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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON.
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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1875.
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SOCJTY NOTICES.
OREGON ljfui-: NO. 3, I. I. o. I'.,
Met eve y
Thursday
Odd Fellow Hall. Mam ;giw--
street. Member of tho Or-
Ur aro invit-. t attend, liv ord;r
KliBi'CCA IHISUUISR 1,01 Hi IS NO.
X. I. O. O. F.. MecU on the J-
Second ami Fourth I ties- AiZJU
dai' nveiiinH each month, Tglj?y
at ' o'clock, in the Odd
Fellow Hall. Membenjof the Decree
mj'u invited to attend.
M'LT.VOMAII l.OIK'L XO. I, A.F.
A A. M-. Holds its regular eoni- A
iiiuiiieations on the First and
Tuird Saturdays in each month,
at 7 o'clock from theiroth of Sup.
UfoV-wtr to the iSrth of March; and 7'i
o'clock from th :Uth of March to the
3tu 4f September. ISrethreii iir goo I
Muling are iuvited to attend.
iiy order; of W. M.
Cr.4l.L1 KKC.4MPMUXT NO. 1,1. O.
O. F., Meets at O i l Fellows'
1111 on the First and Third Tin- vl
dv of a :h month. Patriarch
in r ! fstandias are inv ited to attend.
CJ.Ii'i' K'C4MlMi:ST NO. If, C
It c. M t at OJ 1 K-IloA-s- Hall, in Or
Kj ( .'iiv -.Ir-'.ia, on M-mday evening, at
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QTTICIAL PER FOR CLACXAMAS CO.
HFflCPJ-llEMTitRPRiSE Building, one
rrJul-aortJonlclJaiiaius. Main at.
c J. W. NOUH1S. M. I..
1'iiVSlClAN ANi) Sil'EltiEUN,
ok is a o -v t r r, o it a a o x.
. jUroiTlw tT-St Airs in C'iiarman's l'.rick..
W. Y. 310 UE LAM),
ATTORN EY-AT-L AW;
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OPKiCK-Maia Street, opposite tle
Court lluuw.
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ATTORN EY-AT-L AW:
Ol30i4 CITY, - - 0E30N.
IKICE Charman'shriek, Main st.
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ITIiJliCYS kd COUSSELOHS AT-LAW.
Oregon City, Oregon.
fc-Vill practlf.; in all tlif Courts of the
Stat-. Special arltontlun q;iviu to cas'-'S in
the U. S. Uud tf!ice at Or on City.
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attorWey-at-law,
OREGON CI'i V, : : OREGON.
OFFICE Over Pope's Tin Storo, Main
trcct. .21mar"3-tf.
Dr. S, PARKER,
LATK OF FORTr.AMI. OFFERS HIS
erTice as Physician ami SuriPnn to
tlia people of Clackamas county, who may
t any tiin be in need of a pliysicinn. He
Ja oned an oirlce at Ward A Harding's
1 IriiiJ Store wlire ho can Ik found at all
tlni"5 of the u:iy when not ensaced in pr
(ional calls. Residence, Main Street,
fxt door but one above R. Cauflcld's store'
Orto'oer 23. 1ST4. tf
JOHN 31. 1JAC0X,
IMPORTER AND DEALER jtfl
In ilooks, Stationery, Pwrtuiu- s
mtv etc.. etc.
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Orejjfore City, Oregon.
A. d.ham-kll .0 WarnPf'C n!l ennJ
tely occupied by s. Ackeman, Main st.
OREGON CITY BREWERY.
Henry Humbcl,
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AVI.Vli PITRCIIAS-
ed the alxive Iirew-
ery wishes to inform the public that he is
now prepared to manufacture a No. 1 qual
ity of
, A GBR B BBR,
s good as can bo obtained anywhere in
th State. Orders solicited and promptly
fllled.
OYSTER SALOON
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HESTAURAMT!
LOUIS SAAL, Proprietor.
Malt, street, - - - - Oregon City.
("VYSTERS WIT.I, RE SERVED FROM
.V; nd after this date during the Winter
season. The best qualities of
FRENCH and AMERICAN CANDIES,
-cs for iale in Amities to txU.
A Representative and Champion of Amer
ican Art Taste!
Prospectus for 1875 Eighth Year.
