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Newspaper Page TextSTATE RIGHTS DEMOCRAT ' - . Ill ft 1 W 1 M I 3 J! M 1 1 B OLDEST DEMOCRATIC PAPER IN OREGON. lloch, 1 100 A 04 6 011 8 00 I Jj tr 2 In. I 2 On 5 00 f 00 12 00 14 ( : ln. 1 Z )) 6 00 M vti Vj 00 22 ,-. 4 in. 4 Oft 7 t) 12 18 fP 27 0 1 Cwl. A 00 9 0H Ji On 2 00 hi (' t Col. 7 60 12 00 IS 00 30 Oil 48 tl Col. 10 00 15 00 25 00 40 00 60 Gt 1 Col. 15 00 20 CO 40 00 60 00 100 0C PCSLISSKD ETBaY FRIDAY, T MART. V. BROWN. III III III III III III III III ILI III OFFICE IN PARISH'S BLOCK. FIRST STREET. TERMS, in autarch i One-rear, $3 t Six months, $2 ; Three months, $ 1 ; One month, 60 eat; Single Copies, 12 cents. Correspondents writing over assumed eiena toru or anonymously, must make known their proper name to the Editor, or no attention will he liven to their communications. rw BUSINESS CARDS. s. a. joiiivs, ATTORNEY AT LAW, it.nnsr. OllEGOX. . S7"Offlce In th Court House." vsnar. W G. JONES, M. D. Homoeopathic Fhysician, ALBANY, 0KEG0N. 7n20vl. T. A. CIKoITU. I. SUITS. CervaM. ! Co. CHENOWETH & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Corrallit, Oregon. 90rricn at the Court Home. v6o27 JOHN J. WHITNEY, ITTQmY AND COUNSELOR; AT IAW and Notary Public. Special attention! given to eolloctions. Orrica Up stairs in Parrisu's Brick. Albany, Oregon. v3u33tf JOiES JL KILL, PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS 1 ' ALBAXY, OREGOX. Omci : On South aide of Main stret, over Vay ton's store. J. W. GAJIULE, 51. I., PHYSICIAN, SEEGEOX AND ICCOrCHECB, ALBANY, OREGON. Office and residence two door east of Mealoy's Furniture Kooms, First street. vSnail. T. W. UAimiS, 31. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ALBANY. OREGOX. WT Office on Main street, over Turn-H's Store. Residence on Fourth street, lour blocks wet of Court House. . nly- W. C. TWEED ALE, DEAEB I2S GROCERIES, PROVISIONS. - Tobacco, Cigars aid Yankee Hotions, ALBANY. OREGON. Twill drive to IceeD on bands the best of ev- mbng in my line, and to merit public ru- jr. H". BALIIWLV, ATTORNEY & COUKSELCR AT LAW, Will practice In all the Courts tn the 2d, 3d nH Att, Judicial Districts: in the Supreme Court of Oregon, and in the United MaU-s Dis trict and Circuit Court. Office up-stairs in irout room in Famsa's brick, block, i irst til., Albany, Oregon. "nwji. GEO. R. HELM. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Will practice in all the Courts of this State. OFFICE: ALBAXY, 0EEG0X. Xov. 11, 1870. - ST. CHARLES HOTEL, CORNER FRONT AND WASHINGTON ST&. ALBANY, OREGON. ti. S. LUB01S. - - PROPRIETOR. Tbia bouse is the most commodious In the city, Table supplied with the ixtst the market allurds. tree coach to the house. Sale lor valuables, office ol Corvallis stage Company, voujuu. c. B. ELLISCEB. TBSO. BCBUCSTER. BELLINGER & BURMESTER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. No. 89 First Street, PORTLAND, - - OREGON. . Special attention given to matters in Bsnkrupt v aad all busiacss in United States Courts. v6a24tf. G. F. SETTLEMIER, Druggist and Apothecary, DEALER IX DRUGS, MEDICINES, OILS, Paints, Window Ulas, Dyestuffs, Liquors, Imncj Soaps, Brushes, Perfumeries, Ae. Frtseriptioat Carefully Compounded. , All art cles and Drugs in our lias wan anted f tbe best quality, first street, Post Offiee building, Albany. jull5v5n48vl COMMERCIAL HOTEL. OPERA. BOUSE BLOCK, SALEX, OEEGOK. HR8. A. J. BIELY, Proprietor. . This house will be kept In first class order, and with attentive and obliging servants. - 1Y Chinese Cooks Employed. am prepared to furnish good accommoda tions to the traveling public, and will use every nrdeavor to merit the patronage of the public. Kegular boarding at very low rates. Free Coach to the House. v8n27tf. . ALBANY BATH HOUSE I fTIHE UXDERSIGNED WOULD RESPECT I fully inform the citizens of Albany and vi cinity that he has taken charge of this Establish ment, and, by keeping elean rooms and paying strict attention to business, expects to suit all those who may faror him with their patronage. Having heretofore carried on nothing but First-Class Hair Dressing Saloons, fce expects to give entire satisfaction to all. X-Childien and Ladies' Hair neatly eat ad shampooed, JOSEPH WEBBER v3n33tf. SOMETHING NFW IN flFNTISTRY I . w w a ai I j sw OB. E. O. SMITH, DESTTIST, TTA3 LOCATED IX ALBANY JQ. and has the new. invention in plate work, which consists in inserting teeth in the mouth without covering the whole roof, as heretofore. It gives tbe wearer the free use of the tongue to tbe roof of tbe mouth is talking and - tastine. It is tbe Smith A Purvine patent. ' ,&Teth extracted without pain." " Plates tended, whether broken or divided. Offiee one door east of Conner's Batik, up stairs ---- v7n45tf. dentistry. . GEO. W GRAY, . . S. T0ES ALL WORK IN THE f"5""""N . m w line 01 bis ' kne of his profession in the fftrZ x iaUtt, bett and mott approved methods, Ansesthetie agents used for . the painless ex . traction of teeth if desired. Partienlar attention given to the regulation of . Dental eonsultations and examinations free Satisfaction guaranteed in every ease. Call at his offiee and examine specimens of his work. Charges moderate. Office in Parrish's Brick Sleek, up-stairs. vSnltf. VOL. VIII. FAIR FRAILTY. BY PAUL PLUME. It was the evening of Easter Mon day, and Home was ablaze in tbe glo ry of illumination. Music and lire works made the city