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"rD. G . o o VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1S74. o NO. 1". O V 4 0 e . - c J THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER F O K X II K firmer, Uasinrss )Ian, k Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. .A.. NOLTNl R, EDITOR AXD PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL FAPE2 FOE CLACZAMAS CO. OFFICE In Dr. Thessins's ttriek, next door to John Myers" store, up-stairs. Terms of Subscription: -le Conv On.; Year, In Advance $2.50 Bin .Six Months 1.50 Trrni of Al-ei-tiiiir : Transient advert is-ononts, including all lal notics, e square oi twelve lines one wci-l; - $ 2.50 For ench subsequent inst-rtion 1.00 On- Column, one year 13MH) H-ilf ,;-,K Quarter - llusinfbs Card, 1 square, one year 12.00 It US I .V K S .? C A R I) .sr. .T. PJIVSIC l VX AND SCltUKO.X, O It li CO.Y CITY, O It H G O X. "t);lic I'p-Stairs in C'hamian's Hrick, Main Street. au-lltt. V. H. WATKSJJ3, PORTLAND, CaEuGJ. -Odd F-'How's Temple, cor : r r Mr -els. K-'siili-nce corner Firt anil A 1.1 of .Main and Seventh str-.ts. Drs. Welch k Tho.iipson, D E f 3 T I S, OF KICK IN" o D ri: l l o rs temp l :, Toner of First and Aid r Streets, PUTMXI) Z OKKtiON". B"'ill h in Or '-'on C'lty on Saturdays. Nov. ;;:ti P. IICKI.AT. Cll A.- K. W. HKKS. -Phnrmnn'shr'.ck, Mam st. 5::iaris72 :tl. ATT:r;::vs nd lorysafi:! ai-luy. Oropn City, '3r-3on. ttJVi'.t pr.wti"" in all th Co:: its of the St it-' Sp-i'ial :itt 'lit ion irivn to cases in the IT. S. l.an I !ll.." at t r -on City. .) tprlSTJ-t:. ij. t: A Xv I X, ATTD7J ?J Y-A7 ORWMX CITY OREO OX. OFFICE Over t,tr "t. Fop-' Tin Stor, Main JlmarTJ-tt". J. T. APPHFiSO?af OF ICE IN FOSTOFFICE HUII.DINO. J.:il Teiiilov. f'la-liTinJi fount- Or " (iter. ji.1 Oregon City O filer BOUGHT AND SOLD. X()TA1?Y IMTIiTTr1. Ians n"otiat"l, Coll"etions att'-nded to. and a Oen. ral l'.rokeau'" buin -ss carried on. janiitr. A. NO LTN KK X 0 T A II Y T U H L I C. ENTElPniSE OFFICE. OIlKliOX CITY. U. II. IIKiHFIELI). KstattlUlicil utitre 'UK t tlie olil st.-nsil. M:iin Str-rf, Orison City, On-con. r-o An assortment of Wat hes, Jewol- V'vN ry.aiul S"t a Tliomas Weij:lit Clocks f-' .'-S all t wtiieh are warranted to be as Cit'u represented. C"l'"pairi:s ilone on short not ice, and fhanklul for past patronage. A. G. VVALLIHG'S PIONEER BOOK B1HQERY. l'ittorWs lluililinjr CniiiiT of it ltd Front Mm lH. Stark PCItTLAND, 0HECCM. HIASK T.OOKS KITED AND HOl'Np "a to iinv tlesir-'d nattern. Mus:e!Miks M:i 'Tiii!-s. Newseaiwrs, etc., ImhukI in ev- ..rv v:iri iv of si vie known to tl:e trrade. Orders irom the nntry promptly at f odeU to. OHEaON CITY BREWERY Henry Humbe!, -5 TTAVINO PFKCIIAS- 7.JriS dfv wishes to intorm the public that he is now prepared to manufacture a .no. i quat V L, A G H K 17 K R 12, a pood as can be obtained anywhere in the State, Orders solicited and promptly niled, NEW YORK HOTEL (Deutfehes Gafthaus.) N'o. 17 Front Street, Opposite th Mail Steamship landing, POHTL.VXD, OUEOOX. n.ROTIIFOS, J. J.AVILKENS, Proprietors. riord ? Wopk Board Week "wit h "Lodging" TViard ti Dav ........?.. ...So.OO .... fi.no ... L00 The Harvests. BY ALICK CARRY. I set my plow in the gooel old earth, And I turn the furrows over. And at length I get my money's worth In the great globes of clover; For suns befriended and rains de scended And I -rot, thrice told, my labor's worth In globes of bright red clover. I learned to whet and swing the scythe.. As the fields grew ripe for mowing. And I heard the while, all gav and Uythe, The winds of the harvest blowing Their tunes so blythe to the time of the scythe, As if in the haying they bid for the playing Of the pipes we mowed in the mow ing. And when the largp suns slanted down Across my e-los-shorn meadows, And I saw 'my children, tanned so brown, Come chasing with their shadows. There at the even, like sheaves for heaven, . With love for girdle and love for crown, if I bore them home from the meadow. And when the sunshine bright on their heads. And theirheartsaslightnsa feather We tucked tliem up in their trundle beds, land their mother together. And the moon in its splendor looked down so tender. And we thanked the love of the Father above. That gave us two harvests together. AVoa.en and their 3!ai;ners. From CJail Hamilton's Xew Hook. It is a .shame for women to be lee tr.red on tiieir manners. It is a bit tor shame that they m-cil it. Women o::gM to give the law, not learn it. Women are the umpires of society. It is they to whom all moot points should be referred. To be a lady is more than to lie a prince. A lady is always in her right inalienably worthy of respect. To a lady prince arid peasant alike h.nv. Do not be re.