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o A I 1 VOL. 6. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1871. NO. 6. r riloiojo "111' Sl)c lUcelUn enterprise, J DEMOCRATIC PAPER, KOR THE business IVlan, the Parmer And the FAMII.y CIHOi. fUF-H EVERY FUinVY DY A. NOLTNER EDITOR AND riU'.LlSHEK. OFFICE In Dr. Thcs-lng'a Brick Bu Uu g rR3IS Zf7lJBSCRIPTI02: Single Copy one year, in advance,.. 2 ,0 TERMS of ADVERTISING : Transient advertisements, including all Tr1t" ;il a-tiees, J sr,. of 12 lines, 1 w.$ 2 50 Kor lch subsequent insertion 1 00 One Column, one year $120 00 ii.uf " O latter " HinM.s Card, 1 snnare one year CO 40 12 Kg- R'mf'inres to be made at the risk o Subscriber, and at the expense of Agents. book: and job feinting. re" The Enter prise office is supplied with beautiful, approved styles of type, and mod ern M VCHIXia PIlISSSRS, winch will enable be Proprietor to do Job Printing at all times Neat, Quick and Cheap ! nlT Work solicited. HI Daiine traiwic-t'tsm upmi a Specie basin. A" LECTUHE ' BY WOODHULL. fp.se lovs. i'.vs-ioc.yt. attraction- and cei.ks i"!al a it i nit iks. The Xew York ITcrold of Nov. 21st contains a lone? report of a lecture by tho Woodhull at Stein w:y Half in that city on tlio even in" proceeding. The following cir cular had been scattered freely in all the benches of the hull which is the largest of its kind in Now York before the audience had taken their seats : FIIEZDOU! FllElCDOH! FREEEOM ! IX ITS LAST ANALYSTS : THE SOCIAL RELATION'S. If it is ft-ood in the: Rtdipious and IolitIcal sphere who shall d ire deny that it THE SOCIAL sphere. For the express purpose ot si- lencin" the voices ami stopping me pens of those who, either ignorant- anil v or will all, persistently mis represent, slander, abuse and vilify her on account of her outspoken advocacy of, and supreme faith in God's first, last and best law, VICTORIA C. WOODHULL Will speak at Stein way Hall, Mon day, Nov. 20, at 8 o'clock p. m., Ox -t:ik PurNOiruis ok Social Fukkdom,'' Involving the question of Free Love, Marriage, Divorce and Pros titution. She wishes it distinctly under stood that freedom does not mean anarchy in the social relations any more than it does in religion and politics: also that the advocacy of its principles requires neither aban doned action or immodest speech. Horace Greeley, Gov. Iluwley, of Connecticut, and Boston Exclu sives, are specially invited to seats on the platform. All her lesser de fainers should secure front seats. Thn 7crald noes on wu lb its re- port : Our reporter found his way into the hall, which was but dimly light ed at the moment. Several young ladies of very bold behauior passed h'un at the "gate door, evidently professional and unfortunate in character. Then came a stream of verv respectable looking people men and women some few of the latter having cultured faces. The 1 "I I " 1 1 ..,..1 Villi red-headed uriri oouuceu in, s she threw off her shawl, ilI hope, by gosh I haven't come here for nothing in all this rain," and then she, rlounced down into a seat and held her place. While waiting for the hall to till, which occurred very rapidly, our reporter paid" a visit behind the scenes to call upon Mrs. Victoria Woodhull. Going thro' a s;dc door he found that lady in a little room off in a narrow passage, standing talking to her sister Ten iae C. Clailin. with a roll of manu script in her hands. The Wood Jiull had an inspired look, and it vas very evident that the spirit ot Demosthenes, a familiar ot ners, -was upon the lady. 1-v.rr. number ot r ree hovo jadies and -cntlemen, most of the iatt.er be'ne' verv homely m feature. Vcer.mi nnied bv Mr. Stephen Fearl Andrews, the Groat American Fan taivhist, now entered the room t bid ictoria "God speed oeiore .she went on the stage. Finally, all having been said, .Mrs. Wood hull, followed by Tennio Clailin and the body of reporters, and pro ceeded by God-like Tilton, march ed to the stage. As Tilton got on the stage his friend Moultou cried to him : 'Are you going to introduce Mrs. Woodhull to the audience, Tilton?"' "y0 heaven," said the fiow cvy Tilton, 'Vmeo no one else has the pluck to do it.