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.