--trained. Do not have impulses that need restraint. Do not is!i to dance with the Prince unsought ; J'f-l ui.'ieroiitly. Re such that you confer honor. Carry your selves so ioflily that men shall look to you for reward, not at you in re b.tke. The natural sentiment of man towards worn, in is reverence. He loses a large means of grace when 1.' is obliged to account her a being to be trained into proprietv. A man's !e;ti is not wounded when a woman fails in world'v wisdom; but if in graeo, in fact, ca. y, in kind fonnl v.iv.itiu; ward hurt. in sei ness, ' he itiment, in de'i s!:e should be recieves an in- 1!.:mi:m: e::. It is a no less fatal ei Mr to desjuse lal r when regulated by intellect than to value it for its own sake. We an- always, in these days, trying to seperate the two : wo want out; man to be always thinki :g and another to be always working. and we call one i gentleman and the other an operaove, wnei cas i :ie wont ing man ought always to be thinking, and the thii.ker to be. w uking ; ami both should be gentlemen in the best sense. As it is, we make both ungentle, the one envying, the oth er despising his brother ; and the mass of society is made up of mor bid thinkers and miserable workers. Now, it is only by laburthat thought can be made healthv, and only by thought that labor can be made hap py, and the two can not bo scpe ra ted with impunity. All professions hould be liberal, and there should be less pride felt in peculiarity of mploymcnt, and more in excellence of achievement. A "Plot s FnAro." The Syracuse c"o ". savs : The crreat work of Iriviug from power this party that is proved false to all its pledges of reform begun so well in LS7.", will, we predict, be prosecuted with una bated vigor in 171, and fructify in victory complete in FSTG. The lle- publiean party cannot do business much longer on the capital of its former reputable name. The people are finding out that it is only a "pi ous fraud." . The exhalations that come up from the raking over of the heaps of ohieiai rottenness in ash ington are not as savory as to invite back stray or wavering sheep into t lie llepublican fold. The turning tide of 1S,.' will, we predict, increase to a grand swellinir nood in the year now follows. Caleb Cushing's political principles are much like those of Jay Gould. The latter swore before an investiga ting committee that in republican districts he was a llepnblican. in Democratic districts he was a Dem ocrat, while in doubtful districts he was doubtful, but he was always an Erie man. When Republican's are trumps dishing is a Republican; when Democrats are trumps dishing is a Democrat; and when trumps are doubtful Cashing is doubtful; but he is always a dishing man. A Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com nnial savs- "The Sargeant-at-Arms of the House is en titled to a messenger at an annual sala ry of si-(,.,0 For some vears Ord way has had his son's name carried on the pay rolls as holding the position, and has drawn the salary for him wjtu cheerful and healthv re-Miliri-ty. During all the time", however i ! 1 1 1 1 n rttfjirt.i:.. II .' Xew England." in Sly Qi-ekry. That is a good story of a little boy, who, going into q bookstore with his mother, crept up to the juvtsnile of the establish ment with the slyquerry, "Say, have you got any books for boys that ain't got religion in 'em?" An Open Letter n ttoriicy-CJcncral Williams. SprNGFii:i.i, Jan. lltli, 1874. Geo. II. Williams, Attorney-General, Washington City Dear Sir: Your letter to the President asking the withdrawal of your nomination for Chief Justice is before me, and likewise an article in the Dtih Ore tjonlan of yesterday in which it is stat ed that "those who never indorsed Jiippie were they who made Senator. you The burden of your letter, coupled with the paper extract, brings vivid ly to memory the true history of the brief years that connect these events. You must bear with me in recalling portions of it to your memory, lest in your forgetfulness you faif