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G 4 Up DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF ORECON. VOL. 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1875. NO- 17. fl 111 f l I i i i I I H 1 1 I ill A LOCAL DE.VJOSrlATlC F O II T II K Fdrm:r, Busings Man,' & Family Circle. Issued every fuiday. . A.OLTNER, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. OFPICIAL PAPBTOa CLACZAUA3 CO. oK-KKF-In Entkkprisk Bu'.MIn-r. on dJirlS f Masonic U,.ai,.S. Mam . Term of Subscription Sinl J Cop..' One Year. Tn Advance.. " Six Months " ... T-rm off A.dvertii" ? Tn n d"nt udv.-rusements. Including lta'-s on ' week For t-.c'ii subs -ipi-nt ins-rtioii On-; C ilaiu:i, !! year Hut ;: .. 2.-V) 1.00 1JUK) tj!)."H 4D.0O 1-2.00 li'iVinss Or.I, 1 square , one year.. SOCIETY NOTICES. okiu::v i.oj;i: no. Meets i-vorv Thursday -v;-Mi'V' it;7': o'clock, in tho O.l.l JVl!v.s' Hall, Main ..r .... Ms in! ers of the )i- suv I to attcll.l. Meets on tlie jrcsr. I lA.nirli 'Piics- '' .tji s p:' h nionth. c. in tne um U. Membersot the Jiegree si i iuviitl to attend. HI 1. T t)M. SI I A- A. M-, If Hs it- .oix;i: no. retrul ir coin 1 , A F. A iii'iiii i!ion on the First mm- in I S st'.ml.ivs in eaeh iifii. a ut 7 oVl . -k iro'iii t ho :?th ol'.Srp tjiiioi-r tn tin1 -'tli iif M:iiv!i; iin.l 7',. ii to t!i- 1:1 JOO'l V. -M. oVto-k fro! l th -Uth ot Ma.v HK: t S? -tet'iiior. I'rvthroii t aa-liu ? af-,' in.it jd to .ittv. n l. Iy oi';. l:i' oi' F A I,L : .! 'J AMl'.HUS r NO. :,!. o. I . l. M U ill Oilt'.l At ld 1-VlloW st in I l'uii il Til" l iy of e i - :i in g i 1 stall i nt!i I'.it in vit :i lfe IS ' ; 1 1 i- ;t r e.l toatlena. CIA A ill'iMN i' NO. '4, V. ( id F l! vs" H ill, in i r -i, o.i M :i ! i..' ev-'iiin, at n r.s hi ti 1 or l r are 1:1 -M. :. At ilKV, i M a i" 7 ''ei vii I t i iMt "i; i. I. .1. ki .C J ,- i m.ii.iy A V A 11 ! S. J. W. V. xt)iiin.-i, i). Sl'iiiii (niu;oi (' 1 t i' tilt natty. 1: " . ii M 11:1 si r stairs 111 (hariaa a'.- P.ric'u, a.igl it I. W. W. 310 UK LAND, AT FOaMEV-AT-LAW; If;:-'! liu . I .lll.i. Street, iiin-lto tlie C l II - i S. if i; K'L A T i ATTORN EY-AT-LAW: ni:ii! r r 1. W 1 t .J t m Uil i 'OFFICE C!i ir:na n'sbrit' ! oaiarlSTJ :tf. k. Main st. J HfJSON & McCOWN i r t r v f v a irn rnrvoffi nne v i 11 Oroon City, Orogon. j7"Vi!l jiraefic" in all the Courts of the State. Soet-ia attention given to cas-s in the ('. I -nidi tllc. at )regon City. 3arrl.S7iMr. r :l. t; 15 a tz i isr, ATTOR N EY-AT-LAW, onmoy cirr, : : Oregon. OFFIC ttt reet. E Over I'opc's Tin Store, Main iliiiivr7i-ir. Dr. S. PARKER, I ATP! OF ViUTL.AMl, OFFEKS HIS tU services as Thysician and Surgeon to t he peo i, of t.'h ckamas county, who may at any time l" i neetl of a physician, lbs has op iied an i dice at Ward A Harding's 1 iru'j: store whet.' ho can le found at all tt-iien of the day when not engaged in pro fessional calls.i H esldei-ice, .Main street, iit-t door but ie above H. Caufleld's store Oi .oh. r lST,t. tf JOHN M. 1UC0N, IMPORTER aM) HEALER In 15ook, stationery, lVrium ry, etc., etc. O Orejiojii City, Orpyoii 7- t Ch irm'an Varnr's old stunj itely occupied b" S. Ackeman, Main st. 01EC3N CITY BHEVE3Y. II........ II,. ...1nT AVIXtl Pl'KCHAS- A-i-Vj-r, th" alx-ve lirew- r- - frv wishes to inform ine puouc iniu ne is now prepared to:.manufacture a No. 1 qual ity of LAO JiR B RRR, as good as can th -State. Orde tilled. tw ohtained anywhere in rs solicited and promptly G0YSTR SALOON . , -i A X D I i hZ S T A XJ TL A T ! L0.CIS SAAL, Proprietor i -iniiv. Street. - - Oregon City. OUSTERS WIl.I, BE and after thl? datn , SERVED FROM "id after thl? datn di.rin-r the "Winter " ",Ji. the best nualitiesof ' p u i - . , . '""CR d AMERICAN CAXDIES. Ice for sale n quantities to suit. J, I. I. O. l -r are myitoi l'v order N.G. l IV vfVIMj :it 7 o'.ll 1' rllows' TTi A Rrprvv ntaflve ami ('himpion of Imcr 1m n Art Taste! ProT'.i for 1S75 Eiijhth Year. T1IK THK ART JOIBXAI, OF AMERICA, Issued .Monthly. "A Magnificent Conception, Wonderfully carried out." The necessity of a popular medium for thu r(res-!itiitioii of the productions of ourreat artists, has always been recog nized, and many attempts have been made to meet the wsint. 