' , , 7, v J l,r wiii'-.?itjeiB5nE o VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APIRL 3, 1874. NO. 23. ff V 1 iii 6 , IP, i I P i i v v j. - i i i i w i ! Ik M TERPRfSE JAL DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER FOR THE Farmer, Business Man, & Family Circle. ISSUED KVKItY RID AY. ED IT 011 A XI) PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL PAFES FOR CLACKAMAS CO. OFI-'ICK In Ir. The.ssinjj's Krick, next doort-o John Myers' store, up-stairs. : TrrniH of Subscription t fclnslv Copy On Year, In Advance 52.50 Six Mont Jis" " 1.5 Tt-ria.4 of Advc-itUIng: Transnt al v ri is- mrnts, inchulin all I 'ra 1 notices, squar.' oi lines one week For suljs"'iuent insertion On Column, ono year Half ; ijnarr - Dusiiiess Card, 1 siuaiv, one year... 5 2.W 12Ul 4').l 12.!0 Ii U S I a s .V V A Tl I) s. PHYSICIAN AM) Sl'RGEOX, i o 1-: a o x c i r r, o n a a o x. tfi ,ni.- Co Ma in Street. tairs in Channan's Crick, an -I Itt. W. H. VATKKJS, til. D. P3.li 7"i)!!-"I( 'K lil ! Fellow's Ti'inil-orner First n l Alii t streets. II 'siuence corner of .Main ami S veiith str -ets. rs. Welch & Thompson, U ii l i i ST 5, O J) 1 F E L L () 1"S T E M P L E, Corner of First ami AMer Str -ets, paitTi.vM - - o:is:t-o.. WiHle in Orvron City on Saturdays. .Nov. i At 9. IICKI.A r. C1IAS. !:. WAIIItKN. gl 'U L. i a . v -lt.i c v: Law, OlEO'l C17 3-vFFn:i- Ch trnian's brick, Main st. r,:, irlS72:tl. J OH U 5 O N & r.1 c 3 o w : J ATTORNEYS AM) ITlN.SEL"!$ AT-LAW. Oro l" ' - rr 7"Vill joractice in all th" Cniirtol Hie State. Mp -eial alt -ntion ivn lo eases m the V. S. Land u:lic at r -on City. u.iprlS72-tJ. . Tj. T. 1 1 A II I T, ATTOnr3ZY-AT-LAV, OREGOX CITY, : : OR EG OX. OFFICE Over Pop ; Tin Stf-re, Jlmar7:!-t !'. Main J. T. AFPSRSOr3, OFFICKIN POSTOFFICE HUIMUXO. I.cr" J Tfiidrrs, lackaniai County Or tiers, ami On'oii City Onli rs BOUGHT AND SOLD. NOTAliY lH 1 3 LIC - Loans negotiated. Collections attended to. and a General Urokea-e business carried on. JanWI. A. NOLTNEll X 0 T A Y r u r L I c, ENTERPRISE OFFICE. OKKtiU.V CITY. W. II. 1IIGIIFIEL1). E4tabllsled since ' 1!, at I lie olil stand. Main Street, Or,'?oii City, Ort-jrou. goo An assortment of Wat bos, Jewel yZ?i rv.aiul Set.li Thomas' Weight Clocks J. Jlti all of which arj warranted to bo as represented. Jr Key.airin; done on short notice, ami .hanltful for past patronage. A. C. VALLiWC'S PIONEER BOOK BINDERY. IMttocU.' llniltliiir Corner of Stark mill I-'ront Si tee Is. PORTLAND, - OREGON. UKANK HOOKS KULKh AND KOUXI) r jiiiv desired pattern. Music books. Tkfair zines. Newspapers, etc., ImiuihI iuev- rv:irietv of s vie known to the trrade. Orders from the untry promptly at tended to. OREGON CITY BREWERY. TM'IN'lr rr tCUAS- 'il W-C i I I fd th abovo r.r'W- .r.- ukhoc to inform til" public that he is now prepared to manutacture a No. lqual- yC LAGER BEER, be obtained anywhere In the Utate. Orders solicited and promptly fllletL HEW YORK HOTEL. (Dcutfchcs Gafthaus.) Vd. 17 Front Street. Opposite the Mail Steamship Landing:, POKTUM), OH EG OX. H.R0TIIF05, J. J.AYILKENS, Proprietors- B"rrt p Week Si.fO Hoarii-p Vek with Lod-in- ti-'k) Bird Dav r.....?. l-Oo alo: ;rai:t ai.il IJutler. The disturbing causes which J wr ing the last two years have threaten ed to divide, if not to disrupt, the Republican party in Massachusetts, the New York Sui declares, are again revived in a new and intense form. Twice have conventions fresh from the people squelched the sellisli ambition and presumptuous preten tions of the maker of this discord. But he will not stay bottled up. Transferring his operations from Massachusetts to Washington, where he is better fitted to shine, Gen. Butler has succeeded in forming a close alliance with Gen. Grant, and has become the dominant influence at the White House. His word is law, and his wish the governing pol icv. The two Senators and the bulk of the respectable delegation in the i House count tor nothing as against hi. 4 demands. The President turns his back upon them, throws their remonstrances into the waste basket, and surrenders to the hero of Fort Tisher. This would be bad enough in its personal aspect, but being ag gravated by public and political con siderations it is doubly offensive. In all New Hngland the Federal office of foremost importance is the Collectorship of Customs at Boston. It lias always bc-en lille.i by an emi nent man in the various changes of parties. Suddenly, and to the sur prise of the whole community, an obscure politician, without commer cial training or standing, and wholly unknown except as an instrument of Butler, in nominated to tjiis respon sible place by the President. The press with one voice and unu sual vigor protest against the ap pointment as not lit to be made. The merchants of Boston unite ear nestly and condemn it as a wrong ; and finally the Board of Trade send a most influential delegation