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...f-i--'- - -i. 'stats- V-"' G o J 0 Cf--i - ? G s F i o o o VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1873. NO. 1. O c o o a O. O G O 1 ) l O 4. OVHBTIIKHAM. PY ZELOTKS K. BENSKTT. v . life is n swift-running river, AiVl K's mighty hard stfinmin the r.ut the boat glides so smoothly at Th-uV-ne feci icst likelertin' it glide, Ymi hear the wild roar of the rapids Tii:t N-low you now thunder and break, ,, . . r-it von tliir.k von can easily pull hack When you st'-t their white toani in your wake. Well, with me It was mighty smooth sail in' parin' all of life's first summer hours, ...1 th. river saiur ever so sweetly, Ami its hanks were so brilliant wit.i flowers! While the how that hung over the tor rent S. em'd a halo that beckon d nie there, Ami the white iuit that rose from the waters (mite conceal l the black gttff of despair ! Pe sure, I passM friends as I drifted, Pt.Hin' steadily up 'imii the stream. I'.iit l l.unrhi des i saw how they lahor'd, Wiiile 1 1 i v hoac dane'd along like a Never Dies ner Surrenders. dream ! iv it was gliu- Vli:it matter .1 which w hi ., , , If I stilled with it uponailcil down?- p.. hiii,! I saw onlv ine s struggles. And Ix-fore mi was pleas ure- Cl'lV.'!!. -life' I snVj passM friends pullin upstream, And thev warnt-d mo nl'J;:i!2cr helow ; I'.;!t ml vice is so -heap that whin given It amounts to i'st ii' thin', you know ! Aral exper'ence well, that's of some value. ... 0i;ut it ain't always wisdom it limits ; I've not it vou're riht : tis a nettle, CAnd I plu' k'd it atVost of its stings! It's toii.di, lo. kin,' up tliat bright river. n' s. riii' when-1 iiuuht have turned h.t.k, Tt thick that I took things o cav, I. -inn' cvervth.ig tro to the rack ; I'.i't I'm !ito now, ji-st as you find m, A:. l I'm well, you eyii se; what 1 am rd:;i'u-.! An I oi" e nu ' . u know, with the current. 1 went over the itam. Ilar'y. Kiin. TliO celeovah'.l Dr. Dotldride nu iitioii, in his "Family Jxpositor," that to his hahit t;f early rising the is i nd i lit d for nearly the .f Lis valtu.Mo Avoiks. !io lias !Iu:ro rennii lis, in liis to tho " Uptonia." that lie WOT K 1 v stOiiiin ' r.nmU lit. m.l, to rise at wo;-! 1 U !i lie Mr iee!a e,ii.ipletel tin fro;: In:; s.irii an. it his invariable practice four. The W.-ll.liUOVJl bishop was an habitual car y riser at i;is o'i t line 3V.irr.ct . When ixo !:is fairer aroused him to sir. lies every: ir.orni ; at four :u-!;; av.l continued the practice tin' remainder of his life. ; '--pent,' say ; Dr. I'alo.v, hc-n v. ; an aeconnt'of the early part of life :;t eolleire. "the first two s of mi.lerprraduatcship liappily, nr. !'1V his v ea but in so'-it al. hut. Kile commencement of th. tc: lai th.e n from the .San I rnnciseo Examiner. The result of the. contest in Ohio is full of encouragement to the lion hearted Democracy of the country. It gives the lie to those pseud o political philosophers, who have been asserting the Democratic party had won its last battle in the great States of the Union, and it presages the general success of that organiza tion in the elections to take place next month. We expect to chroni cle a brilliant victory in New York, which shall ereq outstrip that just achieved in Ohio. In the former, as in the latterState, the party stands upon a platform of the soundest tim ler. The New York Democracy have coveieil themselves with glory. They have come back to the simplw faith mul noble creed" of Jefferson. They have risen np like brave and true, patriots, ami row stand face to face with the enemy. It is very cheering, in view of the moral cow ardice and temporizing policy of the last few years, to witness this manly gathering of the hosts of Democracy, on the principles of the Old Guard, in the Kmpire State. The Democra cy in all its rears of adversity never was so pregnant with hope as it is to-day, never stood ill so little fear of the future. As Senator Casscrly said, in one of his -speeches, the mot to of the Democratic party of the Union is grander than that of Na poleon's Old Guard, for "it never dies and never surrenders. " Dvery- where let the members of this party ! preserve the organization. There ! is no fear of harm from the tempora ry parties that spring up for a single, circumscribed purpose. They will Hash across the political sky meteor-like, to disapper forever in the dark abyss of space. All 1-Jomocrats must now organize as a band of brothers, from theOulfof Mexico to the Caunadas, for the res cue of their imperiled institutions. Let those who have been lured off for a while return totheirallegiar.ee, and let those, who have always been buthful remain steadfast until the last. It should be borne in mind by our