o r YOlf 4. OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1869. NO. 1. Enterprise. The Weekly Enterprise. A DEMOCRATIC PAPER, FOR THE Business Man, the Farmer rtd the FAMILY CIRCLE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TI1E OFFICE Corner of Fifth and Main streets Oregon' City, Oregon. O TERMS of SUBSCRIPTION: Single Copy one year, "in advance,. .... .3 00 TERMS of ADVERTISING : Transient advertisements, including all I-! notices. V sq. of 12 lines, 1 w.$ 2 50 Yor each suusequem mst-i nuu One Column, oue year Hair 1 00 $120 00 00 ..... 40 Business Card, 1 square one year 12 , W Remittances to be made at the risk of Subscribers, and at the expense of Agents. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING. jj-jr The Enterprise office is supplied w'tli beautiful, approved styles of type, and mod ern MACHINE PKEStfKS, which will enable the Proprietor to do Job 1'iiuting at all times Neat, Quick and Cheap ! tf3 Work solicited. AH Jiuniness trcins.ict.ions upon a Specie basis. JOlIN'JIYERS, Financial Agent. BUSINESS CARDS. J ANSING STOUT. Attorney and Counselor at Law, PORTLAND, Oil EG ON. OA, Under the United States District Court Iioom. Front street. 40tf BARCLAY, HOELm J"3S"Lo Z3 USTLs (Formerly burgeon to the Hon. II. li. Co.) OFFICE At Residence, Main street Ore po!i City, Oicgon. J AW 'PARTNERSHIP, J J AS K. KEL.-LY, J. II. REED, Residence corner of Columbia and 7th sts. It'snlenoe, Columbia st bet. 2d and 3d sts. Jas. K. Kelly and J. II. Reed, under the firra name of KELLY & REED, Will practice law in the Cnrts of Oregon, few enterprising iarmcrs had al Ofliceon First street near Alder, over the rearly settled ill one of the largest r.ev Post office room, Port.and. (40U J o W II. W ATKINS, M. D , SURGEON. Portland, Oi:f.g n. OFFICE 95 Front street Residence cor ner of Main and Seventh streets. J. r. CATLE3. J. C. MOKELAND. . CAPLE3 & MOREL AND, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Cor. FRONT and WASHINGTON St., PORTLAND, OREGON. J. WELCH, DENTIST. firmaientli Located at Oregon City, Oregon ROOMS With Dr. Suffarrans, on Main st. jAGE & THAYER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. O..FFICE In Crte's lhiilding, corner of Front and Stark streets, Portland. 32:tl W. C. JOHNSON. F. O. M'COWN. Not.iry Public JOHNSON & McCOWN, Oregon. City, Oregon 3T Will attend to all business entrusted to m,r care m any of the Conns o ine etc. Particular attention given to contested i onpet mnnpv.Aeuoi an1 vans. i Land cases. Logan, Shattuck & Killin, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, No. lOOFront Street, Up Stlra, PORTLAND, OREGON. o . wr ui.nii .1. K. nOLPII. A. SMITH Mitchell, Dolph & Smith, Attorneys and Counsellors at Late, Solicitors in Chancery, and Proc tors in Admiralty- -r27- rona n-nr ihf old Post Office, Front Itrcet, Portland, Oregon. a. c. CIBBS. c. W. PABRtsn, KoUiry Public and Com. of Deeds GIBBS & PARRISH, Ann,,, nrtd. ( Jounselors at juxd, , r Portland. OREGON OFFICE On Alder street, in Carters brick block. D M. McKENNEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OREGON CITY. OREGON, A. II. BEI.L. k. a.pahkek. BELL Sl PARKER. DRUGGISTS, vn DEALERS IN Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Perfumery, Oils, Varnishes, And every article kept in a Drug Store. Main btreet, Oregon City. JOHN II. SCIIRAM. . Mnnnfflctiirpr and Dealer in ... ... SADDLES, HARNESS, , rtr. w 1 Main Street, Oregon City, ts-WU1ip to renresent that he is now as Tvell prepared to furnish any article in his line B Ihu l.irrratit DCt a I I l-i n m fm. Ill LUC Clillc . in. as tin; i arrest t-siaun?"""" 1 11 - rrticularTy requests that an examination of his stock be made before buying elsewhere. F. S. 0STHEIM, IMFORTEa AND DEALER IN Segars, Tobacco. Pipes, Stationery Xn. PS corner of- Front and Washing n ton streets, fire proof brick store, called the Old Corner, opposite American Exchange, Portland, Oregon. 37.3m 0 O o-O o MY LITTLE "WIFE. The following exquisite love Btory is from the J uly number of Blackwood. It is by a new poet, David Wingate, a collier from his ninth year : My little wife often round the church hill, Sweet little, dear little, neat-footed Jaae, "Walked slowly and lonely ; and thoughtful until The afternoon bell chimed its call o'er the plain ; And nothing seemed sweeter To me than to moet her And tell her what weather 'twaa likely to be, My heart the while glowing, The selfish wish growing, That all her affections were centered in me. My life once 'tis strange, but 'tis true, Sweet little, dear little, love-troubled Jane, So deeply absorbed in her day-dreaming grew. The chimed and ceased, though she heard not Its strain ; i And I walking near her, May love ever cheer her Who thinks all such wandering of sin void and free, Strove hard to persuade her That He who made her Had destined her hea.rt-love for no one but me. My little wife well, perhaps this was wrong Sweet