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o o o o c o o o O t .... 4 . iTtfiY VSY P O 3 DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON, I III AY) I I I I I - aw - -M few PV. . . r : - ' -5 .0 VOL. 9- THE ENTERPRISE. LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER FOR THE Farmer, Basinrss Man, 4 Family Cirele. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. a.noi:tner, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAFES. FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Extkrpmsk Building, one door sooth of Masonic Building. Main St. Terms of Subscription! 81nle Copy On Year, In Advance ......12.50 Six Month " " 1.50 Terms of Advertising! Transient advertisements. Including . il ?zaI notices, square of twelve one week - $ 2.50 Forc.icli oubscquent insertion...... 1.00 One Column, ont year 120.00 Half 60.00 Q-nrtT" " '- 40.00 nnsmesi Card, 1 square, one year 12.00 s o ci Err no tices. oki:c;on i.oncii no. 3. 1. 1. o. t. Moots every Thursday k-cnin;at 7 4 o'clock; in tho feSSas 11 Fellows' Hall, Main ev ut rit f mil 1 itfrvi t f tho flr- der aro invited to attend. 11 v order N. G. RUIIKI'CA DKUKEE LODGE NO. 3. I. O. O. F., Meets on the jt'sTW X.., ?.,,, I niifl K.mrth Tues- rIBi Uav evenings each month, fe$r'3g. at 7' o'clock, in the Odd . Fellows' Hall. Members of the Degree nio invited to attend. ;:ult.()Maii lodgiixo. 1, fc A. M., Holds its regular Gom- ft munieations on the First and miK Third Saturdays in each month, at 7 o'clock from theiXHh of Sep. tembur to the 2oth of March ; and 74 "clock from the. 0th of March to the 201 h of September. Brethren in good standing' arc invited to attend. 15y order of W. M. FALLS 12 SC AMP M E XT NO. -1,1. O. O. V., Meets at Odd Fellow' Q Q Hall on the First and Third Tues- "oT day of each month. Patriarchs x V in uood .standing are invited to attond. . . '- .. .1 1 - R V S 1 S RHS CARD s. ,f. W. XOItl'ilS. 13.. PilVSICl.VN AND SI' KG EON, O 2i li 3 o y CITY, O It IS go y. - a-O.Hc : ITp-Siairs in C'harman's Brick. MainStrvI. . aujjlUf. ... i Dr. S. PARKER, I'liysiekm $c Surgeon. OF KICK Next to Charmmi'i Store, nsiJnc Main strt, two door above It. Caufisld's store. The lM;ior is Examining Surgeon for r'-mions. No examination (except "Bien nial" and "I'-riodical") can be made with out f cial ord'-rs from the Pension Bureau Wastiiuton. L. C 3)It. JOHN WELCH . DE-NTi8T,""j OFFICE IN Oll'aOON CITY, OREGON. IIlvflet Cah Price Paid for County Orders. S. I-i.-XJ EL AT ATTORN EY-AT-LAW: .OREGON CITY, - - OREGON. fOFFICE Charm ni brlek. Main sU 1 . 5iiarl7i rtf. 1 ""jOHrJSON & McCOWN ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS IT-LAW. Orogon City, Oroson. ay Will practice In all the Courts of the :tate. Spt-cial attention given to cases in the U. S. Janu urace ac ircjon vnjr. 5aprl872-tf. . Xi. T. BARIN ATTOR PI EY-AT-LAW, OREGON CITY, : : OREGON. OFFICE-Over Tope's Tin Store, Main street. jiraanu. OREGON CITY BREWERY. Henry Humbel, li AVINO PtTRCHAS- Jr. frv wUhes r.o Inform the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 qual ity or LAG BR B BUR, a srood as can be obtained anywhere In th state. Orders solicited and promptly filled. W. II. 1IIGHFIELD. Ktablllied ainte 9, at the old stand. Main Street, Oregoa City, Oregon. fS An assortment of Wathes, Jewel PV ry.and Sith Thomas' Weight Clocks p. .'S all oC which aro warranted to be as Wi3 represented. RfpairinR done on short notice, and thankful for past patronage. JOHN JL. BACON, IMPORTER AND DEALER flTWi in txKJKs, MA.tjonery, 1'eriuni- ry, etc., etc. Oregon City, Oregon. Kj-At the Tost Office, Main stgoet, east REIMGfVAL. ALFRED KINNEY. M. D., SXJRGrEOT, HAS RENOVED HIS OFFICE AND Residence to the double house, , , -N". W. Corner of Alder and East Pxls f.' p.ort,land. Oregon, where he" can bo vlt l ?l1chour8- day nd night. -iay ts, 1875 3 "SHE WHO ROCKS Till; CRADLE UULliS THE WORLD." Dear woman, in the dream of life Adorned with every winning art ; As mother, daughter, sister, wife She melts the soul, she charms the heart. Without her, what was lordlv man? A rainless cloud a fruitless tree A world without a sun a plan That ever incomp.ete must be. Her fost'rinf? eare, devotion, love, Seem inspirations from above. In childhood's hour, beside her chair, She calls the fragile form ; She clasps her tiny hand in prayer. Safe sheltered from the storm. Yet man, ungrateful man, th dart Of falsehood hurls with skill; :. '. And when he's won a woman's heart " He