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CORVALLIS, - - FEBRUARY 20, 18X0
IF YOU LOVE ME, TELL ME SO.
If jou love uoe tell me so;
1 have read It In your eyes,
J have beard It lu your sigh,
But my woman's heart replies,
"If you love me, tell me so.''
Should T give you. yes or no?
Nay, a girl may not confess
That her answer would be 'yes,"
To such questioning, unless
He who loves her (old her so.
Tl you love roe, tell roe so;
Love gives Ktrc nath to watcb aud wait.
Trust gives heart for any fate;
Poor or rich, uu known or great
If you love me, tell me so.
Rebel March on Washington.
At night on the 8th of July, 1864, 1
was directed to report in person to Gen.
Early. I found him on the roadside just
south of Midrtletown,and he then inform
ed me that he had received an order from
General Lee by a special officer dispatch
ed to him for the purpose. I was direct
ed to march at daylight of the 9th to get
a position to the north of Frederick, and
watch Early's left until I was satisfied
that he was getting on all right in the
battle about to take place that day below
Frederick, and then strike off across the
country, cutting the railroads and tele
graphs north of Baltimore, sweep rapidly
round the city, cut the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad between Washington and
Baltimore, and push on rapidly so as to
strike Point Lookout on the night ol the
12th. Captain John Taylor Wood was to
be there in an armed steamer which he
was to run out of Wilmington. We were
to capture the place. I was to take com
mand of the prisoners there, some 10,000
or 12,000, and march them up through
lower Maryland to Washington, where
Gen. Early was to wait for me. The
prisoners were to be armed and equipped
from the arsenals and Magazines of Wash
ington. Thus reinforced, Early's cam
paign might be still further aggressive.
I told Gen. Early that the march laid
out for me was utterly impossiblefor
man or horse to accomplish. It gave me
four days to encompass nearly 300 miles,
not counting for time lost in destroying
bridges and railroads, but that I would
do what was possible for men to do.
Accordingly I started from Hagan's, on
the Catoctin mountains, about daylight
--u the iorn-'g of July 9, 1864, moved
across to Wo.maj smill, on the old Lib
erty road, two miles north of Frederick,
and waited until I was satisfied that Ear
ly's left flank was free. I moved through
Liberty, New Windsor, Westminster and
Reistertown, reaching Cockeysville, on
the Northern Central Railroad, about 9
o'clock on Sunday morning, the 10th of
May, and burned the bridges there. Here
I detached Col. Harry Gilmore, under
Gen. Early's instructions, with part of
the first and second Maryland battalions,
to strike the railroad bridge at Gunpow
der river, on the Philadelphia, Wilming
ton and Baltimore Railroad, and destroy
communication between Baltimore and
the North. This Gilmore accomplished
the next morning, Monday, July 11th,
and capturing several trains going north
from Baltimore, took prisoner Major
General Franklin, of the United States
Army. That night General Franklin es
caped from the guard who had him in
charge, and who were utterly broken
down by 60 hours' continuous ride.
I was occupied several hours at Cock
eyville, and while there dispatched a
faithful friend into Baltimore to ascer
tain the condition of the troops and forces
available for the defense of Washington.
Early had defeated Wallace at Monocacy
the day before, and I knew he was going
to pnsh into the capital if practicable.
After getting an agreeable lunch at Hay
field, the seat of John Merryman, 1 left
two young gentlemen there to get the re
port from lay Baltimore scout and bring
it to me as soon as possible. The charm
ing society, the lovely girls, the balmy
July air, and the luxuriant verdure of
Hayfield, all combined to make the scene
enchanting to soldiers who had been
campaigning for months in the battle
scarred plains and valleys of Virginia.
From there I moved across the Green
Spring Valley, in Baltimore county, and
passing near the CDuntry residence of the
then Governor of Maryland Augustus
W. Bradford I detailed Lieut. Black
stone, of the Maryland cavalry, to burn
it, in retalliation for the burning of the
home of Governor Fletcher, of Virginia,
which had been destroyed by Gen. Hunter
at Lexington, under circumstances of je
culiar brutality. I bivonaked that night at
TheCaves,the place of Jno. Carroll. About
midnight I received a message by the
two couriers left at Hayfield from the
gantleman whom I had sent into Balti
more. He informed me that all the
available transportation of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad was concentrated at Lo
cust Point; that the Nineteenth Corps of
Grant's army, under General Emory,
and part of the Sixth Corps were in
transports in the stream waiting for the
arrival of General Emory to disembark
and move to Washington. I at once
sent this information to General Early
by an officer and escort and moved on.
Passing Owen's mill early in the morn
ing we came across Painter's ice cream
establishment, which had a large supply
of that luxury for the Baltimore market.
As rations were scarce and issued with
great irregularity, the ice cream was
confiscated and issued to the troops,
many of whom had never seen anything
like it. The mountaineers thought the
"beer" was nice, but too cold, so they
put it in their canteens to melt.
