EKE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, MAY IS, 1892! 1 ' - ; Be Weekly Ghroniele. OFFICIAL PAPEE OF WASCO COUNTY. Entered at the Poetoffice at The Dalles, Oregon, aa second-class mailer. I,'' SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ' , T MAIL (rOSTAOB FBBTAID) III ADVANCE. i Weekly.lyear 1 50 " 6 months. .' - 0 75 ' i - 8 " ...... 0 50 Sally, 1 year. 6 00 " 6 months. - 8 00 oer " 0 50 ' Address all communication to " THE CHBON ICLE," The Dalles, Oregon. - Last week The Chronicle called at ' tention to certaia charges that reflected seriously on the integrity of Hon. F. A. Moore, republican candidate for Supreme Judge, which, if true, render him un ' worthy of the support of the electors of this state. The charges are made on no less authority than the record of the . court, and the sworn testimony of Mr. Moore himself. A will was drawn up by Mr. Moore, s a lawyer, the woman mak ing it being at the time unconscious, and at the moment of signing it in the very article of death. The will was drawn at the dictation of the woman's husband, and for the purpose of disinheriting three daughters out of a valuable piece of property in East Portland. After wards Moore took a fee of $1,000 from the daughters for breaking the will. Moore has remained silent under the charges, but yesterday a firm of Portland lawyers, who were attorneys in the case, came out in the Oregonian and gave it as their opinion that "there is nothing in the whole transaction which reflects on the integrity of Judge Moore, either as man or an attorney.'" Now this is en tirely a matter of opinion. Messrs. Kil le'n, StarrA Thomas are entitled to think as they please, but unless there is one code of morals for a lawyer, and another for the common herd, they will never convince a man who possesses a scintilla of sound moral sense that it is right for a : lawyer to take a fee ior, practically forg ing a will, and then, knowing that the will was of noaccount, accepting a thou sand dollar fee from another to break it. To a person who k not a lawyer the ac tion of Jndge Moore looks like a damna bly low piece of business, and something is needed to .justify it, other than the mere perfunctory opinion of a law firm that judge Moore is all right. It is time -some steps were being taken to prepare for a Fourth of July celebra tion at The Dalles; that is, if the citi- - sens should -conclude to bold one. The celebration a year ago was a great sue cess, at least in point of number of per sons who took part in it and we know of no reason why the coming Fourth might not be equally successful. Some of the funds collected for last year's celebra tion were not -used and would be availa ble, and besides $40 or so of money there are some 8,600 blank cartridges, worth it is -said, $30 a thousand. If these could be sold, and we suppose they can, we would bare a nucleus fund of $280 to start with. The Chronicle moves that we have a celebration. Are you readv for the question? . The Washington special correspondent - of the Oregonian says: 'It is a mistake to think that work cannot be carried on, -or tnat congress would refuse to appro priate' after the contracts are authorized and made by the war department. Any contractor can go ahead and complete his work and obtain judgment against the government for the balance. The saving to the government on this sys tem, Representative Hermann said, comes from the fact that the contractor can buy all the materials and machinery . for completing the projection. The present river and harbor bill insures the completion of the Cascade Locks, also the completion af the work at the mouth of the Columbia. We have received the first number of Justice, a five column quarto monthly, bearing the imprint of Grass Valley, Sherman county, F. M. Marquis, editor, and I. H. Marquis, publisher. It is de voted to the advocacy of the single tax theory and free trade, a la Henry George, on the side. We cannot wish it success ; to be honest, we hope it may die young, and before it has time to sow the seeds of land confiscation under the name of single tax. We have had enough of this transcendental lunacy. "Take it away! : ineumcago tlerald. says: "It is as wicked and as barbarous for the govern ; xnent to interpose its clumsy presence - for the purpose of defeating man's natural right to do business where, when, and - with whom, he pleases as it was for the government to regulate " his speech, his worship and the cut of his clothing.'