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OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER lO, 1870.
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Th2 Wb&ly Enterprise.
DEMOCRATIC rAPER,
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FOR THE
Business Man, the Farmer
jPtt CIRCLE
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY
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A. NOLTNER, f
EPITOI. AND PUBLISHER.
OFFICE Owner of Fifth and Main streets
Oregon City, Oregon.
TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION:
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Single
Copyne year, in auvauct, j '
77 3 V o .1 VER TISI.XG :
Tr indent advertisements, including all
T 1 notioes. ,- of 12 l.nes, 1 vv.$ 2 50
For Mch subsequent insertion 1 00
on?c,,iu:na, Vear' ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; 00
ai.trfer
u-huhhs Card, I sq-iarc one year.
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S- Rsmltl tnre to be made at the risk o
SnJtcribert,
ibert. and at the expense of Agents.
BOOK- AXD JOB PRINTING.
The Enterprise office is supplied with
h-a-itiful. approved styles of type, and mod
ern M VCiUN'S I'UKSSKS. which will enable
t!ie Proprietor t do J b Plinting at all times
Xeat, Quick and Cheap I
S3" Wrk solicited. . .
AH li-iiiw transactions upon a Specie basis.
AW PARTNERSHIP.
J AS. K. KELLY,
lle-u.K'U 'O, Columbia st
bet. 2.1 ua)i 1 sts.
J. n. REED,
Residence corner of
Columbia and 7 th sts.
Jos. K. Kelly ar:d J. II. R.ed, under the
-s linn name of
U KELLY HEED,
Will practice law in the Courts of Oregon
Uiiice on First street, near Alder, over the
new Post office room, Port.and. (-iotf
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AXSIXG STOUT.
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
Oiliw Under the United States District
Court U.)o:ii. Front street. 40tf
pAGJ& Til A YEP,,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
OFFICE In Crce's Building, corner of
Fioiit and Stark Greets, Puriland
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J. F. CAPI.E
J. C. MORELAND.
(DAPLES ,t MOHELAND,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cur. FROX T and I VASiliXG TUX Sts.,
PORTLAND, OREGON.
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A'CiKNK A. CUONIX,
JA TTOJIXEY A T LA W,
Rooms 7 and H farter's Hlook,
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PO 11 T 1 A N D, O li EuO .
W.KOSS, M. D.,
Physician and Saresn,
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"OTice on Mam Stieet, opposite Mason-
lLid, Oregon City. I3tf
SAFFAUUAXS,
Phyoician and Surgeon,
lf7 O fli ce at his Drug Store, near Post
OmJe, Oregon City, Oren. iar'
J. WELCH,
DEXTIST.
auenivy Located at Oregon, City, Oregon
ROOMS With Dr. Saflarrans. on Main st.
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Yv AJKINS, M.D.,
SURGEON. FoiiTr.vxn, Obko n.
OFFICE Odd Fellows' Temple, corner
First and Mder streels Residence corner of
Mjiu and Seventh streets.
ALAfJSpfd SMITH,
Attorney and Connselor at Law,
IItOCTOit ASD SOLICITOR.
AV0CAT.
Tractices in State and V. S. Courts.
Ojjice Xo. 10S Front Slrcet.PorlhtiuL Oregon,
Opposite McCormick's Uook Store.
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Saloon."
JEXT & PLU3IEY,.
DI TENSERS OF
Choice Wines, Liquors & Cigars,
Main st., Oregon City.
tT" Call, and TloSert Potter will show ynu
through the establishment. 13tt
W. F. HIGHFIELD,
O Established since lSIO.at tlic old stand,
.Vim Street, Oregon City, Oregon.
An Assortment of Watches, Jew
elry, and Seth Thomas' weight
Clocks, all of which are warranted
to be a represented.
Repainusrs done on short notice,
1 id thankful for past favors.
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CLAEK GUESNMA1T,
City Orayraan,
tsi 0HEG0X CITY.