'i'lie successive failures which so invariable followed each attempt in this country to establish an art journal, did not prove tho in difference of the American people, to the claims of hih art. 8o soon as a proper appreciation of the want and an ability to meet it were, shown, the public at once ralied with -enthusiasm to its support, and theresulf was a irr 'at artistic and commercial triumph THKALMXB. THE ALU INK, while issued with all the regularity, has none of the temporary or timely interest charaetrist ic of ordinary periodieals. It is an elegant miscellany of pure, light, and graceful literature; and a collection of pictures, the rarest specimens of artistic skill, in black and white. Al though each succeeding number affords a fresh pleasure to its fri -nds, the real value and beauty of The AUHne will be most ap preciated after if is bound up sit the close or the year. While other publications may claim superior cheapness, sis compar ed with rivsil.s of a similar class, The Adine is an unique and original conception alone aid una pproached absolutely with out com pet it ion in price or character. The o.ssssor of a co:npl-te volume could not duplicate the quantity of fine psiper and engravings in any other shape or number of volumes for ten tim--s its cost ; and then thepj is the chromo besides! PREMIUM FO'l l-7". Every subscriber for 1?75 will receive a beautiful portrait, in oil colors, of the same noble dog whose picture in si former issue attracted so much attentisn. '31 ill's telfish Friend'' will b- welcome in every body loves such a doir, arid executed so true to the life. home. Kvry t h" portrait is that it s-ems t he veritable pr 'S.etic" of the animal itself. Th It v. T. lie Wit Ta Image tells that his own New Foil ml la ml ilog (tUe linest in llr.Dlil.vn) bii.-ks at it! and tliough ro nat ural, no one who s-'es this pr Milium chro Tii'iuiil have th r s!i :iitest fear of being bitten. iJ-sid -s the chromo, every advanc:; sub serib -r to Thr Af-lfnf for ls7" is constituted a member, and entitled to all the privil- TH E AID ! H I All f U ?J 1 0 "t'. Th" I'nion owns the ordinals of all the AUti.n pieliires, which, with other paint ings and en;rravlngs, are to be distributed among the members. To everv serie.s of 1,0.11 subscribers, l'W dltFerent piee '.s, valu ed at over IJr'M, are to be distributed as s on as the s l ies is full, and the awards of eaeh series as made, are to be published in thu n .t succeeding issm of Tho Af'line. This leatur. applies only to subscribers who pay mr oin year in advance. Full particulars in circular s n, on application enclosing a stam p. O.ir Siilwrriptioii, i; titling to T5IE AIiUI.VK oik your, the t iiroinu Jd tiio Art I uiuii, ;er Annum, in Advance. (N'o charge lor ostage.) SpcimMi conies of Tli !0 A1JJIXE, 50c. CAHVA33SR3 WAHTED. Any p-r-son wishing to aet permanently as ;i, local canvasser will r -eeive full and I romt intoraiat io:i by applying to VLDJXE C03IPANY, 3iaj!5:n !, vm:, m:iv v:t. I) n Y LOTHIEJ ri i fa iO i v I now off. r this stock of Onods' G at I'rices far b'dow ;mv other; L hous" ir. tin- .srtite. V S () () limes an n ird and mono scarca and l will give every one ! t he worth of their money. j A I)of ! X I) s l:iilitA CITl 3IAIJK Inn nntl IJj-k' C'liit Ii i siy, I'liilcriTi-ii r, Fin :mels, lil.iilkrls And Vurnx. ALSO C;vice:Jcs, Ctitl-ry, Je"lr-, Xl lOflH, .Musical Instruments, Toy, Etc., VT THE c I ; A! Hi s H () E S T () T A C C 0 s Lowest Prices 8 For CASHJ c! OREGON STEAMSHIP CO3 STEAMBOAT NOTICE! If HTpT I i Sti. J2Z. C(")OTCK, Will leave OUErTOX CITY for PORTLAND every day f Except Sunday, at 7J o'clock, A. M. Returning, will leave Portland for Oregon City at 2h o'clock, P. M. Sti ALICE, Will leave OREOifS CITY for CORVAIXIS every Monday and Thursday of each week. Sti DAYTON, .ive ORFfTOV riTV Tf Aro-VTivr-ST. Will 1 VII.I.K. UKAY E'tTE and DaYTOX, and ail points between, everv Mondav, Wed- ... ruuii) (ii caen AveeK. leaves t he bas.n at 8 o'clock, A. r., and connect with the tram at Canemah at 9, A. M. Btr. AT,TJA"NTY. aiVi-?