to Washington to confer with the Pres ident in person, in the hope of in ducing him to reconsider this act. Gin. Grant's answer to all this opposition is a direct insult ; for he has said that the objections to Sim mons are mainlv founded upon hos tility to Butler. He has 'wilfully closed his ears to the reasons of un fitness which have been addressed to him from all quarters, and the con sequences that iDii.4 attend the con tinuation of one who has no moral support. It is perhaps bet that things should take this turn. Massachu setts obstinately adhered to Grant in the face of the clearest proof of his incompetency and venality. She even proscribed Mr. Sumner in her abject submission to his vindictive hatred. Butler is the lit represen tative oi tirautism, ana tlierctore worthy to control the patronage of this Administration. Notorious as a jobber in legislation and a benefic iary of infamous contracts like those of Sanborn, it is becoming that he should stand out as the recognized leader of the Kepubiican House of Beprcsentatives, and the chosen con fidant of a President who does not respect the commonest properties of his great office. Now that Massachusetts is made to feel indirectly in this manner the eifects of that degrading despotism which has subjected Houisiana to the rule of a crew of desperate ad venturers and rogues, and South Carolina to the rapacity of organ ized thieves and the supremacy of the lowest ignorance, perhaps her sympathies may become keener and ier toleration more generous. At all events this lesson will have its instruction. An Old IMMiccr. Some time since there was con siderable debate in the papers as to who was the oldest pioneer in the State, and we believe it was never lully settled. All this time, an old entlem in atCham poeg quietly read the .statements made in favor of various pfentlemen, too modest to rush into print. Last eveuin" lie culled, in company with our agent, Mr. Chas. lVlland, who introduced him. His name is 3). Man son, Sr., and he is a rugged, fine looking old Scotchman, with hair white as snow. In conversation he is remarkably intelligent, with an excellent memory. He lirst came to Vancouver and Oregon in thecmplov of the Hudson Day Company, in January, 18'2o, from the Peace river country. In the previous year he had been sent to explore the country between Peace river and' the east coast, at the mouth of the Stickeen the scene of the latest gold excite mentto determine whether it was profitable to establish posts in the interior for the fur trade. He found the country mainly uninhabited, and with little or no fur bearing animals, and on his report, no posts were es tablish! nor have there been since. Some time after he came Here, the Hudson liay Company leased from the Russians that narrow strip of territory, ten leagues wide, which runs down the coast south of Sitka, and, with it the Russian fort at the mouth of the Stickeen, and changed its name from St, Dianasins to Fort rangel. The first factor was the oldest son of I)r. McLaughlin, who had not been there long before he was murdered by one of the servants, an Iroquois In Mr. Manson was appointed his successor and served some years at that post. Since lb2o Mr M. has lived contin uously on the Pacific slope He re lates many interesting incidents of his experiences in the early times of the coast, and his memory "is so re markable that he names p'ersons con nected with every incident. Being more than ordinarily intelligent it would be well worth some one to interview him and write up the many facts which he must know con cerning the early history of the north coa.$t.Oreyon'rm. Sunset Cox on Moths. The Government of the United States has some twenty odd million dollars worth of army clothing, tents, blankets, etc., in store re maining supplies of the armv ' dis banded after the war, and last year the sum of $350,000 was paid to Geo. A. Cowles&Co. for use of their anti moth and mildew process. The Army Appropriation Bill for the present year contained an item of lilt v thousand dollars for the same purpose, and on the Gth of last month, when the bill came up for discussion in the Committee of the Whole, Sunset Cox moved to amend by substituting 25,000 which amend ment not being accepted, called out one of the raciest and most sarcastic speeches of the session. He asked why if the Government has such immense supplies on hand it should have expended so much money for the purchase of new supplies for the army during the year just closed ; to which Wheeler replied that the arti cles on hand were out of fashion. Cox then suggested as the better policy, the immediate sale of all thi:3 surplus food for moths, and thus save the Government annual expen diture of hundreds of thousands to preserve goods which our army is now and probably will be, too proud to wear. We quote from his speech: " Wli.it is tiie moth, Mr. Chair man ? 