5- All orders for the delivery of merchan
dised) r packages and freisht of whatever des
cription. to any part of the city, willbeexe
c t'e l promptly and with care.
JMPKRIAL MILLS.
Savier, LaTtoque & Co.,
OR EG OX CITY.
t"Tvecn constantl0.n hand foi sale, floor
Midline, Pran and Chicken Feed. Parties
parching feed must furnish the sacks.
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Live and Let Live."
J7IELDS & STRICKLER,
DEALERS IN"
PROVISIONS, GROCERIES,
COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c,
CHOICE WINES ASD LIQUORS.
jpAt the old stand of Woitman &, Fields
Oregon Cit; , Oregon. i3tf
JOHN II. SCII RAM.
Manufacturer and Dealer in
SADDLES, HARNESS,
etc., etc..
, Main Street, Oregon (,;ity,
jgry Wishes to represent that lie is now as
well prepared to furnish any article in his line
as the largest establishment in the State. He
particularly requests that an examination of
his stock be made before buying elsewhere.
GEO. XOAU. JAMES MORR SO".
INTERNATIONAL HOTEL,
Formerly Now Columbian,
Corner Front and Morrison Slretts,
POIlTIiAXD, OUEGOX.
NOAH &. MORRISON,
PROPRSETORS.
Free Coach to rT from
Julv 10th tf
(lie House
OREGON CITY
BREWERY !
II E X R Y II U5IBE L,
Having purchased the above Brewer' wish
es to inform the public thnt he is now prepar
ed to manufacture a Xo. 1 quality of
IMAGER BEE It,
As ?ood as can le obtained anj where in the
Stale. Orders solicited and promptly rilled.
JOIIX' 31. BACON,
Importer and Dealer in
JZJZ Z32 GO& 9
STATIONERY, TERFUMERY. &c, Ac,
Oregon Ci'-y, Oregon.
At Chfirman IVarners old aUtnd, lately oc
cupied by S. Ackerrnan, Main street.
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STEERS' & HINDE0
Wholesale Dealers in
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
"Wines. Tt randies. M7il.s7les, Ez
No. 4Tj, Front Strkft, TonTLAxn, Orf.gcs.
Constantly on hand a genuine article oi
C'lttei Wh.sky.
CI1AS. HODGE.. CHAS. E. CA LEF . . GEO. W. SXELL.
ROUGE, CiiLEF t Co.,
DEALERS IX
DRUGS and MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS, ASD WINDOW GLASS,
rARJTSriES, BRUSHES, PA IX TEES
Materials, una Liriujijhis Sundries.
07 Front Stieet,
So. Portland, Oregon.
S THIS FOR HIGH?
PAUL GRISBSR
Having tho -r u l.ly 1 econslructi-d inside and
ut. I.osru building, formerly occupied by
('has. Freidenrich, has pei.d the same,
where the best of
W'lne, Deer and Clfars,
ran be had. A s'lare of public patronage is
respectfully solicited.
Aug. 20:"m:J
COSFilOPOLaTAri HOTEL
(Fornieily Ariigoia's,)
Front Street Portland,
Oregon.
J.
B. SPREHGSR,
PROPRIETOR.
rpiTE PROPRIETOR OF THIS WELL
JL known House having superior accom
odations, guarantees enure satisfaction to
all puests.
2.7 f he Hotel Coach will be in attendance
to convey pasellsers and baggage to and
from the llotel, tree of charge.
Othce Oregon and California Stage Co.
Aug. l:tf
Patronize Home Industry.
THE PIONEER CURLED HAIR
MANUFACTORY
SNOW PREPARED TO SUPPLY THE
market w;th a No. 1 article of Curled
Hair tor Upholstery work, which vvili com
pare with any imported article In quality or
price.
I p:iy the highest price for Manes and
Tails of Horses and Tails of Cows at niv
store, coruer Front aud Salmon streets.
