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The Weekly Enterprise.
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FOB THE
Business Man, the Farmer
3Aid the FAMILY CIRCLE.
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Oregon City, Oregon.
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Physician and Surgeon,
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OfhVe, Oregon City, Oregon. 1 3ti
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J. WELCH,
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Perinamsatly Located at Oregon City, Oregon
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SURGEON. Portland, Okkg n.
OFFICE Front street Residence cor
ner of Main and venth streets.
ALBERT H. KALLEHBERG,
Oaemit and Druffsist,
No. 73 FIRST STREET,
i-'e. Mark and lVtihiiigim.
PORTLAND, OUEGOX.
pa Pjysician) Prescriptions Carefully
prepared, at reduced Prices. A complete
u-.sortiueiit of Patent Medicines, "Jerliimer
ies, Toilet Articles, Fancy S aps. etc., on
hand and for sale at lowest rr cos, nf!lf
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E. A. VABKEU.
BELL &, PARKER.
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AS'D DEALER. IK
Chemicals, Pa tenVMedicincs, Paints,
Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes,
.And every article kept in a Drug Store. Main
w Mreet. Oregon Lit v.
W. F. HIGHFIELD,
Estahlished since lSJ0,at the old stand,
ilam Strtet, Oregon City, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watches. Jew
elry, and Scth Thomas' weight
Clocks, all of which are warranted
Cto be as represented.
Hepainngs done on snort notice,
ind tliankfiil for past favors.
"Live and Let Live."
JTIELDS Jc ST1UCKLEK,
DEALERS IN"
PROVISIONS, GROCERIES,
COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c.
IrAt the old s-t.iud of Wottman & Fields
Oregon Cit , Oregon. 13tf
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"Barnum Saloon."
JEXT & FLUMEY,
DI PEX?EKS OF
e Choice Wines, Liquors & Cigars,
Main st., Oregon City.
J?" Call, and Robert Potter will show vfur
through the establishment. i:itt
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T EOX DeLOUEY, Proprietor
OF THIS ESTABLISHMENT,
Main st., Oregon City,
Knows how to serve his customers
nriih Ovtes, Pi sis" Feet, a good cup of Coffee
or a SQUARE MEAL. istf
"XTEW YOPJv MUTUAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMP'NY
Q AYILTJAM E. HOWELL.
(Of Oregon City Manufacturing Company,)
l$3m AG EXT.
CLARK GREENMAH,
City Brayraaii)
qOiiegox ciTlr.
3 Al'Qrders for the delivery of merchan
dise or packages and freisht of whatever des
cripUou, to any part of the city, will be exe
cuted prompt!- and with core.
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For the Enterprise.
SPRING.
From a fairy home, in a clime unknown.
On the wings of a zephyr borne,
A beautiful maid came wandering down
To our earth so cold and forlorn.
King Winter long had usurped the throne.
And a cold, bard monarch was he,
lie had bound the earth with an icy zone
Aral his winds disturbed the sea:
The gorgeous flowers on mead and down
Shrunk lifeless, from his chilly breath;
And the proud green fields wore Ittun's
gray crown,
And the rivers grew pale as death.
The maiden well knowing his heart I
ween,
Approached him with simple grace.
And, bowing, demanded bis scepter sheen,
He gave it and Spring took his place.
he made a lair throne on a silver cloud
That o'erlooked her realm below,
And matched the breezes as they bowed
The sighing tree-tops to and fro.
She breathed on the rivers that long had
slept.
She clothed in bright verdure each plain.
She dried the clouds" eyes. hat silently
wept
Through tyrant Winter's cruel reign.
She smiled on the fields, and flowers
peeped up
In beauty, clad with perfume rare,
The golden Crocus and pale butler cup
Willi ths meek eyed Violet fair.
She called for the birds, and a bevy sood
Of songsters cane, with voices sweet
When on top-most boughs they warbled a
ti.ne.
In praise of Nature's household neat.
She spoktf, and the zephyr's came laugh
ing by,
Kissing each flower and glad green tree.
Dispelling dark clouds from an angry sky.
And filling the earth with thankful glee.
Thus scattering blessings aud sunshine
bright e
The maid in. our midst remained,
But her eye grew dim, atid her steps
less light.
E're three short months she had reigned.
Hut a few days more, and one star-lit
night.
She gathered her treasures fair.