a very pleasant place for the sojourner. I had wan dred with some friends from Saint Peter's toward the Castle of St. An gelo, fromwhose dark walls hundreds of rockets and beautifully colored lights incessantly rose toward the heavens, and broke into crimson, orange, purple and golden showers. Twenty minutes' walk brought us to the ten angels who stand guard at the entrance to the cajtle. Uuder the very shadow of their wings small booths were erected for the sale of fruit, and one might buy golden or anges from pretty Italian girls who smiled tenderly on you as they raked the silver into their wooden boxes. Directly in front ot the spot where we halted stood Gilbert Kenneth, a young Englisman, who with his wife on his arm, was watching- the fire works. Kenneth was well known in Rome as what we now would term a fast man. Suddenly a person brushed ronghly past us, and then I heard Mrs. Ken neth exclaim : 'Gilbert, my watch is gone, that man I am sure has it ; see, inhere be goes." Tbe next moment Kenneth sprang through the crowd, with his eyes on the retreating figure. Only thoMj who stood near enough and uuderslood English, followed; lor Kenneth's movements were scarcely observed by the concourse, whose eves were fixed on the pvrotechnical ifisplay. My companions and myself, however, darted after the rogue, who, not knowing that he was pursued, en tered oue of the fruit booths with his pursuer close at his heels. At the same, instant that Kenneth arrived In front of the stand, one of the most beautiful girls that it was ever my lot to observe iu Kome, came from the rear of the booth to the counter as if she expected a customer to buy her oranges. As there eyes met a visible change came over the oppression of their faces. IIa, Paulina, is it you ?" said Ken neth, evidently very ill at ease under the gaze which the girl fixed upon him. "Yes, Fignor," 6he replied, "what now 'f She emphasized tbe last words with a peculiar meaning. uSo, much," he returned, "ouly I believe a man stole my wife's watch just now, and I think be came into your booth." "Signor,'' replied the girl, "there i no one here save ray father, and as j-ou are very well acquainted with him you can tell whether it be he that you are looking ior. rattier, she called, and tht n Emanuel Molini, a dark-skinned, ill-natured looking indi vidual, parted the lolds of the tent and came forward. "Beg pardon, Molina," cried Ken neth, speaking in Italian, "I've missed my man. 'Good evening, signor," said Pau lina, with mocking speech and a pe culiar smile. Gilbert Kenneth never replied, but hurried back to the side of his wife, "lie has escaped,1' he said. "But surely you are not going to allow a thief to run away with my jeweled watch and make no effort for its recovery . On a msrlit like this, when all Rome are out of doors, it is itnpossi ble to trace a matter like tnis," was his reply. "Alas! alas!- cried his wife, "mast I, then, really lose my watch Y" "I think so, was bis laconic reply, Now Kenneth passed in tbe world for a gentleman, and yet he told his wife a deliberate lie. lie very well knew if he had called for the police tbe watch would most probably have been found on the person of kinanuel Molini, but there were certain reasons why Kenneth did not do this. The troth is, he would sooner have lost a thousand watches than brought the father of the orange girl to justice. That night in bis miserable abode by the Tiber, Emanuel Molini, by the aid of a rush-light, sat examining tbe watch of Mrs. Gilbert Kenneth. If a man's success is to be estimated by the wealth he honestly accumu lates, then beyond contradiction, An drew Kenneth was a most successfu manfactnrer. Heaven blessed him with but a single child to inherit his great wealth, and after years spent in dreams of what that .cniia was to ac complish in the way of renown, An drew Kenneth s joy ended only in vexation of spirit. : Gilbert Kenneth was froward from' the day of bis infancy. H is father was a man of high moral deportment who frowned upon everything irregu lar in one's character, and when his son, in the twenty-fourth year of his age, actually married a beautiful eer vani girl, who could neither write her name nor read it when written, An drew Kenneth's head fell upon bis bosom in sorrow, and he never after ward would permit bis name to be pronounced in his presence. But Gilbert bad a grandmother, an old Scotch woman, who, despite his bad conduct, never forsook him, and dying shortly after his ill-starred mar riage, bequeathed him considerable wealth. Taking his money and his wife he went abroad,' and soon neg lected the woman he bad married while too late, shame at the ignoble alliance he bad formed, began to ran kle in bis heart. Then followed un happy domestic scenes, quarrels and heart-burnings. His countrymen who were resident abroad with their farm lies never permitted him to cross their thresholds, and passed on the other side when they chanced to meet his wife. . Mrs. Kenneth never dreamed of improving ner mmd or manners even 4,o a limited extent, so that she might have been presentable in socie ty. By means easily understood among those who have experience in such matters, Kenneth, after making the acquaintance of Paulina Alobiini, was soon a frequent visitor at 'tier home. Scarcely a stranger in Home had failed to hear of the remarkable beauty of this girl, and she reaped a good harvest