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VOL. 9.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1875.
NO. 18.
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oKF.uoN lhh:e NO. 3, I. I. o. F
Meets every Thursday ygggfc.
veiiin?;at7r o'clock, m the 5?t
(Kid Fellows Hall. Mam
street. Meiiihersut' tlio Or
der are invited to attend. 15y order
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it 7l nVlneu. in the O ld
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are invited to attend.
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t-iiii'fr to the -nth of March ; ami 7i
o'clock from the :th of Mareh to th"
L'.)t! of S;teinoer. brethren in good
.an Yu arii invited to attend.
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11 til ontii? First and Third Tues- OCT
djv of each month. Patriarchs x
in good stan jin; are invited to attend.
c-TIf1iT e v i !Mi 1 : n r no. c.
it. C. M -ts ;U Odd 1-Vllo.vs' Hall, in Op-triitk-
iirvMii, on Monday evening, at
7 t oVl.j.Vt. M-m'-rs of the ord-r are ni
vit d 11 ;itt-nd. M. ATJlKt , O.
J. .M.U vco.v, U. S. m.t.'Tly
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.1. V. XOUKIS, M. L..
l:iV.-iICI.VX .VXD SI iCGKO.V,
o i: k u o -v a l t r. o u J g o x.
BjT'Kn-" Stairs iu CUarinan's r.riek,
M.na sir r.-t. au-litl".
V. Y. 310 UK LAND,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW;
tIi::iN CITY, OREGON.
V K I f ' 2 OS a i Street, opposite tle
Coud lloute.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW:
03E33N CITY, - OREGON.
uJ-OKKlCE Oharman's brick, Mainst.
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JOHNSON Sl McCOWN
ATTOaNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW.
Oregon G'ity, Oregon.
e-Vill practice in all the Courts of tho
Htaf Special attention given to cases in
the U. S. Iand UJtlce at Oregon City.
5airl37v!-tf.
L. T. BARIN,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
OH EG OX CITY,
OR EG OS.
OFFICE Over Pope's Tin Store, Main
Dr. S. PARKER,
I ATE OF I'OKTliAMD, OFFERS HIS
j services as Physician and Surgeon to
to- people of Clackamas county, who may
t at any time be m need of a phyieian. He
has opened an ottice at Ward A Harding's
; Irug store where ho can be found at all
' .times of the day when not engaged in pro
fessional calls. Residence, Main street,
next dior but one aVove li. Caufield's store.
,,. Octobers. 1st. tf
JOHN 31. HAC0N,
IMPORTER AND DEALER
tr. ivwiics. Stationery. Psrfum-
Or-
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Orrgon City, Oregon.
t rharman fc arnr s old staud
ately occupied by s. Ackeman. Main st.
OREGON CITY BREWERY.
Henry Humbel,
H
iVTVC ITROHAS-
ed the aiMive Hrw- j.
ery wishes to inform the public that he is
now prepared to manufacture - u"'
Uy f LAG BR BI1HR,
as good as can bo obtained anywhere in
the State. Orders solicited and promptly
filled.
OYSTER SALOON
AN D
R E S T AURA MT !
LOUIS SAAL, Proprietor.
M.-ln Street, .... Orfgon City.
OYSTERS WILL BE SERVED FROM
and aft r this date during the Winter
e:iso. The best qualities of
FHEXCH and AMERICAN CANDIES.
Ice for sale In -piantlties to suit.
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Times are hard and money
scarce and I will give every one
the worth of their money. " I
I also keep a full assortment!
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cioiitin-r, '
I. mlcmcar,
Flannel.
Jtlan Wet-i,
And Vnu.
AI-SO
Grnrrrirx,
C'titlerj-,
Je'elry,
Notions,
Musical
Instrument ,
Toy,
Etc,
AT THE
Lowest Prices
For CASH.
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OREGON STEAMSHIP CO.'S
STEAMBOAT NOTICE!
Str. E. ST- COOKE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for PORTLAND
every day Except Sunday, at 7)4 o'clock,
A. M. Iteturning, will leave Portland for
Oregon City at 2h o'clock, P. M.
Str. ALICE.
Will leave OREGON CITY forCORVALLIS
every Monday and Thursday of each week.
Btr. DAYTON,
Will leave OREOON CITY for McMINN-
VILLE, LAFAYETTE and DaYTON. and
an points bet ween, every Monday, W ed
nesday and Friday of each week. Leaves
the Rasin at 8 o'clock, a. m., and connect
with the train at Canemah at 8, A. M.