I. MF.TZ'.FR,
Portland. Oregon.
jTEW YORK HOTEL,
(Dentfches Gafthans,)
o. 17 Front Street, opposite the Mail steam
ship lauding, Portland. Oregon.
H. H0TKF0S, J. J. WILXENS,
PROPRIETORS.
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Board per Week
" " ' with Lodging. ,
" " Day
$5 00
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How the Poor Man Pays a Heavy
Taxt3 the Government.
It is a law of principle in all de
partments of commerce and trade,
that the cost of production gov
erns the price of the artisles pro
duced, unless it is in some cases
where capital has been transferred
from one branch of industry to
another under the protection of
Government, as for illustration un
der the operation' of the present,
odious tariff S3-stem, which trans
fers capital from the agricutural to
manufacture interests, which latter
the Government protects by im
posing a heavy duty upon foreign
manufactured v goods, at the ex
pense of agrieiilturc. YVhatever is
the rate imposed it is added to
the home manufactured article,
and its price is by so much in
creased. But capital having been
largely withdrawn from agri
culture and receiving no protec
tion from the Government, nor
foreign demand for its products,
because a high tariff has driven
commerce from our shores, and
prohibits exchange of products be
tween tills and other. countries, the
cost of production to the farmers
is not realized in the price they
received for their wheat, barley
and other articles. This excep
tion to the rule, however, that the
price of the article is governed by
the cost of production, is the re
sult, solely of the unjust and inqui
tious workings of a tariff system,
that robs the many of the pro
ceeds of their toil and transfers
them to to the pockets of the rich.
The poor man pays the tax the
same as the rich ; and as the num
ber of poor men are largely in the
ascendency, averaging nine to one
in the population of the country,
they of course aud of necessity
pay more tax than the rich. As
incontestable evidence that the
poor man does pay tax, and a
larger tax than the rich man, we
call attention to the articles of daily
consumption. o matter, now,
what may have been the original
cost of the article, the manufac
turer or producer has his profit
which is added to the original cost ;
the profits of the commission mer
chant, the wholesale dealer, and
all the cost for transportation, are
idded to the price of the cjoods.
X'ow the poor man the laborer
and the mechanic purchases oi
the retailer, and pays ail the tax
and other costs noon the article
from the manufacturer to the re
tail dealer. Thus, the poor man
who is the largest consumer pay:
the larirest share ot taxes. i et
there are many politicians so silly
or dishonest as to contend that the
poor man pays no tax that it is
the rich man on whom the burden
of taxation falls. Out upon sucl
stupid nonsense, or low, knavish
deception and cunning hypocrisy
iut iei us enquire lurtner : 1 lie
poor man pays the same on all his
groceries as the ncn man ; he pay
the same on the clothing for his
family as the rich man; he pays
the same tariff 011 iron, steel, tools,
farming implements, and other av
tides with which he works. There
is no article of daily consumption
upon which there is a tax, that the
poor man does not pay as much a
the rich. But more, and what is
more shameful, outrageous, and un
just, the poor man is taxed upon
his axe, his grubbing hoc his kit o
tools or his plow, and the proceeds
of his labor earned with these very
instruments are niched from him
in the form of other taxes, to pav
the interest to bond-holders who
have invested their thousands in
Government bonds, and who cut
off their c 11 pons upon which they
ire not taxed ' a cent. It is the
poor man, then, who pays the
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argest amount of taxes, and
sweats and toils from sun to sun,
only to be robbed of a lare pro
portion of his earnings, pays in ad
dition to his taxes, the bloated de
bauched idlers and leeches, the in
terest in gold on their bonds.
Poor men should study the facts,
and remember the party which has
so oppressed and burdened them to
maintain villainous monopolies and
debauched bond-holders.
