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Tt-BUSlTRn jrVKirT yrtiTvw BY COLL. VVN CLEYKi ALBANY, OREGON. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Thb Reciprocity treaty ia dead, the United States Senate, in' executive ses sion, having almost unanimously reject ed it. : - Mrsa Ada Sweet, the sweet little Pen sion Agent at Chicago, receives the high est salary paid to any female employe of -the government. AtiFONso is desirous of emulating tho ex-Prince Imperial of France. He wants to undergo a "baptism of fire" like the latter, and consequently participates in the operations of the troops now. massed -againt the Carliata. A grandson of King George TV. of Jn gland has turned up in Memphis. His name is Francis "VVallf ord White, and he is a clerk in the Southern Express. Hia father -was a son of the profligate monarch by Mrs. Fitzherbert . The late Emperor of China left forty widows. One of them, Alute, has com mitted suicide. She was first, in rank, .and her departure from this world would be deemed in that country only a fit tribute to the dead Emperor. Thb Secretary of War has furnished -Congress a statement of the cost of the Modoc war, which amounts in the aggre gate to a little over $411,000. Now if it cost the government $411,000 to exter minate the Modocs, how much would it cost to exterminate all the Indians? t Thb Senate Committee on Territories have reported favorably on the proposi tion to form a new Territory, to be called Pembina, and the measure will probably pass both houses of Congress. The new Territory cuts off the northern half of Dakota, embraces 71,200 square miles, and has 10,000 inhabitants. Carmtb and Tennyson evidently re gard themselves as beyond the reach of any empty honors which the British .government can bestow upon them. The former modestly declines to be a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and tho poet laureate refuses to be made a Baro net. There's modesty for you. It turns out that all the ado recently made about a reward being offered for a mysterious bo-k containing scandalous memoirs of George TV, of England, was the sharp dodge of a new York publish er, to advertise a sensational work he has in press. The well-planned trick was 'successful, even the newspapers being taken in by it. Senator Wright, of Iowa, proposes to enforce decency and sobriety among Congressmen during their sojourn at Washington. "With that view he has introduced in the Senate a bill to pro hibit the sale or manufacture of alcoholic drinks in the District of Columbia, and prescribing heavy penalties for violation of the proposed law. The Civil Rights bill, passed by the House, goes to the Senate to be acted on irrespective of the bill heretofore passed by the latter body, and which now lodges in the House. Owing to the great press of public business, including the general appropriation bills, and the short time remaining of tho session, it is doubtful if the Senate will definitely act upon the " measure. Dakfotjb has just been annexed to Egypt, and the Khedive is now looking for more worlds to conquer. The new province is fertile in tropical produc tions, and has a large and valuable in land eommerce. Ate inhabitants are a mixture of Arabs and "negroes. The Sultan has hitherto been supreme, des potic, cruel, but devoted to the religion of Mohammed. : The oommittee of the national Senate to which was referred Senator Wright's "bill, providing for a reduction of 10 per cent, in the salaries of all civil and mili tary officers of the United States, for two .years from the 1st of next July, has made a favorable report upon the measure. It has little chance of adoption, however, ly the present Congress, owing to the shortness of the session. Resist anob to the non-sectarian school ct, which went into operation some time since in New Brunswick, has culminated on bloodshed, and further trouble is feared. An attempt to enforce the act was followed by a riotr at Caroquet, in -which several persons were slaughtered. he military was called out, and troops re now quartered in the sections where -fch anti-school party : has evinced the most decided opposition to the law, There may be serious trouble yet. Hoir. James K. Etwst.t., Attorney-General of Illinois, who was a delegate to the rotestant Episcopal Convention recently dn session in Chicago, cleverly turned -well-meant compliment passed in due .course of parliamentary etiquette on'the floor of that assembly. "z A member de bating knotty legal point, "sure the Attorney-General was good authority upon such topics." Mr. EdsalL who was close by the platform at the time, Txwed an acknowledgment, and at once replied : "The Attorney-General ia not a member of this convention, but I am 1" Titles were dispensed , with among the laity fox the rest of the afternoon. Eobopb has armed to the teeth ostensi bly on the 'old maxim "if yon wish peace, prepare for war. ". Over five ons of armed men kept ready to march night and day ought, therefore, 4o be regarded as a good bond of peace. Jlighwaymen are always suspicious, whatever the number of their knives and pistols. likewise the European nations, far from forming one happy family dwelling together in peace and brother hood, pass their time in continual fear of attack and battle. A Quaker or two, with their admirable doctrines, might be sent over to convert the French and Germans to the ways in which they should walk. Wasbokoton dispatches state that the owners of a certain sewing-machine patent, having failed to secure an in dorsement of their application for renewal from the House Committee, have en gaged the services of an experienced and powerful lobby, well furnished with "slush money," and intend using all necessary appliances to obtain favorable legislation from Congress. We hope Congress will stand by the report of its committee and resolutely refuse, under any pretext, to grant this extension. The