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Year: 1869

Why should the wind, coming from the east
over the ocean Of water, depress the human
body, while that which comes from the west
across a continent, enliycns the spirits and
gives courage aud yigor BE this as it may,
it seems as if some people never felt any wind
that was not east They are always out Of
sorts The weather is always Just what they
don't want mot one Of these men q while
ago, a farmer who raised all manner Of crops.
1t was a wet day, and | said Mr.. Nayling,
this rain will be fine for your grass crop


Yes, perhaps but is bad for the corn, will
keep it back don't believe we shall get a
crop"


A few days after this when the sun was shi-
ming hot, said;


Fine sun for your corn, sir"


Yes pretty fair, but its awful for the rye.
Rye wants cold weather"


Again, on a cold morning, | met my neigh
Dor, and said


This must be capital for your rye, Mr.
Nayling'


''Yes, but it's the very worst weather for
the corn and grass They want heat to bring
them forward


q
wind. Nothing suits him, aud it would he i'm.
possible for Providence to give him wealth
er about which he would not grumble.
know one man who feels that our country Is
on the very brink of ruin, the government q
curse, and every thing to be destroyed AnC
he has felt and talked thus for at least thirty
years, and yet his property has been increas
ing in value all this time, amid this gather
ing ruin. The fact is the man lives in an un
changing east wind And there is Mr.. Slow
who lives in the hollow under Long HILL h
has been mourning for many years over tn
degeneracy Of the times and always telliu
what wonderful lawyers and doctors and min
listers there were when he was young H
can sleep under any preaching he now hear
and the lawyers seem to be young upstart
or too old to practice He longs for tn
good old times All Mr. Slow, does yoy
weaiher-yane ever point any where but TO u
Year: 1869

You have seen, probably, your little child
strain its fingers trying to push up the latch,
and falling try again. You came behind it
unseen, and just gently put your finger be-
meath its elbow, raised its hand a little higher
the latch flew up, and the door opened. The
little child laughed, and felt that it had opened
the door but it was your power applied al
most unconsciously to the child And if my
arm tries to perform some work that God
wants to be done, and he touches it by the
finger of his omnipotence, the closed door will
open, the great work will be done, If try
weak as am, to build church, and exert
myself, God Almighty, who has all the treas
ure in his hand, can touch my hand, if 1t is
necessary to do so, and it shall be filled with
silver and gold, for all are his. The power
of God, if joined to humanity, how much can
be accomplished Now, such is the power
of the Gospel which, through Christ is


preached unto US.
Year: 1869

WoKK AND WIN.-Whatever you try to
do in life, try with all your heart to do well ;
whatever you devote yourself to, devote
yourself to completely in great aims and
small, be thoroughly in earnest. Never be-
lieye it possible that any natural or improved
ability can claim immunity from the COM
panionship of the steady, plain, hard-work-
ing qualities and hope to gain its end. There
is no such thing as such falilment on this
earth. Some happy talent aud some fortunate
opportunity, may form the two sldis OF the
ladder ON which some men mount, but the
rounds of that ladder must be made of stuff
to stand wear and tear aud there is no sub
stitute for thorough going, ardent, and sincere
earnestness Never put hand to anything
on which you cannot throw your whole self;
never affect depreciation of your work, what
ever it is. These you will find to be golden
rules
Year: 1869

The late DR.. Chalmers Is said to have been the auiho
{ the following beautiful lines written on the occasio
+ the death of young son, whom he greatly loved
am all alone In my chamber now,


And the midnight hour is near,
And the hggots crack, and the clocks dun tick,
Are the only sounds hear
And over my soul In IT, ooltude


Sweet feelings Of sadness giido
for my heart aud my eyes are full whom think
OF ,hc little boy that died.
went one night to my fathers house


Went homo 10 the dear ones all,
And sonly opened the garden gate


And softly the door Of the hall.
My mother came 10 meet her SON


She kissed me- and then she sighed.
And her head fell on my neck a. she wept


For the little boy that diod.
shall miss him Whom the flowers come


In the garden where he played
shall miss him more by the frosidc


Whom the flowers arc all dccaycdi
shall see Dis toys aud bis empty chair.


