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o f J? " . c'"""t ( O (S o !'5 l rf t 3 j.-. 1 j ' -i 9j r o 5- 1 r fi 1 si F---rf7--j;7 -1IM -.V s-e. T -.VJ.M .-'V:. l .fl A S - o OIUSGO CITY, OKEGT, FBIDAY, FIBRUAIll: 10, NO. 11. - ; ..... ' . f I V.., ' f,"' - A- 3 -EOT nEr7rr H1J O JIIP. I ffiU IjJi 0 01 o o o o 0 i o :'- o o o i o "nChe Weekly Enterprise A DEMOCRATIC PAPER, 4 FOB THE usiness Fan, the Farmer Ami the FAMILY CIRCLE. ISSrEBJVHV II1 RAY BY A. NOLTFER, koi roil AND rUULIMlfcU. OFFICE In Dr.Theing'slirkk Building, -o vi TERMS of SUBSCR1PTIOX: Single Copy one year, in advance, . .$2 50 ( TER 3 IS of A 1) I 'J R TISIX G : Transient advertisements, including all les?al notices, V sr. of 12 lines, lw. 2 60 For each subsequent insertion 1 ('0 One Column, one year J120 00 Hlf " m 'Q-iarteP " " 4P Business Card, 1 square one year. . ... 12 &g Remittance to be made at ttterisko Subscriber, and at the cxpcnK of Agznts, no oh' a xi) J on prixtixg. ' &3 The Enterprise office is supplied with beautiful, approved tvles of. type, and mod ern MACHINK I'UKSSl-:, whi.'h will enable the Proprietor to do Job Punting at all times Xeat, Quirk and Cheap ! tfff" Work solieiled. AH Jiusin.eit.1 tr.itictinii upn a Specie bni.. B 1 11 D S. Attorney at Law, Ort-go ii Citj-, Oregon. Sept.K:ly. JOHN FLEMING, iSj DEALT. 11 IN BOOKS AflD STATION! IX MY EUS' TIKE-PROOF PRICK, MUV STREET, ORKOOX CITY, OIlEflOX. MACK & WELCH, ' ' OFFICE - In Odd Fellow.-,' Temple, corner of First and AhU r hHro ts, Portland. The pat r-n a go ofi.llio-'1 desiring superior Ttperatioi s is in sp,;,t' ie(uet. Nitrous ox id)? for the rainless extraction of tceb. If" Artdieial teeth "bet'i-r than the best," tin I ui cheap ctt the chmieH. .. Dee. 2Htf Dr. J, H. HATCH, DENTIST. i The patronage of those des'ring nrst duns Ojtcnitionf, is respectfully solicited. Satisfaction in ail cases guaranteed. N. It. Xi trt. Oxy.It adt'uif.istered for the Painless Extrarlion of Teeth, i. Oi't'iOK In Vciu;a!it's new b'ti'.ling, est ,side of First street, between Alder and Mor rison streets, Portland, Oregon. Physician and Surgeon, 5?0;h to on ;lu Street, opposite Mason ic lla'l, Oregon City. lStf "Liva and Let Live." .JIELDS & STrTcKLER, ; DEALERS IN PROVISOS, GROCERIES, COUNTRY FRODLVE, Sec, CHOIOI. WINKS AND LIQUORS. " "At the i'l 1 stuul of Wottman & Fields O it-iron t it , Ore 1 3 1 f W IT. W ATKINS, M. D., SURG HON. PouTLwn, Oi:ko n. ., OFFICE Odd Fellows' Temple, corner First and Mder streets Residence corner of Min and Seventh streets. 'Attorney and Counssior at Law, I'uiicnui ai solicitou. AVOCAT. ; . Practice? i St;te and U. S. Courts. tijice Xo. 10S Front Street. Portland, Crc-jon, Opposite McCormiek's iJook Stoaj- W. F. HIGHFIELD, Established since 119, at the old stand, ' Miin Street, Oregon. Cltij, Orttjon. An Assortment of atches, Jew elry, and Seth Thomas' weight Clocks, all of which are warranted to be a- represented. Rep.iiriuzs done on short notice, mil thankful for past favors. CLAE.H GREENMAH, X.L"5, City Drayman, 0 7? EG 0 X CITY. , 3 AH orders for the delivery of merchan dise or pne.kages and freisrht of whatever ties ipti i-i. to any p trt o" the -i ty , willbeexe fe ited proniptlvvtnd with care. "jTEW YORK HOTEL, (Deatfches Gafthans No. IT Front Street, opposite the Mail stearn slr'p la uling, Portland. Oregon. H. R0THF03, J. J. WILKENS, P R O P R T E T O R S . Board per Week 0f " with Lodging G uo " " Day 1 00 A. NOLTKER, Notary purltc, enterprise office Oregon City, Jan. 13:tt . Blanks. All kinds of blank? can be had at. this office Job Printing of every description neatly executed, al short holies?. Vrhon oilier smile? shall woo thee, And pleasures s!iH pursue thee ; When hope's bright tl reams have rantsbod Across life's marshy lea Like strains of music stealing, Unto thy soul appealing With every tender leeiing. Will be memories of inCi And when at eve thotl roreji With some one whom thou love? lYrchanre there'll come a moment, Wbt-rt thy heart will yearn to be With her who once carressed thee. Ah ! truer love ne'er blessed thee. Nor fonder arms e'er pressed thee j So give one tear to me. Yet not in grief nor argttish. Would I. love, have thie languish, But kindly, and with pleasure,. Think of all our happy days- Qf bourn that fed so gladly, Vi ijoyed by u3 so madly. That e'en their memory sadly Brings thoughts of love and mO. Oh ! wilt thou th'on