fellow-Democrats that the ques tions of the f attire, which press upon us for present consideration and for final settlement at no remote period, are not local or temporary in their application or interest. They are not questions new in political phi losophy. The circumstances may be dio'eivnt from any before contem plated; but they have not been en tirely unforeseen or unprovided for. The wise and president founders of the Democratic party based their political structure upon a rock, and nothing shall finally prevail against it so long as the Union lasts. The sel " prudence," but evcrv hour the ground is slipping from under their feet, and new men, are coming to the front charged with the holy mis sion of leading the gathering 'hosts to a grander victory and nobler work than even that of Jefferson and the Democrats of ninety-eight. What Men Need Wives For. It is not to sweep the house, and make the bed, and darn the socles and cook the meals, chietiv that a man wants a wife. If this is all he wants, hired servants can do it cheaper than a wife. If this is all, when a young man calls to see a lady, send him into the pantry to taste the bread and cakes she has made; send him to inspect the needlework ind bed-making; or put a broom into her hands and send, him to witness its use. Such things are important. I and the wise young man will quiet ly ! look alter them. Jlut what the true I man most wants of a wife is her com ; panionship, sympathy and love. The j way of life has many dreary places ; in it, and many need a companion to i go with him. A man is sometimes j overtaken with misfortunes; he meets i with failure and defeat; trials and j temptations beset him; and he needs lone to stand by and sympathize. lie has some stern battles to fight with poverty, with enemies and with sin; and ho needs a woman that, while he puts his arms around her and feels that he has something to light for, will help him fight; that will put her lips to his ear ami whis per words of counsel, and her hand to his heart and impart new inspira tions. All through life through storm and through sunshine, conflict and victory, through adverse and fa voring winds a man needs a wom an's love. The heart yearns for it. A sister's or a mother's love will hard ley supply the need. Yet many seek for nothing further than success in housework. Justly enough, half of these get nothing more. The oth- i er nail, surpnseu aoove measure, have got more than they sought, 'f heir wives surprise-them by bring ing a noble idea of marriage, and disclosing a treasury of courage, and sympathy and love. -.r'.'it.-.biy. I was constantly tv. where we were not innnor- !l, mil -v i -i e. At t .c third, year, at- haviugleft the ns;uil party at a hour. I was awakened at live in , c .... ... ...... lTi:ng liV one OI lay co;i;pan- t.. stood :.t mv beside, and l. ions, wit said, what i and Voll .t my beside i.o been thin kin are. I could do were to try; i stood P.ib'V, I 1 L fool VJ'U ,' i,t-;,bab!v could, altord the indolent life ad. You could do everything, ahord it. if I Democracy is coeval and coexistent with the Union itself, ft is weil for our co-partisans in this State, who are now listening to the voice of ihv siren of the new party men, to reflect upon tiiese matters. Let them bear in mind that there are other evils in this country beside those of the gi gantic monopolies, and let them bear in mind, also, that those who are j r h i'.e '.- sleep during ..- .,ee::cvt of the.-e V i'c. - l vow come soh i ndv to inform yo'i 1 it. 1 the whole tions, and the lo test pro fessions V ; or th .t if l et s.st m vonr lr.noli nee sociei v mi:- i T'ennce is so struck with the visit and visit that L lay in bi d a great part of e dav. anil formed my plan. I o - der. d mv bed-maker to lay m me every evening, in order that it might be lighted by myself. I arose at live, re. id 'duving 'the whole day, took sup- -i "I. ..A. t e,;. ,. went to lol. anil coiwii;- now makin of antagonism to the aggressions ot the corporations have been but very recently co-workers with them, and Iiyv h;ve a1 .'undone.! their associates from selfish :.nd iideresled motives. Let Democrats ask themselves wliat lave tiiese new party men to say oi io usuroations of the I ederal Ad- . .. .. ,i tt ainistration m the noutu. an any conscientious Democrat as- sist to ;o.n (iv ins uwn pji vate one who has been so recently he bitter enomv of all we hold t;ear A Srr.MP Spekch ix Nm.v I'Ij.ve. It is all very proper, remarks the New York Herald, to give credit where credit is due. and to "render unto Ca-sar the things which are Ca-sar's," but we do not see the pre cise necessity of injecting into the ! ollicial monthly report of the Condi- j tion of the publicdebt, a