r - . - , . ..... ,,-c, .... ? . 7 r v r ... - 9' o o O o c O 'c - '. o O El UK III III II G o o o 2 VOL. 7, OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1873. NO. 24. ' 11 III II O O O 'J o o o O THE E1TEBPPJ8L h LOCAL DE?10S3A7IC NEWSPAPER F O It THE Farmrr, Eusinrss Man, & Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. EDITOR AXD PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAPEIi FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Ir. Thessing's Prick, next door to John Myers store, tii-stnir.s. Terms of SuTi pi ion : Kindle Copy One Year, In Advance $2.50 " Six Months" " 1.50 Terms of Atl vertisii!;r Trmcicnt ndvrrtisments, including :ll l"g.d notic-s, v square of twelve in'-s on1 week 5 2.50 l"ore:ich sii'j."nuent insertion l.'H tin olimin, om." year 120.1m j;.,lf " W.t.lH) .,',:, iter 4I,-,H) Qlinsiness Card, 1 square, one year 0f. sancLAY, rci. r. c. s. Formerly Surgeon to tlie Hon. II. 15. Co. Tliirt--five Y-siiV lix-iicitrp, rncTimr. riiYsirnx .no sfrgecx. q Main Street, Oregon City. (LATE OF ILLINOIS.) PilYSirilX AXD Sl'RGEGX, o n i: a o y c it r, o ji k a o .v. r-7"Vill r-spond promptly to calls during eit Ivr day or ni:rht. o:7iee :it ':mi's 1 irair si orr. Can be found nt CliiT House sit night. lebl Im -J W- 13. VATKtKS, F.1. D., P- "T" f r.-t G?r?5nr-! .Ik. w tc V7: WY'W'K ( dd IV How's Te!:ipVv,oirn"r F.r-t ;md Ahl r str-et. K--iib no: corn r oi Maiusmd Sevejilli strei ts. I)is. Vt'cU-h & Tiiomi-s:-!!, ..... .- N f-K T 3T5, Vt ;rn In (ldd Fellows' Tempi -.eoraf r .l First and Aid: r str v ts, lN.rtl.Mid. Tii" atrotiag of t hos il s.ring superior r.it ions is in sp -eial r-ijip-sl. Nitrons i'e! tor t !! p:i i ii I- ss ext r:' t ion of t t h. Art ili eial t "t li " ! tlrrtlian t lie l t," and li'seaap as ti" c'na ii'-.-t. Will be in Oregon City on Saturday. .Nov. 3 :tf s. u u ki.at. ciias. r. waj:::kn. Attorneyc-atDLavv, OnECCN CiTY, - - OHECDrJ. C "OFFICE Clmrnian's brick, Main st. rinarls7J :t f. j o r j 3 o rj &. rai cc c vj u ITTORXLVS AXI) t OlXSKLORS AT-LAYV. Oregon Gity,Grc?5on. l'Wi;i r.iet i"c in ail th' Court of the St.ite. special att -ntion given to cases in the I". S. l.;Uid Oib-' ;it Oregon l ity. 5aprlS7'-ti. : 1. ri .JSVXillV, ATTORfJSY-AT-LAVV, OR Ed OX CITY, : : OR EG OX. OFFICE Over Pope's Tin Store, Main s'rect. 'Jlmar7:Vtt. A. F. FORBES, ATTOIl N i: V A T J. A Y . 85-OtTiee No. 1", Dekum's Fiiildimr, rort l.uid, Oregi.ii. 7inarlN7:-tl. J. T. APPERSON, OFFICE IX lO.STOFFICE HUIbDING. 'BKOKl!:!?. Iej;al Tcndi-rs, t'lacUn mas County Or. (Iris anil (Iri'im City Oiileis BOUGHT AND SOLD. FJOTARY public. IiAiis ii' 4otiat"d, Collections attended t , a n d a Oeiiera 1 brokeage bu-ne carried on. jaiaitf. W. H. UUniFIELD. i:t ullis1iil since ' at tlie oljl stand. )l;iin StKct, Orion Fity, Orou. rf An assortment of Wat hos. Jewel- ATV rJ".and Set h Thomas' V-iht 'locks A. .'B all oi which are warranted to be as fci" represented. K-7"K -pairing done on short notice, and thankful for past patronage. JOHN 31. 15AC0X, IMPORTER AXOOEAI.ER fjS n books, Stat ionery, IVrluni- -mT..T-. cry, etc., etc. v . .-,y r-;oii City, Orejrnn. PAt Clmrman i Warner's old stand. ;u: ty occupied by S, Ackeman, Main St. A. rJOJ-TFwER X 0 T A It Y P U 15 L I C. E?-1TE3?31SE OFFSCE. G OliEGOX CITY. O For the very best photographs, go to Prad lvA Rulorson's Oalery without STAIRS -Wen 1 in the Elevator, Montgomerv Wrvet, San 1-tancisco. California. o THK GRAXDMOTIIER. There are rare leaved plants and graee ful vines. And it seems like a picture of summer time, The window over the way. 15y the el i eery window over the way, I see her sitting day by day, Watching the passers bv. And those of tiie household come and PA And ass by her easy chair. With a lovi'nir smile, or gentle word, Or a touch on the silvery hair. Close on the s'and leside her lies A volume old and quaint ; And as its pages her dim eyes scan, I liken her to a saint. Waiting for Heaven, patient and still, Waiting the Master's call ; And there seems a halo about her brow, As the rays of the .sunset tall. One day little I less with the golden locks. And wild ways free and sweet, Tired of her merry romps and plays Fell asleep at the grandma's feet ;" The kitten eame and purred in her lap, And the pieture was complete. Darling old grandmother, honored and loved, Thy pilgrimage soon will le o'er, They will miss the