? -' Not a bit of it. It is no more wrong to . protect our home products from ruinous - competition than it is to take np arms . against an invading foe. The principle ci seii protection, tne nret law of nature, rules in both cases. ' . . The Klamath FalU Express, a clean and handsome weekly of the democratic persuasion, published at Klamath Falls, has arrived at this office. We- welcome it to the field of journalism. i Uttle is heard of Gen. Alger nowa days that some folks dimly surmise that ' he has crawled-into his barrel and pulled : the bunghole' in after bini. THE LOCKS WILL BE. FINISHED ; :- by contract. v Late dispatches set all anxiety at rest concerning the river and harbor bill, On its final passage only 65 members of the house had the hardihood to oppose it. It went through easily and went through in the best of shape. Blanch- ard's amendment which would, have left it entirely discretionary with the war department whether, the work should be let by contract or not, and is believed to have been inspired by Major Handbury and Union Pacific influence, was rejected on reconsideration. The gallant Major has always insisted that the work at the locks should be. continued under the direction of the war department. Then with himself at the head of it the work could drag along as long as it was pleas-, ing to the railroad, or if at any time it became alarmingly near completion, the Major had only to recommend a change of plans and make a new esti mate of the additional cost. Herman, we are told, was just as insistent that the work should be finished by contract and the right, for once at least, tri umphed. But Holman, the miserable, hypocritical pseudo-reformer that he is, voted with the minority and wanted the contract provision stricken out. The Inland Empire owes a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Herman ior his gallant fight to have the works at the cascades finished by contract and when the enemies of an open river . tried to nullify the contract clause by supporting the Blanchard resolution which would have left the work practically where it is now, in the hands of Major Handbury, Herman gallantly came to the rescue and never let up till the Blanchard amendment was rejected. Long life to Binger Herman ! Eastern Oregon only regrets that she cannot show her grati tude by helping to elect him to a place he has so long and worthily filled. May the day be long deferred when Oregon shall elect his substitute. The Chron icle nominates Binger Herman for our next senator. At a recent convention in Chateau county, Montana, the following resolu tions were submitted : "Whereas, The leaders and organs of a great . political party persistently affirm' that ;. the re moval of protective tariff will make the price of that article higher than it is at present in Montana, and at the same time will make it lower in-Masachosetts ; and "Whereas, It is evident to many peo ple that either the parties who affirm that this peculiar condition could exist, or the parties who would believe it, are fools, and in need of a little educa tion in the first principles of common sense ; tberefore be it "Resolved, That we hereby respect fully recommend to the present house of representatives at the national capital assembled that they appoint a special committee of their most learned mem bers in logic and mathematics to give an opinion as to who' are occupying an idiotic position the aforesaid leaders and organs, or the wool-growers of Mon tana, the manufacturers of Massachusetts and the general public who would enter tain their views." The Pnneville News says one of its typographical force understands stereo typing, and talks some of branching out into that industry, The state of the printing trade will hardly justify it, but he says, if the National Farmers Alliance will give him the contract of stereotyp ing the toiling masses, evils of oppres sion, etc., for its campaign literature, he will mortgage the marble at the grave of his dead and buried hopes to procure a hot-room attachment. . " Representative Hermann is - again pressing the committee on public lands to call up his bill extending the time to settlers to purchase lands within for feited railroad land