remember! As fades the dying ember. When life no l-mger lingers In the once bright, sparkling faixie. That none e'er loved so dearly, And clung lo thc-e so nearly. As she. whose namr has merely Become a memory ? JAlcrcry, Conipanioll. Ycinan Unsextd. Steadily the domain of private life contnu-ts, the sphere of public action enlarges, the rostrum trams on the fireside, and lor promises that may be disappointed, we are called to abjure fruitions whose sweetness we have tasted. It was a woman who listened to t'.ll 1 1 i n t en thusiasm could paint of the exalt ation a i i (4 the evanireiization which are to reform civil society after the experiment of female suiTrage, and then nut the (iuestien with power ful simplicity : "Jhit if it should fail, how would you bring us back to our present sphere ;,' j here is a resident committee ot women in Washington, charged with the work of 'essin leihla tion upon Congress, appointed by the female suffrage convention now sitting here. This is not altogeth er unprecedented m kind, but it may well serve the occasion for a lew reflections. Xo persoh will question the contrast between the ollices and influence of the domes tie sphere and those about the pub lic halls of legislation. Whatever may be thought of the relative dig nity of the t wo spheres, their incon sistency is indisputable. Tho hidies who have accepted u post of duty in the lobby cannot ask to be treat ed as exceptional without deny ing their repi eseutative character altogether. Can we, then, applaud the transfer from homes, that can not receive compensating influ ences, to public lii'e, of agencies and enero-'ies undt iiialiy essential to society ? Aieu have hitherto made tile laws and women have made tht; homes. Jf the former are imper fect, what shall befall us if the lat ter become so too. It is trite to say that civilization revolves on the pivot of the family. Public abuses are never fatal wh'le the hearth stone is a refuse for senti ment. 1 ut concede for its unutter able sacraments the jurisdiction of public opinion, and the fabric of order musl faU to rutm i1d who is so unacquainted with human nature as to expect that woman may pass from sphere to sphere that she can bring domestic purity to the help of the State without bringing back the Slate into ii'rd sistible contact with the home? Perhaps the most melancholy truth of the times is, that abuses and perversions of the dominant political party have brought about so alarming a movement. Eor ages, notwithstanding the earnest repetition of alt abstract theories that have ever been proposed, the healthy instincts of both sexes con tinued to divide the work assigned to them by Providence, the holier to the beautiful, the ruder to the strong. Put now, a new argument is advanced. It ouolit to burn the dishonest cheek of the political impostors who, under color of doctrines they never believed in, having de graded suffrage in this country. In the convention, on Thursday Aliss Adele Iia.lett drew a har rowing picture of the injustice of men towards women, mid. scornful ly miornu-d the male portion of the audience that while they had in franchised the ignorant' Chinaman and negro, fr thrir cn-n sejUsh tnih, they kept their mothers, wifes, daughters, and sisters crouching at their feet in a degraded serfdom. This, then, is the whole secret and ?prii;g of the threatened in novation, and, as presented it Um. call y compels those who ipivo de graded and outraged the high priv ilege of suffrage, to accept the ar gument or confess their hppoerisy. J'at'iof. Gov. IIoidex reports the txpon ditures of Xorth Carolina for the year just ended, $700,000. Before the war, under the government of; its own people, these expenses did j not exceed 100,000 on an aver-I age. I A Frcjscted Paper Monopoly. It is known to all -consumers of paper, that within the last few years important discoveries have been made in connection with the manufacture of that important ar ticle, by Which straw and wood now enter largely into its compo sition, and that at present a large majority of all the papers in this country are printed on paper manufactured in the proportion of forty to seventy-live per cent, ot rags. This lids the affect to keep the prices down to figures consid erably below what they inevitably would be were the manufacture of paper still limited to rags the supply of "which would fall short