And the horse he used 10 ride,
Aud they will speak with a silent speech


of The little boy that died.
We shall go home TO our Fathers house


To our Fathers house 90 the skies
Where the hope Of souls shall have no blight
Our love no broken tics;
We shall on tho banks Of the river Of peace :
And battle In its blisful tide
And one OF the Joys Of lie shall be


The little boy that died
Year: 1869

" We read in ecclesiastical history OF
two Christians who had quarreled in the
morning in the evening one OF them sent a
note to the other. " Brother, the sun is 60
ing down" This reference to the Apostles
Injunction produced reconciliation.
Year: 1869

Where do the chickens run,
Whom they are affaidi
Out Of the light, out Of the sun,
Into the dark into the shade,
Under their mothers downy wing,
No longer afraid Of anythin
Dear little girl, dear little boy,
Affad Of the dark
Bid you gooi-by to the daylight with ioy
BE glad Of the night, for bark
Tho darkness no danger at all can bring
It is the shadow Of Gods wing.
Where do the little violets creep,
In the time Of snowi
Into the dark, 10 rest and sleep,
And 10 wat for the Spring, they go.
Under the ground, whore no storm can reach.
And God takes icndorest care of each.
Are you afraid, little girl or boy,
Ofthe dark ofdeath
Jesus will carry you, full Of Joy,
TO the world of light he saith
Under the ground. where the yiolots sleep,
Your little body the Lord will keep,





Up.
The oak.trce boughs once touched the grass
But every year they grow
little farther from the ground


And nearer toward the blue
SO 1.-Two that YOU each year may be,


While time glides swiftly by
A little farther from the earth,


And nearer 10 the sky.
Year: 1869

LIFE is divided into three terms; that
which was, which is, and which will be. Let
US learn from the past to profit by the pres
eut, and from the present to live better Tor
the future.
Year: 1869

TEAoH Your BOYS TRApE.-Of l3, 496
-. .oners in the pententiaries ofthirty States


10 1861 according to the report of the Prison
Association just issued, 81 per cent, or more
than three.quarters, had not learned a trade
From this text an exchange breaches a forcible
lesson, the point of which is, that every boy
should learn trade, for the reason that
every artisan has au independence. He has
need only to be honest aud diligent to secure
competence Bread and butter are sure for
him wherever he Is He is always sure of
higher wages than he who has no trade; and
if his genius and enterprise lead him to some
other calling it is always a satisfaction to
know that in case of misfortune he can return
to his trade. He has that at any rate fail
ure cannot deprive him oft; his speculations
may break down, but he has an anchor to the
leeward, as the sailors say, and his subsistence
and that of his family is sure.
Year: 1869

Sorrow sobers us and makes the mind gem
ial. And in sorrow we love and trust our
friends more tenderly, and the dead become
dearerto us. And just as the stars shine out
in the nights, so there are blessed faces that
look at us in our grief, as though their features
were fading from our recollection. Suffer-
ing Let no man dreadit too much because
it is better for him, and it will help to make
him sure of being immortal. 1t is not in the
bright days, but only in the solemn night,
that other worlds are to be seen shining in the
long long distances. And it is in sorrow
the night Of the soul-that we see the farth-
est, and know ourselves natives of ininity
and sons and daughters of the Most High
Year: 1869

1MPRovEMENT.-An new sidewalk has


been built On the east side of Washing
ton from Third to Fourth streets, which
adds to the pedestrian accommodations in


that portion of the city.
Year: 1869

EIGHTH OF JANUARY-A call for the
meeting of the State Central Committee
has been made for the eighth of Janu-
airy, at Portland. The meeting will be
for the purpose of appointing time to
hold the Democratic State Convention,
which will put in nomination persons to
fill the various offices, State and county,
at the coming June election.
Year: 1869

HyHIS HOUSE is the most commodious in the


State, newly furnished, and it will be tbs
endeavor of the Proprietor to make his gueste
comfortable. Nearest Hotel to the steamboat
landing.


N8- The Concord Coach will always be four
at the landing, on the arrival of steamships
river boats, carrying passengers and their bag
gage to and from the boats free of charge.