Pushing on, we crossed the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad above Woodstock, and
passed by Doughegan manor, the seat of
John Lee Carroll, now .Governor of
Maryland, with whom I had the pleasure
of lunching. During the afternoon of
that day (Monday, June 11th). I dis
patched another courier to General
Early by a trusty soldier, guided by a
son of a friend , who undertook to show
him the way across the country. After
the battle of Monocacy, fought' between
Early and Lew Wallace on Saturday, the
9th, the former had marched direct on
Washington. His advance arrived be
fore the fortifications of that place on the
morning of the 11th, but owing to the
heat of the weather and the broken
down condition of the troops, the column
was not closed up and in position before
late in the evening of that day. It was
then impossible to put the men into a
fight, and the attack was postponed un
til the next morning (the 12th) at day
light. Troops of the enemy were plainly
in sipht, filing into the works on the
Seventh street rood to the right and left,
and skirmishers were thrown out in
front, while an artillery fire was opened
on the Confederates from a number of
batteries (Early's Last Year of the War,
page 57.) "Under these circumstances,"
says General Early, "to have rnshed my
men blindly against the fortifications,
without understanding the state of
things, would have been more than j
folly" (page 58.) After consultation
with Major-Genorals Breckinridge,
Rhodes, Gordon and Ramseur, he deter
mined to make an assault on the enemy's
works at daylight next morning, unless
some information should be received be
fore then showing its impracticability,
and he so informed these officers. "Dur
ing the night a dispatch was received
from General Bradley Johnson, from
near Baltimore, informing me that he
had received information from a reliable
source that two corps had arrived from
General Grant's army, and that his
whole army was jn-obably in motion.
This caused me to delay the attack until
I could examine the works again, and as
soon as it was light enough to see, I rode
to the front and found the parapets lined
with troops. I had, therefore, reluct
antly to give up all hopes of capturing
Washington, after I hadarrived in sight
of the dome of the Capitol and given the
Federal authorities a terrible fright."
The preservation of Washington from
capture was owing more to the energy
and decision of John Garrett, President
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany, than any merit of the military
authorities. Mr. Garrett's railroad tele
graph had kept him thoroughly informed
as to the movements in W'estern Mary
land. He had perceived as early as the
Thursday or Friday before, that Early
hod crossed the Potomac in force, and
that his real object was Washington. He
had impressed his views personally upon
Mr. Lincoln, and the Secretary of War,
Stanton, and insisted on the necessity
of fighting a battle at Frederick, in order
to gain time for troops to be got np for
the defense of the city, or, failing in that,
that preparations could le made for its
evacuation. Accordingly, when the bat
tle of Monocacy was fought on Saturday,
and he found Early in full march south
ward, he immediately prepared the trans
portation on his road to receive the rein
forcements, which he was informed would
arrive the next day at Locust Point. Du
ring Saturday the fleet of transports
from Fortress Monroe, with the Nine
teenth and Sixth corps, began to arrive,
but the officer in command refused to
land any troops until General Emory
should arrive. After striving in vain to
start the disembarkation, Mr. Garrett
proceeded to Washington on a special en
gine, and so impressed the Secretary of
War that he brought back with him an
order to the senior officer of the troops
on the transports to report to him until
Gen. Emory should arrive. During
Sunday night and Monday, Garrett, was
actually in command of two anny corps,
pressed the reinforcements on his cars,
and hurried them to Washington. Early
saw their advance filing into the works
on Monday afternoon, and the rest of
them lining the parapets on Tuesday at
daylight.
While these events were taking place I
was pressing in hot haste through How
ard and Montgomery counties. I reached
Triadelphia after nine o'clock that night,
and unsaddled and fed my horses and let
the men get a little sleep, By 12 o'clock
I received information that n large force
of Federal cavalry had gone into camp
since my arrival at Brookville, only a
few miles off. I at once got ready and
started to attack them, but on reaching
that point found that they, too, had in
formation of their unwelcome neighbors
and had left. Thence I moved to Belts
ville, on the railroad between Baltimore,
and Washington. There I found about
one thousand cavalry of Wilson's divis
which had been dismounted in a recent
raid in lower Virginia and sent North to
recuperate. They were mounted on
green horses and we drove them, after a
short affair, down the road toward Bla-
denberg. It was now the morning of
Tuesday the 12th. I was due that night
at Point Lookout, the extreme southeast
point of Maryland, in St. Mary s county-
It was phvsically impossible for the men
to make the ridge in the time designated
I determined, however, to come as near
it as possible. I sent an officer with a
detachment to ride at speed through the
country, impressing fresh horses all the
way, and inform the people along the
route that I was coming. They were
unanimously my friends, and I requested
them to have their horses along the road
side so that I could exchange my broken
down animals for ther fresh ones, and
thus borrow them for the occasion. Du
ring the preceeding day I had been tak
ing fresh horses by flankers on each side
of my column, and kept a supply of
fresh ones at the rear of each regiment
As soon as a man's hofse broke down he
fell out of the ranks, walked until the
rear of his regiment came up, got a fresh
horse, left his old one, and resumed his
place. By this means I was enabled to
march at a trot, which with a cavalry
column is impossible for any length of
time without breaking down horses and
broken down horses speedily breakdown
men. With fresh horses, however, I
hoped to make a rapid march, and get to
Point Lookout early on the morning of
of the 13th.