seeks his love to kill. Her lot is to be tried ; though pure, To sigh, to suffer and endure. Oh, mothers of a raco unborn, "1'is j'ours to speak those grand de crees That herald in the promised morn, Tho waiting world's llesperides. Ye are the molds of heralds strong Who guard and glorify our lives; The seas, in song, shall roll alone Jkmeath the splendor of your smiles, The leautiful and good shall reign, Tho sinless Eden bloom again. Ma's Old Beau. BY CABt, BRENT. Tho recent revelations concerning deed forgeries at a trial in Chicago have reminded mo of an incident that occurred a few years ago, in the vi cinity of St. Louis, which seems to mo to be worth relating. Clara and Mary Merwin, sisters and orphans, wero in the sitting room of their pleasant home on the edge of a village near the Missouri. Their mother had been dead several years; their father had lately died, leaving them an estate, as they sup posed, of the value of some forty thousand dollars, but they had learn ed quite recently that tho property was encumbered to such an extent that they were likely to be deprived of it all. The discovery as maybe supposed, tilled them with sadness and anxiety, and they were seated in silence, unable to read, to converse, ta do anything but brood over their great misfortunes. While they wero thus occupied with somber thoughts, a buggy drove up in front of the house, and a man alighted, and the buggy drove away. The man must have been a little on the shady side of fifty, to judge from his gray hairs, although his face was fresh and unwrinkled. Ho was dressod with remarkable neat ness, and ltia manner indicated brisk ness as well as precisipn. In one hand he carried a small valise, and in tho other an umbrella, and he stepped quickly to the door and rang the bell. In a few minutes ho was ushered into tho prceence of tho young ladies. "I'm obliged to introduco myself" he said, smiling and bowing in a courtly manner "Abner Pierce. Here is my card professional card. You will perceive that I am a lawyer in St. Louis, and presumably a re spectable man. Drn't be afraid; I am not here to hurt you, but to help you. I have the honor to call myself a friend of your family that is to say, although it has been many years since I have seen any member of said family, I always had the highest possible respect for your now eaint ed mother, and nothing would please me better than to be of tomo service to her children." "Wo are happy to meet you" mur mured Clara. - '. . Thank vou. I happened to bear ' ,no matter. how that you are in trou ble, and have como tip here in the belief that I can assist you. hope that you will feel that you can trust me. I am actually an honest man, although a lawyer, and I mean well,' although I may exprsss myself clum sily." "I am free to admit," said Clara "that we need assistance and advice and that wo have not known to whom to look for it." "Very well. It is a good thing, no doubt, that I have come. Xow sit down and tell me all about it." . Clara Merwin who was the elder of the orphans, and' the leader in everything, told how she" and her sister had taken ont letters of admin istration upon their father's estate, when a man of whom they never had heard before put in an appearance, and presented a mortgage, with bond included, executed by the late Mr. Merwin upon his real estate,. 'for the sum of forty thousand dollars. Not content with prohibiting them from attempting to sell any thing, he had tied up their money in bank, leaving them absolutely penniless; They had used their credit, but tradesmen were becoming impatient, and some had refused to supply them any fur ther without pay. "This is a bad case," said Mr. Pierce. "You need money that is the first thing to be attended to. You must let me act as your banker until I get you out of this scrape, and that wont be long, I hope. How much do you owe?" "More than one hundred dollars," answered Clara. The old gentleman counted out two hundred dollars from a well-filled pocket book, and handed it to her. 'Fpr your mother's sake," he said when she refused to receive it, and he forced it upon her in such a way that she could not help taking it. He then accepted the young ladies' invitation to make their house his home during Lis stay, and went into dinner with them.