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CONGRESSIONAL. 1 WAsniKOToN, June 12. The bill oontlnutof General Shields' pension of 1100 per monla to nl widow aud children wu "imendmeDl byDawes, ranting a pension of tso a month to Mrt Fletcher Webster, u adopted. a. resolution by Bayard, ordering printed for the 0f the oommlttoe on military attain papera iai proceeding in the otlglnal Fltzjohn forter mm vil adopted lji'aine called up the McDonald bill and replied to Hill's speech of yesterday. The army appropriation bill Wat received from Wle!t moved to refer the bill to the committee tonl'PKr'objiel to the bill belnt read more tban once tvdy. It accordingly went orer lilt to morrow without reference. Adjourned. Beck offered an amendment in the nature of a utuliiute for the legislative, executive and Judicial aDDropriation bill. TbeiubMlmtedoesnotehange the amount appropriated, out It is intended to lm nrove the form of the bill : ordered printed and referred to the committee on appropriation!. Wallace reported without amendment houw bill making appropriation! for certain Judicial ex nenst aud said that be would emieavor to call It uo for action to day ; placed on the calendar. r House. Murch reported a reao.utlou for Investigation of the mode of oonsiruotiou, eta., of publio buildings of the government, wilh power to tit during rectus at Washington and other cities The resolution was referred to committee of the whole. The bill reported from committee on civil service reform, prohibiting officers of. claimants against or contractor under the United tilates from couulb uting money tor political purposes, owlug to the expiration of the morning hour, went over wliboui "rbe boiue proceeded to business on the speaker's table, wheu seuate bill lu regard to Jurors lu V, 6. courts wan reached. Herbert, by lustructlon from the Judiciary com mittee, moved an ameudmeut providiug that in seltcting names Tor graud and petit jurors, the clerk and commissioners shall In no wUe have re ard to volitloal atUllatlon but shall louk solely to Qualifications prescribed bv law, persons pwswslng such qualifications to be entitled to serve, without regard to race, color or previous condlt.on of serv itude; but no officer or employe of the I'niled times or of any state shall be competent to serve. Kobluson. representing the minority of the judi ciary committee, remarked that as iiie lama pro. vision had been embodied in the judiciary bill passed by the bouse the other day, no amendment would be offered on the part of lie minority. Conger desired to move refereuce of the bill to (hejudiciary committee, but was pa-eluded by a call for the previous question. The republican side of the bouse thereupon, at the suggestion of Conger, refrained from voting, so there was no quorum. Alter more iban an bcurspenton call of the bouse, that Ineffectual movement was abandoned and the bouse adjourned. benate. Washington. June 13. The army appropriation bill was read tbe second time and referred to the committee on approuri- WTne legislative appropriation bill was taken up as reported from the committee ou appropriations. Wlndum said that the bout legislativeappropri ation bill was Incomprehensible. He preferred the form of the etoed bill aud w test the sense of tbe senate, moved to reoommtt the bill, thai the commitiee might be able to report a bill In the "Houstoifopposed the motlou on account of the delay it woua cause. . Davis, of "est Virginia, opposed Wlndom s mo tion and a long dlscusslou look place, although a auorum was not pre.-onL The motion to r. commit was lost-yeas, 23; nays, 82-a parly vote, except that Davis, of Illinois, vot- Tne'house supplemental post route bill was ameuded and passed. , On the Initiative appropriation bill Blaine of fered an ameudmeut to suontitute $W0O for 35l)0 for wagons for transporting the senate mails. There was lauguter aud confusion, nobody being able to And such a provision In ihe bill, and Blaine would not tell where It was. Some democrats pre texted a gal nut this obstruction, and Blaine with drew tbe amendment and the reading of the bill PITOsdsort of thing continued until Saulsburyde nounced this captious criticism, saying that any man with legal acumen who attempted to couslder