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CUAKLKS IL WAE1ISJJX,
Attorney at Law,
Oregon City, Oregon.
Sept.lO:ly.
.JOHN M. BACON,
:cas csx sid isssl fs-s
STATIONEIIV. rEUFUMHiiV. c, Ac.
Orpon Cihf, Oregon.
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cupied by S. Ackrriixrn, Maui stm-t.
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rf' DEALER IN
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MVIK STREET, ORfiOX CITY. OUKCON.
mack a WELCH,
I" 'OFFICE -In Oild Fellows' Ton.ph corner
of First and Alder Street s Poithwid.
The patronage of tho-e deslrinir superior
$ 'operations is in' special request. Nilrmisox-
Ide for the painless t xt rai t ton of trt th. ?
3-Artilicial teeth "b-.-tter thauthe best,
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DENTIST,
The patronage of tnose desiring rri Ciax
Op"ratio- is respectfully solicited.
Satisfaction in all cases srnaranteed.
jfCfj X'drou Ojc'J-1'- administered for the
Tainless Extraction of Teeth.
)r-icK In Weiiiaut's new h nhlii.tr. west
"Side of First street, let ween Alder ai.d Mor
rison streets, Portland, Oregon.
"Live and Let Live.
piELDSX- STUICKLEIi,
DEALERS IN
PROVISIONS, GROCERIES,
COUNTRY PRODUCE, &c,
CHOICE AVIXES AND LIQUORS.
it tli ni l -find of Worttnan & Fields
Oiegou Citj , Oregon.
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OFFICE Odd Fellows' Temple, corner
r First and lder streets Residence corner ot
Main and Seventh streets.
; ALAN SON ST.1ITH,
Attorney and Counselor at Lav,
PIlOCTOll AM) SOiatlTOK.
AV0CAT.
Practices in State and U. S. Ccwrts.
Office -Yu. 108 Front SlretLPoribtrL Oregon,
O.iptsite McCor.nick's Book Sto."u-
W. F. HIGHriELD,
Established since lS4l),at the old stand,
JU-n'u Strett, Oregon Clf;i, Orojon.
An Assortment of Watehe? . Jew
elrv. and Seth Thomas wel-rii
Clocks, all of whi -ii are warrantei
to be as represented.
RenairttiS! done on sliort notice.
and thankful for past favors.
CLAHK GSE.ENHAIT,
City Orayisnan,
OR EG 0 X CI T 1".
Alt orders for the delivery of merchan
dise or packages and freight of whatever f
cription. to any part of the city, w ill he cxe
ited promptly and with care.
JEW YOUK IP3TET
(Dentfehes Gaft1 ans.N
No. 17 Front Street, opposite th Mail steam
ship landing, Portland. Oregon.
h! R0THF03. J. J. WILKENS,
PROPRIETORS.
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A. NOLTflER,
NOTARY PUBLIC, ENTERPRISE OFFICE
Oregon City, Jan. 13:tt
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i Dr. Kevsrman on Official Honesty.
I'l. NEM'JfAX OX OFFICIAL II OXESTY
THE COUItUlTIOX OF LEGISLA
TIVE AND ri'I'.LIC OFFICES
ikiises fi;om loi;l;yists axd at
2lectjoxs ilsiiox k s t y 1 x
TRADE AND .srECL LATlOX.
WAsiirX(;rox, F el). 12, 1S 1.
Tflic Iiov. Dr. Newman preached
tliis morning on t he subject of offi
cial honest v. President and Mrs.
(jrnit, Vice President Colfax, Sec
retiry Delano and several Senators
and llepresentatives were among
the. congregation. Dr. Newman
took occasion to rebuke dishones
ty i: high places, wliile he com
mended those who "withstood the
bribes and temjitations incidental
to official life, lie took his text
from IJomaus, twelfth chapter,
seventeenth verse "Provide things
honest in the s'ght of all men."