T2IE ALlIiVI2,
THK ART JOIBX.4L OP A3IEUICA,
Issued Monthly.
"A Magnificent Conception, Wonderfully
carried out."
The necessity of a popular medium for
the representation of the productions of
onrpreat artists, has always been recog
nized, and many attempts have been
made to meet the want. The successive
failures which so Invariable followed each
attempt in this country to establish an
art journal, did not prove the indifference
of the American people to the claims of
hijrh art. So soon as a proper appreciation
of the want and an ability to meet it were
shown, the public at once ralied with en
thusiasm to its support, and the result was
a "Treat artistic and commercial triumph
THE AI.DIXE.
THE ALDING, while issued with all the
regularity, has none of the temporary or
timely interest characteristic of ordinarv
periodicals. It Is an elegant miscellany of
pure, light, and praeeful literature ; and a
collection of pictures, the rarest sjxclmens
of artistic skill, in black and white. Al
though each succeeding number airords a
fresh pleasure fo'its friends, the real value
and beauty of The Aldine will be most ap
preciated after it is bound up at the close
ole year. While other publications
uul cuiiin't Hld ill filiw ' " 1.I not
H)ssessor of a complete vol'J me cou..
duplicate the quantity of fine paper ftin.
en-cravings in any other shape or number
of volumes for ten times its cost ; and then
there is the chromo besides!
I HEMI U r lO Tl 1S75.
Everj- subscrib'r for 1875 will receive a
beautiful portrait, in oil colors, of t he sa me
noble do whose picture in a former issue
attracted so much attention.
" Man's l' nsi'lfisli Fricnil"
will be welcome in every home. Every
body loves such a dog, ami the pfrtr:iit is
executed so true to tin; life, that it seems
the veritable pr-'sence of t he animal its--lf.
The li - v. T. De Wit Talmae t4-IIsth.it his
own N-v l-'oundland d( (the tiaest in
ISrookiyn) harks at it .' and though so nat
urarT'io 4ne who sees this premium chro
mo will have tiie slightest fear of being
bitten.
Hesid-s the chromo, .every advance sub
scriber to The Ai(lii lor 1ST) is constituted
a mem ber, arid entitl-4l to all the privil
eges of 1
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in-rs and engravings, are to be distributed
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TERMS.
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ALOIN'K urn- year, tU ( liromu
und tli4- Art lTtiiu,
per Annum, in Advance.
(X4 charge for postage.)
Spec-imi-n copies of THK AL.1JIXE, oOc.
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THE ALDINE C031PANT,
.SM.I1)I' I.AXK, NOV YOKi.
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I now 4fT r t his stock of Goods
at Prices far b--low any other
lions' in the State.
j Times are Inrti aii4l money
scarce and I will ive every one
the worth of their money.
I I also keep a full assortment
of
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Grorrrii'i,
Cutlery,
Jtv"lry,
Votixia,
Musical
Instruments,
Toys,
Etc.,
AT TIIE
Lowest Prices
For GASH.
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OREGON STEAMSHIP GO.'S
STEAMBOAT NOTICE !
Stv. E. 1ST. COOKE,
Will Ioave OREGON CITV for PORTLAND
every day Except Sunday, 1 at 74 o'clock,
A. M. Returning, will leave Portland for
Oregon City at 2!S o'clock, I. M.
Stv. ALICE,
Will leave OREGON CITY for CORVAT,LIS
every Monday and Thursday of each week.
ftti DAYTON,
Will leave OREGON CITY for McMINN
Vll.I.E, I A FAYETTE and DaYTON, and
all points between, everv Mondav, Wed
nesday and Friday of each week. Ix-aves
t he P,asin at 8 o'clock, A. M., and C4nnect
with the train at Canemah at 9, a. m.
Sti ALBANY,
""ves OREGON CITY for HARRISHURG
ana KL GENE and all intermediate points
every week.
Str. Fannie Patton,
anTn,011 eGX CITY for A ERA NY and
ril. Vnedwvte Ioints between twice ev-
OnVityji AKDt-
CALL AND SETTLE.