There is still another way in
which poor men pay tax. We
will suppose a capitalist to have
invested his money in dwelling
houses upon which he pays State,
county, municipal and income
tax. He rents these tenements to
poor men who are unable to buy a
home of their own, and all these
taxes are added to the price of the
rent, which comes out of the poor
man's pocket. And further in ad
dition to the high rent with taxes
added, the owner must have his
interest on the original investment,
which in the present state of Gov-
eminent, under the control of
scoundrels, outlaws, thieves, nig
gers and conspirators, is at least
ten per cent, and which the poor
renter has to pay.
Under the Mongrel Government
the poor man is completely owned
by the capitalist. He is as much
a slave as ever was the nigger on
a southern plantation, and the very
men the puritanical winners,
psalm-singers, bible-bangers, hyp
ocrites and nigger-worshippers of
the God ami-morality party, whose
sympathy for the nigger slave
found vent in putting bayonets to
the hearts of white freemen, are
the ones who raised the hue and
cry that the slave was robbed of
his earnings by his master, which
were his own by right, are now
robbing w.hite men and oppress
ing them a hundred times greater
than was ever the southern slave
under the most cruel master.
About Dcgs.
Said a dear friend to us the oth
er day:
"Better the good-will even of a
dog, than his ill-will."
Excuse us for not accepting ev
ery bone of an idea thrown at us.
Because a man says it is only four
hundred miles from New York to
Chicago, we are not bound to be
lieve him. The good will of a dog
is all right, but we have seen more
clothes soiled, dirtied, pawed, torn
and mussed till they were spoiled
b)- these good-natured dogs than
we ever saw torn by bad dogs.
These good-natured, mussing pups
that paw their dirty feet over your
clothes try a man s temper more
than all the curs in the world.
They are the ones who leave
stains on you who, in kindness
cover von with spots and make
people think you are more free
with dogs than dignified 111 your
manhood.
We have seen filled with ill-will
bark but what of it? His is a
poor sort of equanimity the bark
of a dog disturbs. Sometimes a
mad-dog bites at a man then kill
the dog. AYe have seen dogs full
of good-will paw and spoil many a
suiL Have seen ill-willed dogs go
by with their heads and tails down
but never biting at a man who
knows where to place them.
And what matters it whether a
dog cares for you at nil? We can
live without dogs be they two or
four footed ones. Dogs eat up all
our earnings, bring us fleas, hair,
.and dirt. They are not necessary
to our salvation or success. If you
want their good will, all right.
But we do not care to spend an
hour or a moment of a valuable
life tickling dogs or fitting them to
paw us over and mark our clothes.
The best way is to do as you please
then the dog will think you are
master.
Some people like dogs. Some
women think more of a dog than
of a baby. Some women pet, fon
dle, caress dogs till their clothes
be full of lleas, or till their mouth
be all dog-spittle and say it is so
sweet. But every one to their
taste. If women like or love dogs
it is none of our busines, no more
than it is of theirs what we think
of such people. When you see a
man playing with doll-babies, and
women in love with dogs, you "will
see "spoons." Yon will see per
sons whose chief bump is amative
ness, and who are of about as
much use to the world as a scared
dog with a tin-kettle tied to his
tail would be worth to hold a can
dle to catch fleas by. Democrat,
"Restes." Many of our read
ers may may not have a fair un
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ueiMauuiiig in uiu uuin ieue,
which occurs so constantly just
now in our foreign dispatches, and
whose rise and fall seems to consti
tute the financial Barometer of
Paris. They are the funded debt
debt of France, not, however, in
the form of bonds; but simply
loans from, the people. 1 hese
loans are entered to the credit of
the lenders on the Government
ledgers, and draw a specified rate
of interest. The holders of the
debt are called "renters," and the
fluctuations in its value denote pop
ular distrust or confidence in the
Government.
As a man was driving cattle and
wishing to alter their course, he
called out to a boy a short distance
ahead, to turn them. Says the
boy, they are right side out now.
Well, head them then. They have
heads on. Whose boy are you?