-?T-;ON f ITY rr HARRISBURG ,! . tFSK and all intermediate points every week. Sti T'aiiriio Patton, I.eav..s ORRiOX CITY for ALBANY and 2rv V? Vned,ate Pnts between twice ev- CALL AND SETTLE. 4 II rrr.ons indebted to the undersigned io l'-tessional sprviees are resix?ct- lully rejiuestedtocall and settle their ac counts to the 1st of Januarv, 1S75. I desire all in v accounts closed at the beginning of the New Var, anil those knowins them selves indebted will confer a 2 re at favor on me by making early pavment. Jan lit f J. W. NORRIS. NOTICE. . MM WIFE, MARTHA J. STEWART, having left my bed and twvird with out just cause or provocation, all persons are hereby notified not tohafloror trust her on my account, as I shall pay no debts of her contracting from and after this date. R. E. STEWART. Dec. o! 1S71 iw. AT j i A A I rlV U r O I octlOtf i THOMAS CHAR iM AN ESTABLISHED 1853. DESIRES TO INFORM THE CITIZENS of Oregon City and of the Willamette Valley, that he is still on hand and doing business on the old motto, that - A yimble Six Pence t Better than a Slow Shilling. I have just returned from San Francisco, where I purchsised one of the LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK OF GOODS ever before offered In this city ; and consists in part, as follows : Boots and Shoes, Clothing, Dry Goods, Hats and Caps, Hosiery of Every Description, Hardware, Groceries, Paints and Oils, Sash and Doors, Chimiware, Queensware, Stoneware, Crockery, Plated ware, Glassware, Jewelry of Various Qualities And Styles, Clocks and Watches, T .sidles and Gents' Furnishing Patent Medicines, Goods, Fancy No- Itope, Faming lions of Every Implement s of Description All Kinds, Carpets, .Mattings, Oil Cloth, Wall Paper, etc.. Of the above list, I can say my stock is the MOST V O M L E T 15 ever offered in this market, and wsisseleted with especial care for t he Oregon City trade. All of which I now olfer for sale sit the Lowest Market Ra es, No use for the ladies, or any one else, to think of going to Portland to buy good for I am Dctfrmini-il to Sell (Jhrt-H and not to allow myself to bi.; UNDERSOLD IX THE STATE OF OREGON. All I ask is a fair chance ami quick pay ments, believing as I do thsit Twenty Years Experience in Oregon City enables me to know the re quirements of the trade. Come one and sill and see for yourselves that the old stand of THOMAS CIIAIiMAX cannot be beaten in quality or price. It would be useless for me lo iell you all the advant ages I can otfer you in the sab' of goods, sis" every store that advertises does that, and probably you have been dissip pointed. All I wish to say is Coin.", nn.l Sand Exainiiis for Yourselves fori do no wish to make any mistakes. My o ject is to i "I l all my old friends now that I am still alive, and desiroes to sell goods cinii-p, for cash, or ujion such terms sis agreed uKii. Thanking sill for the liber al pat ronsige heie.ofore bestowed. THUS. CIIAIIMAX, Msiin S.rect, Oregon City, I.eixal Tenders and County Scrip taken at market rates. THOS. CTIARMAN. tt.7-50,000 lbs wool wanted hv THOS. CTIARMAN. FALL Ife7-X Is your time to buy goods sit low prices. ACKERMAH BROTHERS are now receiving a large stock of FALL & WINTER GOODS, all of the I -itest Styles, which will sell ATTLESS THAN PORTLAND PRICES. Our stock has been bought for ensh, and wc wili sell it at a small advanco above SAN FRANCISCO COST, "llfE WIIiE SAY TO EVERYBODY BE IT fore you purchase or go to Port land, come and pric our goods and convince yourself thsit wo do what we say. Our stock consists in part of V. Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Roots and Shoes, Eadies and Gents ' Furnishing Goods, ' Notions, Grocer- ie s, Hard ware nnd a gre.at many other articles too uumer. ours to mention ; ALSO DOORS, WINDOWS, PAINTS AND OILS, ETC., ETC. We will Price for also pay the Highest Market Country Produce. . - ACKERMAN BROS. Orson Cltr, fee. 11, 174. tf Paul Boyntou's Swim. Colonel Forney Tells the Story of a Brave Man's Deed Afloat aud Alone in the Ocean. Correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. A few days afterward I met aPenn sylvanian, not quite so renowned as the Austrian lieutenant, but in an other sphere even more of a curiosity