1 have looked him up and holding up .an illustrated volume of Chamber's Encyclopedia, exclaimed there lie is. There are several kinds. The moth is a burglar, a noctur nal rascal. There are many families of them. It is worth while, since it costs us nearly half a million to watch this enemy, to know his pow er. Lo not think it insignificant, because it is of the butterlly species. It bristles with antennae ! Prom base to apex these antenna? are pect dat ed, especial !y in the males laughter ; and they are formidable either in the larva or chrysalis state, I speak not of their beauty of color ; I prefer to refer to the number of their eggs. If there is one moth I prefer to an other it is the hawk moth , but the lackey is the one I have here picto rially illustrated. The lackey moth is represented in politics; lirst, by this belt of eggs ; second, as tlie cat erpillar ; third, as the puna in the cocoon, and then the full-Hedged insect for which we pay so much in this army bill. " I will endeavor to read in the life and character of the moth some of those attributes which are making the people regard the Administration so carefully. " The real moth that we. have to deal with, in a political way, is a combination of the lac-key moth, which generally haunts the White House and hovers about t lie purlieus of power, and the hawk r.ioth. which is sometimes in the army or educated there. All these mot hs you will find have a political and destructive sig nificance. If you note how they are hatched ; how they hide in cocoons ; how they creep into dark places through crannies; how they go into closets whore goods are stored ; how they lie all summer quietly. Laugh ter, the members gather around the speaker. " Again I read : The little whitish caterpillars or moth worms proceed ing therefrom immediately begin to gnaw the substances within their reach and cover themselves with the fragments, shaping them into little hollow rolls and lining them with silk. Some pass the summer within their rolls "That is, I suppose go down to Long Branch, ride in free palace Pull ican cars, happy in some carry ing their cocoons about on their backs and others fastened to the sub stance they are eating; and they enlarge them from time to time by adding portions of the two upon ex tremeties and by gores set in the sides, which they slit for that pur pose. Concealed within their mov able cases or in their lint cupboard burrows, they carry on the work of destruction during the summer " That is when Congress is not in session and in the autumn that is iust before elections they leave oil' eating, make fast their habitations, and remain at rest and seemingly torpid through winter. That, is un til committees of investigation get to work. Juarly in the spring they change to chrysalis within their cases, and in about twenty days af terward they are transformed to winged moths, and come forth and rly about in the evening "These are defaulters who go off without being called to account by the Administration they come forth and fly about in the evening till the.y have paired and are ready to lay eggs. An examination of the private bank account of ex-Collector Join. T. Harper's Chief Clerk, at Spring held, Illinois, reveals some facts which would be startling if they were not so common in the accounts of Internal Kevenue oilicers. Mr. Smith swore last Fall that his only income was 500 annual salary which lie received as Mr. Harper's clerk and .?!.( 00 from other sources. TTis hank-book shows that in the IS months between April, 1S72, and Oc tober. 1873. he received in cash and by drafts on theTekin distillers, the snug sum of 851, 55G 23 Thf Spott-Smen sbwAO. Within a little over three years one profession al revenue informer received for his delectable services, as his share of spoils unearthed bv him, something over SIOO.OOO. r-msequeniiy ne re cpivp,! ar,.i 000 as his share in one case. During the same period one Collector came in for 8400.000, and a Surveyor and Naval Officer for S300.000 each. Of a net amount of S-2,007,K1 4G recovered only 81.020, 221 97 found its way into the Treas- urv. r An Indictment. On the 7th inst., while the tax bills were tin ler discu -,sion in the Lower House of Congress, Hon. Fernando Wood, of New York, made a telling speech, in which he ar raigned the Republican party for its mismanagement and extrava ance. In conclusion he presented against its leaders the following indictment, which will be generally sustained as a true bill: 1. Through the government of its creation it has maintained a large standing army at great expense, dur ing a time of peace. 2. It has issued and continued a depreciated, irredeemable paper cur rency, called legal tenders, without taking one step toward redemption. 