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ft o Si ' J v,. o o ) AY: G VOL. 8. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1874. NO. 40. (film) ifr Ifl Ifl Mlffi (UcJii 4 W) AU iilly1 (ff miMTl inffWTfi) in II III II 111 II mi 0 G TH ENTERPRISE. ALQCAUDEMOCaATIC NEWSPAPER j p O It THE Farmer, Asinfss Man, & Family Circle. lED EVERY FRIDAY. A.. NOLTNER, EDITOR A XI) run LIS HER. OrFIClAL PAPEBF02. CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE-In Dr. Thessin-'s Brick, next door to John MyersJ-tore. upstairs. Term of SnW-ription Slnsle Copy One Year. In Advance 1 2.50 Six Months 1-oU Term of Advertising! Transient advertisements, including Trali S -tie-. S -iuar. of twelve 2 onc..imi.,one v;,r- ''',.. 40.00 g!. Card. 1 sguar.. one year 12.00 SOCIETY XO TIC ES. oKiiooN i.onc;i: xo. 3, 1. 1. o. Meets every Thursday . eveinn-at 7S. o clM-k, m the jSsj Oil Fellows' Hall, Main street. .MimiiIhtsoI' the Or-d-r are invited to attend. Iy order . (jr. ki:ih:cca di:gki:i: lodc; s xo. ;? I. ).(). F., Meets on the s-ir day evenings each month, at omiCK, in uif vim Fellows' Hall. Mt'inU-rsof the Degree are invited to attend. JilJIrXOMAII I.OIXS XO. I,A.F. A- A. M.. Holds its regular com- A miiTie:il inns on the First and . Tnird Saturdays in each month, it 7 iVIoeft. from tiie-i'lii of Sep. teinher to the L'Uth of March; anl 7'i o'clock from the liuth of March to the Jittli of SejiteniiH,-r. Brethren in good st.ui'ling are invited to attend. j'.v order of W. M. lM i:C.VMPMIJXT XO. l,I.O. O.K., Meets at Odd Fellows Hdl ..nth'' First and Third Tues- l .,- r.f f t -ii month. Patriarchs i:i good standing are invited to attend. (l.!FF KNCAMl'MHX 1' XO. 'Z, C. It. f. M " ts at Odd Fello.vs' Hall, in Ore .'.(ii t "it v r -goa, im Monday evening, at T'-i oVIoJls. ,l -nibers ol the ord- r aro in vifd t a;.t -iid. Al HK'i , t . .1 I. 1 1 (-, K. S. ma2.1y Jl V s' -V K .S .S" C A 11 1) S. j. v. xoitms, i. r., 1'iIVSIi l VN A.VU Sl'illiKOX, o k a t; y c i t v, a kuuo .v. ". rp-Stairs in C'harinan's llrick, Mam S.r' . t. au-lltl. HJr')Vi'l ' E Kid I' How's Tern ple.corncr First and Aid T .-tr.'.-ts. 11 -sidenee corner of .Iaia an l s.;veiitn streets. W. W. 31011ELAXD, ATTORN EY-AT-L AW; OUEUOX CITY. OK EG OX. OFKICK Main Street, opposite tle uurl tloue. II U ELAT ATTORN EY-AT-L AW: 0ot3Q., SHY, "OFFl(;E Charman's brick. Main St. oaiarlsTi :tl. JOHiSOM & McCOWN uroasr ' and counselors at-law. Oregon City, Jregon. e"Vill ,raetice in all the Courts of the . , V- l'lV'al attent ion civen to cases in the L. s. l ind .itic at Oreiron Citv. 1 5airl."72-tr." lOt. HA 11 I ATI JRN EY-AT-L AW, OREGO N CITY, : : OREGON. itr-et ICVf r PPC"S Tln Main ICl-CREAMSALOON I? ESST AUK AMT' . - . .w, wji tzitjr. Main S,Lt, . 7T . r.ffon f l,J TE rrtl Vr will re kekved fkom HO.MlCan.l A 31 E It I C AX CANDIES. for sale in quantities to suit. J. T. APPERSON, OFFICE IX ro.STOFFICE BUILDING. ,i Oregon C ity Onlrr attended ss carried janGtf, A. XOLTNER "0TARY PU15LIC. ENTERPRISE OFFICE. 5EGOX CITY. to.nn.V ; " : ?""tf J. Collections on ei,erai Urokeage busine Xo Myth. There are many Radical and Dem ocratic journals which appear to consider the candidacy of Grant for a third term a mere myth, unworthy of serious consideration. To all such we commend an attentive peru sal of the following communication, signed " A Mississippi Democrat,'" written to the Louisville Courier Journal from Marshall county, Mis sissippi. It is plain and direct in its statements, and reads thus: The question of a third term is one which in the South, is attracting considerable attention, and, however it may be in the North, here it meets with much favor. Misery, it is said. loves company, and, on that princi- I pie alone, the fcoutu views the acces sion of Grant to the Presidency for a third term as a step at least to a greater centralization of power, wherein alone their future safety lies. Among us, long since, the liberty, equality, and fraternity of a republi can government has ceased to exist. It is true that we are at liberty to approach the polls and deposit our ballots, but if the result conflicts with the views of the Administration, experience demonstrates that the strong arm will feel no hesitancy in setting it aside or declaring it exact ly to the contrary. Equality, too. does exist to a certain extent; but it is the equality of degradation and despair. It has pleased the minds of the Northern people to pit the ne gro against the whites of the South, and to sustain him in insolence to wards his former master, to teach him that he is the pet of the nation and entitled to legislation for his es pecial benefit. In their efforts to humiliate and degrade the white people of the South they have tam pered with the Constitution of the ITnited States and strained its pro visions with forcible constructions until they have inquired its useful ness to such an extent that no one feels protection under its influence. Its sanctity is at such a low ebb that Alcorn, the