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An Oregon Lay.
BY JOAQUIN MELLER

BY JOAQUIN MILLER
In the beginning-aye, before
The six days labors were well Ger,
Yea, while the world lay incomplete,
Or God had opened quite the door
of this strange land for strong mems feet
There Law against the westmost sea,
One weird Wild land of mystery.
A far. white wall, like fallen moon,
Girt out the world. The forest lay
SO deep YOU scarcely saw the day,
Save in the high held middle noon;
IL lay a hand of sleep and dreams,
And clouds drew through like shoreles
streams,
That stretch TO where no man may say.
Men reached Il only from the sea,
BY black built ships, that seemed TO creep
Alongthe shore suspiciously,
Like unnamed monsters of the deep.
That ever wake, yet seem to sleep.
1t was the weirdest land, ween,
That mortal man has ever seen.
A dim, dark land OF bird and beast,
Black, shaggy beasts with cloven claw;
land that scarce knew prayer or priest,
Or law OF man, or Natures law,
Or aught that good men ever saw;
Where no fixed wall drew sharp dispute
Twixt savage man and silent brute.
1thath a history most fit
For cunning hand TO fashion on,
No ehronicler hath mentioned It;
No buccaneer set foot upon.
IT'S of a wild and outlawed Don;
A cruel man. with pirates gold
That loaded down his deep ships hold.
deep ships hold of plundered goldi
The golden cruise, the golden cross,
From many a church Of Mexico,
From Panama's mad overthrow,
From many a ransomed city's loss,
From many a foeman staunch and bold,
And many a foeman stark and cold
He fed with prices on his head;
He found this wild. weird land. lie drew
His ship to shore. His ruthless crew,
Like Romulus, sought out and wed
The half-wild women, that had fed,
And I'm their bloody forays bore
Red firebrands about the shore.
The red men rose at night They came
A firm, unfiinching wall of flame;
They swept, as sweeps some fateful sea,
Der land of sand and level shore,
And howls in far, fierce agony.
The red men swept that deep, dark shore
As threshers sweep threshing- floor.
And yet beside the old Don's door
They left his daughter, as they fed.
They spared her life, because she bore
Their Chieitain's blood.
His cory head
On pixies was borne away. His gold
Was burrowed from the stout ships hold,
And borne in many a slim canoe,
To where? The gray priest only knew.
Revenge at last came like a tide,
Twas sweeping, deep and terrible;
The Saxon found the land and came
To take possession in Christ's name.
For every white man that had died
think a thousand red men fell;
A gentle custom and the land
Lay lifeless, rs some burned out brand.
Steel struck to flint, and fire flew
For days; then all was dark night.
The SaXon's steel was strong and bright,
The red mans flint was broken quite.
Now plough shares plough the fragments
through,
They throw a thousand flints to light,
And that is all that's left to you.
Youths Companion.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18

THE question is again raised, Where
are the remains of Columbus? Says an
exchange: " Prior to 1895 they were de-
posted in an old Cathedral in St. Do
mingo City, but in that year, by the
terms of a treaty between France and
Spain, what were supposed to be the
remains were transferred with great
pomp to Havana. The news is now
sent from St. Domingo that Spain was
cheated at the time, the dust of the son
of Columbus or of some other member
of his family having been sent her in
stead of those of the great discover. In
St. Domingo City the old tomb was
opened a short time ago in the presence
of the civil and ecclesiastical authori-
ties, and the casket was found, which,
it is asserted, contains the coveted rel
les. The controversy on the subject is
likely to be an interesting one"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18

THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE.-Dr. VII
hoft's Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic !
No case of incurable Chills has yet presented
itself, where this scientific and safe medicine
has been employed. No case has been found
so obstinate as to resist its prompt and mas
terly action. No man has been so reduced by
malarial influences, but with its use has come
up perfectly reconstructed. Nopills or purga-
tive required with this medicine. G.. r. FISLAY
& Co., ProprietOrs, New Orleans.
For SALE BY AL DRUGGISTS.
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HO, for Eastern Nebraska!