The duties of Christianity are two
fold ethical and devotional. The
former include all those relations
which exist between man and man,
and relate to liberty, justice, prop
erty, character, veracity,
TA liKIAlii: AXl) CIVIL ( O V E KX M EXT.
The latter include those relations
which exist between the creature
and the Creator. A grievous mis
take has been made by many men
in attempting to divorce morality
from piety. Christianity is a re
ligion of protect ion. Seven of the
ten commandments are protective
in their character. It is not re
markable, therefore, that Paul
should take up this idea arid in an
emphatic manner imnose anew up
on us the ureal obligation of hon
esty. Dr. Newman spent a short
t hue
man
in considering the ground ol
right to property and the
source o
our ideas oi Honesty ana
dishonesty, it is founded in nature.
Iv-erv man has a right to himself,
to the faculties and capabilities
with which he has been
end
owe
and if he have a right to himself he
has an epual right to that which
may result from the innocent use
ot his powers. Society accords
this right; and divine and human
law throw their awful sanctions
about it.
"tmou SHALT xot steal"
is Clod's verdict on the subject.
Having laid the foundations of this
right, lr. Newman passed to con
sider how it may be violated. It
may be done by violence, as by
theft or robberv, by deception, by
abuse of trust. A broker
on
'Change may cause ialse informa
tion to In; circulated for the pur
pose of raising or depis-ing the
juice of stocks and he profit by the
ra-callit v.
(l.)d savs to such a
man.
"Thou shalt
not steal." A
speculator may monopolize an ar
ticle; to create artificial scarcity
and raise its price. He may tit r -cause
the poor man io pay fo.r
dollars more per barrel for Hour
for his family. To that man Clod
thunders out the law, "Thou shalt
not steal." There are relative
right and duties on the part of
tlie buyer and seller. The seller
in a certain sense is a benefactor
to soe'etv, and, as such, should be
esteemed, but he has no right to
mirepresent the quality of his
wares. Neither lias the buyer any
right to underr.-.tethem. Solomon
had this creatine to mind when he
said. "'Tis naught, 'tis naught,
saith the buyer, but Avhen he
"one he boasteth." Abuse
is
of
trust is another violation
of this
law. Society is held together by
the the golden bands of mutual
confidence. High honor is no less
necessary to command life than it
is a moral duty. 1 here are times
when a person is in such circum
stances as compels him to- entrust
lis property to another; tor that
party to
IMPERIL THAT PROPERTY IX SPECU-
LATIOX
is a "wanton oeirayai oi mat hum
and a dishonest trail -act Km. Put
the highest form of trust and hon
or is displayed on the part of soci
ety in selecting c'ti.ens to admin
ister the atfairs of civil government,
and when that trust is betrayed
for purposes of personal rain and
mat. nonor tarnished by omcial
corruption the offenses 'assume a
deeper d " and the criminality a
deeper tupitude. What can be a
sadder spectacle than to see a man
sitting in God's stead at the tribu
nal of justice to receive a bribe to
blind his eyes and pervert his judg
ment, or legislators chosen to make
laws for a peop.e to enrich them
selves by corrupt legislation at the
expense of the public welfare, or of
AN EXEi tTIVi: OR CLKK AI. OVTIi'Ki:
to appropriate to himself that which
a too confiding people have entrut
ed to honesty and honor. As we
rise on the scale of moral responi
hilitv from the midnight bandar,
the murderous highwayman, the
shrewd trickery of the merchant
and bluer, the crafty speculator,
to him who fills olfieial positions in
the minitratiou of government, we
are bound to attach greater guilt
to the dishonest acas oi the latter,
To dishonesty he adds hypocrisy,
OKEQON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1871.
He is not what he assumes to be
the faithf ul steward of the people's
wealth. Under the robes of office
there is a duplicity which merits
public exercation. lie moves
through society with the apostohc
exterior of Judas, but upon his
soul are tlie cankered spots ot the
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.
To his duplicity he adds treach
ery, to his deceit he has added
perjury. I lis solemn oath before
God has been degraded ; and to all
these lie has added his example to
public immorality. An example
in history is the case of Paeon.