little, dear little, warm-hearted Jane, Sat on the hill-side till her shadow grew long, Nor tired of the preacher that thus could de tain. I argued so neatly, And proved so completely, That none but poor Andrew her husband could be, She smiled when I blessed her, And blushed when I kissed her, And owned that she loved and would wed none but me. AXCIENT KUIXS XX NEVADA. A correspondent of the York Tribune, in an account of the Mor gan Exploring Expedition to south eastern Nevada and Utah, says: riuy nines irom necse luver we found the country well timber ed, and in some places the valleys were susceptible of irrigation. A ui uitjM, w men nicy jiuu liamuu Cedar Canon. Snipe, plover and quail were abundant, and our mess table was well supplied with them. At this point we bad adieu to civ ilization. Timber trees entirely disappeared, ami we entered then large sandy valleys covered with sage, stunted bush, and a variety of sand-plants. One of these, the mezquite, is a shrub belonging to the family cf the mimosa. It re sembles in appearance our locust tree, is verv thorny, bears yellow flowers and long pods which have a pleasant sour taste. On October 15th, in the centre ot a large val ley, we discovered some Indian salt works, but there were no signs of their having been lately used. In the southern section ot the same valley was a curious collection of rocks, mouna s and pillars, cover ing several acres in extent, and re sembling the ruins of an ancient citj We saw some remnants of what had once been arched with key m fect and a numbcr . of small stone pillars constructed with a peculiar kind or red mortar or cement, set upright about 20 feet apart, as if they had been used to support an aqueduct for convey- in- water Irom a large stream nan a mile distant, into the outskirts of the city. In some places the lines of streets were made distinctly vis ible by the great regularity ot the Ktonps. These streets were now covered with sand many feet deep and seemed to run at right angles to each other. Sonic of the stones had evidently been cut into squares with hard tools, although then- forms had been nearly destroyed . . . i- , m. , DV centuries oi urac. me sion lorced upon our minus was that the place had been once in habited by human beings some what advanced in civilization. Many traders noticed the existence of similar ruins in other sections of the country between the Rocky and Sierra JNevaaa ..Mountains. They may probably be the sites of once nourishing fields and habita tions of the ancient Aztecs." Profcsser Harden, who is prose cuting a geological survey of New Mexico, is pleased with the Span ish girls. He says that their eyes am brighter than diamonds, their tor than the sound ot rtlirmnlithe. and that they can 7 I V V ' i; M VV vv I " " ' 7 m rm make pumpkin pies almost, it not finite as cood as the jscw jngianu I A . 1 Tim Vm-wI dn T.ac i Wis.1) He- . r cooenn porter says the prescntwet season JL I IV' -m v vm- s has produced many curiosities in vegetation. In one garden there is a ood crop of black raspberries, second crop, ripening on the husn es. School Commissioner Rapp has one wild crab-apple tree in full blossom, and another with yoiuic fruit on it, which blossomed two weeks ago THE PURSE OP GOLD. Sarah Goodwin was the name of a poor seamstress residing in a large city. She was not wholly friendless, but those whom she knew, and who would have aided in her struggles, were very poor, and could not. So she, a widow, with four boys, from the ages of four to nine years, struggled through Winter's cold and Sum mer's heat, providing for her little family with bread; and that was all. Her boys were good children, always in their home after night fall, and giving their mother every half-penny of t heir little earnings, as often as they found work to do. At last the mother fell sick, and through a weary illness she had no other attendance save the occasion al help of a poor neighbor, and the constant aid of her little boys. It was touching to behold their kind ways, and to hear, their gentle words. Everybody said that they would be blessed in coming years for their thoughtful love. 3Iorning and night they read together the Bible, and there they found a Savior even Him who had loved them, and given Himself lor them, lhe widow was an humble believer, and rejoiced in hope that her sins were forgiven her through the merits of Jesus whom sue truly loved, ami i in whom was all her hope. The widow recovered; but it was now the middle of a bitter Winter, and their little stock of fuel was nearly gone. As soon as her strength permitted, she walked through the cold of a cheerless day to the shop of her employer, and told his manager her sad story. But he said it was hard times; her illness had made room for others as badly oil" as herself, and they had not one stitch of work to give her. With a sinking heart, but praying, to keep her courage up, the poor woman toiled on