stump speech j in favor of tin-present administration. ! It is true the debt has been very i handsomely reduced under General j Grant, but it really seems to us that the people who have paid their heavy j taxes without- complaining deserve the credit therefor fully as much as i the administration unaer whose eye and cognizance the late ( N. digression- i al salary grab occurred, and at whose t connivance the salaries oi the Presi j dent and other public officers were enormously increased, for all of j which the jeople will have to pay in the wav of enhanced taxation. Why Money is Scarce. ! "We presume that throughout near ly all the Western States money is what is usually known as "very close" in the agricultural districts in the mining and manufacturing districts, money is always more plentiful at this season of the year than in the purely agricultural ones. In these there seems to be a universal com plaint of scarcity of money. The country merchant cannot meet his Eastern obligations Itecause he "can not collect." Not only is this the case now, but it has been the case repeat edly in the past, and according to the rule of probabilities will be the case frequently in the future. A state of affairs like this that in commodes the whole community, that destroys prosperity, must have a cause, and this cause should be hunted out and removed. It will be far better, more effectual and lasting to remove the cause of these financial diflic.nlties than it will be to patch it up with temporary loans or issues of currency. In our opinion the trouble is caus ed by the American habit of living on the expectation of what we are go ing to have. Let ns illustrate our position a lit tle: A young man comes of age with a heritage of a thousand or two dol lars; he verv wisely decides to marrv and buy a farm. Having settled down in life, he next procexls to reckon what his profits for the ensu ing year will be, something after this wist;: " I have twenty acres of wheat; at fifteen bushels to the acre this will yield me three hundred bushels, which at SI 50 per bushel will brniir me s-lou. ihen 1 will cut twenty-live tons of hay; allowing I save live tons for mv own use. there are twenty tons, which at S1U a ton will bring SLJOO. I will sell do corn but feed it to my hogs. I will have forty to sell after saving out enough for home use. If they weigh "ioO lbs each, ami I get 610 V, 1(0 ms.. there is .-?'s00; making a total of 61450. To be on the safe side, I will allow 6150 for wages and losses, and can safely calculate on 61.000 as my profits." "Working on 'this principle, he be gins to spend money no, he does not spend it, for he has none to spend but goes in debt on the calculation that he has an income of tt thousand a year. He buys stock and machin ery on credit, to be paid for "when the crops are sold." lie runs a little bill at the grocer's, at the dry goods store, at the tailor's, and his wife runs him one up at the milliner's. 35y and by the season is over, find he begins to look at the result, which is not so ph asing as he anticipated. Part of his wheat crop failed altogeth er, the balance was poor, and his whole twenty acres brought him but 150 bu is liberality the other reckless. "We have laid the burden of blame on the larmers, because it is they who really bring the money into the country, and it is upon them that the whole community depends. Mer chants and dealers produce noth ing; they are simply middle-men be tween the producer and consumer. "When the farmers are prosperous, pay their debts jiromptly, and are doing well, the whole community shares in the prosperity. "When thev are behindhand and unable to meet their debts, the whole bnsiness com munity is depressed and suffers there from. This reform, therefore, must begin with them, and it is them we address because they alone have the power to accomplish it. -"Wo do not expect, to overturn' this evil and remodel the community by this article; but we have had the sat isfaction of "saying our say," and saying what every reasonable man will recognize as truth, and we wish the press at large to take the matter up and agitate it until the reform is accomplished. 77c lUunlle Dee. The Kiiiir and The Soldier. Keeping Uutter. Agriculture in CJrcece. ;h i-er at nine. nod the practice The e . i : i eq U ell CC great l:ial. v.p to this was he lit hour, came rit'i e th.e vear Lv'-!8, when gold was f-.