ihe bill wouid be a jackass If be couldn't under stand what congress meant by It. Laughter and good humor followed this. .,...,. Bailey's amendment, appropriating Jlfjog ror sta tistics to be collected by the bureau ol education, 'Thetmu'was reported to the house, and the com mittee amendments agreed to. u. , .v.i- Beck assured Blaine that tbe bill had nothing affecting the disputed political question. Blaine said that he could not find out himself What it did not contain. The bill then passed. Adjourned. House. Morrison, from committee on ways and means, reported a bill authorising an allowance for loss by leakage or casualty of spirits wl.hdrawn from distillery warehouses for exportation ; referred to committee of the whole. - Young of Tennessee, from committee on publio buildings and grounds, reported a joint resolution for the eomoletion of the foundation of the Wash ington monument; passed. Morton reported by unanimous consent a bill to How any telegraph company to land ocean cables on the coast of the United Btates. This bill was ' reported by Fernando Wood In the last congress and Intended to cut off all class legislation. The bill Is subjec. to the terms of such grants a have been heretotor made by congress lor laying and maintaining telegraph cables. The bill passed and house adjourned. Senate. Washington, June 14. The committee struck out the fifth section.whtch provloes that each member of the graudailng classes of tbe military academies of lK.it aud lsao may elect and receive $760 and mileage to his place of residence, and thereby become Ineligible tp ap pointment in the army, except In the event of war, until two years alter graduation, and a clause is inserted In the bill by the committee to repeal the existing law which prohibits any promotion of tbe corns oi engineers to fill a vacancy above the rank of colonel. . , .,, , The morning hour having expired the Missis aippl improvement commission bill went over, end the senate considered In committee of the vhole the supplemental judicial appropriation Wallace explained the bill. . House. The house resumed consideration of the bll' pro hibiting political contributions by employes ol the WTbmoruiog hour was consumed In voting upon dilatory motions, and the bill went over without "Buckner reported a bill requiring the reserve of national banking associaUous to be kept In stand ard grid and stiver coins of the United Mates in lieu of lawful money ; printed and recommitted. The Human Will. One's life in, after all, Riven somewhat into one's own hands. If you say " I will not," to any destiny that seems to shape itself for you, the seeming destiny is apt to undergo decided change. There is a great deal In will. It is the men who say, "I will not be poor," who becomes rich ; the men who think, "whatever is in me shall come out," who are never overcome by the temptations of vice. Historians have written of soldiers that 'did not know when they were beaten ;" but these were the men who in the end knew they were victorious; and in the battle of life, not to know when one is beaten is a great thing. Disagreeable people are usually so be cause they make no effort to be other wise. A man may compel himself to be interested by fighting with an unsocial disposition. It is only the woman who declares herself homely, and makes no effort to dress becomingly, who is ever actually so to others. Yon mar leave the patch of ground at vour door' neglected, or you may plant it with roses. 8o may you do witn your life; and although, as in your gatden many a bud may be blighted, many a row wither, still it is only by man's owa will that he dwells in utter waste. For God is merciful exceedingly, and whoso helps himself, He helps. The small boy of a clergyman in Port land, Me., was detected by his mother in the act of "ornamenting" with his jack knife a costly inlaid table by a deeply-cut carving of his ideal steamboat. A day or two later the lady saw him from tbe door, looking with admiiiug eyes at his partly completed work, and beard him sigh: 'By George! 