House supplied nth Patent Fire E.rtiagaishcrs.
Year: 1869

The silver mines Of Benton county are
attracting considerable attention at this
time. We copy from the Fayetteville
Democrat, the following article on tho
suhject:--


Hickory CREEK SILVER Es-Oul
latest advices from the diggings are very
encouraging. Every returning prospect
ing party reports favorably, and presents
spccimelS os their discoveries. We were
informed by reliable gentleman living
near the mines, that a specimen was sent
to Philadelphia, to be tested, and the
chemist replies that it will yield -four
hundred dollars to the ton. If this is
truthful, and we have no reason to doubt
its truth, the mines are very rich We
would advise all to make a thorough in
vestigation Of this matter These noun
tains, it will be remembered, were said to
contain mineral, by U. S. Officer, seve-
raj years ago and it behooyes us to do
all in our power to develop these hidden
resources.


A large number have gone to the mines
and companies are being organized. We
learn that the "Rcd Bluff Mining Com
pany" are going to commence operations
upon their claim very soon.


We would not mislcad any one, and
do not speak favorably Of these mines
for that purpose, but since our visit to
Hickory Creek we are satieded that there
metal Of some kind at these mines, and
from whhat old miners say we believe il
to be silver. The Red Bluff Company"
will give this metal thorough test, and
then we will inform our readers what it
is. A.l .....


Our farmers should not neglect their
crops, as the prospect is that provisions
will be in great demand; but we would
advise them to take a day or two and
visit the mines and enter their claims
with some organizing company, as we
are satisfied it will be an investment that
will return an immense yield. 'i'
Year: 1869

e74T Through the carelessness Of thu
Postmaster at Fayetteville, the northern
mail for this place is frequently sen,
through to Little Rock under brass lock
We trust the parties at Fayetteville, who
make up the mails, will be more particu.
lar in future, as it is not only many times
q great inconvenience, but is frequently
OF great detriment to business men.
Year: 1869

No friend OF mine has been appointed
to office by this administration. Without
taking my advice, the President and Sec
retary of State succeeded in giving con-
stitutional drunkard a.good missisn and
o constitutional thief q Consulate, besides
orediting Pennsylvania with Secretary
Of the Navy, who has succeeded within
six weeks in ridding the party Of every
workingman's vote. The only minister
we have (except negro who cannot be
a voter in our State) is man set down
for Russia who ought to be sent to the
Lobos Islands vice guano removed.
Year: 1869

MONDAY, May SO p. N.


The Influences which naturally tend to make gold
uearer were unfortunately aided day by others Of
Foreign origin. The excessive imports OF the ex-
plred portion OF the year underiie the present
strength Of the premium, and decline In bonds
abroad started the price up to 1855, which is close
npon the highest point touched the present year. AS
Ear 1t Is possible to ascertain the cause Of the
sudden decline in London is attributable to the re-
ceipt by mail Of Senator Chandlers Incorporate
speech on the subject Of the Alabama claims
while the higher price Of gold also consti-
tutes source OF weakness The opening
price was s014, from which there was yield
ing to so and recovery to SO%, founded pro-
baby upon calmer view OF the speech and It's
relative influence. There was considerable excite
nent over the advance in god but the price did not
remain firm at Its highest the holders of the metal
being desirous OF realizing, and hence followed
action OF quarter to threeeighths per later in
the day. The stock cliqueS were large purchasers at
the opening prices, which fact greatly stimulated
the advance The range OF prices was as fol-
4Owa.-
Year: 1869

On Monday morning Senator DRAKE,
of Missouri, introduced into the Senate
bill depriving the Supreme Court OF
the United States ofjsrisdiction over all
cases involving the constitutionality of
acts of Congress. That is to say, if
Congress chooses to subvert the COnsti-
tuition in its most important and vital
provisions there is to DO no remedy
against the usurpatiOn. The LeGisla-
tive will thus be made, in effect, the
only Department of the Government,
because it will have power to abolish
both the others at its pleasure.


