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$DVRTiSIWAGM Bans 21 tffWfcriu'Isrr2 - 3 1 tJfra Si ftff (ft Wffi HILLSBOBQ, WASHINGTON COUKTT. OREGON. THURSDAY, JTjNE, 10, 1875. NO. 11. VOL. III. THE INDEPENDENT. PUBLISHED AT nilltboro Oregon Editor ami Proprietor, I ERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: On y'ar, . . 8i im-utha,. Three months, Single copies. $2 1 50 50 00 10 KATES OF ADVERTISING: TIMS 1 bq. 1 WCEK. 1 50 2 WEEKS. 2 00 1 MOKTH. 2 50 3 mos. 4 50 G mos. 6 00 1 YKAIU 10 00 2sq. 2 00 'col a 50 col 6 00 8 50 12 00 20 00 30 00 50 00 lcol 10 00 15 00 20 00 30 00 50 00 90 00 2 50 4 50 3 00 5 00 6 00 9 00 10 00 16 00 15 00 30 00 kLoclNotices,25 cents per line for the first i nsertion, and 20eentsa line for each sab&iiuent insertion. 'No notice less than sipo. .. ; Summons, Sheriff Sales, Wl nil other legal notices, $2 00K?r square, 1st inser tion; each additional insertion, $1 00. Transient advertisements. $2 00 1st in sertion; each additional insertion, $1 00. AGENT AT PORTLAND, OiEGON L. SMCELS. 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Yoa will save Brooklyn, already too much disgraced by the esUtenco of suoh a scandal, from the far great er disgrace of permitting such a man to be dcstioyed by such instrumen tality "An eagle towering in his pride of place. Hawked at and killed by mousing owls!', You will tell the American people that w hen innocence is assailed . by unscrupulous and cuuning malice, however successful for a tine the an sault may seem, it must find its bar rier when it reaches an American jury. And you will say to thia heart less and ungodly persecution, "Thus far ehalt thou come but no farther here all the midnight plottings of cruel craft must cease for eter." I ask of you for. this , defendant nothing but that justice which you would mite ut to the humblest cit . izen: yet you cannot but feel, as 1 1 do, an overwhelming sense of ihj solemn importance of this trial. " It will loom larger in history than any that has taken place in eighteen cen turies. No man of this defendant's fame has ever been called upon to answer such a charge in a court of justice. What a spectacle has been presented in this city of churches! Every day for eight weeks this aged man, who has been a !ar.?a and var ied contributor to the litsraturo of the English tongue, and who never wrote a word that was not inspired ly the love of God, of nature, and his- fellow-men, who has swayed with sublimest eloqucnco greater multi tudes than any living orator, and who never spoke Pave for justice, truth and virtue, who has convinced, rtcutd, instructed and comforted unnumbered thousands of erring, struggling; souls, couutiug his own life, fortune and reputation as noth ing, if by their risks or nacrioce he serve tbo humble and the weak; this man whoae fame is honored and be lieved wherever Christianity beats sway, has been dragged by malig nant conspirators into this Court to answer the vile and o lioin charge, which all ths evidence of a long lire time outside of these walls, no less than the evidence produced within thrm, brands indelibly as a lie. Day by day ho has passed along our streets with his brave and true wife, to meet tho unmerited indignity of a raignment. Stoag men have been touched with mingled pity and wrath at tho sight, and women have turned aside to weep. It is an outrage t a a i rai- wntcu posterity win avenire. inis fair city will vet boast among her proudest monuments tho satuo of him who conferred upon her such glory, and received within her gates such torture. All who had part in this crowning drama of life will be remembered with execration or : n-. i those who weakly doubted, those who cowardly forsook him, those who were swift to believe evil on the one side and ou the other, those who steadfastly trusted, and those, gen tlemen of the jury, who justly ad judged. Yes, gentlemen, by the judgment which you here pronounce, you will yourselves be judged at the tribunal of after ages. What you do here will never die. When these scenes shall nave passed away, when he who presides over this trial shall rest in the silent chambers of the dead; when ths seats you occupy shall be filled by yout, children.: or your children's children, strangers from distant climes will come to view the place from which was given back to the world, freed from cloud or pass ing shadow,the name of Henry Ward Beecher. Even when centuries shall have rolled away, when these marble walls shall have crumbled and de cayed, this trial will be remembered with all-absorbing interest. More eloquent than the words of -.this de defendant, more inspiring than his deeds of magnanimity, more power ful among men than the story of all his life of usefulness and virtue, will be the recital of his serene faith and patiqnee under dire affliction and j dendly awuH. Htroc are admired; it is the triumphal