I don't know; I'll go and ask
mother
Ladies can draw a beau into a
knot at the hymcnial altar.
The Mormon Currency.
The September number of the
Overland contains the following:
The Mormons reached Salt Lake
Yalley in an utterly impoverished
condition. The cash capital of the
entire community would not proba
bly have exceeded 81,000. The
California migration furnished
them a market for their surplus
products; but, as they had but
small use for money, they preferred
taking of the miners instead some
thing which they could either eat,
drink, or wear, and not procurable
at home. As they increased in
numbers and means merchants es
tablished themselves among them,
thus enabling them to use their
small stores of money in the pur
chase of needed supplies." Their,
I great distance from market, and
the small proportion ot their crops
Avhich would bear transportation,
have, however, at all times made
money extremely scarce, and have
led to the perpetration of a com
plicated and often amusing system
of barter. Hundreds of farmers,
living in comfortable circumstances
and having large families to clothe
and educate, will not see a dollar
in money for years. Such a far
mer wishes to purchase a pair of
shoes for his wife. He consults
the shoemaker, who avers his wil
lingness to furnish the same for one
load of wood. He has no wood,
but sells a calf for a quantity
of adobes, the adobes for an order
on the merchant payable in goods,
and the order for a load of wood
and straight way the matron is
shod. Seven watermelons purchase
a ticket of admission to the thea
ter. He pays for the tuition of his
children seventy-five cabbages per
quarter. The dressmaker receives
for her services four squashes pei
day. He settles his Church dues
in sorghum molasses. Two loads
of pumpkins pay his annual sub
scription to the newspaper.
The Cheap Chinese.
The American mechanic and
skilled laborer is not afraid of com
petition. He welcomes to this
country 'the -oppressed people of
Europe, and is perfectly able to
take care of himself.
But he does not wih to be un-
lerbid, and the work taken out of
lis hands, and the-bread from his
mouth, by cheap importations of
inferior and ignorant men from
Asia. The wholesale engagement
of Chinese who receive utterly in
significant wages in their own
country, are ready to be swindled
u-re, is destructive to the interests
of American free labor. We are
willing to have the individual
Chinaman come and make all the
money be can, but it will not do
to have Chinese colonies drive
American mechanics out of their
workshops aird factories.
The solution of the problem is
difficult, but whatever is decided,
one thing is certain, the American
eople trill not consent to have
imerlcan labor pauperized. Cheap
labor is good for the capitalist, but
pauper rates of payment will not
be permitted by the intelligent
workingman. PL Vadelph ia Dost.
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It is said that a distinguished
gentleman of Boston was among
the number who took a dec) inter
est in the laying out of Mount Au
burn for a cemetery, llesubsenb-
f 1.1 1 A. 1
ea ior a lot, out wnen uic assess
ments were called for, he declined
to pay up, upon the ground that
the lot assigned to him was not in
a healthy location.
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A gentleman called at the house
of an honest old lady, for the pur
pose of collecting a small debt.
Xot collecting the amount, he
promised to send in his bill that
evening. The old woman suppos
ing that he meant his son William,
replied, "Oh, la, our Sail never set
up with any one yit; but Dill's a
clever boy and they may build a
fire in t'other room."
A gentleman popping his head
through a tailor's shop window,
exclaimed, " What o'clock is it by
your lapboard ?" upon which the
tailor lifted up his lapboard and
struck him a blow on the head, an
swering, "It has just struclc one.
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A man who had a scolding wife,
being willing to excuse her failing,
when called upon to give some ac
count of her habits and character
said she was pretty well in general
only subject at times to breaking
out of the mouth.
"There's a woman at the bottom
of every mischief," said Joe.
"Yes," replied Charley; when I
used to get into mischief, my moth
' cr was at the bottom of me."
STATE NEWS.
A man whoso name could not be a?cer
tahu'd met with a severe accident on the
Mollala river bottom last Saturday. He
was engaged in hewing ties at the time.