from shop to shop, until it became late; and what with tears and the darkness, she could hardly see her way ionic. "If Mr. Hart had himself been there," she said to herself, bending to the strong wind, and drawing icr scanty shawl closer about her brm, " I know he would have giv- en me work." As she whispered thus through ler chattering teeth, a tall gentle man passed by her, and as he did so, something fell to the ground, and lay upon the crusted snow. Sarah paused: she had heard the noise made by the little packet, and a strange feeling led her to search lor it. Oh joy ! it was a purse, heavy, and lined to the brim; yel low and shining lay the gold with in as she carried it toward a lighted window. " My poor boys, they shall want for food no more!" f-he cried; " this i P-old. I think that God must have put it in my way, for He saw I was in despair." Suddenly, like a flash of light ning, the thought occurred to Sarah that not one half-penny of the treasure was honestly hers. But a moment she lingered, pressing the money with her numbed fingers, the sorrowful tears chasing down her thin cheeks; then, starting for ward to find the owner of the purse, she walked hurriedly up the street, fearful that the temptation, should she arrive at her poor room and see her hungry children, might prove too strong for her honesty. Opposite a great hotel, as she stood, thinking which way to take, she saw the stranger enter, bhe knew him by the long hair which curled to his shoulders, and, timid ly crossing the street, she made her way into the hall, and there, be wildered by the light, she knew not what to say, till twice asked by a servant Avhat she wanted. Of course, she could do no more than describe the stranger by his tall stature and flowing hair. But he had already gone out again; she must call on the morrow, they said, and ask for Mr. Ashcraft. The next mornig, having eaten nothing for she could not touch a farthing of the money she was admitted into the room where sat the stranger. He arose as she en tered, and gazed with a curious air till she presented the purse. Then he started with a please surprise, laid down his paper, took the o-old, and carefully counted it over. " It is r 11 CO TO ho s aid, " you have not taken if "Not one piece, sir," she cried eagerly, trembling as she spoke. " You seem poor," remarked the stranger. " I am poor," she replied. " Got a family I suppose?" "Four little boys, sir, I am widow," u. Hump! so I suppose; that's the old story." " Ask Mr. Hart, the tailor," cried the widow, stepping forward a lit tle; " lie knows me well; he knows that though I am poor I am hon est," A bright spot burned on her cheeks as she sppke, and she forced back the tears. " Now confess," said the stran ger, rising, and walking to and fro before the fire, " tell me, did you not expect a large reward for this?" "I did think, perhaps " and she turned with quivering lips to the door. " Stop, stop !" cried the stranger; " you know j'ou w&uld never have returned the purse had you not ex pected to be well paid for it " " Sir !" said the widow, her voice rising beyond its usual tone, and her thin form erect. The stranger paused, holding the purse in his hand ; then drawing iorth a small her. com, onered it to Foi' a moment she drew back 1 ut tl.e:i, remembering that her poor boys were hungry at home, and in bed because there was no lire, she burst into tears as she took it, saying, This will buy bread tor my poor children," and hurrying away, she buried the bitterness of that morning in her own heart. It was four o'clock on the same day. Sarah Goodwin sat by a scanty lire, busy in sewing patches on the very poor clothes of her four boys. "Run to the door, Jimmy," she said to the eldest, as a loud knock was heard. " Oh, mother!" the boy cried, re turning, "a big bundle for us! WhaUs it? What can it be?" " Work for me, perhaps," said the widow, untying the large pack age, when suddenly there came to light four suits of gray clothes with four neat, black, shining caps each exactly fitting to the heads of the boy.?. Almost overcome with wonder, the widow fell on her knees, her eves fixed on the words, "A present for the fatherless;" while the boys, lavinor hold of their suits of clothes, jumped about the floor; shouting with glee. "What's .in the pocket here? what's in the pocket ?" cried Jim my, thrusting his hands into that place, when lo ! out came the very purse the widow had returned that morning, with five pieces of gold still in it ! A scene of joyous confusion fol lowed, and the voice of prayer as cended from Sarah Goodwin's full heart. Again and again she look ed at the glittering treasure. It seemed a fortune to her. How her heart ran over with gratitude to God and the stranger! She could not rest till, throwing on her bonnet, with cheeks glow ing now with hope and happiness, she ran back to the hotel to pour forth her thanks. A carriage stood at the door, laden