apostle of negro suprem acy, can without rebuke proclaim in the Senate of the United States that if constitutional limitations stand in bar of negro supremacy and special legislation for the negro, the Consti tution must stand aside, and be ig nored as has heretofore been the case when demanded by party clamor. The white people of the South, while they have received many wrongs at the hands of the President, IT. S. Grant, appreciate the fact that he as only acted in compliance with party clamor, unwilling to impair his own strength as the head of the American nation, and to-day he stands stronger among our people than any man on the American con tment. e look on him as the ex ponent of power, and when he de sires to exercise his power to strengthen himself still further, the Southern whites will readily lend their aid to forward his ambitious schemes, feeling that in his success will be their triumph over those who have, in their hour of trouble, vilified and degraded them and taken delight in placing on their necks the heels of their former slaves. The negroes, too, w ill be on his side, for he is part of their religion, and they have been taught by their carpet-bag masters that their sole political dutv is to vote as thev are ordered from head-quarters, but were they disposed to rebel, the hint given by the presence of a few sol diers would qnickly bring them to terms, for thev have not forgotten the policy of obedience to whatever they acknowledge as authority. They ate the tools of the carpet-bag ad venturer, and the promise of Govern ment patronage would bring him also into the coalition. So you see that the South being ready, all that will be required will be a little foreign war as excuse to levy troops and make a few little changes in the Constitution, and Mr. Grant is President for the third term. The present objective point can then easily be changed into a point of departure, and by the ma nipulation of the same machinery we can rapidly stride toward a strong and enduring one-man Government. As Lamar truly remarked in his great speech, " signal guns of dis tress are constantly being sounded by the suffering South, and when Grant sees fit to come to her assist ance she will not inquire too closely into his motives. All that they will ask will be a recognition of their equal claims to favor, knowing that they will quickly take that rank in positions of honor and profit to which their statemanship and talents enti tle them. ToprLAit Ekkors. To think the more a man eats, the fatter and more strengthened he will become. To believe the more hours children study, the faster they will learn. To conclude that, if exercise is good, the more violent it is, the more good is done. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is that much time clear gain. To act on the presumption that the least room in the house is big enough to sleep in. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better is good for the system, without look ing forward to" the more ulterior effects. To eat without continue to eat after it has been grat ified, merely for the sake of gratify ing the taste. J To eac a hearty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning. Protection Tactics. Speaker Blaine has accepted a re nomination for Congress, and has published an address to his constit uency, the substance of which is a bid for the support of the Protection ists in the next National Eadical Convention. The great iron and steel organizations, and the woolen and cotton associations, united, form the mam support of the Radical par ty. Therr allies are the National Banks and the great railway corpo rations, which, if they can be brought to center on any individual, are powerful enough to make him the candidate of that party. These bodies, acting together, can, beyond any reasonable doubt, controf the next National Radical Convention. Their pecuniary interests are so bound up in placing before the peo ple their strongest candidate that they will not risk Grant for a third term. Nor would they prefer Wash burne, as he is a Western man, too much opposed on account of the in terests of the region he is identified with to favor the protective system. As the time approaches for prepar ing for the Presidential campaign the conflicting wings of the domi nant party will soon be at open vari ance. The farmers throughout the West are a well-organized body, and the policy most opposed to their in terests in the continuance of the protective system. They will not yield their opinions on that question. They have gone too far to do so. The Grangers have instructed t eir members upon the fallacy- of a high tariff benefiting their interests. The manufacturing States are attached, from interest, to the system which has so largely increased their wealth at the expense of the agricultural re gion. A candidate who is in favor of diminishing the subsidies their industries have received through discriminating duties, cannot expect to