After returning from the pursuit of
Wilson s cavalry 1 turned the head of the
column toward Upper Marlboro', arid
had proceeded only a short way when I
was overtaken by a courier from General
Early. He brought me orders to report
at once to head quarters at Silver Spring
on the Seventh -street road. I moved
down the Washington road to Agricult
ural College, and thence along the line
of the Federal pickets, marching all
night, occasionally driving in a picket,
and expecting at any moment to be fired
upon from the works within range of
which I was moving. I reported to Gen
eral Early after midnight and found the
whole army in retreat. I was directed
to close up the rear, with Jackson's cav
alry brigade behind me. We reached
Rockville during the day, where Jack
son was pushed by the Second Massachu
setts Cavalry, who hung on his rear and
rendered things very uncomfortably gen
erally. Finding matters getting disagree
able, I put in a squadron of the First
Maryland, under Captain Wilson G.
Nicholas and Lieutenant Thomas Grew,
and charged into the town, scattering our
pursuers, who got out of the way with
expedition. Their dismounted men,
however, stuck to the houses and poured
in a galling fire. The dust was so thick
that in the charge the men could not see
the house in front of them. The horses
of Nicholas and Crew were killed and
their riders wounded and taken prison
ers. As soon as this loss was discovered
I put in another charge and recaptured
Grew, but was unable to retake Nicho
las, who they had mounted on a spare
horse and run off the field.
During the rest of the 13th our pursu
ers treated us with more respect. All
night long we marched and stopped and
stopped and marched, with that terrible
tedious delay and iteration so wearing to
men and horses, and it was not nntil
Thursday, the 14th, we reached Pools
ville. Here we were obliged to stand
and keep back the pursuit, while the in
fantry and artillery were passing over the
Potomac. I got my artillery in position
and deployed a strong skirmish line in I
front of Poolesville and checked the !
enemy for several hours, At last, in the
afternoon, a wide line of skirmishers
could be seen stretching far lteyond each
end of those we had been ngaged with,
and which moved steadily forward with a
steady alignment, very unusual for dis
mounted cavalry. I sent for General
Ramseur to come up to my position, that
the infantry had arrived, and that it was
about time for cavalry to leave. He soon
joined me, and while we were looking at
the advancing line through our glasses,
which showed their cartridge boxes and
canteens plainly puff! puff! puff! went
their fire all along the line. There was
no mistaking the sound. The swish of
the Minie ball was so clear and so evi
dent that it could not possibly come from
carbines. We held on, nevertheless,
making a great show with our artillery
and repeated attempts to charge them
with cavalry, so that we delayed them un
til their supports could deploy. By this
time, however, the enemy had becjine
far advanced, and having been notified
that everything, including my own bag
gage and ordnance train, had crossed, I
withdrew comfortably and got into Vir
ginia about sundown. We had been
marching, working and fighting from
daylight, July 9th, until sundown, July
11th, 4 days, or 108 honrs. We had
unsaddled only swice during that time,
with a halt of from four t i five hours
each time, making nearly a hundred
hours of marching. We had isolated
Baltimore from the North, and cut off
Washington from the United States, hav
ing made a circuit from Frederick to
Cockeysville to the east, to Beltsville on
the south, and through Rockville and
Poolesville toward the west. We had
failed in the main object of the expedi
tion, which was to release the prisoners
at Point Lookout, convert them into a
new army, capture Washington, estab
lish our communications across the Poto
mac by Manassas Junction, with Gor
donsville and Richmond, and by making
this a new base of operations force Grant
to let go his hold and come to the rescue
of Pennsylvania.
I have always considered the move
ment one the audacity of which was its
safety, and that no higher military skill
was displayed on either side than that
shown by General Early in this daring
attempt to surprise the Capital of his
enemv with so small a force. General
Bradley T.Johnson in Philadelphia Times
A Female Demon. A female demon
of Rockland county and her ingenious
modes of child-torture are described m
the Nyac Journal. Three years ago a
consumptive- motheiriiving in Third ave
nue near Eighty-second street gave her
six-year old daughter, named Josephine
Hylinder, who is described as a girl of
unusual intelligence, into the hands of
this woman. The father went to Califor
nia, and the mother died within a year.