-t discovered in C'aiiiorina, that State has produced 61,os0,71'0, OUO worth of the precious metal. In the vear named the yield was '..ObO.bt'iO, and in lS5o, the year in which th.e greatest yield occurred, the product was 6;S.!0,!00. Be tween l'f5 and 1K72 the average an nual yield was about SCO ,000,000, with no appreciable evidence of re duction. In Nevada, the two great mines known as the r.elcher and the Crown Point, situated in the Corn- stock lode, vielded up to Sept. 1, of this vear. over. 6'2f.,O00,O0O in gold, with a clear irofit to the stockhold ers in dividends of more than 614 (;) ot. The Belcher mine com nemced to yield in lSftl and the Crown Point in ISoO. During last April and May these mines produced an average of 6.si,Uld per uay. Thk Sitvatiox ix ritAXCF.. The late news from l'rar ce indicates that a coalition is being formed between theliepublicans and the Imperialists against the j.lonareiiists under tiie lead of the Count of Chauibord This action on the part of the Be publicans, coupled with the earnest desire of liners, to eueci ine ooject shows that the Iiepublic of France is on its last legs. The question now for French statesman to consul er is- "Will thev have the old Hour bon Arnnnrchv as represented by t'hae.ibord or" another trial of Bone mutism The chances, however si ein now to be in favor of Chambord vet no one can measure the depths of Imperial Intrigue, or Republican revenue. Kucrenie may be the Lnr press Kegent withm a fortnight, vith McMahou at the head of the 'cabinet. t in principle and of all to whom we j are allied in the community ot moon and creed? Consider that the wnoie South the home of Democracy, the onlv oi W asniP.gton h "Winn: Ilorst; AccnopmATicxs. Troublesome people will not let the President and his increased sal ary of fifty thousand dollars alone. Congressm.nl "Willard. of Maine, has found out that the Appropriations for lH7:i-7i to the expenses of the "White House, are about seventy-seven thousand dollars, in addition to the fifty thousand dollars recently voted. Most persons think that the Presi dent keeps up the "White House. I Not at all. How erroneous is such an idea as will be seen from the fol lowing appropriations by Congress: Furnace keepers, 6720; two police men, 62, 000; one nightwatchman, 6'.'00; usher, 61 ,-00; twodooi keepers, 62,100; steward, 62.000; messenger, 61.200; secretary and clerk, 610.000; contingent expenses, 60.000; annual repairs, White House, 615,000; re furnishing "White House, 610,000; fuel, 65.000; green house, 610,000; grounds, 610,000. CiiAxoro the Name. Nebraska aiiied a town Yanderbilt and then wrote to the Commodore. Ho replied that he didn't care a d n, .r.d the way they changed the name i that town would have made his c'Ur stand on end. rthidace not - i - , . , . and Jefferson, but ot so much mar is truthful, chivalrous, and glorious in our history, that gave to the lie- mblie the Northwest and the .Mis- -t 11 -."1 . 11 M rf. H- lsspipl aiiey, ami exeu mi. oi.n California, and the gold aid the very mblie lands that swindling corpora tions have stolen from us, is in rums, its civilization trampled out under the hoofs of barbarian negroes, leu . i . . 1 TV ... T , 1. on oy what rue limi-innjn. uu we scribes as the vilest hordes of thieves and villains, cowards and brutes, that ever insulted heaven orpolluteU the earth since time began. In all human history there is no parallel; the scourging of Attila, or - - . i val 1 the ravages of the turiis, or een the Sepoy insurrection cannot be compared for a moment with the in fernal work of these Badicals in the South, with an army to back them and half a million of its best and bravest lying under the green sod. Its disarmed and helpless people, its fragile women and innocent chil dren, have been robbed and outrag ed, and tortured beyond expression, to blot out, or in the cant phrase of the monsters to " abolish " the civ ilization of Washington and Jackson, and "reconstruct" a "new order" h r. f Ti.vfi-ci. tlifk ni-ilnr ot n.itni-n finft ..,r n. . i . -i ii I uontr of Y ISCOnSin, ....oi .ii...i,.tii.. five t mes as valuable to the connri 1 1 1 i 1 i i i v ui'i i : i i ill iri- iiia - - ders of American liberty. That such a diabolical system could go on for eight years, and the Ameri can Democracy stand shivering in the wind, and stupidly striving to overcome it by " policy," will be the wonder of all future ages. But thank Heaven, the faithful few the glorious " Old Guard," who have kept the faith and fed. the fires burn ing on the sacred alters of Democra cy have at last been rewarded with the spectacle of a regenerative and manly gathering of the Democratic hosts for deadly battle with the enormous villains who have so long desecrated and polluted, " without resistance or even protest,, the glo rious land of Washington. It is mi iv have vet too many of the Back Pay. The Missouri Demo crat has a charming way of putting the back pay business. Stephen A. Douglas used to take his 6-S a day, and be satisfied-; but John A. Logan thinks he is nude: -Xaid at 67,50O