Of the present requirements of the paper market; Still it is .averred that straw paper is to-day thirty three per cent, higher than rag pa per was in 1SG0, which would seem to leave no doubt that the manu facturers of straw are obtaining a good profit. Some recent develop ments, however, indicate that they are not satisfied with their profits, find that they are projecting a grand monopoly with the view to advancing the price. The princi Dftl facts: in connection with this movement are stated as follows: A company of eastern capitalists was formed about eighteen months ago, who bought up a number of patents under which paper is man ufactured from wood and straw. The .principal patent upon which, it is alleged, all others hinge, was about to expire, and the lirst step was to secure a renewal of this. This was accomplished and the patent extended. Thereupon a circular was issued to manufactur ers of paper using; straw or wood m any way m the production 01 paper notifying them of the com - bmation and of the extension ot 1... ,4- I , i. 4 I . ,,,,4 . . . i the patent, anil demanding that they should agree (first) to pay a royalty of vne per cent per pound, and second to bind tht rnSeives to run on short time whenever re quested so to do by the managers of the monopoly "-the "object, as stilted, being to reduce the supply of paper, and advance the price permanently to fifteen cent per pound. It was argued that this would greatly benefit the manu facturers of paper, as it would in sure large proiils On the products of their mills, and place the whole business practically under one head. Paper manufacturers gener ally, however, did not approve of the scheme, and for the time it failed. As a final effort, therfore, the would-be monopolists have re sorted to legal proceedings, and the manufacturers arc as a conse quence somewhat uneasy, though it would seem that there should be but one result to the issuc and that the overthrow of the men who are seeking to establish the mon opoly. A convention of paper manufacturers Was recently held at Cincinnati, at which this matter was considered, and it is intended to make an effort to procure from Congress an investigation of the proceedings by which the straw patent was extended, and if possi ble, have it overturned. Undoubt edly the matter is one which de serves the attention of the press of the country, in the interest alike of publisherers and the public. Printhifj Gazette. Governor Baker, of Indiana, rec ognizing the fact that much of the notoriety Attached to that State by reason of its loose divorce laws is due to the facility with which peo ple from other State", may obtain a divorce after a pretended resi dence in the Indiana, makes grave mention of this evil, in ihe way of a protest against its continuance, in his message to t lie Legislature. He also recommends a repeal of the statute which authorizes di vorce for any cause that the court may deem suflieient, and recom mends a limitation to such cases of cruel treatment as are proved to have been heartless and inhaman. He makes other suggestion for the improvement of the present di vorce laws which, if adopted, will certainly do much to remove from Indiana the odium which now at taches to her statutes on this sub ject. A stranger observing, an ordi nary roller-rule on the table took it up, and on inquiring its use, was answered : "It is a rule for counting-houses." Too well bred, as he construed politeness, to ask unnec essary questions; he tnrned it over and over, tip and down, re peatedly, and at last in a paroxysm of baffled curiosity, inquired, T bou rn the name of wonder do they count houses with th.is'r' The I'ndiana Legislature is in fore travail again. A couple of Republican Senators have deserted their standard and joined the De mocracy bag and baggage. This gives the Dnmocracy a working majority in the Senate. Of course the Republican Senators are threat ening to resign and go home: Editorial Life and Dissipation. Some monthr. ?ince the 3Jev. Henry Ward Peecher, in the course of a sermon at the funeral of a Xew York journalist, took occa sion to reflect upon the editorial profession in general as given too much to habits of dissipation. We thought the indictment some what harsh, believing that when all the conditions- surrounding the life of the average journalists ;nre taken into account, editors are net as a class a