Sti ALBANY,
Leaves OREGON CITY for HARUISBURO
and ECO EN E and all intermediate points
every week.
Str. Earmie Patton,
leaves OREGON CITY for ALBANY and
all intermediate points bet ween twice ev
ery week. J. D. BILES, Agent.
Oregon City.February. 141. 874.
CALL AND SETTLE.
4 H persons indebted to the undersigned
-m. - for professional services are resiect
fully requested to call and settle their ac
counts to the 1st of January. 1S75. I desire
all my neeounts closed at the beginning of
the New Year, and those knowing them
selves maeoiea win comer a great favor on
me bv maKing early payment.
Jan15tf J. W. NORRIS.
FORSALE.
THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS HIS
premises, in Osego, for sale at a bar
gain, for cash. There is a line duelling
and out building, orchard and about three
acres of land. Finely situated for a board
ing house for the hands employed In the
Iran Works. J. W. CAINE.
Oswego, Srt-1". I71- Sw
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EVY'S.
THOMAS C HARM AN
ESTABLISHES
1S5S.
DESIRES TO INFORM THE CITIZENS
.. of ?Se?J1 ?itJl.and of the Willamette
V alley, that he is still on hand and doinc
business on the old motto, that
A 3imble Six JPence is Setter than a Slow
Shilling.
I have Just returned from San Francisco,
where I purchased 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,
Chlnawarc, Queensware,
Stoneware, Crockery,
Platedware, Glassware,
Jewelry of Various Qualities
And Styles, Clocks and
Watches, Ladies and
Gents' Furnishing
Patent Medicines, Goods, Fancy No-
Rope, Faming tions of Every
Implements of Description
All Kinds, Carpets,
Mattings, Oil
Cloth, Wall Taper, etc..
Of the above list, I can saj- my stock is the
MOST COMPLETE
ever offered in this market, and was seleted
wit h especial care for t he Oregon City t rade.
All of which I now offer for sale at the
Lowest Market Rales.
No use for the ladies, or any one else, to
think of going to Portland to buy goods for
I am Determined to Sell Cheap and not to
allow myself to bo
UNDERSOLD IN THE STATE OF OREGON.
All I ask is a fair chance and quick pay
ments, believing as I do that
Twenty Years Experience
in Oregon City enables me to know the re
quirements of the trade. Come one and all
and see for yourselves that the old stand of
THOMAS CI I ARM AN
cannot be beaten in quality or price. It
would be useless for me to tell you all the
advantages 1 can offer you in the sale of
goods, as every store that advertises does
that, and probably you have been disap
pointed. All I wish to say is
Come, and Scc.and Examine for Yourselves
for I do no wish to make any mistakes.
My object is to tell all my old friends now
that I am still alive, and desirous to sell
Koods cheap, for cash, or upon such terms
as agreed upon. Thanking all for the liber
al patronage heretofore bestowed.
. THOS. CHAItMAN,
Main Street, Oregon City,
Ijegal Tenders and County Scrip taken at
market rates. THOS. CHAItMAN.
67-50,000 lbs wool wanted bv
THOS. CHARMAN.
FALL 1674,
Is your time to buy goods at low prices.
AGKERMAH BROTHERS
are now receiving a large stock of
FALL & WINTER GOODS,
.all of the Latest Styles, which will sell
AT LESS THAN PORTLAND PRICES.
Our stock has been bought for cash, and
we will sell it at a small advance above
SAN FRANCISCO COST.
TlfE WILL SAT TO EVERYBODY BE
IT fore you purchase or go to Portland,
come and pric our goods and convince
yourself that we do what we aj Our stock
consists in part oi
Fancy a'nd Staple
Dry Goods, Clothing,
Hats, Boots and Shoes,
Ladies and Gents
Furnishing Goods,
Notions, Grocer-
ies. Hard
ware
and a great many other articles too numer-
ours to mention ;
ALSO
DOORS, WINDOWS,
PAINTS AND OILS,
ETC., ETC.
We will also pay the Highest Market
Price for
Country Produce.
ACKERMAN BROS.
Oregon City. Sept. 11, 1S74. tf
An Able Message.