- ' "Is there any place I can smoke?" he asked when they had returned to the sitting-room. . . . t "You , can smoke ,. here'V said the Impulsive Mary, ."Pa .always smok ed here, arid, we ftpjisedjteit, r. ui 00 ne took t zneerscnaum and to bacco from his valise, and was soon OREGON CITY, puffing away with an air of great contentment. tc he said. "Did you have any legal advice m the matter of that mort gage, Miss. Merwin?" les sir" renlip ! lawyer said it Clara. "Oar a. 'WHS A rtlain rr est against us, although it was strange we fore "CVer f th mortS&ge be' " Very strange. What is the name of the man who holds it?" "Alexander Campbell." "Hum! A good name, but a bad man lm afraid. When and where can I see him?" . "He will be here this afternoon," answered Clara. "He proposes if we will make him a deed of the real estate, to give up the bond and mort gage leaving our money in bank and the rest of the personal property." "Very liberal. Introduce me to him when he comes as an old friend of the family, and not as a lawyer." Mr. Alexaner Campbell called in the course of the afternoon, and was made acquainted with Abner Pierce, at whom he looked suspiciously; but his eyes fell when he met the old gentleman's intent and piercing gaze. Mr. Pierce glanced but slightly at the deed that was offered for the con sideration ot the young ladies, being occupied in studying tho counte nance of the man in whose favor it was drawn. "I can't decide upon it just now," he said, at last. "As a friend of these young ladies standing an I may say, in loco parentis I must make a few inquiries concerning the value of this property. Suppose you come after supper, Mr. Campbell, and suppose you bring that mort gage with 3'on. I have no doubt it is all correct, but would like to see it." .... Mr. Campbell assented to this, and withdrew. Abner Pierce filled his pipe with nervous haste, but also with tobacco, and Mary brought him a light. "I think you have some good news for us," she saidf I can see it in your face." Not bad, my child. I- hope and trust it is very good. A good name, but a bad man, I said, and' that is true. I think I see my way out of this difficulty, and the money I lent you is safo, but you musn't interfere with mo, young ladies or be surpris ed at any thing I say or do, or object to it, You must trust mc, and let moi work in my own way." After supper when Abner Pierco bad enioved another -comfortable nmoko, and had 'conversed with the girls concerning their mother as he had known her in her youth a sub ject upon which he grew quite elo quent Alexander Campbell came in bringing the deed and mortgage, both of which he handed to Mr. Pierco for examination. "I have made inquiries concerning the property" said the ld gentle man, "and am satisfied that it is not worth more - than the amount of the mortgage, and would probably bring much less if sold at foreclosure. Your offer is a liberal one; but I must first look at the mortgage. This appears to be correct" he continued, when he had examined the . instru ment. "It is properly acknowledged and tho signature is undoubtedly that of Philip Merwin. I suppose the young ladies will have to go to the county seat to execute the deed." The girls countenances fell at this sudden surrender on the part of their champion. 'This reminds me," said the old lawyer picking up the mortgage again, "of an occurrence that fell un der my observation in Tennessee. Not that the two cases are alike, as the Tennessee case was undoubtedly a fraudulent affair; but there was a similarity in the cirenmstances. Don't look so downhearted, young ladies. What will be must be, and it is useless to cry about what can't be helped. As I was about to say a man died in Tennessee, leaving a widow and one daughter. The wid ow was about to administer'uiion his estate, when a man who was unknown came forward and presented a mort gage similar to this and for - exactly the same amount. It was examined by lawyers who were familiar' with the signature of the deceased and pronounced correct, although there were something strange about the af fair, they could find no flaw in the instrument. It was particularly pdz zling to ono of them, who thought he had transacted all the !law busi ness of the deceased. He got hold of the mortgage and brought it'fo me when I was in Nashville. I hap pened to have in my possession a very powerful magnify ing-glass that had been presented to me the most powerful single lens I had ever seen. With this I examined the mortgage, and soon discovered that 'forty' had been raised from 'four. There was no mistake about it. I could easily see the marks of chemical erasure, and