- A VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, IS74. NO. 16. G THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER FOR TUG f irm:r, Busings )hu, k Family Circle. LS3UED EVERY FRIDAY. A.NOLTNER, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OWCIAL PAPER F02 CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Dr. Thesslns's T.rick, next door to John Myers' store, up-stairs. Terms of Subscription: mnzl Copy On.? Year, In Advance $2.50 Six Months" " 1.50 Term of Ail vertiilntf : Transient adven.ismierits. including ail in 'i not ici-s. t SMiiare oi inc lines one ve-k For each subs pieiit ins rtion.. One Column, one year Half " " " quarter - Iluainess Card, 1 square, one yL- ...$ 2.50 1.00 rn.i n us I x s .sr a ar d s. J. AV. NOKKI8, :St. IJ., PHYSICIAN .VXD SCKGKON, o n k ; o o it o n u a o x. y-0:ni Up-StAirs in G'harman's P.riek, Main Street, au-lltf. W. H. WATK1J43, M. D. P33TLitMD, 07.EG0H. .-OFFICE Odd F lioWsT."i)ipl oracr First and Alder str ts. It.-sideiicv.- corner of Main and S -ventli str'-et.s. Drs. 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HoM-ril i Week rfc" ? Week with Lod-iug. 6.00 G o irrkparahlf- BV It. II. STODDARD. The sorrow of sorrows Was never sung or said, Though many a poet borrows The mourning of the dead. And darkly hurries pleasure In soino melodious measure. The loss of youth is sadness To all who think, or feel A wound no after gladness Can ever wholly heal ; And yet so many' share it Wo learn at last to bear it. The faltering and the falling Of friends is sadder still ; For friends grown foes, assailing Know when and when' to kill ; Hut souls themselves sustaining, Have still a friend remaining! The deatli of those who love us, And those we love, is sore ; Rut think they are above us, Or think they are no more. We bear the blows that sever, We cannot weep forever! The sorrow of all sorrows Is deeper than all these. And all that anguish borrows Upon its bended knees; No tears or praycis relieve it, '; loving vows deceive it. It is one day to waken And find that bve is ilown, And cannot be o'er taken, And we are left alone ; No woe that, be spoken. No heart that can be broken ; No wish for love's returning, Or ."lomethiug in its stead ; No missing it and yearning As for the clearer dead ; No yesterday, no morrow Rut evei -lasting .sorrow '. Iuiportant to l.aud Owners. The following letter front Con gressman Nesmith to the Salem M-r-curi contains information and advice which may prove of vital importance to some of our readers. This letter is dated, "Washington, Jan. li, and reads : Great numbers of citi:or.s of Or egon have requested me to go to the General .Land Oilice here, and have their patent for lands, under the do r.ation laws, issued and forwarded to them. l'y attending to this matter I have been surprised to iind that in at least ono-half tiie cases, about which I inquired, there were no re cords iu te General Jjand office. The records, in relation to some of these claims, are doubtless retained until the final proof shall be made, and it is probable that in some cases they are retained" on account of non payment of fees. Some instances have come under my observation where the notifications were filed 20 years ago, and lhnd proof of four years' residence and cultivation had never been made. The mere notifi cation confers no title to the donee, without the tiaal proof. In view of the vast amount of valuable proper ty, and the interest not onlv of the iop.ee, but of all subsequent pur chasers, particularly where the do- !( ll t i ne; lias sold neiore ine issuo oi pat ent, and has since died, which are at stake, I deem it my duty to call the attention of all parties interested in these patents, whether as donees or subsequent purchasers, to the condi tion of their claims. If they have not received their patents they had better apply at once to their local land office and ascertain whether their notification anil final proof have been forwarded to the General Ij md Office here. It will afford me pleas ure to render any assistance in my power to obtain the patents here. This is a matter of so much import ance to the people of Oregon that I would be obliged if the press of the State would lay it before their re spective readers, Jlespectfully, yours, J. W". Nksmitit. Ant; They ix Eai:nt-:st. If Grant and his minions in Congress are in earnest in their seeming disposition to change that part of the Durlingame treaty with the Celestial Empire, which anthori.es the invasion of this country by the ignorant and vaga bond classes from China, then in deed do the lta lical despots deserve an iota of praise. If it be so, it is a great triumph to the Democracy