Pope wrote of him, "The wisest,
brightest, meanest of mankind."
After laying with his mighty intel
lect the foundations of modern sci
ence, he had sought political pre
ferment, and under dames I, was
made High Chancellor, but his
love of display and thirst of gold
brought on his ruin. lie accepted
bribes, betrayed his trust and dis
honored his great name. He was
tried ami sentenced to pay a fine
of two hundred thousand dollars
ami to imprisonment in the Tower
during the King's pleasure. The
speaker then referred to the preva
lent causes of the violation of the
rights of property. These he de
signated as extravagance,
CORRUPT PI IU.IC S FX XI MET
and an inordinate love of wealth.
The love of pomp and show is as
excessive as it is pernicious. Fash
ionable society remorsely rejects all
butterflies which have lost their
brilliant colors. To gratify a natu
ral desire to mingle in fashionable
society many a man cheats his bus
iness by transferring his means to
THEATRES, RACE COURSES AXD EX-PE.N.-IVi:
1 'ARTIES.
Closley allied with all this is a
corrupt public sentiment. The man
who steals a loaf of bread to feed
his starving family is sent to jail,
but the man who is successful in
bold, dishonorable speculations is
caressed by society. Why is it
that official dishonesty is less dis
reputable than dishonesty in a pri
vate citizen ': is it not because the
public concicnce is depraved? In
all ages and countries and in all
forms of government olfieial cor-
ruption has prevailed, uur own
nation is no exception to the rule.
Men have taken advantage of their
places of trust and power for per
sonal gain and brought guilt upon
themselves and dishonor upon the
State, and to-day
THE CltV OF lU'RI.TC COXDEMXATION
resounds through the nations. Put
to what extent this official corrup
tion is due to a corrupt public sen
timent is a question which the peo
ple are bound to answer. hen
those who are called the foremost
citizen beleaguer halls of State and
national legislation for the passage
of bill, and oiler a consideration to
induce legislators to vote for their
mesures, the temper is worse than
the tempted. Nay more, when
citizen anxious to obtain office will
deliberately offer a consideration
to others for their influence the
man who makes the offer, is the
greater offender. Nay more; when
a people, rolling in wealth accu
mulating thousands and hundreds
of thousands a year will require
men of more brains, of more ability
to servo, them as public officers for
a pittance so small that a first class
clerk in commercial circles would
despise it is no marvel that, the
cupidity of such a people should
work
CORRUPTION" IX OFFICIAL LIFE.
Let the fountain purify itself and
the stream will be pure. Let the
people raise the standard, of moral
ity and the public men will follow
their example. While language is
too weak to express our deep ab
horrence of the treachery, the; per
jury, blighting effect of official cor
ruption, yet let us rejoice that in
every municipal government, in
every State legislation, in depart
ment of the national government,
there aie men whom gold cannot
corrupt, whose official honor can
not be impeached. The day of
reform has come. Let good men
everywhere be-stir themselves to
tighten the now relaxed reigns of
honesty and intone the public con
science to a severer morality. It
they do not
THE MIOXICIIT OV OUR UNION"
ic h-T.1,1 Yoe to a people who
enioy wealth saved by injustice
-. - . ii. i
oe to a generation mat ieeis uu
the bread f fraud ! W oe to
citizenship w ho prefer gold to Clod!
-O
Oregon fir is said to be astron
er wood tlein white oak. iests
made at the California navy yard,
fully proved the matter. The du
rability of the same wood, used in
.-hip building is also noticed as
; something remarkable.
- -te-
"A Poston lady's pins, when she
is dressed, number 300.
V e pity the man who keeps her
m "pm money
Jie
1 T
needs to be
j presiiknt ot a National Rank, or a
j member of the Grant's family.