The guardian began her cruelties imme
diately thereafter. When it ceased to be
an amusement to blacken the face of an
ignorant servant and send her into the
room of the little girl, in the middle of
the night, to inspire terror, she would tie
the child to the bed-post, whip her with
thorns, and then bathe her bleeding
back with salt and vinegar. Occa
sionally she would make the child
pass the night on her feet, with
her arms tied to the back of a chair, but
more frequently her hands would be tied
behind her, and she would be given a
bed of a couple of pillows and a blanket
on the floor. On one occasion red pep
per was rubbed in her mouth as a pun
ishment for talking. She carried a
scar on her right cheek as a
record of the first whipping she re
ceived after her mother's death. The last
was to have been inflicted on December
16th, when she was sent np-stairs to un
dress herself, the woman promising to
"whip her till the blood ran down her
legs." Before her tormentor went up
stairs, the child jumped out of a second
story window, this being the only means
of escape, and after lying for a time un
conscious on the ground, fled into the
woods. She was almost without cloth
ing and covered herself with leaves, but
in the evening was driven by the cold to
seek shelter in a neighbor's barn. Here
she was discovered, and has since been
kindly cared for, while her guardian,
who narrowly escaped a coat of tar and
feathers, is now awaiting trial at the
February term of court at New City.
A Strange Freak of the Great Na
poleon. About two months after his
marriage to Marie Louise, Napoleon in
si8ted upon Metternich having some pri
vate conversation with her. The next
morning he repaired to the Tulleries.
He found Napoleon with the Empress.
The conversation ran on ordinary topics,
when Napoleon said to me: "I wish the
Empress to speak openly to you, and
confide to you what she thinks of her
position. You are her friend. She should
have no secrets from you." At the end
of this speech, Napoleon closed the door
of the room, put the key in his pocket,
and disappeared by another door. I in
quired of the Empress what was the
meaning of this scene. She addressed
the same question to me. Seeing that
8he had not been prepared by Napoleon,
I guessed that he wished to enable me to
receive from the mouth of the Empress
herself satisfactory ideas of her domestic
relations, in order that I might give a
favorable account to her father, the Em
peror. The Empress was of the same
opinion. We were together for more
than an hour. Then Napoleon came
back smiling. " Well," said he to us,
"have yon had a good talk ? - Has the
Empress said mnch ill of me ? "
One of the steamers that plowed the
waters of- the Mississippi in days gone
by, a quiet party was deeply immersed
one evening in the mysteries of that
somewhat uncertain game called poker.
One of the party, a Colonel, or Judge, or
Major history does not recard whieh
in a fit of abstraction, took four aces
from the pack with which the game was
being played and laid them on his knee.
The game progressed, and the Colonel
almost "raised" his antagonists out of
their boots. When the "draw" came he
threw away his legitimate five cards,
called for one, and reached for the four
aces on his knee. They were gone!
Rising he cried in tones of virtuous
indignation; "Gentlemen, this thing has
gone far enough. There's cheating
going on around this table!
There is a Baptist minister down in
Georgia, who is evidently a sincere
teacher. He has five churches under his
care, and on Sunday has to preach from
6 a. m. to 10 p. m. During six days of the
week he goer, into tl e forest and chops
wood for a living. " a , ;
'John," said a doting parent to her
gormandizing son, "do you really think
that you can eat the whole of that pud
ding with impunity?" "I don't know,
marm," replied the young hopeful, "but
I can with a spoon."
May Jurors Eat and Drink J
Apropos of the jury drinking during
the trial of the seven bishoys, it is stated
in 1 Inst. 227, that "when the evidence
is given the jury are to be kept together
till they bring in their verdict, without
meat or drink, fire or candle, otherwise
than with leave of the court who may give
then leave to eat or drink at the bar, but
not out of court. If jurymen, after being
sworn, either before or after they are
agreed of the verdict, eat and drink, the
verdict may be good but they are finable;
but if it be at the charge of either parties
the verdict is void. Old Dyer mentions
a case where the judge was informed that
the jury had eaten food after they had
retired, and he found that they hod had
some "pippins," of which some confessed
that they had eaten, but others said they
had not. His lordship severely repri
manded them all, and fined those who
had eaten twelve shillings each, "for
that they had them (i. e., the apples) in
their pockets." In Hilary Term, 6
Henry VII. it appeared by a motion in
the Court of Queen's Bench that in a
case tried before Lord Chief Justice
Reed, the jury, after being locked up
and before giving their verdict, had
eaten and drank. The Chief Justice
fined them heavily ,but took their verdict.
An application was made in term to set
aside the verdict for irregularity, the jury
having eaten when they ought to have
fasted ; and another motion was made to
have the fines inflicted upon the jurors
remitted. The "twelve good men and
tiue" said that they had- all made up
their minds before they ate, and return
ing into Court to deliver their verdict,
found that the Lord Chief Justice had
run out -to see a fray; thereupon, not
knowing when the Judge would return,
they had eaten refreshments. The Court
held the fines to have been properly
inflicted, but did not disturb the ver
dict. In Iowa, lately, it was decided that the
drinking of two glasses of beer by a
juror, pending trial, after the adjourn
ment of the Court, and eleven hours be
fore another session, did not vitiate the
verdict; nor does the taking, by a juror,
during the trial, of a small quantity of
intoxicating liquor for medical purposes,
at night, afford grounds for a new trial.