-" As Mrs. Woodhull walked on the stage timorously everywhere a great shout of applause "went up for her from the audience whi had literally packed every seat on the ground floor, the two gailerit. .and which occupied every foot 0- standing room m the aislo hundred ravenous male bipeds leaned over the platform, standing Up in front of the audience, and not less than three thousand per sons were present, nearly half of whom belonged to the gentler sex of the Free Love persuasion. THE LECTURE. As Mrs. Wood hull came forward to the front of the stage to read her lecture, which she did in a clear and pleasing voice, the audience cheering her with much gallantry, particularly the young men about town, who were quite noisy and vociferous. She spoke in substance as follows : Jf JSr others and Sisters : I ap pear before you to-night to discuss the most delicate and Idiffuut sub ject in which human interests are involved; one in which everybody is interested, as well as directly and intimately concerned ; but which, on account of its delicacy and dif ficulty, almost everybody instinc tively avoids ; I refer to the prin ciples of social freedom, love, mar riage and divorce; or the relations between the sexes. There is no escaping the fact that the principle by which the male citizens of these United States as sume to rule the female citizens is not that of self-government but of despotism ; and so the fact is that poets have sun g songs of freedom and anthems of liberty HAVE RESOUNDED FOR AX EAfPTY SHADOW. Over the sexual relations mar riages have endeavored to preserve sway and to hold the people in subjection to what has been con sidered a standard of moral purity. nether this lias been successful or not may be determined from the fact that there are scores of thous ands of women who are denomin ated prostitutes and who are sup ported V HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF i - , who snoum, ior nice reasons, aiso oe denominated prostitutes, since that which will change a woman into a prostitute must also neces sarily change a man into the same. THIS CONDITION, CALLED PROSTITU TION, seems to be the great evil at which religion, the public morality, hurl their special weapons of condem nation, as the sum total of all diabolism ; since for a woman to be a prostitute is to deny her not only all Christian but also all hu manitarian rights. Now I will put the question di rect. Are not these eminently proper subjects for inquiry and discussion, not in that manner of maudlin sentimentality in which it has been the habit, but in a digni fied, open, honest and fearless way, in which subjects of so irreat im portance should be inquired into IT 1 4T and discussed r -An exhaustive treatment of these subjects would involve the inuuiry what should be the chief end to be trained by ENTERING INTO SEXUAL RELATION. This I must answer by saying 'sood children, who will not need to be regenerated," and pass to the consideration of the relations them selves. All the relations betweeu the sexes that are recognized as legitimate are denominated mar- riage. jhu or wnat uoes marriage consist ? Marriage must consist either of !nni rv ot' 1 -i cinr i r. mnv Y 1 f" in form with either term absent this is to say. people mav be mar- l.x- In.- in,l -ill l.i,.ldn,T mri tln.v mnv rriso bo mnrriod W love and lack all sanction of law. True marriage must in reality con- sist entirely either of law or love, ince there can be no compromise between the law of nature and statute law by which the iormcr shall v"eld to the latter. Law cannot change what nature has already determined. IS either will love obey if law command. LAW CANNOT COMPEL TWO TO LOVE. It has nothing tq do either with love or with its absence. Love is superior to all law, and so also is hate, indifference, disgust and all other human sentiments which are evoked in the relations of the sex es. It legitimately and logically ioliows it love have anything to do with marriage, THAI LAW HAo VOIDING TO DO WITH IT. And, on the contrary, if law have anything to do with marriage, that love has nothing to do with it And there is no escaping the do ducticn. Considerable dissatisfaction was here manifested by the audience, but after some hissing and cheer i ig commingled, the speaker con tinued: I do not care where it is that sexual commerce results from the dominant power of one sex over the other, compelling him or her to submission against the instincts ot love, and where hate, and ri. gust is present, whether it be in i the GILDED PALACES OF FlFTlt AVENUE or in the lowest purlieus of Greene street, there is prostitution, and all