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0 V': o o O 6, a- O O O o o VOL. G. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1872. NO. 40, i JLio 5 Cljc tUcdiln lentevpvise. FfB THE Business fVJan, the Farmer j, ld tke FAMILY CIRCLE. JristED EVERY FHIDAY DY A. PJOLTHERi EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 0FFICE-U Dr.The5':nS'Bikk Building TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION: Single Co;)y one year, in advance, $2 50 TERMS of ADVERTISING : Transient advertisements, including all le-al notice, q. F 12 hues, I vv.$ 2 50 For e.icu -iub.-equetn mii ouu Oae C'jlu nu, one year ILiir " " tarter " n4i,ie-is Card. 1 square one year. . 1 00 .r2o oo . 40 . 12 rW" flemittmces to be made at the risk u Sitbicribcre, and at the expense of Agents. BOOK ASI) JOB PRINTISG. K,f,7,;r,;i rJtaterprise "IBce is applied with beautiful, a,-!!-, i . f iy.)0 it,!( mod ern MACUIXB I'KL? hcU will enable the Proprietor tn do .1 -b Piiu at all times Neat, Quick and Cheap ! S'W W r!t solicited. All JJxiinem trms iction upon a Specie basis. B US1XESS CARDS IT. W ATKINS. M. D , SURGEON. PoiiTLAxn. Oiiegi n. O FFICE 0 .1' IVllows' Temple, corner First n i Udjr streets llesidetice corner of Main and Seventh streets. a. HURL AT. CIIA.S. B. WARIiEN. H U EL AT & W ARRHN Attorneys at Lav, orncK en arman's brick, main stkeet, ORE ION CITY, OREGON. March ls7'2:tf F. BARCLAY, EVi. R. C. S. Formerly Surgeon to the Hon. II. B. Co. 33 Years Experience. practicing physician and surgeon, Mitln Street. Oregon Ci'y. johnso;? & rosccoww ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW, OHEQOtf CITY, OltEGON. WILL I'll VCTICE IS ALL THE COURTS of Uie State. -.special attention g ven to cases in the U. S. Laid Ollice at Oregon City. April - ls72:tf W. F. HIGHFIELD, Estalil'lied since 1819, at the old stand, Miin Street, Oregon Cit'j, Oregon. An Assortment of Watches . Jew elry, and Se.th Thomas' weight 'locks, all of which are warranted so he as represented. Ilaoai tilths done on short notice, tnd thankful tor past favors. CLAUK GREENMAN", SSS OR EGO X CI TY. All orders tor the delivery of merchan dise or pa'-kaes and freight of whatever des criptio i . to any p art of tlie city, willbeexe c'lie 1 promptly and witli care. A. G. WALLING'S Pioneer Book Bindery. Corner of Front atxl AUlrr Street, PORTLAND, OREGON. BL YXlv BOOKS RULED and BOUND to anv desired pattern. MUSIC BOOKS, MAGAZINES, NEWS PAPERS, Etc., bound in every variety ol style known to the trade. Orders from the country promptly at tended to. jonx m. bacon, Importer and Dealer in 4EJTrJ' TJ IS XH LD EZ'CL. STATIONERY, PERFUMERY, Ac, c., Oregon CHy, Oregon. At Chirm') IV.irner'x old stun d, lately 0C cuni'l by S. Ackermnn, Main street. H tf D. J. WELCH, 5 4 DENTIST. OFFICE- In Odd FellrTvs' Tf r fir, Fir-t iiitd Ald r Ftrri Is, Yc Ir r r . The ntTnax ' of tho-e desirlncr superior oper it'.o is i n sppcial request. Nitroosox d frv- th i'iiilf'S extrotion rf topth. '3f V-ti ieial tetH "better than the best,' a 1 i 'V'ln is the eUtrtt. Will V,. x Oregon City on Saturdays. Nov. s:-f " J J. M, TnOMpos c w . fitcti. TH ?M 'SOW & FITCH, Attorsicjs sit Lair, Real Estate Agents, EUSEN CITY, OREGON, office two door; north of the postoffice. RS L ESTATE ROUC, fix AND SOLD. LOANS NEGOTIATED. AND AB STRACT OF TITLES F URN I. SHED. W' HN.vn A COI!'LETE ABSTRACT of Ti 1 nt .ill pror.ertr in Ei'cene Cit v, and perfect plats "f V" enmp. pren ired wt'Ti 7rpT care. will practice in t? p rtlTrent C nrts of the Stat -. Special at teTfm srivprt to the collection of all claims that -nar be nlace 1 in our hands. Lecul Tenors bright rA sfl-J. Pt Vrsv Theodore Tiiton on Grant. The followlns; is a document is sued i'rom the Golden Age office bv Theodore Tilton. It is erood read- r ing for all, and especially Republi cans : SUCCESSFUL FAILURE AT PHILADEL PHIA. Xow that the Philadelphia Con vention has hushed its shoutings nvcl' lllf Tr(JSl(li'lt,; ni-nriinin-itifvii and submits itself in silence to the sober, second thought of the Amer ican people, let us consider what was its duty, and how it left this undone. It ought to have resented and defeated the -President's attempt to renominate himself, instead of which it became the very ins ru ment for accomplishing t his scheme. It ought to hae