V't-iTTSSr in,'f,w"" to the undersigned
for profess,onal services are resnect
fully requested to call and sttle th Mr ac
counts to the lst of January. lsTo I desire
all my accounts closed at the beiinnine of
the New ear. and those knowing them
selves indbted will confer a great favor
me by making early pavment
inmr J. W.'xoRRig,
FORSALE.
rpiIE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS His
X fir.mises, in swego, for sale at a bar
gain, for cash. There is a fine dwelling
and out buildings, orchard and about three
acres of land. Finely situated for a board
ing house for the hands emploved in the
Iron Works. J. W. CAINE.
Oswego, Sept. Id, 1874. 3w
, rlVa o.l.l.K.l Irt-TI.T. J. tic
i. o -je an."" original conception-
Is an uniq.'O diiu -abolutel v with
alone and unap,.ichiv - "iur'.C
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THOMAS CHARMAN
ESTABLISHES
1853.
DESrRES TO INFYJRM TTIE CITIZENS
of Oregon City and of the Willamette
alley, that he is still on hand and doing
business on the old motto, that
A Ximbl Six Fence is Better than a Stow
Shilling.
I have just returned from San Francisco,
where I purchased one of tho
LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED
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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 D4ors,
Chinaware, Queensware,
Stoneware, Crockery,
Platedware, Glassware,
Jewelry of Various QuHties
AnI Styles, Clocks and
Watches, Eadles and
Gents Furnishing
Patent Medicines, Gtnxls, 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 say my stock is the
M O H T COMPLETE
ever offered in this market, and was seleted
with esjecial care fir t he Oregon City trade.
VII of which I now olfcr lor sale at the
Lowest Market Rates.
'VrA nra f ry t Y r Inline " n r xr Ann aIca r
t hink of jicoiny: to Portland to buy oods for
A Hill J 'f t w'.rtiixrtrf i ot it twiu iiyjv
mow 1113 LU U
IXDERSOLD IX TIIE 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
quireinnts of the trade, (tome one and all
and sc.-e for yourselves that the old stand 4f
THOMAS CHARMAN
cannot be beaten In quality or price. It
would be us'dess for mi to tell you all the
advantages I can otter you in the sale of
iroods, as every store that advertises does
that, and probably you have been disap
pointed. . All I wish to say is
How.?, and S:T,nntl Examine for Vonrsrlves
for I do no wish to make any mistakes.
My object is to tell all my oUl friends now
that I am still alive, and desirous to sell
goods cheap, for cash, or upon such terms
as agreed ujKin. Thanking all for the liber
al patronage heretofore bestowed.
THOS. CHARMAN,
Main Street, Oregon City,
Igal Tenders and Count v Scrip taken at
market rates. THOS. CHARMAN.
BC7-50,000 lbs wool wanted by
THOS. CHARMAN.
FALL 1674r
Is your time to buy goods at low prices.
ACKER&IAN 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.
"IlfE WJEE SAT TO EVERYBODY RE
TT fore you purchase or go to Port land,
come and price our gxds and convince
yourself that we do what we say. Our stock
consists in part of
Fancy and Staple
Dry Goocls, Clothing,
Hats, Boots and Shoes,
Ladies and Gents
Furnishing Goods,
Notions, Grocer-
les, 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 nighest Market
Price for
Country Produce.
A-CKERMAN BROS.
Oregon City, Serf- H l"4- il
Civil Right? Bill.
"YVe give below the full text of the
Civil Rights Bill, which has passed
the House:
Section 1. That all persons within
the jurisdiction of the United States
shall be entitled to the full and equal
enjoyment of all accommodations,
advantages, facilities and privileges
of inns, public conveyances on land
or water, theatres and other places of
public amusements subject only to
the conditions and limiUlions estab
lished by law and applicable alike to
citizens of every race and color, re
gardless of any previous condition of
servitude. '
Sec. 2. That any person who shall
violate the foregoing section by de
nying to any citizens, except for rea
sons by law applicable to citizens of
every race and color, regardless of
any previous condition of servitude,
the full enjoyment of any of the ac
commodations, advantages, facilities
or privileges in said section enumer
ated, or by aiding or inciting such
denial, shall for every such offense
forfeit and pay the sum of $500 to
the person aggrieved thereby, to be
recovered in an action of debt with
full costs, and shall also for every
such offense be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than
500 nor more than 1,000, or shall
be imprisoned not less than thirty
days nor more than one year. Pro
vided, that all persons may elect to
sue for the penalty aforesaid, or to
proceed under their rights at com
mon i2xy and by btate statutes and
having so elected to proceed in one
mode or the other", their right to
proceed in tho other jurisdiction
shall bo barred. But this proviso
shall not apply to criminal proceed
ings either under this act or the
criminal law of any State; provided,
further, that a judgment for the pen
alty in favor of the party aggrieved
or a judgment upon an indictment
shall be a bar to either prosecution
respectively.