of the Union, who in augurated the movement in that di rection. To the poor laborer it comes as the precursor of the day when his toil shall be fairly requitted, presa ging peace of mind ami hope of fu ture plenty. To the heartsore fe male worker, looking through tears at her crumbs und scanty .surround ings, and shuddering at the possibil ities of to-morrow, it comes as the interposing shield of Divine. Mercy, saving lit-r from Death, or it's worse altt rnative, Moral liuiu. To the po litical leader who have s'.r.iggled w ith, and for the people, in this con tost for a release from a curse which threatened the destruction of repub lican government - in America, it comes as the crowning glorv of their efforts. 0 " Now let 01 r California legislators rise to that pinnacle of statesman ship, in the occupancy of which pas sion and party are forgottnu, and im ued only with a desire for the wel fare of their people, let them empha size the resolutionsof Senator lioach on this subject, with the unanimous sanction of both Houses, aud the dav will ytt dawn when, if the Burlin game Treaty is abrogoted, in its of fensive features, the people will cel ebrate the event as a National holi day. But is Grant aud are his vas sals sincere in their manifestations China ward ? .S. l- Kraminer. What He Drew. The editor of the Vis ksburg Herald spent ciSOO on a church Fair, hoping to get the prize of -?3,000 in gold, and he drew a brass chain and a photograph of George Washington. This world has no further pU'Psrire for him. Dissecting a Doctor's Rill. About three months ago Jacob The Radical-Republican party be Milchman's wife, in Detroit, was gan its career by deep-mouthed pro somewhat ill, and thought that a fessions of public morality and po- uoeior ougm to be sent to her; so he ; called at a Detroit street office, and i requested me physician to go to his house. The call was made, a rre- senption left with Mrs. M., and eith- i er the medicine was very effectual or Mrs. M. was not very sick, for when he called the next time, she informed him that she was all cured and lie need not come any more. Last Mon day Jacob received bv mail a bill from Dr. Z., "Duo for medical ser vices. $13 To." Jacob studied a longtime over that bill, and showed it to his wife, and studied it over a long time with her; but the more he looked at it, the more it seemed to him that there must be a mistake. The next morn ing he called at the doctor's office, bill in hand, and found the proprie tor sitting there waiting to hear of some one suffering from green corn, or one of the other prevalent dis eases. Mr. Milchman laid his hat down carefully, and handed the bill to Dr. Z., saying, " You are Dr. Z., I sup pose?" "Yes, yes, certainly, Mr. Mileh m in: sit down. How is your wife?" ' Oh, my w ife is all right. You doc tored her,"eh ?" "I gave her some medicine that seemed to work like magic." "x s. so it did; that was vour bill, eh?" "Yes, but no hurry about it, Mr. Milchman; take a little time on it, if you want to; no hurrv." "That was right, was it .-SI" 75?" "Let me see; yes, that is the right amount: but no hurry about paying it, you know." "Thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents for one visit ! That was pretty tarn dear; don't you think so?" Here the doctor smiled all over in the most forgiving way , saying, "My dear Mr. Milchman, vou are far out 7 L ;f the way. For ur.e visit ! my lear sir.-' jLnat is tiie way with the unpro fessional mind. 1 assure yo:i tinit when you see the items you will a jroe with me that the amount is low, sir, very low !" "Oil !" sa'i.l Jacob, "there were items, were there? "Well, where those items were ?" "In my memorandum book, sir. You shall have them, certainly, if you wish. You want the items, do you V" 'That was just what I want," said Jacob, and apparently much to the doctor's annoyance. lie hesitated a moment, then drew a small memo randum booh from h:s breast pocket, opi ned it, thou looked at Jacob and b.'gan : May use- of horse and buggy to call 0:1 Mrs. Milchm.in, one dollar and-a-half." 