to rec ognize the fruit3 you now reap as legitimate. The Ore'joii'uui , In the article quo ted from, says yon are "not naturally a man of bad purposes, of dishonest instincts, of a corrupt heart ;" and you say of yourself: "I performed with clean hands and upright pur pose all the duties of public trust to which I have been called." And therefore you complain that "the lloodgates of calumny have been open ed upon you." If this be so or not, it is clear that there s wrong some where, and I piopose, unasked, to help you rind it. I have helped you in other days, and have yet your written acknowledgement of the ser vice. It is no mean ollice to help a great man, though fallen; and with me it is now a privilege and responsi bility that I hasten to assume. "F.cee Homo" enlightens the world of thought with the broad declara tion that "in dillieult circumstances .ir iu,;i can wield extraordinary pow er long without positively commit ting cr'utte.y If this be true our dif ficulty, and my labor, ;s half through with. I recollect, too, that the phil osophers imagined some such situa tion, and presented it in tin f ible of the "King of Gyges.' The question with them did not involve a doubt of t.'io position of "ee Homo," but "vh"t':er the power," under circum stances like yours, "to distinguish ri'Jtt and vroini did not vanish alto- gether." I propose to show you by the presentation of a few brief facts, that this question on the mind of the philosophers no longer exists to puz :'le the minds of this, nor coming ages ; but. that it has been ,)oi slrnfed ii 'on. In doing so, I must be prc-mitted to take for granted, that what yon say of yourself, you think ; and that the estimate made of you by the editor of the Oseinnti'n, in his youthful days, was correct and just. In Anril, 1870. and at the National Hotel breakfast table, in Washing ton, yon handed rue a dispatch and asked me, did I think it genuine. The dispatch was from Oregon, and was signed by a resident of Corvallis, and II. W. Scott, now editing the lhtll-'.'iu but then the Ororjonitm. It contained a call o 'on for more nion ry, stating that the amount sent was insufficient; that it would take at least five thousand more to carry the elec tion. Prior to my leaving here in March, reports were circulated through the medium of the Demo cratic press, that you had sent home money to corrupt the election to come oir in June following. In an swering yon, I called vour attentiou to those reports, and being in some measure convinced by your question j that they were partly true, and think ing that the gentleman of Corvallis had better sense than to send such an open dispatch over the wires, and therefore that some Democrat had sent it to entrap you, I so answered. At that time was, or had been recently-pending a measure to J'rlfii the elections in the1 city of Now York, which had your support. I called your attention to that fact, and to the further fact that the Republican party of Oregon had not began its leing. nor gained its victories up to that date, by bribery and. corrup tion: that no party ought to succeed by such means; and that public men couldn't succeed permanently who resorted to their use. I advised yon not to send money, nor have any thing to do with parties who resort ed to its use for such purposes. You received my consel in silence. After wards you informed me. upon inqui ry, that the dispatch was genuine. I saw developing in you then, what I had never seen before, and knew what treatment myself and others who had made yon Senator must henceforth expect at your hands. From that time. except vour treaeherv in overthrowing1 the Humbolt R. R. bill, no transction of yours lias been a surprise to me. Your bargain with Holladay in reference to that matter: your contract with 3fr. Meldrum: the attempt to sell D. Y. Thompson an interest m the stone contract, at Washington through Kincaid ; your removal of Gibbs for the faithful per formance of oflicial duty ; the at tempt by your dojs here to blacken mv reputation, by asserting that I had attempted to bribe von with O B. P. C. R- R- stock, are, sir, the bits of history that will remain as fresh in memory as the name of Geo H. Williams. Please see them stript naked of the obfuscating sophistry of yourself and your guides; then contrast them with what a irie.jsi, vjirifpd and Jtoaest course would be. and