people of this coutry, particularly the hard-working sewing women, have paid tribute long enough to these sewing machine companies, and they have grown rich enough. It is about time the price of machines was brought down to a rea sonable figure. So intense is the interest in tho Tilton- Beecher matter that pools are sold in the New York sporting club-rooms on the issue of the trial, as on the result of a horse-race. Every Saturday evening, at Day's sporting club-rooms, on Fifth avenue, large numbers of these pools are sold amid the utmost hilarity. The ma jority of purchasers evidently agree with the majority of the public that there will be no definite result to the trial. The " disagreement of the jury" is the favorite against the field, which consists of Beecher and Til ton that is to say, bets of two to one that there will be a disagreement of the jury rather than that either plaintiff or defendant will get a verdict. In Borne of the pools the agree ment has been knocked down at $50 to $25 for the field, and $2 for a verdict for Tilton, and 1 for a verdict for Beecher. POLITICS ASD POLITICIANS. The Courier-Journal thinks Conkling has the best chance for the Presidency in 1876. The Cincinnati Times thinks Dawes has less learning but more common sense than Sumner. Conkxxkg, in his last speech, said Schurz was " standing, as' it were, in the ashes of his ambition." Anbi Johnson is not only the only ex-President now living, but is the only one ever elected to the United States Senate. Six fingers on each hand and fourteen toes on each foot had the baby of Mrs. Jane Willet, of Stockton, Mo. Weight, ten pounds. Shanks, of Indiana, is a joker. During the dead lock in the House he moved that all the Democratic members be ex cused, and moved a roll-call on his motion. The Chicago Times says : " No shrewd actor now travels' in the South without having the play 'Richelieu' inl-os repertoire. When, as the Cardinal, he says : 4 Take away the sword ; States may be saved witnout it, he nas time to go out and count the evening's re ceipts before the applause, which ' rises and falls, swells into thunder and dies away only to rise again,' finally sub sides." The Washington Chronicle says: Gen. Gordon, the beet natural orator from the Southern States, is a Christian statesman, a mixture of David and Jacob. He has very little business ability, but figures at Atlanta as a life-insurance President, etc. Xt is predicted that ne will be the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, with Sam Tilden for his colleague; the two Empire States sit to gether, New York and Georgia." Andrew Johnson first took his seat in the United States Senate in 1857. Of those who sat there with him then were Toombs and Davis and Benjamin, Sli dell, Mason and Hunter. Douglas and Crittenden and Fessenden, Sumner and Seward. Broderick and Houston and Bell are dead. Hamlin, Wilson and Cameron will greet him in the Senate on his re turn. Wade, Trumbull, Harlan,, Foster, Dixon and Doolittle are among those who, still living, have retired to private life. A Washington correspondent Sam Randall made such a good fight for the Democrats during the late filibuster ing contest that he has brought himself to the front as a leader, and his associates upon the floor begin to rank him as a prominent candidate for "the next Speaker ship. Randall took almost the whole burden of watching the fight out ; and. during the forty-six-and-a-half hours' contest, he never left the Capitol. Neither Cox nor Wood made any figure in the fight at all, but remained in the background, in appearance no more than indifferent spectators. The Cincinnati Gazette thus admen- ishes the Pacific Mail investigators " Messrs.' Dawes, Beck, and other mem bers of the sub-committee: Your con duct is not satisfactory to the public, and unless yon push matters and try to find out something, the knowledge of which is within your reach, you will be on trial at tne bar of public opinion, xour busi ness is not to whitewash, cover up, or protect anybody, but to expose corrup tion and corruptionists without fear or favor. The first business on hand now is to compel Schumaker, member-elect of the1 Forty-fourth Congress, to tell what he did with the $300,000, or send him to jail. If Congressmen were bribed or rewarded, that is what the public want to Know. - Siberian Exiles. ' Between May and October, 1874,' there were banished to Siberia, lb, 889 persons. Jt tness unfortunates, 1,X!U, being crim inals of the worst description, were sentenced to hard labor, ' and 1,624 had been expelled from their communities as obnoxious, drunken, or burdensome. These exiles were voluntarily accompanied by 1,080 women f and children over 15 years of age, with 1,269 younger chil dren. Ten years ago the number of criminals exiled , to Siberia, in a twelve month was ten times greater than the above total, which shows either a diminu tion of crime or a merciful mitigation of prminhmnnt. . A Delaware man committed suicide simply because some one left a basket and a baby on his front step. He was afraid that Lis wife would o ject to stepchildren. THE LITTLE FOLKS. The Reason Why. What shall I brine my darling. Of all the nicetkings I when I go to the city to-morrow ? " noma one to play with me ! How large most she be, my precious ? ror I would a bargain make, r "A little bigger than I am. And Just the color of Jasjt As; black as Jam, my darling ! j You rarely are talking wild 1 ! w by wouldn't it please yon J nut as well ay wiu a whiter child ? A nice little rosy playmate. With IX1A11V AanMna on 1 ' I'd search the city through, to bring " uj HMusiy roue giri. "Sol no! I wont have a white one I want her as black ss Jakk, i So that you. and papa will never Kine her for me by mistake ." Christian at Work. I Bringing Bunshinei "Oh, dear! there are the Wnii to pick ; not a stalk of corn can be cut until tne beans are off." I " Which beans, mother ?" j "The beans in the cornfield, of course, childj Basbary is away and Tim has lamed his hand, and it's sorry a bit of beans I can get picked with the house tending." I " Don't you think I could pick thfem, mother?" .j " Tut, tut, child, don't talk to me, I'm too busy to be answering. Don't you know yourself you are too little to carry more'n a pint V Benjie rocked himself backward and forward on the stool at the back door, his thoughts as busy as bees. " I have it ! I have it now !" " What have you got ?" asked father, lifting the pump-handle. j " Why, I've got an answer to what you said at noon," gathering himself up in a mischievous-looking little bunch on the grass. j Oh, yes, about the birthday present. Well, what is it you want ?" ( "Why, a wagon, father ; a real 'owl express like Jeems Perkins had over at his aunt's," i 'Hi I hi ! a wagon is it you want t it's a t'dii t,-. o -n v.. ft i " iNot too big, is it, father T "Well, well, it's big rather big however, I guess my bank will stand it ; yon deserve it." ! The last words seemed the best part of the sentence, for Benjie's face was a study in sunshine as he sat bunched up on the grass looking off at the cornfield. " 1 m a small boy, am 1, and 1 cannot carry more n a pmt of beans ; we will see, he whispered to himself, as he capered the next minute over the grass, a perfect whirligig, bobbing hither and tin trier. ; "What are you going to do with it ?" said the mother, as Benjie tugged in the " owl express the next. day. "What possessed him to buy you that?" and she rubbed her hands free of the dough she had been molding, and stood thinking about the money men wasted, and the littler children gathered under foot. ' 1 m going to do all sorts of things with it," said Benjie climbing into it to begin with. " You'll see some time." " Where s that Beniie i called the mother every once in a while all that day and the next day, and for some days after. i " Oh, he's about somewhere," was the usual answer. j " He's done a deal of racing, seems to me, since that ' owl express' came home," and she would soon forget him again over the cleaning and baking and brew ing. " There are all the beans to pick ! that bothering field of beans," she sighed one day again, the tears starting to her eyes with very weariness the push of work, the shortness of hands. X can manage the garden and the in-door work, but how can I pick the beans " She was sobbing before she knew it, great strong woman that she was, worn and weary and alone. She Was sobbing up by the cupboard door, ' and nobody would have known it only Benjie came in with his bare, brown feet quite silently up behind her. ' Mother, mother, said Benue, speak ing softly, seeing her face pressed up to the door and how sadly she was crying. " Go along, child ; go along," she said, but put her arm around him. Mother, come to the threshing-floor ; I have something these to show you." 1 m tared, xsenue, and busy : X m going now to pick some beans, but I've a power of other work to do and I'm worried out and weary." I But she let him lead her along to tne threshing-floor, and he hopped, skipped, and jumped every step of .the way ; so she sighed. i " That is the way with the children. " Beans !" she exclaimed,' as she stood before the bean mountain in the corner, ready to be spread and dried for the threshing. i ' ? "Beans," said Benjie; " every single bean from the cornfield. I picl ted em myself and hauled 'em in the 'owl ex press, every single bit ot a bean ana never was there a merrier laugh in the world than the laugh that rung over the thrashing-floor as he saw the mother's face pass from shadow to sunshine, and felt the happiness of giving her, instead of weariness, rest. - The Bong of the Canary. It was time to sow the seeds in the flower-garden. So the gardener brought out the seed-box and set it upon the grass plot, while he put on his thinking-cap for a few minutes. " i Each kind of seed lived in a little paper house by itself, with' its name plainly printed on the front-door, for the seeds of one family are never allowed to associate with those of other families as long as they are nothing but seeds. After they grow to be plants and flowers it's quite another thing. Then they are old enough and big enough to choose their own oompoxuons, and if the poppies see fit to nod to the marigolds, and the morning glories to throw kisses to the geraniums, it is nobody's business but their own. 1 i Well, in one of these paper houses (by the by, girls and boys call them small envelopes, but then girls and boys don't know what they are talking about half the time) had lived the lady-slipper seeds an tne long, oneeriess winter. " Oh, dear, isn't this fine !" they all said to each other as the gardener, drop ping his thinking-cap, lifted them put of tne box, isn t this fine I We re go ing to see the world at last." And they rolled over and oyer each other in perfect aeugnt. : i i . . The gardener carried them to the nice, smooth flower-bed, tore off the roof of their house and laid it upon the fresh brown earth, while he began loosening me ground a little witn ms rake. The lady-slipper seeds crowded to the place where the roof of their house used to be, and peeped out. Then they all commenced whispering together ss fast as they could : " Oh ! how lovely J Here's everything the canary sung about this 'morning the great trees nearly touching the sky, the tail green grass, tne uirus uugmg, ana ("don't crowd and push so), j And oh I oh! oh ! are we going to live here always, and do nothiner but lie in the warm sunshine and listen to the birds sing? (don't crowd and push bo) ana- ' t Before they could say another word, the gardener took up the paper house, and pouring some of the seeds into the palm of his hand, scattered them on the ground, and began raking the dirt over them. Those left behind commenced talking again, this