in London. I refer to a resident of Philadelphia, Captain Paul Boynton, of the New Jersey Light Guard at Atlantic City, now here, alter : I1IS EXTKAOltDINAKY FEAT of throwing himself into the ocean from the National 'steamship,' Queen, on the stormy night "of October 21st, seveu miles off Fastnet Hock, on the Irish rock-bound coast. He began his experiment esist of Baltimore, where the cliffs are ISO feet high and more, and after being seven hours in the water, aud swimming over forty miles, ho finally guided himself, in the midst of the tempest, into one of the fissures on that terrible shore. He was clad in the life-saving appar atus recently inveuted by another American, MB. MEKBIMAN-, and aided by his great skill as a swimmer and a diver, his cool cour age and strong constitution, perform ed a feat which, when the news reached London, wsis regarded as a hoax, and generally commented up on as another evidence of American exaggeration. You have heard the story of how he attempted to get passage on several of the outgoing steamers from New York in vain, be cause the captsiins knew he would attempt to leap from the ship to prove the American apparatus of Mr. Merriman, and how, finally, he ob tained a berth on the National steamer, THE QUEEN, and was prevented only by main force from jumping overboard when MOO miles from New York, and how at length, at 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening, October 21st, off the Irish coast, he persuaded the captain to put him down the side, and all alone, in the dark, tempestuous night, clothed in his Indiarubber air-tight suit, with his inflated air-chambers, with food for three days, a compass, a bull's eye lantern, some books, sev eral signal rockets, an "American Hag, with a number of letters belonging to the passengeis in his inside pocket, with his bowie-knife at his side, he grasped his paddle, and amid the cheers of the crew and company entered upon his awful journey. EVERY SOUL. OX BOARD believed that to be the las-t of the brave fellow. I wish you could hear him tell the story of his condition after beiug tossed on these mountainous seas for seven long hours; how he was cast into the rocky fissures on the Irish coast; how in the dark night he scaled the almost perpendicular cliffs, and, mounting the top, tired off his signal rockets for the relief that never came; how ho descended the dangerous declivit3', stripped of his preserver, and walked, bruised and battered, until he came to A LITTLE 1BISII TOWN, the barefooted inhabitants of which regarded him pretty much as the Indians beheld Columbus, or Robin son Crusoe's man "Friday," started at the sight of the shipwrecked sail or; how, at last, he got to Skibba reen, where he posted the letters en trusted to him by the passengers of the Queen, who had all given him up for lost, and were astonished when he talegraphed them to Cork that he had arrived and would soon be among them. "While the houses were being shaken and roofs being blown off in London," says the Dnili Neics of Octoler 28th, "this bold mariner was alone on the stormy sea, encased in his magic dress, car ried and down the alternate hills and valleys of the ocean," HIS PASSAGE THROUGH IRELAND was something more that a triumph; the "man-fish," as he was called, be came an object of wild curiosity and admiration. Crowds followed after him, and when he got to Cork he was welcomed at the theatre by the corurany singinar the "Star SpauIed Banner," and on the 27th of October exhibited himself iu the harbor near Queenstown for more than an hour. He proved' at once the efficiency of his life-saving suit and his own dar ing courage. HE FIBED OFF ROCKETS, burnt signal lights, ate and drank, knocked the neck off a bottle of lemonade, hoisted his flag twined around the Irish green, and excited a bewildering enthusiasm. Repeat ing these experiments on several oth er occasions, he performed some ex traordinary feats in the city of Dub lin, and on the 7th of November, in the theatres, Zoological Garden, in the river Liffey,-. and here, as every where, he attracted an immense con course. The same scene took place in the harbor of Kingstown, and