3. It has increased the civil list from -14,500 persons in 1 SG0, to 8G,('(J0 persons in 187'i. 4. It has usurped by force, the State authority in several States, pro ducing anarchy and despotism, and repudiation, of their monicd obliga tions. 5. It litis instituted a system of espionage and oppression in the ex ecution of the revenue laws which has resulted in enriching custom house and other oilicials, without aiding the public treasury. . 0. It has created and maintained direct taxation, which, until its ad vent to power, has been unknown in this country since the close of the American Revolution. 7. It has stealthily absorbed the whole (Jorernmental power of the country at the Federal Capital, until all State interests are made subservi ent and dependent upon its will. IS. It has driven iroiu circulation gold and silver, the only constitu tional nieuium. Ami notwithstand ing its large receipts in coin from custom duties and mines, does noth ing toward its restoration. J. In disregard of the policy adopted by other leading nations, it has permitted the export to loreign countries of about 81,000,000,000 of the precious metals, instead of re taining it here lor its necessities and for the restoration of a sound currency. 10. It has increased the salaries of all officials, including that of the President, which it still inaintins, though industries are oppressed, mil poverty goes starving through our streets. 11. It has maintained a protec tive tariff in the interest of a class to the detriment of the whole people. 12 It has. since iSi'.O. anticipated the public debt, not due for twenty years, and paid 810.000,000 for the privilege- ol doing so, although the immediate obligations of the Gov ernment were dishonored, and the Treasury is now exhausted. 13. It has inaugurated a fatal pol icy in its treatment of the Indians part peace and part war by dealing out moral suasion to the most war like, and certain death to the most peaceful, thus adding to the difficul ties and expenses of a proper settle ment of this serious question. 14. To divert public attention from the extent of the prolligacy and extravagance of itshorde of oilicials, it protends the establishment of a rule of civil service reform, which it applies altogether to a few clerks at Washington, where there are no votes to be hud, but ignores elsewhere, where party services ,as a reward for office, are required. 15. It has diffused erroneous ideas of the nature of our Govern ment to the- youthful and uninform ed, ami taught by example a general looscuess of public and private mor ality, which tends to subvert the porman.iney of our institutions, and loosens the foundation stones of so cial order and public well being. FMr..vit.vr:ssi:.-(; Position-. "I say, conductor, do you know that good looking lady there, with a book?" 'Yes: I have seen her a few times.' 'Ry Jove, she's splendid!' 'Yes, I think .she is.' 'I would like to occupy the scat with her.' 'Why don't yon ask her?' 'I don't -know but it would bo out of order.' 'It would not if she were willing. Of course you claim to be a gentle man?' 'Certainly. If you are acquainted with her, I should like an introduc tion ; that is, if you have no objec tion.' 'Certainly not.' Fixing himself as attractively and becomingly as possible lie followed the conductor, who introduced him to the lady as follows: 'My wife, Mr. , of Xew York. who assures me flint he will die be fore reaching Detroit, if he does not f;irm your acquaintance.' The gentleman stammered, grew red in the face, and muttering out some excuse, returned to his seat, leaving the lady and her husband to enjoy the joke. " Pa," said a son to his father, " what is meant by a ' chip of the old block?'" "Why. my son, do you ask the question?" "Because I was in Enfield this morning, and told them gentlemen while hunting I saw -fifty squirrels up one tree. They kept trying to make me say I did not see but forty-nine; and be cause I wouldn't say so they said I was a 'chip of the old block.'" "Hem! well, my son, they only meant you were smart and honest, like your pa. You can go out to play now." Loxo-WixnEP. At a funeral re cently held in ixteon street, the offi ciating clergyman, besides the read ing of selections from the Psalms and New Testament, made a prayer forty minutes long. Idquor L iu ' - Oldeu Times. It was one of the doctrines of our Putitan ancestors tHat "Man wants but little here below;" And doubtless they believed " That little he wants strong." For a plentiful allowance of beer, wine, and spirits appeared on their list of preparations for the voyage. Suitable persons, approved by the magistrates for nunc host was a man of considerable importance in ye olden time were licensed to keep ordinaries or taverns, and sell liquors but were bound by stringent laws to allow no drunkenness or dis order on their premises. Indeed, the guests themselves were not free from surveillance. We read in Jos selyn's Voyage to England, " that if a stranger went into one