As be was in !he act of stepping over a
piece ot timber he slipped and fell sgainst
the edge ol a broad axe with the heavy
portion of his body, initiating a severe
gash.
The Eugene Guard says that Dr. Whit
comb and Anderson recently left that
place very suddenly, leaving quite a num
ber of persons losers.
A great deal of sickness been prevalent
in this vicinity of late, probably caused
by a sudden change of the weather.
The .Oregonian says :
The opinion ol Judge Boise in the Yam
hill election contest covers more than one
hundred and twenty pages of legal cap.
J. II. Foster, of Albany, last week pur
chased S.00D bushels of wheat in one lot
for 75 ceuts per bushel.
On Saturday morning a barn belonging
to a man named i'rown. a lew miles trom
Mc.Mirnville. was burned. Two horses
perished and ten tons oT hay were con
sumed. Indians are supposed to have set
the barn on fire.
The Bulletin says :
t Jo. Teal, the Oregon Cattle King, has
added another large purchase to his al
ready exiensive real estate possessions in
the Willamette Valley. He has bought
the. Henry Fuller tract in Benton and
Polk counties, about three thousand acres
in extent, and the whole of it splendid
grazing or tanning lands, well limbered
in portions, and well watered. It is about
twelve miles back from the river. This
year there has been produced from pr. r
tions of the land an average of eighty
three bushels of oats to ihe acre, and of a
trifle over sixty bushels uf white bearded
wheat. Asa cattle range the tract is not
surpassed ia the State.
Last Saturday, just as we were going to
press, it was reportea mat trie man who
was temporarily placed in the station
house to await further disposition by the
county authorities, way dying. Judge
Shipley was absent during the vveoK, and
that prevented the stranger being placed
at once under more suitable treuimeut.
His naoe was John Clark.
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The Saving Influence of a Sister.
Among the choicest blessings of
love is that of a good sister. Xo
one can fill her place, which is sa
cred and rich with opportunities
for doing good and dispensing
happiness.
Manv sisters rob each other of
the sweetest companionship by
seeking other friends, and bestow
ing their heart-treasures and little
confidences upon strangers, in
stead of cementing the sisterly af
fection by all those most potent
means.
Thus is much trouble and anx
iety caused. Friends prove false
and betray confidences, while a
good sistei is true and silent as the
grave over all things which could
injure a beloved sister or brother.
As a rule strangers never pos
sess the uninterrupted interest for
you that your own family feel.
X"o one else will always defend
you, always protect, and hide your
faults from censure. No one else
will always rejoice at your success
and mourn over your failure, as
will your parents, brothers and sis
ters. What a pity then that families
do become so alienated from each
other, their interests separated and
paths divided. It is such a bless
ing for a young mar. if he has a
kind sister who can influence him
to stay at home, finding pleasures
in the unbroken fireside circle
which is filled with precious jewels
of confidence, love, and harmony.
Boys have gone to ruin who might
have been saved through the in
fluence of a thoughtful sister.
Debt.
Debt is a perfect bore. It haunts
a man from pillow to post; lurking
in his breakfast cup, poisoning his
dinner, embittering his tea! How
it stalks from him like a living,
moving skeleton, seeming to an
nounce his presence by recounting
his liabilities. How it poisons his
domestic joys, by introducing its
infernal " balance" into the calcu
lation of madam respecting the
price of a new carpet, or a new
dress. How it hinders dreamy
plans for speculations, and cripples
resolutions too good to be fulfilled.
At bed and board, by night or
by day, in joy or in grief, in health
or m sickness, at home or abroad.
debt grim, gaunt and shadowy,
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iuus an lucuuiurance. s no pres
ence is too sacred, no ground too
holy to leter the memory, "bilh
and notes payable" from taking
immediate possession, so ro recon
is enlivening, no reminiscence more
than the debt has fallen like a Jan
nary morning, twenty-nine decrees
below zero.