woiT.Cj but rather bet ter, than the mass of men ; that there is really as great, if not greater, nttentip;: and regard paid to temperance ih all things by the members of this as of any regular profession. We are still "disposed to cherish this view, and yet it must be conceded that there Is enough of dissipation in the ranks of journalists to awaken the live liest regret among those who honor the calling, and to challenge the attention and effort of every well wisher of the profession to the end that the evil may fie brought fully into view, and. if possible, its pro- -.1 1 '-... T . s gressMueu. conceding to jour nalists no higher quality of moral discrimination, and no greater abil ity to resist the demands of appe tite and the behests of passion, than are possessed by other men whose education and opportuni ties have been equally favorable, it is not dillicult to understand why those engaged in newspaper work might be more given to sensual in dulgences than men in any other calling of life. The temptations that wait upon every step of the journalist are greater in number and more urgently pressed than any other class of men are called upon to cumenu v. itii. no is a j public character whose company . - men seek, whose friendship and aid all men desire, and whose pres- ence is anvays welcome. Thus at every turn lie is brought into con tact with some, one who is anxious to manifest his good feeling of friendship, and the wine cup is brought into requisition. Further more, the general demands of journalism upon the vital forces of those engaged in it are to some ex tent responsible for this dissipa tion. The newspaper press of to day is a treadmill, the ceaseless terrible toil of which exhausts the energies and grinds out the life of its victims with certainty and rap idity possible to no other calling, and under ?. enervating and de teriorating strain upon the mind and body that it imposes, the ir regular ami unsettled -life that it inflicts, the call for some stimulant that will re-invigorate failing vital- 1 1 v is oiieu imperatively eailen lor if not indeed necessary. Still the vice is one to be seriously and earnestly discouraged, for "in its prevalence not alone are individu als, many of them men of splendid promise, dragged down to ruin, but the profession of journalism is lowered in the public estimation, and the title of editor is made a reproach rather than what it should be, a term of honorable distinc tion among men, and of social worth and influence to its posses sors. Vrlntbaj Gazette. A Story With a Moral. A young man paying attention to a young lady, met with the following incidents during one of his visits: Being invited into the parlor to await the lady's appearance, he en tertained himself as best he might for some timec and was becoming weary, when a little girl about live years old slipped in and began to converse with him. "lean always tell when you are coming to our house," she said. "Why, when you are going to be here sister begins to sing and get good ; she gives me cake and pie, and everything I want, and she sings so sweetly when you are here, and when I speak to her she smiles so pleasantly. I wish you would stay here all the while, then I could have a good time. But when you go off sister is not good. She gets mad, and if I ask her for thing she slaps and bangs about." "Fools and children tell any me the truth," he muttered and taking his hat he left and returned no more. Moral. Parents wishing their ill-natured daughters married, should keep their small children out of the parlor when strangers are there, Kentucky, which was the ninth State in the Union, in point of pop ulation, is now. the eighth. The glorious old State is more than holding her own in the race of na tional progress. Her advance in the last ten years has been greater than Ohio, notwithstanding that she has suffered so greatly by the civil war. An Ohio girl has been widening her sphere in New Michigan, by acting as " first lieutenant of canal boat and second mate of a rake factory in men's clothes. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, TTXTTtrTTP.QTTV (W C. A T.TFORNT A . ATnieEill. The fillcv. ing- among other res olutions, was offered in the Xew Hampshire Democratic Conven tion, and. after being discuSred, was submitted to the voters of that State for endorsement at the ap proaching election. It is a true bill: Jtesolccd, That nearly two years have tested the capacity of Gen. Grant for civil administration, they have shown him little in intellect, nothing in political virtue and alike unable to comprehend the duties, rise to the level of the re sponsibilities and insensible to the obligations of his exalted station. He first gave the country a gift enterprise Cabinet, ruating with the ebb and flow of the donation-. lie has made merchandise of the appointing power, which the con stitution placed i:i his hands to be exercised for the public gcod, until his great olh'ee has become a " hucksters' mart" and a pool for Wall street and other jobberies. lie has billited an arniy of relatives upon the revenues wrung from the people, as if we were in the midst of war and they were public ene mies. Hy has driven from his Cabinet those who would not make their trust subservient to his inter est, public plunder and partisan ends. He h-1? done his best to de stroy the independence of, and to degrade that great tribunal, the Supreme Court of the United States. He has hawked about infe rior Federal judgeships among the rable as the reward for personal and low partisan services. He has connived at the reign of specula tion and fraud in several of the Southern States, and has attempt ed by intimidation and military in terference to deprive them of any fair and legitimate exercise of the elective franchise. He has at tempted, by an array of military force, to throttle the liberties of the great States of Xew York and Pennsylvania, and to deprive their people of a fair and honest elec tion, lie has purchased foreign territory .and paid therefor the mono' of the people of the United States in defiance of law. Through most unworthy motives, and means as d srcputable, he has sought by a miscalled treaty, negotiated by Ids " military family" with a usurper, to introduce into this Union a pop ulation which would tie a fostering curse to any republican government-. And, finally, this mimic Ca-sar now proposes to "crown the edifice" with a " sound em jure" and xo secure another four years, flow of fdfts by overthrowing and again reconstructing the con with the stitutions of the States aid of bayonet, until the peojd'e thereof vote according to. the man dates of so-called " servant ot the i . , -i.i "... i peojuc ami me purasu.es ana coi- rujition which he around him. has gathered The Democratic Xomixee. A Xew York jajer says that the Dem ocratic nomination for President will lay between Thurmau ofOhio, Hendricks of Indiana, and Casser ly of California, blither of these great statesmen would suit us to a dot, and particularly would we be gratified with the nomination of our old time friend, Casserly of Cal ifornia. We fear, however, that Senator Casserly is not elligible, being of foteign birth. But in this it is possible that we are mistaken, and if so, we second the proposition to nominate the distinguished Cali fornia. Senator for the highest of fice in the gift of the people." Our acquaintance . with Mr. Casserly dates back many years, and we can vouch for it a truer friend or more ardent advocate of democratic prin ciples is no where to be found. A gentleman of polished manners, and cultivated intellect, he would do much to redeem the Presidential office- from the disgrace that lias attached to it since the advent of radicalism. Not a buffoon like Lin coln, or a sot like Grant, Casserly would look and act the President, and Americans would no longer blush :-it the mention ofthenameof their Chi.f Magbt ate. IF IF. iStatesman. -r9 - r. An Irishman was traveling on his road to Manchester, X. II. lie arrived at the forks of the road where there stood a sign-board, which read, Manchester four miles " 3Ian ehuised her four miles!" cried Paddy, be Saint Pathrick, I could have caught her meself in half the time;" Kissep. A country girl coming from the field, was told by her cousin that she. looked as fresh as a daisy kissed hy thedew; .uXd, in deed," was her dimply reply, "that wasn't Ids name." Complains. A farmer com plains that when lie takes his wheat to have it ground he finds a vcry large portion of it is subject to mill-dew! Jim W olf and the Tom Cats. Kark Twain's Arrant cf a Tragical Affair- I knew by the sympathetic glow upon his bald head I knew by the thoughtful look upon his face I knew by the emotional Hush upon the strawberry on the end cf