with trunks behind. The driver mounted the seat as she reached the steps, and, turning her head, there within sat the stranger She had not time to speak; but he nodded his head as he saw her with clasped hands standing there, and a prayer on .her lips. Sarah never saw the stranger again. She took a little shop and stocked it well, and put her bovs to school To-day she is the owner of a re spectable shop. Of her four boys, two are ministers, one is a doctor, and the other is a thriring trades man. s Nobody knows where the man with the flowing hair has gone; but it lie is living, and should ever hear of Widow Goodwin, he will have the joy of knowing the noble results of bis generous deed to wards the worthy woman and her four boys. Christain Observer. Foul Wateh axd Disease. It has been long known to intelli gent persons that foul water is one of the agents for the diffusion of disease; but even these will be as tonished to be assured, as Sir Wil liam Jenner positively assured the last meeting of the British Medical Association, at Leeds, that two of the most fearful diseases, cholera and typhoid fever, are mainly if not entirely propagated by the drinking of contaminated water. No individual can take too much care to keep their drinking water free from impurity, and it is of the highest importance that large com munities should be supplied wTith water uncontaminated by any re fuse or sewerage At any rate where this is not done, there ought to be an end of the impertinence of ascribing diseases to the "mys a terious dispensation of Provi- ' deuce." THE SOLITARY GRAVE. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writing from the Wind River Valley on the Plains, de scribes a bivouac of the soldiers stationed on that post, and relates the following incident: At .the further side of a meadow stood a log hut, and near it stood a solitary grave. Here, all alone, had lived an old man named Frenchy until last May, when the Sioux murdered him. He was a queer case, and came from Canada, where he has a brother living who is wealthy. Old Frenchy, as he was called, kept no arms, and did not believe the Indians would harm him. The frontiersmen re- monst rated with him and ari offi cer passing one day with- troops, not long before he was killed, of fered to lend him a gun and some ammunition, assuring him he would be killed; but Frenchy de clined, saying, "I have never done them any harm, why should the Indians wish to hurt me?" In the East Frenchy would have been called a Quaker but out here ev erybody called him a crazy-headed old fool. One day last May, while he was planting potatoes, a party of Sioux rushed down from the hills upon him, and after shoot ing him through the body, stuck a pick through his temjles so the point stuck in the ground, and so left him, after stripping off his clothes. Major party of citizens Baldwin, with a from South Pass, found him next day and buried him. His real name was La Cour, and and he persistently claimed that his father had served as a briga dier general under Napoleon, and that he had great relatives in France. Old Frenchy's house was a curious structure, and wor thy of a sketch in Harper. Near where he lived the timber was very large, and as the poor old man had no horses and no one to help him he had to cut the thick logs in short pieces so as to be able to drag and lift them. With a rope he had hauled some of these Ios more than a mile, and it was incredible to see what heavy ones he had lifted on his house, and how nicely he had joined the ends together, it taking two and some times three lengths to reach along one side of the building. He had made an old-fashioned shaving horse, and with a rusty shaving knife had hewn down poles and made chairs, tables, and bunks. Inside lie had an extra bed nicely fitted up; and to sleep here and partake of whatever he had to cat in his cabin, all white men and Indians were welcome. He never refused to divide what he had with whoever came, and was the friend of all alike. Savage, indeed, must have been the nature, and hard the hearts, of those who, in cold blood, could murder such a poor old man. We felt, as we looked at his lonely grave that if we had his murderers in our power they soon should pay the forfeit of their crime; but some frontiersmen seem to have already settled poor Frenchy's case, for on a log near the door of his cabin is nailed an Indian scalp, and un derneath, on a little bare place are written three words in rude letters, that notwithstanding the misspell ing, have caused more than one heart to feel glad of their justice. They are: " Venjence for Frenchy." Brigliam Young on Polygamy-. Brigham YToung claims that po lygamy is not peculiar to Mormon ism. In a sermon recently he said that Father Alraham' had many wives, and he quoted many others He said God had never forbidden rolvramv. The Saviour never re buked it, though surrounded uy if It was a new invention to rule out this' practice of the olden time.