Governor Parker, of New Jersey,
transmitted an able message to the
Legislature of that State on the 13th
inst. In this document he argues
the Louisiana question in an able
and patriotic manner, and his remarks
should be read by all lovers of our
country. "We produce that portion
of his message, which is as follows:
The recent violation of the Federal
Constitution in a sister State strikes
at the very existence of State sover
eignty. An unlawful blow cannot
be inflicted on one folate by the ed-
eral power without all feeling its
effects. When the reserved rights
of one were encroached upon the cit
izens of every State are interested.
Without giving in detail the un
constitutional proceedings recently
had in Louisiana, to which allusion
has been made, and with which you
are familiar, it is sufficient to state
that armed soldier3 of the United
States invaded the State Capitol, en-
ered the very hall in which one
branch of the Legislature was in ses
sion and forcibly ejected members of
the body from the seat3 to which
they had been admitted by a vote of
the House to which they had been
elected and their right to member
ship referred : and that the same sol
diers surrounding the Speaker's chair
in close proximity, by the intimida
tion of their presence in military
dress and equipment, did drive the
body from the legislative hall pro
vided by law for their deliberations.
At the time of this transaction, un
precedented in this country,, there
was no invasion, insurrection or do
mestic violence existing there, and
the Legislature, having the right to
determine upon the election and
qualification of its members, had ex
ercised the right, and was in peacea
ble session engaged in its legitimate
business. '
That such action was a clear viola
tion of the Constitution needs no ar
gument. A mere statement of a few
fundamental principles which lay at
the foundation of our system of gov
ernment, and which are so plain as
to have become axioms, is all that is
necessary. The first great truth bear
ing upon the question is, that the
United States Government is the
creation of the States; that it has no
power accept that which was be
stowed upon it by the States, and
that all powers not delegated are re
served to the States and the people
thereof. The delegated powers giv
en to the General Government are
expressed in tho Constitution. 'An
other important fact is that the sov
ereignty of a State is complete and
real in its proper sphere, and from
this it follows that it is the duty of
the several States, as well as of the
United States, to assert and main
tain, in a constitutional manner, tbeir
several rights. The. student of the
Constitution will also observe that
its f ramers, fearing the encroachment
of the ceutral crovernment on the
rights of the States, were jealous of
military power and hence threw
around its exercise such guards and
restrictions as made it subordinate
to the civil power. Before the army
of the United States can lawfully be
usedin any of the States when there
is no invasion, there must be insur
rection or domestic violence; and
also, on application for troops from
the proper civil authority of the
State. The right of such application
is in the Legislature. If the Legis
lature is not in session, the Governor
connot apply, unless he call upon
the Legislature to convene, then,
and not until then, has a Governor
the right to call Federal soldiers into
his State.
The Legislature could have been
convened. In fact, on that day it
was in session: and the extraordinarv
spectacle was presented of the United
States Army dispersinp; by force the
very body without whose application
not a single soldier had the right to
be there. There was no insurrection
or domestic violence; there was no
riot; it was not a mob that was dis
persed and driven out by the bayo
net, but it was the Legislative Assem
blv of a sovereign State. That was
no ordinary invasion of constitution
al rights, but a stab at local self-gov
firnmfint in a vital nart. It was a
direct violation of the Constitution
in its most important feature, imper
iling the rights of the States and the
liberties of the citizen.
Nearly forty years ago, in address
ing the people of this country upon
his voluntary retirement from the
Fresidencv and from public life, the
great soldier and statesman, whose
name stands next to Washington's
on the roll of American heroes, used
the following language, every sen
tence of which should be engraved
on the minds of those who desire the
preservation of our form of Govern
ment: "The legitimate authority of
the General Government is abun
dantly sufficient for all the purposes
for which it was created; and its
powers being justly enumerated there
can be no justification for claiming
anything beyond them. Every at
tempt to exercise power beyond these
limits should be promptly and firmly
opposed. One evil example will lead
to others still more mischievious
and if the principle of constructive
powers, or supposed advantages, or
temporary circumstances shall ever
be permitted to justify the assump
tion of power not given by the Con
stitution, the General Government
will absorb all the powers of legisfo
tion and vou will have in effect but
the consolidated government. Every
friend of our free institutions shoul
always be prepared to maintain, unim
paired and in full vigor, the rights
and sovereignty of the States, and to
connne the action of the Genera
Government strictly to the sphere o
its appropriate duties.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
R TTCT TTV P. ftT.TEnRNTft
State Finances
From the Salem Mercury.