dear face, with its sweet patient irrace. And their hearts sadly echo "no more." Her earthly journey is almost done, Slowly the sands of life now run, And there soon will come a dav SVhen those she has teinlcily loved will say, ('irandiuother sleeps! The sleep which He gives His beloved. And through wintry days and summer morn, They will miss the form they cherished so long, Itoiu the window over the way. The Man iVho Cheats the P inter. The man who heats the printer Out of a single cent. Will never re:uh the lieavenly land here old Klijali went. He will not gain admittance there; ly devils he'll be driven. Aim made to loaf his time away Outside, the walls of heaven. Without a man to greet him; Without a pleasant grin: The happiness that he will reap Will be almighty thin. He'll have to cat the thistle )t' sorrow and rcjn-t ; He'll have !o buck around right smart With eussc dness, "you bet!" A:i Iii ibi' io:i a::cl a Itc'n'y. Pi'TAnrLl'IITA, Il). in. lS7o. Hox. Cii.vK. A. Dana Ihutr tS'," We l'.avc tlie honor to aprise ytiii that a grand patriotic: demonstration will be hold in the Academy of Music and Horticultural Hall, in this citv. on the '2'li inst. The object is to secure the success of tlie lnterra'iona Inhibition authorized by Congress and intended to be: a prominent lea litre in tlie eoh-bvntioii of the ()in Hundredth Anniversary of American Tliih-iioiiileneo. A t, n meetiii" of the Citxen's Committer: of Pennsylvania, in connection with the united htates Centennial Coinniissicmers, it was unanimously res(dved to invite you to be oi;e of the speakers of the oc casion. Your acceptance at an early day is earnestly requested. We are, respectfully, Danikl J. Moi:i:iLt,, Asa Packai:i, Commissioners of Pennsylvania. The above was sent to the editor of the New York and this is his reply: Xi:w Yonii, Teh. V. ls73. OnxTi.K.Mo: I am gre atly obliged to von for vonr invitation to attend , your grand patriotic demonst ration ana to oe one oi the occasion. I like things grand and jiatriotic; and they would possess a peculiar at traction to me in the locality of Phil adelphia. I saw one demonstration there last ye ar, however, which did not strike me as either grand or pa triotic; but on the contrary quite the reverse. I had printed a letter of one "Win. If. Kemble reinvent to the Evans fraud. Its genuiness he has never disputed; but on the contrary he has allirmed it under oath. This letter was in the following words: TKKASriiV IlEPART.MFXT OK l'KNNSVL-1 vania, IlAlcttl.-rHl Kc;. Mar. 111. lMi7. ) My Ju:ah Titian: Allow me to introduce to you my particular lriend Mr. Ocorire o. Evans. He has a claim of some magnitude that he wishes you to help him it). Jle un derstands addition, division and silence. Yours, v. JI. Kk.mklk. In Titian-j. Cokkf k, Washington, I). C. lor publishing this letter with ap propiate comments I was arrested as x Aas passing tn rough Philadelphia, ami iien i to nail in the sum of tf.j.OOO. I was obliged to forfeit this sum, as I was advised, the truth would not justify the publication under your iav. Now. as VOII Combine in vmir in vitation a request to speak with the icq ues i 10 aiienn, i am sorry to sav that I shall be obliged to put ofT its acceptance until free speech in Phil adelphia is safe. You are patriotic men engaged in a patriotic enterprise. Will vou not see to it that the guarantee "of free speech, and free printing for the pub lie good, be not postponed until the second Hundreth Anniversary of American Independence; but that it be accomplished at once-? Is it not the? deepest shame of vonr Commonwealth that honest and earn est efforts for tho eradication of cor rupt influences in her public affairs are incompatible with personal safety unless carried on outside of the State lines? I remain, gentlemen, Very respectfully yours, Charles A. Dan a. The New York Radicals have in troduced in the State Legislature bills which abolish the police courts of New York city, establish " mu nicipal special sessions," and pro vides for the appointment of session magistrates. This is a scheme of the lurphy ring to get complete posses sion of the police and civil justices' courts, those powerful aids to the manipulations of local New York politics. Remarks of Mr. Farnsworth on the Salary Swindle. Some Gentlemen base their advocacy of this scheme upon the position that it is necessary