the difference in pen and ink, between the 'raised' and the rest qf the instrument. How the rascal got into the Register's office, I dont know; but the record there had been, altered in the same manner. He ran away, and it was not considered worth while to follow him. Strange circumstance, wasn't it Mr, Camp bell?" Mr. Campbell was fidgeting un easily in his chair and made no re- "t)lv. "Here is the glass," continued the 1,1 rrpnllemen. taking it from his pocket, and you can see for yourself how well it magnifies. Now, as I look at this 'forty' why bless me the same signs are visible 1 saw in my Tennessee mortgage? : I think you will be obliged to drop this, Mr. rilJ.v.Aiv Hfv Tennessee mans aSsS AfBxahdeTBeU W he hasfddea Gainp to since ne cam to Missouri." Toi:z-.nr.o Campbell, his face red as flame, 1 1 COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1875. reached out his hand for the docu ment. ' "I believe I'll keep this Mr. Camp bell, for fear of accidents. What, do you think you could take it by force? Here' is something that shoots five times. Going; are you? Very well; I don't think you will be molested, if you leave this part of the country, and never return to it. It is barely possible that the estate of Philip Merwin may really owe yon four thousand dollars. If so I advise you not to try to collect tho debt, as such an attempt would land you in the penitentiary. Good-night, Mr. Camp bell, and farewell." "What is it? "What does this mean?" asked Clara, as Mr. Pierce, rubbing his hands and smiling, bus tlqd about to fill his pipe. "Are yon so dull, my child?" Why the fellow is a swindler, and has been found out. I guessed as much when I first heard of tho affair, and was sure of it when yon told me hi3 name. You will soon be able to pay mo my two hundred dollars, and then we will straighten up matters. Thank you, Mary, you are very kind to give me a light." Dont you mean to punish him?" asked Mary. "It would hardly pay. We could put him in tho penitentiary, but you might lose four thousand dollars by the job. By trying for forty thou sand, he has lost the four that may have been justly his due. He will be far from here by morning, I have no doubt and good riddance to him. Ah! this is comfortable. I know that I feel better, and I hope you do." .1 he girls were sure that a great weight had been lifted from their minds and hearts. Alexander Camp bell, alias Bell, decamped, and Ab ner Pierce stayed a week with the or phans, during which time he arrang ed all their affairs satisfactorily, and won their lasting gratitude and love. "How can we ever thank vou for all vou have done for us?" said Clara when he was about to leave. "It was for your mother's sake, my child. And for her sake, if I can ever help you, all I have is at your service. Abner Pierce has made visits to the orphans frequently since the event above narrated, and they have always had a cordial welcome for "ma's old beau." Captives to the South. We take the following article from tho San Francisco Cliroidcle.' The Chronicle is aTtairicai paper, but we have seldom seen a. more severe re buke administered to Radical editors whose stock in trade is the bloody cross and bones of the rebellion: If it were not for the outrageous conduct of a certain class of. South ern persons in. certain Southern lo calities, the Republican party would not have thunder enough to make another campaign. As it is, the peo ple of so large a portion of the South ern country are behaving so well that there is danger lest the political armory of the Republicans be de spoiled of some of its most formida ble weapons. As we are not politi cians and do not hope for continued outrages for use as compaign mater ial, we accept the improved and improving-condition of things as an omen of peace and as tio promise of the speedy coming of a better time. From all quarters there comes tho information that throughout the Southern States (always excepting certain parts of Louisiana and Mis sissippi) there is growing up abetter and more generous feeling; that the relation between the two races is as suming a kindlier form; that indus try follows order, and with industry and order there comes progress and prosperity; that Southern communi ties are more hopeful, and see in the future a more brilliant. promise and are looking forward to the time when the old fraternal feeling existing be tween the North and South shall be inaugurated. Disneli tells the inci dent in his