'Stop a little,' said Jacoo, "until 1 write him down." And ho proceed ed to write the item do wn. "Don't you keep no horse?" he asked, when he had finished his writing. "Ye-es," said the doctor, unwil lingly, "but of course I have to make charge for his use. the same as if he was a hired horse; don't you s:e?" "Oil, yes, he was your horse; but you charge yourself for him?" "Yes, that's it. Now item No. 2. To looking at the tongue of Mrs. M., fifty cents." "Oh, vou look at mv wife's tongue, eh?" "Certainly, I had to, you know. Item No. 3. To feeling pulse of Mrs. M., sixty cents." "Dat was cheap enough." "I knew yon would think so," ex claimed the doctor, now satisfied that he was all right. Item No. i. "To hearing Mrs. M's. report of her case, one dollar." "Mine Got. You charge me for 1113- wife's talking '" "Only what she said in a profes sion il way, I assure you. That item you will find correct; take the next. To writing prescription for Mrs. M., '. That was where the heavy work came in, vou know." "Pretty tarn heavy I think so." " Very reasonable for the amount of care I gave the subject, as 3011 will see when you think it over. Item again to calling next day with copy of prescription book with nie three dollars." "Well, dat was all you got, ain't it? Yon was told my wife was till right, and that was CO. Where you make yous c? 1-5 75?" "You are mistaken about that be ing ail, Mr. Milchman. No, sir, I could not let the matter drop there. Pray allow me to proceed. To stud ying over the case in my office, two dollars." "Oh, yon study over him there ?" 'Certainly 1 did. Next, to riding around by your house, on my way home, and looking attentively about the premises, one dollar; to meeting chihl and asking how her mother was, one dollar. To making bill, pos tage, etc., fifteen cents. There, sir, are all the items, and very reasona ble, too, upon my honor." . -- No Moke fob Sale. A man about fortv vears of age and a woman seem inglv "seventy years old were at the Detroit and Milwaukee station recent ly, waiting for a train, when the man strolled out on the dock and caught sight of one of the city life-preservers hanging on a hook. He asked what it was, and a laborer told him, and then he asked, "How long will i save a feller's life?" The man told him a hundred years, and the mfor- rr.i.Hnn ictn o-frored the stranger. alk- ing around a few minutes, as if med- should send his son to, the State Re lating, he stepped to his informant form School, threatening, in case of . e.' . ll. . t'ii rpfnsfll in nnt him in the Tiemten- and em',! "So bf-re. stranger. Ill .-.i- ' c r. rnadn-flrQ mid if it wouldn't be asking too much of wv, tvi 1.1 h nl.l man in there that vou haven't anoth- for 3le, .'u?d that the machine which mVle 'cm Las bu-tccl " Vtt. All IlrVM ( f 1 1 LJ Lil HIV ""I...-.. - . . 1 1 Its Constant Tendency. litical purity. Its leaders preached themselves into notoriety as exem plars of the most rigid virtue, and the representatives of ideas in gov ernment that would, if allowed to become dominant, restore the coun try to paradisical felicity. Let the reins of power be taken from tiie Lo-co-l'ocos, said the Republican lead ers, and we shall show the people- bow honestly, econ--ink-ally, and j honorably we can administer the i Government. Well, it was done, j Folly and dissension lost to the De mocracy the control of affairs, and in came the party of high moral ideas, the party that was devoted to the re alization of beautiful theories and abstractions. Some of its theories were at once realized, and it has al ways continued devoted to abstrac tions from the public treasury. Its advent was signalized b- the incep tion of a terrible civil war, and its continuance in power has been among the bitterest of the fruits of that war. Put how has it justified its profes sions of superior honesty in adminis tration, of higher morality, and more exalted public virtue, and more elevated political purity than its predecessor ? Let us see: Instead of having maintained a 1 course ot honest administration, it ! has pursued an undeviating line of ; dishonesty, falsel o id, and treachery, j It has corrupted the fountains of jus ' tic-3, destroyed the confidence of the ; people in democratic institutions, de j lunched the patriots sentiment of j the youth of the country, perverted i the thought of the plain people from admiration of republican simplicity j to emulation of the shoddy aristoc ! racv raised up through the anoma lous conditions of the war. The training of, and in, the Repub lican party has been a long educa tion in dishonesty. It has been the constant tendency of its policy to obscure and obliterate a sense of the distinction between right and wrong. It inllated the currency and encour aged the whole community to repu diate, their honest debts by discharg ing thi-ni in bad money. When the Supreme. Court decided that gold debts incurred before the war ought to be paid according to the contract, restoring the same amount of money that was borrowed, the Republican President took the first opportunity to pack the Court for the purpose of getting that righteous decision re versed. Jy the legislation of the Republican party there have been is sued lying promisesto pay 1 Oft. 000, 000 ami tin; jiromis -s are forfeited without compunction. When