to increase the President's salary, and mat luat cannot lie done unless this ring is made, including ourselves. Sir, right there I propose to take this scheme by the throat, and I pro test against doubling this liierli sal ary which all other Presidents have foum I sulhcient. Abraham Lincoln served the country four years at .VIOO per annum, during a part of which time gold was worth two hun- Ired and fifty per cent. ; yet Abra ham Lincoln laid up 50,000 during his term. Whv. sir, we appropriate annually to the President of the Uni ted States in emoluments and vari ous other things what he could not buy' for 50,000. We provide the President everything, except his pro visions; and we provide even a part of those, for we furnish his garden and gardeners ; we furnish all his furniture; we furnish stables recent ly rebuilt at a cost of over 30,000. We furnish nearly all his servants, all his clerks and secretaries, his gas and fuel; and now it is proposed, in violation of tlie spirit of the Con stitution, which declares that the President's salary "shall not be de creased or diminished during the period for which he is elected;" in clear violation of the spirit of that provision, you propose to technical ly to get around it by passing the bill on the Ord of March and make it take eii'eet on the 4th of March, while you admit that under the Constitu tion you could not pass it to-morrow. Sir, I have been a member of the Republican party from its very ori gin. True, I did not support its can didates last Pall, because of its cor ruptions; but I still have some feel ing of sympathy for the old party, and I do not wish to see it complete ly wreck itself and cover its history with dishonor; but this thing shames the Credit Mobilier and everything else that has taken place in this Con gress, or in any other, since I have been a member here. Sir, I appeal, if not to manhood, to the sense of justice of members of this House not to adopt this report. It is disgraceful, anil will greatly help to render this Congress in famous a Congress id ready without the confidence of the people. Let us have the manhood and decency to stamp upon this scheme for raising our salaries and purchasing favors of a President by increasing his, in clear violation of the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution. (i:en I'M res. In every home there should he at least one open grate or some other ar rangement for burning wood or hard or soft coal. A tire which can be: seen as well as felt a cheerful, bright blazing tire with shovel and tongs and fender, too if you please which will attract the family by its social inlluenee, is a grand thing in a grand thing in a home. Those black, grim tartarean lines, filled with the stale odors of cellar and hot-air cham l er and seething water-tank, and emitting clouds of pulverized ashes to cover your furniture and stit'e your lungs, are among the greatest bancs oi lanniy enjoyment and com fort. It is all well enough to have one's dwelling warmed from top to bottom and to have no coals to carry beyond the furnace, but this heating system has done immense mischief to the family powers, scattering the members of it all over the household, furnishing not one attractive spot in which the inmates will gather, as by instinct they do, to enjoy the cheery comfort of the fireside. There is no fireside in most of our modern houses. There are orAy holes in the lloor or in the walls. And we are disposed to think that the good- ventilation of the open lire adds not a little to the unconscious blessings of its hos pitable anil domestic inlluenee. The sight of the little folks as they sit musing and amused while the wood lire burns, and watching the fantas tic flames and the glowing coals, is worth many times1 the cost of that cord of hickory or oak at city juices, and a wise household would rather part with the furnace which that bright blaze supplements and atones for than with the low-down grates which makes the family circle a real tiling Try it, ye who can, and see if the moral, asthotic and domestic power of this style of home comforts is overestimated. The Stueuce of Health. The editor of the Eugene City State Journal writes from Washington as follows: Senator Mitchell has written a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, and Tiled it in the Department, protesting against any