time not so fast, but in a low whisper : "O dear !" (such a different "O dear!" from the first one) "what has he done with our brothers and sis ters 1 Shall we never see them again ? And will he cover us up in the ground too? It is dreadfurto think of better a thousand tunes be back in the seed-box, listening to the song of the canary." " He quie a moment, ao, dear ones, ; said a wee brown seed, " and listen to me. Have you all forgotten the last song we heard the canary sing f First a seed so tiny, Hidden from the sight ; Then two pretty leaflets'' Straggling toward the light; Soon a bud appearing. Tarns into a flower. Kissed by golden sunshine. Washed by silver shower," Growing sweeter, sweeter, Ev'ry happy hour 1 " Kissed by golden sunshine. Washed by silver shower," echoed the others. " That was the song, sure enough. Can we believe it ? " V The songs of the birds are always true," said the wee seed, " for they are taught to them by the angels." " We do believe we do believe," cried the others, hopefully. " We are no longer afraid, though the gardener is coming. He will put us in the dark ground, but we shall come up again, no longer seeds but green leaves, buds and flowers." But one little seed that had said noth ing all this time now hid itself away in a corner, saying: "I'm not going into the ground." And when the outers rolled merrily out into the gardener's hand the paper house fluttered away with her in it to a short distance from the nower-bed. and fell on the ground between two cold gray stones. Nearly two weeks went by, and the lonely seed, looking toward the spot where the lady-shppers had been sown. one warm summer morning, beheld rows on rows of bright green leaves peeping out of the ground and heard them Baying gayly to each other : " Well met, brother." " Good day, sister." "How pleasant it is to be in the air and sun shine once more." But no one saw or spoke to her, little thing! poor Time Went on, and the plants grew larger and stronger, and at last came pretty, tender buds, which soon unfold ed into fragrant flowers of every beauti ful hue, and the sun, wind, rain and dew loved them dearly, and the bees, birds and butterflies thought them the sweet est things on earth. As for the lonely little seed, it lived a dreary, friendless life between the two cold gray stones, and every day it said to itself, over and over again : " Oh ! would that I, too, had had faith in the song of the canary, then should I have been beautiful and beloved with my brothers and sisters Kissed by golden sunshine, Washed by silver shower. Growing sweeter sweeter Ev'ry nappy hour !' " Margaret Eytinge, in St. Nicholas. Interesting Facts. The organ of vision is considered the most delicate organization of the human frame; yet many who were born blind have been enabled to see by surgical op erations, and the following is an interest ing fact concerning one of that class: A youth had become thirteen years of age, when his eyes were touched by a sur geon. He thought scarlet the most beautiful color; black was painful. He fancied every object touched him, and he could not distinguish by sight what he perfectly well knew by feeling; for in stance, the cat and dogC When his second eye was touched, he remarked that the objects were not so large in appear ance to this as the one opened at first. Pictures he considered onlv oartlv-ool- ored surfaces, and a miniature absolutely astonished him, seeming to him like put ting a bushel into a pint. Stanley, the organist, and many blind musicians have been the best performers of their time; and a schoolmistress in England could discover that the boys were playing in a distant corner of the room instead of studying, although a per son using his eyes could not detect the slightest sound. Prof. Sanderson, who was blind, could, in a few moments, tell how many persons were m a mixed com pany, and of each sex. A blind French lady could dance in figure dances, sew and thread her own needle. A blind man Derbyshire, England, has actually been a surveyor and planner of reads, his ear guiding him as to distance as ac curately as the eye to others; and the late Justice Fielding, who was blind, on walking into a room for the first time, after speaking a few words, said: " This room is twenty-two feet long, eighteen wide and twelve high," all of which was , ll - , revealed to mm witn accuracy tnrougn the medium of the ear. Verily, " we are fearfully and wonderfully made." A Colorado Jury. Two of the witnesses gave testimony in such a manner as to cast severe reflec tions upon each other's veracity. After they had given their evidence they ad journed outside, and after a lively dis pute, concluded that the best way to establish their several claims to truth would be to fight the matter out in good, old-fashioned, rough-and-tumble style. So at it they went, and just as H. C. Thatcher was addressing the jury, some body yelled "fight," and ontl ran the constable and jurors, despite the remon strances of the court and attorney the latter,' having just arrived from the States, being decidedly astonished at the abrupt departure of those " peers " upon whom he had been lavishing the flowers of rhetoric. The scene outside of the court-house was a curious one. One of the pugilists the one on top was a friend of Constable Joe Cox, and that worthy would call Out: " I command the peace 1" and then, stooping down, he would say to hs friend, in a low tone: "Give him h If" This state of affairs continued for some time, until finally Joe's friend was turned by his antagonist ; and then it occurred to Joseph that he ought to put an end to this outrageous violation of the dignity of the court, and the peace and quiet of the community. Accordingly, he called - upon George Chapman, who was standing by, to part the combatants, which George proceeded to do, though several of the jury were so disgusted at the abrupt termination of the