obtain the popul r vote where manufacturers of iron, steel, wool, and cotton form the loading indus tries of their inhabitants. United, the Radicals would have a difficult task to elect their candidate divid ed, as they are on the tariff, success seems impossible. The West needs cheap transporta tion for ito grain to European uar kets. The present facilities through our country are not adequate to the cheap movement of the crops of the west to the markets of consumption. During the present session of Con gress there was an opportunity of giving the Western States cheap transportation. The Dominion ten dered us a Reciprocity treaty, under which an extensive canal system will connect the Lakes with the Atlantic rit the St. Lawrence river, and give our produce an advantage in trans portation that would have largely in creased our shipment to Europe. That measure was opposed by the protectionists because it would take from the tariff many articles that are prohibited, owing to the high duties charged on their importation. The leaders of the Protectionists in the House opposed tiie adoption of the treaty with such energy that the Senate did not conclude it. Mr. Kelley even attacked the right of the Senate to make a treaty of Recipro city with any nation. He contended that to do so was to interfere with the right of the House to raise reve nue for the purpose of carrying on the Government. Whatever influ ence, if any, his arguments may have had on the question, one thing is self-evident that the matter has been delayed and with it the fishery ques tion between ourselves and Great Britain. In 1S."4, when the United Slates possessed a House and Senate of far greater ability than those of 1873-74, a treaty of reciprocity was concluded with Canada, which resulted in great mutual advantage. The negotiation of another on the same principle but more comprehensive in its scope, would be of immense benefit to both countries. It should have been ac cepted on our part without unneces sary delay, but there was a fear of offending certain political interests. Its ratification might have influenced the next Presidential election ad versely to the Radical party, and "Pig-iron" Kelley's assertion served as a pretext to delay action. Speak er Blaine in his address declared his opposition to the treaty. Ho is in favor of killing it, not, we opine, be cause he doubts the constitutional right of the President and Senate to make it. but because, like Congress man Kelley, he fears the benefits re sulting from free trade between Canada and the United States for productions of the farm, etc., may teach the people what they have al ready felt to their cost that a pro tective tariff, is an ingenious system to rob the many for the benefit of the few. Examiner. A recent number of a "health" journal says. " Gne of the strongest arguments against the paper curren cy nov in circulation is that it spreads disease. Thousands of per sons annually die from smallpox ta ken from money that passes through their hands." 'This is dreadful, and after reading it I feel disposed never to touch another dollar of the money aain. But other persons are differ ent I know that the statement will appear incredible; I know people will scoff at the assertion; I am aware i.f T mikfl mvself liable to a charge r tir,tn mendacity, and yet it is Ul 1-o"1 . . -r 1 an absolute truth that I can lay my hand on a recfciess-uevu ot a m. ...i .-ii -tiiflr Ins clothes with all WOO Mill """" Til the paper money he can get and take iuAnc with the epidemics. It may seem strange that such toolbar- diness suonm extt, auujc. r ,-r, irrmld indulge in it if he had a chance. Some men are born so that they face death without a shud der. Max Adler. Sound Democracy. From the San Francisco Examiner. We hail with pleasure the nomina tion of Michael C. Kerr, in the Third District of Indiana for Congress, on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Kerr represented that District in the 39th, 40th, 41st, and 42d Congresses with pre-eminent ability, and was a candi date for Congressman-at-large for the present Congress, and beaten by but a few votes. He did not care to return to public life, but his constit uents would not allow him to remain out of it. The capacity already shown by Mr. Kerr in his public ca reer, and the boldness which he has at all times exhibited in taking posi tion on the questions that have agi tated the country, and the ability with which he has maintained hrs views, mark him as a man of charac ter and talent. His speech before the Convention which nominated him, a full report of which we have read in the columns of the Conrier Jovrnnl, is a thoughtful and able ex amition of the questions which are just now of peculiar importance to the people. The currency and free trade are the pivot questions upon which our interests depend, and these two questions Mr. Kerr handles in a particularly lucid and forcible manner. Referring to the depreciation of our currency, he