wc have a large"
tannery at Milwaukie, Avhich turns
out leather that sells in San Fran
cisco along side the best Santa
Cruz. We hare a paper mill doing
a flourishing business. We have
gold and silver cfuartz mines in
tin's county of value. We have
coal and lime, and copper has re
cently been discovered in consid
erable quantities. The OsAvego
Milling Company export lumber,
and all other mills manufacture for
domestic uses. At this city salmon
fishing is carried onto considerable
extent. Seven nets have been run
this season.
Thirteenth There is Govern
ment land in this county available
for settlement, and avc are told that
much of it would be of value for
agricultural purposes. Mechanical
or lumbering pursuits cannot be
gone amiss of. The Government
Land Office is located at Oregon
City, $t Avhich Mr. Owen Wade
officiates as Kegister; and Mr.
Henry Warren, lieceiver.
Among the duels Avhich de
serA'e to. be recorded is that be
tween the celebrated Irish barris
risteny John Philpot Curran and
John Eagan, nicknamed i' Bully
l0Eagan." The latter was a man
of immense size, while Curran Avas
slim and short. The chances of
being hit Avere, therefore, in favor
of the former, for (as Curran said)
it Avas like firing at a haystack.
Curran, therefore, proposed to
equalize the chances by chalking
lines on Eagairs body, so as to
mark out hs (Curran's) size there
on, and by 'agreeing that no shot
shmild count which tooJc effect out
side these lines.
It is said that a man in Loaac11,
Massaehusetts,has invented a scare
croAV that is so hideous that cioavs
all around there are carrying back
the corn they stole last summer.
Ncav Orleans'has found it out, and
is anxiously waiting to see if it
won't frighten Butler into carrying
back those spoons.
- GOE, SATURDAY,
A ROTED DUEL.IST.
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From an article ori " Duel Fight
ing," in All the Year- Eoundy WQ
take the following account of the
deatli of the notorious F rench duel
ist, knoAvn as the Cunt de Laril-
Here, Avho had fbugfit 'upwards of
forty duels, and killed eleven indi
viduals, before the death of one 0fjm"m(d i nis opinion that he had
ins victims Avas avenged m the man
ner described below :
On the CAening of a masked ball
at the grand theatre at Bordeaux,
Larilliere Avas seated in an adjoin
ing cafe, which he was in the habit
of frequenting Avith the members
of his own particular" set; It Avas
eleven o'clock, and our duelist, who
had been for the -moment aban
doned by his ordinary compan
ions, feeling in no particularly quar
relsome humor, aam.s iiiibiomg peace
fully a glass of panels Suddenly
a tall young man," wearing a black
domino, and with -his face con
cealed 1 ehind a black velvet mask,
entered the cafe and strode up to
the table at Avhich Larilliere avs,s
seated. 'It
None of the ordinary fiabitucs
of the cafe took any h articular no-
tice ot tlie new
comer
on ins en
trance, as the masked ball Avhielr
was to take place that night suffi
ciently explained hisjeostume; but,
no sooner was the mysterious, visi
tor observed in thevJcinitA of Lar-L
illiere s table than all eyes Avere
turned toward him. " "Without a
single observation ho seized hold
of LariHicreV glass, threw away
the punch it contained,and ordered
the Avaiter in loud voice to bring a
small bottle of orgeat in its plaec.
Witnesses of the scene say that
at
this moment, for the first time
in their lives, they observed Laril
liere turn pale. It aws the belief
in Bordeaux that during the fifteen
years this man had been applying
himself to tlie task of; destruction,
he had never allowed his counte
nance to
emotion.
betray the slightest
" Scoundrel !" he exclaimed to
his masked, adversary, " yon do
not know who I am,? making, at
the same moment, a 'vigorous but
unsuccessful effort to remove the
mask from the stranger's face.
"I knoy who you are perfectly
Avell," coolly replied the unknown,
forcing Larilliere violently back
v?ith one hand. All present started
to their feet, and though no one
among them A ciiiured to approach
the disputants, they contemplated
none the less anxiously the issue of
this strange provocation.
" Waiter ! " again exclaimed the
unkoAvn, " be quick with that bot
tle of orgeat."
At this second command the
bottle Avas brought, Avhereupon the
masked man still standing immcdi-"
atcly in front of Larilliere, Avho
Avas foaming at the mouth Avith
rage, proceeded to draw a pistol
from his right hand pocket. Then
addressing his adversary, he said :
"If in the presence of this com
pany, and for lay own personal
satisfaction, you do
too !" iinr or nirr
swalloAV this glass of orgeat. I will
bloAA out your brains Avith as little
compunction as I Avould those of a
dog. Should you, hoAVever, do
my bidding, I will then do you the
honor of fighting Avith you to
morroAV morning."