from those who came to buy her oranges and.gase upon her face. Gilbert Kenneth was one of those men who could bear no rival in tbe pursuit of any object, and his dis quietude became intense when he saw admirers gather about the fruit stand. Emanuel Molini was a clever rascal, and shrewd withal. II quickly dis covered that the Englishman was was worth plucking, and he deter mined, if possible, to have tbe last feather. i. Notwithstanding his reckless na ture. Kenneth had inherited a certain caution from his grandmother that at times enabled hi in to foil the cunning traps laid to ensnare him. . For a good while he supplied Monlini with money to a limited extent, but never realized the graceless rascal s hopes of obtaining large sums, lo 1 aulina he made presents, very plenty, but not cosily Urged by her father, she bluntly asked for ornaments that a countess might wear. Kenneth did not refuse her, but he managed to keep her favor by promising to grant her request by-and-by. Then sho would pout and have little quarrels with him ; but a few gold pieces generally brought smiles to her face again. And so tbe time passed away, Kenneth enjoying himself after bis fashion, and bis wife atter her own. Summer came and with it malaria. Mrs. Kenneth was the first foreigner taken sick, and ber death soon fol lowed. Her husband could scarcely realize the tact that he was free. He didn't mourn, the man was really to lonest tor that, but for one week re frained from visiting the Italian girl, Paulina. It was during this time that I was coming out of the Church of St. Ma ria, in A'ia Lata, that I met Kenneth face to face. Hitherto our acquaint ance had been limited to "good morn ing' and "good evening." On this occasion he slopped and extended his hand, saying, "I wish you would walk with me, I fell very lonely." I regret it, I replied, "but it is not to be wondered at; we must all have our troubles sooner or later." "No, no you are in error,'' he said, my heavy heart don't come from the cause you imagine, i here never was reason why it should; the world don't know all about that, but let it pass; some make me heartless and uoue a saint, and yet to a certain ex tent both may be wrong. But my trouble come from news I heard this morning. Of course you have seen Paulina, the fruit vender?" "I know her," I replied. "You do !" he answered, looking at me sharply. "les, certainly 1 do; who don 17' "I don't," he replied, "I thought I did; but I am confident now that I was mistaken. "Well," I inquired, "what of her ?" "Ocly this. She and her father have disappeared, and without giving me notice of tbeir intention to leave tbe city." "Give you notice! 1 ejaculated with Buch astonistnent that he started, and for a moment seemed abashed. Do you know," be replied, bring' ing bis lips on a level with my ear, and speaking in a whisper, "do vou know that I loved that girl .' " v ery many did, I have no doubt. "Yes," he continued, "perhaps so; but my love was different from them all, for the affection I bore ber came straight from my heart, and never meant her evil. "Perhaps, 1 suggested, "it may prove a good thing tor you that tbe girl has departed, x ears hence you may think so, if you do not now. "I cannot think so," he responded, "else I should not seek ber. "You certainly do not intend any thing like that," I asked. "1 certainly do," he returned, "as soou as I can obtain any definite in formation I will be on the wing." "I am sorry to hear you say so, and hope yon nay have occasion to change your determination. He smiled sadly. "Why should I?" be inquired. "The girl has won my affection. If I do not engage in something active, I shall go road with thinking." As I parted with Gilbert Kenneth I breathed a sincere prayer that he might be spared tbe great foolishness. he meditated. 1 did not meet bira again for several days. When I next saw him his face wore a more tranquil expression, and he seemed to have re gained his wonted careless mood. "I have good news at last," he cried, shaking me vigorously by the hand. "I have got the scent. She went away with Count Mandella. You know the Count, of course ?" "The one who won so heavily at Casseli's?" "The same." "I had no personal acquaintance wijth him, but I have frequently seen bim. But what are you going to do now ?" "Follow as soon as I can hear the route they took." "And when yoo have found them ?" "Take the girl away from bim, or ne did not finish tho sentence, but I understood his meaning. "I trust you will think better of this," I remarked. ' ! '- The following day I again met Ken neth. As soon as he spied me, be ran forward and caught me 1 by the arm. He was very much agitated. His face was flushed, and some of his expressions incoherent. I began to fear he was going crazy. v . . . . -t "All right now,'' he cried. "I leave this evening.. I found it all out by tbe merest accident. Passing along by the Via Gnilia, I stepped into tbe studio of Trufanti, when what should I behold but a portrait of Count Man della. Trufanti was at work. " Hallo,' I said, concealing my emo tion. 'who have you got there ? That ALBANY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1873. face seeuts familiar to me." "'That's a noble gambler, and a uckv one, too,' remarked the painter; it is Count Mandella." " 'True enough.' I renliod. 