the law that a thousand State assemblies may pass cannot make it otherwise I know w hereof I speak ; I have seen the most damning misery re sulting from legalized prostitution. Misery, such as the most degraded of those against whom society has shut her doors never know. Thous- j amis of ; poor, weak, UNRESISTING WIVES ARE YEARLY H MURDERED, whx stand up in spirit life, looking down niton the sickly, half made up children let behind, imploring humanity, for the sake of honor and virtue to look into this matter, to look into the fair daylight all the blackened, sickening deformi ties that have so long been hidden by the screen of public opinon and a sham morality. It does not matter how much it may be attempted to gloss these things over and to label them sound and pure: you, each and every one of you, know that what I say is truth, and if you question your own souls you dare not re ply; is it not so? If these things to which I refer, but ot which I shudder to think, are not abuses of sexual relations, what are ? I would not be understood to say that there arc no good condi tions in the present marriage state. Fy no means do I say this ; on the contrary, a very large proportion of present social relations are com mendable are as good as the present status of society makes possible. Fut what I do assert, and that most positively, is that all which is good and commenda ble, now existing, would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow. At this remark about the mar riage relation, nearly half the au- diance rose to their feet and hissed Airs. Woodhull most vehemently, while the other half cheered tu multously ! The noise was really deafening, and Theodore Tilton vainly endeavored to make him self heard. Now and then he was heard to say "Ladies and gentleman," and then the audience would hiss him down for a few moments, and the storm would break out anew. Mrs. Woodhull. excitedly Let the gentleman or lady who is capa- ble of hissing or interrupting me (here she stamped her foot) come forward on this platform and de fine their principles fairly. More hisses and cheering. Mrs. Woodhull began at some length to excuse, the stain of ille gitimacy, when Mrs. Frooker, her sister, who had been waiting an riniwii-tmiitv liom her seat m tne wi'i" - , balcony over tne stage, jumpec d up, and facing the audience, who liked the fun and were cheering loudly, said, directing her remark to Mrs. Woodhull "How could you expect to be recognized in society unless you knew who your father or mother was t Mrs. Woodhull I assert that -. . -I there is as good and noble men and women on' the top of this earth suffering from the stain ot illegiti macy as any man or woman before me, and God knows I do not know how many illegitimate men or women there are in this hall to- nig ht." Here the confusion became so treat that nothing more could be heard on the stage. Airs. Grooker, tl,o eiitor of Mrs. Woodhull. Would not sit. down on her loftv perch in the balconv. and kept facing the audience, who cheered her loudly, while several ladies w ho sat by her, r.o,-;,, o i lott t w.ir r.its nni retreated into the inner box. Mr Tilton Lndios and nrfMiilo- men. sometimes there occurs in a public meeting an incident like this, in which Americans vindicate the rhdit of free speech. You shall all be heard if you only give T iiM-.i;t cn v liinvrivnv that this lady has hired the hall, and she is entitled to be heard first. Vt this juncture a policeman rme out of the rear box to the open balcony w l,rvr mo kor themselves pel soeh a storm of indignant Lwcbwr lit- - . and groans, mingled with counter , ,1 il.rt4 thn im. broke iorin mat uiu un lucky policeman was compel ieu immediately to vacate use uo.v ami disappear from view. Air. Tilton I see that you nae '? let vindicated free speech. Now Mrs. Woodhull be heard, .and you xlmll be heard in vour turn. I saw the policeman put his hand on the lady in the balcony. .Now tne lady in the balconv shall also be heard. .Mingled cheers and his ses. Woodhull, who had shrunk Mr: -' ... ..-... i.; L- to the an- ua dv is simply the an wrist, turning, - - - - - . ' ... i. ,-i trt d.