the Government engraves on a greenback its promise to pay the bearer ten dol lars, t li 3 words have no meaning un less they are an engagement to give a gold eagle in exchange for the greenback. "When the Government makes lying promises by the hun dred minion, it is educating the peo ple in falsehood and bad laith, and undermining their sense of moral ob ligation. And with equal effective ness the Republican party for more than ten years did its best to deaden a just sense of moral distinctions by niaking anti-slavery zeal and the blind support of its measures an all atoning substitute for virtue. Everybody recollects how the purest and most upright men in the country were hounded down, their reputations blackened, and all their virtues denied, for a simple differ ence of opinion on public questions. The distinction between a knave and an honest man, says the New York War lit, was held to be of no account in comparison with the difference be tween a copperhead and an aboli tionist. The hideous depravation of public morals which everybody now affects to deplore, is a natural conse quence of the measures, jolicy ami spirit of the Republican party, which has done its best to obliterate a cor rect sense of pecuniary obligation, and to make a private virtue less es teemed than party zeal. Men of stainless life and incor ruptible integrity, like Governor S - mnir, and the venerable ex-Senator P iyard who spurned the Credit Mobilior business when so many "Christian statesmen" fell, were foul ly traduced and made odious to the unthinking multitude, because, for sooth, they were copperheads. Anil social outcasts steeped in crime, like Sickles, were forgiven and extolled because they were willing to go all lengths with the dominant party. Nothing could have been more suit ed te confuse ail just moral distinc tions and abolish popular respect for virtue and integrity. The Republican party introduced a new standard of morals; a stand ard which made party zeal t ho high est virtue and and a substitute for all others; and this dangerous teach ing is bearing its necessary fruit in the wide-spread and deplorable cor ruption which is the common topic of the time. Tiie party "of great moral ideas," and its later blossoms of "Christian statesmanship" have brought the country to the moral condition in which we now lind it. Examiner. The son of a wealthy manufactu rer in Mouson, Massachusetts, hav ing stolen his mother's ring and giv en it to a woman of bad character, and after many other wrong doings, robbed bis father's safe, the citizens of the town have held a meeting, and solemnly resolved that the father I tiary It is rather an odd demand to make of an affectionate parent, but : perhaps the citizens of 31onson I think they have a right to protect themselves against the boy s proba- derrefttl0n. COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, AH'cctiiig- Plea. McQuade in Chicago Fireside Friend. There are people, I know, who are constantly hurling jokes at their mother-in-law, and at everybody else's mother-in-law, just as if the old lady had no business in the world after marrying off her daugh ters. I'd like to see the chap who dared liing jokes at mv wife's moth er. It always rests me to have the j good old dear arrive with her four j bandboxes, two hot bricks, live buu j dies of herbs, a chest, ami a pillow j slip of dried apples and burdock i root. I feel just like falling on her ' shoulder; but I don't do it because my disposition is quiet and undem ontrative. She no sooner gets into the.. house than she say's Maria looks like a ghost, or just like a woman up at Tarrytown whose husband mauls her with a sled-stake and is drunk half the time. She says this looking full at me, but I of course very well knew she doesn't mean anything. "Heavens! but this is that same old carpet 011 the floor!" exclaims my mother-in-law, as she removes her bonnet. And then she looks at me and tells me how Tom Scott saved his cigar and tobacco money and got Nelly a royal Wilton. I remember, when I was sparking my w ife, there was no carpet at all on the iloor, and so I laugh heartily at the old lady's joke. Tiie baby, who has been play ing all day, is declared sick, and a quart bowl of catnip is prepared. My wile is sent to bed to sleep oil" her sick head-ache, though she hadn't made any complaints, and I am told that I hail belter go to the hotel for supper. "And 110 cue will get into this house after eight o'clock to-night!" adds the good oil creature. The parlor stove has to be moved to coin cide with her views. I cheerfully move it. Tiie pictures have to be raised or lowered ; the sofa wheeled over; the what-not placed in the oth