for six months service or about 610 a day. William H. Seward never grum bled that lie was underpaid when he was receiving about 61,500 a year as Senator. Conkling and Fenton voted themselves five times that much, and vet they are not happy. John C. Calhoun was a fire-eater and secessionist and .til that, but he never was mean enough to steal 65 000 out of the Treasury in a sin gle haul, as his successors from the Palmetto State have done. Daniel Webster made a tolerable -ood Senator at the rate of 68 per diem, counting only the actual days snent in Washington; but Mr. Car- A it-- linfrc 1i the as the Great Exponnder was Ex-Govebxob Foote, in his " lie miscences," is exhibiting too much spleen against Mr. Jefferson Davis. Mr Davis' friends may have forgiv en Mississippi for lier.repmliation. and all that sort of thing, but they can never forgive her the wrong she did the upper house of Congress when, in electing a United States Senator, she put her Foote in it, Courier Journal. Why Called "She." The follow ing are reasons why a ship is called 'she:' "They are useless without employment, they bring news from abroad, they wear caps and bonnets, tlipr nm r.Vfon t-ininted and o. man .. t , . D 1 . 1 1 . I'll I . V " lon.iArs union cr us. auo, ayhu never Knows ine exreii5e im t ' white lips ami bated breath, coun- one." -which he sold at 61 10 a bushel. His hay crop not turning out so well as lie anticipated, and having purchased more stock, he is obliged to keep back more of it for his own use, und the amount he has left for-side will scarcely pay for the cost of harvesting. De lias lost one or two horses, and the doctor has a long bill against him. His hogs did not average two hundred apiece, and brought him but 61 a hundred in stead of 610. Then bills foot up faster than he imagined. It is astonishing how rapidly a bill grows at a store where you get just what you want and tell them 'to "book it," Altogether, instead of being able to meet all his bills, and have some thing left over to spend during the coming season, he has to give his note for part of his accounts, and start the season without a cent of money on hand. Does he learn any wisdom by the experience? Verv little. Perhaps he has good crops the next season, and is able to pay all .his fresh ac counts and part of his old notes, and so struggles, always living each year i on the expectations of that year's j crops being constantly "short of money,"' and the first bad season is unable to meet his store bill again. Is it any wonder with such a system that ready money is scarce? It is so easy to make bills when the merchant knows your "credit is good," pay day looks a long way off, and just a little now and then cannot amount to much, and he falls into the old ruts again and travels them so often that lie at last loses all desire or expecta tion of getting out of them. What is the remedy ? Short and simple, though not always agreeable at the first. It is this: Never spend your money 'till you have it ! Scrape along, economize, do any: thing to get through the first year if possible without going into debt. Deny your self-luxuries and let your recreation be the contemplation of the peace and comfort that shall be vours the coming year. Before pur chasing an article, think twice wheth er you can do without it, and make it a rule never, if it can possibly be avoided, to purchase anything for which vou have not the money on hand to pay with. Then the next vear vou will have the money m your V.nelrt Vnow how ruueh you have to snend. and have a clear conscience, unvexed with that most depressing of .ill mixtions: "How am I goim to meet mv next winter's store bill?" We think if this plan was pretty generally followed for a few years there would cease to be the constant cry of "no money," and the cry whenever there is a" short crop or the sudden fall in the price of some arti cle of nroduce of "the farmers can i pav their debts." V trust our readers will not mis understand us so far as to think we are recommending a plan of miserly or penurious living; quite the con- tmrr. We like to see a man enjoy the fruits of his labor, and spend his rtnfw in accordance with the amount he is making, but not in accordance wifh whiit ho exnects to mate. One In Northern Greece, agricultural implements are of the rudest charac ter. On the rich, Crissiean plains, within an hour of the bay of Corinth, the Homeric plough still turns the earth. A stick of hard wood, sharp ened and held point downward, is drawn by ox or donkey. If the form of a plough is given, with rude coul ter, the acme is obtained. AVhere wealth exists and intelligence is more advanced, it is diliicult to introduce implements. The attempt was made near Livadhia to use