impeached him at the bar of public opinion for his numerous violations of law. instead of which it suffered these outrages to ro uncondernned. It ourht to have exposed the frauds perpetra ted in his Custom Houses, instead ot which it blindly shut its eyes to these enormities. It ought to have denounced his double-dealing with civil service reform, instead of which it made this reform impossi ble by enacting the two-term prin ciple. It ought to have protest! d airainst his Federal intrusions into local affairs, instead of which it made a high-sounding declaration in favor of both State rights and their violator. It ought to have denounced the corrupt incumbents whom the President- has retained in ollice, instead of which it be came an accomplice for their reten tion in power during another four years. It ought to have commiser ated the country on the Adminis tration's ignominious surrender to England, instead of which it calls this shamelessness an "honorable compromise." It ought to have laid bare the failure of the Presi dent's policy with the Indians, in stead of which it took no notice of the recent blood y massacres on the frontier, or of General Sheridan's report of wide-spread Indian hostil ities. It ought to have rebuked the President's attempt, through his paitisans in Congress, to stretch martial law over the South, instead of which it silently joined in the scheme to carry the next Presiden tial election at the point of the bay onet. It ought to have given a stinging rebuke to the President's extraordinary lavishness of public offices among his relatives, instead of which it sees in the nepotism of a ruler no crime against the State. Three-fourths of the Philadelphia delegates consisted of those repub licans who once symphatically aid ed and abetted the impeachment of Andrew Johnson for violating the tenure-of-otlice law. Put Giant's o Ileuses against the laws have been more numerous than Johnson's. If there was legal ground for the im peachmcnt of one, there is far more for the impeachment of the other. We challenge even Mr. Poutwell, with his celestial rhetoric, oorrow- ed from u the hole in the skv," to prove Grant less guilt v than John son of naked violation of the law. It was in violation of law that the President, wit hout the authorization of Congress, employed the navy in a warlike action against I lay ti. It was in violation of law that he sold arms to one Kuropean nation to be used against another. It was in violation of law that he disposed of the Secor and Chorpenning claims. It is now in daily and notorious violation of law that he surrounds himself witli military in stead of civil secretaries. These are types of his violations of the plain letter of written stat- utes. t-eores or cases can oe auoeo w here I;e has violated what Mon- tesquieu calls ' sj ;irit of the laws." ITf Iims violated the soirit of the yu,v'ueLaw by usurping for Im self functions wnkll that charl tor hun ter tliG Stag's alone. lb- reserves to has violated self-government by suspending the operation of local law. He has violated public liber ty by intruding himself into politi cal conventions to control them in the interest of his administration and renomination. He has violated the moral sense of the people by such arbitrary displacements from position as that of 31 r. Sumner from the chairmanship of the Com mittee on Foreign Relations, and by such retentions in ollice as that of Leet and Stocking, and other leeches on the public revenue. He has violated common morality ly taking private gifts and rewarding the gfvers with public emoluments. He has violated the decent usages of gentlemanly breeding by enter ing "newspaper oflieos and demand ing the removal of offensive editors who fell into his disfavor by criti cisms on his maladministration. He has violated the common stand ard of private character by over addiction to the wine-cup. The shallowest of all answers to these charges is that lie was renom inated unanimously by whom? 