Radicalism seems indisposed to cease
its attacks upon our system of Govern
ment. During the war the violent
usurpations that were carried into effect
were defended under the plea that the
safety of the nation demanded them.
Now, without even the poor pretext of
military necessity, a more dangerous,
malicious andrevolutiOnary proposition
than any made during the heated term
of the rebellion, is proposed il the Sop-
ate Of the United States. Of course, we
cannot tell what support the DRAKE
bill may receive. We only know that
it proposes to completely change our
system of Government, and change it
for the worse. To place any Depart.
ment above the Constitution is simply
to establish despotism.
Year: 1869

The old controversy between the
President and the Senate about the
Tenure of Office Act seems likely to be
revived GRANT in his message de-
mands the repeal of that Act, and his
demand is couched in terms that will
tend rather to revive the ancient wrath
of the friends of the measure in the
Senate than TO secure compliance with
the Presidents wishes.


AS q matter of abstract right this
Tenure of Office Act ought never to
have been enacted. Its enactment was
a violent encroachment upon the right
full powers Of the Executive. But as it
has been passed, passed for an avowed
partisan object, and as it subsequently
received the approval of GRANT himself,
it is not remarkably unfair that he
should enjoy its benefits. This thing Of
special legislation for special cases, this
policy of enlargiug or limiting the Ex-
ecutive power according TO the political
views of the Executive, is toe abomina'
bic for patient consideration. Let Pres
ident GRANT groau awhile under JOHN.
SONS shackles. There is poetic justice
in the idea. The Senate, however
wrong in originating the Tenure sf
Office principle. will give general salts
faction by continuing its application.
Year: 1869

The New York Herald has been calling
upon President GRANT to build q ship
canal across the Isthmus Of Darien,
promising him in the event of his sue
cess such an Immortality of fame as
could not fail to be gratifying to the de-
parted spirit of GRANT several thousand
years hence. "Before our late civil war;"
says the Herald, zone hundred millions
of money as an investment in anything,
was an amount too enormous and too
awful to,be thought of. -ButSthe war;
in developing onr financial capabilities
has reduced the matter of hundred or
five hundred millions to"a mere baga-
telle."


The Presidents message shows hin
nibbling at the Herdlds bait. But we
venture the opinion that both GRANT
aud his high.flying adviser will find
that the people are not disposedto run
wild after su ch risky enterprises as that
suggested.


The present financial burthen, We
opine, is about as heavy as they care to
carry. Such undertakings as building
canals across isthmuses are expensive
ones, and entail vast expenditure of
means. 1t is doubted if the one across
Darien could be constructed Tor less
than two hundred millions, and that
amount, just now, our Treasury cannot
spare very conveniently, from the very
essential fact that it hasn't got the
money. At time when the Govern
ment itself i. uncertain where to raise
tho means TO meet the liabilities now
pressing against it, to enter upon such
schemes as this Darien canal, and thus
almost double the burthen of taxation
under which the country already groans
and bends, would be worse than folly
it would be criminal.


We do not underestimate the import
ance Of the work to the needs OF the
commercial world. We fully realize all
the advantages 10 be derived from such
a canal. But we submit that now is not
the proper time to undertake it. The
country is in no coalition to stand the
expense. Oar immense debt is as much
as can be handled at present, and is more
than the Administrator gives token of
ability to handle. After we have ex.
tipgui4hed the war:debt Will be time
enough to :.ik about adventuring in
schemes, involving the expenditure of
hundreds of millions of dollars.
Year: 1869

By news received at the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Telegraph Office this
morning at two O'clock, we are informed
that the steamer Rebecca struck pier
of the railroad bridge at Parkersburg,
last night between eleven and twelve
o'clock, and sunk Immediately. Sew
eral lives are known to be lost. The
excitement was SO intense at Parkers-
burg that it was impossible to get par
ticulaTs. t
Year: 1869

INNew York yesterday, an aldermanic
candidate settled perverse voter by
shooting him. The dispatch giving
this news speaks of the superior sleigh
ing in New York. 1t meant Staying, we
suppose.
Year: 1869

The next thing after driving and
steering is to learn to manage the brake.


The brake is very useful, and must be
look, ed after


1t is necessary in order t. keep the
hind wheel from running faster than the
front wheel, and putting the machine
out


y painful accident happened recently
at Chicago through a ne9lect Of the
brake


a man was running Il race on time,
and was gong at the rate Of three miles a
minnte


The bind wheel Kept gaining on tht
front wheel and in the attempt to pass it
made the velocipede turn somerset.