the old free livers nose-, that Simon Wheeler's .memory was busy with the oldeti time?. And sc I prepar ed to leave, because all these were symptoms of a reminiscence signs that he wivs going to be delivered of another of his tiresome personal experiences; but I was too slow ; he got the start of me. As nearly ns I can recollect the infliction was trenched in the following language: Yv'e were all boys then and didn't care for nothing, and didn't worry about nothing, only to simc?chool and keep up a revivin' state of div ihnent all t lie time. This yer Jim. Wolf I was talking about was the prentice, and lie was the best heart ed feller, he was, and the most for givin, and onselfish I ever see well, there1 couldn't . have been a j bullier boy than he was take him. ! how you would, and sorry, sorry enough I was w hen I saw him for the last lime. Me and Harry was always es tering hint and jdasteiing hoi-s bills on his back, and jmtting bumble bees in his bed, and so on, and sometimes we'd crowd in and bunk with him. notwithstanding his growling, and we'd let on to get mad and fight across him, so as to keep him stirred up like. He was nineteen ; he was long, and lank, and bashful ; and we was fourteen and ten, tolerably worthless and lasy. So that night, you know, that my sister Mary gave a candy pul liu', the' started, us olf to bed early, so as the eompanv" could have full swing, and we run into Jim to have some fun. Our wiiulow looked out unto the roof of the ell, and about ten o'clock a couple ot old torn cats got to rarin' and chargin'. about it, and Carrying oft like siii. There was four inches of snoW on the roof, and it was frozen so that there was a right smart crust, of ice on it. and the moon was shin ing bright, and we could see them cats like daylight. First they'd stand off and o-you pow wow, just the same as if they were- a cussin one another, you know, and bow up their backs and jmsh up their tails, and swell round and spit, and then all of a sudden the gray cat he'd snatch a handful of fur out of the valler cat's hams and spin him round like the button on a barn door, but the yaller cat was game, and he'd come and clinch, and the way they'd ; gouge, and bite, and howl, and the way they'd make the fur fly was owerful. Well. Jim he got disgusted with this row, and 'lowed he'd clime out there and shake 'em off ?i the roof. He hadn't reely no notion of doin' it, but we everlastin'ly dogged him, and bullyragged him, and 'lowed he'd always bragged how he would not take a dare, and so on, till bimCby he histed up the .winder, and Io and behold you, he went went exactly as he was ; nothing on but a shirt, and it was short. But you ought to .n-seen him creep ing over the ice, and diggin' his tee-nails in to keep from sipim ; and, above all, you ought to a seen that shirt-tail llnpqdu' in the wind, and them long, redioulous shanks of his glistening in the moonlight. Them Company folks were down there under the eaves, the whole squad of 'em, under that ornery shed of old "Washington Bower vines all settin' round about two dozen sassers of hot candy, which they'll set in the snow to cool. And they was laughin and talkie.' lively; but bless you, they didn't know nothin, about the panorama that was goin' on over their heads. Well, Jim he went a sueaken' uj unbeknown to them torn cats they was a swlsliin' their tails, and threatenin' to clinch, you know and not payin'-any attention he went a sneakin' right to the comb of the roof, till he was within a foot and a half of 'em, and theft all of a sudden he made a grab fortheyal lar cat. But, by gosh, he missed fire and slipped, his heels flew uj, ami he flojjed on his back, and he went oil'ni that roof like a dart! went a slashiii' and a smashin' ami a crashin' down through them old rusty vines, and landed in the cen tre of them eomp'nv people ! .