says the most vital ly important subject of practical statesmanship now demanding solu tion in our country is the currency. It is not a question of the payment of bonds; it is not a sectional ques tion; it is not a question which should arouse passion; it can never be settled wisely except under the guidance of reason, without unfre ternal bitterness, and upon the prin ciples indicated by the universal experience of commercial nations. The vast importance of its right set tlement no man can estimate, for the currency of a country directly and most materially affected almost every interest of the nation and the people, every effort of labor, every reward of toil, the success of both private and public morals. In all respects, this great subject was always fully un derstood and appreciated by all the fathers and founders of our institu tions, and by almost all our rulers to 1861. This is most impressively and honorably true of the Democratic party ever since its primitive organ ization, because, during its long, wise, prosperous, and glorious gov ernment of our country, it never for a year or a day, in pea'e or war, in prosperity or adversity, suffered the currency to be torn from its only safe and sureanchorage in the princi ples of the Constition, the accepted currency of the world's commerce, the solid, enduring, and perpetual basis of gold and silver. There never was, and never can be, a good national currency that does not rest upon the sure foundation of intrinsic value, of money whose value is fixed by the labor it costs to produce it; of money created under the injunc tion " that in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." Pull of these convictions, wise in the then past experience of the world, ind faithful to duty, our forefathers imbedded these principles in our Constitution, and cherished the fond hope that they had thereby forever secured their posterity against the evils of an irredeemable paper cur rency. They declared in the Con stitution that " no State shall make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. That is our constitutional basis, and it precisely coincides with the conclu sions of universal experience, and of science, and of sound morality and natural law. And that wise prohi bition, in its true intent, spirit, and purpose, applies as well to Con gress as to the States. And so, prior to 18G1. it was construed by the com mon judgment of the country, by- Jefferson. Madison. Jackson. Web ster, Clay and other great statesmen and rulers. So it should be constru strued now, and must be in the fu ture before any financial safety can be fully established. So it would be now but for the bad statesmanship and great wrong of theRadical party. lhe vigorous manner in which Mr. Kerr has sounded the old Democrat ic slogan of hard money and free trade is extremely inspiring in these days of weak adherence to those grand old principles. The ways of the wicked are vari ous, lhe way it is managed in Oak land, California, since local option has carried the day, and no liquor is sold by retail, is something after this fashion: Thirsty Customer Mr. Barkeeper, what will five gallons and a gill of your best whiskey cost? Mr. B. $30 25. T. C. Cheap enough. I will take it. Demijohn is handed down. T. C. takes a nip, smacks his lips, and in forms Mr. B. that on the whole he thinks he will not keep the balance, and suggests that Mr. B., always readv for a bargain, offers 830 10 for it, which offer T. C. accepts, paying the 15 cents difference. You see he "sells short" on Bour bon, "seller 15." One should not be downcast at failures. They are often far better for the student than success. He who goes to school his mistakes, will always have a good schoolmaster, and will not be likely to become either idle or conceited. ' Why don't you get down and lead that horse? that is the way to keep warm," said a gentleman to a bov one cold day. "No," replied the American youth, "it is a b-b-bor-rowed horse, and I'll ride hip if I freeze." COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY', UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, TIIE BROOK. BY TES.VYSOX. With main' curve my banks I fret, liv manv a nehl ninl fsillnw And many a fairy fore-land set With willow, weed and mallow, I slip, I slide, I gleam, I glance, Amontr my skimmiinr swallows. I made the nettled sunbeams dance Against my sandy shallows I chatter chatter as I How To join the brimming river; But men may come, and men may go, Hut I go on forever ever 1 go on forever ! I wind about, and in and out. With here a blossom sailing ; And here and there a lustv trout, And here and there a gravlimr ; And here and there a snowy llake U pon me as I travel ; With many a silvery water-break Above the snowy 'gravel. And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river; tor men may come, and men may go, But I iso on forever ever 1 tro on forever 1 I steal by lawns and grassy plots, I slide by hazel covers ; I move the sweet