'ot br tbo KepnMican party which he has severed in twainjikc a house divided against, itself. Ev ery man who has partisans and no public man is without them can get a unanimous vote from his own friends. Three years ago the Pres ident had a party ; now he has only a part of one. That noble, royal, invincible party no longer exists. The President has put an end to it. Almost any other man could have united it; almost no other man could have divided it. To ils chosen chief was reserve! the sail distinction of destroying it. He has wrought more mischief in our politics than ten Andrew Johnsons. Xay, more if the House and Sen ate had continued in the same sen sitive and inflamed temper toward a law-breaking Executive as they manifested in May, 18GS, Piesideiit Grant w ould have been impeat hed at Washington instead of being re nominated at Philadelphia. There are two aspects in which this renomination is especially a calamity to the country; one as a blow a, official honesty, the other as a blow at popular liberty. As to public honesty, if an Am erican President can enrich a whole army of relatives by bestowing upon them the public funds, why m ly not other public officers do the ame F or instance, it tin President gives lucrative positions to his father, his brother, his cous ins, and his nephews and wife's cousins, why may not Mr. Thomas Murphy in like manner call togeth er the whole circle of his kith and kin, and portion out among them the salaried and fat places of the Custom House? Why may not Patrick Jones do the same with the clerkships of the Post Ollice? Why not Mr. Casey the same at Xew Or'eans? Why not every other principal office-holder the same everywhere so that the 50, 000 offices in the gift of the Admin istration shall thus be considered the family property of a few favor ed appointees? In other words, why should not the whole govern ment be turned at once, like the Presidency itself, into a continental gift enterprise ? As to public liberty, if in time of peace the military power is to reign supreme over the civil, then farewell republicanism ! Indeed, the Republican party itself, as one reads in the debates in Congress, has largely lost, or stifled, its in stinct for republicanism. Mr. Sum ner's fearful indictment of the Pres ident, accompanied as it. was with proo's and specifications, w:is an swered how? l3r an admission of tne g-nliy tacts, coupled with the astou.iding extenuation that they were frivolous. Is there nepotism ? Yes, but it is a trifling crime. Is there gift-taking? Yes, but its a venal offense. Is there law-breaking? Yes. but its of no conse quence. Like Senator Carpenter, t'le Philadelphia Convention con si lered none of these things worthv of notice. How quenched is the ancient spirit of Saxon liberty ! How our forefathers, both of Old England and Xew, would have resented such encroachments on the people! John Hampden, rather than pay 31 shillings and G pence for ship mon ey, made a revolution in England. The liostonians, rather than pay 3 pence per pound on tea, made a revolution in America. The gen ius of Liberty is like a sensitive plant it need not be struck but only touched, to show when it is wounded President Grant has violated the laws more flagrantly than King Charles I, or George HI ; and it argues a deadness to the sentiment of liberty to suffer such violation to pass uurebuked. Has it come, then, to this that the American people are so far subservien'. to the existing military regime as to be indifferent to the supremacy of civil law? Not so. They are gathering wrath against the day of wrath. Unless the present tendency of the Adminis tration is rebuked and reversed we predict that if Grant is re-elected--which may Heaven forbid! the very men who were lately cheering his renomination will be demanding his impeachment. There is now no existing differ ence of opinion concerning the ne"To in which the South takes one side and the North the other. To aria' one section of the Union against the other on the negro question creates a false issue which has no existence in reality. In re viving this antagonism the Phila delphia Convention has failed to adjust itself to the circumstances of the time. Feigned and fictitious is the contest which Senator Mor ton prefigures when he re-paints the boys in hiue as once more lighting the boys in giay. The boys in blue have put off their blue; the boys in gray have put off their gray. Former Union soldiers now mingfe freely with their fellow-citizens in the South, and former Confederate soldiers do the same thing in the North. From the moment when there was an enu 10 tue pouucai