1 wish I bad got the smoke; stack on before she licked me." For small wraps the. fichus are pre ferred, and these are shown in different shapes. Prisoner! at Llbbj. HOW THEY TVS'XELLED FOB LIBERTY. During the winter of 18C3-4, there were above 1000 Federal officers confined in Libby prison, at Richmond, Va. In December, 18C3, Col. Rose, of the 100th Pennsylvania, conceived the idea of es caping by means of a tunnel. He com municated his plans to some of his com rades, who promised their co-owration in the matter. The great diflienlty they found was in getting access to the bose ment of the building, where they de signed commencing operations. They could get ax-cess to the tirst tloor of the eastern division, for this was occupied by hospital cooks who were enlisted sol diers who had been captured; but then there was no opening into the basement. There was, however, a large chimney lending up from a fire place in the base ment. They finally discovered that they could go down the aperture of the chim ney and thus reach the basement. At the east end of the bnilding there was a narrow alley, npon the opposite side of which was a lot of considerable size, near the center of which there was an unused stable, this stable being some distance beyond the guards, who were stationed near tho building. It was the design of the projectors of the tunnel to open the torminus of it into the stable. The greatest diflienlty encountered was at the beginning. They had to effect an opening in the foundation wall which was of stone. To do this, they had no better tools than a few small hatchets, which were used about the prison for splitting kindlings. After great labor an opening was effected. But the tunnel must be walled and arched. The only material that conld be found for this was the wooden boxes which had contained articles of food and clothing, sent to the prisoners from their homes. The secrot of the tunnel had been communicated to but few, and it was not desired that it should be generally known what they were driving at; but to avoid this, after using their own boxes, they procured the services of the hospital cooks, who would go among the prisoners and beg their empty boxes for firewood. Only one man could work in the tun nel at the same time, and consequently, the work proceeded slowly. Then the tools they had to work with, knives and sharpened sticks, were very insufficient. They had to remain on all-fours or lay flat while at work. They had estimated the distance to be seventy-five feet in order to reach tho center of the stable. They measured their work carefully as they advanced, and when they reached the length of seventy-five feet they turned upward, and upon reaching the outside earth found they were correct in their estimate of distances. After the opening was effected in the stable, it was carefully covered with a broad board, until such a time as was thought proper for a number of tho pris oners to make their egress. The night of the 5th of February had been fixed upon for fifty of the officers to make their escape through the tunnel. The design was for fifty to go out on that night and fifty each succeeding night until the means of egress was discovered by the confederates. It was thought by those who projected and completed the tunnel, that the matter was not known to above one hundred officers, to whom they had communicated it; but by some means the thing leaked out, and was generally known to the officers in prison, and when 9 o'clock had arrived the hour that the officers should commence their egress the entrance to the tnnnel was crowded. It was designed for fifty to leave that night, and fifty others were selected to mislead the Confederate clerk w ho called the roll each morning. This would have been easily done if the exact number who left had been known, for the manner of calling the roll was to crowd all the prisoners into the east room and pass them through a door and as they passed through count them ; and as there was another door in the same room it was very easy for an officer to pass back through it and fall in and be counted again, me omcer wno was to count; on the fifty who were to go tho first night and conduct the deception at roll call the next morning, finding he conld not stou the officers when the hfty had gone out, and that so many would escape that it would be impossible to conceal tneir flight at roll call, made his own escape. The next morning when the roll