-T.r the sta"-e of development who dience, eimi.n uii --- - , w , , . ' . v,.,.rir man and woman passions rule supreme. W : ?, '-i: "o,, t. t ids hi.di-hand- be more terrible than for a t ed ding 'seemed to consider sensitively organized wo mi to on, lure t 1 i back timidly during the uproar with her manuscriptcame forward and said boldly, "Yes, I am a free lover 1 I believs I have an inalia ble right to change my husband eyery day if I like. I trust I am understood, for I mean what I sav and nothing else. I claim tha"t freedom means to be free." Here the wild young men in the audience cheered most tumultu ous y, mid Mrs. Frooker sat down, her forces broken but not yet ut terly routed. Mrs. Woodhull then continued her lecture as follows : It skeins to melhat no grosser insult could be offered to women than to insinuate that she is hon est and virtuous only because the law compels her to be so; and little do men and women realize the obloquy thus cast upon society, and still less do women realize what they admit of their sex by such assertions. I honor and wor ship that purity which exists in the soul of every noble man or woman, white 1 pity a woman who is vir tuous simply because a law compels her. It may be proper and legitimate, and withal perfectly consistent, for the, philosophers of the Irlbune school to bundle all the murderers. robbers and rascals together ami hand them over to our camp label led as Free Lovers. We will only object that they ought to hand the whole or humanity over, good, bad and indifferent, and not assort its worst representatives. Among the cases cited as evidences of the evil tendencies of free love are those of Richardson and Critten den. Why? Feeause she be lieved in the spirit of the marriage law ; that SHE HAD A RETTER RIGHT TO HIM than had Mrs. Crittenden, to whom the law had granted him: and rather than give him up to her, to whom he evidently desired to go, and where, following his right to freedom, he did go, she killed him. Could a more perfect case of the spirit of the marriiige law be for mulated i Most assuredly not ! Now, from the standpoint of marriage reverse tins case ro mat of free love and see what would have been the result had all those parties been believers in an dprac- tieors ot that theory. hen .ur. Ciittenden evinced a desire to re- turn to Mrs Crittended, Mrs. Fair, in practicing the doctrine ot iree ove, would have said 1 have no right to you, other than you freely give; you loved me, and exercised your right ot freedom m so doing. You now desire to return to Mrs. Crittenden, which is equally your ri"ht, and which 1 must respect. (io, and in peace, and my blessing shall follow ; and if it can return you to happiness then will you be tappy. ould not that have been the better, the Christian course, and would not every soul in the broad land, capable of a noble impulse, and having knowledge ot all the relevant facts, have honored Airs. Fair for it? Instead ot a murder, with the probability of another to complement it, would not all par ties have been happy in having done right? Would not Mrs. Crittenden have loved Mrs. Fail C o,,,.li -! nvomr.in rt iirtlilllt- 1U1 " t 1 L I I till t.UUII 1 llww.iavT, and could she not safely have re ceived her even into her own heart and home, and been a sister to her, instead of the means of her con viction of murder ? I know too well the miseries of the married state. While in the profession of a clairvoyant thou sands of poor, heartbroken bus bands came to pour their sorrows into my car., (Cheers and laugh- -t I 1 t f 1 tor. ir our sisters wno miiaoiL Green street and otnei imny to calities choose to remain m dcr bauchery they are only exercising the same right as our brothers who visit them. (Applause. est women of a town in the State of New York some two years ago organized for the purpose of put ting down prostitution. They pushed the matter until they found their own husbands, brothers and tovers m mese nouses oi piosum- I r , tion; then they desisted, and nom- ni'r lias oeen noaru tu me moe- Fromiscuitv m so archical rein the hat can lelicate, man to io pros once ot a boast HI tUC SliapO OI l I v,.