fun, that they pulled off their coats, and threatened to thrash him for his efforts in discharging - his duty as a citizen. Pueblo Chieftain. A SaSt T'uAHCiscq husband denies that the new chemiloon dress arrangements axe anv improvement on the old style His wife has adopted it, and it takes her seventy minutes on an average to get unharnessed at night, and on one occa sion the numerous india-rubber straps cot into a snarL and. suddenly collaps ing, caused her to perform a double somersault, during which her head came in contact with the oauimg ox tne room, knocking her senseless. BUTLER AND BROWN. A Scene of Unparalleled Exeitement In Congress John Young Brown's Terrible Characterisation of the Essex Member He Narrowly Escapes Expulsion for His Ho Words. During the last day's debate in Con gress on the Civil Bights bill a scene of tumult and excitement occurred that is rarely witnessed in a legislative body. John Young Brown, jof Kentucky, got the floor, and at once proceeded to make a fierce attack upon j Butler, of Massa chusetts. Addressing himself to the Republicans, he said: Onward and onward yon go, in aenance or tne sentiment of the country, without pity and without justice, remorselessly determined, it seems, to drive the Southern people to destruc tion to " give their roofs to the names and their flesh to the eagles." A Federal General steps on the scene and sends s dispatch to the world that the people of that State are banditti. We have heard it echoed elsewhere that they were thieves and murderers, and night-riders. The clergy of that State Jew and Gentile have denied it. The business men and Northern residents have denied it. - A oommittee of your own House, a majority berncr Republican, has given it its solemn and emphatic contradiction. and nailed the slander to tne counter, snow, what should be said if that accusation should come from one I speak not of men but of lan guage within the roles of this House, if that accusation against that ! people should come from one who is outlawed in his own home from respectable society; whose name is synonymous with falsehood : who is the champion, and has been such on all occasions, of fraud ; who is the apologist of thieves ; who is such a prodigy of vice and meanness, that to describe him imagination would sicken and invective would exhaust itself ? In Scotland, years ago, there was a man whose trade was murder, and he earned his livelihood by selling the bodies of his victims for gold. He linked his name to his crime, and to-day throughout the world it is known as " burking." The Speaker Does the Chair understand the gentleman to be referring in this language to a member of the House ? Mr. Brown No, sir ; I am describing a char acter who is in my mind's eye. The Speaker The Chair understood the gen tleman to refer to a member of the House. Mr. Brown No, sir ; I call no names. This man's name was linked to his crimes, and to-dsy throughout the world it is known as "burk ing." If I were to desire to express all that was pusillanimous in war, inbi" in peace, forbid den in morals, infamous in politics, I should call it "Butlerizine." Sensauon.1 The Speaker (interrupting Brown) The pen tleman did not deal in good faith with the Chair. He did not answer in good faith the question ad dressed to mm. Mr. Hale CN. T.I insisted that Brown's lan guage be reduced to writing and read from the Clerk's desk. - I While the reporter was writing it down the excitement m the House was ax rea neat, j The Sneaker took occasion to remark f urthtr. that he bad not been paying close attention to what the eentleman from Kentucky had said. and had addressed an inquiry to him, which bad been answered either denyingly or evasively, the Chair could not tell which. It would have been inexcusable in the Chair to have permitted such laniruaee to be used, and his exculpation rested on the evasive reply of the eentleman from Kentucky. The report of Urown s ODjeo tionable remarks havincr been read from th Clerk's desk, Mr. Hale (of N. Y.) offered a reeo lution that, in that language as well as with the prevarication by which the gentleman was en abled to continue tne utterance oi tue language, the gentleman from Kentucky was guilty of a violation of the privileges of the House, and merited the severest censure of the House, and that he be now brought to the bar of the House in custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and there be publicly censured by the Speaker in the name or the House. Mr. Dawes offered the following as a substi tute for Mr Hale's resolution : Jtenolved. That John Young Brown, a member of the House from the State of Kentucky, be xpelled from the House for gross violation of the rules and privileges of the House, in the use on the floor of the language just read by the Cl rk, and for falsely stating to the Speaker of the House that he did not refer to any member of the House. Mr. Hale declined to yield for Mr. Dawes' sub stitute, and moved the previous question. Mr. Cox (to Hale)- lou cannot xorce this thing on the House. ; There has been provo cation for what the gentleman irom .Kentucky said. 1 The House refused to second the previous question. i Mr. Dawes said he regretted the necessity of offering the resolution, as his connections with the gentleman irom iveutucKy naa oeen always kind. He had been shocked and pained by what had occurred to-day, and nothing but the belief that it was imperatively necessay that the House should vindicate itself and its rules would have induced him to offer the resolution. After an exciting debate, Mr. Dawes asked whether the gentleman from Kentucky desired to speak now. Mr. Brown, rising and speaking with great deliberation, said that this was the first time that evasion or prevarication had ever been at tributed to him. He always spoke in plain terms. susceptible of no ninm1iiatanding, and he was willinsr to stand by the