er corner, and all the time I am working bless her old heart! is telling me how Raker, who wanted i to marry Maria, but di lu't get a chance, is now worth his thousands and thousands and has a parlor which a king would dare enter. The ser vant girl is declared a sloven, and I cheerfully discharge her, though she has been with us a year. The kitchen stove has to be moved to the left, the heads of all the beds turned to the north so as to get the benelit of the electric current, and the watch-dog .shot because his bark wakes her at midnight. "Anything further, dear mother?" I ask, as I look into her smiling face. And she replies that Maria ought to bo sent South for her health; the baby boarded out by the week; the front doorsteps repainted; the himbroquins exchanged; the in terior of the hor.su grained; the kit -hen stove exchanged for a range; and a few more trilling matters per formed. Some men get out of pa tience the moment their mother-in-law enters the house, but I meet her with a smile. The Slanderous Tongue. The tongue of slander is never tir ed. In one way or another it mana ges to keep itself in constant employ ment. Sometimes it drips honey and sometimes gall. It is bitter now. and then sweet. It insinuates or as sails directly, according to the cir cumstances. It will hide a curse under a smooth word, and administer poison in the phrase of hne. Like death, it "loves a shinning mark." And it is never so available and elo quent as when it can blight the hopes of the noble-minded, soil the reputation of the pure, and break down or destroy the character of the brave and strong. What pleasure man or woman can lind in such work we have never been able to see. And yet there is pleasure of some sort in it to the multitudes, or they would not betake themselves to it. Some passion of soul or body must be gratified by it. Rut no soul in high estate can delight in it. It in dicates lapse, tendency toward chaos, utter depravity. It proves that somewhere in the soul there is weak ness, waste, evil nature. Education and refinement are proof against it. They often serve only to polish the slanderous tongue, increase its tact, and give it suppleness and stategy. It is reported in some of the pa pers that (ion. Ren. Rntler occasion ally speaks with great contempt of General Grant. One story is that not long since Rntler used the fid lowing language: "Stupid blunder! When did you ever know that fool to do anything else?" Now it is very possible that Rntler may occasional ly utter words to this effect; but we submit that he can never employ them except in confidence, and that it is very wrong in the newspapers to betray him. A few years ago a great quarrel was raging between Rutler and Grant. It took herculean ef forts to reconcile them, and why can anyone be so malignant as to reopen a feud between such eminent eiti zens ? Daughtek of the house (to a privi leged old friend of the family- "Dear Mr. Lupus, you don't seem to be enjoying yourself. I should like to have you waltz this once with me." Privileged old Friend "My dear child. I don't dance; but if it suits you, I woulden't mind sitting here with my arm around your waist, while the others are- making them selves dizzy." Shot-guns. Our experience, and the history of the past eighteen cen turies, incline us to the belief that no matter how well yon treat a shot-gun, nor 3 0u bring it up, it will bang the-stuffin out of you the first time it gets a chance. An Williams. From the New York Sun. The recent investigation by the Judiciary Committee of the Senate made conspicuous the unfitness of George 11. Williams for the place which he now occupies, but does not fill superadded was the ills- j coverv that he had prostituted his office to venal objects, and appropri ated the contingent fund of the Department of Justice to the use of his family in a manner not otherwise than thievish. These facts have not been and can not be disputed, for the proof exists 1 , in the archives of the ireasury, where the vouchers for this plunder are filed. The question now natur ally arises whether a man whose hands are so foul, and whose charac ter is worthless, shall be allowed to hold the office of Attorney-General. The President, who thought him the best choice for Chief Justice, and who can see no impropriety in his corrupt practices, will of course sustain him as he has heretofore done. The sinister and social con siderations which operated to bring ui-out so unworthy an appointment will be more potent now than ever. Williams has audaciously announ ced that he does not intend to retire from the Cabinet, and feels secure in his position. He did not dare to con front the judgment of even a