compromise on the part of the Government of the United States with the Modoc Indians who have been engaged in murdering in nocent white settlers in Southern Oregon. He strongly opposes anv settlemeut of the difficulties ly peace commissioners or otherwise, which will permit the savage murderers to eseajH? the punishment due their crimes, or which will enable the tribes to continue their depredations on the white settlers in the future. Senator Mitchell has also filed a letter with the Secretary of War urging the establishment of two militarv posts, each to be garrisoned with five conqianies of soldiers one to be at Camp Warner, and the other on Lost Iliver. A little boy asked Dr. Burgess, the preacher, if he would have a light. " No, my child," said the Doc tor, "I am one of the lights of the world." " I wish, then," replied the boy'you "w ere hung at the end of the alley, for it is a very dark one." 1 COURTESY OF 3Iysterious Disappearance of Thomas Nast. Few men will le more missed from literary and artistic circles than the late Mr. Thomas Nast. He had great talent. In the line of his speciality he was unequalled. Har per's WeeMy Journal of Civilization will hardly be able to get along with out him. Mr. Xast has been one of its most brilliant contributors. When he was alive' he was very han dy with the pencil. The character istic of his work was vigor. He pur sued the enemies of his country and of Harper & Prothers with a "great deal of jMiwer. The Journal of Ciril ization attained a large circulation through his efforts. The Harper lirothers were very fond of him. It is strange and yet it illustrates the cupidity of publishers and the selfish ness that pervades mercantile circles that they have offered no reward for his body. Nast was something of a sculptor withal. Not that he work ed in clay precisely; hut he worked in the next thing to clay mud. Xo man has thrown more of it in the last year than he. The editor of Harper 's lice. will miss Nast. For Nast has sent him in some of the l?st stibjects for obitu aries he ever had. Witness the clever treatment of the late Horace Greeley by the Weekly. The opportunity would never have been afforded had it not been for Nast. Everybody misses Nast. We all became so attached to him during the late campaign. There was such a nice sense of honor, such pure and earnest patriotism, such honesty of purpose and loyalty and all that sort of tiling in all his pictures in the Journal of Civilization. Those car icatures of Mr. Greeley shall we ever forget them.' so delicately put, so free from coarseness and brutali ty, so thoroughly in keeping with the political essays in the editorial columns. There was not an issue of the WeeMij for several months but contained two or three of those powerful arguments from NasL's pen cil, llie appeals to the nobler emo tions and gentle qualities of the hu man mind were irresistible. That, for instance Horace Greeley was rep resented as reaching over the bloody chasm of Anderson vide to shake hands with the rebels; or that where Charles Sumner is represented as laying flowers oa the grave of Pres ton S. Brooks, will not soon be for gotten. UrapprecialiYe people said that the manner in which Nast pursued Horace Greeley to his grave was bru tal beyond anyihiug in the history of our politics; they said that his car icatures of Schurz were the offspring of malignant hale for a successful fellow countryman; and that his rep resentations of Srmner and Trum bull were only such as presented themselves to a co.nse and vulgar mind as a means of turning an hon est penny by ju-ndeiing to the pas sion and prejudice engendered ia po litical strife. Hut it was not so. Oh. no! He was a sincere man. the late Mr. Nast was. He meant well. It was neces sary that he should do some things that were just a little questionable, or seemed so. in order to save the Government from such corrupt men as Greeley, Sumner, Schurz and Trumbull, and keep the pure and patriotic Grant and Wilson and Col fa:; and Oakes .Ames and Pomerov I and other Clnistinn Statesmen in power. Yes, he had to do it. Pnt he is gone. Poor fellow, we miss h'm now. The Wlh Journal f Cic'dizi'j'ion says nothing about him. Mr. George William Curtis dosn't write aiv obituaries of him; j but Ave know he's gone. If he were living now, how he world go for Oakes Ames and Schuyler Colfax and Henry