And in other States the taking of
spirituous refreshments is not of itself
sufficient ground for setting aside a ver
dict, nor even though the drinking was
in a saloon and with the Sheriff. Al
though if a juror takes the liquor at the
invitation and at the expanse of the
party who afterwards gets the verdict, or
at his own expense drinks so much that
he does not know what he is about, a new
trial will be granted. Albany Law
Journal.
When Were Trousers First Worn
in England ? It is generally known to
us middle-aged men, by "tradition,"
that breeches began to give place to
trousers during the first decade of the
present century, but it is not generally
known that the trousers were actually
worn by London exquisites in the latter
years of the last century. "It will be
observed," says a writer in Arliss's Pocket
Magazine of Classic and Polite Litera
ture, New Series, Volume 3, 1825, "from
the following description of a dandy,
published in 1791, that trousers were
then in fashion, and were considered as
a ridiculous article of dress: 'Advertise
ment Extraordinary! Lost, last Satur
day night, supposed in the lobby of the
new theater, an overgrown Baby, who
arrived but two days ago in town, from
the country. He hod on a light colored
coat with cape hanging carelessly over
his shoulder; a pair of his father's
breeches, which reach down to his
ankles; and an old pair of his grand
mamma's spectacles, which he converted
into an opera glass. He had on his sis
ter's high-crowned hat, and his hair cut
so short that you might observe his bare
poll. Laughs a great deal; can swear a
few fashionable oaths, but does not
know how to write his name. Answers
to the name of Master Jackey. As he
had only sixpence a week pocket money,
it is feared he is detained in some cake
Turkish Manners. Neim, who sat op
posite me, after helping me to some
chicken broth, highlv flavored with oil
and cinnamon, suddenly helped himself
to a few spoonfuls, which he ate with a
great deal of noise and hp-smacking, and
then he suddenly proceeded to fill up my
plate with the same spoon. I was quite
aghast. It was the same thing
throughout the dinner. Though he had
plates, spoons and all the table neces
saries, Neim had a wooden ladle for him
self, and he not only helped up with this
but used it for his own eating, putting it
back into the dishes at every mouthful.
The chicken he divided with his fingers,
sucking them well afterward ; and finally
seizing my husband's tumbler, drank it
off, called for more water, filled it up
again, and gravely handed it back to
him. But, in truth, even the
educated Turks have not the least
delicacy in eating. Unacquainted with
usages of good society, they cannot un
derstand our objections to their man
ners. Our Home in Cyprus Mrs.
Stevenson.
Practical Good Sense in Birds. A
curious illustration of the practical good
sense and ingennity of some among our
British birds is reported by a railway en
gine driver on one of the northern lines.
He has noticed that certain hawks of the
merlin or "stone-falcon" species make
use of the passing of the trains for pred
atory purposes. These creatures are not
larger than blackbirds, but are very bold,
swift and powerful, and in the days of
falconry were famous hunters of wood
pigeons and partridges, which they
would kill by a single stroke on the neck.
It appears that, having laid their wise
little heads together, they came to the
conclusion that the railway trains might
be made available for them as well as for
the tyrant man; so they hit upon the fol
lowing aevice: rney ny close behind
the train, near the ground, partly hidden
by the smoke, but carefully watching for
the small birds which, frightened by the
train as it rnshes roaring past, fly up in
bewildered shoals. The merlins then,
while the little birds are thinking more
of the train than lurking foes, swoop on
them from the ambush of the smoke, and
strike them down with ease. If they
miss, they return to the wake of the car
riages and resume their flight and their
hunt. They can, it seems, easily keep
pace with an express train, and outstrip
it when, they please. Who put the mer
lins np to thir clever little plan for
making the "Flying Scotchman" a me
chanical pointer for starting their game,
no one can tell; but the fact that these
birds utter a very harsh scream doubtless
formed a point of attraction between
them and the engine. London Tele
graph. To Clean Brusaes and Combs. Pour
a little spirits of ammonia on the brush
and rub the comb through the bristles;
then rinse in water. ' ,- .
OUR INSANE ASYLUM.
From the Portland Telegram.
But a short distance from this city ex
ists -an establishment which contains
more of human woe and misery than
could be written in a lifetime. It is the
Oregon asylum for the idiotic and in
sane, and under the careful management
P T TT 11. i a -
oi ur. nawmorne; is a mouei ot good or
der and cleanliness, or at least as nearly
as an institution of this kind can be.
Thinking a brief description of it would
prove interesting to our readers, who
may have a dread for such a place and
would not visit it, we have gone through
the various wards and will give in brief
a portion of what we saw and heard.