an iron plough of the pattern approved elsewhere, and the peasants rejected it and clung to the fashions of their ancesters. Only the sickle is used in reaping. Grain is threshed on earth-hardened or stone floors, by the treading of cattle, horses or men, as the Old Tes tament describe:! the process in the days of the patriarchs. It is win nowed by tossing it into the air, and allowing the wind to carry off the chaff, while the kernel falls into a sieve shaken by hand. These meth ods prevail even under the shadow of the Acropolis of Athens. It is no wonder that the donkeys have not much burden of harvest to carry to distant market, even from fruitful Bicotia. Nor is it strange that out of four million arces of arable land in the kingdom, only one million and a half are under cultivation at all. The government tax is one-tenth of the prod.net in kind. Notwithstanding all these drawback, the value of cere als produced in Greece, according to the oilicial llgures of last year, was 7,5o2,;i:fcham the principal products exported amounted to 6.S.olS,.s; t. Of currants, the crop ranges from 70,000 to 0:2,000 tons a year, valued at from Frederick of Prussia had a great mania for enlisting gigantic soldiers into the Royal Guards, and paid an enormous bounty to his recruiting officer for obtaining them. One day the recruiting sergeant chanced to espy a Hibernian who was at least seven feet high; he accosted him in Lnglish, and proposed that he should. enlist. Ihe idea of Military life j and the large bounty so delighted Patrick that he immediately consent ed. " But, unless you can speak Ger man, the king will not give you so much." "Oh!" said the Irishman, sure it's I that don't know a word of Ger man." "But," said the sergeant, "three words will be sufficient, and these you can learn in a short time. The king knows every man in the guards. As soon as he sees you, he will ride up ami ask you how oia you are; vou will sav ' Twentv-seven ;' next how long you have been in the ser vice; you will reply ' Three weeks; finally, if you are provided with clothes and rations; vou answer 'Both." Pat soon learned to pronounce his answers, but never dreamed of learn ing the questions. In three weeks he appeared before the king in re view. His majesty rode up to him. Paddy stepped forward with " pre sent arms." " How old are 3 011?"' said the king. " Three weeks," said the Irishman. " How long have yon been in the service?" asked his majesty. " Twenty-seven years." " Am I or you a' blockhead?" roar ed the king. " Both," replied Patrick, who was instantly taken to the guard-room, but pardoned by the king after he understood the facts of the case. 5 to 60 per ton. Thu-. insight into the Charlestown Navy Yard is furnisned by that re bellious organ, the Boston Ail rerl it er: " Some idea of the way in which the Navy Yard is used by political tricksters may be inferred from one or two instances. Not long ago an order came from the Department in Washington to appoint an applicant to a certain place Superintendent of Paints, perhaps; at any rate, an office w Inch , - . -j. i r lll not exist, uuu lor the creation of which there is no earthly reason, except that some body "had demanded that the man should have a position under the Government. Whether the service he had rendered to secure the place was "political or not, we cannot say; but there-was nothing for him to do except io report regularly on pay- -1 1 -A . l.,.,V(ll ,..1..-.4l,r.. l.r. uav, ami il is uuumu.ii iu-hhi ever did a day's work of the kind nominally given him." Oij) Sayixo. Proverbs embrace the wide sphere of human existence; they take all the colors ot lite; tliey are often exquisite strokes of genius; thev delight by airy sarcasm, by their costic satire, tne luxuriance ot their humor, the playfulness of their imagery, and the tenderness of their sentiment. They gave a deep insight into domestic life, and open for us the heart of man in all the various states which he may occupy. A fre quent review of proverbs should en- ter into our readings; ana aiifougn they are no longer the ornaments of conversation, they have not ceased to be the treasure of thought. The Pakt of Jack so x. The Rich mond Eii'jtilrcr says that Grant played the part of Jackson recently 011 a small scale. When Jackson found the United States Bank rotten and bout to collapse, he removed the deposits. Grant did the same when he got private mlormaiion mar me First National Bank was going to burst. The difference is that Jaciv- son took away the public money and Grant took away his own, leaving 6100,000 of the public money to be lost in the ruins. - 3lATr.iMoxi.vn Stkategy. A hen pecked gentleman determined to sup with a party of friends against the will of his