Wilson mid Harlan and Pom eroy and all that crowd! Of course he would. Fol- everybody knows he was an earnest man and a sincere man, rod free from partisanship. He could make these fellows who held Credit Mobilier and didn't hold it, who took dividends and didn't take them, who borrowed money and forgot it. and these fellows who have bought and are buying seats in the Senate, and these civil service reform profes sors who pardon convicts imprisoned for illegal voting he could make all that kind of cattle step around lively. He might not kill them as he did Mr. Greeley, for they are not so sensitive; but he could make them uncomforta ble, and show them up to the public pictorially with great power. It doss senn such a pity that Nast is dead. .For this would have leen his opportunity. Nothing would have prevented his seizing it except a sneaking and dishonest desire to cover the crimes of his friends, and Nast never had that. No, no! We are looking now for Nast's obit uary in the Journal of Civilization, X. Y. San. -- - ' Alexander H. Stephens said in his address to the people of the Eighth Georgia Congressional Dis trict: Suffice it to say that I am a Democrat of the " straitest sect " of the Jeffersonian school of politics. In it I was reared and in it I expect to die. In this school I imbibed a fixed faith in the " capacity of man for self-government" and a firm be lief that upon the unswerving main tenance of the principle of this great apostle of liberty rest not only all fu ture hopes for the preservation of our matchless svstem of free institutions on this continent, but all sure hopes for the political redemption of the down-trodden and oppressed people in all climes and countries. An exchange asks" what is a bus tle?" We could not tell, and as a young friend of ours has recently got married, we propounded to him. After blushing quietly, he thus ex plained: "It is a thingumbob!" (Now what in the world is a thingumbob?) BANCROFT LIBRARY, Circular. The President and Hoard of Directors of the State Temperance Union, to the Erieuda of Temperance through out the State: " Be sure you are right, and then go ahead," is the safest and surest rule to which men either individual ly, or collectively, have ever given their attention. The observation of all passages furnish us with a host of witnesses both positive and negative unani mously coi-roborating the truth of the proposition. If we heed the warning of the past failures, and the instructions of those movements which have been crown ed with success, we will labor only in the promotion of those undertak ings which are right, and employ only the right means for their ac complishment. While this is the rule by which all honest persons square their actions, it is the one especially to be used in a work so great as is the temperance movement. The organization which will be most successful in the promotion of this great work must be constituted so as to bring together those, and those only, who are true and tried temper ance men and women, and whose sole object is the liberation of our fellows from the ravages of the mon ster enemy, intemperance. To effect such an organization, and to eventually yet speedily realize its desirable and unquestionably results, was the prime motive of the founders of the Oregon State Temperance Union. Our Constitution provides that only societies making the cause of temperance one of the chief and distinct objects of their organization, and churches that enjoin temperance as a rule of faith and practice, shall be entitled to representation in the Union. Every Delegate is required to subscribe to the following pledge in the 2,resence of the Union: "I pledge myself to abstain forever from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage, and to use every hon orable and legitimate means to dis countenance their use and sale in the community, and place the highest and most stringent barriers against the growing evils of intoxication and the liquor tralic." With these specifications and by this obligation it may reasonably be expected that the Union will In? a con vention of untrainmeled persons, free to putj forth every energy against the Giant Evil. AVe therefore most earnestly ask the hearty assistance and co-operation of all those churches and societies coming under the pur view of Article 2 of our Constitution. And