I have just been looking over mauy columns in the Irish newspa2ers, of comments upon his various Xerformances, full of INCIDENT AND AMUSEMENT. Captain Boynton has been in Lon don about a week, and will soon dis play his prowess and prove his in vention at Brighton, the English London by the sea, now in full bhize of fashion and frolic. But he is re serving himself for the most danger ous and daring achievement of his life, viz: that of . CBOSSING THE CHANNEL, from Dover to Calais. To use his own words to me: "I will do it if it costs me my life, and. wdien, I land I will teiegiapn you tnfcse words: 'I have . just planted the Centennial flag on ' the soil of France."' I do not de scribe this young Philadelphian as I would describe an acrobat or a jug gler; he is engaged in a great work of humanity, deserving far more honor than many who boast of their distinction in science and art. A young man who can speak of having saved seventy-one human lives, and who travels not for show, but to prove the efficiency and usefulness of a great life-saving invention, DESERVES SOMETHING MORE than the applause awarded to a trav eling mountebank, and I have no doubt he will receive it. Captain Boynton is about 27 years old, and was bom in the. county of Alleghany, Pennsylvania, but is now a resident of Philadelphia. He served in the American Navy, during the war, on the Northern side, afterward took part in the battLs against Maximil liian in Mexico, and happened to be in Paris when the conflict between France and Germany broke out, fought with the French, returning to America at the close of the strug gle to enter the service of the Life Guards on the Atlantic coast, for the purpose of saving life at watering places and sea-ports. HE IS A FINE, HANDSOME FELLOW, modest and unpretending, and tells the story of his adventures without the slightest boasting or ornamenta tion. His brother is the London correspondent for some of the Amer ican newspapers, a reader in the British Museum, aud a careful, in telligent, studious ruan, very much attached to the "amphibious Cap tain," and now, I am glad to see, dili gently attending to the great task of crossing the channel from Dover to Calais. I write this sketch of our gsillant townsman not only to illus trate the main point of this letter the usefulness of American genius and science in Europe but that his friends at home may not lose sight of one who litis done so much credit to himself and to Pennsylvania. Grant's Financial Message President Grant deserves some credit for the presisteuce in which he reminds Congress of the way it is shirking the financial question, but he has lost all the leverage he had on that body by permitting the so called resumption bill to be rushed through without any sign of his dis pleasure, and now to receive his sig nature. He points out that, even if the bill should work, the means to carry it out are not provided, to wit, the means for redeeming $80,000,000 of legal tenders and $40,000,000 of fractional currency; also, that the annual contribution of 34,000,000 to the sinking fund is entirely unpro vided for. The answer of Congress will naturally be that, if the bill is so slack, the President should not have signed it. It is "returned to the house in which it originated with the President's objections," but un fortunately signed. The Senate might put it to the vote, again, "sar castic." but the President's recom mendations, unless backed up by more potent White House influence than lie has hitherto exercised on this question, won't stand for much in tlie midst of the general party dis traction. The President's plan for resump tion is better than none, and proba bly bring about tho desired end, but in the certainty of operation, in the ths ease with which the community would comprehend and meet it, and the government carry it out, it is greatly inferior to any of half a doz en plans contemplating the issue of interest-bearing notes, or gold notes, or bonds, in direct redemption and contraction of the. greenbacks. Any of these better plans, if pressed in Congress by the whole power of the administration, might still prevail before the