forget-me-nots That move for happy lovers; I murmur under moon and stars, In biambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars, 1 loiter round my cresses And out again I curve and How To join the brimming river; For men may come and men may liut I go oil forever ever I go forever 1 go. on The Liords Prayer in Verse. Our Heavenly Father, hear our prayer, Tuy name lie" hallowed everywhere; Thy Kingdom come, Thy erfect will In earth, as in heaven, let all fultill ; Oive thisday 's bread that we may live ; Forgive our'sins as we forgive; Help us temptation to withstand ; From evil shield us with Thy hand. Now and forever unto Thee" The Kingdom, power and glory be. Wait Until I Curl My Hair. A Salem, Ala., preacher has, ac cording to a Southern exchange, been telling his congregation a strange yarn. We hope he preached "to the marines;" but his audience was col ored, and he himself the hue of ebony. The negro is credulous: He said that a young man, living in one of the many towns that he had visited, asked a young lady to accompany him to church on Sab bath day. She replied pettishly, that her hair had not been curled, and that she would go to the bad place with her e3 es wide open before she would venture to church with her hair uncurled. And she went not, at th t time; but the next Sun day, having got her curls adjusted, she ventured out and listened pa tiently to the sermon until its close. When the congregation had been dismissed she moved toward the door, but fell, on reaching the por tal, with her head to the pulpit. As she fell her clothing cracked like Chinese crackers exploding, and on examining her face it was found that her eyelids were completely gone. She was dead, but it was impossible to close her eyes, because of the loss of the lids. When her friends crowded around her to raise her up they found themselves unable to move her. The sequel showed that it took twelve strong men to lift her from the floor and twelve to put her in her coffin. It also required the united exertions of twelve ministers to preach her funeral an exceeding heavy job doubtless. When t e last sad rites were being observed, the lid of the coffin suddenly raised of its own accord, and something "about the size of a black cat, but which was not a black cat." leaped out. And as this creature jumped from the coffin to the floor it cried aloud to the petrified audience, "Wait! wait! wait until I curl mv hair! "As I ex pect to answer in the day of judg ment, said the sable divine, 1 saw this scene with my own eyes, and it was just as I have told it ! "An effeminate man," savs a re cent writer, " is a week poultice. He is a cross pet ween taoie-ueer einerer-pop, with the cork left and out. A fresh water mermaid found in a cow pasture with her hands filled with dandelions. He is a teacup full of syllabub; a kitten in trousers; a sick monkey with a blonde mous tache. He is a vine without tentrils; a fly boiled in oil; a paper kite in a dead calm. He lives like a butter fly no one can tell why. He is as harmless as a penny's worth of can dy, and as useless as a shirt-button without a hole. He is as lazy as a slug, end has no more hope than last summer's fly. He goes through life on tip-toe, and dies like cologne water spilt over the ground." Looking for Them. Recently a negro preacher and doctor in Mem phis, Tenn., was approached by a darkey of the commoner sort. The fellow asked the doctor to go with him and he would show him where he could get a trunk full of money. The doctor went and near the Orphan Asylum his guide halted and explain ed that the reverend gentleman was to take off his boots and stockings and go barefooted to the point named. while his new found friend carried the boots around to the place by a circuitous route. The doctor has given up the search for the trunk and is looking for the boots. A schoolboy being requested to write a composition on the subject of " Pins," produced the following: Pins are very useful. They have saved the lives of a great manv men women and children in fact, whole families." "How so?" asked the 1 .1 X 1 A 1 ,1 , puz.z,ieu leaeuer. Ann me uoy re plied. "Why, by not swallowing them." This matches the story of the other boy, who defined salt as "the stuff that makes potatoes taste baa when you don t put on an v. A Good fellow. Scribner for June.. We wonder if the "good fellow" ever mistrusts his goodness or real izes how selfish, how weak, how un principled and how bad a fellow he truly is. He never regards the con- sequences of his acts as they relate to others, and especially those of his family friends. Little fits of gener osity toward them are supposed to atone for all his misdeeds, while he inflicts upon them the disgraces, in conveniences and burdens which at tend a selfish and desolute life. The invitation of a friend, the taunts of good-natured boon companions, the temptations of jolly friendship, those are enough to overcome all his scru ples, if he has any scruples, and