procession and the loud hosanna, but the cup, the thorn-crown, the cross, the sepul chre conquered the worlds and ainee the hour of the Divine Satfeser-'no' follower of Christ has borne the cross in rain. Gentlemen, do you believe inGod! Then you will recoguixe to-day what the generations to come will no clear ly see; what the Day of Revelation will blaze forth in letters of immortal light, the mark of God's approval upon this, his. faithful, upright, suf fering servant, whom He hath hith erto guidedr .sustained and blessed; whom in the hour of tribulation He hath not forsaken; and whim all tho truth of His eternal promise and all the resources of His Almighty pow- er, He will surely rescue and teward; for "Though had join in. band, the wicked shall not be unpunished, but the seed'of the righleous shall be de li .ered." " Applause. AN I N D E P t N D E N TAM E R I CAN GIRL. A Reminiscence of Prince AuUiurs it Minnie j? Sherman find the Prince. f Washington Corr. Cincinnati Commercial. When Prince Authur was in this city, he was, of course, mtch lioniz ed and very elegantly entertained. Just previous to his departure, Sir Edward and Lady Thornton issued cards of invitation for a magnificent Temple. The most elaborate pre parations were made to insura if w success. Artists were for dava en gaged in decorating the room; flags from the War Department and navv vard were mimdird in abundant -tlm I - I caterer spent his time between here and New York; our modistes worked day and night, and vent from their work shops superb creations in - lus trous velvet and sheeny silk to be worn on (he night. Lady Thornton was besieged for cards, not only by people of distinction in town, but New York and Philadelphia added their voice to the clamor. Rumor ran rife ji i to tlrj 1-ilitM with whom he would dance. A in the story of Cinderella, the heart of each repub lican princess was elated with the hope that she would be honored with his hand. It wns announced a few days before the ball that Lady Thornton had prepared a list of names from which partners for the dance would be selected. It soon became known that one or two nf our leading society girls were in con- U1 luurmo" uul wcrc C. 1 T 1 Tl. 1 I-.. A pieugea 10 secrecy, u c cannot nice time to tell of the effort made to find out from them what they knew; their firmness in refusing to give up their secret alienated friend, made enemies, and was productive, of the most dire results. The night came, the fashionable erowd gathered, the ball was opened by Lady Thornton and the Prince. When the notes of the first waltz sounded, Prince Ar thur advanced to where Miss Sher man was standing with some friends, and asked the pleasure of bet hand. Looking at him a moment, she ' re plied, slightly inclining her head: I thank you' but my church does not permit me to do the round dan ces.". The Prince made some pleas ant remark and took bis, place at her side, where be' remained until the Lancers were called, when! he took Miss Sherman and : the bead of the set. The effect can be better imagined than described. Belles whose heads would bare been turned by the invitation thought her insane and her refusal was soon the. topic of ball-room conversation. The Prince was a frequent visitor at the house of the General, ond immediately up on his return to England sent a com plimentary letter with an Etruscan gold locket, ornamented with tur quoise and diamond on one side, and bis photograph on the other, with these words: "To the young lady whom of all others I admired most." r-fl, B; Day . furnishes beef for-the government at TTnllaTValla for $2. 12 per 100 lbs Rsbsfl E. Lee Described by ;one cf his Soldiers. ' Genial Lee bad, a sententious way cf eaying things which made all his utterances peculiarly forceful. His language was always happily chosen, and a single sentence from his liss often left nothing more to be said. ( As good an example of this as any, perhaps, was his comment upon the military genius of General Mead. Not very long after that oficer took command of the army of the Potomac a sli.mish occurred, and, none of General Lee's staff offi ce's being picsant, an acquaintance of mine was detailed as his personal aid for the day, and I am indebted to him for the anecdote. . Some one asked our chief what he thought of the new leader on tho other side, and in reply Lee said: "General Meade uill commit no blunder in my 'front, and if I commit one he .will make haste to take advantage of it." It is difficult to see what more he could have said oa the subject. I saw him for the last . time during the war at Amelia Court House, in the midst of the final' retreat, and I shall never forget the heart-broken expression his face wore, or tho fitill sadder tones of his voice as he gave me the instructions I had come to ask. The army was in utter confusion. It was already evident that we were beaten