distinction between a Trbito and a black, from that moment there was an end of the partisan distinction between a blue coat and a gray. The Cincinnati Convention, rec ognizing this great fact, "built up on the event in marble." It dared to say there was no longer a war, no longer a rebellion, no Iongtr a traitor. It hurried the past. Its motto was, "Let bygones be bygones." It clasped hands across the bloody chasm. Put the Philadelphia Convention, not content to see the South accept ing the verdict of the war, not con tent to see the former slaveholders subscribing to the doctrine ol equality, not content to see the or iginal secessionists pledging them selves to the perpetual union of these States, not content to see the rebels volunteering to keep invio late the national debt, not content to see the whole South joyfully ac cepting the Fourteenth and Fif teenth Amendments and seeking tit be at peace not only with the negro but the North not content with all this, the Philadelphia Conven tion no w proposes to tight the fin ished battle over again ; reconvert ing our present friends into our former foes; re-imperiling the peace and safety of the negro by unnec essarily creating a political antag ouism against him in the South; and rekindling a quenched animosi ty between the sections at a mo ment w hen both are anxious to be of one mind and heart. In other words the Philadelphia Conveuti n inaugurated a policy of unfratei ual s rife. Let us therefore draw a parallel between the two Republican par tics. Cincinnati, fresh from the people, initiated a long needed movement of reform; Philadelphia, drawing its breath from the public offices, clamored like claquers in a theatre for the continuance of the adminis tration and th? re-appointment of its 50,000 paid stipendiaries. Cin cinnati declared for the one-term principle ; Philadelphia was as hush as the grave concerning this cen tral and mainspring measure of civil service reform. Cincinnati demand ed that our foreign policy should ask far nothing that was not right, and submit to nothing that was wrong; Philadelphia, forgetting this maxim ot Jackson, connived at the Alabama surrender, and gave this ignominy the name of honor. Cincinnati protested against elevat ing the military over the civil law; Philadelphia entertained itself with a picture of Grant on horseback, as typical of the administration which it seeks to maintain in power. Cin cinnati denounced the abuses which the government lias feared to in vestigate; Philadelphia was pre arranged mechanism, subordinat ing me indiv i.tn;d lieedom ot its delegates to affect a unanimity w hieh did not exist, by an enginery which itself was one of the chief abuses of which the administration has been guilty. Cincinnati was lor universal amnesty; Philadel phia was for limning this clemency. Cincinnati denounced the distribu tion of public offices among persons who had given gifts to the Presi dent ; Philadelphia represents the interests of these givers and receiv ers. Cineinnati denounced nepo tism ; Philadelphia bandaged its eyes into blindness to it. Cincin nati indicated the President as a violater of law ; Philadelphia gave a sycophant's compliment to his practical wisdom. Cincinnati pro poses to unite the North and South on tlie basis of hbert', equality, and fraternity ; Philadelphia deter mines to tear open afresh the heal ed wounds of the two sections. Cincinnati is for peace; Philadel phia is for war. Fellow country- 1 men, choose between them ! A Glorious ltcsult. In a recent interview with a newspaper reporter. Judge Jere- miah JiiacK ot I'ennsyivania said: The defeat of Grant and the suppression ot the evils his admin istration has brought upon the country would indeed be a glori ous result. The election of Gree ley will effect a great deal. I know nothing of Greeley personal ly. The opinion I have formed of his character from other sources is most favorable; but one thing all admit he is an honest man. No person, I believe, has ever charged him with corruption. Then, again, the fact he will be elevated to power by a coalition of good men of all parties would alone be a sufficient guarantee of the purity and straight-forwardness of his administration. A party composed of such elements has but little cohesive power, and the