lead him to ignore all the possible results to those who love him best and who must care'for him in sickness and all the uuhappy phases of his selfish life. The good fellow is NOTORIOUSLY CARELESS of his family. Any outside friend can lead him whithersoever he will into debauchery, idleness, vagabond age. He can ask a favor and it is done. He can invite him into dis grace, aud he goes. He can direct him into a job of dirty work, and he straightway undertakes it. He can tempt him into any indulgence which may suit his vicious whims, and re gardless of wife, mother, sister, who may be shortened in their resources so as legitimately to claim his pro tecting hand regardless of honora ble father and brother he will spend his money, waste his time, and make himself a subject of constant and painful anxiety, or an unmitigated nuisance to those alone who care a straw for him. What pay does he receive for this shameful sacrifice? The honor of being considered a "good fellow" with a set of men who would not spent a cent for him if they should see him starving, and who would laugh over his calamities. Wiien he dies in the ditch, as he is most likely to die, they breathe a sigh over the swill they "drink, and say, "After all he was a good fellow." This feature of the good fellow's case which makes it well nigh hope less, is, that he thinks he is a good fellow. He thinks that his pliable disposition, his readiness to do other good fellows a service, and his .jolly- ways ATOXE FOR ALL HIS FAULTS. His love of praise is fed by his com panions, and thus his self compla cency is nursed. Quite unaware that this good fellowship is the result of his weakness; quite unaware that this sacrifice of honor, and the honor and peace of his family, for the sake of outside praise is the offspring of the most heartless selfishness; quite unaware that his disregard of the in terests and feelings of those who are bound to him by the closest ties of blood, is the demonstration of his utterly unprincipled" character, he carries an unruffled or a jovial front while hearts bleed or brake around him. Of all the scamps society knows this traditional good fellow is the most despicable. A man who, for the sake of his own selfish delights, or the sake of the praise of careless ar unprincipled friends, makes his home a scene of " ANXIETY AXD TORTURE, and degrades and disgraces all who are associated with him in his home life, is, whether he knows it or not, a brute. If a man cannot be loyal to his home, and to those who love him. then he cannot be loyal to any thing that is good, there is some thing mean beyond description in any man who cares more for an-thing in this world, than the honor, the confidence and the love of his family. There is something radically wrong in such a man, and the more thor oughly he realizes it, in a humilia tion which bends him to the earth in shame and confusion, aod better for him. The traditional good fellow is A BAD FELLOW from the very crown of his head to the sole of his foot. He is weak as a baby, vain as a peacock, selfish as a pig and unprincipled as a thief. He has not one redeemed trait upon which a reasonable self-respect can be built and braced. Give us the bad fellow who stands by his personal and family honor, who sticks to his own, who dare not treat his friends while his home is in need of the money he wasts, and who gives himself no indulgence of good fellowship at the expense of duty ! A man with whom the approv ing smile ot a wife, cr mother, or sister, does not weigh more than a thousand crazy bravos of boon com panions, is just no man at all. hat he Might See. The Utica Observer says that if the vision of the imprisoned Tweed took a broad er scope he might see, perhaps, the scenes in w asuington, where bhep herd, a later" Boss" of fuller growth every whit as corrupt as his proto type, and far more sordid and sel fish still basks in the sunlight of Federal favor. He might see this unpunished rascal junketing at Cape May with the President of the Unit ed States, and realize his own great error in not allying himself earlier with the regular organization of the Republican party.' He might see Tremain, who assisted (for a retainer of Slio.OOO) at his conviction, howl ing a hoarse appeal in the House of Representatives in behalf of the de graded and debauched Durell, of Louisiana, and he might learn how the men who had turned the Federal Treasury over to thieves were elevat ed to the bench or reserved for for eign missions. Not so Sure. A spinster was heard to remark that she had faith that " God disposes," but it is not so sure that " man proposes." The Congressional Gag Law. The New York Sun has the follow ing in relation to the Act of Congress under whose previous charges of li bel against news papers may be pros ecuted in the Criminal Court of tho District of Columbia.