"With a sabre?", asked Laril
liere, in a paroxysm of rage.
5. With ..whatever weapons you
please," replied the stranger, dis
dainfully." Whereupon. Larilliere
swallowed the orgeat Avith au ex
pression of countenance as though
it were to him the dregs of a bit
ter cup
indeed, Avhile
every one
death-like.
present preserved ; a
silence.
The masked man, satisfied AvitJi
the effect produced by his proA O
cation, no ay retired, saying to Lar
illiere as he did o, in a tone of
A oicc loud enough
the lookers-on :
to be heard' bv
"To-day I ha'e "humbled you
sufficiently ; to-morrow I intend to
take your life. My seconds ay ill
wait on you at eight in the morn
ing. We will fight on the spot
Avlicre you killed the A'dung Cher
alier de C."
This was the name of the Count's
eleventh victim.
The following morning Larilliere
found himself in the presence of a
man no longer Avearing a mask,
and Avho appeared to be some
twenty-five years old. j The seconds
by Avhom he Avas accompanied
Avere tAvo common soldiers, be
longing to one of the regiments
stationed in the citadel of Blaye.
The bearing of the unknoYvn Avas
collected and dignified, and singu
larly resolute. His seconds had
brought Aveapons to the ground,
but Lariliiere's seconds took ex
ception to them, at which a scarcely
pcrceptible smile passed over the
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strangcr,s face.
On taking liis position, Lariiiicie
turned tOAvard tho second nearest
to him and said in an undertone,
"For once, I believe, I have found
my equal."
The combat commenced. At
urst passes the Count was con
TO Ueal.WJtll a Skillful Irnrrr
However his courage did not fail
him, though there were times when
he setmcd to lose his composure.
Lunges and parryings succeeded
each other with rapidity on both
sides. Lari!licre,dcsirous of bring
i ng th e; atfai r to a clow, had - tried
Ins finishing stroke tAvo or three
times, only to find his sword turned
aside, by his adversary's blade.
Harassed at finding his efforts un
availing he insolently remarked to
his opponent, " Well, sir, at Avhat
hour do you intend to kill me ?"
There Avas a momentary silence,
broken only by the clash of the
two swords.
Then the stranger, av!i seemed
to have profited by that slight in
terval do assure himself that the
advantages of the encounter lay
decidedly with him, quietly said
to Lariiiierc's last-question : "Im
mediately.''.? Saving which he
thrust the point of his sword be
tween the ribs of his adversary.
who sprang backAvard, tottered,
and sam-mix) tnearms ot ins near
est second. Putting his right hand
to the Avomhd, he said, Avitlrdiffi-
cultv
That; sir, is not a sabre cut
it is a tlwust with
the
Avith tlie sa-bre I feared no one
In a feAV minutes he fell back dead.
The stranger nor advanced po
litely toward the seconds of his
victim, and inquired if he Avas at
liberty to depart.
"You Avill at least tell us your
name?"' asked they in reply.
Larilliere's opponent proved to
be one of the younsr officers of the
garrison at Blaye.
IL nir. Scott, in his autobiog
raphy, tells a story against himself,
illustrating his early perception of
personal peculiarities. One boy
Avas always above Jiinf in his class
and, do Ahat he Avould, till, obsei'Y'
ing him always fumbling at a low
er button of his Ava-istcoat as4ie an
swered a question, it occured to
oum to cut it oil on the si a. He
Avatchcd Avith some anxiety for the
result. The ruse ansYvered only
too Avell. When the boy Yvas
again questioned, his fingers sought
for the button ; missing it, in his
distress he looked down for it in
vain. "He stood confounded,"
says the penitent aggressor. "I
took his place, nor did9 he CY cr re
cover it, or suspect the anther of
his YVi'ong." This story, howevcr,
tells tAY'o AY'ays. Doubtless some
bodily habits establish associations
favorable to the memory, and qui
eting to irritability; the mischief is
that the mind becomes dependent,
and is stranded Yvhcn cut off from
the old moorings.
-v- -y-
Charge to a Jura. df the jury
believe from the evidence. that the
plaintiff and defendant were part
ners in the grocery, and that the
plaintiff bought out the defendant,
and that the defendant paid the
note by delivering to the plaintiff
a coyy', Avhich he Avarranted not to
be breech y ; and the warranty was
broken by reason of the breachi
uess of the cow, and he droY'e the
coYV back and tendered her to the
defendant, but he refused to re
ceive her, and the plaintiff took her
home again and put a heaAy yoke
on her to prevent her from jump
ing the fences, and by reason of
the yoke she broke her neck and
died ; and if tlie jury beiioac that
the defendant's interest in the
grocery avp.s Avorth anything, the
plaintiff's note Avas Avorthless and
the coav good for nothing, cither
for beef or milk, fihen the jury must
find out themselves Iioy they will
decide the case ; for the court- if
she understands herself, and she
thinks she does don't knoYV Iioyv
such a case should be decided.