- " But," said he, " we are not polyg amists exactly." .tie has children lv nuift wives.) "JJut we are sealed for eternity, as it is revealed to us." lie then spoke of the dreary life that must be passed through the untold and incompre hensible period of eternity by those wno nave congenial pIIi.o v-m ed" to them. These sealed com panions, beautiful angels in eterni ty, will make us happy in the pres ence of God. But Brigham didn't explain the effect upon the women. While a man has twenty wives or angels to make him happy, the poor women have only one-twentieth part of a man each to attract their attention. . A wealthy fool in New York has been presenting a Tammany act ress with a two thousand five hun dred dollar diamoud set. AN INCOMPLETE EDUOATIOX. From the San Francisco Occident. Physical development and intel lectual culture are not in themselves a complete education. It is inva riably admitted in this country, and throughout the civilized world that moral training is the import ant part of education." But this is too often practically ignored both by parents and teachers, in view of what they suppose as the more brilliant results of intellectual cul tivation; and the teacher whose pupils are furthest advanced in in tellectual development, is general ly most commended. This is not as it should be. Giants in mere intellectual cultivation devoid of moral culture, too often prove a curse to society and the world, ra ther than a blessing. The devel opment of the physical and intel lectual, without the salutary influ ence of religious principles, is too frequently a stimulus to, rather than a preventive of crime. Institutions of learning without moral culture, are a practical failure ; and so long as this continues, we need not ex pect a scholastic education to be a barrier against crime. Just so long as the Bible is practically excluded in the education of youth, and pri zes awarded without reference to moral rectitude, we shall have an incomplete system of education. The development of the physical nature is most indubitably defec tive. How few do we meet with well developed bodies. Most per sons entering into manhood or wo manhood, in this age, are but great babies in regard to their physical levelopment. And why should this be the case in this age of the world s progress i We olten see small children who should be enga ged in those amusements best cal culated to develop their physical nature, set to master intellectual 7 school-tasks of science, far beyond the capacity even of minds of con siderable culture, the results ot all which will be, irom the verv na ture of the case, permanent physi cal infirmity and premature death. The unnatural and unhealthful pos ture in which many children are required to sit during the long rou tine of school exercises, day after day, and week after week, is mos injurious to a well developed phys ical organization. He whose Intel lect has been thoroughly develop and whose moral nature has been judiciously educated, may do much trood while he lives in the world ;"but it cannot be said o him in truth, that his education is complete. In the development, of the intel lect, also, we feel confident that the system now in practice might be reatly improved. lhe devel opment of thought should be the aim of all intellectual discipline. Simply storing the mind with form ulas and theories of the world's great thinkers, whose gigantic in tellects have spanned the heavens in their immense sweep after knowl edge, and plungtd deep into the earth after her hidden treasures of intellectual endowment unfolding the laws which govern this planet on which Ave live, not only in regard to itself, but in reference to the uni: verse of God falls far short of what we understand by the term education; for all formulas and theories are but the symbols of the mighty undertone of thought. To develop thinkers, therefore, should be the object of all teaching. Let all instructors of youth impress up on the minds of those committed to their discipline, the importance of continuous reflection. There is still in our education too much of the parrot sstem, which, perhaps, nothing but time, whose magic touch cures so many evils and also solves so many problems, will ever eradicate. And that the moral and religious culture of the youth of the pres ent age, is incomplete, requires no extended argument to prove. Ex cept we hav.e given considerable attention to the subject, we can form no adepuate idea ot the igno rance which prevails in Christian countries, m reference to the doc trines of the Bible, even among persons of adult years. This should not be the case in an enlightened age, and in a Christian land. What a momentous responsibility, there fore, rests on instructors of youth, whether as parents, guardians or professional teachers ! lhat youth may become educated in the high est sense of the term, institutions