back upon James river and could never hope to reach the Roanoke, on which stream alone there might bo a possibility of making a stand. Gen- eral Sheridan vas harassing our bro- Lon columns at every step, and do S 8tr!VIS us piece-meal. Woxso than nlL General Lee had been deserted by the terrified Government in the very moment of his supreme need, and the food had been snatched from the mouths of the .famished tfoofcw (as more folly explained in another chapter) that the flight of the President and his followers might be hastened. The load put j thu P011 Leto' "boulders was a I ver' heavy one for so conscientious i a man as he to bear; and knowing, a every Southerner does, his habit of taking upon himself all blame for w hatever went awry, wo cannot won der that he was sinking under the burden. His face was still calm, as it always was, but his carrriage was no longer erect, as his joldiors had been used to see it. The troubles cf those last days had already plowed great furrows in his forehead. His eyes were red as if with weeping; his checks sunken and haggard; his face colorless. No one who looked up on him then, as he stood there in full view of the disastrous end, can ever forget the intenso agony written up on his features. And t he was calm, self-possessed, and deliberate. Failure and the sufferings of his men g rieved him. sorely, but they could not dauut him, and his moral greatness was never more manifest than during those lost terrible days. Even in the final correspondence with Gen. Grant, Lee's manliness and courage and ability to endure lie on the surface, and it is not the least honorable tbinsr in Gen. Grant's his tory that he showed himself capable of appreciating the character of this manly foeman, as he did when he returned Lee'8-surrendered sword with the remark that he knew of no oneao worthy as its owner to wear it. A Rebel' IteoUeqtions, by George Some ingenious observer has dis covered that there is a remarkable resemblance between a baby and wheat, -since it is cradled, then thrashed, end - finally r leoomesT'tho flower of the family. At a recent meeting of a society composed of men from the Emerald Isle, a member made the following motion: Mr. President I move ye's whitewash the ceiling green, in hon or of the old flag." "Come into the garden Maud, Wid a brickbat Sad a stone; ,Her' he biggest cat yovi eirar sswod, Gnawing a chicken bone; - Xtna Hlie fie rfbif. Maud, Vvn fre yritY. fh fee ?'. THE W0UAN QUESTION AGAIN. Griffeth Gaunt very tersely re marks that "The greatest saint is on ly a sinner who has not got down to hard pan." This seems an appro priate text from which to drew a few inferences on this woman question. From birth, our girls are carefully guarded against every contaminating influence. Every unholy, immodest word and act or thought is subdued, and giils are of all things most earn estly commended to modesty., in de portment and .language. Well, so are our Loys so taught by- heir mothers; but as, soon as a few years have passed, out into the streets they go, coming into all sorts of undesir able knowledge. It is inevitable. This system of education result in women being as a class morally and spiritually far man's superior I, contend that it is not because God gave to woman originally so much more excellent . a spiritual identity than mau, that at the present she ii morally his superior; but that the force of surrounding circumstances, the customs of society have com pelled hor to be such. It f seems a glorious good thing that.inan has tu being to look, rp to, in the matin: that he does to woman. Doubtless God so designed it. Now place women in contact with tho same contaminating influences that beset man and she will come down to his plane morally, while b will sink lower, and the in turn will follow. It is simply because we dif fer from men that we are able to ex ercise over them a salutary influence. j There is a higher plane in life than that attained by mental culture. Spiritual beauty far exceeds it. When women g -t down to, "hard-pan," (that will be after a few year dab bling in jpolitics, running rolitical conventions, etc.,) they will be no better than the men, and instead of being a means of purification, they will only add to the already prevail ing corruption. I hear some of you ay, "I w ould j not give much for virtue that will not stand testing." Men are not boom-proof, and our mental and spiritual ccndition naturally are about tho same, therefore we are just as sure to fall under copderunation as they. So long as women are destined to be tho mothers of ti e race (and it is tolerably likely they are at present, aud will bo for eome time yet), it behooves tl em to cultivate those lovable, gentle trait which cousti tute the attraction and power of wo men over man. Men do not so much need menta'i'y in a wife as spirit uality. It is o well known fact