close of the session, but the Prisident lost his best chance to "bring a pressure to bear," when he permitted the other bill to become a law without a distinct intimation of his dissatisfaction with it and his disposition to seek early relief for the country of the next Congress. Spr in (field Republk'aiti Congress Laughs Alouil. The telegraph tells us that Donn Piatt in the Capital, says: Congress laughs aloud over the fact that the newspaper men have been caught, and no Congressmen. Very well. But let the inquiry be transferred from the Committee of Ways and Means to Newspaper Bow. Organize a Committee there, with Charley Nordhoffas Chairman,' and Boynton, Adams and others as members. This Committee will cross the threshold to which the money has been traced, and call on the members who voted for the subsidy to purge" themselves of suspicion. The examination would begin with Mr. Dawes, then go on to eloquent Kelly, and so continue through to all who on that famous day voted the fatal 'yea.' -Bank and private accounts; ; and, above all, the mysterious bank of the Sergeant-at-Arms would be searched; and, our word for it, in less thau thirty days the jail would have to bo enlarged to admit the Congress of the United States. How many Congressmen were corrupted are not known, and probably never will be for the gen tlemen who conduct the investigation are not only members of Congress, but members who voted for the sub sidy, and are as likely to have had some of the money as any of th lob- j dv. ine presnmption is unfavora ble to them, as two of the leading and most active of the investigators have boen caught with Credit Mobil ier stock in their pockets. The Dlfference. Bachelorio ex- Lclaination "A lass!" MairUnW cIamation',Ah, men!" Sclinrz on the Situation. Senator Schurz, of Missouri, in the United States Senate expressed the following opinions on Louisiana: He said he approached the subject in no party spirit, as he was about to retire to private life. The success of no party would benefit, nor the defeat of any party injure him. He proceeded to revive ths scenes of last Monday iu the Louisiana Legisla ture, and asked where was the .- con stitutional warrant, where the law, for such proceedings. He recited the various excuses made for military interference in this case, but declared- that none l these touched the question. The question was, Where was the the law for these acts? It was his deliberate judgment, con scientiously formed, that the deed doue on the 4th of January in Louis iana, constituted a gross and mani fest violation of the Constitution and law; an act indicating a spirit in our Government which either ignores the Constitution and laws, or so in terprets them that they cease to be a safeguard of independent legislation and the rights and liberties of the people; and this spirit shows itself more alarmingly still in the instru ment the Executive has chosen to carry out his will. No American citizen could have read, without pro found regret and apprehension, the recent dispatch from General Sheri dan to the Secretary of War. sug gesting that a numerous class of citizens should by wholesale be out lawed as banditti by the mere proc lamation of the President, to be delivered over to a military com mander for summary judgment by a military commission. The question was asked on every hand, if such thing could be done in Louisiana, how long before they could be done in other States, or in the House of the Nation's Represen tatives? He commented upon affairs iu the South, and criticised the leg islation of Congress, as having had a bad effect on Southern partisans, who had come to look upon the Pres ident and Congress as their natural allies and sworn protectors, bound to sustain them iu power by what ever means. Referring to the War-moth-Ivellogg . quarrel, he says: " Your Casey s and Packards carried off State Senators on a United States revenue cutter, atd shut up the Re publican Governor in the Custom house, guarded by United States soldiers to keep out another Repub lican faction. Nay, more; this same Packard, a United States Marshal during the last election, managed the Kellogg