Rich. smooth, TiIlahe Prairie at n 60 So per
acre. Climate healthy, water good; accessible 70
me Great Trans C. influential Railroad; in lattule OF
Central and southern Iowa. Running sireams put
no swamrs. Residence not required. Jnsnrpassei
Tree information, and Round-Tra Tickets, al Exeur-
y Al. BENT Wheaton. III.
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KIDNEY DISEASE, weakness and pain across
the back, lack Of strength and activity, de-
preston and misery cured eradicated and dis
PEELED by a single COLLINS VoLTAIC PLASTER;
all the other plasters are worthless in compari-
son.
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HER OWN WORDS.

BALTIMORE, MD, Feb. 10, 1877.
Mr.. II. r. STEVENS:
Dear SiF-Since several years have got sore and
very painful foot / had some physicians, but they
couldn't cure me. Now have heard OF your VktiE-
TINE from lady who sick for long time, and be
came all well from your VEGETINE. and went and
bought me bottle Of VEGETINE /; and after had
used bottle the pains left and it began to heal
and then bought other bottle, and so take it yet
thank God for this remedy and yourself and wishing
every sufferer may pay attention TO It. II Is blessing
for health.
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A PEORIA man has fish farm stock
ed With $4,000 California salmon and
20, 900 brook trout.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18

The good wife exclaimed on taking the bis
cult, prepared with DooLEY's YEAST POWDER,
from the oven; and well she might, for they
were perfectly splendid.''
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

ANiN6 w ArFLES.-1 quart Alllhs -
cupfuls boiled rice, large spoonfuls
flour, eggs. Mix the milk with the
rice, and add eggs and flour, with little
suet; butter the waflle-iron well.
SAUCE FOR PUDDING.-1 cupful white
powdered sugar, cupful butter; beat
to cream; add wineglass Madeira;
favoring to suit the taste; stir well to-
gether; put it in the sauce-turean; pour
in boiling water slowly. The sauce viii
look like cream and foam.
APPLE FRUIT CAKE.-Soak 8 cups
dried apples over night in cold water;
in the morning chop and stew till soft
in 3 cups molasses; when cold mix with
3 cups flour, cup butter, 8 eggs, tea
spoonful soda, spices, cups raisins,
of currants, l lemon chopped fine; this
makes 2 pans of cake.
BOILED APPLE DUMPLINGs.-1 quart
flour, l tablespoonful lard, the same of
butter, teaspooniul soda, dissolved in
little hot water; 2 teaspoonfuls cream
tartar, sifted through the flour; little
salt, enough milk to make the flour into
a soft dough; roll out the paste less than
! an inch thick, cut it in squares, and
place in the center of each an apple,
pared and cored; bring the corners to-
gether, place each dumpling in a small,
square, Toured cloth; tie the top, leav-
ing room enough to swell; boil so min
utes.
PUFF PAsTRY.-Use only the very
best butter, sifted flour, and ice-water
A marble slab is better than any thing
else to roll pastry on. If you do not
possess one a hard, smooth board will
answer, and it should be used for no
other purpose. pint of flour, pound
of best butter, the yelk of 1 egg, gill of
ice-water. Mix the flour, tablespoon
full of the butter, the well beaten yelk,
and the ice-water into paste. Flour
your pastry-board and roll out the crust
very thin; then spread on part of the re-
naming butter, fold up the paste, butter
side in, sprinkle little more flour on
the board, and roll out again. Repeat
this until the butter is all used up. At
the last, roll very thin and set it in
very cool place for 10 or Is minutes be-
fore making up. As soon as taken from
the oven, and while hot, haste it over
with beaten egg.
GRAHAM CAKE.
If any reader of 4" The Home"
Should like a Graham cake,
l give you here a recipe
Which quite often make.
First take one cup of sugar white,
And butter one-half cup,
Together mix, then add an egg,
And lightly beat it up.
Then take one cup of pure sweet milk,
And well dissolve therein
\ teacupful of soda so
Its trace can not be seen.
Then scatter in a little salt,
And flavor it with spice,
little nutmeg if you please,
Or lemon peel is nice.
And then of -four you may put in
Three even teacupsful
And when you've stirred it well around,
Then quickly pour the whole
Into your buttered pan, my dear,
Which ready stands the while,
Then, if you give it a good bake,
Twill be so nice you'll smile.
Chicago Tribune.
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OswEGo Observation-Disclosures of all
fine goods, threads, laces, etc., at home and
in Europe, use KINGsFoRD's OswEGo
STARCH. No other article can produce so
fine a finish
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18