see solved in yourself the prob lem of the philosophers, and a new demonstration of the declaration in "Ecee Homo." I was treacherously slain in the house of mv friends by ingratitude. But more terrible is the gleaming blade of avenging justice that now liffhts upon your head! "Misery likes company." Your obedient servant, B. J, Pen-gba. i G rant's Load. WHAT A PKOM1NENT GENTLEMAN JUST liETL IiNEDFKOM WASHINGTON" SAYS. New Orleans Picayune, Jan. 27. A gentleman, prominent in rail road circles, and at present sojourn ing here, has just returned from Washington, which place he visited for the piuqKxse of interviewing the President and ascertaining his exact policy with reference to the Louis iana case. The nature of the remarks addressed to the Executive will indi cate plainly enough the inferences his interlocutors intended to draw, and, though he maintained through out the whole ailair that brilliant silence for which he is so eminent, it is only reasonable to assume that the desired effect was secured. Knowing that the gentleman in question had been to Washington for tlie purpose stated, and feeling certain that the immense interests he represents had secured him an audience, a representative of the Picainne yesterday made inquiry touching the event, with the follow ing result : A. I have been in Washington for the last three weeks. Things are assuming quite a complex shape there. Gen. Grant is in a very un comfortable position. I called on him in company with Gen. Butler, Senators Sherman and Thurman and a Mr. Meyer. Gen. Butler was our spokesman. He said in substance: Mr. President we have called upon you to ascertain what your policy is t be in relation to matters in Louis iana. Mr. Kellogg, as soon as he found himself finally seated, made repudiation of the State debt the fea ture of his Administration. The people down there want to pay their honest obligations, and if let alone to govern themselves, they will. Mr. Kellogg, in his annual address to the Legislature, claims to have collected seven millions of taxes, and of that it takes three? millions to jay the interest on the debt. What be comes of the other four millions? It only requires one million to run the great State of Massachusetts; certainly it cannot require four to run the little State of Louisiana. Mr. Kellogg has made a diiect at teinpt to take our railroads from us, one oi which is mainly owned iy a iirm who Jinbscribed largely to aid in vour re-election. Now, sir, we de sire to know whether it is your poli- cy to support this Administration V If it is let us know it. Mr. Meyer then spoke up: "I represent the syndicate; in Frankfort-on-the-Main, who hold eighty mil lions of United States bonds. We de-sire to be informed if you sanction tne repudiation of the Louisiana del); if so, Mr. President, we touch no more of your bonds. (At this point in the interview the President arose and paced the lloor, much agi tated.) Will you express your views on this point?" The President was sileut aiul the deputation withdrew. They met at the door of the While House a dele gation of Pennsylvania Radicals, headed by old Simon Cameron, who sought too President. Mr. Cameron opened the conversation: " We have; come to ascertain whether you can not do something to save our State. In '72 we carried it for yon by a ma jority of thirty thousand; this year a Republican measure has been defeat ed by one hundred and forty thou sand votes. Mr. President, you must stop breaking up the party in tins manner. During my entire stay at the capi tal the President was thus visited daily by disaffected parties whe at tributed their defeats, m their re spective States to the course of the Vilministration in the person of Gen. Grant. He is having anything but a lovely time. - . 