campaign, and also the movements of United Stsites troojis, to keeji his 2olitical opponents from intimidating his political friends; whi e the Department of Justice of the United States appeared more like a centra bureau for the regula tion of State elections." Speaking of the colored people, he said he would hail the day as a most auspi cious one for them, when they threw off the scandalous leadership of those adventurers, who, taking advantage of their ignorance, made them tools for their rapacity. He declared that the people of the South were not murderers and banditti. There were bad elements among them, but the National Government itself was giv ing these bad elements strength by its unconstitutional proceedings. He argued that Virginia, North Car olina and Georgia, where self-government was unobstructed, were advancing in prosperity, while in Louisiana and other States is a simi lar political condition there was no prosperity. Lawlessness of power was becoming far more dangerous than the lawlessness of mobs. Re ferring to lawlessness and the alleged intimidation of voters in the South, he condemned everything of the kind, but asserted that it was not all on one side; and in this connec tion referred to the discharge of Gov ernment employees solely for politi cal reasons, and argued that when the National Government champions intimidation, we need not be surpris ed if partisans on all sides profit by the example. He advised the people of Louisiana to exercise judgment and moderation, and to trust in tlie justice of their cause, and eventually the spirit of peacefnl victory will bury the usurpers under a crushing load of. patriotic indignation. He declared that the people had lost confidence in the truthfulness of those who paraded bloody stories of outrages, because it was too ap parent that they, were merely stage thunder to catch votes. He declared his belief that the Conservatives fairly carried the election, and were defrauded out of the result by the Returning Board, and this act has been sustained by United States soldiers. He hoped his motion to instruct the Judiciary Committee would result in a bill for a new elec tion in Louisiana, with no Sheridan as chief ruler and Packard to conduct the campaign. No measure would avail which did not boldly vindicate the constitutional privilege of the land, and preserve to the State the right of self-government. Square on the Head. General Banks hit a very large-sized nail very square on the head in his Boston lecture when he sa'd that " it is im possible for the North to be prosper ous when a large portion of the country is in a condition of anarchy, and twelve millions of pur people suffer under the invasion of their social and political rights." Put It Off. A Maryland , man whoso wife dropped dead a few days ago, had the funeral put off one day Inn "pr to rt. tho balanrtft rf Via onrn i husked. He said it wouldn't make any differenc-e to her as she was al wavs sbod -natured. A Contrast.,, The reasons which impelled Pres ident Johnson to send General Sheridan away from Louisiana in 1SG7 are those, remarks the New York Sun, which induced General Grant to send him there in 1875. ne had shown an utter disregard of civil authority, trampled the Consti tution under foot, and harrassed the people by every rnethod of torture, until law was subverted and the mil itary ruled supreme. The President knew his presence was hateful to the population, and that in these .eight years Sheridan. has-lotgdforri- opportunity of re venge. Hence he was chosen to car ry out a vindictive policy, which suited the malice of his master and at the same time addressed itself to his personal feelings. It never entered the mind of either that this appointment was a positive reflection on Gen. McDowell, the commander of the Department, and on Gen. Emory, who, for nearly three years past, has personally commanded all the troops in Louisi ana and executed the orders from Washington to the last letter. For what reason have these officers been superceded? Surely, it will not be pretended they have failed in any duty, however irksome, or refused to co-operate in the crushing-out process