grants, and the committee has voted to report the bill back with a favorable recommendation. Mr. Hermann aided his cause by pre senting to the committee various resolu tions from grange assemblies' and from party conventions in Eastern Oregon, all urging legislation extending the time of purchase. ' ' " . The Salem Journal, warns its reads to look out for Pennoyer. It predicts that "he is too active a man and has too large a following to lie still and and allow the chariot of destruction to be drawn over his mangled political remains." The Journal pretends to believe that the governor will yet come out -openly in championship of the people's party, and bid the democracy defiance. . Commenting upon ... the dispute of Astorians that the war ship cannot safe ly come np to Portland, the Oregonian refers to the arrival of a deep ship, 21 feet, and then says: "WeTcertainly have deep water from Portland to the sea, and all the Astoria tales can not make the .world believe otherwise." Then why in -thunder does Portland want to spend half a million to deepen the channel? : It takes a whole page of the Boston dailies to report the baseball games, and only three sticks to cover a lecture upon the Literary ' Influence of Browning. There Js" noynse talking culture will tell. - ". . . - . - '.- -. . - THEY BELONG TO VS. The Union Pacific, Southern .Pacific, and other subsidized roads, were virtually built by the government, and the enor mous land grants given as a bonus be sides. The roads were to . repay the money lent by the indorsement of theJ bonds and in other ways ; but the govern ment; that is, the people; were left the cold, and such immense fortunes as that of Stanford, Huntington, Hopkins, Gould and Vanderbilt and many others became possible. - Every now and then congrees flutters severely to make these roads pay.. It is only a fizzle. The Thurman act required them to lay aside fifty per cent of their net earnings for sinking fund to -pay the debt. They went to the Supreme . court with That court said that this law only apr plied to the main line. - The branch, operated lines, were, bonded, and the stock : held by ; third 'parties, and the earnings were not affected . by the national mortgage. ' But the Supreme court did not exactly go that far, for it intimated clearly that there was a very large discretion in congress to -protect the rights of the people : and that the purchased roads were liable, or could be made so. Here is the idea, and it is regular skin game: Uncle Sam built the roads for us, under certain promises We pocketed all we could raise or make, and with the legitimate earnings we bought thousands of miles of other roads or built them. . But we - bonded them and pocketed that money too. Not hav ing paid a nickle we owe the dear people more than the road is worth, and when Uncle Sam wants to take the other roads, mora valuable .than the original line, we say that it don't belong to us but to foreign stockholders. Was there ever such a swindle since the Lord made Moses 2 The sympathies of all who were ever acquainted with Mr. A. Knapp, of Knappa, Clatsop county, will go out from the heart to his bereaved wife and daughter, now mourning his death from heart failure, after retiring for the night on the 8tb. Mr. Knapp received the republican nomination for county clerk and was making preparations to make a canvass of the county. He was very popular and was confident of his election. His death leaves a vacancy on the republican ticket which will have to be filled as provided in sections 42 and 43, of the Astrallan ballot law. ' The bead lines given to a brief dis patch - yesterday, announcing . that "The president, an hour after its receipt from the senate this afternoon, signed (he bill to encourage American ship building by granting -American registry to the steamships City of New York and City of Paris," spoke louder than words. telling that the act is not approved by the people. - One of these bead lines was: "Signed in haste." Another "Questionable as to Encouragement.' Another: "Hey there; Benjamin." Eastern Oregon" by every right-is enr titled to representation on the supreme bench says the Baker City Democrat, and the people irrespective of politics should assert their rights by casting their ballots for A. S. Bennett, of Wasco county. . In doing so the assurance . is given