On Saturday last, by invitation, we
crossed the river and walked over to the
House of Lamentation. The buildings
are beautifully located, the grounds
ornamented with trees and shrubbery,
the a proach for the time being banish
ing that queer feeling which involun
tarily rises in ones breast. We were
met at the western entrance by Mr
Beatty, first attendant, who has spent
the greater portion of his time in such
an institution, to whom we stated the ob
ject of our visit. He very kindly
invited us inside,
And we started on our tour. The dining
hall of the first ward is a light, cheerful
and airy room, as in fact every room
about the building is, except the cellar,
the walls ornamented with bright-colored
pictures. The long tables were spread
for supper and very much resembled the
dining-room of our city hotels. livery
thing was as neat and clean as an old
maid 8 pinatore. We parsed on through
into the ward where the convalescents
were assembled. They all spoke pleas
antly as we passed and seemed very
cheerful and contented. The general
appearance was good, all being well
dressed and orderly. The floors were as
bright and clean as if freshly waxed
Throwing open a door, and by the way
we will remark that not a door within
reach of the inmates can boast of knobs,
they are unlocked aud opened with the
key) we emerged into the second ward
diuing-hall, which was the counterpart
ot the one first entered. The Wards are
the same also, having a hall about twelve
feet wide down the center, with a cross
hall at the end the same width. On
either side were the rooms containing
comfortable beds, while in each ward, as
in every part of the building, hose are at
hand ready to be attached to larsre pipes
and put into use
IN CASE OP CONFLAGRATION.
The stoves must be very violent about
the Asylum, as they are all put in iron
cages and securely locked. We had
grown to feel rather at home than other
wise, until our guide, as he opened a
door, says, quietly, "This is the worst
ward many of whom are incurable, and
some frequently rave. We timidly re
marked, "Don't 1st them rave until we
get out, as it would be more fun to watch
them from the outside. We entered and
the first person we met was Judge Rey
nolds of Canyon City. He was compar
atively quit, but he possessed the grip
of a dredging scoop as he- shook hands.
We were pleased to see him, but not so
emphatic. The crowd were assembled in
the Hall intersections, listening to the
Patriarch of the World and Jesus Christ
talking politics. They were discussing
the intellect of Jackson and Henry Clay,
and their audience, while looking at
them, kept up strange movements pecu
liar to insanity. We never was a poli
tician and took not half so much interest
in the discussion as we did to keep close
to the heels of Mr. Beatty, and our
weather-eye scanning the horizon. We
breathed free and became very talkative
when the door opened to let us out, be
fore one of them could get a rave in on
us. Next we came to the Women's Wards.
In the first and second all was quiet and
orderly, many of them being engaged in
sewing, knitting, tatting, etc., and chat
ted gaily with each other. Some, how
ever, were sitting idly by, nursing their
sorrow in silence, We missed one in
mate from the second ward, and that was
CHARITY LAMB.
In early days she murdered her hus
band by splitting his head open with an
axe. She served years in the Peniten
tiary and was at length sent to the Asy
lum, where she died last fall by a stroke
of apoplexy. She imagined she was a
serpent and kept up a continual hissing.
She was a very beautiful woman, having
hair and eyes as black as night and com
plexion as pure as alabaster. The dining
halls of these wards are the same as those
described, only more handsomely orna
mented by the handiwork of the ladies.
The halls and neat white beds are also
more homelike and comfortable. Having
chatted pleasantly with a number and re
ceived invitations to "caU again," we
were conducted to the most repulsive
ward in the building, being the one for
incurable and idiotic women. The scenes
we beheld during our brief stay will
long be remembered, and could we trans
fer them to these columns we would hes
itate. Upon one end of a rough bench,
(things in this ward are made more for
strength than elegance , sat two young
women in each others arms, with cheeks
pressed together and weeping as if their
hearts would break. Another unfortu
nate wailed continually as she walked,
"Oh, for God's sake, won't somebody
help me as well as her! " This is thz
burden of her song
From morn till night and almost from
night till noon. Still another sat in a
stooping position rocking herself furi
ously and cursing between her clenched
teeth On the opposite side sat half a
dozen more women indulging in idiotic
gibberish and seemingly so well tickled
they were about to fly to pieces. A
dozen more, some perfectly helpless
made up the occupants of this ward, who
are cared for by two lady attendants,
there being male and female attendants
in every ward constantly. We had seen
enough and when the door closed behind
us we tried in vain to banish the scenes
from our memory. I were better a hun
dred times over if they were dead and it
would be a charity should the Divine
Master
CALL THEM HENCE.