concocted afc.Washiugton. They even obeyed the Attorney General When the Pres ident assumed to make him Commander-in-Chief cf the Arm-, and to confer ujon him functions which are not transferable by tha Constitution. They perhaps would not falsify the facts, pervert the truth, or givo cheerful support to Kellogg and his usurpation, and hence they were put under the ban, and disgraced as far as the Executive action could do it, liv 1 mm vie t.lirnet naiilo -vriflii-int. n. e.nm- plaint preferred against them or a cause to justify this gross indignity. If they had been swift witnesses to csiluinniate a whole people, and had sympathized with the scoundrels who i tt.i tt nave stolen tne people s money, ine favor of the White House would 1 1 ..4.,- 1 .- r 1 that offered to Sheridan for doing the disgraceful work. In honorable contrast with the brutality of Sheridan shines- out the memorable order No. 40, issued by Gen. Hancock when he took com mand of the Fifth Division, with his head-quarters at New OrleansQ on the 20th of November, 1667. The closing words deserve Jo be written in letters of gold, as a guide for every military officer. " Solemnly impressed with these views, the General announces that the great princijdes of American lib erty are still the lawful inheritanco of this people, and ever should be. Tlie right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus,-the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, tho natural rights of persons, and the rights of prop erty, must be preserved." Who are Your Aristocrats ? Twenty years ago, remarks a co temporary, this one made candles, that one sold cheese and butter, that one butchered, a fourth thrived off a distillery, another was contrac tor of canals, others were merchants and mechanics. They are acquaint ed with both ends of society, as their children will after them, though it would not do to say so out loud, for often you find these toiling worms hatch butterflies and tb.Q live about a year. Death brings a division of property, and it brings new financiers. The old gent is dis charged, and the young . gent takes his revenues, and begins to travel toward poverty, which he reaches before death, or his children do if does not. So that, in fact, though there is a sort of moneyed race it ia not hereditary; it is accessible to all. Three good seasons of cotton will send a generation of men up a score of years will bring them all down and send their children to labor. The father grubs and grows rich; the children riot and spend the money. Their children in turn, in herit the price, and go to shiftless, poverty; next their children, invig orated by fresh plebeian blood, and by the smell of the clod, come u; again. Thus society, like a tree, draws its sap from the earth, changes into leaves, and spreads them abroad in great glory, sheds them off to fall back on the earth, again to mingle with the soil, and at length to re appear in a new dress and fresh gar niture. Not Prejudiced. "Mark Twain" found it necessary to give a descrip tion of an acquaintance, once, and especially desired that nothing iu his description should be understood as indicating prejudice against tho subject he should endeavor to con fine himself to facts; and this is tho array of facts: "A long-legged, vain, light-weight village lawyer, from New Hampshire. If he had brains in proportion to his legs, he would make Solomon seem a failure; if his modesty equalled his ignorance, he would make a violet seem stuck-up; if his learning equal led his vanity, he would make Von Humbolt seem as unlettered as the back-side of a tomb-stone ; if his stature were proportioned to his con science, llfi Wnnlfl Via a tram iY,r. j J --.v M ( j V. ... A W . ,UW rrnioroscope; if his ideas were as largo as nis words, it would take a man three months to walk around one of them; if an audience would contract to listen as long as he would talk,that audience would die of old age; and if he vrere to talk untib he said some thing, he would still be on his hind legs when the last trumpet sounded. And he WOnld bavft r.hf-f1r nnrmrrV. in. wait till the disturbance ras over, 1 and : on araiti," ;'