It is said that Hon. A. II. Ste
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vens weigns only seventy-six
pounus. mat, is in the flesh: in
tellectuallv. he weighs several tons
when balanced against some of the 1
wiseacacs of modern times.
Monarchs Retired fron Business.
Our lively and very readable co
temporary tlte Standard f some
what sneeringly aliudcg to the fact
that Jeffei 'sou L)avis is about visit
ing Europe, alid says:
It he stays long enough inu
rope he may be able too welcome
one more celebrity to the ranks.of
"monarchs retired from business,"
in the person either of Count Bis
marck or the Emperor. Napoleon.
We do not know that it is ne
cessary for the Hon. Jefferson Da
vis to go -abroad to extend the
hand of welcome to retiring mon
archs, for the months are not so
many now before an eminent busi
ness man named Grant, with whom
the Standard appears to be on fa
miliar terms, will have leave given
him by the American people to re
tire from business. To be sure, his
business' differs a little from that
in which Jefferson Davis was en
gaged, or 'that to which Bismarck
and Napoleon are nowr giving their
attentions, the great object of all
except Grant, being the conquest
of nations or sovereignties: while
Grant is content simply with sove
reigns, or such articles of value as
may bring them. The only differ
ence, therefore, between Bismarck,
Napoleon, and Grant being the
style of "sovereigns each would
bring to his feet.
And there is another monarch
lately retired from business in this
count.iy we allude to the wife of
the late President, who retired
from the White House with ninety
boxes of stolen goods- who retired
from Xew York after . failing to
sell her old clothes and who" has
now been graciously retired by a
benevolent Government on $3,000
a year! lomeroy s Democrats
The St. Louis Depmbllcan hurls
back the insinuation that the pas
sive resistence idea is intended as
a scheme. It says:
The Democracy, as we believe,
intended no trick in abstaining
from the nomination of the State
ticket. They- simply mean to pro
test against the cowardly despot
ism which. decides be f o reh and that
no such ticket shall be elected.
There never was a time when the
Democracy felt more confident of
carrying a fair and square election
in Missouri, than now. They
could beat their opponents, with
12,000 white men disfranchised un
der the constitution ; they could
beat them with 15,000 new col
ored votes added to their oppo
nent's strength ; they couldo beat
either B. Gatz Brown, or Gov.
McClurg on an aggregate vole, by
a decisive majority, and carry0
three-fifths of the counties in de
tail. But no such fair election was
held in I860, nor in 1868, and none
will be allowed in 1870; and
the Democracy have no desire to
put on harness for a light which
thirty-three registry superintend
ents have decided against them.
Bachelors have a new dignity in
Georgia. The supreme court of
that State has decided that a bach
elor is a "famihv' and being so, he
is, of course, "the ." head of the
family, and as such entitled to
the privilege of the homestead act.
It seems, according to the New
York Tribune, that Cono-rcss re
used to repeal the income tax be
cause it would throw so many rad
ical patriots out of office. That
excuse must of course be satisfac
tory. The Boston Journal thinks tho
radicals M ill have all they can at
tend to to carry Jlasssachusetts
this fall. The tfmrrnal. heino- rad
ical, is reliable on this point.0'
A minister at camp-meeting saidv
If the lady with blue hat, red.
iair, and cross eyes, don't stop
talking, she will be" pointed out to'
the congregation. 7
A smart minister in Toledo, with
in ten months, married a couple
baptized their first child, preached
the husband's funeral sermon, and
married the widow.
A dispatch from White Sulphur.,
Springs, Ya., says: Gen. Robert
E. Lee has not tendered his service,
to France. He has sheathed the!
sword forever. f
The late election in Montana re
sulted in a glorious , victory ior
the Democracy. Only legislative
and county officers were elected.. .
A young man in Illinlois .has
eloped with the second wife of Jais'
I own uncle. . ' ' l-. , -.
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