1Iei;e is a elomestic drama from Paris: A young girl was about to be married to a journey man carpenter, whose suit was by no means agreea bly to her. She had refused and protested against the match, but her father was inexorable on the subject, and insisted on the marriage, though the mother would willingly have yielded. At length the bride-elect resigned te her fate, and the father pointing out the happy result of his firmness, to his wife, triumphantly exclaimed, "I told you so." Next elay, however, the poor girl, having left a letter at home explaining the cause of her action, jumped oil' the bridge of Austerlitz into the Seine. She was, however, saved and car rieil home by two sailors. The fath er returned home just as the drip ping giil was placed in safet3" besitle the paternal hearth, when the moth er, with perhaps more point than dis cretion, simply observed. "I told you so." Jefferson county, New York, has furnished temperance lecturers with another subject for explanation. Robert Sixbury died at the age of 110 years. In his early days he was a noted hunter and Indian tighter, and his life was spent to within a few months of its close in a log-house. He chewed and smoked tobacco, and when about sJ years of age fell into the tire-place, while unfortunately under the influence of liquor, but was rescued to have a leg amputated, and be an awfnl example f or i0 years longer, ' Pkotixtion to Settleks. Sena tor McKusick has introduced a bill to protect pre-emption and homestead settlers. This is a very important measure, and one that is based on the broad ami deep principles which make secure the prosperity and well being of our people. This bill rec ognizes the paramount importance of throwing the shield of law around the hearth-stones of those whose homes are the abodes of intelligent I 1 t - . ami mgu-mmueu nctmcii, fiOTTRTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, The Drcd Sentt Decision. The country ought to-day to be sufficiently removed from the ex citements that followed the famous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case, to do justice to all concerned by an unbiased examination of the facts. No judicial decision in this country has been so extensively dis cussed, and at the same time so little understood and so universally mis represented. The name of Chief Jus tice Taney , who delivered the judg ment of the-Court, has been branded with infamy bv thousands who never read the opinion, and who honestly believed ttiat he had formally ad judged that in the United States "a negro had no rights that a white man was bound to respect." That phrase has served as a text in thousands of pulpits for denunciation upon the Court, and especially upon its sup posed author. It has serred party orators with an occasion during sev enteen years for the most fervid de nunciations of that Court, and it cannot be denied that. the decision itsrlf hastened by many years the overthrow of slavery. The decision iv-fis sufficiently attrocious without this misrepresentation. Dred Seott was a slave and as such had been carried by his owner into one of the territories of the United States. Subsequently he brought suit for his freedom. 'The Court be low dismissed the action on the irround that he was not a citizen of the United States, and, therefore, was not entitled to bring suit in the United States Courts. From this de cision the case was taken to the Su preme Court, and was there, twice argued. That Court decided als that Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States, and therefore could not bring suit in the Federal Courts. "While this was the point, and, in fat, the only point decided by the Court, the decision had a much wider sweep. The great po litical question of t hat day w a ; wheth- er slavery aid or did not extend it self over all the Unioa save when it was exclude. 1 by State laws, that is, whether it did not extend intu the Territories. In IS"!) an attempt had been made to avoid the issue by tlw legislation known as the Compromise measures of that year. In ISo-l, upon the passage; of the; Kansas and Ne braska act. a judicial decision upon this question became a political ne cessity, at least to the; Pro-Slavery party. In the decision that I") red Scott was not a citizen of the United States was devolved an inferential decision ef the political question, and that Court, in the opinion de livered by the Chief Justice, made an argument to sustain this theory, that the right to hold slave; pmperty existed in all parts of the country where it was not prohibited by State law, and hejre was the real attroeitv of the de'eision. In the course of this argument the Chief Justice gave a historical rerume of the previous conditions of the negro, and no well informed person will question the accuracy of his statement. It reads as follows: It is ilillieult at this day to realize the state e public opinion in rela tion to that unfortunate race, which prevailel