partisan Senate, because the proofs of his guilt were overwhelming. With the knowledge that this evidence is still held against'him, he clings to office; and the President, to whom it has bt;en made known, instead of dismis sing lum peremptorily, treats him as one persecuted by malice and jeal ousy. It is possible, therefore, that Wil liams may continue to illustrate Grantism in the place of its highest legal expounder, but there is a coai foit in knowing that his presence there will do more to disgust the country and to alienate any remnin ing regard for the President than almost any other cause. His iriee is now known to all the world, and his opinions will soon find their proper level, like that fabricated to order in the case of the Yirginius f or the Spanish Legation. Refore the Supreme Court he never had the least legal standing, but henceforth the colored messenger who waits on the Chief Justice will have more moral inllnence than this poor apolo gy for an Attorney-General. Col. Fred. Grant, whose remarka bly rapid promotion over the heads of deserving officers who have seen actual service has excited a great deal of feeling in the army, has not generally been suspected of blood thirstyness. Indeed, the circum stances under which he left the Yel lowstone Expedition were such as to give reason tor the belief that he was a young man of the most pacific ten dencies. It appears, however, that tho martial influences of Washing ten have excited his ambition ami led him to make an effort to distin guish himself as a belligerent. With this intent, according to the reports from Washington, he made an ad vance upon the private residence of Rrevet Rrig. Gen. Don Piatt, in the absence of the gallant Rrevet Rriga dier General, with the avowed pur pose of calling him to j-rsonal ac count for something ho had printed in his newspaper, the Capital. As the object of his wrath was not at home, no blood was shed, though the distinguished young Colonel doubt less succeeded in terrifying the fe male servants of the household by his ferocious aspect. It was this lit tle incident which led Don Piatt to publish the following card, which appears at the head of the editorial columns of the Capital of January 11,1874: "A Cai;d. As it is not customary in civilized communities to call a person to account in the presence of liis family, and as there are painful and imperative reasons why we should object to such a course, we wish to say that we are regular in at tendance, during business hours, at our'ofiice. We are there every day prepared to wee any one disposed to call upon us; and hereafter when an aggrieved person attempts to call us to account in our own house, such person will be met by the police. There are no police, however, about our place of business, and we assure all such that an entrance will be un obstructed, whatever the exit may be." It will be seen that this card in cludes a covert invitation to the young warrior to visit the General in his office during business hours if he is m search of glory. We do not be lieve the invitation will be accepted Lasdloed, said a transient guest at a cross-roads tavern, as he drew near the end of his dinner "wont you give me a little more pork 10 eat with this potato? A littk later he said: "There was more pork tnan 1 wanted; let me trouble you for a little more potato to eat with the pork." And shortly after: "Well, I lo declare, 1 ve got some more vota to left, and it seems a pity to h a. e it just a small piece of pork, more lt you please. It ran on sofcrtomt time. At length the landlord stoi ped short in front of bis guest and and remarked: "Look here, stiaa ger, 'taint no use I'm willing to do anything in reason to make that pork aud potato come out even, but I ve made up mv mind, the way you fat, it can't be did. You are bound to lap over one way or the other eierv time. Now just make up your mini, which you'd rnther leave, and leave it and quit. I've got enough pork and potatoes, but if you 11 keep on you'll bust." A MainogirTbas killed herself chewing gum. and Tweet! V'hy IJutler Ol.jeot t. From the New York Sun. 0 It is said that the wife of George II- Williams, the Attorney General of the United States, rsdes in a car riage which was bought ami raid for itn money belonging to the United states. Her husband is at th. of the new-fangled department of the Government called the Department of Justice, and when the carriage was purchased it was charted to tli Department of Justice. The horses .li.-... 