"Answers to Letters-
From the Walla WaP.a Real 5'U'e Record
The usual number of letters
making inquiries concerning this
country are before us. As we can
not answer
...:n
each seperately, we j rpj,is time it comes from the Car
all together; or, at ; i;sie zv Mtrcurtf :
jn .ui;nci all lugctnti , v.,
least,' we will try to answer some
of the questions" that are asked in
nearly all of them :
GOVERNMENT LAND
Is plenty along the proposed route
of the Northern Pacific Pailroad.
It is subject to homestead or pre
emption; That which the settler
takes within the limits of the Rail
road grant, if he pre-empts it. he
must pay 2 50 per acre: f -he
homesteads, he can only take 80
acres, unless he has served in the
Union Army during the late rebel
lion in case he has, he can home
stead 100 acres. All of the Gov
ernment lands which lie more than,
from 20 to 30 miles away from the
line of the road can be purchased
at 2o per acre, and the home
steader can take 100 acres. There
are large quantities of the very
finest quality all through this
country, and if a person cannot
suit himself with a farm he must
be hard to pleasej indeed.
THE PRICE OF FARMS
Vary so greatly that it is impos
sible to give a very correct answer
to inquiries of. this kind. They
vary all t lie way from Government
price to 30 per acre, according to
improvements.
THE PRICE OF COMMON" LABOR
May be set at from l 50 to 2 00
per" day with board, and from
2 -50 to 3 00 without and from
35 to -SuO per month with board,.
For skilled labor, carpenters, black
smiths, brickmasons, and the like,
command iroui 4- 00 to 5 00 per
day. These estimates are about
an average, and are on a coin ba-
sis. There is plenty of work for
those here, and is a good opening
for all those who will probably
come. The demand is rapidly in
creasing, and during the commg
season there seems a probability
that all kinds of labor will be m
good demand, especially that of
mechanics.
WHERE THE RAILROAD AVI EL RUN
Is a question we cannot answer, as
its route does not seem to have
been finally settled upon further
East than Wallnla. Pat the map
published by the Company lays its
line right at the southern side of
of oar c.ty, and then there seems
something of a probability that it
will be so built. Pat as we have
already slated, the route is only
located to Wallula, on the Colum
bia river, thirty miles West from
here.
STOCK EAISINd
Is one of the best branches a per
son can possibly enter into here.
The range is the most extensive
ami best on this coast. Cows with
calves are worth from 10 to 50
per head; cows without calves
from 30 to 40 per head ; beef
from 7 to 8 cent per pound on foot;
American horses are worth trom
100 to 200 per head ; Indian
ponies whatever you can get for
tli em,
THI-: MARKET
Can be judged of by looking
elsewhere'in this paper. We will
say, however, that there is no diffi
culty in disposing of everything
you" have to sell at the market
orices. With regard to whether
or not it will pay to bring stock to
this country, we can only reier
those making this inquiry to the
.rices quoted in this article and
lsewhere in this paper; compare
the prices here with those where
y live, and then estimate tiie
t of driving and you can an-
CO-
swer the question yourself. Above
we have answered a tew ot the
.1....1 .,-l.L.l, t n ,L with
UUCSllOllS asivCU, mii v, iw
pleasure, and shall be happy to
answer others to the best of our
ability when theY shall be pro
pounded. We invite those wish
in r to know more about our coun
try to communicate with us.
The Weather. The weathei
for the month of hebruary has I
been very mild. The ground has ;
been whitened with snow twice,
and then it w as only whitened, the
snow
either
not being an inch deep at
time. Yet the snows of
February have been as deep as at
any other time during the Winter.
The ice has not been to exceed
half an inch in thickness, and there
has been but very few mornings
that there was any to be found. It
has been a very pleasant month, and
not so cold as December and Jan
uary, during which, for a few days,
we had ice sufneientiy strong to
bear the weight of a man. it is
now reasonable to expect that
Soring will soon open, as we seldom
have any hard weather alter this
time of "year. 1U 1U Statesman.
"No home! no home!" What
unrest in those words, what terror
to the confiding and loving! God
pitv the houseless and homeless!