And laying them down at Summer's feet
bright.
The sweet Spring vanished in air.
SruM.v.
STATISTICS OF OREGON.
BY A. J. DUFUIL
NO. ,8
DOUGLAS COUNTY.
This county, located about one
hundred and fifty miles south from
the 4'ity of Salem, and separated
from the great Willamette vallev
by the Calapooia mountains on its
northern boundary, and lying west
of the Cascade mountains, and hav
ing the Rogue River mountains
on its southern "line, with its west
ern border washed by the Pacific
ocean renders it a section of coun
try somewhat isolated from Avhat
might be called the more" thickly
settled portion of the State in the
Willamette valley, and gives it a
soil, climate and commercial, rela
tions peculiarly adapted to its own
location.
Extending from the Cascade
mountains on the east, to the Paci
fier on the west, a distance of 128
miles, covering an area of 2,240,
000 acres of land, this county ex
cels, in natural resources of wealth,
any one of the New England States.
The climate of this county, al
though mild and temperate, and
resembling in a great degree that
of the lllamette valley, has a
peculiar blending of the balmy
mildness of the sunny South, with
the bracing mountain air of the
snowy Alps, and is rendered doub
ly delightful b- a pure, healthy sea
Fbrccze sweeping up the entire
length of the Umpqua valley,
through a gap in the mountains
along the Pacific coast
Tiifact. the mountains by which
this county is surrounded, impart
from8 their snow-capped peaks a
bracing freshness to the air, which,
mingled with a continuous sea
breeze in summer, is not surpassed
for health and loveliness in any
Italian clime. The face of the coun
try in this county, although known
as the Umpqua valley, bears a
stronger resemblance to the "Switz
erland of America," New England,
than any other locality within the
State. J
This valley, containing over one
million acres of arable land, is Un
even, undulating, and bv some-
would be called hilly. Although.
this area is in fact the geographi
cal valley of the UmpqujT river
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Will! t till iVAtWM.r.1 . . .-
..... v.i uari appearance ot the
Lounu is mat ot a succession of
elevations and small valleys of ex-
ceeumg ieniiity, watered bv mi-
merous springs and rivulet 4m
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the adjacent hills and mountains,
and affording to the careful obser
ver unmistakable evidence of the
productive capacity of its virgin
soil.
The soil of this county, although
showing unmistakable signs of re
cent formation, having fossils,
shells and ligamentous petrifac
tions, may be divided into four
general classes, viz: 1st. a very
iine quality, embracing the great
majority of prairie lands of this
county, composed of grayish, cal
careous marl and sand loam. This
variety is very productive, mellow
and easily worked, is but little af
fected by drouth, and produces
wheat, rye, oats, barley, and all
the varieties of smalt grain in
abundance. 2d, an alluvial depos
it along the banks of creeks and
rivers, of sand, decomposed earth
and vegetable mould. This vari
ety is of exceeding fertility, pro
ducing tobacco,! Indian corn, mel
ons, peaches, and all the different
variety ot roots and vegetables of
the most luxuriant growth. 3d, a
rich black soil, formed by marl
clay loam, and a liberal mixture
of vegetable mold. This soil is
very productive, and is found along
the base of the high hills and moun
tains, and in the small vallcvs in
their immediate vicinity. 4th, a
thin brown or drab clay loam, with
a light mixture of decomposed
vegetable matter and sand. This
variety exists along the spurs of
the mountains and extended ranges
of hills, produces good grass, is
well adapted to grazing purposes
and especally adapted to the rais
ing ot sheep. Ihe different vari
eties of timber in this county are
the fir, cedar, ash, oak. cotton-
wood, maple and alder. A beauti
ful evergreen called the myrtle
grows in this vallev, from which
may be manufactured furniture of
the finest kind. This timber is ca
llable of receiving a finish equal to
bass wood or mahogany, and the
3oung trees when planted for shade
or ornamental purposes, are not
surpassed for elegance or beauty
by any brought from a foreign
State. The wild plum and grape,
peculiar to this valley, and a varie
ty scarcely known to any other
portion of Oregon, with the beauti
ful shrub known as the flowering
honeysuckle, are found in their
native splcnder along the banks of
many a mountain stream.