especially do we request such societies and churches to send a full delegation to our meeting, to be held in Albany, on Friday, the 13th day of June next, according to the follow ing basis of rules established by the President and Board of Directors : All societies and churches shall be entitled to one for each organization: one for each 25 members, and one for each fractional 12 members. It has been further enacted that no per son shall lie admitted as a delegate who is not 18 years of age. It is also recommended that all delegates be chosen on or before the 15th day of May, and their names and creden tials, with those of their alternates, be sent immediately to II. Iteid, Sa lem, Oregon, Secretary of the Board of Directors. It is also recommended that in lo calities where many members are liable to be represented more than once by being members of the differ ent temperance organizations, and also of one or other of the churches that each church and society ascer tain, as nearly as possible, the num ber of members it has who will be represented from some other organ ization, and deduct one-half of that number from its membership, send ing delegates from the remainder ac cording to the prescribed basis. Each delegation must be furnished with credentials from the proper officers of the society sending it, of substantially the following form: To the llonora'te Hoard of Directors of the Oreyou State Temperance Union, (i reeling: This is to certify that have been duly elected delegates to the session of the Oregon State Tem perance Union held at Albany, Ore gon June 13th. 1873. from a temperance society (or religious body) located at which enjoins the "duty of temperance as a rule of faith and practice, and as one of the chief and distinctive features of its organization; that the said (name of society) has an actual bona fide mem bership of over and above those entitled to representation in the Union; that the said delegates are women, and we cordially commend them, as such, to the favor of the Union. In witness whereof we have, here unto set our hands at this dav of 1873. It is regarded as important that the credentials be forwarded prompt ly as above directed, for the reason that the Board of Directors are re quired to act as a Committee on Cre dentials, anl to have the list of del egates complete before the meeting of the Union. Please have the foregoing publicly read lefore the organization to whom it is directed. , By order of the President and Board of Directors of the Oregon State Temperance Union. Syl,. C. Sympson, Corresponding Secretary. 11. PiEID, A. T. Yeaton, , Coir Salem, March 2G, 1873. "We find that he came to his death from calling Bill Jackson a liar," was the verdict of a coronor's jury is Mis souri recently. Iowa wolves are making mourning in many pig-pens. Good Platform Timber. Under this head the Springfield Republican says: "Here are a few 'planks' which gentlemen taking contracts for polit ical platforms, this year, will do well to examine carefully before looking further for their material: "II. No more subsidies, in any shape on any pretext, or under any circumstances whatever. "I. No more perquisities, either to President, Congressmen, Custom House officer, or any other public servant in national, State, or munici pal employment. A clean sweej of all allowances, fees, moieties, and the like demoralizing methods of in direct payment. Reasonable wages for the work done, and there an end. "III. No more great government jobs for the further corrupting of public and Congressional morals and the enriching of the lobby, no San Domingo annexation, no postal tele graph, no government canal build ing. A general shutting down, both at the Federal and State Capitols, on special legislation of all kinds. "IV. A prompt return to and sub sequent sedulous minding of its own business, on the part of the general government; leaving States, munici palities and private citizens to mind theirs. Fair play for natural laws in trade, commercial and national devel opment. A final end of the paternal nonsense, and a revival of the old fashioned American notions about the relative spheres and duties of the individual, the neighborhood, the State, and the central representative authority. "V. No more quartering of use ful politicians, under pretext of pub lic employment, upon the tax -payers. A civil