that in case of Mr. .Bennett's election a man of ability will grace the judiciary and the many questions in which Eastern Oregon is particularly in terested will be properly looked after. Gov. Pennoyer has come out straight for the People's party. In Alblna Tues day evening he made a speech which filled three solid columns in the Ore gonian. He repudiates the state plat form. After his speech the glee club rendered a song, entitled, "Good-by, Old Parties, Good-by," amidst a storm of cheers. The Inland Empire will this year ship 35,000,000 bushels of wheat. When it is discovered that this i. e. is .a country: this area, drained by the wonderful Col umbia, upon whose bosom this product should go the sea, will become as popular as the phrases about Aristotle poken of by Sydney Smith. " If the truth was known, or the fact could be fixed, it would be. safe to say that a sum more than equal to the ap propriation for the improvement of the Columbia river has been expended this congress to purchase corporate influence to defeat the public. - General Weaver predicts that M. V, Rock, the peoples' partys' candidate for congress for the first district, will get as many votes as Veatch. General Weav er's bump, of nope . is abnormally developed. - . ; . It is a significant fact says the East Oregonian, that no pa per' in, the state of any political party haseaid a word against the election of Judge A." S. Ben nett to the supreme bench.. There seems to be grounds for the .be lief that 'southern Oregon . is afflicted with the presence of train wreckers, for whom hanging would . be too good, if caught. - The Pacific Empire is the name given to an illustrated monthly journal... Mrs. A. S. Dnniway, editor, to be published after July 1st in Portland. j- - The Colombia River Fruit Company. Whatever opinion others may enter tain, the writer has unlimited faith -in the future " of the section of Wasco county bordering on the Columbia river, as a fruit country. We have long passed tbe experimental stage and are able to present scores of instances where even the most .'unpromising locations have yielded rich returns for intelligent labor. The tons and .tons of dried and green fruit consumed at home or shipped out of the county . annually, abundantly prove that we can raise fruit and plenty of it, and fruit too, some classes of which have no superior any where - on the American continent. We predict that before many years have passed the hills and valleys for miles back of The Dalles and back of the Columbia river will be one continuous orchard and vineyard. That such is not the case at present is fully accounted for by the fact that it takes time and capital to raise fruit on an extensive scale, under the most fav orable circumstances. In this direction the Columbia River Fruit company has been doing a work on the old Lair Hill ranch and on the adjoining farm which the company purchased last year from Rev. W. H. Wilson, which was a sur-' prise to the writer as be . walked and drove over it a tew day's ago. The lands covered by these two farms comprise 1,460 acres, in addition to about 1,200 acres on the other side of the river. . A force of between twenty and thirty men, under a competent - overseer, have been at work .since last fall clearing the land, plowing and planting fruit trees and grape vines. About 430 acres are now in bearing, or will bear fruit this coming season. Seventy-five acres have been planted during the fall and spring, and about 100 acres more are ready for plant ing. The company expects to keep a force of from thirty to fifty men at work al' summer and to have 1500 acres, all told, planted on both sides of the river before winter. The amount of work already accomplished, which can be 'seen by anyone who takes the trouble of a short ride up Mill creek, is an earnest of what may be expected. The company, we are assured, has no lack of capital and it has disposed of nearly -all of its 2500 shares of stock, at least all that it cares to dispose of at present. The president of the. company is O. D. Taylor of this city, the vice-president, C. C. Foster of Saginaw, Mich., the treasurer, G. R. Burnside, of Buffalo, the general man ager, JS. A. Dunnam of Cleveland ana the superintendent, A. T. Higby of New York. Shares of stock are sold at $400 each, payable one-fourth yearly.' When a share of stock: is fully paid for the holder is entitled to one acre of four year old bearing fruit trees, or he may con tinue his connection with the company at his own option. The progress of the company will be watched with much in terest. Its success, and we know of no reason why it should not succeed, is of immense import to this city, and to the holder of every acre of fruit land in the neighborhood. Only by such methods can orchards be planted on an extensive scale, as the man of ordinary means can not afford to wait till his orchard begins to bear. The success' of the Columbia River Fruit Co. will make fruit growing the most important industry in this im mediate neighborhood.. Booming; Slater. Eugene State Journal. The Portland Dispatch,Tony Noltner's paper, has been enlarged to make room for campaign literature, and it is now filled with three and four columns at a time, telling what a great man Slater is and what gigantic things he has done for Oregon. According to Tony, Slater opened the Umatilla Indian reservation originated the ' Chinese exclusion law and has made the Pacific coast ' a great country. When Slater got through there was not much left for any other statesman to'do. . He made the Pacific coast in six days And went to sleep on the seventh. And on June Sixth, when wakes up our Slater, Ellis will Jump out of the bunch grass And knock him down with a tater. Tony is a queer bird," like the do-do, now almost extinct.. -He ana Slater would make a well-matched team but for the fact that each is near sighted, on account of the coarse, imported Austra lian wool of Democracy having grown down over his eyes, and can work only on the off side of all public interests. SCINTILLATIONS. , - From the Klamath Star. The Albany Democrat says the demo cratic convention "sat upon Gov. Pen noyer," leaving its readers to guess what the convention intended to batch. Hon. R. M. Veatch, who. hopes the democrats will lift him up to congress for this district, will peaks in Ashland to morrow' even in g. - The -subject - is, substantially:-"! am the best man yon ever saw for congress. I am a whizzer from WiUsletoa!" There is a new political animal in Ore gon. It Is a lively pup out of the Tam many tiger, and the party is beginning to hear things drop. At the democratic state convention down came Pennoyer with his free-silver, notions, and oyer there in. Lane, county, ex-Governor Whitaker, feho wanted the insignificant office of county judge, got a stroke of the pup's paw in the county convention and his bead was Knocked clear out of his j hat. .. ' :- , v' - ' - ; Cpunty Court Proceeding. - In the matter of proposed county road No.' 211, report of surveyor and viewers read first time," and remonstrance filed. Road disallowed after report read second time."' The petition of Joseph Frazier and others for a county road, commencing at a point 80 rods west and 120 rods south of the northeast corner of the northeast sec 4, tp 2 n, r 10 e, read,-and Geo. Herbert, C. R. Bone and E. L. Smith appointed viewers and E. F. Sharp, sur veyor, to meet on May 13th at com mencement of said road. Ordered that notice be published as required by law to all holderaof warrants issued prior to July 1, 1885, and to all persons entitled to warrants uncalled for in the hands of the county clerk issued prior to said date, to present the same for payment within 60 days from the first of July, 1862, or the same will be cancelled and refused payment. Work On the approach to Hood River bridge accepted, and warrant for $415 or dered drawn on the treasurer in favor of J. W. Harper, the contractor. Warrant drawn in favor of A. D. Tur ner, road supervisor, for $8, expenses incurred in said matter. : Warrant ordered drawn in favor of S. W. Mason for $6.50. . The petition of Chas. Ehrck and others for county road continued. ; . Report of county surveyor read re garding survey of court house grounds and ordered filed. Ordered that a warrant be drawn for $172 for supervisor of road district No. 20. A warrant ordered drawn for $144.70 in favor of supervisor district Noi 21. : Also for $46 for supervisor No. 21. The tax of Wasco county fair associa tion remitted. Delinquent tax roll for 1891 placed in the hands of the sheriff for collection. Liquor license granted to John Sulli van of Cascade Locks : also to Edinond Bergeron, of same place. Liquor licenses granted to Dial & Lane and N. A. Anderton, of Antelope. ; BILLS ALLOWED, Dufur Dinpatch, Publishing Financial State ment $2000 Timet-Mountaineer, do. ........ . 20 00 Hood River Glacier, do.. ....... 20 00 The Dalles Chronicle, do 20 00 Wasco County Sun, do. 20 00 : " - " " miscellaneous per bill............ 24 65 Glacier, notice to contractors .... 4 00 Chronicle Publishing Company, advertising for the treasurer do. for official report do. for notice to taxpayers . . . do. for supplies . ... do. for sen '1 supt notice Glass & Prudhomme, election booths . .... ... . . . .-" 199 do. blanks... 18 00 do. school supplies 6 95 M T Nolan, supplies ........ 4 15 IC Nickelsen, ' , 2 70 Maier & Benton, ballot boxes, etc 100 25 1 V! a t f J H Cradlebaugh, expenses in sane person Geo D Barnard & Co. election sup do. " supplies for sheriff do. " . " clerk L Rorden, supplies P Limmeroth, trimming trees in court house yard. J P Mclnerny, supplies for paupers. M M Gushing,- keeping non-res paupers, except care of horse for Huvison Snipes & Kinersly, medicines for non-res pauper Young & Knee, shoeing horse for 5 70 92 00 3 20 8 50 1 40 5 00 9 25 40 28 4 00 pauper........ 2 50 Leslie iiutier, relief charged to G AR..... 12 55 10 00 Dalles Water Works, relief fund March and April. . .: E F Sharp, surveying court house grounds 8 00 Wm Uantreii, supervisor road district No 17 24 00 E L Boy n ton, error in payment as roaa supervisor (supervisor) entitled to 27 days, and if no allowance has been made should be paid for that time) 27 00 Wm Butler & Co. lumber road district No 25 2 35 Wm Butler & Co lumber road district No 12..' . : 273 90 J M Filloon & Co, supplies road district jno 10 , 32 00 Bridal Veil Lumbering Co, sup plies road district No 1 . 1014 Harbison Bros, lumber diet N 4 3 GO do. " " 5 18 54 Mavs & Crowe sup road dist No 25 75 . ao " ' 10 l ou do " " 12 41 99 do " 14 5 00 do - " " 9 supervisor to pay from warrant drawn March term 23 00 Mays & Crowe, repairs to jail. . . - 50 E F Sharp, surveyor, road 21. . 8 00 P Huncks, viewer. .... ... 2 00 W J Baker, " 2 00 JHOdell, : 2 00 J H Ferguson, chairman 2 00 OKStranahan, " ......... 2 00 Bone & Danger, team naming stone 2 00 E F Sharp, surveyor, re-estab- nsning section 10, corner. . . . . z w E Remington, GAR relief . fund 15 00 F L Johns, viewer road 194. . . . . 2 00 C N Thorn bury, cash paid pauper . 2 50 Troy Shelley, stamps 5 00 L Davenport, J P. drawing jury 3 00 J J Lewis, assistant, . . . ........ 2 00 O. Mosier . - Z 00 Wolf Schreeder, witness -grand jury - 2 20 . do. witness circuit court. .... -2 20 A Keaton, J P, State vs FKelsay 6 75 N W Wallace, constable " 4 65 Chas Hixson, witness " - .180 ThosDorson, " " .. 160 BenGleason, " r - " , . 1 70 E Kirkhausen, " " 160 E Schutz, J P. State vs Kennedy ; et al....,..,....!..,... 11 05 RVGibons, constable.........' - 4 25 J Doherty, ' State vs Kerr & 8 10 Vernon Roberts, witness. ..... 7 50 Harvey Smith, - 8 90 EG Moore. '" " 8 50 George Moody, " ' 7 50 J Doherty. J P. fitt r TMma '"C "- l:i:r:.s.; - . 4 m 3 20 2 45 2 45 4 95 7 00 5 00 7 20 "Avery's Ox," as Bush used to call Slater, actually thinks he is running for congress in this' district." What a delusion. The story that there will be a war ' dance at Minneapolis next month is probably based on the fact that a de scendant of Tecnmseh, whom the presi dents grandfather whipped at Tippe canoe, is a member of the. Colorado del egation to the republican national con vention. . He has an old score to settle and will join the free silverites of the delegation in vigorous quest for Har rison's scalp. - The chances are, says the Oregonian,' that, the descendant of Te cum seh and his allies will not be more successful in their campaign against the president than the old Indian hero and, his allies were in their attempt to carry away the scalplock of his grandsire. What bravery could not do on the former occasion, bluster is not likely to accom plish in the coming contest. Bowie's Original Kntfaw Ten days ago Colonel John R. Davis, ' of Mississippi, who had been a resident of the Old Men's home since a year ago last April, received a stroke of paralysis. This was followed in a few days by an other, and then a third, which proved fataL The deceased was a cousin of Jefferson Davis, and during the war was the col onel of a Mississippi regiment