PATENTEEs AND INVENTORS should read adj
yertisement of Edison Bros. in another column.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18

Don't fail to procure Mrs. WINsLow's SooTz-
-SG SYRUP for all diseases of teething in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie, regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to the child. gives rest 10 the mother
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-10-18
JACKSON'S BEST

SWEET Chewing Tobacco
was awarded the highest prize at the CENIENNIAL tx
position for its fine chewing qualities, the excellence
and lasting character OF its sweetening and navOrng
II you want the BEST TOBACCO ever made, ask
grocer for this and that each plug bears our
blue strap trade mark with words saciSsons Fest
on IT, Sold by all iObbeTs. Send for sample to G. A.
JACKSON & co. Manufacturers. Petersburg. Va
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rB-see E. BROWNS Adv't of Foor LArHEs.
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llsb fluctuations,
" SU>sIgINE OF SONG."-Diison 4 60 5 new
- collection oi SONGS and ballads a home book,
fi Ut home suugs, all at easy grade aud established
Uot ulGrty price ~ 20 Sold hy all music dealers omen
cNtunFs DllSuN a 60. ~ and 49, Hroadway
COX WORTH CHOICEST MUSIC FOR
y 81 - ~ -plt.on a COZ, new bound collection ol
IItnuiorio Music lho Cluster Of Cons" contains up
ward 10 iitF ~ tho very choicest ianniorte pieces by tile
h,st composers Sod hy AN music dealers open even
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Amustmtnis.


CHRISTMAS MATINEE TOMORROW, "
COUNTESS BOHEMIA.
f. EsHA s ..s EssE "a
frrn ssss k 4
OF stIiBL's FAMOUS rLAy.
I f. Fl f. I>I|>,I f. Fl E.
r rS &c N.ync. Burroughs wnncn Morris sc
Union SQUARE THEATRE.
rrorrictor ................... Mr. SHERIDAN SHOOK
Begin. ats Carriages al 10 ~
ifsf ri'iirr M0fiifRs SECRET. SiGiifs
LAST "'"'"' NG,lri',isrMAs pAyi >ldilfS
LAST Evening at 3 NIGHTS
WEDNESDAY rvENrSG. Dec % will be produced.
sg the o %S 'sSSr grE s5 "a gy %
A.lrayi. Romance Of Poor Young Man ac, ac entitled
THE MAN OF SUCCESS.
Nonnucycthc Man oil Success NJ chs' Ccghan
,,torsc leyei sog q =. od partner Ng ias o Sclli
The Raron Mo.veleh,a rcru,anal.eninrer Mr Is Pom
" iaeuav. banker ............ Mr. II W. Mon:omN
a..
rnp,1iii ~ r,c ~ o rrc,ai ........ Mr. Qmioy
llcnrici,c NounuoSc's :, Agnes Ruoth
Cccile IN. daughter ............... Ms sara J,wcu
Peasant queen ........... Miss Roberta Norwood
The Scenery which will consist Of the following tab
leanS has bcon painted expressly for the play 10y Mr.
AZ -Noundoyc'. library in rari'
Act2 -con-cr,atory OF Mounuoyc's country house
Act. aani / -ceclc'- hoichamier
Aetb-Thc lodging. OF tlc deserted wife and daughter
seats for the nr.t nirhior
now on sale.
sArcrDM,. Np ,SS N IN r .,.,, y,aoe'of
PAnNE Tn GsNl1 e,... n ,, \ may,
WEEKS WlrHs WEEK.
yoNnly. EvrSISd, AMI ciG',iiAs NArlSrE and
~ ''' LAT l5 &T,' ii ' SySssF;,Ys.g,'
"''N'' M soriGeS' Is rwS rircrs
GGAsSSRRicK. GGAAsaiIdPoK.
rRipfy tF FyrIiGo s aa@ OF MR.. sornrRs
~OND" ions T EiSNo>n a. col SELLERS
MONDAY h'hSNiRNik il9ladiSp IN RISKS
Evening ats sauria, Matinee ats
New rrAHN ,1 rHEArnE, niErsoroKLfN
DRAMA kSD VNRihiiii c0NBiNEp
c f' wsro o s' Ssw Yor VA f.cimcn,
Nttrccs Platoon nHrrprs fHN Si-icr4 WIN ~
Tnc4iav Coos. Cha.c AMI Davis. II trni. e. uf tdu
a. Irsfmnsl Gated dugs Ac.. all tn a grand variety
wedn, DAY. III
and The thrli'tng three act drama,
Atafno,r. or saved nom tie Wreck
The entire dramatic company ~ the cast
cRAxn HOLIDAY MATINEE
IN rifI may ',fitttfSrAfA, IlN1
-
Rcrusr Matinee. wcane .,ay AMI saturday
IlROADMAS THEATRE.
ID PruUrirtnr and MnnAstr ...... Mr. las G Duf
Artistic triumph ana genuine sncce.. the truly great
who will an,eart thn nenst,,i drsmat,auon O, Alex
'0 1850 -'' puw, d. . gre,t w,rk
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STEAMBOATS, anO RaIlruaNs.
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AND UNITED STATES NAH. ROUTE
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AMOUNTED STATES NAIL ROUTE.
On and after NOV. II 1877.
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Ferries follows
Express Harrisburg Pittsburgh the West and SOUTH
with Pullman Palace Cars attached y A NJ, q AMI : 80
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For wilamsport Lock Haven, Cory AMI Erie NJ 30
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Rrs"lar NJ = 20 A NJ l. ~, and o T. NJ sunday, d 30
and ~ VI.
Exnrcs. tor rhadclphia ~ go @ 10 I.mitcdl II
l. :. D. a. q so. 7, 80. and y T.. VI. sunday, - 4
Nj. D. 8 900 7, $50, and T. NJ. Enisrant ami second
class : +. NJ.
Boais OF brooklyn Annex" connect with all through
trains At Jersey city aorins aspeedy and direct trans
ter tor BruuklN % travel
For trains 10 Newark. Elizabeth. Railway. Princeton
Trenton. Perth Amhoy, Flemnston. Rclyidore. and
other points sec local schedules at all Ticket Offices
Trains arrive From Pittsburgh q ~ ami ~ 90 and
lO,2oP daily. 1910 \ VI ana 81 T. daily, eN.
cent Monday FROM Mashn.toa AMI baltimore. q %
and 9 - A VI. L.. ID, ANA ~ ~ + VI. suniay.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
Items OF Interest.