in the civilized and en lightened portion of the world at the time of the Declaration of Inde pendence, and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted. But the public history of everv European nation displays it in a manne r too plain to be mistaken. They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether un fit to associate with the white race, either in social or peditical relations; and so far inferior that they nad no rights which the white man was bevr.nd to respect; and that the negro might justlvand lawfully bo reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought oral sold and treated as an article of merchandise and trathc, whenever a profit cemld be made by it. This opinion was at. that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of the white race. There can be no ihrubt f the ac curacy of this historical statement as to the general opinion in 177t-'s. of the white race in all nations as to the inferiority of the negro -and the lawfulness of reducing him to slave ry. That judgment had been stamped upon the statute-books and customs ,.f ..vow American colony. In no part of the United States had the ' trade; in negroes as merchandise been more extensive than ameng the com mercial colonies of New England. The general opinion of the inferior ity of the negro and of his political incapacity survived the adoption of the Constitution, and was preserved in the constitution and laws ef a ma jority of the States. Down' to the verv beginning of the late war ne groes were prohibited by penal laws from moving into or residing within many Northern States, and color was declared by law to be primn-farirx ev idence of slavery, subjecting all per sons of African blood to arrest, ele tention, and sale of slaves. Down to the time of the time of the Dred Scott decision, sales of free men of color were held in Illinois. In 1S02, six years after the Dred Scott elecis ion, and ninety years after the time referred to by Judge Taney, the people ef Illinois, by nearly a unan imous vote, decided that no person of negro birth should be allowed to enter the State ami remain there. The antagonism to the negro race, and the assertion of his social and political inferiority, were as strong in some parts of New England as in other States of the North; and al though slavery itself was prohibited, the judgment that the negro was of an inferior race, to be denied all po litical right, was fully as stron"- in the Northern and Southern States. i Judge Taney's statement of the pre i -1- l' . ... . . vailing judgment of the white race, f concerning the negro at the time of the Declaration of Independence and formation of the Constitution, was not exaggerated, but was entirely true. o true was it that there can lardly be a doubt that, at that time, it was never contemplated or ex acted, that the negro should ever be classed as a citizen, or admitted by law to any political or social standing. The occasion of the Dred Scott de cision has passed away. The decis ion has been reversed bv a protract ed and expensive war, but there is no reason why history' should continue to be falsified. Judge Taney's offense consisted in allowing the Court over which he presided to be made the instrument and vehicle of a political dictum im plying that slave property was con stitutionally entitled to protection in the Territories the same as other property. His historical narrative, in which the famous phrase occurs that the negro, at the time named, had no rights which a white man was bound to respect, was literally true; for after a man has been by universal consent made an article of merchan dise, it would be hard to mention ai y rights remaining upon which the respect of anybody could be be stowed. Y. II. Kcmhlc and His Associates. From the Philadelphia Age. See the loud and flashy dress, the vulgar excessive display of diamonds, false and real, the swagger, the gen eral tone of rough. Where elo these men resort in .hours of liesnre? Go to the gambling dens; go to the keno banks; inquire at the notorious "Pig and whistle." Thev speml some of the money thev have made off the citv in these and similar places. Of what do these men think? Over plans to ro! the citv; to pile u debts for "jobs" in which thev have a hand; to inaugurate new jobs yield ing paying dividends; to evade elec tion laws in repeating, rounding, ami