-- - - - . man wno Knew i i. nothing beyond ti the blind passion with which he is tilled, and to which is often added the delirium of intoxication? I pro test against this form of slavery I protest against the custom which compels women to give tho control of their maternal iuncimna uu-i uj anybody. It should be theirs to determine when, and under what circumstances, the greatest of all constructive processes the forma tion of an immortal soul should I,,- beo-un. It is a ieanu! icuum- bilitwith which women are en COURTESY OF BANCROFT trusted by nature, and the very last thing they should be compell ed to do is to perform the office of that responsibility against their will, under improper conditions or by disgusting means. Mrs. Woodhull then concluded her lecture with an eloquent per oration, strongly advocating the cause of free love. Airs. Frooker (rising in the bak cony) I want to know how it is possible for Mrs. Woodhull to re form the ladies in Greene street, if she is in favor of promiscuous intercourse ? Applause and laugh ter. Here the audience dispersed. Figures for Tax-Payers. Some political economist, deplor ing the indifference with which the American people regard the profli gacy of the powers that bo, and how lightly they speak in connec tion with public expenditures and Fadical defalcation, has gone to the trouble of computing what a million dollars really is, and gives this as the result: A million of silver dollars pos sesses a vastness that is rather startling to a man who lias never faced a pile. To count this at the rate of one thousand and five hundred dollars an hour, and eight hours a day, would require a man nearly three months. If the said dollars were laid side by side they would roach one bund reel and thirty-six miles, while their trans portation would require fourteen wagons carrying two tons each. c are enabled by the aid of this to arrive at some other facts that should be made familiar to the tax-payers of this country. Figuring from this basis we find that the Fadical paymaster,IIodge, who was caught last week, stole $500,000 from tho United States Treasury, that he took dishonestly just sixty-eight miles of silver dol lars, or seven wagon loads of the precious metal. When Norton, the Fadical theif who plundered tho Treasury through the New York post office, and whose steal ings came to light the same day of Hodge's exposure, stole over -Si 15, 000, lie gobbled about fit'teon miles of silver dollars, or over a wagon load, weighing over two tons. The Fadical postmaster at At lanta, Georgia, who defaulted about the same time for over -$30,-000, gathered home some four miles of dollars, or a good load for a single drought horse. The three hundred Fadical col lectors and assessors, who together defrauded the Government out of 820,000,000, and none of whom have yet been prosecuted by Grant, got a grand aggregate of 2,720 miles of silver dollars, or 3S0 wag on loads, making 5 GO tons. Tax-payers will find in the above food for serious reflection. We have here introduced but a few of tho notable defalcations that the rings at Washington were unable to keep from public gaze, but they are sufficient to explain to the Amerioam people why they are required to p-iy such enormous taxes, and why the expenses of the Government annually reach astounding figures. A Hint to Parents. Nervous children suffer untold agonies from fear,when put to bed alone. No tongue can tell the horrors ot a lonesome room to children. A little delicate boy whom his parents were drilling to sleep alone used to cry violently every night and his father would come in and whip him. He mistook pertinacity for obstinacy, and he thought it his duty to conquer tho child's will. One night ho said : "Why do you alwavs scream so, when you know you shall be pun ished ?" "O, father, father !" said the little fellow, "I don't mind your whip- oinrr me. it von only stay with mo." The father's eyes were opened from that moment. He saw that a human being cannot be governor by dead rules, like a plant or ani mal. Jot ix Quincy Adams was re cently waited qi by a committee appointed by the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage-seekers, and was asked to define his views. He thus declared himself in a letter to the Committees After careful thought and some stud v, I am firmly and unequivo cally opposed to woman suffrage and snail io.ei it my duty m tne very ltnprooaoio contingency or my ever occupying any considera ble public office, to stand by the ill . - f old immemorial division of activi ties and functions which seems to bo at the foundation of society. Cool. -The Duke of Wellington was once in danger at sea, when, just before bedtime, the captain came to his cabin, and announced that in a few minutes all would be over. " ery well," said the Duke, im t t,u then I shall not take off my - Loots. LIBRARY, I - Face