Several of our Republican cotem-
poraries have made reference to the
present liabilities of the State as so
much indebtedness created by a
Democratic administration. They
ignore the fact that there were large
labilities left over from the Wood s
administration for his successor to
pay; that May embezzled $15,000;
that the State had worse than no
penitentiary; that more than a quar
ter of a million dollars have been
judiciously expended on necessary
public buildings, no building tax
has been levied, and all these mon
eys have beer drawn from funds
raised for current expenses of the
State only. They do not take into
account that in the ordinary expen
ses of the present Administration
are included more than double the
objects of expenditure, than were
met by the Woods Administration;
such as support of the Agricultural
College, Institution for the Blind,
the Mutes, and Indigent Orphans,
tug boat subsidies, the increased
labors of the Board of School Land
Commissioners, the Eastern Oregon
Land Office, Health offices at Astoria
and Empire City, the Office of Su
perintendent of Public Instruction,
the State Geologist, the increased
compensation of Judges of the Su
preme Court, and other new and nec
essary public expenses which taken
in the aggregate amount to more
than the entire compensation of all
the State officials who held the offi
ces which were in existence when
Gibbs and Woods were in office.
During all this time, while more
than doable the objects of expendi
tures have been created by the Leg
islature, and have been necessary to
our progress and honor as a State,
no means whatever have been pro
vided to meet the increased expenses.
A four mill tax is all that has been
collected for current resources of the
State. To make this meagre allow
ance cover the general expenditures,
all expenses within control of the
Executive, have been most closely
administered. The Penitentiary
does not now cost one-third the
amount per convict that it did dur
ing any former Administration and
the prison is on the road of self-sup
port. The expenses of keeping the
insane have been greatly reduced.
At the meeting of the next Legis
lature, the session will be held in
the new State House, and all expen
ses for rents of public buildings will
be cut off.
The current expenses as they now
stand are within the current resources
of the State. The Legislature must
cease making appropriations without
providing means by revenue to cover
them, general appropriation bills
caunot be vetoed without stopping
the wheels of government. It is the
work of the people's Representatives
to make retrenchments, and the work
of administrative officers to keep
within their allowances. To the
credit of our State officers, we can
say that this has been faithfully done.
Ir. is undoubtedly the policy of our
State Constitution that there shall be
no public debt at all.
The late decisions of our Supreme
Court will tend to strengthen the
spines of future Legislative bodies in
doing their duties in two directionsi
1st, they must not make appropria
tions without knowing where the
money is coming from with which to
pay the warrants issued under them;
and 2d, they must provide resources
sufficient to cover their appropria
tions or the warrants drawn under
them will not be paid. These rules
strictly carried out will give an ex
cellent tone to our finances. There
should be no difficulty in maintain
ing this healthy policy.
His Faults.
TherYreka Union, speaking of the
election of Andy Johnson to the
Senate, expresses our views in the
following extract:
Judging by the past history and
his relation to parties, we are forced
to conviction that whatever political
party shall confide in him will be
liable to disappointment. Is Johnson
then dishonest and treacherous? We
do not think so. He has a strong,
impulsive irascible nature; but a
nnfnrfl nnnrlv balanced. Ill COUSO-
qnence of this, he is liable at any
X .. v , TT
moment to ny on at a tangent, jie
goes to the Senate nominally a Dem
ocrat; we hope ho may find himself
there in harmony with the leading
members of the party, and labor
shoulder to shoulder with them in
their efforts to bring the Govern
ment back to its normal and consti
tutional sphere of action. If, how
ever, we see him kicking out of the
traces, we shall not be greatly sur
prised. Hits the Nail on the Head. The
Boston Advertiser hits the nail on the
head when it remarks that Sheridan
"seems to be laboring under the im
pression that the government is at war
with t.hft rnrlfl and his LnAi'npss "
to find pretexts for prosecuting it
"Xl Al- 1. J. ?
wim vue greatest vigor.
Axti-Pf.oiiibition. The vote of
the members of the Massachusetts
Legislature shows that there is
clear majority in favor of the repeal
of the prohibitory law in both
branches.
The man who is kind and polite to
nis mother-in-law has reached Ticks
burg, and is an object of general cu
riosity to the people there.
The key to an uncertain jrait
yy niB-KPV.