was called by the usual method of counting, - i mi lUtf otneers were lounu missing, iius created intense excitement among the officers in charge of the prison. All the officers were then called by name with the same resnlt. The prison was care fully examined and the point of egress was not fonnd. - The disappearance of the Federal offi cers was so mysterious that the Confed erates were dumbfounded. As soon as their astonishment subsided scouts were sent out in every direction in search of the fugitives. In the meantime a large number of citizens of Richmond recon noitered the prison the greater portion of the day; but some time in the after noon somebody happened to enter the old stable and discovered the tunnel. This was a great relief to them. It re lieved the guards from the charge of treason, and relieved the minds of the superstitious, who could not shake the belief from their minds that some super natural agency had been employed in the escape of the prisoners. The Confederate scouts soon began to return with some of the escaped prison ers, and in the course of a few days they succeeded in recapturing 42 of the HJO who escaped, fifty-seven having made their way into the Federal lines. Col. Rose, the projector and engineer of the tunnel, was recaptured and punished for his ingenuity by solitary confinement in a cell for several weeks. The heaviest snorer we have heard of is the man np town whose wife woke him np, during a tempest, saying she wish he would stop snoring, ior sue waaieu w hear the thunder. Persons having letters from the late William Cnllen Bryant in their posses sion or under their control will oblige the family by sending them addressed to Miss Errant, office of the Ectninr? Pott, No. 208 Broadway, New York. We are authorized to state that such letters will be received under whatever restrictions their proprietors see fit to impose ; and the originals will be returned ao soon as they can te eonvemeauy eopieu. tMieep I angnage. The "sheep language" of Scotland and the northern counties of England differs so considerably from the terms used in other parts that we welcome the following definitions given by the editor of the orth British Agriculturist; It will be seen that tho terms do occa sionally crop np in shaking of Colonial ulinon ttimmnra" in SOOtlUIld. KTQ females between one and two years; in parts of England, "thieves" is tho term applied. "Draft ewes" are those drawn from the breeding stock, and for crossing with other breeds or for fattening. "Cast ewes" and "crock ewes" are also ...,,, tn .I ft wm. The "nnot lambs" ,1 1,41. , V'i UJ...V . 1 of the north and "pally lambs'' of the south are those ilrartea away as noi tie Q.Vnhin tr l-wn "Shenrlinirs" are one- year-olds, after the first shearing. "Hulf- breeds are reeogmzcu as ine crosses oe tween Leicester rams and Cheviot ewes. "Three-parts bred" are the produce of Border Leicester rams and half-breed ewes. The result of crossing Border Leicester rams and black-faced ewes are "crosses" and "grey-faces." Recentlv Forepanirh's circus paraded the streets of Anderson, Indiana, Mrs. Terry, wife of a blacksmith, recognized in Fred. Knight, the elephant kewper.a long lost brother, supposed to have been dead many years. An atieetmg meeting too place. Cords with n clasp attached for catch ine tin the demi-train of a dress, that it mav be short enouuh for walking, are now shown in colors to match costumes: price $2. Black cords are $1 50. These and the moire, satin and eros grain mantles are made up without lining, and are rictly trimmed witn tnree or four rows of scantily pleated black lace, or else very deep fringe. Portland Business Directory, PHYSICIAN AND 81HGKON. EATON F. B Houlhwest cor. First and Mor rison streets; diseases oi tne eye siou ear m specially. CAROWELL, W. B.-H. E. cor. First and Mor rison, over Morse's rniaoe oi Art. ATTOHSI E Y-AT-LA W. WOODWARD k WOODWAKD-105 First St.; Alisky & Uegolo's Building. GREGORY, W. M.-105 First street Alisky A llegele a Building. ADAMS, W. H.-9 Deknm's Building, corner Washlngion ana nrau BOOKS, STATIONERY', ETC. HIR8TEL, CHA8. A CO.