The water is pure, soft and abun
dant for all domestic uses, and for
mechanical and manufacturing pur
poses. Some of the water privi
leges desepve particular notice. On
the middle fork, or the main Ump-
qua river, is a mill site of almost
unlimited power. This water pow
er is in the central portion of the
county, near the town of AVinches-
ter, on the great thoroughfare or
stacre road between northern Ore-
iron and California, and where a
railroad will have to pass, if ever
one is built from Oregon to Cali
fornia.
Thos. Smith, Esq., a reliable citi
zen of this county, speaking of this
water power, says, l during a resi
dence ot twenty-one years in Ore
gon, nylls and machinery of any
kind would have been perfectly
safe from freshet, and this site will
be given to any company of men,
who will improve it for manutactur
inir purposes." This valley is wa
tered and drained by the Umpqua
river, a stream of considerable im
portance, with large tributaries ris
ing in the mountains, in opposite
directions in the country, runs in a
westerly direction a distance of be
tween one and two hundred miles
and discharges its water into the
Pacific occam lhe river is navi
cable a distance of about 30 miles,
has a good harbor at its mouth ca
pable of admitting sailing vessels
and ocean steamers, and is the chief
channel through which the supplies
of this county are received. The
conveniences ior mariceiing pro
i
duce are not as good as in many
other portions of the State. Ilaul-
ino- has to be done to bcottsDurs
at the mouth of the Umpqua river
on wasrons, a distance of 20 miles
But the farmers are chiefly engaged
in raising horses, sheep and cattle
which find a ready market in Cali
fornia and many other portions o
this State. TSince the above was
written, a steamer lias been mint a
Gardiner City which succeeded in
reaching lloseburg with but little
difficulty, and it is thought that, by
the expenditure ol a smau sum oj
mnnev to clear the river of obstruc
lions, it will be navigable for the
most part of the year. Ed.J
f farming land varies
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'from three to ten aoiiars per iicie
i neeordino- to location and vaLue o
j improvements. A few parcels of
LkAw river bottom have been sold
as high as 15 per acre, uovern
mentT and Shoal .land can be ob
tained at from 61 25 to $2 00 per
acre; but all things considered, the
immigrant would probably do bet
ter to purchase land already owned
in the settlements, at present rul
ing rates. The people of this coun-
tj as in almost all other portions
of Oregon, have made liberal pro
visions for educational and rehgi-
ous instruction. jz loncalla. in
the northern part of the '0011111, is
an Academy and building for re-
tgious worship. At Oakland, 12
miles further south, is another fine
building used for the same purpose.
Ten miles south of Oakland, at
Wilbur is another Academy, found
ed by the Rev. J. II. Wilbur in
854, and in which religious wor
ship is held every Sabbath. There
is also another church in this place,
owned and occupied by the Meth
odist Church South. At Roseburg,
eight miles further south, are four
churches, one. academy, aud one
Masonic Hall ; there is also anoth
er Masonic Hall at Oakland. School
districts, with schools, are organ
ized in all the settlements ot the
county.
rlour mills, lumber mills, ma
chine shops, wagon shops, black
smiths, merchants, business of all
cinds, trading posts and stores are
ocated at convenient points thro'
the county. In fact, the immigrant
rom the crowded city or densely
copulated farming districts of the
East, will find all the necessaries of
ife as abundantly supplied in this
ocality, at as reaeonable a price,
according the number of inhabit
ants and extent of territory, as in
any ot the older States, with the
ngh-minded generosity of the
South, the warm hearted liberality
of the West, and the intellectual
refinement and good tasts of the
East, combined in u marked degree
in the character of the people.
lfns county is also rich in min
eral weal tli, having good placer
gold mines on Collee creek, Cow
creek, and the middle fork of the
Umpqua river ; and gold in paying
quantities has lately been found on
Myrtle creek, and about one hun
dred miners are now working the
placers. A good coal bank exists
on the Xorth Umpqua; also ex
tensive lime quarries on Calapooia,
Cow and Roberts creeks. A num
ber of sulphur and soda springs are
in this county; and also three salt
springs, from one of which is be
ing manufactured salt of a superior
quality; but these springs are not
fully developed, and the extent of
their capacity is not known. I here
is also an extensive quarry of brown
sandstone, furnishing a beautiful
material for building purposes.
Ihe small rivers, creeks and
mountain streams are bountifully
supplied with fish, among which are
the chub, sucker and speckled trout.