A QUARTER of million dollars is the handsome
sum given by Oliver Ames, the brother Of Cakes
Ames to benevolent and public purposes. To
keep up its schools and its library, its highways
and its treasury, the town of Easton gets no less
than two hundred thousand dollars.
WITH her total debt of six million dollars,
Portland is as hard driven to economy as any
New England city, and Mayor Butler is setting
himself to secure general and sharp reduction
of salaries beginning with his own. lie recon-
mends getting rid OF the unfortunate Portland and
Ogdensburg investment, and putting the proceeds
into sinking fund,
FEW cities in the South have recovered more
rapidly from the ravages OF the war than Rich
mond The population has increased from Atty
eight thousand in 1870 to seventy-fye thousand at
the close of 1876, and a large number Of houses
have been erected during the last few years to
meet the demand. The trade lost by the rebel
lion is returning, and manufacturers are grad
ually resuming their formeractiyity. The finances
Of the city are in so healthy condition that
its eight per cent bonds command one hundred
and sixteen, and the six per cent bonds sell al
most at par value of one hundred dollars.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21

A STRIKING CoNTRAsT.-No more strik-
ing evidence of the astonishing revolution
which has taken place in the institutions
and sentiment of the country in less than
twenty years than the account of the life of
a venerable colored man who recently died
in Baltimore, given by the american, which
is as follows In 1858 Uncle Sam was a
freedman in Dorchester county, and had
learned to read. One day his cabin was ran
sacked by officers, and copy of uncle
Toms Cabin was found in drawer. Uncle
sam was arrested, true bill was found
against him, and on an indictment for hay
ing in his possession seditious and incen
diary documents calculated to disturb the
public peace, he was brought to trial. The
old man tried TO show that there was moth.
ing hurtful in the volume, but he was found
guilty and sentenced to five years in the
penitentiaIy."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21