story of "Lothair" that certain Countesses and Peeresses went from England on a winter tour to Rome, and were converted to Catholicism, whereupon their hus-; bands went in hot pursuit to reclaim : thm,-ivhen they, too, went over to the cfiurch. of Rome. Horace Gree ley "once went South, and through his generous sympathy became an advocate for justice to the' Southern people. Attorney-General "Williams has made a short toirr, and we are informed, "that, his opinions are greatly modified." Vice-President Wilson is' 'now - hobnobbing over Southern jnahogany, saying all sorts of kind things to "patriots formerly in arms against 'the Government." We sent down a Congressional Com mittee Foster. Phelps and Wheeler and they returned filled' with the idea that Southern people are neither all bandits nor harT as bad as repre sented. The New York Tribune sends Nordhoff to write up the Southern outrages,1 and he not only does not find any, but fives" the great body of the Southern people a character for general respeotability. W. D. Kelly, a most reliable.nltra Republican from Pennsylvania,, goes south, and lo! they capture ' him, and he returns sorry that he voted for the Force bill. Even Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts-only .found ugliness in spots. We .demand one further test: Let Benr Butler be sent to New Orleans, and if he brings away his scalp with neither ear detached, we shall be disposed to believe that the reports of Southern feeling have been over colored; if he comes back paying compliments to Southern society, eulogistic - of i Southern, ladies, and bringing a testimonial; that -he could be trusted with Southern spoons, we shall think fthe 'war has ended and sTiaTf rejoice thereat. '- i;' . .. -. i -,. I,, i m tmjnii V ' Subscribe for The Ektebpeiee. Sunset Cox. His Views of Crant, as Given iu a Speech at Columbus, Ohio. From the Cincinnati Commercial. There is one way ia which the Re publicans are right in endorsing Grant as a judicious and able states man. They are right in defending him, for he is exactly their represen tative man. He suits them. He is the man that has made all this troub le with the Force bill and attempts on elections. Those troubles that have destroyed the South came from his red right hand. The Republican party ought to be ashamed for thus forever discarding such a true and just exponent of their principles. What has he not done, what doesn't he do, what does he doesn't do? Laughter. In summer time where does he go away? He goes to Long Branch. He goes out junketing. Ho goes philandering around the country all summer, and his Cabinet after uit ho goes him, and his his clerks of chiefs of bureaus and bureaus following him all through from the biggest whale to the small est tadpole go philandering. I rode upon a steamboat as it ran upon the Mississippi river lAany years ago, which was called the Livelv Sallv. They always had a string band aboard, and were singing and danc ing, and dancing and singing, and fiddling, irrespective of any other steamboat that flew up before, be hind or about her; but fiddled away, up the side and down the middle, give us the tune with flute and fiddle. That is tho way they are going with our Federal administration Credit Mobilier, back-pay, double salary, junketing at Long Branch, Indian treaties, third term up the side and down the middle, give us the tune of flute and fiddle. Laugh ter and applause. It was not so in the old Jackson Democratic days. They didn't rally and tally and keep up this business on the Lively Sally in that sort of a way in those old times, and yet the American people are called upon ser iously by gentlemen who really have at stake tho interest of themselves and posterity and the interest of lib erty and property, they are called upon by Grant's letter indirectly and by praising his statesmanship as cap able and judicious to give him one more term "on the Lively Sally. I don't think they will do it next j ear. I heard' the other day when I was up in Connecticut, a friend of mine make a speech, in which he illustrat ed this by a story He said if Grant was not nominated by the Republi cans, he would burst the party, and if . he was nominated, the people would burst him and the party, and said that it reminded him of an old Baptist preacher out in one of the territories, in old times. He took his text to preach from, some place in the Bible I cannot tell where, you can read it through and find it, as