administration which depends upon it for support must tread cau tiously in a very narrow path. I would have very little fears of Greeley or any othef sensible man going very far astray, without anv question, under such circumstan-cep." Magical Kfiert of Music. Some poetical genius, not Wa't Whitman, nor Joaquin Miller, nor George F rancis Train, but some one of a similai school, has told in that Music hr.s charms to !,ooth a parage. Rend n rock and split Ciibhujre." We always deemed the above stanza as a poetic fiction, but we are now almost convinced that i may be truth, after having read the following account of the wonderful effect of Gihnore's big jubilee, held in Iloston from June 17th to July 4th, as narrated by a correspond ent of the New York Standard : The effe cts of the Jubilee are al ready beginning to be felt and seen in all pails of the city. The girb walk the streets like dancing-masters. The witch waltzes of tin wonderful Strauss have taken the city by storm. People handle thei. knives and forks at their meals with admirabL- time. All of their movements are governed by the rules of music. Ladies fan themselves as their wind instru ments were batons. Go to Cop land's, and you will see the girls from Roxbury making tuning-forks of their spoons. The street cars have so many beats to the measure, and the conductors pay the strict est attention to the various kind ol time, written in the railway galop. The street railway officials find conductors as fully as necessary in their business as in Mr. Gihnore's position. The hand-organ music is improving, and most of the eating house artists can run up the scab on their gongs with the accuracy of an old performer. -Their musical atmosphere is working wonders al ready. A system and spirit of harmony is being introduced into all of the common walks of life. When the guests are through eat ing they rise at the one time. The sopranos use their tooth-picks with striking effect, the altos abvjij's coming in just at the right time. The base eaters provide themselves with heavier wood, but their time and execution is perfect. If any one of an observing turn of mind will watch the boot blacks about the time that Strauss is announced to lead his spiritual hosts, he will notice that every brush moves in perfect harmony with the music. The same is true of the barbers and carpet beaters. It is estimated that the percent, of wear and tear on the pavements is rapidlv decreasing, for since the Jubilee commenced, the horses and mules throughout the city have a looted the harmonic step uncon sciously. It is said that during the performance to-day, all of the piston-rods on the South Shore and Providence lines, moved in perfect unison. As I write the lodgers in the station house are singing, and the prospect b" fair for the convicts in the State Prison to break forth into a Jubilee of song. The Future Iady of The While House. In view of the possibility of her becoming next year "the lady ot the White House," the New York JTendd gives the following sketch of Miss Ida Greeley, daugh ter of the sage of Chappaqua: "Miss Greeley's mother has for many years been an invalid, and is now so unwell that Mr. Greeley hesitates about removing her from the St. Cloud Hotel, where she is staying in this city, to the home stead at Chappaqua, and in the event of election, the most ardu ous duties as hostess of tie Exe cutive Mansion would devolve up on his eldest daughter. Miss Ida Greeley is a young lady of about eighteen years, of medium height, handsome, with the soft, dark eye, shapely features, and line eotnulcx'on of her father. A mass of dark brown hair is done up in becoming fMs about her head. Her manners are affable and cordial, her conversation ready and sprightly, and from the success with which, assisted by Mrs. Stuart she presided at the first state dinner of the coming Administration under the ever green shades on the farm at Chap paqua, Saturday, it was evident that her domestic accomplishments are thorough. She may be epi grammatically described as the philosopher refined out of his ang ularities and eccentricities and fren zied. She heard of her father's nomination first in London. Mr. Smalley of the Tr:bune having tel egraph hd to her mother at once on receiving notice of it, and, as she admits naively, "was