'but I thought he had left HomeT "'bo he has,' returned the artist. but he paid tor the picture all the same, and is going to have it sent to bim at Venice.' " 'And he has gone to Venice ?' "'So ho said,' replied Trufanti. "Then I bade him good-clay, and now I shall bid you good-by; don't you wish mo good luck l"' les," 1 replied thoughtfully, "1 do." It was not the kind of luck, how ever, that Kenneth would have fan cied. Something more than a year after ward I was in Trieste, when I saw Gilbert Kenneth coming along the street. The wild look of his eyes and nervous agitation convinced me that my former suspicious were correct, the man was of unsound mind. "Hal ha!" ho cried, "how strange that I should meet you here ! Oh I what a history has been mine since I left you at Home." And he proceed ed at once to give me an account of all that befell liiin. "I went direct by steamer," he said. "to Venice. As soon as I got settled at the hotel, I began to make cautions inquiries about Mandella. They told me he lived near the Contarini Pal ace. 1 always supposed oue had to go about the city by water, but I found I could take the narrow streets if 1 wished. It answered my purpose best to choose the latter just then. I soon found lha house, and did my best to get a look into it, but failed. For two weeks I dodged obout to get a good look at Paulina or the Count, without success. One evening, disheartened with my bad luck, I was "landing near the Church of the Barefooted Friars, when a roan passed mo with his face closely muffled. He was not a gen tleman, for bis dress was that of a ser vant. " 'Look here, my fine fellow," I said. 'da you want to make a handful of goldr "The man stopped and listened. " 'I should be willing, signor.' he replied in a hoarse voice. "I told Imn my desire to get a mes- safe to Paulina, and explained lo him the locality of the Count s bouse. "'1 know it full well, signor, he an swered, 'but I expect to be well paid ior this matter. The fellow's voice seemed some what familiar to me, but I never sup posed I had met him before. I gave him a couple of gold pieces and he departed. The next day a boy brought me a message from a gondo lier to come to his landing. I fol lowed the messenger, ami was met by a rough-looking bravo like fellow. who carried me down the canal till we came to the Church of St. Maria del Hosario. He beckoned to ascend the gray stone steps that led up from the water. They are immediately in front of the church. Paulina was there awaiting.. She expressed her self quite willing to leave tbe Count and run away with me, but she must have money. . lo my surprise she told me it was ber father I bad met who conveyed my message. She ask ed my pardon for treating me so shab bily, and she got it, besides a good purse of money. You will perhaps scorn me when I tell you that my life is wrapped up in that false, fair one. I should lie it 1 said to the contrary. Well, I'll make my story short. She ran off one night, and with her father and came to roc on board a vessel that sailed at day break for Trieste. "We were here just two weeks when Emanuel Molini and his daugh ter gave roe the slip again, taking some of my valuables with them. "Do you know what! think? Some thing tells me that Count Mandella knew of her elopement with me all the while, and I shouldn't be surprised if he has been here in l rieste and gone with her on his travels again But I'll find them, and I'll have the girl if it takes every penny I am worth." "Mr. Kenneth," I replied, "surely you don't meditate such an absnrdity? Do you know what your friends will say ? Do you think your conduct that of a sane man r "I am not deranged. Do not think so. I know very well what I am do- inc. I know how weak nnrl triflinop T must seem, but I cannot control my r-i - w. . self. JLhe impulse to follow that girl is irresistible. 1 ity, but do not con deron me, for I love her better than my soul, farewell. We may meet again, I hope, under happier auspices, Farewell." The following day I watched the vessel that bore Gilbert Kenneth sail away. He stood leaning over the taf- frail looking down into the blue sea, We never met after, but I have often thought ol the generous but erring man, who threw away bis honor for fair frailty. ONE'S HAND. It is a profound study. No instru ment devised by man compares with it for complication. It is a hammer, a vice, a forceps, a hook, a spring, weight; it pusben, draws in, and the fingers alone , contain elements of chisels, gouges, and all the tools sculptor requires in modelling. From the elbow .to the 'digital ex tremitiea its movements are produced by nearly nlty muscles. So comph cated is tbe cordage of a human hand, expert anatomists can hardly keep in remembrance its intricate mecnan ism. With it all the emotions of the mind may , be both manifested and intensified. How could a French man talk with bis band tied? The band is the prime minister of the brain. It is the soul's agent in the accomplishment of its designs. : It is a wonder of wonders A Terra Haute base ballist caught a coal oil lamp on the fly, but from the hands of bis lnlnnatcd wife. TIM! DIIIBCT VOTIS FOB PREMIDENT. The proposed Amendment to the Constitution, by which it is intended to abolish the present system of vot ing for President and Vice President through the medium of a College of Electors, and to substitute instead thereof the direct vote of the citizens, will give a far fairer representation to the whole body of tbe