wife. He was resolved that he would, and she that he should not go He did not go. His friends missed him, and, just for a lark, in vaded his residence, where they found him and his -wife sitting in chairs fast asleep. He had given her an opiate that he might slip away, and she had given him one that he might not. According to a California paper a young lady of Sacramento in telling a gentleman about her xosemite trip said the scenery was gorgeous per fectly ravishing but she didn't like their stvle of locomotion down there. " How's that?" said her friend, "how did you locomote?" "WTiy, don't you think," she replied, " I had to ride a la clothes-pin." ' How to Bet. A Yankee arriving in Boston without money or friends was revolving in his mind whereby he could raise the chink, as he ex pressed it. Jonathan had never vis ited a city in his life. He strolled into a shoemaker's where an adver tisement, " Wanted, a first class boot-maker," appeared on the win dow, and accosted the proprietor: "Do you want a first class boot maker, hen-?" ICS. . " What do you pay?"' " That depends on your capacity. Have you -worked on custom work?" " I reckon. You jest try me, Captain; I hain't skeered a bit at tryin'." The proprietor gave his new hand a bench and materials and bade him make a pair of ladies' gaiters. Soon after he left the store on business. Jonathan made a shoe, but such a horrible affair that, ashamed to show it, he hid it in the shavings. Just as he completed the second shoe the proprietor returned. He flew into a passion at beholding the botched shoe. You confounded rascal, so bad a shoe has never been made in this es tablishnimit!" he exclaimed. " Would you like to bet on that, stranger?" "Bet. Y'es, I bet 610 no such work as that was ever done in this store." Jonathan walked to the shavings, dragged forth his first shoe, and, coolly pocketing his ten dollars, walked off. Inland Monthly. While a well in this vicinity, -was being cleaned recently, a half-pound of butter was found in the" bottom & good and swqet as -hen first made. How long it had been there no on knows. The present occupant of the premises has been fifteen years on the place, and the pump being in constant use there had'been no occa sion before to have it cleaned- Thef butter must have been there all thi time, and how long before is not known. The outside was of a paler color than that within, but other wise there was no change. It is not unknown to good dairy folks that butter-will keep well in cool, pure spring" water, and some have taken advantage of the fact to preserve butter in close vessels un der the surface. But we think it is not generally known that it would keep so long in actual contact with the water. It might be worth con sidering whether this hint about pie'-r serving Putter might not oe taxen advantage of, so as to irritate a regu lar plan of preserving butter sweet and fresh, until markets or other cir' cumstanees favor good prices. Ir?is one of the weaknesses of the butter business that at some seasons prices are ruinously low, and the usual remedy of potting is not a very good cure. The water, of course, must be cool and pure. At a high temperature, such as most water near the surface reaches, vegetable organisms grow' that would soon communicate decay to organic matter in the water; but there are many places where a lagooi of the proper condition of pure well water could readily be constructed. It may not be out of place here to remark, that little hints such as q these are continually occurring in almost every one's experience; but only soon to be forgotten. Yet of ten if the suggestion be listened to and the thread followed up, one might get on the track of some good, idea that would rapidly make a for tune. We think that new inventions require much 'study; but the truth is most of our best discoveries have been by accident. (rerniantotcn Tele frajJe. - H.iri vl of Caiit. Hall. The Romish Church has met with another check, in Brazil in asserting her extravagant claims to determine the civil as well as the spiritual status of individuals. The question whether Protestant marriages are dissolved by the conversion of one of the wedded pair to Catholicism has been decided against her. Many Brazilian jurists defended this mon strous assumption, the Catholic bishops sanctioning the re-marriage of converts without regard to their existing wedlock. This state of things has now come to an end through the instrumentality of Herr Hermann Haupt, who, being in Rio Janero, while the post of German Charge d'Aliairs in that capital was vacant, called the attention of the Government to the re-marriage of two Gernnm converts whose Protest ant husbands were still alive. The Emperor, after consulting