of these houses of entertainment, he was presently followed by one appointed to that office, who would thrust him self into his company uninvited, and if he called for more drink than the officer thought in his judgment he could soberly bear away, he could presently countermand it, and ap point the proportion beyond which he could not get one drop." Some of the old laws for the reg ulation of tavern are curious. The following, enacted July 11, 1077, by the ' Great and general Court,' held at Plymouth, will serve us a speci men : ' It is ordered by the Court and the authorities thereof that none shall presume to deliver any wine, strong Liquors, or Cyder to any per son or persons v. hoe they may sus pect will abuse the same ; or any boyes, Girles, or single persons, tho' pretending to come in the name of any sicke person, without a note under the hand of :-;ome sober per son in whoso name they come ; on pain of live shillings for every trans gression. The duo hafe to the Coun try and the other hafe to enformer.' Drunkenness was punished by va rious penalties, which will seem amusing to us, though doubtless considered otherwise by those who incurred them. Here arc a few spec imens : " Sergeant Perkins, ordered to carry forty turf t to the fort, for be ing drunk." "Daniel Clark, found to be an immoderate drinker, lined forty shil lings." "John Wedgowood, for being in the company of drunkards, to be set in the stocks." " A man who had often been pun ished for being drunk was now or dered to wear a rod D about his neck for a year." Such entries may be found scatter ed through the old court records, and occasionally reprimands or dismis sals for drunkenness may be found on the church records. Quite a trade had sprung up be tween the colonies, France and the West Indies. The colonies export ed lish, pipe-staves, clapboards, and received in return wines, rum, and various other articles. Rev. Increase Mather, in a sermon preached at Boston in 1G8G, thus deplores the introduction and use of rum : " It is a common thing that la ter years a kind of Strong Drink, called rum, has been common amongst us. which the poorer sort of people, both in town and country , can make themselves drunk with. Those that are poor and wicked too, can for a penny or two pence make themselves drunk. I wish to the Lord some remedy may be thought of for the prevention of this evil." Nearly 200 years have flown by sir.ee the worthy Mather uttered this wish, and as yet no remedy has appeared. Washington Utiles. Terhaps on no member of society has the labor of a Washington sea son worse effect than on a young girl with attractions enough to invite and vivacity enough to enjoy. Her father's position entitles her to no tice ; her own charms compel attrac tions ;-her circumstances enable her to reciprocate every courtesy young, handsome, rich, and a favor ite, is it a wonder she is dazzled and intoxicated by the vision opening to her? She dresses for an indigestible breakfast at ten, and before that is quite over she goes to a fashionable lunching party ; then a third toilet for calls, and still a fourth for a din ner party or " German." She docs not dance on Sunday, but the ill vcntilated church before noon is quite as unhealthy ; and then there are little pious sappers in the even ing, where she crucifies her appe tite with terrapin and divers French dishes. Gradually hollow circles around her eyes impair the perfect contour of her face; the beautiful color which kindled and waned in her cheeks has gone out altogether, and she notices that, even though she stays in bed till twelve, she is not rested, for sleep is denied her, or at best comes fitfully and fevered. Then, though its first suggestion was repulsive, she begins to renew the brilliancy of her eves with belladon na, the hue of her cheeks with paint to strengthen herself ! with champagne, and woo rest with chlo ral. She has made no acquaintances that avail her aught ; the men of her set have no ambition above " Ger man" favors, and the girl's noblest emotion is vanity. The only side of life presented to her is one of dan gerous excitements, false standards, and complete emptiness. Physical ly, morally, intellectually, she is warped and stunted. Washington Correspondence. Fixed. A man was fined 87 and costs in Montreal for simply saying. " By the Lord Harry !" which was called swearing. Commenting on it 1 i i ii tins, an exenange asKs now could a man put up a stove in that country? A Living Wonder. A CHILD TWO AXT A IIAX.F YEARS WHICH WEIGHS ONE IIO'DKED EIGHTEEN POUXDS. OLD ASD From the Glasgow (Ky.) Times. Our tow n has been for the past two days unusually excited over the arrival of the child wonder, in the person of Dero Rdward Chambers, who has heretofore had mention in the columns of the Times. Dero Chambers, the subject of this notice was born in Barren County, on Skegg's Creek on