service reform that means business and accomjdishos it. "VI. The rigid application to every candidate for office of the Jef fersonian test honesty, capacity, fi delity to the Constitution. A tardy perception of the fact that political 'soundness is perfectly compatible with the most advanced stage of mor al rottenness, and that to condone the one for sake of the other, isn't on the whole, a paying operation. "VII. Universal amnesty." Snurgcou's Advice C rat is No body is more like an honest man than a thorough rogue. When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. Do not choose your friend by his looks. Handsome shoes often pinch the feet. Don't be fond of compliments; re member, "thank you, pussy, and thank you, pussy," killed the cat. Don't believe" the man that talks most; for mewing cats seldom are good mousers. By no means put yourself in an other person's power; if youputyour thurub between two grinders t.hey are very apt to bite. Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it, and make sure it means no more than it says. Don't go to law unless you have nothing to lose; lawyer's houses are built on fool's heads. In any business never wade into water where you cannot see the bot tom. Put no dependence in the label of a bag: and count the money after your own kin. See the sack open before you buy what is in it; for he who trades in the dark asks to be cheated. Keep clear of the man who does not value his character. Beware of any man who swears; he who would blaspheme the Maker would make no bones of lying or stealing. Beware of no man more than your self; we carry our worst enemies with us. When a new opinion or doctrine comes before you, do not bite till you know whether it is bread or stone; and do not be sure that the ginger bread is good because of the gnilt on it. Never shout halloo! till you are quite out of the wood ; and never cry fried fish till they are caught in the net. There is always time to boast wait a little longer. Don't throw away dirty water till you have got clean; keep on scraping the roads till you can get work, for the poorest pay is better than none, and the humblest office is better than being out of employment. Always give up the road to bulls and madmen; and never fight with a coal heaver, nor contend with a base chai-acter, for they will be sure to blacken vou. The EprrAni of the -42d Congress. The XLIId Congress was content to go down into history as a Con gress that had so little "moral sense as to refuse to punish the proved im morality of many of its members; as a Congress that dared to be wrong; to condone and excuse wrong rather than to punish it, though the whole country demanded it should punish the guilty and vindicate its own and the nation's abused honor. The XLIId Congress has ceased to exist without a single regret from any one, its epitaph composed by its master spirit, Okes Ames, who, in its last hours, wrote after his own name in the autograph book of a congenial Senator, " Put what you have where it will do the most good."- The in solence of this satire upon his col leagues, upon the demoralization of Congress, coming from Oakes Ames, is almost sublime. Phila. Inouirer, Rep A poetic Hibernian explains that love is commonly spoken of as a "bane," because it is a tinder sentiment. The Chicago Trilttne makes a sum mary of the congressional appropri ations showing an increase of about 25,000,000 in the public expenditure of the present year over those of the last year. The most remarkable items are an increase of 1,500,000, owing to the rise in congressional salaries just before adjournment, extending over two years past. This was plain roblery-. The expense, of the war department shows an increse of S3,- 000,000. Whether this was rendered necessary in order to hunt up Cthe Tenton Sioux, or to prosecute the seventy-five Modocs, the public is left to guess. The navy exienses are increased nearly 4,000,000, pre sumably for the purpose of mrintain ing what competent authority pro nounces to be one of the most" ineffi cient navies now in existent. The expenses of the postoflice department are also 4,000,000 greater in spite of the abolition of the franking priv ilege. "Sundry Civil Expenses" enlarged by about 12 0On,OJX, the "Deneienoica ly about 3,500.000 ; the "Miscellaneous" by about 2.000 000. Under these last three items are included