the State Council, decided that Protestant marriages are indissoluble except by judicial decree, that the two women had incurred the guilt of bigamy, and that they and the priests who performed the ceremony of marriage had laid themselves open to crim inal prosecution. Female Delicacy. Above every other feature that adorns the female character, delicacy stands foremost within the province of good taste. Not that delicacy which is perpet ually 111 finest of something to he ashamed of, which makes merit of a blush, and simpers at the false construction its own ingenuity has put upon an innocent remark; this kind of delicacy is as far removed from good taste as from good feeling and good sense; but the high-minded delicacy which maintains its pure and undeviating walk alike amongst women as in the society of men, which shrinks from no necessary duty, and can speak when required. with seriousness and kindness of things at which it would be asham ed to smile or blush. There was an election recently in the cities and towns interested on the question of annexing Charles town, Brookline, Brighton, and West Roxbury to Boston. Boston declared her willingness to each case by a large majority, and each of the towns offered itsell as a willing suu ject for the deglutition except Brook line. Boston gains 50,000 popula tion with her three new wards. A SKETCH OF THE FCXEKAIj By Schuman is particularly affect ing. The scene on the foreground, is a series of rugged blocks of ice, a snow plain white with undriven snow occupies the middle distance, while in the distance are rugged bluff's, and promontories and huge masses of amorphous rocks. To the left of the picture the ice-bound wa ters of Polaris Bay shimmer in the clear light of the stars and the more fitful gleams of the evanescent auro ras. On a snow bank close to the edge of the bay is a wooden shed, (the observatory) and a tall flag pole with the stars and stripes at half mast. In the centre of the picture, slowly trudging along over the snow plain, is the funeral cortege. The bier rests on a sledge and is covered with the nutional Hags. In proces sion two by two, the crew in their' Arctic dress, fur caps, fur jackets, and top boots, with lanterns in their hands, are gently drawing the sledge with a hawser. One man marches a few paces in advance at the head of the procession, lantern in hand. Be hind the sledge are the Esquimaux members of the crew, straggling af ter the sledges in bewilderment and grief at the scene. AFT Ell TIIE DEATH OF HALL. Mr. Semanen, a German, a Bap tist, and a teetotaller, complains that after Captain Hall's death the regu lar Snndav services, which were so faithfully held from Sabbarh to Sab bath during the Commander's regime" fell into desuetude. "Things got verv changed then, 1 ten vou, are his words. The carpenter Mr. Cof fin, who measured Mr. Hall's body for the bier, states that the counte nance was calm, placid and devoid? of the least trace of pain or suffering far more natural and fresh in color than any face of death he ever re members to have seen. The carpen ter, as I have already said is a poet and his incubrations have been en livening the pages of the Scottish newspapers. There is no question ing the honest sincerity of his emo tion when he recites his lofty pane gyric of the greatness of Gaptains Hall. Hall, one may say, died with the word "Excelsior" on his lips, "Find the Pole; never mind me," was his latest utterance. AT. Y. Her-' aid. An Iowa editor, recently, to keep up with the style, ran away with an other man's wife. He did not get off so easily however, as he imagined he would. The man followed and overtook the truant couple. The ed itor got behind the woman, and pre pared to sell his life as dearly as pos sible, He was uncertain as to whether the outraged husband would shoot him, or murder him with a carving knife. lie stood there, like the boy upon the burning deck, and calmly awaited the result. The outraged husband came np within about two feet of the editor, and said: " Cuss your impudence. I want to stop my paper." That was all. The editor recovered him self and said he would have the mat ter attended to at once. During this trying scene the woman stuck to the editor like a sand burr to a girl's stocking. Some get mad and stop their paper for almost nothing it beats all. A negro member of the Mississippi Legislature is in jail for stealing a hog. His friends say he really didn't want the hog, but felt that, as a Rad ical leader, he must steal something, and he could find nothing else to s teal . Crrier-Jovrn al. 0 N COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, D o c 0 O o I I O O o o o o V o o o o t: t'-'v "s- 't 0 f 1 3 O o o o t. 7. 1 u . i i T . - i