people than they at present possess, to say noth ing of the advantages of abolishing the employment of Presidential Elec tors, who, under the present order of things, merely follow the instructions laid down in the party conventions, and vote solely according to order. To prove that the present system is not equitable and just, we have but to show that the four and a half millions of population of the State of New York have no larger representation in the Electoral Collego than considera bly under two millions of population than are contained in nine of the smaller States, from which it is evi dent that every citizen in each of these minor States has, in the choice of tbe President, two and a half times the voting power that is possessed l a citizen of the Empire State, The fol lowing table exhibits the fact pretty plainly : Slnlt. KUctort. papulation. iwH'wam....,.,.,,, is,ui; rvsm.... S to),l Nfvmin a l.Hri Ni-lirnrfkft..... 8 l.'t.sM Itliodn Island........ 4 217,4V! K lor Id n 4 IS7.7W New lUtnpuhlra... 6 nin.) Vermont ...... 5 Jtai.'il Kaliuu ... 6 3h4,mv Total.... New York. ,. 1.7!!l,77l .... Xi Mi,TJ) A comparison of these figures un mistakably indicates that a popular vole will be a far more equitable ex pression of the will of the people than the present cumbrous system, besides which it will be far more dem ocratic in principle. It was original ly the case for Presidential Electors lo bo chosen by the Legislatures in stead of by the people, so that at that time the citizens may almost bo said to have been denied the ballot to fill the highest oflico in the nation, and in which they are interested above all others. The system which we have followed of late has been certainly a step in advance, but it is still unsatis factory, while it is unfair that the more populous States should have such an unequal voice when compared with the lesser ones, Iho smaller States are fully protected in the legis lative braneh of the Government by their equal representation in the Sen ate with the larger States, a safe guard which the Republican have shamefully abused and made available for their purposes by the admission of rotten-borough Mates. The Chief Magistrate of the nation should, above all others, be chosen by a popular vote, and by a fair expression of ibe will of tho entire people. Beyond this, he should only be elected for a single term, so as to be aced above the temptation of seek ing a re-election, and the nation would thus bo enabled to command his ser vices and the impartial administration of bis office. Tbe Constitution of the late Confederacy, which was modelled after that of the United States, con tained this improvement, which expe rience had dictated as being necessa ry, aiid which the framing of a new Constitution offered an opportunity of patting into lorce; tbe tenure of office was, however, extended to six years, an amendment which it might bo ad vantageous to adopt. THE GCARDIAN AN'UEL. There are a thousand little things necessary to tbe general comfort which no one but a mother thinks of doing a thousand such little things which no one ever do just as she does them. You thought it was "Mary who kept the children quiet, but you will find out your mistake u mother goes away, l'oor little things 1 J. bey wander about tbe bouse calling out, " Where s ruotber7 "I want moth erl 'vt by doesn t mother come home?" And then they get into some hitherto unknown mischief, and- do all sorts of wrong things, and make themselves and everybody , around them uncomfortable get their clothes torn and dirty, and their faces, too, and by the fact of their heads being in a state of permanent uncombedness, as to hair, you may know that "moth er" is away from home. And the baby! Did you ever see or hear. of a baby that wouldn't cry all day and all night, too when mother's gone away? ' I dont care if it is the brag baby of the world, and a big two year-old at that, it cannot get along without mother; and it has too much sense to try to do so.. Very, very dreary is the family hearthstone when her place is unfilled 1 Very dismal are the rooms of the bouse hold when she moves not through them with her matronly step and air, unconsciously dispensing cheerful ness and light, and beautifying the humblest duties by the sweet, wo manly way, in which she peforms them. Bear in mind that I speak al ways of the Jiome-moiVier. Howard Olyndon. President and Stockboldeb. Two newsboys, says the Commercial Bul letin, were standing before a cigar store, when one asked the other, " Have you got three cents? "Yes. "Well, I have got ' two cents; give mo your three cents, and I will buy a nvo-center. "Alt right, says No. 2, handing out the money. No. 1 enters tbe store, procures the cigar lights it, and puffs with a great dea! oi sati8tatction. - "oome, now, give us a pull," says No. 2: "I furnished more . than half the money!' know that," says the smoker; "but then I'm president, and you being only a stockholder, you can spit." A Danburian . who was in . New York. Saturday, came up with the wild statement that he had seen hotel clerk with side whiskers.. That is more of a lie than one man should undertake to tell. Hair growing on the cheek of a hotel clerk I 'Scat. WUT WAS THE MOBILIEB STOCK COR RUPT The Hartford Timet, in reply to a correspondent asking for informa tion as to why the holding of the Credit Mobilier stock by Congress' men was corrupt, makes the follow. ing reply which covers the whole ground: 1. The Pacific railroad directors formed themselves into tbe Credit Mobilier Company. The Mobilier office was in the same room with tbe Pacific Kailroad Directors. 