4.. .1.; . . -I., - , "'"" 10 tins carriage, nnu tneir har ness are said to have bt-en bunslit and paid for in the same way. Tho coachman w ho has charge of ' this es tablishment is said to be on the jay roll of the Department of Justice. And yet the carriage, Jiorses, har ness and coachman are represented to be used mainly by Mrs. Williams. These things are either true or false. If they are true is it not scandal ous that they are true? We know of no law there is no law by which such expenditures can be justified or excused. If the allegations are not true th ev il re unjust and cruel toward Mrs. Williams, and the more speedily und -publicly they are disapproved tho better for her. If, on the cor.tiary, they be true, her rare beauty. though it rival that 01 Cleopatra, cannot render them less shameful. In either eent is it i.ot desirable and proper that the question should be officially settled whether tLey are true or not '? On thelGth nit.. Mr. Small of New Hampshire offered a lesolntRm in iu the IIousu of Representatives di recting an inquiry into these; m it ters. Gen. Rutler of Massachusetts objected. 0 Why should Gen? Rntler object? Wi.l not obji ct'o 1 by h in be ci li st rued as a plea of guilty 011 the part of Mr. and Mrs. Williams? And with a virtual a 'mission of tlieso charges, is it possible can it be pos- siiiiu under any administration lor Mr. Williams to retain hrs ' otMce ? In other words, why should William M. Tweed languish in prison for taking the public money to buy horses and carrriages and other tilings, and George 11. W.'li nhs, af ter having done ti e s.Mne thing, bo permitted to bask in the snushfiiejf Executive favor, and to continue to occupy the high office ofoAttornev General of the United State ? A Woki to GxRi.s.-The wcrnm who is indifferent to her true woman. God meant women to be attractive, to look well, to please, and it is one of her dut.'es to carry out this infeniion of her maker. Rift that dress is to do it all, and to suffice, is more than we can be brought to believe. Just because we do love to see girls look well as well as to live to some purpose, we would urge iip 011 them such a co u-ce of reading and study as well confer such charms as no mod'.-tc can supply. A v 11 known author once wrote a r ' i etty essay on the power of ehn-i-ti 11 to te.iutifv. T. a' it a s la y c.iiseled the features: thai lie had seen many a clumsy nose an. L thick pair of lips so modified h f thought a vakened and active sentiment as to be unrecognizable. And he put it 011 that ground that wo so often see people, hotnelv and unattractive in youth, bloom in middle life into a softened Indian summer of good looks and mellow tones. Exctbmr.c. ' - 0 The Senatorial struggle in Virgin ia has finally terminated in the elec tion of Lieut. Gov. R. E. Withers. The successful candidate has had a leading chance from the beginning. the. chief obstacle to his v'c'orv be? ing the question of localitv. He from Wythe county, in tl e south western part of the Srate. It va claimed by his opponent1-; that as ti western citizens of Virginia were ai ready represented by Mr. Johnston in the Senate, the eastern counties should have the si at vacated by Mr. Lewis. That argume nt se ms to h;.ve been overcome. Lic-ut. Gov. With ers was a Colonel in the Confederate service. Subsequently he became editor of the Lynchburg Netc. and was the Conservative candidate for Governor in 1S0S. ?Jr. Withers has a good reputation as an honest and capable legislator; he is a fair speak er and is expected to make a lirst-rat impression in the U. S. Senate. -V. F. Tribune. Djjeams. If a man dreams that he devil is aft r him. it is a sign that he had better sttttle hissubscip tion bill. q If he dreams of an earthquake, and a turmoil generally, it is a sign that he is going to be marrjed. If he (being a married man) dreams of some fearful mysterious danger, it is a sign that his mother-in law is enming to spend a few days with her darling daughter. If he dreams that hi head isin dan ger, and that his hah fa Is out. it is a sign that he will have a quarrel with his wife. If he dreams of being accosted by a strange man, v ho insists on talking to him, it is a sign that he. had bet ter know all the policemen If he dreams of speaking familiarly t- a ghost with horns and tail, it is it sign that lie had better relduco hia liquor bill. p If he dreams of making a fool oi himself? it is a true sign it is so. We have for sale a small butoell selected assortment of cuts of roos ters, banners and smoke wn-athed cannon, that have beenjied for "te past fifteen j ears in calibrating Re oublican victories. It looks just now. owing to "circumstances o-er which we "have no control." as if r e had no further use for the hnrmle s illustrations, and will disnose of them, on reasonable terms.-Jii'icawAee Sen- o Williams o O 0 o o o c o o o o o