Dr. Olds used to say he took the text which ran in this way: "Once, in grace always in grace, for your feet shall be as hens' feet." Laugh ter. "Now brethren," said lie, "as you know tho jjeculiarity of hens' feet they have three toes in front and one in the rear, so that it can never slip up backward onco in grace always in grace, for your feet shall bo- as hens' feet." Renewed laughter. J I heard of a fellow who went out coon hunting the other day and brought down a good fat coon. He skinned it,- and thought he would sell the skin. He took it to the fur man in town, but ho said ho didn't want it; that it was the Wrong season of the year. The fellow told him it was a good skin, but no doubt he didn't want it. "But," says he, I have put a great deal of labor on that skin, and I will let you have-it at half price." "I don't want it at any price," said he. "Well, stranger," replied the coon hunter. "I know you don't, but it is a good skin, and you may take it." "I will not give it store room.". The fellow, who had on an overcoat, put it iu his pocket loose and started down town, deter mined to lose it. He had not gone far until he found it was gone, and he felt glad that he had got rid of it, when a little boy coming up behind him, cried, out: "Stranger, hero is your coonskin." So he said he could not sell it, could not give it away, nor could he lose it. Once in grace, always iu grace, for your feet shall be as hens' feet; and so it is with Grant you cannot sell him, you cannot get rid of him, and you cannot lose him; once iu Grant, always in Grant, for your feet shall be as hens' feet. Great laughter and applause. J . The Circulating Medium. In 1830 the entire circulating me dium of the United States was but S7G,S01,092; consisting of $21,937,105 in specie, and $51,803,927 in bank paper an average of about $3 to each inhabitant, man, woman and child of the entire population. Now, with a population of 40,000,000, the circulation medium is as follows: Legal. tenders, $375,000,000; national bank notes, $340,000,000; fractional currency, $45,000,000; specie, $150, 000,000; total, $910,000,000; an aver age of $22 50 to each inhabitant; over seven times as much circulating medium in proportion to tho popu lation as in 1830. Do the laboring and producing classes, who are now clammorincr for expansion of the currency for cheap monay to mane oetter times ever consider the effect of expansion by comparison of the products of their own labor with the increase of the cost of living which .such expansion implies. In increasing the circulat ing medium seven- fold, who - has profited by this apparent increase of national weaitn? in 1830. skilled labor could command from $6 to $12 a week, and good board could be ob tained for $1 50 a week; in cities from $2 to $3 a week. The price of labor has - not doubled since then, while the cost of living trebled and quadrupled, in all the necessaries and luxuries of life. While fortunes have accumulated in gigantic pro portions, the numbers of compara tively rich men have not materially increased, and tho increase of poor men has become alarming, rapidly tending to that condition of society pertaining to aristocratic countries, Avhere the privileged few abound in wealth and luxury, and the toiling hang upon' the verge of starvation. In all our commercial centres that condition has already been reached. The tendency of capital, like that of political power, is always to aggre gation, centralization aud monopoly, perpetually stealing from the many to enrich the few, and it is too often the case, from which popular govern ment is not exempt, that combined capital controls and directs political power, constraining labor and the laboring classes to the most oppres sive and humiliating exactions,where by the poor man's sweat only goes to manure the rich man's soil. We have abundant examples of this in our own country. he increase of money beyond the necessities of labor and commerce invariably tends to this condition of affairs from which the masses derive no benefit. The richest countries of the world in money are those which are most greatly cursed by the poverty and oppression of their laboring classes. The losses by an irredeemable and depreciated currency invariably falls upon the producing classes, while the profits upon such marketable currency always inures to the money changers, adding to their accumula tions and consequent power. Presidential Pucilism. Ill Excellency C S. Grant