Sec. 3. That the District and Cir
cuit Courts of the United States
shall have, exclusively of the courts
of the several States, cognizance of
all crimes and offenses against the
violations of the provisions of this
act, and actions for the penalty given
by the preceeding section may be
prosecuted iu the Territorial District
or Circuit courts of the United States
whenever the defendant may be found
without regard to the other part;
and the District Attorneys, Marshals
and Deputy Marshals of the United
States, and the Commissioners ap
pointed by the Circuit and Territor
ial courts of the United States with
powers of arresting and imprisoning
or bailing offenders against the laws
of the United States are hereby es
pecially authorized and required to
institute proceedings against every
person who shall violate the proceed
ings of this act and cause him to be
arrested and imprisoned, or bailed,
as the case may lie, for trial before
such court of the United States, or
Territorial court, as by law has cog
nizance of the offense, except in re
spect of the right action accruing to
the person aggrieved, and such Dis
trict Attorney shall cause such pro
ceedings to be prosecuted to their
termination, as in other cases, pro
vided that nothing contained in this
section shall bo construed to deny or
defeatfany right of civil action ac
cruing to any person, whether by rea
son of this act or otherwise. And
any District Attorney who shall wil
fully f il to institute and prosecute
the proceedings herein required,
shall, for every such offense, forfeit
and pay the sum of 500 to the per
son aggrieved thereby, to be recov
ered by an action of debt, with full
costs, and shall, on conviction there
of, be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, to be fined not less than
$1,000, nor more than $5,000. But
provided further, that a judgment
for the penalty, in favor of the party
aggrieved, against'any such District
Attorney, or a judgment upon any
indictment against any such District
Attorney, shall be a bar to either
prosecution respectively.
Sec. 4. That no citizen possessing
all other qualifications which are or
may be prescribed by law shall be
disqualified for service as a grand or
petit juror in any court of the United
States, or of any State, on account of
race, color, or previons condition of
servitude. And any officer or other
person charged with any duty in the
selection or summoning of jurors,
who shall exclude or fail to summon
any citizen for the cause aforesaid,
shall on conviction thereof be deem
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be
fined not more than $5,000.
Sec. 5. That all cases arising under
the provisions of this act in the courts
of the United States shall be review
able by the Supreme Court of the
United States without regard to the
sum in controversy under the same
provisions and regulations as are
now provided by law for the review
of the causes in said court.
Ltfe's Actcmx. Liike the rose,
life has its fading. "We speak and
think of it with sadness, just as we
think of the autumn season. But
there shouhl be no sadness at the
fading of a life that has done well its
work. If we rejoice at the advent of
a new life, if welcome the coming of
a new pilgrim to the uncertainties of
this world's ways, why should there
be so much gloom when all these
uncertainties are past, and a life at
its waning wears the glories of a
completed task? Beautiful as is
childhood in its freshness and inno
cence, its beauty is that of untried
life. It is the beauty of promise, of
spring of the bud. A holier and
rarer beauty is that which the wan
ing life of faith and duty wear.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.
Andrew Johnson.
As Pliographcd by Henry Watterson.
Courier-Journal Editorial, January 29.
Andrew Johnson has never been a
drunkard, nor, excepting the war
period, what can fairly be called a
drinking man. Now and then he
takes a glass too much, and on such
occasions has been especially unlucky
in having his excesses made absurde
ly luminous, as when he was inau
gurated Vice President, and when
he was called out in Nashville a few
years ago by the Greec Line excur
sionists. In the main, however, he
is a hard-working man, not given to
vicious irregularities, self-contained,
dignified, and, though reserved,
courteous. No man possessed of
more empressement ever occupied the
"White House. He was in aspect, in
gait, in conversation,
EVERY INCH A PRESIDENT.
The expectation raised up by the
re-entrance of this remarkable man
upon the stage of political action i3
likely to be disappointed. Andrew
Johnson is a medley of contraries,
and, satisfied by the vindication he
has thus far sustained, there is no
knowing where he will light when he
falls into the -Senate. He is not a
wit. He is not an exceptional de
bater. He is too full of himself to
reap even the ordinary effect of his
blows, which are often powerful.