record. Mr. Dawes I would inquire of the eentle man from Kentucky whether he has any remark, to make in reeara to tne enaracter oi we laniruaee which he used. Mr. Brown I stand by the record. Sensa tion l I Mr. E. R. Hoar said whether the oommon-i wealth of Kentucky would feel indignant at a vote of censure upon one of her Representatives he did not feel certain ; but he (knew the Ken tucky character for manliness and for truthful ness to De such tnat tnat commonweaiin wouia spurn a man from its borders who, for the sake or getting suocessiuuy tnrougn a personal anacK upon a member, would falsify when he was called upon bv the Chair. Wr Tj,mR-p T hvA mi1 v mA renlv tn males to the eentleman from Massachusetts (Hoar), and I make it with exeat respect, f After a pause.! On consideration, I will not make it. I will just say, however, that he has used, with reference to the gentleman now on tnal, language which. I think, required neither courage nor courtesy for a man to use. Sensation and increasing excitement. 1 i Mr. Hoar asked Lara&r whether he meant to impugn his courage or courtesy. Mr. Lamar I did not; but I say that the remark whrch i.i frjmtlMnsn tised did not reouire the exhibition of either, and, in my opinion, does not oomport with the high character which that gentleman bears. Mr. Hoar What remark do you allude to ? Mr. Lamax To the expression, of the word falsirioaUon. Mr. Hnr T said that the Question before the House was whether the gentleman from Ken tucky had falsified. I have made no statement that he did. Mr. Lamar (courteously) Then I withdraw the remark and beg your pardon. Applause. Mr. Dawes said he had not only desired to see whether the members on both sides) would not stand no for the decorum of the House, but had also desired- to give the gentleman from Kentucky (Brown) an opportunity to express re gret. That gentleman, he was sorry to say, had not availed himself of that opportunity. On the other hand, in the presence of the House, ha had reiterated ana reaffirmed the position which he had taken. He found, however, that his (Dawes') resolution would gain no support from the Demooratio side of the House. And now, said he, rather than have my resolution fail for want ox aid from that Blue ox the Mouse, I withdraw it. and call for the previous Ques tion on the resolution offered by the gentleman rrom new zone (riaie The previous question was seoonaeo. Mr. Eldredge asked to have the word ' pre varication - struck out oi tne resolution, and the word "evasion.'' as used bv the Sneaker. substituted for it, but there were objections made to it by many Republican members. Mr. Cox moved to lay the resolution on the table, wegaaveo yeas, tu : nays, io7. The resolution offered by Mr. Hale was then adopted yeas, 161 1 nays, 79. Mr. Butler (Mass.), who had sat quietly throughout tne wnoie prooeeaings, now rose and asked leave to make a personal explanation. Unanimous consent was given, and he pro ceeded : . ; The ooortealea and proprieties of the occasion seem to call upon me to make no ebservation, al though the genuemen of the minority were engaged In hunting up and bringing to the attention of the country various supposed shortcomings and wrong doings of mine under circumstances which pre vented me replying to them. In the language of a gentleman of the minority, whom I very much re spect, it did not take very much eoursge to do that. I have been here now eight years, and haveesgsged jn aeoate peraaps a gooa aeai more uu i ougnt to have done, and now I call upon all gentlemen who have served with me" during the present Congress. and any who have served with mt during any of the eight years I have been here, to say whether in all that time I have ever commenced a personal attack on any man in this House, or whether I nave aver stepped out of my way to say an nuusa word of a single gentleman unless flrst attacked. Let him speak whom I have offended. - Let this thing be settled once for aU, I have endeavored with studied eourtesv never to attack, and I have also endeavored when I hava been attacked never to leave the man until he was sorry he did it. rxanghtsr and ap plause. Mjr. Speaker (bowing to toe Chair, I have no more so s7. The Speaker then directed fits reading of the resolution, and it having been read, the Sergeant-at-Arms escorted Mr. Brown to the area in front of the Speaker, all the Democratic mem bers being on their feet and exhibiting great feeling on the occasion, while many Republican members were also standing, and the crowds in the galleries were stiiuug .eyes andean to witness the unusual incident. Mr. Brown remained standincr. with one hand on hia breast and the other behind his back, while the Speaker, in a dignified and severe tone, administered the oenaure of the House in the following terms : Ms. Johk roras Baoww : Ton are arraigned at the bar of the House under Its formal resolution for having transgressed Its roles by disorderly remarks, ana iot naving resortea to prevarlastion when your attention was called to the rules of deoorum by the Speaker, for this duplicate offense the Hons has directed that you be publicly censured at Its bar. No words from the Chair in performanoe of this most painful duty could add to the gravity of the occasion. or severity of the punishment. It remains onlv to pronounce In the name of the House its censure for tne two onensea charged in the resolution. Mr. Brown I wish now to state that I in tended no evasion or prevarication to the Speaker, and no disrespect to the House. with these remarks Mr. Brown returned to his seat, and this excitine incident came to a ciose. A SNOW-SLIDE. Vivid Description of the Uttle Cottonwood -.. . Avaiancke, nFrom the Salt Lake Herald.! A miner of Little Cottonwood! who saw the descent of the recent snoW-slides in that canon, thus describes it : " There goes a snow-slide !" exclaimed my companion, as, in the midst of a heavy sleet, we