Knocks n Ne !io Don n "Biill-Pup" at the Itottoni of the Row. Washington, June 15, 1875. To the Editor of the. N. Y. World. Sir: That his Excellency President Grant hath a sneaking kindness for. that frieud of man and of the butch ers' stalls, the "bull-purp," hath long been known. It may be a weak ness in a great man. but it is an ami able weakness surely, and was shared by eminent personages so unlike each other and unlike President Grant as Alcibiades and "Lo! the poor Indian, lint it is not perhaps so well known that like some other notable human friends and allies of the "bull-nuro" his Excellency is a stalwart pugilist. Yet such . is the fact: and all Washington (within a certain charmed circle) is now quiet ly reveling in a recent illustration thereof. It is now, according to our City Fathers, in order to muzzle dogs, that the dogs may go visibly mad, and that black policemen ad hoc may bo duly rewarded for put ting an end to them. The Presi dent's friend and brother (in-law), Mr. Sharp, happened to own a partic ularly lino and striking dog of I know not what breed, but a personal and dignified dog -presumably of no mean origin. This dog the other day. was disporting himself in the area of his master's house, while his master, unseen of men, sat above in the embrazure of a window. Sud denly there appeared in the vicinity the State coach provided by the mu nicipality for the comprehension of all "vagrom dogs," accompanied by certain --dismounted negro Uhlans, whoso duty and delight it is to catcli canine offenders and either hold them to ransom or drown them promptly as in each case may seem best. One of these worthies espy ing the noble dog of Mr. Sharp, forthwith recognized a prize in him worth laying hands upon. The mas ter of such a dog would not leave it to perish- in the pound for the lack of a paltry five-dollar bill. So the thrifty son of Africa crept up to the area fence, and with soft words and whistles enticed the unsuspecting lortn into tne highway. There he seized upon his prey, and with tho help of his fellows sought to force the animal, loudly barking and by no'mean strength resisting this per fidious violence, into his fatal van. The racket brought forth Mr. Sharp, and recalling his deceived and foully captured favorite. The negroes turned a deaf ear to the demands of Mr. Sharp. A somewhat short and squarely-built personage, who had come out in company with Mr. Sharp interfered in support of what un doubtedly was the just and well founded protest of. the dog's next friend. To him, thus meddling with grave municipal questions, the burly black replied, not with words only, but with gestures bidding him "mind his own business" and peek ing by a prompt pressure upon his shoulder to enforce the suggestion. Ill-fared the presumptuous child of Ham! For as his audacious hand was laid upon his interlocutor's arm, that interlocutor swiftly drew back threw himself "into position" and with one well-delivered blow from the shoulder sent the champion of the Washington "ring" headlong into the roadway, there to reel and fall prostrate and astounded even as Black Molyneaux, of Baltimore, fell in the presence of England's assem bled chivalry, when smitten by the stupendous fist of Cribb. To gather himself up, to rush back upon his antagonist, to exclaim that in ms struck person "the jjaw naa Deeu down all this was the work ot a moment. "Stand off, you wacK shouted 3Ir. Sharp hastily pntting himself in the way, "Stand ofT this is the President of the United States. . -4it Taa that the hand which signed 'the Ciyil Rights bill should, I NO. 38. by black ingratitude, be brought to uses base as this! Still it may be as well for Vice President Wilson, Mr. Blaine, Mr. Bristow, and the mob of Republican candidates to know, in the first place that His Excellency w ill not stand all kinds of nonsense, and in the second, place that if His Excellency is nt a very brilliant writer,, he at least has been taught, and has not forgotten,, how to make his fist intelligible by the meanest capacity upon occasions. F. P , Gov. Allen on the Third term Cincinnati Commercial Report 17th. 7 Something has been said with re gard to the third term. . There is no issue of that kind; not a bit of it. All my life I have been averse to calling things by something other than their true names. I never call ed a spade an agricultural imple ment; I called it a spade, because it Vas a spadc and I say that Mr. Grant's letter has