the lltli day of August 1871, and at the time of his birth was characterized by. nothing unusual to ordinary children. When about three months old he began to tleshen and soou began to attract serious attention from his parents and immediate friends. His accu mulation of fat has been uninter rupted, and now he exhibits an obes ity of huge aldermanio proportions. W e visited him on yesterday ami ma.le a careful examination and measurement, which we give to the curious public. His parents are the reverse of their infantile representa tive so far as physical proportion is concerned. The father, Smith L Chambers, is a delicate, spare-made man of not vigorous look, and weighs 127 pounds ; the mother is small, delicately built, and weighs 141 pounds. Dero. the young giant, stands in perpendicular measurement thirtv- seven inches. lhe measurement around the wrist is ten inches, and above the elbow sixteen find a half inches. The leg around the calf gives a circumference of eighteen inches, and the thigh the enormous length around of twenty-eight and three-quarters, while the hips take full forty-eight inches of tape to cir cuit their hugeness. Around the waist he shows a girth of forty-two inches. His averdupois pulls down the scales easily at 118 pounds. The child is quite intelligent, can walk with much easier locomotion than his ponderous, unshapely form would indicate, and en joys very good health. For a child of his age, being as before stated only two and a half years old, he bids fair, if his life is prolonged a year or two, to become one of the most noted human won ders of the age. His parents are possessed of only this living child, although they have had three others all dying early. One of the deceas- ed children was very similar 10 xne one now exercising the curiosity of our people. A. J list Compliment. The Baker City Democrat pays the following just compliment lo Hon. Jas. II. Slater : " We have received the proceed ings of the Union County Conven tion, but too late for publication. The vote stood for Hon. Jas. II. Slater for Congress almost unani mous, there being only three dis senting votes. These three votes were cast for E. S. McComas. From this it would seem that Mr. Slater liai.l tl X'- XliCUVtO ill v ill'-'" vviut., notwithstanding reports to the con trary. When such men as .Jas. 11. Slater can be crushed, or his char acter tarnished by such a course, it is time to believe people are crazy indeed. Mr. Slater took the back pay, and .i i every mothers son, wno are now howling upon his heels and crying stop thiel' would undoubtedly have done the same thing. Mr. Slater is known throughout Eastern Oregon, as an upright, honest man, and also a man of ability. There is no man east of the Cascades who has done more for the advancement of our interests than he has, and his record while he occupied a seat in Congress will compare favorably witli that of any man that has been sent to Congress fromthe State. We do not know that Mr. S., is a condidate for - the nomination for Congress, but if he should be and gets the nomination, ho will get a rousing majority in Eastern Oregon over all compeditors." Fifteen Good Habits. 1st. Ab stinence from tobacco and intox icants. 2nd. Temperance at meals. 3d. Daily attention to all tho con ditions of health. 4th. Constant occupation. 5th. Doing at once whatever is re ouired. Gth. Having a time and place for everything. 7th. Fidelity to all appointments and duties. , 8th. Paying for everything in ad vance. '.Uh. Regular pursuits in sonie science 10th. 11th. Giving as well,as receiving. Aiming at harmony iu con versation. 12. Looking always on the bright side. 13th. Talking on edifying subjects. 14th. qi rit. 15th. A r-tino- alwavs in the right Realizing the presence of God at all times. NoTHixci IX Repose, Rev. Dr. Arnot, of Scotland, on his return home from New York, says to his people that the amazing activity of the Americans astonished him ; he saw nothing in repose but the lions in Central Park, and a friend re minded him that they were quiet only because they did not have to work for their dinner. Sets Them Forth. Mrs. Robert Shehee, of Owasso, 111, in a card setting forth her domestic difficulties says : " 1 do not so much care about a man striking a woman with his fist, but when it comes to taking an axe to her, it's too much," The Xa.ioiiai Liur- i r.