glad to hear it." She endorses his proposed nomination at the Baltimore Con vention, and in the event of it, be lieves he will be elected. She does not advocate woman suffrage, but if she could vote would vote for Mr. Greeley, which she thinks the woman suffragists as a party T-onM not b likely to do." Ku Klux Prisoners. From The Xew York Sun. The Ship Champion, fron Charleston, arrived at Pier 2f North River last night, having o ooard twenty-three Ku Klux pri mers among them were gray-hair d men and beardless boys; strom nen and cripples. Tl.ey were un ler a guard of U. S. soid'e -s, an n their way to the Albany Pen: entiary to serve out a term of im nsonment. AW of them profess d to be farmers or farm workmen md their sunburned faces an! hardened hands gave proof of it THE TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT ire: Three for 10 years and $l,00f ine; two, 4 years and $100 fine me 4 years and $500 fine; three, 3 years and $100 fine; four; 2 yeai tnd $100 fine; three, a year and a alt" and $100 fine; and one, 1 year and $100 tine. All of these men lived in York ounty, South Carolina, one of tin line counties in which martial law aiis declared last October. Some f them have already been impris oned for months. a "sun" reporter went on board the Champion, and round the prisoners stowed away hetwen decks in the fore part f the ship. No air circulated through the place, and the ther mometer indicated ninety-eight de grees. They are rough looking men, haggard and tattered, but have not a vicious look. The re porter's questions were promptly answered, and by many of the men with much intelligence. They said they had been arrested ' for belonging to the order." A gray haired man told the following sto ry: WHEN MARTIAL LAW "WAS DECLARED last October, no outrage had been committed for a year, and none since, in our county at h a-t. But the military authorities have been makin- arrests for the past eight months. The prisoners are taken before Judge Bond in the U. S. Circuit Court, and the charges are alike in all cases. They are .accus ed of being, or having been, mem bers of the Ku Klux, and are told that this can be proven by mem bers of the baud who are witnesses for tlie prosecution, and advised to plead guilty to mitigate their pun ishment. Knowing how useless resistance is, the poor wretches plead guilty to avoid A SEVERER PENALTY. Thus twenty-two of these men are suffering the penalties of convicts through fear, and not from any evi dence of their crime. One man of fifty years approached the the re porter and said vehemently: "I did not plead guilty. I am not guilty, and I would not make s ich a confession for the world. They tried me on two charges, but no evidence w as adduced to con vict me. Yet it was incut, that I should be punished, and they gave me two years. Two years for being and American citizen un fortunate enough to live in South Carolina! I am not, nor never was a Ku Klux w hatever they may be and have always been a peacea ble, law-abiding citizen. I go to prison an innocent man, but the hardest criminal never left his prison with a worse heart than I shall leave mine. If my life is 1, this indignity shall be avenge 1." THE MEN COMPLAINED BITTERLY of being sent north for con fine tiH'iit. l he ly thought it bad enough to be summarily arrested by soldiers, illegally tried, and un justly convicted, without being taken so far from home, and where their friends cannot visit them. THEY ARE TO REMAIN IN PRISON until the fines are paid. Some of them are without money, or friends that have means, and they see no limit to their incarceration. The reporter said to one: "How are you to pay your fine ?" "By death," was the answer. He was a cripple, pale, andema ciated, and evidently lapidly fall ing away through the ravages of a hidden disease. Death no doubt will pay his fine, and cheat the prison of a tenant. At 7 o'clock the men were put into a street car, and taken to the Grand Central Depot, and they embarked for Albany on the eight o'clock train. How it is Doxb. Republicans are continually enquiring how it i-i that Dem ocrats can support Greeley. If we were good at answering conundrums we might try to answer the question lor the non plussed "iinterriSed." but we '-give it tip." Hot suppose some Republican oblige? us with explanation how. it was thai the Re publicans supported Morten of Indiana, a strong Democrat up to 185b". or how tbey learned to "love, honor and obey" Todd, Broogh. Butler. Bnnks. Cameron, Trum bull, rYnton. Lo?an. the immortal cigar h ilder. UlyHes. or hundreds of others, fresh from" the Democracy." An nn?wer to th'H conundrum would help the Demo crats to answer that proposed to thtfra.