of learning should be regarded on ly as co-workers with parents. And just here we would remind pa rents that they have something to do in thi3 matter, if they woulcH have their sons and daughters wel trained physically, intellectually and morally ; that they have some thing to do in the education of their children, if they would have them qualified to fill honorable and iise- ul positions m society in after life. When we see so many children whose moral training if any is so limited, we tremble for their fu- ure and for the future of society, in this our western home. But we are not discouraged, nor do we sit down in despair. If Ave cannot cure this error by one effort, in one hour, we will do what we can, and lope and toil on, for this is a work of time, and patient labor. We be- leve that when right principles are early implanted, vice is checked and crime prevented ; that sorrow is very much diminished ; that pre ventive is far better than cure. - That system of education which practically ignores correct moral culture in the training of youth, is certainly defective. But the exal- atiou of the intellect above relig ion and morality is the error of the nineteenth century. We believe, with a distinguished writer of our times, that to neglect the moral powers in education, is to educate not quite half the man." If we could awake a deeper interest in this most important pail of educa tion, which is so much neglected, both in family discipline and scho lastic education, we would ieel doubly rewarded for any time wo have spent in writing these lines. Tlie Big N'wggct Wtlrome Stranger. The "Welcome Stranger," says an Aus tralian paper, was found by two men na med John Deason and Richard Oates, on Friday, 5th February, 18G9, near the Black Reef, Bulldog Gully. Moliagul. a short distance from Wajman's Reef, aud only about one mile from the celebrated Gypsy diggings. Deason and bis mate had been working in the ground for sev eral years past, and, as is well known, bad got in digging parlance, so hard-up' as to have been refused credit for a bag of flour a. week or so ago, and we believe the- very day before the discovery were re minded by a tradesman that they were- indebted to him a few shillings. Still they persevered, until on the day named Dea.; son, in working round the roots of a treer at about two inches below the surface, struck something hard with the picK, and exclaimed. D n it, I wish it was a nug get and had broken the pick !" On stoop ing down to examine the obstacle he found that the object of his dearest wishes was lying at his fect and it seemed as if the monster was so large a3 to be almost immovable. It was, however, at length released from its virgin soil and carefully removed. The question then arose as to what was to be done with it, and the first intention was to convey it to Melbourne. When the men got to Dunnally with their prize they were advised to carry it to the bank, and forthwith carried it to the Lon don Chartered. The weight in the gross was then found to be 210 pounds troy, and preparations were at once made to break the mass into pieces and smelt it The appearance of the 'welcome stranger"1 in this pristine state was something won derful, and it seemed impossible to realize the fact that so large a mass of gold could be collected in one lump. But so it was. After no less than Gve hours hammering, the monster was pounded up and smelted, the result being 2268 ounces, 10 dwts. and 3 grains of solid gold, exclusive ot at east one pound weight, which was given by the delighted finders to their numerous friends, who were each anxions to retain a piece of the largest mass of gold the world has yet seen. Over 9000 were ad vanced on the nugger by the bank, the al value awaiting the result oi the as say. Uniform Taxation. Radicals claim that the present system of taxation under the Internal Reve nue laws is equal aud uniform, op erating alike in all sections of the country, and not favoring one at the expense of the other, and yet Radical Congress allows the Yankee fisherman to have his salt free of duty for packing his codfish. and mackerel, while the western, farmers and pork packers, who pack beet and pork, have to pay a duty of HQ per cent on that arti cle. Still they say there is no ia voritism or discrimination shown. The Constitution of the United States provides, in Sec. 8, Article I,, that "lhe Congress shall- have power to lay and collect taxes, du ties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for-thccomV. mon defense and general welfare of the United States." Levying, a. tax on salt consumed in one. sec,-. tion of the country, and, relieving New England consumers of any tax on it, is tjie Radical theory of uniformity. " p - A gloomy octogenarian was com. plaining to. Auber of the hard ne-. cessity ot growing pia. . " it is," replied the veteran cpmpp ser "it seems to me the only means . 1 of enjoying a long lite.