ascended the canon where we had been assisting in the exhuming ox the corpse of a victim, at the scene of a late disaster. " Do you not hear it? and a shrill whistling sound which at tracted my. attention, deepened into a low, gutteral-like roar, increasing in volume and power at every instant, until the artillery ol atone xuver seemed but a wmsper in comparison. "Where is it? X hurriedly asked. while the air at that distance seemed to tremble in consonance with the motion of a monster still invisible. From the bed of Little Cottonwood a smooth incline rises at an angle of twenty degrees from the horizontal, terminating in a perpendicular somber wall 1,000 feet in height, which is again surmounted by receding quartzite cliffs, through which two narrow gorges cut their war. diver ging in different directions, and, making a scauop in the horizon, are lost to view, Amidst the blood-curdlinsr uproar the phenomena were invisible tail the gorges at the summit filled the level with the moving snow. Rocks, as if in rage at their inability to stand the shock, gave way from their foundations with an audible growL Clumps of trees, cen turies in maturing, snapped like stubble. their dark branches describing the nndu- lanons oi tne suriace as though a strug gle for existence was theirs until overtaken by some more powerful wave of the avalanche. They sink gradually and disappear ; jutting crags of quartzite shake off their disconnected portions, which, tumbling down their jagged sides, bury themselves noiselessly in tne moving masses that, having united at the converging point, rush toward the edge of the abyss with mcreased fury. iNotmng more terrible than the successive plunges of the disconnected portions of the avalanche over the precipice can well be conceived. Compressed by contact with obstacles in its course, the van of the volume has attained the solidity of ice. lie tardea by variations of the in cline, it seems to pause on the edge of the precipice as though in sensitive dfead of the terrible shock which awaited it Impelled by the tremendous pressure behind, it juts over the gulf unsupported a distance of fifty feet, until, severed by its own tremendous weight, it strikes the earth with a crash onlv neutralized bv the uproar above it. With a duller thud and an irregular roar for an echo each separate descending body alighted on its predecessor, piling hisrner and nigner at each successive descent, as preparing for the grandest tableau of the sublime spec tacle. Higher and higher, until assum ing the proportions of a majestic column, it conceals the bluff behind it half dis tant to the top. 'Will it fall ' asked my companion, as transfixed by the phenomena he utters the hrst words that have escaped him. ' Yes, it must fall, nee, it is swaying already." (Jreat Uod, what a scene! Colossal in its magnitude, yet symmet rical inr proportion to the scenery in re lief ; superb to the vision, indescribable in its destruction. A swaying motion, a graceful sweep, a boom unsurpassable in power, the crags ana canons no mute auditors of ' the performanoe. In tones of thunder taiey hurl back their applause. Case of Meanness. I was telling to Uncle Kufus Stebbins, not lone since, the story of a mean man. It happened up in New Hampshire, at old Dean s store, m Eaton. It was at a time when money was scarce, and when all sorts of trading at the country stores was done m barter. . One day a man named Sipper an old sponge from Crab- Hollow, called at the store, and wanted a darning-needle, in exchange for which he offered an egg. Mr. Dean accepted the offer took the egg and furnished the needle. . "WaV'said Slipper, " ain't ye goin' to treat!" What!" cried the storekeeper, in surprise. " on that trade ? " aartin. A trades a trade, aintiti Some's big, an' some's Uttle; but the little ones may be big ones by'm by." " WelL what 11 von have I Sipper said he'd have a glass of wine ; and the wise was poured out. 'Bay, Mr. XJean, wouldn t you lust put an egg into that ere wine f I like it so.", Heady now to humor so mean a man in any way, Dean broke into the man s glass the identical egg which had been paid fox the needle, and which, as it fell into tne wine, i prqveu 10 nave a oouoie yolk. ' .tli i Xjook here I demanded Hip per. " This 'ere egg s got a double yolk. JJon t you tnvnk you ought, to give me another aamtn -neeace r ' Pooty all-fired mean, that, said Uncle Bufe : , " but I think we've cot his beat up in Sagadahock. Sam Porker Ilia n HUmni.'v.ilV n 1 1 IB 1 1 l.f I MK . inilllllllll VU WLtV an then turmn it over an skimmin the bottom ain't a circtrvNstanoe. Why, one day Sam happened to be loafin' around Zack Marston's cooper's shop, and he found a stray bung-hole ; an' blame me if ne didn t nave the cheek: to go in and ask: Mars ton to give him a barrel that would fit that 'ere bung-hole 1 "New York Miedger. v - ' . : ; Thb first . iron . manufactured in the United States was made in Pennsylvania, and furnaces were erected and the trade commenced in 1715. Some jealousy was thereby excited in the mother country. so that m 1719 a bill was introduced in the English Parliament to prevent the erection of rolling and slitting mills in America. From the Pennsylvania Gazette, unblished in Philadelphia, we learn by a paragraph dated March 13th, xiw-zu, tnat: "un ounaav nigus uu died Thomas Butter, Sen., of a short ill ness. He was the first that erected an iron-works in Pennsylvania.' A pieoe of pig-iron, manufactured there in 1740, is still preserved at the Pine Iron Works, Berks county. An old stove plate, cast at Warwick Purnaee, Chester county, in 1769, by Potts & Butter, is in possession of Charles Butter, Esq., of Pottstows. Persons and Things. Thcbhax is a great snuff-taker. Thb small-pox is raging fearfully is Cab. - - ; Thb mummies belonged to the first f am nios of Egypt Air unpublished poem f Milton's has been discovered. Thb Erie