-108 First A 107 Front. SADDLERY AND HARNESS. CRONIK. P. J. U Ader street. Uood si tbe best; cneep as ine oneapest. DENTIST. KOEHLER, Wm., Dr,- Srulfdjcr DENTIST Stim. OFFHRIOT First Street. miONEY LOANED GOODS BOOGHT IvI Produce Hold Accounts Collected. T. A. WOOD & CO., Prluolpal Keal Estate Agent In Portland. ADDISON C. GIU1W. Attorney fc Counaelo at Law Portland, t t Oregon. m Rooms 8 and 9, over First National Bank. Particular attention, paid to business In tbe United Mr.e eonrts. ROCK SOAP! Tho Host Soap Made. Aslt your Grooer for it. M. G. rSEJWBEKRY, 123 Kront Wt.t Portland, or, Agent for Oregon and Washington Territory. AEWFIMl AND NEW GOODS ! Bedrock Prices. R0BBINS YATES rORTLAXD, - - OREGON, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Mouldings, Engravings, CHROMOS, FRAMES. VELVET FRAMES, PASSAFARTOUTS, VIEWS, STEREOSCOPES, MATS, ETC., ETC. Whitney & Holmes PI iLHTOS, Violin Strings, Harmonicas, Accordeons, Instruction liooks, and Musical Merchandise. 300 Choice American and German Cliromos, Frames of any size made to order; old Frames repaired or madeover. Give us a coll. Satisfac tion guaranteed. S49 First Strwt, twl. Main anil Salmon. J. C ASDREWS, M. D. IDA I. AXnREWS, M.D Drs. J. C, & Ida E. Andrews, Office, Residence and Bath Rooms, Ko. 21 Front it., bet. lain Madison, Portland, Oregon. rpHEIR APPARATUS FOR THE CHEM- I- ical analysis of urine gives them superior Facilities for determining Obscure Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. While their STEAM, SULPHUR A.1D OTHER Medicated Baths Are valuable aids in the treatment ot all ACUTE AND CHRONIC DISEASES ESPSCIALLT Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Asthma, Heai t Disease, Catarrh, fctc. Zr Parties living at distance will do well to CORRESPOND with them relative to their ailment; and any wishing to remain la rorv land for treatment will be provided good board ing places at reasonatiM rate. Cbarsea Very Xleaonable, "SINGER" STILL TAKE THE LEAD. QKA AT) GEXIUNE "81SGER" MA chines sold in 1878, being nearly tlire- world. three-quarters of all the machines sold In the world. BUY THE BEST- WASTB NO HOsr.V O "CBEAI" COI'STESKSITS The Singer M'f'g Co. 1HU FirMt St,, Portland. AGENTS EVERYWHERE. J.I.GASE&C0. Eacino, Wis. Aiiutully manufacture and sill more THRESHING MACHINES Than any other Firm In the World. GOLD MEDAL at PARIS Modal of Honor and Diploma of Merit, at tbe Centennial Exposition PHILADELPHIA. Highest Award and Bilvor Modal at OHIO STATE PAIR, 1878. First Premium I Cold Modal COLORADO. 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Printer's Supplies. DRINTER'SSUPPUES OFALL KINDS furnished. Collections made and Prompt Return Aaaress, PACKARD It CO., Box TM, PotU4, Onfmm. FALACB LODGING HOUSE, (Alisky a B.l, 5v Bolldlnf J Cor Morrison &c Xhird Sta, POBTLAHD, OEKOOS. WW H TMEMI 181 mm. The Westinghouse Threshing Machine, the Clule & Co. Portable Engines. ! ltyrcquoNt oi tlioiitiumfUctureris we liavo accepted the latency lot thU tiito nud the adjoining territories ofthe nboveJuNtly celebrated Machines. We have HntlsiletlourielvcM that t lie nbovenrercnl j NUPCUIOH MachiucM, and arc recommended ty farmer -who lined them. hint bcbnoii nm '1 IIU HKH'm? MiiclilneM they have over seen. Head For Catalogues and descriptive circular. AtcentM wuiitediu every county In this) tate aud the Xerrltoric. E. J. fiORTHRUP &CO., l01lTi-AlMl), OREGON. ALUS & BLACK, Airents for E. P. ALUS & CO., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, MILL BUILDERS, AND MILL FURNISHERS. v hire on band and are constantly receiving, Steam Engines. Flour Mill Machinery, Mill aion.s, PortabU Floor and Haw Mills. Hllita; Cloths, ftmuit.ra, B.parsv lurs, Leather anil Mubbr ts.lllna;, and U.u.ral Mill Furnishings, t-.-tol Agrnl for the Celebrated Broker Brush Machines; Kollpno and Victor Wator srheeJa: ALiVCurlUs Engines and Allls'asir Mills. 8ud for frloes lad description. ap'll No. 10 C O. BAILEY, Southeast corner Second and H Streets PORTLAND OHKGON, m:ai.i:r in Lime, Plaster and Cement. GARDEN AND GRASS SEEDS, Flour nud Food, FDREaW mnOMEST'R FRUIT. BURTON HOUSE. rorner Third nud P Nlreela NeurStramsblpLandliiKsand Railroad Depots PORTLAND, OREGON, LewlMou & Frollaod, . Proprietor (Late of Minnesota House.) Will spare no pains nor expense to make this house. Tl 1IKT MOTH. IV paRTI.AWn. 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