, j i i iui'jujijMti-na
Solution of a Mystery.
About a dozen times a year we
find ourselves confronted with a
question which we suppose we
may as well answer as anybody.
Last Saturday, Mr. Jonas Cul
ver, living three miles north of
this placement down a soft maple
tree. Within three inches of the
center, and ten inches from the
bark of the tree, he found, wrapped
in a piece of white paper, a lock of
beautiful, soft brown hair. It was
evidently the hair of a child, Tr
some very young person. It had
been in its place of deposit tifty
t wo years as indicated by the
annual growth of the tree. Now,
how did it get there ?
Scattered through the United
States there nre doubtless several
thousand trees containing locks ot
hair in or near the center. In one
neighborhood in Western New
York there are a dozen ot them.
A hundred years ago, when there
was more ignorance, and (regard
ing some matters) more supersti
tion than there now is, strange no
tions were prevalent with reference
to consumption. When the disease
had once fastened upon its victim,
physicians were vain and medicines
useless. Put there was a mystic
charm, carefully cherished among
the gray-headed grandmothers, by
which :i cure could be wrought.
The recipe was this : Select a
live and growing tree; cut or
(better yet) bore a hole in it near
to the heart ; place in the hole a
lock of hair cut from the head of
the sick person ; j'hig up the hole
to prevent the hair from becoming
displaced ; and by the time the
wound in the tree had healed over,
the health of the invalid would be
restored. A fast growing tree,
like the soft maple or poplar, was
usually selected, because they
would the sooner grow over the
wound. Cue of the writers earli
est exploits with an augur was to
bore a hole in a soft maple tree, in
obedience to the instructions of a
gray-haired octogenarian aunt, and
placed in the augur-hole a lock of
hair cut from the head of a cousin
who was " going into a decline."
She soon began to recover; and
by the time the wound in the tree
had healed, the girl was hcalthy
and robust. The charm at once
achieved an enviable reputation,
and every consumptive girl in the
neighborhood left a lock of hair in
an augur-hole in some tree or other.
It was further asserted that great
care must be taken ot the tree
used for this rnirpose. For this
reason the augur-hole was not
bored quite to the heart of the
tree, as there was a prevailing idea
that this would injure or kill the
tree.
If the tree by oversight was per
mitted to be cut down, the life of
the person whose lock of hair was
contained therein was endangered ;
if the hair was burned, the orig
inal wearer would go into a fever
incurable by medicine; if it were
left out in the open field, he or she
would take the ague and gradually
wilt away. One ease At least we
know where an almost consum
mated bargain for the sale of a
homestead was broken up, because
the purchaser would not accept a
title deed one of whose conditions
was that a huge willow tree in the
garden should not be cut down
during the life of the grantor of the
deed. These latter notions how-
ever, were
less
ri
idly hold to
than the original one on which
they were built. This superstition,
m- some modification thereof, is
undoubtedly at the root of all
the hair (no pun intended!) found
in the center of old trees.
We have written this much, not
simply as an explanation, but to
place "upon the record an old and
curious superstition, at one time
widely current, but which we have
never" seen in print, and which
seems to have entirely died out
from the memory of those now
living. At least We judge so,
from the fact that the paragraph
like that we have quoted at the
commencement are constantly
going the rounds, while, as yet, we
have never seen an explanation.
Dn'rjici Tribune.
"William, thee knows I never
call anybody names; but William,
If the mayor of the city were to
come to me and say, u John I want
thee to find me the biggest liar in
Philadelphia," I would come to
thee and out niv hand on thy
shoulder; and say to thee, "Wil
liam, the mayor wants to see thee."
-
Tho Sacramento Union says
that a great outrage on honesty
and decency was perpetrated in
the appointment of Geo. L. Woods
as Governor of Utah. The Union
is very loil.
Be ye not afraid of the storms of
life; for know that God holds the
moral as well as the physical ocean
in the hollow of His hand.