The rider was thrown ahead, the We
locipede went over him.


| would advise you not to buy veloc-
ipede TIL you lave learned to ride.


You can &c. lessons with the use Of a
velocipede for twenty dollars quarter.


y robust aud daring rider can knock
twenty dollars worth Of damage out of a
yelocipede in a week.


10 say nothing of personal damage to
ms own auatomy, which Is at his own
risk.


But dou't be discouraged by such
trifes as a bruised ankle OF Il dislocated
shoulder


1t at first you don't succeed, try, try
again
Year: 1869

Managing the velocipede is just as
easy as skating, when you know how to
do it.


It takes you little time to learn
how


All you have got to do is to keep the
velocipede up and keep it going.


You can't do either of these separate
ly. and have to do them both at once


Which makes it difficult


Because If the velocipede stops it falls
down.


At the same time if it falls down It
will stop.


The first law of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is
motion.


On the beautiful philosophical princi-
pie that necessitates the perpetual motion
of the planetary bodies, comets, ecipses,
meteors, aurora borealises, and things
which are continually going on.


Or like mans credit, the moment it
stops running he goes up.


Only in the case of the velocipede he
goes down.


First, you must start the velocipede be-
fore you mount, then jump on while it is
running.


If you have had any practice as a
circus rider this comes easy enough


All you have to do then is to catch
the pedals with your feet, and keep the
wheel revolving.


Steering is very easy, when you get
accustomed to it all you have to do is to
turn the wheel the way you want to go,
and you'll go it.


You must not, however, go upon the
principle that one good turn deserves an
other, because too many turns may wind
up with an overturn.


Any speed may be attained by increas-
ing the velocity of the velocipede, which
is done by lively agitation of the driv-
ing wheel.


The more revolutions you make the
faster you will GO
Year: 1869

DRILLe.-A sailor while explaining the
third figure of quadrille to his mess
mate, thus describes it: "You first
heave ahead" said he "and pass your
adversary's yard arm, regain your berth
on the other tack in the same order, take


your station with your partner in line,
back and fill, and then fall en- your keel,
and bring up with your partner she
then maneuvers ahead, off along side of
you then make sail in company with
her until nearly astern of the other line,
make q stern board, cast her off to shift
for herself, regain your place the best
way you can, aud let go your anchor +"
Year: 1869

MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS A
CENTURY AGo.-Other advertisements
tell how certain gentlemen were married
to certain ladies, one to '.an agreeable
young Gentlewoman with Fortune of
one thousand pounds y another to "a
beautiful young Lady with great For
tune and fine Accomplishments = third
to "a young Lady of Great Merit with a
Fortune Of ten thousand pounds :" a
fourth gets "a young Lady endowed with
every qualification that can render the
Marriage State happy" while Miss M.
E., Country young Woman with good
Health and tolerable Person, brought up
in an honest and plain Way, about
Twenty years of age, and whose Father,
she thinks, will give her five thousand
pounds down if she marries with his con-
sent, offers herself for Wife to any
sober, good well-looking young
Man between Twenty and Thirty, who is
settled in good Trade in Birmingham
or that Neighborhood, in which she
promises to give every assistance in her
Power" If things are settled to her
satisfaction, she promises to make an
obedient and good wife. And then
comes n postscript: "My Father says
Trade is better than the Farming Busi-
ness
Year: 1869

PERILOUS ADVENTURE 4 young
lady of sweet sixteen, named Miss Coff-
man, in April last, was followed by a
large lion for distance through the
woods near Gilroy, California. She eyed
the beast and steadily retreated towards
a neighbor's house about mile and a
half distant. At times the lion was so
close to her that she could place her hand
on him. Brave girl
Year: 1869

OF all the Democratic editors and pub
fishers in the State, only one pays an in
come tax. The rest all exempt and prob
ably don't pay an aggregate Federal and
State tax in any shape, directly or indi-
rectly, to the amount of twenty dollars a,
year each-unless the tax on whisky
catches some of them for more than this
sum. Yet these are the gentlemen who.
spend all their time in crying out against
the national debt and exclaiming in in
dignant tones that, "Our taxes are great
er than we can bear v'- Oreoonian.