-at down like a yarlhqunke in them two down shssers of red hot candy. and let olf a howl which was hark from the tomb ! Them gals well, tliev looked, ycii know. They see he wasn't dressed for company, and so thev left. AH done in a second. It w iust one little war-whoop and a whisk of their dresses, and blame the wrench of 'mi was m sndit anywhere. Jim he was a sight. He was o-ormed with that bilm1 ot molas ses candy clean down to his heels, and had more busted sassers hang- ing to him than if he was an Injurl princess and he came On prancin up stairs, just a lloppin and a cus sin', and every jump he made lie ?hed some china, and every squinh he fetched he dropped stjme candy! And blistered! Wliy, :bless your soul, that poor creature couldn't really set down for as much as four weeks. o The Stevens Inventory. It is fa r from plesant to meddle with dead men's affairs, and w'e never , should have said a word abohit Mr. Thaddeus Stevens' assets had it not been that his friends introduced the subject to the public. The apology now made by accredited organs for the suiiprcssion of the inventory is that it was withheld because of "a claim against the estate by the colored woman," with whom, i'ot i quarter of a century, Mr. Ste ens lived, or who lived with Mr. Stevens, and another connected with a furnace in which the de cedent has an interest.- Xot'djq ing skilled in PennsylvaninQ Jaw, we may be in error : but it occurs to us, as matter of eommonsense, that an inventory of 'M intestates' personal projierty has nothing to do with claims on the estate. An administrator's instinct and duty is to juit on record, as soon. as, may be, for his own protection, a statement of whatever property be it Pacific railroad slock or not, Which comes into his hands. This is all that an inventory means. To resist unjust claims, is a dis tinct and prosterior duty. Sprxdy it is not meant by our nggrophilo friends who represent Mr. Stevens, that they suj)jressed the inventory in order, by a show of poverty, to discourage " the colored wnnan" from prosecuting her claim? And yet that inference is inevitable, or else there Avas a design in conceal ing the aggregate, value of the es tate, which can readily be imag ined. Mr. Stevens, as las already been stated, was ,on the verge of bankru.jitcy oifly a few years ago. A portion of:, his, property was destroyed when the Confederates invaded Pennsylvania Still, iit sjute of these facts, and without its being pretended that lie Re quired wealth by legacy or dona tion, he died, as is admitted hy3 parties interested, in diminishing the value of the estate, irossesseol -Si 40,000! How much more the jitiblic is not permitted to know because his legal rejresentatives refuse to conform to. the accepted usage, and purposely withhold the information. In what mannero was this fortune acquired in so short a time ? is. the inquiry which has iiot been answered. it is enough to make the great agitator turn in the grave which he pre scribed for himself in the promis cuous cemetary. With all this, however, the public has non con cern. All it has a right to "Know is5 was Mr. Stevens, Radical lejider and reformer, at his death owner cf stocks or securities which had the ear-mark of Congressional cor- rujitiou ? tion. It is a very simple ques- . . . , O A Persuasive Wife. A cor resjiondent of the Denton Jfcnitor says a handsome, dashing woman', rode into a village in that, region, a few days ago, and alighting Horn her horse, went rapidly to a drink ing saloon, where a number ofov ereigns were having a "high time-.!' She singled out the finest looking man in the crowd, walked up to him, seized him by the. arm and ordered him to put down flic glass he was about to drain. He dashed down the glass and rushed away The lady followed, and finally cor nettd him in the billiarjl-rooin. She told him, in a firm, determined voice, that t he place he was ih .and the course he was pursuing would not answer for her , husband that he was wasting her yropertyf and that she would no longer coil sent to be disgraced and .impover ished by him. Sie demanded hjs pistol. . He refused!, She took, it from him, cocked it, and presented it at him, and told him he-must leave or die. He concluded to leave. She marched him out as a prisoner of war to where Ids horse was hitched, ordered him tgmountj and in a few minutts the two were Ii-iviii"- town, the wife riding in the rear of her capturedord, with his six-shooter in her hand. , -- . A little hoy embodied his thoughts on theology in wordsj t has : " I don't see how the devil came to turn out so, when there was no other devil to ptit him up to it." " Mammy" ! said a precious lit tle boy, who, against his will, waa made to rock the cradle of his babv brother, "if the Lord has any more babies to give away don't you take 'em. L ' o The man who tried to tan leather, with the"bark of a dog has gone into the sausage business. o O o o 0 o o