Shell-hsh abound along the coast,
and salmon fisheries are established
to a considerable extent along the
waters of the Umpqua near its
month.
There is quite an extensive busi-
nesss in the lumber trade carried
on near tidewater, forests ot excel
lent timber for that business being
abundant.
The county has about 4,000 in
habitants, with an assessable prop
erty ot nearly $1,400,000, and be
twecn twenty-five and thirty thou
sand acres ot land under cultiva
tion.
Roseburg, the county seat, is a
thriving little town,about 150 miles
south ot Salem, on the stage road
from Portland to Sacramento. Has
an academy, four churches, Mason
ic and Odd Fellows' hall, public
schools, and contains about 500 in
habitants. The other towns in the county
are Scottsburg, Yoncalla, Wilbur,
OaklandjUmpqua City, Pass Creek.
Low Grove, Canyonviile, Galcs-
ville, Gardner, Kellogg s and Myr
tle Creek
The county has a good stage road
leading through its center, and can
be approached from San Francisco
by wav of the Pacific ocean and
Umpqua liver, or by land from the
north and south by stage or wagon
road
A careful analysis of the re
sources of wealth nature has placed
within the bounds of Douglas
county shows it to be a location of
no ordinary importance, and con
firms the statement already made,
that this contains greater natura
resources of wealth than any one
of the six New England States ; for
if either of these States alone con
tained mines of gold, coal, lime
and building stone, a sea-coast with
safe harbor, navigable rivers and
valuable fisheries, extensive forests
of pine, cedar and fir timber, with
trees from one to two hundred feet
without a limb, and three to eight
feet in diameter, water powers of
almost unlimited capacity, free
from the effects of frost in winter
and dangerous freshets in fall or
HOTTRTRFiY DT? RAMHttOFT T.TRRARY.
spring ; nearly a million of acres
of arable land, compossed of hills,
valleys and rolling prairies of un
surpassed fertility, and capable of
producing grass, grain, fruit, roots
and vegetables to an almost un
limited extent ; if either of those
States, like this one county, con
tained all these natural resources
combined, the writer of this article
was unable to learn it during a res
idence there for a period of over
thirty-five years.
STORMS INTHE SU,V.
Prof. J. J). Steele has communi
cated the following to the Elmira
Advertise)-:
" There appeared in the Adver
tiser, some weeks since, a para
graph copied, I believe, from a Mi
chigan paper, declaring that a col-
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umn 01 magnetic ngnt is snooting
out 1 rom the sun at a prodigious
speed that it already reaches half
way to the earth, and that in all
arobabihty, by another summer,
we shall have celestial and atmos-
heric phenomena beside which our
udest winter winds will seem like
a June morning in Paradise.' In
fine, that when this big tongue of
fire touches the earth it will likely
ap up our globe at one mouthful.
Very many have made inquiries of
me concerning tins prodigy, and,
with your leave, 1 will try to satis-
y their curiosity, and, perhaps, al
ay their fears.
It has been known for some time
that during a total eclipse red
names were seen to play about the
edge of the moon. During the
eclipses of 1868 and 18G9 it was
definitely settled that they were
entirely disconnected from the
moon, and were vast tongues of
fire darting out from the sun's disc
By observations with the spectro
scope, and also by means of the
wanderful photographs ot the sun
taken by De La Rue during the
eclipse of 18G0, it was discovered
that these fire mountains consisted
mainly of burning hydrogen gas.
This was precious information to
secure in the midst of the excite
ment, and novelty, aud in the brief
duration of a total eclipse. It did
not, however, satisfy scientific men.
For two years Mr. Lockyer, aided
by a grant from Parliament to con
struct a superior instrument, had
been experimenting and searching
in order to detect these flames at
other times than at the rare occur
rence of a total ecliose. On the
20th of October, 1809, he obtained
distinct image of one of the
prominences, which he aiterwards
traced entirely around the sun.
Astronomers can, therefore, now
study these flames at any time.
Ihe result ot observations now
being taken show that storms rage
upon the sun with a violence of
which Ave can form no conception.