the Figures. The vote for Willers, regular Democratic candidate for Secreta ry of State, was, in this city, 83 314. The vote for Led with, Tarn many candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, was 46.150. This shows that 37,158 Democrats in this city who voted for the Roches ter State Ticket would not vote for Lodwith. hat became of the votes of these 37,15S Democrats? Scribuer, Republican candidate for Secretary of State, received in this city, 54,132 votes. Farrett received for Judge of the Supreme Court 88,2S0 votes, or 34,1 4S more votes than Scribuer. Where did Farrett get this excess of vctes over Scribuer? Of course from the Democrats who voted for Willers, but would not vote for Lodwith. Shandley, Tammany candidate for Register, received in this city 53,427 votes, or 2S.877 less than were given for Willers, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State. Sigel received for Register 81,753 votes, or 20,326 more votes than Scribuer, Republican candidate for Secretary of State, obtained. From whom did Sbrel m-t those extra votes over those given to Scribner? Of course from those 28,887 Democrats wdio voted for Willers, but who refused to vote for Shandley. We might take the figures given for all the candidates in this city at the recent election; and show similar results. Indeed, we might work out the problem throughout the entire State, and the product, would be of a corresponding charac ter. And yet, in tho face of these fig ures, there are a great many fools who claim the results ot the tion in this city and in the State as a Repuolican triumph, while there are others who are stupid enough to claim it as a verdict in favor of Grant's renomination. AT 1 The Squires Indigestion. Old Squire H was a very successful and substantial farmer, in an inteii or town of Massachusetts, and a more amazing eater never lived in any town any where. And espe cially much did he oat when fresh pork was to be the nourishment. Well, at a certain time one of his hogs had been killed. The next morning there was to be fresh pork for breakfast, and the old man eat most wondrously. In the course of the forenoon he ate his lunch, consisting of bread and butter and mince pie and cheese. At noon his dinner consisted of fresh pork, pickles, mince pie, and the usual accompaniments. His afternoon unch was like that of the forenoon. When he came home to his supper, us favorite dish had been prepared as part of that meal. The old man retted and scolded till fresh pork was added to the substantial. He ate voraciously, as usual. In the evening lie toasted some cheese, lettered and ate it. Just before going to bed he roasted a couple of apples and ate them. In the night he was taken with a severe colic; the doctor was with him till morning, and wrought a miracle in saving the old man's life. The next day Folios W., one of his neighbors, wont in to condole with the old Squire. "Faithful Folios," said the old worthy, "I liked to have died last night. I"ll never eat another roast apple as long as I live. I never did love them very well; and last night I ate only two, and they nearly killed me." Womanly Mopesty. Man loves the mysterious. A cloudless sky, the full-blown rose, leave him unmoved; but the violet which hides its blushing beauties behind the bush, and the moon when she emerges from beneath a cloud, are to him sources of inspiration an pleasure. Modesty is to merit what shade is to figures in paint ingit gives it boldness and promi nence. Nothing adds more to fe male beauty than modesty; it sheds around the countenance a halo of light which is harrowed from vir tue. Fotanists have given to the rose hue which tinges the cup of the white rose the name of the "maiden blush." This pure and delicate hue is the only paint Chris tian virgins should use ; it is the l ichest ornament. A woman without modesty is like a faded flower, which diffuses an unwhole some odor, and which the prudent gardener will throw from him. Her destiny is melancholly, for it terminates in shame and repent ance. Feauty passes like the flow er of the albo", which blossoms and dies in a few hours; but modesty gives the female character charms which supply the place of this transitory freshness of youth. SOKRY.