that at present the Government is neglected by the most skilled and refined in tellects of the country, and when to the present confusion the unreason ins cabbie of brassy-tongued wo- men be added (the quiet, well-behaved ones won't be there), the greater proportion of the best men remaining will retire in disgust. r The women who will pursue poli tics as a trade will be mostly of the Woodhull and Susan B. Anthony stripe; and who can face such an one? ' In fine, the direct tendency of this whole movement, and in fact the teachings of the age tend totally to destroy all happy home influences, dissolve tho martial relations, and hand over tho country to final an- archy and confusion. - . ; . - r Oregonvan. Arcadia in the f ':. 1 ITEBS OF INTEREST TO ;022CZ3S. Kentucky has 1,500 Granges, with' nearly 100,000. Ohio has over 1,159 Grangers, but not so large a membership to the Grange; probably about 46,000. Has $27,047 54 in treasury. Intends in vesting $10,000 to further' the work of the State Purchasing Agent. If ths Grange does nothing else than inaugurate the pay -down Sys tem it will add a large percent.' to the income of the farmer, merchant and mechanic. The Dominion (Canada) bss six divisions and 122 Oranges. Canadian merchants are now williug to roako terms with Patrons. Kentucky State Grange has fixed salaries of officers as follows: Master, $1,000 and traveling expenses ;Treas urer, $CO0; Secretary, $1,000; Assist ant Secretary, $500, and traveling expenses of each. The working mau from this timo means to understand the science of government, tho true social economy. He deans - that labor h all posscfis a dignity which' capital will respect. ' Td codtficatiofr'bf'the rulings of the National Crrang7 ujxrri tho ques tions of law and usage, 'Was reviswd ar.d amended' at its last meeting. It will soon be issued in pamphlet fohri. - - ' ; TWO BROKEN HEARTS. . Bewitched by a Beautiful Actress A' Loving Wife's Territla rjcatfi. In 1870 a young Frenchman, tho Count George de Meryac,tnarriod a btsiitiful girl of-his own station in UfaV-lthildeXiwhow'Ss Very mac!; in love with him: fAll went well, and tho two were very liappy in their devotion to each other. They were fond of the theatre, and evry one just at that time was enraptured with a new actress, Rosiia,wbo took the principal rolo in the dubious drama of the Dumas school. The ewly w d led pair often wcut to Ro i a' theatre, until the Countess thought her husband's eyes lingered too fondly on the actrcsa.and began to feel pangs of jealousy. Frou- Frou was one of Rosita's best impersona tions, and on her farewell night Kbo appeared by request in that charac ter. The Jockey Club of which George do Meyrao as Vice President gave her a supper after the play. G orge of course was present, and sat by the side of the facinatiug Ro sita, who was surrounded with bou quets.. Wine flowed freely, and mirth and wit enlivened the banquet until three o'clock in the morning. Meanwhile the poor wife. Muthilde, waited at tho little gate of their park for the truant husband. The hours passed slowly on, and he came not. A cold, penetratiug rain began to fall at midnight, and Mathilde trem bled from exhaustion and exposure. At five in tho morning, when her husband came through the little gate, ho stumb'.ed cvr her it:auimate body lying on the rain-soaked ground. She was not dead: she lived, for five days aftor.'but never recovered her mind In htr delirium, sho incessantly m irmured "Frou-Frou! Frou-Frou I" Th se were her last words. The Couut was almost crazed by his wife's loss Ho entered tho ar my and sought death in the bloody battle of the Franco-Prussian war. Fate was cruel, and he returned un harmed. His wife's room, adjoin inghis own, had always , been kept closed since her death ; but, owing to the suffocating heat,.-ono, summer night, Georg opened -the door be tween the two. rooms. He-the u fell asleeru la ' about an' . hour he a woke; . the clock struck miduight. , : As the last stroke rounded 1-i-e heard distinctly from thejotber room the worda fCroOi-Frou.;' v H list ened with . inexpressible anguish "Frou-Frou" seemed to be: murmur ed from all parts of -the room. He leaped from his bed, lighted a can dle, and crossed , the threshold t of Maibilde's ehamber.. As that instant ft,c.nrria djfcir .ettinguiihed ttba &Uitfc7 and 'Georgairteh ! upon his. fofehead: bfs lins. bistfieekV. Bdrrie- flung.unieGnal)lo, a .breath , a ca ress, the contact of a cold wiug, or, perhaps, the muslin of a peignoir. He fell unconscious.1 Thent-xt morn ing he was found lying thcro insane. To every interrogation he ' only re plied, "Frou-Frou." The country people in the neighborhood of the Chateau de Meryae'tbink that it was the soul of the -Countess reluming at midnight to murmur in the ear of her cruel husband: "Georgo, I still love thoe; bnt it in thou who ' hast killed me!" -Figw."