Hurricanes sweep over its surface
with terrific violence. Vast cyc
lones wrap its fires into whirlpools,
at the bottom of which our earth
could lie like a boulder in a vol
cano. Huge flames dart out to
enormous distances, and fly over
the sun with a speed greater than
that of the earth through space.
t one time a cone of fire shot out
80,000 miles, and then died out, all
in ten minutes' time. Beside such
awful convulsions the mimic dis
play of a terrestrial volcano or
earthquake sinks into insignifi
cance. There is nothing in these phe
nomena to alarm us. They have,
in all probability, happened con
stantly for ages past. That we
have now means of investigating
their nature, and measuring their
hight and velocity, furnishes no
cause of anxiety. Rumors of these
discoveries have crept into the
papers, and, exaggerated by re
peated copying and sensational ad
ditions, have given rise to these
mysterious and uncalled-for pre
dictions. Chickex Lice. Turn the fowls
out of the hen house, and put a
peck of charcoal and fire or six
pounds of sulphur in an old stove
kettle, or other safe receptacle un
til it is thoroughly fumigated.
This has resulted in destroying all
the lice in the house and extermi
nating them from the fowls that
afterwards roosted therein.
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A fresh arrival from England
went the other day to a livery sta
ble and expressed a wish for a car
nage. The man in attendance
asked if he would like a buffalo.
The cocknev seemed started, and
I'd rather 'ave a 'oss."
Write your name in kindness.
love and mercy on the hearts of
those you come in contact with
and vou will never be forgotten
EXTRACT OF A SPEECH BY
COL. W. W. CHAPMAN.
DELIVERED At UNION' 1II1X, FEB. 22, 10.
"That laborers in all depart
ments of useful industry are buf
fering from a system of monetary
laws, which were enacted during
the late war, as measures, it is as
sumed, necessary to the life of the
nation, and which is now sought to
be perpetuated in the interest of
bondholders and bankers, as a
means to subvert the government
of our fathers, and establish on its
ruins an empire, in which all polit
ical power shall be centralized; to
restain and oppress the rights of
labor, and subordinate its votaries
to the needless demands of agre
gated wealth and supercillious an
thority."
Mr. President, The doctrine
enunciated in the article of your
faith I have just read is not origi
nal with the Oregon Labor Union.
It was declared by the National
Labor Congress months ago. That
Congress was an assemblage of in
telligent men, representing the
labor interest of the nation. They
were eye-witness of the facts, and
felt their sad effect upon the coun
try. They knew what they said,
in declaring that laborers in all de
partments of useful industry were
suffering from a system of mono?
tary laws of an extraordinary char
acter such laws as under which
the government had sold millions
of its bonds, drawing interest in
coin at six per cent, per annum,
for greenbacks at par, worth at
the time only forty cents on the
dollar; laws under vPhich the gov
ernment had given to those hold
ing such bonds three hundred mil
ion dollars in currency to loan at
compound interest in coin, by
which they were profiting from
thirty to iorty per cent, per an
num ; such laws as under which
there is now outstanding against
the government and people and
property in the United States near
ly three billions of dollars, in bonds
drawing six per cent, interest in
gold coin ; such laws as under
which the annual interest which
labor is taxed to pay, including ex
pense of collection, amountsto the
enormous sum of three hundred
and ninety-two millions in coin ;
such laws as under which threed
hundred thousand dollars have
been pressed out of Oregon an
nually and carried away to satisfy
the craving maw of bondholders
and bankers, never to return again
into circulation. This enormous
sunir drawn from the labor of
Oregon, collected under tariffs,
stamps, licenses, incomes of the
most odious forms and iniquitous
discriminations that taxes the nec
essaries of life, sugar, coffee, tea,
tne implements oi nusoanary ana
tools and materials of mechanism
a hundred per cent, higher than
articles of luxury. It was this
system of laws that created the
National banks. You have one of
them in Portland. It is one of
that school of hundreds in the
United States doing business on
three hundred millions of the peo
ples mono, loaning it from thirty
to forty per cent, per annum and in
addition, yes sir, in addition, draw
ing six per cent, coin interest on
the same capital from the govern
ment I should have said from the
people. This Portland National
Bank, farmers, mechanics, and day
laborers is loaning your paper
the people's money at one per
cent, per month in coin, compound
ing it into forty per cent, per an
num. This is that class of banks
which you have declared to be un
constitutional, and wrongfully in
creasing the burdens on t he wealth-
producing classes of millions0 of
dollars annually.
Under this system of monetary
laws of the tlnited States the
bondholding-bankers are making
from the wealth-producing classes
about fifty per cent, per annum on
the original investment.