2. The Railroad directors con tracted with tbe Mobilier Company to build the road, that is, they in fact contracted with- themselves. 3. Tbe company, of course made a favorable contract. 4. The directors represented to Congress that the Hockey Mountain section was a very uifhcult part of the road to build, when iu fact it was a very easy section, being merely a level plain, with a very slight and gradual rise almost imperceptible, and looking like a dead level for nearly 1,000 miles from the Mis souri River to the Black Ridge: but they got an appropriation for a largely increased sum per mile for that section, knowing that this would add largely to Mobilier profits. 6. JLhey got Congress to appropri ate to tbetn alternate sections of public lands, forty miles in width, through tbe whole line of tbe road laud enough to make ten good siezd States. C. Shey got Congress to loan them sixty-five million of dollars, and to take a first mortgage upon the road, and also to give tbetn outright an average of -about $30,000 per mile for tbe entire road. 7. They then procured an act of Congres giving up tbe first mortgage, which was th ken by their own friends so that they get the money and the road too; the second mortgage being worthless. 8. Ihey also procured an act of Congress forbidding tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury from withholding the pay for carrying mails and Lmted States troops, in order to cover the interest due on the government loan so that tbe government should pay the interest on its own bonds, when tbe railroad company o whom they were loaned should pay it in full to tbe goverment. 0. Tbe Credit Mobilier being own ed or controlled by tbe Pacific Union Raidroad Directors got the benefit of these acts, and when they so liberally distributed their shares on which immense dividends wete paid to Congressmen, the loene of e argument led to the conclusion that some of these extraordinary acts, by which about ninty-five millions of dollars, in gifts and loans, were taken from tbe United States Treasury, were got through by the'' aid t of the Congressmen who received the stock. f rom this brief and general state ment, our correspondent will see why Senator Wilson exclaims, when a prosecution in the courts tbreatenei to expose these transactions, "take back my stock let no suspicion rest upon me;" and why Oakes Ames testifies that "when the McComb suit was brought, there didn't any of them (Congressmen) want to hold the stock." THE EPIZOOTICS. A San Francisco paper of a recent date, has the following, concerning the spread of the raging horse di sease which is sweeping off so many horses. The horse distemper is slowly but surely working its way in this direc tion. It has made its appearance in the State of Nevada, and has been reported for several days in Salt Lake City. We have reason to hope that the mildness of our coast cli mate will rob the disease of ' its ma lignant features; but no effort should be spared on that presumption, to meet and, if possible, overcome it. Stable-Keepers should lose no time in resorting to a free ventilation of tbeir barns, and the adoption of such otber sanitary , regulations as are likely to secure exemption from the disease. Gamaliel Scott, writing from Columbus, Ohio, to the St, Louis Republican, recommends, when a horse is attacked by the distemper, that bis food should be continued as usual; that he should in addition have a handful of flaxseed meal two or three times a week; that he should have plenty of salt, and water placed where he can drink it as often as he pleases; that he should be moderately exercised every day, without wearing a blanket: that he should not stand in open air witnout a blanket, and that in the meantime he should be properly groomed. These atten tions he thinks are sufficient to effect a cure. ! ' The following is said to be an au thentio copy of a circular issued by i commercial firm in Bombay: "Gen tlemen: We have the pleasure to inform you that our respected father .departed this life on the inst. His business, will be continued, by his beloved sons, whose names are stated below. The opium market is quiet, and Malwa 1,500 ra. per chest. Ob, grave, where is thy sting? Oh, death, where is thy victory?', We are yours truly,." , The monument in Greenwood Cemetry, Brooklyn, . to the memory of Alice and Phoebe Cary. has been completed. It is a simple base, with die. cap and ' polished shields of Quincy granite. The memory of third Bister, Mrs. Almira Cary- Swift, is also perpetuated , on the mono ment. . .