no more reference to the third term than it has to the mountain and the Sermon on the Mount to which my good and elo quent friend alluded. A third term for the man that starts out with telling the world that he has done such a big thing,, that he has given up such a great remu neration for the 13ig thing he has done as to pass from a life office to another office, and hints as strongly as words can hint that nothing but another office will remunerate him and that is all there is of the third term nonsense; he means, a third term, a fourth term, a fifth term, a a life term, that is all. Renewed laughter and applause. If he doesn't mean that why- did he go into such a detail of reasoning to show that it would require au amendment to the Constitution to keep him from being elected as often as he chose. Great laughter. J' And then he closes up with .the dec laration that no such an amendment ought to be made, because it might work wrong one of these days; that it might be necessary to continue a fellow in office all his life. Laugh ter. Who dictated that letter? I don't know. "-1 don't believe Bab cock could have - done it. 1 think Grant did it, because from the. be--ginning to the ; end it expresses his; supreme personality. There is not one word m it of tho welfare of "the Government. You would not suppose he. knew there was any -such thing in the world as the American people, or of the exist ence of anything else in this great country but he Grant that is all. He stands in his own estimation in sulated and alone, as cold and as passionless as an icicle three times girded by the Winter's frosts. He is frozen up; he is the thing within himself; he is to be all and the end of all. And these Republicans thought they were doing a bi'g thing here in this city the other day, when they resolved against the third term. Why, Grant cares no more for that resolution than he would for a dream. The great probability is that when he read it he gave a sardonic grin and said. "Babeock. hand tha bottle around.' Laughter. Few and Far Uetween. Tho Arcadian, alluding to the death of Arthur Dwyer, and the no less sad fate of Henry Clajp as a warning to those who seeke admission into what their fancy pictures a3 the en chanted realms of journalism, speaks so forcibly and withal so truthfully that we append a few sentences. "The prizes in journalism are few and far between. . The life is an pi- haustive and wearing one, and it is only men of extremely tough bodily and mental material who do not give way under the strain before they reach old age. Remunerative posi tions on the Press, even in New York, are few, and too often they aro not secured by merit, but rather by money, influence and friendship. The precarious living picked up by occasional contributors and reporters barely suffices for immediate want, and such positions expose one to the caprices of editors who are sometimes ignorant and not seldom unmannerly. Even those who secure editorial ap pointment do not get paid for their talent in the same ratio as they would if they had devoted them to other pursuits, and the necessities of their associations generally compel them to live quite up to their incomes. Young man, unless yon possess ex ceptional talent and education, a strong physique, imperturbability of temper under injustice and hard us age, and an invincible determination to succeed; a temperament proof against constant temptations to ex cess and dissipation, and unwearying industry, you can never hope to rise above the mere rank and file of jour nalists. Possessing all these, you may, alter years ot arduous work. win distinction, and pensation, but even moderate com thqn, you will not unfreauently be tcinpted to ask yourself whether worth the candle.' : sihe game was. The Cutting and Packing Com pany, on the Columbia, now have the largest net ever put out in the river. It is 340 fathoms (2.040 feet) long. It is tended by J. W. Barry. of Sacramento, and Joe Huntley, of ugnsta, Maine, who thoroughly understand their business, and thev take from two hundred to three hun dred fine salmon each time they put out tneir net. It is not true that the entire post office and sub-treasury building in Boston are carpeted with Wilten carpet at $3 50 a yard, t Only the principal offices and parlors are so treated; the rooms of inferior 'officer and clerks are covered with an' infer ior article -costing only $2 a yard ? O o o o O O G O G O G G O Co o o G r I i i O O ( O G G i