An Important Letter-
We" give, place to the following
letter from Governor G rover, says
the Jloiuitain .Democrat, to the
Register of the La Grande'Distriet,
feeling assured that anything per
taining to State Land matters will
prove interesting to those of our
readers residing in the District:
SiATfc of Oiiegox. ExEcrriVE Office,
Sai.km, Feb. 22, I ST I .
E. S. McComas, Esq. Dear Sir:
I "write this letter fearing lest you
may not have apprehended from
conversation had with the Board
of Commissioners here or from the
written instructions heretofore for
warded to you, the importance
which the Board attaches to the
enforcement by you of the equita
ble lights of the fir;-t settlers upon
lands belonging to the State in
Eastern Oregon.
It has not been the fault of the
settler that titles to lands in your
district have fallen into confusion.
As far as lies in the power ol
those administering the land laws
of the State the rights of every
citizen claiming land as a bona fide
settler, or as a bona tide claimant
under the clauses of law not re
quiring settlement thereon, should
be secured and protected.
In all cases mere technicalities
of the statute should be made to
give way to real rights, though
heretofore defectively asserted.
As to the period in which first
claimants are to be allowed to com
plete their applications and to com
ply with the law, ample time and
every privilege, within the most
liberal discretion should be allowed,
always enlarging the letter of your
instructions to enable you to reach
a jast conclusion, rather than by
strict construction, to grant what
in good concience ought to be de
nied. You will perceive by this, that
we hold the Board and your office,
as a branch of its work, to be pos
sessed of an equitable jurisdiction.
There will be no conflict with
occupants of farming lauds grow
ing out of the Swamj) Land act late
ly passed by the Legislature, as the
Board has d c'de I to instruct the
deputies aj p i.ited to locate swamp
lands to omit from their selections
all such swamp lands as are actu
ally occupied or claimed as swamp
lands. But the State authorities
will ascertain the quality 'of swamp
lands so occupied or claimed in
order to recover indemnity for the
same in mountain or other lands of
the United States, as has been done
.1 . - l!t . ..
m other states, in iikc caves.
Yours Very Truly,
L. F. G ROVER.
Too Much Wife. Bo wen, a
radical Congressman, who was ar
rested on the charge of bigomy, had
his trial in Washington on the 10th
inst. After having been out for a
considerable length of time, the
jury came in and stated that they
Iiad not agreed, some one suggest
ed that they be sent back. Judge
Wylie replied that if a man should
get upon a jury with improper mo
tives, such a juror would be more
than a match for the eleven others,
lie did not, however, desire to be
understood as making any imputa
tion on the jury. The foreman
said that one juror, who was for
acquittal, had stood out against all
the others. The jury was dis
charged, and the Court adjourned
until the March term, when an-
other trial
place.
of Bowen will take
Souxo
Sense. Men may be
more liberal and just than women,
but they very rarely take a women
for a wife unless they believe her
to be "as chaste as ice and as pure
as snow." Their sense of purity in
respect to the woman they marry
is exquisitely delicate. They are
not satisfied with the natural puri
ty and goodness of the woman, but
her good name must be above re
proach. If the women were as
careful in choosing their husbands,
we think there would be fewer
marriages, or else a wonderful ref-
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ormation would, oe oegun. it is
presumed that the coming woman
will order these things differently
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The i-adieal party is becoming
disgusted witn Grant. A radical
paper says it can stand five or six
hundred relatives, but when it
comes to thatmany thousand it
thinks that is more than any party
can conveniently swallow. Don't
get excited, they are not all pro
vided lor yet; we know ot severa
nan oreeos wno near a striking re
semblance to Grant, that are yet to
receive an ofiice. II. . States
man.
What She Carries. A write
in Good Health says that the aver
age weight, all the year round, of
that portion of a woman's clothing
which is supported from the waist
is between ten and fifteen pounds
and that if a woman were sen
tenced to carry such a weight
about in this way for a number ot
year for some great crime, the
sentence would be pronounced inhuman.
Himj i in 1 1 inn warumj
Thievery in Gen. Gr ant's Cabinet-
The exposition made by Messrs.