-" A wretched old bachelor says "After all,- a woman's heart is tbe sweetest thing in the world it's perfect honeycomb full of sells." - Snms nna Vinji uri1v - rfiirtnrVflfl that those who go to law for damages i are sure o ge tuviu. NO. 32 how to cvne a cold. We do not know how we can ever express our gratitude to the Danbnry Newt for ..furnishing us . with a panacea for all the coughs and' lung complaints that we may be subject to this winter. In tbe language of tbe virtuous father of the raelo-drama we can only say : "Heaven bless you my cbe-ildl" Listen to his solid chunks of wisdom : One of our citizens who has been troubled with a severe cold on tbe lungs effected his recovery in tbe following simple manner. He boiled a little bouexet and hoarhound together, and drank freely of tho tea before going to bed. Tbe next day he took five pills, put one kind of plaster . on bis breat, another under . his arms, and still another on his back. Under advice from an experienced old lady he took all these off which an oyster knife in the afternoon, and slapped on a mustard paste instead. His mother put some onion drafts on his feet and gave bim a lump of tar to swallow. Iben be put some bot bricks to bis feet and went to bed. Next morn ing, another old lady came in with a bottle of goose oil, and gave him a dose of it on a quill, and an aunt arrived about tbe same time from Bethel, with a bundle of sweet fern which she made into a tar, and gave bim every half boor until noon, when be took a big dose of salts. After dinner bis wife wbo had seen a fine old lady of great experience in doc toring on f ranklin street,- gave bim two pills of her make, about the siz6 of an English walnut and of similar shape, and two tablespoon fulls of home made balsam to keep them down. Then be took a half pint of bot rum at the suggestion of an old s?a captain in tbe next bouse, and steamed his legs with an alcoholjbath. At this crisis two of tbe neighbors arrived who saw at once that bis blood was out of order, and gave him a half gallon of. spear mint tea, and a big dose of castor oil, Before going to bed he took eight of a new kind of pills, wrapped about bis neck a flannel soaked in hot vinegar and salt, and bad feathers burnt on a shovel in Lis room. He is now thoroughly cured, and full of gratitude, vv e advise our readers to cut this out and keep it where it can be readily found where danger threatens. now THE PEOPLE BOBBED. HATE BEEX It should' be remembered that every cent James w. ratteraon, Vice-President Colfax and their as sociates received from the Credit Mobilier dividends, came directly from lite treasury of the Untied States, and added just so much to tbe debt of the country. It was no "slave holder's rebellion" that made that portion of the debt. It was a raid by Radical office-holders, wbo - stole more than one handred million dol lars of tbe people's money, and for which they are now taxed to pay tbe interest. Tbe $10,000 paid to se cure tbe election of the notorious Harlan to the Senate, added so much to the public debt. Tbe $5,000 paid to secure the election of Senator Thayer, the $3,000 spent by E. H. Rollins in this State in his efforts to secure a senatorship, tbe $23,000 paid to Commissioner Wendall, and the immense sums paid to Congress men and other Radical officials on tbe Pacific Railroad and Credit Mo bilier account, all of which sums came from the United States treasury and go to help make up tbe public debt. It is thus that our rulers have been robbing us. And when some honest soul has complained that tbe burdens of government were un equally borne, and that government bonds ought ta be taxed, these same very loyal office-holders held up their hands in bolv horror and exclaimed. "repudiation 1" "A dig at the public credit 1 " etc, etc. What an outrage it would be to tax the bonds stolen by Oakes Ames, Patterson, Colfax and the rest of them! That would be a violation of the public faith. The farmers and the mechanics should Day the taxes, while thieves and robbers go free I, : What are known as the Sprin, elections in New " York have shown heavy gains in favor of the Demo cratic party. A late number of the Buffalo Courier says: "We have already chronicled the election of the Democratic tickets in ' Palmyra, Wavne county, and Dansville, Liv ingston county. Now - we" have to announce a Democratic victory in the city of Binghamton, Broome county. which has been Republican since its incorporation. Judge Loomis, Dem ocrat. is elected Mayor by twenty seven majority, and the Liberal Republican candidate for Justice is also chosen over his Credit Mobilier competitor. 1 And, still further disnalch from C. C. B. Walker, at Corning, says: 'Steuben county stands by the old flag. Twenty-two Democratic Supervisors elected. The Credit Mobelier elected ten. Demo cratio gain of four. - Ames memo random book is doing the country mora cood than all the shovels he ever made. Colfax's moral tactics are no go here.' In Otsego county, also, -, Urge Democratic gains ; ase shown Unless this nation has reached a ooint of moral degrada tion unknown in the annals of the world, the Credit Mobilier and other investigations must drive from power the men now. occupying high nlftces. and end the career of the Radical party , " ;.'