The Niobe of States
The Richmond Enquirer calls
Louisiana "the Niobe of States," to
which the Examiner replies that there
is a great deal of aptness in the simile,
for neither Greece in the hands of
the Turks, Poland under the foot of
the Russian, or Ireland ground down
by the heel of England, ever pre
sented so piteous a spectacle as Lou
isiana struggling in the coils of the
Radical anaconda, and seeking hero
ically to free herself from its sinewy
folds. For two years now the unfor
tunate State has been undergoing all
the perils of a state of seige in war.
Her people have been in a beleaguer
ed garrison, hemmed in on all sides
by enemies, bent npon starving them
into conditions of surrender. They
have made repeated sorties, but all
in vain, as it resulted only in the
sacrifice of valuable lives without a
single advantage. Things have been
going on thus, from bad to worse,
until now they have reached a condi
tion where it matters little what
change may take place it cannot
but be for the better. The general
government and General Grant, who
uses and abuses the power of that
government is wholly responsible for
this condition of affairs, and he cannot
escape the odium it will bring upon
his Administration. He has not the
shadow of an excuse for keeping the
people of that State under the muzles
of his guns or pinned to the earth by
his bayonets, while thieves are plun
dering them in the name of the Rad
ical party. Had he turned the gov
ernment over to the real people even
two years ago. not to say long before
that time, all these fearful scenes of
disorder, anarchy and blood, would
have been spared us, and the people
of that fair State, which has been
looked upon in times past as one of
the proudest stars in our constella
tion one of the brightest gems in
the crown of our American empire
would now be happy, prosperous
and contented under the rule of a
local government of their own choice
and own choosing; but partisan am
bition and hate have both stood in
the way of this solution to the ques
tion and what are the consequences?
Let the sad story of tumult and dis
order that comes to us with its daily
repetition of horrors, by each mail,
or faster still, over the wires each
morning, answer. All there and
everywhere in the country is anxiety
and fear There is a feverish dread
of something about to happen, a
nameless apprehension that at any
moment a frightful tragedy may be
enacted that will again drench the
streets of Crescent City with blood.
We all feel that the fires of a volcano
are seeking ta break through the
thin crust, and bring disaster and
death upon this fair city of the South,
and in place of the mimic revelry of
the gay and gladsome carnival, we
look for a carnival of death.
We Coucur.
The San Francisco Chronicle gives
the following in regard to the Beech-
er-Tilton nastiness, in which we
most heartily concur:
The whole business from the be
ginning to the ending, is unadulter
ated nastiness, growing out of mor
bid and unsound moral and mental
organizations. There is not a single
honest, healthy-minded man or wo
man in the whole bad, weak and
wicked lot. The scandal printed in
ten thousand journals, to reach hun
dreds of thousands of fire-sides, to
be read by a million boys and girls,
las done more to injure and corrupt
the morals of tbis nation than ten
thousand Beechers could undo in
ten thousand years. True religion
has received a blow from tbis most
gifted, fashionable and sensational
preacher, from which it will not
easily recover.
If Plymouth Church had been
burned ten years ago and its talented
preacher had taken to the stage, it
would have been better for both re
ligion and the drama. Religion
would have been spared an immense
scandal and the stage would have
had to bear the burden of only one
more actor of questionable morals.
Beecher's dramatic powers would, to
the theatre-going public, have, in a
measure, excused his personal char
acter.
Worth About as Much. The
Examiner says that a scientific exper
imentalist boasts of having broueht
to life a dead dog by injecting into
his veins blood freshly drawn from a
living canine. The resurrected dog
got on his feet again, wiggled his
tail a little, and barked some, but he
laid down and died again the next
day. This experiment is of a niece.
and is worth about as much, in this
throbbing busy world of realities, as
the attempt to keep the Kellogg gov
ernment on its pins by iniectiner the
military. The subject doed resurrect,
walks a little, agitates its tail and
barks some, but it is only born again
to a speedy, ignoble death.
It must make a man feel mean to
pay an old debt because he thinks he
is going to die, and then have the
doctor pull him through all right.
It has been cold enough in Kansas
to freeze whiskey, and some of the
drunkards there have become solid
men.
"Cheap and hungry dances" are a
Vermont institution. There are no
refreshments and tbo fun stops t 12
o'clock. ' -
The Alden Dryer Best So Far.