- The Sun says: .Neither in the title nor the tpxt i there anything which, to the casual and unlearned reader, would convey the serious and alarming import which lurks in its provisions. There are two sections only of this Act, which, taken together! work th mis chief ; but in neither does the word press occur. The following is the Act, entire, as we have received it from Washington: Ax ACT conferring jurisdiction up on tJie Criminal Caurt of the District of Columbia, and for other jmrjyoses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assem bled, That the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia shall have jur isdiction of all crimes and misde meanors committed in said District, not lawfully triable in any other court, and which are required by law to be prosecuted by indictment or information. "Skc. 2. That the provisions of the thirty-third section of the Judi ciary act of 1789 shall apply to courts created by act of Congress inrthe District of Columbia." The effect of the first section of this Act, so far as the press is con cerned, is to give to the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia jurisdiction over criminal prosecu tions for libel. q The effect of the second section is to authorize the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia to send into every State and Territory of the Un ion, a warrant requiring the arrest and rendition of any person charged with the publication of a libel in the District of Columbia. The publica tion may .be costructive as well as actual. If the publisher of a paper in New York, Maine, Utah or Cali fornia should semi a single copycf his paper containing the alleged libelous matter to one subscriber in the District of Columbia, he would be liable, according to this law, to be indicted by the Grand Jury of the Criminal Court of the Dis trict and on a warrant issu ing out of that Court, or from one of the Judges of any court cre ated by act of Congress in the Dis trict, to be seized in the State or Territory where he resides however distant put in irons, and carried to Washington, there to lie in jail until his case should come to trial before a petit jury of the Criminal Court. Bail he might offer; but withithe modern doctrines controlling bail and since even a judge like Suther land has been known to require bail in the sum of thirty thousand dol lars on a charge of misappropriating one hundred and seventy-five the right to give bail is an uncertain reed on which to lean. Such is the scope, and such con sidering the learning and capacity of those who contrived it must have been the design of this Act. It sub jects to the authority of a Court not of the most exalted rank, located in the city of Washington, existing in the polluted atmosphere of the Capitol and its lobby, presided over by Judges appointed by the Presi dent; it subjects, we say, to such Sk1 narrow and dangerous authority the whole press of the United States. Ax Affair of a Pair? He was young, he was fair and he parted his hair, like the average fool, in the middle; he was proud, he was bold, but the truth must be told he played like a hend on the riddle. But aside from this vice he was everything nice, and his heart was so loving and tender, that he always turned pale when he trod on the tail of the cat lying down by the fenderr lie clerked in a store, and the way that he tore off calico, jeans, and brown sheeting, would have tickled a calf and made the brute laugh in the face of a quarterly meeting. He cut quite a dash with a darling mous tache, which he learned to adore and to cherish, for one had said, 'twould kill her to see the thing perish. On Sunday he'd search the straight road to church, and sat 'down like a young tabby cat, with the saints in the far amen corner. He sang like a bird and his sweet voice was heard fairly tugging away at long metre and wOq speak the truth when we say that this youth could outsing a hungry musquiter. She was young, she was fair and she scrambled her hair like the aver age folio of the city; she was proud but not bold, but the truth must be told the vfny she chewed gum was a pity; but aside from this vice she was everything nice and the world much applauded her bustle; and the cgay bully boys, being charmed by the noise walked miles just to hear the thing rustle. She cut quite a swell, did the nm chewing belle, and the men Hocked in armies- to meet her; but she gave them the shirk, for she loved the clerk, who sang like a hungry musquiter. She hemmed and she sighed and chaw ed, until her jaws were both broken; then she walked by the store, while he stood at the door awaiting some amative token. She raised up her eyes with a pretty sur prise, and tried to enact the proud scorner; but to tell the plain truth she grinned at the youth who loved the devout amen-corner. Collins Graves, the man who road in advance of the Massachusetts flood, says he would have swept his lifeless corpse onward to the hungry sea if he had thought the poets would tackle him in the style they have. Milwaulcee Sentinel. o o o G O o o o o o o G3 O O o G I. o 0 o & O o o o o o o f O o o