Dawes and Beck in the House of
Representatives on Monday of
fraudulent action of the Post Office
department in the great Chorpen
ning s vindle, in which the Post
master General is implicated must,
it would seem, result in the itn
poachment and retirement of that
officer.
The offense is too rank to be
overlooked. The fact that Mr. o
Cresswell brought his former law Q
partner, Mr. Earle, with him t6
Washington, and immediately after
his own appointment installed hini
as First Assistant Postmaster Gen-Q
eral, and that soon afterward Mr.
Earle left that place and openedsa
law office as solicitor of claims
against the Post Olfice Department,
has long been felt in Washington
to be a reproach and a public scan
dal. But howeer wanting in pro
pi iety such a connection between
the judge and the advocate was
deemed and seen to be, it was dif
ficult to emphasize the fact in the
absence of knowledge respecting
special cases. It H as easy to see
how readily corrupt relations could
be established, am. how easily the
public treasure could be robbed by
collusion, even wheh it was impos
sible to fix the charge of guilt.
We called public attention to this
extraordinary arrangement of the
new law firm from Mainland im
mediately after it was established
in Washington. Bi t .it that time
no scandalous practices resulting
from it had yet been revealed. Un
til now the busines 6 'Messrs. Cress
well and Earle has been quietly go- q
ing on, the one acting as attorney
and the other as judge, without
any public exposure. All at once
an astounding piece of thievery is
arrested just at the pcint'of its con
sumation, in w hich those two gen
tlemen appear as the chief actors.
Y nat other transactions or the
same general character have been
hitherto completed, or what others
are meditated, we are left to con-
Enough is disclosed in the ex
position of Messrs. Dawes & Beck o
to settle the case ot the Postmaster
General and his partner in the most
peremtory manner. We cannot
suppose that it admits of any other
solution than that, having inflicted
this additional disgrace upon Gen.
Grant's administi atioii and tho
Republican party, they must early
retire to the places whence they
came. AT. Y. &ot
Played cut.
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For years past some of the most
inexcusable crimes committed by
passionate, or naturally depraved,
membe.sofour fellow race Jiave
failed to bringdown upon the heads
of their perpetrators the punish
ment justly due such wickedness,,
on the plea put in on the trial of
the offenders, that the apparent
criminal was momentarily, insane
at the time of the commission of
the deed. But, fortunately for the.
cause of justice, such a source ot
defense of murderers et id fenus
onne has received a backset by th
recent action of Judge Paine of
Cleveland, Ohio, who refused in his O
barge to a jury, in a murder tnaL
to recognize the plea of momentary
insanity". hereupon the follow
ing sensible letter was written to
urn (the Judge) by General Gar
field of the same State :
The whole Country owes you a
lebt of gratimde for brushing
iway the wicked absurdity which
las lat.lv been palmed off on the
country as a law on the subject ot
insanity. It the thing had gone on
much further all that a man would
need to secure himself from murder
would be to tear his hair and rave
a little, and then kill his man. I
hope you will print your opinion
m pamphlet form, and send it
broadcast to all the Judges of the
land.
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Georgia. For the first time ii?
ten years Georgia has been rep
resented in the United States Sen
ate. Joshua Hill, who was the
last member of the old Georgia
delegation to leave the house, was
the first to enter the Senate as a
Senator.. lie was admitted onQtIid
1st bv a large vote His colleague,
Mr. Miller, who is a Democrat, was
wf nnitf. so fortunate, out wi
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probably be admitted.
An exchange says : "Gen. Hook
er is for war with England-war to
the knife." So is Gen. Butli?
with the simple difference that he
is for war, not to the knife, but to
the spoon.
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A temperance editor, in draw
ing attention to an article against
ardent spirits in his paper, says:
"For the effects of intemperance see
our inside!"
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Do daily and hourly your near
est duty. Never mind whether it
be known or acknowledged; in the
blithsome "sometime," it will have
its reward.
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