counting m, to subvert the will of the 'ieope. Of what peditical party are thev? Of the one that is in power always because it pays. What are Demo cratic or Republican principles to them? lhey care not one whit for for either only as a stepping stone upon vhich their own coarse ambi tion may mont to rule, and thus their greed and vulgar love of more vul gar glitter be stilled. Thev wonh overthrow, if possible, the Republi cr" art" as eomolaeently as render a false election return or ileal a card from the bo: torn, provided it suite their end to do so. Were the Dem ocratic pa-tv in power we. would sonn see them "hedging" around and endeavoring to creep into small ofiicial places for plunder. Have not such men ruled Phila delphia long enough? Ha-e they notlong enough defiled our elections? Have they not long enough handled our money? Have they not long enough disgraced and endangered the party to which they for the time being profess allegiance? Have thev not already piled a sufficient load of debt upon ns? Look at the McClurc-Grav testimony, the lGth of December "last, the S'".000,000 of debt contemplate the disgust that has seizeel many honest Republicans by reason of their nefarious doings. Do Not Cijiticisk. Whatever you do, never set up for a critic. We do:t mean a newspaper one, but in private life, in the domestic circle. m society. It will not do any one any good, and it will do you harm if vou mind being called disagreea ble. If you don't like any one's nose, or object to any one's chin, don't put your feelings into words. If any one; s manners don't please you, re-membe-r your own. People are not made to suit one taste; recollect that. Take things as yon find them unless you can alter them. Even a dinner, after it is swallowed, can't be made any better. Continual fault-finding, continual criticism of the conduct of this one, the dress of the other, and the opin ions of t'other, will make home the nnhappiest place under the; sun. If you are never pleased with any one, no one will ever be pleased w ith you. And if it is known vou are hard to suit, few will take pains to suit you PitorosEi Amendments to thi: Constitition. The following is i t r e a. i -t i usi eu me ameimmeneinients pro posed to the Constitution of the United States, now before the House of Representatives, and being earn estly discussed. They were offered by Wilson of Imliana, and are: i t it x. v,ongresss snau net pay any eieois oi a rsiaie or lerritorv, nor loan tl le credit of the Government, nor make grants of land to any cor poration. 2d. Every Act of Congress shal embrace but or e subject, which must apppear in its title. Id. A Congress shall not increase its own salary, but only that of its successor. 4th. The President shall be elect ed for the term of six vears. 5th. Senators shall be elected bv ballot by the people. Cth. Congress shall have power to pass laws necessary to protect the financial affairs of the people. A young woman of a very prudish turn was hurt in a railway accident and taken to the hospital, when the doctor askeel her what was the matter with her. One of her limbs, she said, was injured. "Well," lie returned, "but which limb?" "Oh, I can't tell vou, doctor, but it is one of my "limbs," "Oh, nonsense!" cried the doctor, out of all patience, "which is it the limb vou thread a needle with ?" "No, sir," she answered with a blush, "the limb I wear a gaiter on. Thin Delusions. The Trou Times thinks tho enk,,. bill which has iust o...i will be generally satisfy And then it exclaims, "Let the sal ary grab be buried out of sight !" Jut this cannot be. Tim dent's salary is h f t bv this 9,,n t the rate of iO.OOU a year, and that in a time of general distress when Hundreds of thousands of firm.i- and mechanics find it dillieult to pro- il. r 1 - X uure me means oi living. r The doubling of the President' pay is one of the most odious fea tures of the salary grab. There was no reason for it except Gen. Grant's greediness for monev. The old sal ary of $25,000 a year Mas' amide for Dim, as li nau oeen lor every one of lis predecessors. They haiLall saved lamlsome sums out of it? and he more skilled in saving and monev- making than any of them, was eloiug the same. More than this, enormous 'special allowanceswere made, him bv Congress, amounting in addition to ns salary to more "than 75,000 a- vear. .Moreover, he