A. few days since Capt. Joseph
W. Coppage, Yvhile ploughing in a
field near Naples, 111., turned up a
)Oi of gold coin. He stopped his
tchinjxamined the glittering metal
closely, counted it, and found it
amounted to 8 1,000. IIoYYever, a
doubt "depressed his soul. He
feared the metal might possibly
have been deposited thereby coun
terfeiters, and might proAe Avorth
less. He took it to Winchester,
and sold it to one of the banks for
$5,000 in greenbacks..
The proprietor of a Boston bone
mill advertises that " persons send
ing their oavii bones to be ground
Avill be attended to with punctu-
ality and dispatch."
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HOW A PISH SWIMS.
From ITarper's Magazine, December 1869.
So much, then," for the manner
and the means of overcoming the
attraction of gravitation in the fish.
Noay-, Iioyv docs it SYY'im? We have
found that the successive or simul
taneous removal of the dorsal, anal,
pectoral, and ventral fins only ren
dered the fish's position unsteady ;
but he could SYvim as Avell as before!
But if the end of the caudal fin be
snipped off, its speed is diminished;
if the entire fin is removed, it moves
still slower, and with evident exer
tion, but bravely keep it up until
the tail itself has been cut off up to
or beyond the anal fin ; then at last
the poor victim to science suc
cumbs, rolls over and over like a loo
upon the water, gasps convulsively,
makes a few desperate but ineffect
ual struggles with its abbreviated
tail and dies.
Mr. Bcrgh would probably ob
ject. But the sight appears "more
cruel than it is, i'or the successive
cuts seem to disturb the fish very
little ; and as the whole is over
much sooner than the dying strug
gles of a hooked fish, we m.ay claim
the right to make the sacrifice for
our intellectual l inner -especially
as it occurs , by no means even
T1 i & J
h rid ay. ,
"We have learned that a fish can
not .'swim williout its tail. Lotus
now inquire how it swims with it.
Very much as you scull a boat with
an oar ; but with the difference that
in this case the- oar is a jart of the
boat, and is flexible both in its
length and in its height.
Let us suppose our fish floating
at rest in the water. Its tail is cx
tended straight behind the body;
suddenly it is bent to one side; this
of course turns the head toward the
same side, and perhaps carries the
fish a little backward;-bnt iioyv
comes a more forcible backward
stroke of the tail, which turns the
head tljp other way and propels the
nsn lorwaru. ihciyiaving reached
the middle line, it is gently bent to
the other side, and again forcibly
extended. The result of these alter-
ii.-ity u:u emenis oi tne tan in 0V
posite directions is, as in the scull
ing of a boat, to propel the fish for-
y an i, not in a straight but a zigzag
direction. But the successive
movements are so rapid that Ave
notice only the resultant forward
motion, Yvhich is in some species, as
in the salmon, at the rate of tYYcnty
or-twenty-five miles an hour, and so
powerful that the sword-fish has
been known to thrust his" sword
through copper sheathing, a layer
of felt, four inches of deal,and four
teen inches of oak.
But it may iioyv be asked, " Why
does the backward stroke of the
tail carry the fish forward any more
than its forward stroke carries it
backward? for they must pass
through the same space."
There are four different reasons:
First, The forYvard stroke is much
less forcible and rapid than the
backward. Second, The water is
already moving; for the previous
backward stroke of the tail from
the ether side to the middle line has
forced the water in- all directions
out of its Yvay, so that the further
stroke foiYY-ard meets compara
tively little resistance ; but the
backYvard stroke meets all the more,
and is'thereforc the more effective
in sending the fish forward. Third,
This and the Fourth reason depend
upon the form of the tail, or upon
the will oft the fish.
There are some tails, such as
those of the sharks and of the sea
snakes, which arc long and narroYv
and stiff from edge to edge; and
these arc " feathered" like an oar.
Biit the tail of an ordinary fish is
not only much wider, but flexible
in e Very direction, and capable of
being spread out or narroYVed by
the action of little muscle's attached
to the bony rays which support it.
Noyv sucji a tad may be feathered,
and probably is, when the fish is
moving slowly ; but for more rapid
movements it is probable that the
whole tail is spread out and hol
loAved backward for the backward
stroke; but that upon reaching the
middle line it is narrowed and
made convex for the forward
stroke, so as to offer the least re
sistance to the water.