We visited the laundry, bake shop, en
gine room, etc., where everything is al
ways neat, clean and in order. The
bread which was being turned out in the
bakery, white, brown and corn bread
was superior in quality to that used by
one-half the people of this city. The lit
tle chapel where entertainments and
dances are given the inmates who con-
duct themselves properly, every week,
was neat and in good order. The yard
for the male inmates is large and sunny,
uiat is where the sun strikes, while the
one set apart for the ladies is much
smaller and directlv east of the central
building. There are at present
two hundred and seventy patients
In the asylum, eighty of. whom are
temales. Having taken in the whole es
tablishment, til A lii.!inrntrw unl all tiro
were conducted to the physician's office
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n-iiiuiy gave us tne iouowing tacts in re
lation to the queer ideas and delusions of
some of the inmates:
JESUS CHBIST.
This individual, not the one referred
to in the Good Book, is a peculiar genius.
During the recent gale he danced and
howled for joy saying that he was causing
the storm to sweep the world to let it
know his power. He was going to give
it to them stronger still if the people did
not hearken to his teaching. He would
show them who ruled the universe, him
or Dr. Hawthorne. He has been an in
mate for years but is not violent at any
time, yet he frequently gets a little loud.
On Christmas day a turkey dinner is al
ways served , which he claims is in honor
of his birthday and he is correspond
ingly jubilant.
THE PATRIARCH.
One man proclaims himself as the
Patriarch of the World, and demands
that he be honored and obeyed in all his
proclamations. He insists that his com
mission arrived two years ago and that it
is awaiting his order at Wells, Fargo &
Co.'s in this city together with his salary
of $100,000. He is not violent yet is very
arbitrary as he argues his high commis
sion ent'tles him to respect and ohedi
ence from the common herd of the world
A PIONEER.
One poor, simple old fellow claims
that he is 1,500 years old, and from the
color of his complexion we must concede
that he is Ham, or has some relation with
ham, as he works into the kitchen. He
assisted in building the ark, and loading
it, and from this we presume Ham was a
'longshoreman and Stevedore. After this
job was completed he went to New York,
where he worked 500 years making big
fiddles, therefore Warn was also a tiddler
which fact is nowhere found in history
Since that time, the fiddle business hav
ing caved in, he has been a wanderer on
the face of the earth; therefore, lastly, we
must conclude that Ham is the Wander
ing Jew.
A BILLIONAIRE.
Another individual is the possessor of
untold millions, and is always negotiat
ing a loan with some of the powers of
Europe, for amounts beyond computa
tion. He carries a number of papers
which are covered with figures represent
ing the amount in round numbers he is
worth in gold. He gives checks on Ladd
& Tilton for $5,000 to buy himself a
neck-tie, and fabulous amounts to pur
chase horses, coaches, pay his servants
etc., with. He is happy in his hallnctn
ation.
OTHER INDIVIDUALS.
One thinks he owns the land on which
the asylum stands, and whenever work
men are engaged to make improvements
he orders their arrest; another owns five
miles square, and is going to build a
block of brick buildings that size; still
another imagines he is sowing wheat and
keeps up the motion without intermis
sion except when asleep; another owns a
great many ships and inquires daily
about their arrival; another man claims
Dr. Josephi poisoned his wife, and is
frequently .very troublesome; another
imagines that Dr. Hawthorne has done
him great injury, and while his hands
were strapped a few days since ran and
butted the Doctor in the back, almost
sending him to grass. We might go on
and fill an entire page of the Telegram
with descriptions of these queer vaga
ries, but the above are all sufficient to
satisfy our readers for the present. The
patients have the best of care, are exam
ined daily by the corps of physicians,
and are as happy as they can be under
the circumstances.
SAFE A LOCK COMPANY,
CAPITAL ... 81,000,000.
General Offices pud Watiufactory
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
Can Earthquakes be Predicted!
M. Delauney, the French astronomer,
believes he has established a connection
between earthquakes and the position of
two great planets, Jupiter and Saturn
Taking for data M. Alexis Perrey's earth
quake tables from 1750 to 1842, and
noting the maxima commencing 1759,
and having a period of about 12 years, a
second commencing in 175b, also with a
period of 12 years, and a third and fourth
group, commencing in 1756 and 1773
respectively, and each having a period
of 28 years. Now the epochs of maxima
of the first aud second groups coincide
with the epochs when Jupiter attains his
mean longitudes of 265 deg. and 135
deg. , while the epochs of maxima of the
third and fourth groups correspond to
the times when Saturn is found at the
same two longitudes. Thus earthquakes
seem to pass through a maximum when
J upiter and Saturn are in the neighbor
hood of the meam longitudes 2b- deg.
and 135 deg. M. Delauney further says
this influence is due to passages of these
two planets through cosmic streams of
meteors. le gives an approximate
table of future earthquakes, indicating
particularly the years 2886, 1891, 1898,
iuu, laiy, iwzj and lvrau as having
numerous. Among recent earthquakes
the mo t noticeable were those in
Hungary. These seem to have been
coupled with phenomena of a remarkable
nature. The large island in the Dannbe
near Old Moldowa was completely cleft
in two by one of the shocks. From the
chasm thus formed a gigantic column of
water shot forth, partly flooding the
island. On October 18th the giant
fountain suddenly ceased to flow, but
numerous funnel-shaped craters had
formed, from which black sand and clay
were ejected. Near Weisskircben the
old ruins of the Castle Ooludaez have
fallen in completely, and in the vicinity
several caves have been rendered inac
cessible. These caves were breeding
places of the dreaded Kolumbac
mosquitoes, and if this insect is thns ex
terminated the earthquake may, with all
the damage it did, have yet been of some
use.