. "What are vou bellowing about?' rriad an irate mother at the foot of the stairs one evening, after her two boys bad been put to bed. "Please mother." said bellowing Bfll,' "Jim wants half Of the bed." "Well, sava she. Viet him have it, and you take the other half." MYes, mother." said Bill, "but he wants to have his half out of the middle, and mate me sleep on both sides of him. r : : Business notices in tbe Local Columns, 2S cents per line, each insertion. Tot legal and transient advertisenepts 12 50 per square of 12 lines, for the first insertion, andfl 00 per square far each subsequeat in sertion, - AIVnat'ITt OF THE 8CB1PTVKE, Few of os ever stop to think bow old tbe Bible is. Yet "the Scrip tures are believed by candid critics to contain the most ancient forms' of truth now known to men." With tha aid of chronological tables any one may easily make profitable compari sons between the antiquity of the books and that of other writings and events. The Scriptures contains tho only authentic history of the world before the flood. We find in th Pentateuch one or two stanzas of poetry' composed in tbe antediluv ian period. Tbe Hebrew statutes were rnncted a thousand years be fore J utinian reformed the Roman jurisprudence. In tbe Bible we have . tbe record of chartered rights secured to tbe people more than two thous and years before tbe Slana Charter. What a sensation would be produced if tbe first chapter of Genesis should appear for the first time in one of be newspapers tomorrow. Yet there can be no doubt that chapter contains tbe oldest writing twenty five hundred years before the inven tion of printing. Xenophon's record of the conversations of Socrates; in his Memorabili, were discussed in Ecclesiastes six hundred years be- fore. The works of Tacitus, Plu tarch and Qointilian are not modern, . l ,1 . i I. 1 rv . . i jet lue uuoit in luc new j.culucu(. are older than they. As to tbe book, of Job, its age is beyond conjecture, Those wbo make it as modern as they can are compelled to place its origin at least one thousand years before . Homer. When Priam was King of Troy, Job was of remote antiquity. The same of Alexander has no modern sound for us, yet when Alexander invaded Syria the book of Job might have been read before him as the work of an author more timehonored then than the name of Alexander is now. Tbe writings of Confucius are modern when com pared with the most of tbe Bible, and the most that tbe Hindoos can justly claim for tbeir sacred books, tbe Vedas, is that tbey were written five hundred years after the death of Moses. The Koran is fresh from the press compared with the Scriptures. Dr. Upson. ' , a PLEASAAT IDEA. There are no more admirable pictures in history than Cincinnatus going from the plow to the dictator ship, and Marion welcoiniug the English emissaries to his dinner of roasted potatoes. What would Marion have though could be htve foreseen that wituia a century the President of the American Republic would declare himself nnable to live on $25,000 a year and free lodgings? Yet. remarks the New York bun, this is tbe picture now presented for the consideration of American tax-pavers. Theoretically tbe President is but the equal of the humblest citizen of the united States. Ibe great ma jority of the people are living on less than $1,000 a year. uny cannot tbe elected head of tbe nation manage to get along comfortable on twenty-five times that amount? The tendency of wages in ordinary life is downward instead of upward. It is true that many of tbe sub ordinate officers of the Government are paid at low rates; or, to speak more correct, tbeir pay would be but a pittance for men competent to perform their duties. But as yet T. i i j : 1 1 mere naa never ueeu auy uimcuiijr m finding persons ready to take any place that becomes vacant But the President's salary is large. It is more thau triple the compensa tion allowed the Governor of the Golden State - of California, more than five times the salary, of the executive officer of this grat Com monwealth, and twentv fave times the yearly stipend of the Governor of Rhode Island, comparatively the richest State iu the Union. The idea that the nation is served for honor and not for mere money is a pleasant one. It is still lingering in many minds. - Perhaps it should not be too rudely dispelled. WHAT A BOT KNOWS ABO IT GIRLS. Girls are the roost unaccountablest things in tbe world except women. Like the wicked flea, when you have them they ain't there. I can cipher clean over the improper fractions, and the teacher says I do it first-rate; but I cant cipher out a girl, proper or im proper, and you can't either. The only rule in arithmetic that hits their case is the double rnle of two. They are as full of old Nick as their skin can hold, and tbey would die if tbey couldn't torment somebody. When they try to be mean they are as mean as pusley, though tbey ain't so mean as they let on, except somtimes, and then they are a good deal meaner. The only way to get along with a girl when she comes to you" with her nonsense, is to give her tit for tat, and that will fluramix ber, aud when you get a girl flluniraixed she is as nice as a new pin. A girl can sow more wild oats in a day than a boy cau sow in a year, but girls get their wild oats sowed after a while, boys never . do, and then tbey settle down as calm and placid as a reud-puddle. But 1 like girls first : rate, and I gness tha boys all do. I don't care how many tricks they play on me, and they dou't care either. The boitytoityst girls in the world can alwavs bo:l over like a glass of soda. ' By-and-by they get into the traces with somebody they like, and pull as steady as an old stage horse. That is the beauty of them. -So let thera waye, I say; they will pay for it some day, sewing on but tons and trying to makes dcent man of the fellow tbey have spliced on to, and ten chances to w e if ' they don't get the worst of it. : r ' Ttxcax CcniprrKrr. A resident of Kalamazoo writes to a school board in Ohio that he will take a school, as he has, Vtought 2 terms school, and I attended 1 collage 4 yrs at detroit, jnichigan, and am 5 yrt aTage."