Those fishes Avhich have scales
overlapping each other are aided
in still a fifth way ; for in tire for-
Avarcl stroke the scales upon that
side of the tail would be flattened
closely together so as to present a
plane surface ; but in the backYYard
stroke the edges of the scales
would be raised a little from the
bending of the tail, and Avould offer
a roughened surface to the water.
General Logan has joined a tem
perance society.
- . . - .. -ftfc fa,..li.lLJ JUiJf II
OR1GIM OF THE SPICES.
Children, come learn something
about the various kinds of spices,so 1
that when yon arc in tho kitchen
helping somebody to make cakes, J"
sauces, puddings, or pies, you can
take an intelligent interest. It
is
Avell to know what you
are grind-
ing in the mill.
or, grating
on the
nutmeg-grater; so here are the
facts. Be careful, though, that you
do not let your knowledge fall in ;
the dough and make it heavy.'- r
Nutmeg is the kernel of a small,
smooth, pear-shaped fruit thatjv
grows on a tree '.m thc Molucca"
Islands and other partsofthc East.
The trees " commence bearing in
their, seventh year, and continue ,
fruitful until, they are , seventy or
eighty years old. Around the
nutmeg or kernel is a bright brown
shell. - This shell , lias a soft scarlet
covering, which when flattened but
and dried is-known as mace. The
best- nutmegs are solid, and emit
oil when pricked with a pin.
Ginger is the root of a shrub
first knoYvn in Asia, and noYYculti
vated in the West Indies and
Sierra
three
Leone. The stem groAY's
or
four feet high, and dies
every
year. There are two varie
ties of ginger, the white and black
caused by taking more or less
care in selecting and preparing the
roots, which are always dug in the
Avintcr, when the stems are with
ered. The white is the best.
Cinnamon is the inner bark of a
beautiful tree, a native of Ceylon,
that grows from tAYenty to thirty
feet in height, and lives to be cen
turies old. The United States has
imported nearly $10,000 worth of
cinnamon in a single year.
Cloves native to the Molucca
Islands, and so called from their
resemblance to a nail (clavis.) The
East Indians call them changlcch,
from the Chinese tcheng-kia (fra
grant nails.) They grow on a
straight, smooth-barked tree about
forty feet high. Cloves are not
fruits, but blossoms gathered be- s
fore they are quite unfolded.
Allspice a berry, so called be- ';
cause-it combines tlie odor of pca--cral
spices grows abundantly on
the beautiful allspice or bayberry
tree, native of South America and
the West Indies. A single tree
has been known to produce one
hundred and fifty pounds of ber
ries. They are purple when ripe.
Black pepper is made by grind
ing the dried berry of a climbing
vine native to the East Indies.
White pepper is obtained from the
same berries freed from their husk
or rind. Hcd or Cayenne pepper
is obtained by grinding the scarlet
pod or seed vessel of a tropical
plant that is now cultivated in al- 6
most all parts of the world.
Hearth and llomc.
Uxskasoxahle. A matter-of-fact
old gentleman in neAv England
whose Avife was a thorough "De
struction ist," Aras aYvakencd out
of his sleep by his possessed rib
one stormy night, with the words:
Husband ! did you hear that noise?
It's Gabriel n comming! It's the
sound of the chariot-wheels f
"O, pshaw you old fool 1" replied
the good old man, "do you s'pose"
Gabriel is such an ass as to come
on
wheels in such good slcighin'g
this ? I tell you it's not hini-
-turn
...... . I 4 , T,, "
Josh Billings has turned editor,
and, in "answer to correspond
ents," he perpetrates the folloYY ing,
which Avill answer remarkably ay'cII
as an epitome on Horace Greeley's
ucyv book on Political Economy -so
called :
" Gertrude Your inquiry stumps
me. 'The more I think about it,
the more I can't tell. As near as
I can recolleck iioyv, I think I don't
knoYY. Much -might be scd both
ways, neither may be rite. Upon
the hole I think I wood or woodn't,
jist as I think best or otherwise.
, c .
Thos. E. Hogg is called the
"Texas Poet." Who'd ever
thought that poetry could be found
in a hog ? Exchange.
We ncA'er knew a hog who
could write poetry, but we haAe
read the productions of Bacon,
which were replete with good
sense Ave have also seen bacon
which was full of bad scents.-
NTews Letter.
You are denying a fact to get
off a joke. One of the sweetest
English poets of the present age is
Hogg, and wc assure you we navo
nerused some delightful effusions
from that Hogg's pen.-
Galves-
ton DispatcJu
Have you a sister? Then 1oao
and cherish her. If you have not
a sister of your oayii, then love
somebody else's sister.
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