known as the Tigers.. Colonel Davis had in his possession the original knife constructed for Colonel Jim Bowie, who, though a native Kentuckian, moved to Texas and married the daughter of ex-Governor VeramendL The knife was said to have been invented while Colonel Bowie was confined to his bed in Natchez, suffering . from the effects of a wound he had re ceived in a border fray. - He was a man of great mechanical ingenuity, and whittled it out of white pine as a model for a hunting knife, which he sent to two brothers named Blackman, in the city of Natchez, and told them to spare no expense in making it It was made . from a large sawmill file and afterward perfected by an Arkansas blacksmith. Davis, who was a young man at the time, was present ' the first time the knife, as perfected, was used in a duel, and, as he described the scene, the par ties cut the underbrush down and fought to the death. The peculiar part of the knife was that the end was poisoned, an. operation that cost Colonel Bowie ten -dollars. Cincinnati Enquirer. A Trea Climbing; Pic. . A curiosity has lately been shot by Mr. Le Mortemore, who has a selection on Tinana creek, Queensland. He says it is a sort of tree climbing pig. For a number of years the wild pigs have been numerous in this locality, and his theory is that the original or common pig must have amalgamated to a certain extent with some aboriginal animal, or that th necessities of climate, etc., have caused the variety. The captured animal weighs about 100 pounds, and is pretty fat, with bristly brown fur, small black spots, snout and ears like a pig, but the jaw is furnished with front teeth like a rodent; it has large canines and powerful back grinders. The fore feet are furnished with, nook- like claws; the hind ones have two hook . claws on each hoof. The tail is thick, about a foot long, and highly prehensile, and in a state of rest is usually carried in what is known as a Flemish coiL The - animal is also furnished with a pooch, which it only appears to use for carrying a supply of food in while it is traveling to fresh pastures. The skin is saved and will be sent to the Maryborough exhi bition. Mr. Le Mortemore says the flesh is excellent, and that it tastes just like veal and ham pie. He is sure there are plenty more about by the marks on the trees. In drought the animal climbs trees and hangs by its tail while it gath- -era its food by the hook claws. He in tends capturing some live specimens and breeding from them. Pall Mall Budget. Radical English Fashions Uoa't O. The recent refusal to sanction with . the customary prompt enthusiasm sev eral of thei most radical changes in the regime that have been made of late years by London swells has had a decidedly discomfiting effect upon our English cousins. Their confidence of leadership has received naturally a severe shock in consequence. From . au accounts . tne London swell mob is passing through a . period of experimentalism. AsaresulW men's fashions abroad have-not been so unsettled in fifty years. The heavy swells continue groping aimlessly after the elusive innovation. For their independence, at this time, therefore, Americans have cause for self congratulation the more- particularly so on account of the very divergent ' character of some of the foreign ultra speculations. Advanced copies of the recent London fads in coats and tap coats, had they been tried suddenly on the New York public, would have exeat- , ed almost a riot in the streets. The Eng lish swell, be it known, can dress him self up as his fancy dictates and tne . yeomanry makes no outcry- -. ' Now that we have thrown off the shackles of slavish emulation and blithe- - -ly accept or reject what we want, or what does not appeal to the sense of the -fitness of things, the English fashion framer will come down from his oracu lar eminence and in the future pose with ' ameliorated despotism In the light of. guide, philosopher 'and friend. Iam aware that tne sentiments aoove set forth would have been regarded a few years ago as rank heresy, but they veri fy the aphorism of ' Brer Rabbit that "the worll mT --C.otuier nnd Furuisiir. ' ' do. Ira Stubblefield... ...... do. George E Google. do. FMcGill do. J McDonald Times-Jtfountaineer supplies Wm Shackelford, examining in sane patient. . M Black, freight on lumber dis trict No 1. . . . ... iwNs