- tho death -An Indiana paper notes of a subscriber, and I touching v adds ; " e are sorry io i hear ot tne ueaui ui ai.j i ..i. ;pra ivlm nrfi prompt about paying us DvsrEPsiA. The celebrated and very clever Dr. Abernathy, of Lon don, once opened his mind to an American, who sought advic3 in his sufferings from rlvsnpnsJa. "I'll be hanged," said he, "if I ever saw a Yankee that didn't bolt his food whole, like a boa constrictor. How the devil do yon expect to digest food that you neither take the trouble to dissect nor the time to masticate? It's no wonder you lose your teeth, for 3rou never usg them ; nor your digestion, for you overload it; nor your saliva, for you expend it on the carpets in stead of on your food. It's dis gusting; it's beastly. You Yan kees load your stomachs as a Devonshire man loads his cart, as full as it can hold, and as fast as he can pitch it in with a dung-fork, and drive off; and then you com plain that such a load of compost is too heavy for you. Djrspepsia, eh? Internal guzzling, you mean. I'll tell you what, take half the time to eat that you do tC drawl out your words, chew your tooa half as much as you do your filthy tobacco, and You'll be well in a month" The Way to Prosper. A good story is told of a man in a City not more than fourteen miles dis tant from New Bedford, wdio on the ceremony being performed , of uniting him, for better or for worse, in the holy bonds of wedlock with a lass from the country upon whom he had for three successive weeks bestowed his adorations, immedi ately made application at an intel ligence office for a situation for his spouse as a domestic. This was considered a shrewd act by the ac quaintances of the liege lord, but the stoy increases in interest when it is known that after obtaining the desired situation ho, pretending to seek the better enjoyment of the connubial felicity incidental to his newly formed relations, obtained board under the same roof. The best of the story is not told until the fact is disclosed that lie manag ed to have the weekly earnings of his better halt retained as payment for his own board. Present-Takers in France. The Countess l)e Centre has been tried before the Correctional Trib unal of Paris and sentenced to threeo months' imprisonment, with a fine of one hundred thousand francs, for attempting to corrupt a public functionary. The public function ary wras the inspector of a cattle market, and the manner in which the Countess attempted to corrupt him was bv making a valuable present to his wife. It will be seen that present-taking by public func tionaries or their wives is not con' sidered a reputable practice in France; which would render it a very uncomfortable place of resi dencc for the Grant family. A VERY SENSIBLE WOMAN. A ady in Iowa has published her . 1 "1 IT eason ior opposing me oman Suffrage proposition, and she con cludes as follows: I do not believe that all men are so terribly false and untrue to their marriage vows as some would make it appear. Fut admit for a moment that it is so, and why must women have the same rights? Let custom accord to women all that is now charged to men, and where would be tire restoring influ ences of public opinion that hold in check many ot the "women ot the period?" You may look a$ this matter in whatever light you will; but simmer it down, and it is but a quarrel with the Almighty that we are not all men. "Five years ago," remarks the Philadelphia Court Journal, "we fought the Democracy with tho spelltngbook ami whipped them. This year our weapon is the arith luetic, and is just as deadly." To which the the Cincinnati Enquirer responds: "Precisely. It is hard to boat your arithmetic when there are divisions in our own ranks j when additions are made to ypig? party by the use of the bayonet j when your votes are multiplied by repeaters and revolvers, and oup ballots subtracted from the box by rascally judges." 1 e His Opinion-. The Chicago Journal the Rev. Mr. McConk. lin of Philadelphia, and formerly of Chicago, recently refused to ab low his church to take up a collect tion for suffering Chicago, on the o-rouud that he know the city well, and in his opinion the recent calara, ity was a manifest indication of the displeasure of Almighty God with the wickedness of the city, and he did not propose to meddle with the affair. . Many Deaths. Some fellow with plenty of time on his hands estimates that Dr, Livingstone has suffered thirty-five newspaper deaths within the last seven years. And yet he is not a dead Living stone. s e i