PRESIDENT HAYES PoLIcY.--It is the
opinion of the Chicago Times that President
Hayes cannot pursue his two policies if he
persists in his Southern policy he will sacri-
fee every attempt in civil service reform
Perhaps this opinion is based on failure to
comprehend either policy. We should say
that they might more likely stand or fall to-
gether The reform of the civil service,
which has not yet begun, it cannot be too
often said, means a change of the system of
appointments, in which all branches of the
government shall acquiesce. 1t will not be
the reform desired merely to appoint few
good men to offices vacated by incompetent
men, nor to retain in office those who are
able and fit. We want system that shall
take the civil service out of politics, open it
to the whole people, and relieve us from the
scramble for office and the favoritism of
patronage. To this end, doubtless, legisla.
ton will be necessary. We have little hope
that the democrats will favor this; for they
wait for and expect the clean sweep of some
future election which is to give them all the
offices, and that is their idea of civil service
reform. Now, it is quite possible that the
Southern policy of reconciliation will bring
to the support of the administration in it,
war with the old system of patronage the
votes needed for genuine reform of the
| civil service.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21

The Southern Question.

The question of state governments III
portant problem, and one which will require
at the hands of the President and his Cabi-
net, great judgment and wisdom. We are
glad to see that they intend to take time and
look the matter over thoroughly before de-
claring any settled policy, and that this pol
ICY when once avowed, will be adhered to
as long as there is any possibility of its full
filment. 1t is evident that the bayonet pol
icy of General Grant cannot longer be con-
tinued. The very presence of the military
power of this nation TO keep in state gov
eminent is contrary to public sentiment and
republican institutions, and in no Northern
state would it be permitted for day.
But it may be asked How are the freedmen
to be secured their rights without the pres
ence of some force to aid them Just here
is where President Hayes policy comes in.
He will no doubt seek to persuade the South
ern whites to do their duty to their colored fel-
low-citizens, and thus remove every provoca-
ton for the interference of the national gov
eminent. Here is the very key of the situa-
ton, and we believe the President will use
it successfully.
The continued race quarrel at the South
must be stopped; and we think we have
good reason TO believe that with the with
drawal of federal interference in the South,
the inhabitants there will find some way to
bring about this desirable end The negro
is now enfranchised and his ballot is his pro-
lection, more effectual, more potent than
the bayonets of the entire army. With his
ballot in his hand he becomes an object of
interest to both political parties, neither of
which will or can afford to deny him his
political rights. This appears to be the
theory of the present government at Wash
ington, and we believe it to be correct,
AS to the social status of the negro at the
South, aside from what the constitutional
amendments now adopted provide, the gen.
eral government has nothing to do. Time
must do the work, and even if the laws are
impartial we sadly fear that their condition
for long time will be anything but desira-
bic. That social condition, begotten of
slavery, will be slow to be forgotten by their
former masters, and the rancor engendered
by the political division of the people upon
the color line, will be very gradual in its
abatement, and will bear bitter fruit fol
many years.
But with all this the army has nothing to
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21

New CIvIL SERVICE RULEs.-All the
Cabinet are agreed that the civil service
should be conducted upon the basis of Presi-
dent Hayes letter of acceptance aud his in
augural. To that end committee of two,
Schurz and Evarts, was appointed to draft
a set of rules of appointment to the civil SER
vice, and to report at special Cabinet meet
ing Wednesday. The details of the proposed
rules were left mainly to the discretion of
the committee. 1t was understood that one
rule shall provide that the recommendations
of members of Congress shall not be re-
garded or considered. The basis of this
rule is the theory that inasmuch as Congress.
men constitute the indicting and impeach.
ing power, it cannot be presumed that they
will be Jealous in indicting or impeaching
their own appointees, and that consequently
the civil service can be better administered
if appointments are made by other persons
This rule does not contemplate the entire
absence OF participation of Congressman in
appointment, as their opinion as to the quail
fcations of different persons will be asked
These rules will be promulgated within q
week, and will undoubtedly excite the oppo
sition of the working politicians of the en-
tire country.