He wastes much of his genius in a
meandering muddle of common
places the result of defective educa
tion. He is not a bully or a black
guard, as is commonly supposed. In
18G1 he might have llept Tennessee
in the Union by going to JNaslmJIe,
organizing the Union forces and fac
iner it out with the secessionists, lid J
has ever lacked courage of the deci
sive sort. In 18G7 and 1SG8 he might
have served Tennessee without hurt
ing himself; but he did not make the
effort. A more
UNDESERVING RECIPIENT
of Tennessee's favor does not live,
for he has sacrificed Tennessee to
himself whenever he has been tempt
ed to do so. He has his genius,
which for a rarely rude popular
quality if very great, to thank, not
his services, for the renewal of his
lease on office. Men like East and
Colyar and George W. Jones mistake
the admiration in which they hold
his intellectual gifts for personal
affection. He dazzles a brilliant and
aspiring laA like Itedfield. But for
none of these would Johnson walk
around a corner if by doing so he
could not serve some positive end of
his own; and herein lies the weak
ness of his character, the weakness
but for which he might have written
"great" before his name.
HE IS MERELY A MELODKAMATIST;
in his nature a conservative philoso
pher placed by destiny in the posi
tion of a communal leader, in his
mind an humble seeker after truth,
at heart a cynical and arrogant lever,
perpetually at war within himself;
an object of interest always; certainly j
not a mountebank or charlatan; but)
in no sense a safe or stable guide in
principles or in couduct. As an in
dependent journalist he would have j
been
A RIVAL TO GREELEY
with a touch of Bennett thrown in to
leaven the lump. As a statesman he
will rank with Garibaldi and Gam
betta. If Tennessee sent him to the
Senate, as the young lady of Gloster
married her importunate suitor to
get rid of him she did probably the
best she could do under the ciicum
stances. As for the rest of the coun
try, why, it is satisfied with its sen
sation, pleased that, if it could not
get a pure pleasure in the re-election
of Schurz, it has experienced its cus
tomary emotion made up of reck
lessness ami humbug in the return
of a man who is expected to stir up
the monkeys and keep things lively
for the edification of an exuberant
and patriotic people.
Rcbher Shoes for Horses.
Sdmebody has invented a rubber
shoe for horses, designed as a sub
stitute for the iron shoe, and as a
means of preventing the many mala
dies to which horses' feet are subject.
It is even claimed that horses suffer
ing with cracked or contracted hoof,
and similar painful hurts, are quick
ly cured by the substitution of tho
rubber covering for the unyielding
metal. The elasticity of the former
allows the hoof to remain in its nat
ural state or shape, while protected
from abrasion against pavements by
the heavy rubber sola' beneath. As
compared with iron shoes, the cost
of rubber ones is stated to be about
one third more, and their weight is
some forty per cent. less. Owing to
the nature of the material, the most
accurate fits may be obtained, and in
respect to wear, tho rubber used is
intended to be such as will insure
very great durability. N. Y. Sun,
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Another Canard Exploded.
Little Rock, February 12. The
Grand Jury, by direction of the
State Attorney, have been investigat
ing the charges made in the publish
ed card signed by 195 ex-Federal
soldiers sometime ago that a reign of
terror existed in Arkansas, and that
they had carried their lives in their
hands for years, have made a report
in which they say they summoned
and examined 40 of the signers of
this statement, none of whom could
testify to any facts in support of their
published allegations, but their evi
dence showed that unusual quiet
prevails in the State. No evidence
of the existence of a White League
or any such organization was obtain
ed. One witness testified to knowing
a man who belonged to such an Or
der, but when the accused was sum
moned, it appears that he belonged
to the Order of the Knights of
Pythias.
The Party Kaleidoscope.
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
In November the Republican par
ty was beaten in the popular elections
throughout the country. A more
pronounced condemnation was hard
ly ever uttered in our political his
tory. In December it was apparent
that the party could restore itself to
public confidence and regain its lost
power. The Democracy disinter
preted tne November elections, as a
vote of confidence in themselves,
rather of one of lack of confidence in
the Republicans. They exhibited a
woful blindness in their opportunity
or a total incapacity to improve it.