- 44 Making Circumstances." . BY A. C. WILSON. Twenty years ago, while a stu lent in a Southern University, it vas my good fortune to be placed uider the tutorship of a gentleman vhose professional acquirements minently fitted him for the post ion he filled. Like many men of lis stamp who have had to climb he hill "difficulty," to obtain an ducation under adverse circum stances. Professor G could aever countenance any difference o studies in a student. Headways leld that success was a paramount luty of every one to achieve, and n the majority of cases it was pos ible to "make circumstances," in stead of being governed by them In the Junior class, which was a large one, were a young man by the name of F. whose predilections for studv, was of a somewhat negative character. Being reprimanded for his general direlections, and show ing no apparent improvement, he was at last informed one day after recitation, that as he had not come up to the standard required by the institution, it would be necessary to report him to the Faculty for dismissal at its next meeting. This was a severe blow to F., whofnot withstanding his shortcomings, felt himself humbled before his class mates. The next day, however, after the announcement by the Professor, F. was called upon in recitation, and to the surprise of Professor G., answered all of the questions propounded to him read ily and correctly. All went1 well with F. for some days, until a circumstance happened, which fully demonstrated the truth of the Pro fessor's favorite aphorism. As was the custom in those days, each Professor took turns fo make the general rounds of the College "Cabins" at night to see if the students wre rightly employing their time. It so happened on the night in question that Professor G. was on duty; each room was visit ed, and among the number was F's, who was found busily engaged in studying hisr "calcus ;" but there was something about his looks tlfat excited the suspicion of the Prof. He passed on however, and was about to retire for the night, when he resolved to make another visit to F's. room to satisfy himself that all was right. Avoiding all the other "cabins," he proceeded to wards F's., and on nearing it certain ominous sounds broke upon his car, like a slap and bang upon a table. Arriving at the door G he ushered himself in without cere-Q mony,in time to hearF. say "you're to stand ended for me to-morrow, Buck." The consternation that0 was depicted on the countenances of the occupants of that room, on the sudden appearance oi the Pro fessor, can be betttr imagined than described. Seated around the table with F., were three of the best students of the class, all engaged in that gentle and refined game known as "draw poker," at which game F. was particularly an adept. Professor G. comprehended the whole thing at a glance, and with savage coolness, remarked, " Who is to contribute to your recitation to-morrow Mr. F.?" noth ing abashed, F. replied, "I make circumstances." The following is the latest piece of doggerel ground out by a Gree ley machine : The pbUosonhic Horace quaffs. From Chappaqua's cool stream. And at Ulysses softly laughs Who slakes his thirst wiih steam. Though (ii eeley drinks his water cold, (And in no measure scant,) No shrewd observer need be told, IIe?ll ' make it hot for Grant." Sarcastic. A bookbinder said to his wife at the wedding: "It seems that now we ar0 bound to gether, two volumes fn one, with clasps." "Yes," observed one of the guests, "one side highly orna mented Turkey morocco, and the other plain calf," and the next mo ment was taking rapid strides down stairs. c One of the young ladies employ ed in the Treasury is a great-granddaughter of a singer of the De claration of Independence, has been engaged to three men and married a fourth, and is yet not 21. She is a blonde, with lovely curls.0 Grant's Platform "Give us piece. o o o o o o o o o o o o