most of the pfivate jobs and unwarranted expenses which con gress did not dare to insert in the regular appropriations. For the task of appropriating, so much more money than heretofore, the late in-3 dustrious and virtuous congress con cluded that it was entitled to an in crease of pav. - -- Prince Fred's Promotion The Chicago Tribune, of March 10th, thus comments on the promotion of the Government's oldest son to a Lieutenant-Colonelcy at the expense of a veteran soldier. It says: The announcement that Lieutenant Fred Grant was about to finish his accademie course at onto bound, by assuming certain duties incident to his appointment on General Sheri dan's staff, has already created a very O strong feeling in this city. NoIk be cause Fred Grant is coming to Cliica go, for that is a matter entirely for Fred Grant's benefit, aud the "people of this city are generous enoiigh to Avish tor improvement wiierever neea ed. If society likes Mr. Grant when he comes, Mr. Grant will be made aware of it; but if he dees succeed in making himself popular, it will not be through the .circumstances whijh have brought him here, for these are much against him. It is nois; known that the gallant officer whose removal is to pave the way to Mr. Grant's pi omotion is one from whom Chicago is most unwilling to part, one of her most cherished pons, a gentleman in every way worthy of the city's affection; who, though quite young, has won by hero's rn the exalted position he holds in amiv and by his many social qualities the esteem and regard of his felljw-citi-zens. General George A. Forsyth e is to be removed and reduced to :he rank of Major, and sent to join his lvginu-nt in the field to make room for Mr. Fred Grant, a young man of whom nothing is known except that he enjoys the distinction of 1 eincr the son of a living President of the Unit ed States; has traveled to Europe in a United States war steamer, the bill being paid by the people of the Unit ed Slates. The Language of the Eyes. It has often been said that a worn in with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never sacrifices her husband's com fort for her own, never0 finds fault, never talks too much or too little, and is always an entertaining agree able and lovely companion. "We never knew," says s brother quill driver, "but one uninteresting, and unamiable woman with a hazel eve, and she had a nose which look d, as the Yankee savs. like the shrrp end of nothing whittled down to a point." The gray eye is a sigjt of shrewdness and talent . Great think ers and Captains have it. In woman it indicates a better head than heart. Tlie dark hazel is nobler in signifi cance as in beauty. The black eye! Look out for the wife with a black eye! Such can be seen almost daily at the police office, generally witha complaint against the husband for assault and batterv. o How we Fade. As the trials of life thicken, and the dreams of other days fade one by one, in the deep vista of disappointed hope, the heart grows weary of the struggle, and we begin to realize our insignificance. Those who have climbed to the pin nacle of fame, or revel in luxury or wealth go to the grave at last with O the poor miscreant who liegs by the way side, and like him are soon for gotten. Generation after generation says an eloquent writer, have felt as Ave feel, and their felloAvs Avere as ac tive in life as ours are noAV. They passed away as vapor, while nature wore the same aspect of !eauty as when the creator commanded her to be. The heavens will be as bright over our graA'es as they are now around our path: the world haAe the same attraction for our offsprings yet unborn that she once had for our seles. Scrplcs Funds. The little State of DelaAvare, as she is inflicted some- what with ohl-f lshioned honesty, has a considerable surplus in hertreasury. It is said, too, that upon the present basis of taxation the embarrassment of riches promises to lie greater in the future. It has been suggested that the only Avay to remedy this evil is to import a few politicians from Pennsylvania or from Washing ton. The New York Tribune thinks surplus revenue would't trouble the DelaAvares much after that. A Kingston youth has frozen Qi is nose seven times this aa inter, pacirg in front of his swee'heart s house, waiting for the "other fellow" to leaA-e. O 9 O 0 O 0 O O ,0 o o ! v o O G C4- ! h i