DEBT REPUDIATED GOVERNMENT
CENTRALIZED
You have declared, as have our
brethren of the National Labor
Congress, that it is sought to per
petuate these monetary laws in the
interest ot bondholders and bank
ers. What was meant but this, in
the passage through Congress of a
resolution that the whole National
debt should be paid ii? coin. What
but this was meant by the propo
sition to renew the bonds for pay
ment in com at a lower rate ot m
terest. Or what is meant but tori
perpetuate this system by the pro
position now about to be realized,
to extend to the National banks
more currency and increase their
n ii m Koi. TTrwini- thp. svstem of
monetary laws I have just mention-pi - d,
the nowers of the government
have already become centralized
and controlled by the bondholders
and bankers. And in my humble
opinion, the intention of-thia cen
tralizing power is to fasten upon
the country nearly three pillions
in coin, which, by the terms of the
contract, is now payable in green
backs, and then step by step in
crease the number of the national
banks and extend their cumency
until instead of three hundred mill-'
ions, as at present, there will be
more than two thousand millions
of coin debt drawing interest in
coin from the government, and at
the same time compound 'interest
from the people with a proportion
ate increase in this centralized
power of the bondholders and
bSiikers. And yet. with all this,
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these bonds are exempt from tax
ation. If, as you have declared
labor has been oppressed ... undci
the system alluded to, what will be
its fate wheiiQthat system shall be
extendednnd perpetuated ? If the
government has become centraliz
ed u infer tf?e former sj-stejn, what
will it be, mav I ask, under the one
proposed '? If the rights of the
states have been usurped hereto
fore, what may we not expect
hereafter. If civil governments
have been overturned and military
governments substituted, who will
offer a limit to ihe progress ofDthe
tyrant.-'
(llow and where shall we find a
remedy for these unpreceIeht
wrongs but in the organized effort
of the labor interest throughouto
the United States.
q Mr. President, th line of discus
sion which I had marked out for
myself embraced the consideration
of each of the several articles con
tained in your " Declaration of
Principles' but. I shall be com
pelled to omit altogether some and
touch but briefly upon others.
PAYMENT OF XATIOXiL DEBT.
'That in the payment of the
national debt, regard should be
had to the contract, whether it?be
for coin or currency."
The proposition here submitted
is that while the public debt is ac
knowledged to exist, its payment
should be made according to the
original contract ; and permit me
to say what in my judgment the
great labor interest claim it to be,
and what I believe the parties to it
understood and intended it should
be. At that time there were two
parties to it, the idea not having
been conceived of centralizing the
government in the interest of bond
holders and bankers, and both
these parties recognized the fact
of universal suspension of specie
payments. A large proportion of
the bonds laying labor under con
tribution to luxury provided
specifically for the payment of
their interest in coin, but djd not
provide how0the priiiipal should
be paid. Now, if weQjudge such
contracts by the impress upon
them, under the principle of spe
cific contracts which at that date
pervaded the transactions of the
people and government of the
United States, there is but one
conclusion to which .we can arrive
and that is, that such bonds and
not es, specifying that their bearing
interest shall be paid in coin, im
plies that the principal -debt is
payable in legal tendej" money.
Thi:Pview of such contracts, I be
lieve, is uniform throughout the
country, and has received the en
dorsement ol the State and United
States Supreme Court.
DiamondOix North America. 1
To the list of the localities of
the diamond in North America,
sufficiently rare indeed, may be1
added thafo of Oregon; since iii
specimens of native platinum from
that Statj recently submitted" to r
scientific examination, this valued
mineral has been found in large
numbers, though .unfortunately,
the fact of the crj'stals being of '
microscopic minuteness may tend
to detract somewhat from the pe
cuniary importance of the discov- ;
cry. Harpers Jfagazine for
JIarci. . .
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Potato Sucvn. At a recent
meeting of the Lyceum ofTatural, '
History ew York, specimens of
syrup and sugar can be made at a -low
cost from therefuss of potatoes "
after undergoing distillation to ob-
tain spirits. Potato syrup it is re- -ported,
is used extensively by conv
fectioners, and that sugar has been - i
introduced into the manufacture of
lager. A factory, it is stated, has
recently been established in Brook-
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lyn, aud potato sugar is produced
in large quantities .
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