lias agreed when he was eh-e-teel that he wtmld serve for 23,000 a year; and thus he vio lated the rules of decorum, if not of the Constitution, w hen he beset Con gress for a larger salary, and signed the; bill granting it. Now does anybody suppose tho salary grab can be buried out of sight so long as the greatest. "v:ililipr of all is al lower! and enntimips tn draw from the Treasury his indecent, avaric.ous gams? 1 he question an- 0 swers itself. Neither the grab, nor it history, nor the damage it does to the Republican party, can be bur-, ied out of sight so kng as its most conspicuous, most repugnant, and -most shameful feature is kept alive and forced continually upon the at- O tention of a nauseated people. Biy y it by all means; we will agree to that; but let it be entirely repealed before hand. O Maisktages of Bloop Relations. Statistics piesent -d to the French Academy show that the marriages of bleod relations form about two per cent of all the marriages in France? and the deaf and dumb offspring, at birth, of consanguineous marriages, are in propeu tion to the deaf and, dumb born in ordinary wedlock at Lyons, full 25 pr cent. ; at least 25 per cent. in.Paris. and CO per cent, in Bordeaux the proportions of the deaf and dumb, by birth, increasing witli the degree of blood relation ship. The elata obtained show that if the danger of having a deaf and dumb child in ordinary marriage, represented by figure s, is one, there will be IS in m images between first cousins, J!7 in marriages between uncles and nieces, and 70 in mar riages between nephews and amits It appears, too. that the most healthy parents, if related in blooel, may have deaf and dumb children; while eleaf and dumb parents, if not rela ted, very rarely have deaf and dumb children. How it Struck Him. TheueBtor of the Iirnnsiiii-ler has been to hear Phoebe Couzins' lecture, and tin is. what he thinks of it : JJ'One i luft at:on :t uck us as pecu liarly apt and happy, hue said that she once saw a horse in treadmill one of these; infernal arrangements m for sawing wood, in which the ani-. mal is compelled to climb up a planD toiling ceaselessly in one spot for the benefit of a master. She yearned to tear th bars from around that lorse, and let him kick and grunt. Such, she said; was the condition of woman at the present elay an aim-. ess, thauivless struggle for the tv rant man. As the fair spcaKer grew eloquent on this theme, she flrev every heart m the anaience insensi- bly toward her, and the re was not a mm in the audience 1 u felt like ris ing in his might, tearing down the bars of oppression that hedge in wo man, and saying, " Go, God bless. you ! go, anel kick and grunt. A lady was asked by her Irish ser vant girl about the nature of the next world, and whether it would bo just like this. The lady being blest with a happy family of eleven chil-. dren, has a ske leton in the house in the shape of a stocking basket that never gets empty, and at whose side she has spent many a wcarv midnight hour in dareing. With this Specta cle before her eyes, she replied to the girl playfully: "I don't think we shall be; required to darn stocking after midnight.'' "Sure, an' that's true for you, mum; for all the pic t tires of angels I have ever seen were barefooted." The New York Graph i: an n ounces, seriously that it proposes to publish portraits, accompanied by brief bio graphical sketches, of the leading idiots of every township in the coun try, and asks readers to send in pho tographs and sketches lifted to adorn the proposed gallery, being careful to write on each photograph or sketch the name of the person it re presents, so that no idiot will le credited to an undeserved locality, and there will be no danger of con, founding the idiots with the states men and other prominent persons, whose portraits are naturally looked for in the illustrateel journals of the day. No Seccrnd-rate idiots need apply. There are many shrewd devices in advertising, but "the safest and surest way, and one that's certain to pay in the end, is persistence the constant keeping of vour business lefore the public eve." There is no man who letter understandsthis than Barnum In one wav or another he maintains himself continually before the pub3 lie, and his success is commensurate with his adertising geniu?. Jute? Oceon, O If1 IS .'WWt mat,ryrir--c O