Pacific Bbanch,
No. 210 Sansome St., S. F-
Agency for Oregon and Washington Territory,
with HAWLEY, DODD A CO., Portland.
HALL'S PATENT CONCRETE
FIRE-PROOF SAFES.
Have been tested by the most disastrous confla
grations in the country.
They are thoroughly fire proof.
They are free from dampness.
Their superiority is beyond question.
Although about'l 50,000 of these safes are now
in use, and hundreds have been tested by some
of the most disastrous conflagrations in the
country, there is not a single instance on record
wherein one of them ever failed to preserve its
contents perfectly.
HALL'S PATENT DOVETAILED
TENON AND GR0OVR
BURGLAR-PROOF
Have never been broken open and robbed by
burglars or robbers.
Hall's burglar work is protected by letters
patent, and his work cannot be equaled lawfully.
His patent bolt is superior to any in use.
His patent locks cannot be picked by the most
skillful experts or burglars.
By one of the greatest improvements known,
the Gross Automatic Movement, our locks are
operated without any arbor or spindle passing
through the door and into the lock.
Our locks cannot be opened or picked by bur
glars or experts, (as in case of otherloeks),aud wa
will put from $1,000 to $10,000 behind them any
time against an equal amount.
The most skilled workmen only are employed.
Their work cannot be excelled.
Hall's Safes and Locks can be relied on at all
times.
They are carsfully and thorughly constructed.
THET ABE THE VEST SAFE
Well, there was a very rough young
man, whom Sankey saw staking around
at the close of the meetings, and kindly
asked: "Young man, are you looking for
salvation?" "No," was the reply, "lam
looking for Sal Jackson." "Let us sing
a hymn," said Sankey.
A bachelor upon reading that "two
lovers will sit up all night, with one
chair in the room,'' said it could not be
done unles one of them sat on the floor.
Such ignoranoe is painful.
Made in America, or any other country!
One Thousand Dollars
To any person who can prove that one of Hull's
patent burglar-proof safes has ever been
broken open and robbed by
burglars up to the
present time.
8. N. WILLIAMS,
Agent for Oregon and W. T.
Office with Bbh Icy , lJMld '.
28fcbl6:9tf. Portland.
Bees Hamlin. Emmett F. Wkenn.
DRAYAGE !
DRAY ACE !
Hamlin & Wrenn Propr's.
AV1NG JUST RETURNED FROM
Salem with a new truck, and having:
leased the barn formerly occupied by James Eg
lin, we are now prepa:ed to do all kinds of
GRAYING AND HAULINC,
either in the city or country, at the lowest living
rates. Can be found at the old truck stand. A
share of the public patronage respectfully solic
ited. Corvallis. Dec. 27, 1878.
JOB PRINTING
THE
Gazette Job Printing House
IS NOW PREPARED TO DO
Plain and Ornamental Printing,
As neat and Cheap as it can be done by any
Office ou the Coast.
Mil HMdi,
Letter Bewls
Bote head,
sta.euients,
P osramniea.
Ball Tlefceta.
Invitation
Circulars.
BiimWTn ' :ril,
Visit 4 11 nr. is, w
Labels.
Dodffera.
ftiunli Postern.
fcuvelopes
I eirn.1 niauUs
Bank Notes,
Sblpplaa Receipts,
Order Hooka,
Da ,
fits-.
nc, etc.
SS-Orders by mail promptly filled. Esti
mates furnished.
AUGUST KNIGHT,
CABINET M A K E tt,
UNDERTAKER.
Cor. Second and Monroe Sts.,
CORVat-Mft, OKEGOW. '
Keeps constantly on hand all kinds of
PUBNITUaE
COFFINS AND CaskETS.
Work done to order on short notice, and
at reasoname rates.
Corvallis. J- 1"7- U:ilt
ROBERT N. BAKER.
Fashionable Tailor,
"FORMERLY OF ALB NY, WHERE HE
has given his patrons periect satisfaction,
has determined to locate in Corvallis, v.-here he.
hones to be favore I with a share of the nnhlie
pa ronage. All work warranted, when - made
under his supervision. Repairing anil cleaning
promptly attended to.
C'orvallis, Jan. ifiMi. 15:48ft. .
FRAMCL'M CAUTHORN, M. P.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
'orvaIll, Oregnu.
Special attention eiven to sureerv and dismum
of the Eye. Can be found at his othce, in rear of
Graham, Hamilton & Co.'s Drug Store, up stain,
day or night.
June a, 1879. 16-23tf