-iiic. San Francisco Examiner. The proposition which has just re ceived the endorsement of the Uni- t(d St:l lull Run.,tn ....,4.. - - .. Kjtuun: lutiume ,i commis sion, to be appointed by the Presi dent, to investigate and prepare a re port upon the subject of intemper ance and the effect of prohibitory laws where they have been in opera tion, with a view to make such re port a basis for future Congressional legislation, has a political as well as a moral significance. Mr. Morrill, of Maine, expressed the opinion that the authority of Congress over this O subject could not he questioned lo calise of its relation to the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating liquor. The only connection Congress has, however, with the manufacture and sale of liquor is to impose a tax thereon for revenue purposes. If, because of this relation, Congress has the implied power to legislate on the subject from a purely moral view it seems to us that it might with equal propriety, if in accordance with its moral sentiments, forbid per sons from going to the theatre be cause it has a right to tax the gross receipts of such exhibition, or pre scribe the daily reading of the Bible in every family because it has the power to charge drity upon the im portation of books; or a tax upon their publication in this country. It matters nothing in considering; the question in this connection, whether prohibitory liquor laws are to be commended or disapproved, and there can be no plea of necessity for remitting that matter to Congress, as the State Legislatures afford com petent tribunals for the determina tion of the question of the merits of such laws. The serious point of inc quiry in. considering the proposed Congressional action is whether Con gress is not thereby overstepping the limits of its power. It is true "the precedents for the exercise of sncho power are not wanting;-but they are all recent, and every one has been resisted as an infringement upon rights expressly reserved, and apol ogized for a necessity forced upon the country by the peculiar exigen- 0 cies of the times. Congressional and Executive interference with the gov ernmental machinery and the politi cal affairs of the States was excused on the ground of political derange ment, resulting from the war. Then O followed the civil rights bills, passe4 and pending, by which all the do mestic civil relations of the States are sought to be subjected to the control of the Federal power. Pub lic places of amusement and enter taimnent, public conveyances, and even the public schools, subjects which were supposed to be peculiar ly within the province of State au thority, are all to be brought within the domain of Congress. Ntt satis fied with this, the Federal authority is now invoked to exercise its usurp ed power over the morals of the in habitants of the States. The great question of how far the sovereign power may regulate the morsls of the people, is no longer to agitate the State Legislatures, but is to be referred to the decision of Congress on the flimsy pretext of a remote connection with the power ofaxa tion for revenue purposes, and is to be determined bv a commission ap- pointud by the Fe lend Executive. Congress lias set up and pulled down State governments. It has said who shall represent the State iu the Fed eral Congress. It has prescribed regulations for our hotels; ourthea tres, our railroad coaches, and our schools; it has interfered with local elections; it controls all our money interests through its Banks. It pro poses to regulate all matters connect ed with transportation on the rail-0 roads chartered bv- and subject to the control of the States. It now pro poses to invade the domain of public and i ri at? morals. All that is left is our religion. It is true even the State has no control over thatO Bat why may not Congress dictate to us whether or not we shall attend church, andwho shall preach,, to us because of its relation byway of rev enue taxation, to the manufacture of many of the materials used in chnrch building, and its undoubted right to impose an annual tax upon the sala ry of the parson. A young lady furnishes the follow ing which she calls "a drill for single volunteers." The evolutions, as will be seen, are by no means difficult of execu-Q i 1... . .1, 1., 4..... lion, except, peiuaps, tiie iaai or three. The young lady is herself evident ly a soldier, and knows something about tactics. Here is the drill Fall in Love with some amiabler and virtuous young lady. Attention Pay to her assiduously and respectfully. Right Face Popping the question like a man, and she will accept you. Quick March To her parents and ask their consent. Fours Right With her and go O through the services of holy matri mony. Halt And then reflect seriously for a few minutes and then devote yourself entirely to your young wife. Right About Face From the haunts that you have frequented when single, and devote yourself to your own house. Advance Arms To your wife when outwalking together, and' don't let her walk three or four yards behind you. Break Off--Playing billiards, bet ting and staying out late at night, if you wish to have a happy home. Mr. William Wells, of Buena Vista, states that there will be a f hoi s 1 Tro'wn this season in the Willamette I Valley. This is a growing itfr.eTst in Oregon, and promises a profitable I return to those engaged in it. O 0) o o