railroad killed ninety-eight people last year. - Sam Wabs, tho lobbyist, is brother to Julia Ward Howe. , ; . Thb silver mines in Massachusetts will amount to something after alL , Trask. the famous anti-tobaooonist, died at Fitchburg, Mass., recently. . It is a fact that the Yale College Trus tees pay Evarts' fee for defending Beech er. JnrGK Reed, of Iowa, has decided that paving lor a game pi biluaras Dy tne loser is gambling. MABTrNsvrrjjK, InaL, has produced a hog weighing 1,122 pounds the heaviest in the United States. u Two ictxxjon fish, last year, were hatched for the government at the State .Hatchery in Michigan. Thb grand jurors of Lucas county. Ohio, have presented church raffles as an illegality and a nuisance. ' '.. ' Pbbhats we hadn't better exterminate the Indian. It cost $411,000 to bring; Modoc Jack to the gallows. That famous hotel, the Astor House, of New York, is to be closed on May 1, and converted into business offices. Ib DeWitt county. Texas, fifteen in dictments have been found . against as many persons for carrying six-shooters. It is whispered that a christening may occur at the White House in the spring. which hasn't happened sinoe Tyler was President. ; ; WixiiTB GooiiDY. of Terre Haute, aged 11 years, traveled " on his own hook to San Francisco and back. Now his parents call "irn Windy, because he goeth where he listeth, and no one knows whence he cometh or whither he goeth. Somehow one can't help thinking of that citizen of Syracuse who has thirteen children, all girls. Probably there is not a corner of the bureau in that man's house that hasn't a cold chew of spruce gum sticking to it. Milwaukee SenltneU Thb following are the statistics of the schools in Japan: Public schools, 7,995; Srivate schools, 5,721; total, 13,716. . cholars: Boys, 978,830: females, 310,- 477; total, 1,289,307. Percentage of scholars in proportion to population, 4.13. There is a man in the condemned cell in Paris who cannot be guillotined until the authorities ascertain his name. He was condemned by a name since found . to be false, and there is no precedent for the execution of a man whose name is not known, so he must wait, These is no question as to the profita bleness of some of the Nevada silver mines. The Belcher mine was sold in November; 1870, for $20,800. Sinoe that time it has declared dividends of $12, 064,000, and called in assessments of $2,246,400; and the present value of the mine is estimated at $6,136,000. Here is a clear profit of $15,932,800 on $20,800 in four years. The Virginia consolidated mine has risen in value from Soo.uuu to $63,180,000, besides dividing $648,000 in dividends. Other mines have proved, quite as profitable. Miss Missrs Hatjcx, at Ci'e dose of a short but very successful engagement at the Royal Opera House of Berlin, has gone to Weimar. Xn Uctober she is to begin another series of star " per formances at 'Berlin, and alter. that she will enter upon a several years' engagement for a season pf six months annually in the German capital. The prosperity oi our young country woman, whose arnsuo career arm estimable personal, character have both, been so creditable to America, will be ob served with great satisfaction on this side ol the ocean. Db. Geobok N. Beard, of New York, has been challenged by the Eddy Brothers, "mediums," of Chittenden, Vermont, to prove that they are " trans parent and unscrupulous humbugs." They offer to put up $1,000 in the hands ox wree umpires, one a competent uaioa tifio man to be chosen by Dr. Beard, another to be chosen by the Eddy s, and these two to decide upon - the third. They offer him every test that won't " inflict pain or bodily harm " on the me dium, and a darkened room as the only condition. If the doctor establishes fraud in the manifestations he is to have tha $2,000. If he fails the medium is to receive it Curious German Law. Among the curiosities of German legis lation, a glimpse of which is afforded by the labors of the Uivu jaamage uaw Comminsion, are tha parental enactments by which, in various German States, the period of mourning for a deceased hus band is carefully prescribed by , penal sanctions. Xn general, where uns obli gation ia imposed at all, it exists for both sexes, but in unequal proportions, the highest and lowest limits being one year and six months respectively for the weaker sex, and six months and six weeks respectively for tha stronger. It is easy to see which of the two had the making of these laws. The present bill wisely eschews all legislation on the sub ject or hatbands and widows' weeds. Ia accordance with the Prussian law the proviso has been introduced that ull re ligious ceremonies must follow, and in no case precede, the civil rite ; and all con traventions of this act are punishable by a fine of 300 marks, with the alternative of three months imprisonment The legal age at which a marriahe may be contracted is fixed at 18 and 14 years re spectively. .... A Gbabttatb's Diabt. A Rockland county. New York, girL who was re cently " finished" at a fashionable semi nary, has begun a diary. Her rriischiev ous younger brother cut out the flits entry and it got into print Here ia a portion of it: ''Sunday night It has rust struck twelve and I am still writing. What are these thoughts that surge across my heart! What is this strange longing after the unattainable I Am I what I really seem, or ia it, as it were, not so mucn the innuitesimal as the unspeak ablef Let me be calm. Ah t alas I will there ever be another Byron t May there not be somewhere, coming toward me from the mist of the mountain top, or the flowers of the valley, some sun-crowned youth, who " ; CoMMODOBX VAirpERiuxT, they say, goes to church about once a month at least, feels partly like a father and partly like a son to his friend Dr. Deems, cher ishes the deepest respect for true relig ion and true Christians, and has a sort of a religion of his own.