According to the California Alia.
highly favorable reports come from
all the Alden drying houses; whilo
the other methods of artificial dessi
cation are either failures, successful
in a minor degree, or not sufficiently
tried to establish their value. The
inventors usually claim high merits
for their plans, but no method of ar
tificial drying, save the Alden. ha3
been extensively adopted or is gen
erally known even by name in Cali
fornia. In reference to the Alden
dryer at Sonoma, the Healdsbarg
Flag says: ...
It is the intention to start the fac
tory thi3 year by the first of April.
The Company have contracted with
Gen. Valejo and others for large
quantities of green peas at 37 50
per ton, delivered at ine iactory.
They will run on peas until fruit is
sufficiently ripe, lhey have also
contracted for a large snpply of to
matoes and onions, and, if practica
ble, will add potatoes to the list of
their products, hoping thereby to
continue running the year round.
Ihe ruling
price paid for apples delivered at the
factory, last year, was $10 per ton;
pears, 12; plums, $12 to $2J. The
factory now has three evaporators,
and can cure six tons of peas, four
and one-half tons of apples or peach
es, three and one-half tons of pears,
or three tons of plums every twenty
four hours.
Mr. W. H. Schuyler furnishes the
Prairie Farmer the following figures
of a run of 31 days by the Alden fac
tory, at Niles Michigan. From
Sept. 30th, to Nov. Gth, 1874.
I evaporated 5,710 bushels of ap
ples, which cost 2,388 65 or -41 5-6
cents per bushel. The fuel cost
$332 25, and the labor for receiving,
evaporating, packing and packages,
and repairs, and incidentals, cost
$1,990 60. Total cost, $1,701 52.
The yield was 33,960 pounds of
Alden apples, and 21,970 pounds of
evaporated cores and skins, or 5,930
pounds evaporated product.
The cores and skins were sold to
Alden Jelly Works, at New York,
for $1,134 82 net cash, at factory.
This left the net cost of the 33,960
pounds evaporated fruit packed
ready for shipment, $3,560 70 or 10
cents per pound. They were sold
for 17 cents net cash.
Poor but Pious.
e
One of the most striking examples
of-the demoralizing effects of the
political atmosphere now existing in
Washington js afforded in the un
happy case of Brother Harlan, the
able editor of the Washington Chron
icle, remarks the Examiner. It is but
comparatively a few years ago Broth
er Harlan was a respectable Metho
dist preacher poor but pious. But
he drifted to Washington, became
Senator and Secretary of the Interi-
or, grew rich in office, and as his
wealth increased, the New York Sun
mourns to say, his conecience be
came blunted and seared. Instead of
raising his voice to rebuke sinners in
high places he became a most obse
quious defender of "Boss" Grant and
" Boss" Shephard, and his journal
can be relied upon to advocate any
Congressional job which will pay.
Not only this, but strict Methodist
as he 6till professes to be, his acquir
ed love of lucre leads him to disre
gard the proper observance of tho
Christian Sabbath, and he has re
cently resorted to the use of pictures
in his newspaper on the Lord's dayo
in order to tempt small boys to en
gage in traffic in the Sunday Chron
icle. Indeed, he boasts of success iu
this, and says that one Sunday, in q
consequence of the pictorial feature,
the news-boys became so excited
over their sales as to require the in
terposition of the police to keep them
in order. Alas! alas!
An iNSxriiT. It is stated that Gen.
Sherman is indignant that the Presi
dent should order Lieutenat General
Sheridan to New Orleans in antici
pation of difficulties occurring there
which rray render necessary the
presence of an officer of higher grade
than Gen. Emory. Sherman thinks
that the General of the Army, instead
of the Lieutenant-General, is the
man who should have been entrusted
with this mission, and it is said that
he regards the action of the Presi
dent as a slight intentionally put up
on him. The General of the Army
forgets, remarks the New York Sun,
that he forfeited the confidence of
the Administration by the spirit of
insubordination he showed in refus
ing to tako part in the extraordinary
promotion of the heir apparent over
the heads of the deserving onicers
who had seen active service. A want
of respect for any one of the Grant
family, if it is only a third cousin of
a brother-in-law, is regarded as an
offense against the United States un
der this administration, and will not
be tolerated in any person.
"Oh, pa, there goes an editor!"
"Hush, my son," said the father;
"don't make sport of a poor man
God only knows what you may come
to yet!"
Forty girls will jun after a snob
with a gold-headed cane, where one
will shy up to a fellow with sound
horse sense.
"Is that cheese
rich?" asked
"Yes," was the
Blogs of his grocer
candid reply, "there's millions in it."
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