They either did not want or were un
able to mobilize their party in behalf
of political reform. They avowed
the policy of no policy, and trusted
to gain the government through the
mistakes of their opponents rather
than through their own merits. But
the people were impatient for politi
cal reform and intolerant of a mere
party duel.
This was the new opportunity of the
Republican administration leaders.
Three things were plainly demanded
of them as the price of restoration:
First, the extension and perfection of
administrative reform, as begun and
illustrated by the new secretaries,
Bristow and Jewell; second, 'a de
mand for, and refusal to be satisfied
with anything less than, positive leg
islation for currency reform and spe
cie payments; and, third, the modi
fication of the federal policy toward
the Southern States in the interest
of local self-government, equal rights
for all, honest administration and
peace.
January finds the opportunity
worse " than neglected rejected,
thrown away. We see no earnest
endorsement of the Bristow and Jew
ell reform policy either at the White
House or at the Capitol. The cur
rency legislation is an abortion and
a cheat, holding the word of promise
to the ear but breaking it to the
hope; the surrender of a rising to a
losing cause, of an advancing to a
retreating army. Third, and worse
than all this, the mischievous policy
of federal interference in the South
ern States has been continued to its
culmination in the greatest outrage
of the whole record, and party and
country alike stand aghast at the un
intelligent indifference of the federal
executive to the first principles of
our constitutional liberty.
Under the influence of these expe
riences, the Republican party finds
that the November verdict would be
repeated and enlarged now. Another
large section of its supporters, in
telligent, conservative, and hereto
fore faithful adherents, have given it
up in despair, and take their places
practically in opposition; while the
great body of those who remain in
nominal fidelity suffer a new demor
alization and feel a deeper discour
agement. In a country like ours and in a
time like this, when thought crystal
izes quickly, and men change rapid
ly in obedieuce to an intelligent free
will and the practical exigencies of
the hour, everything is possible to
administrations and parties. It will
not do to say, positively, that the
Republican party will not restore it
self, that it cannot so improve its ail
ministration, in contrast with the
position and prospect that the De
mocracy hold out, as to give to it the
continued choice of the country.
But, certainly, nothing seems more
impossible or improbable now. The
faith of the country, the hopes of the
people have been cheated too often
and too long. Its opportunity, for
the present at least, would seem to be
surely gone, and the government to
be destined to pass into the hands of
its old opponents, with such modifi
cations of personal leaders and pub
lic policy as their own hopes and
fears, and the power of public opin
ion, shall force upon them.
The Washington Free Lunch
Lorry. One of the saddest phases
of Washington life is daily presented
at the free-lunch tables of our large
hotels. Here one sees daily gather
ed, with a greed begotten of want,
and which debars all that politeness
so becoming to any one at an eating
table, men whose mission in life has
been defeated in the uncertainties of
war and politics, and whose name,
though once great, have sunk into
obscurity in the rapid changes of
our system of government. The
General and Statesman of yesterday
come to-day to the bar-room and
surreptuously seek that food which
is intended for regular customers,
and they who once looked upon the
bar-keeper as a low-lived individual
now approach obsequiously, and
leave him sneakingly, when he de
tects them in the act of pocketing
the crackers and cheese. What a
sad commentary upon the vicissi
tudes of men who make life artificial.
The great difficulty with them has
been that they have not addressed
themselves, when the tide of life was
at its flood, to its true and serious
ends, and now this mistake comes to
them in the most humiliating form.
The free-lunch table was one of the
institutions that did not exist in
Shakspeare's time, or else we would
have had from that creat master a
philosophical free-In ucher'a solilo
quy. Washington Star.
Says the New York World: The
tropical oratory of Mr. Brown, of
jventucKy, was out of taste very like
lv. but it was not far from tho t
Ikitler is a great scamp. Everybody
knows it; everybody out of Congress
says it; out of Congress Butler does
not take the trouble to deny it; but
we suppose it is unparliamentary to
say it in Congress. Mr. Brown will,
therefore, accept such a rebuke as is
deserved for telling wholesome truth
out of season. It 13 not a rebuke
which need keep him awake at night.
Carl Schurz and his Family.
FeM' Senators know how to enter
tain with refinement. Carl Schurz
is undoubtedly the best host in
Washington for an evening party.
All the members of his family are
intellectualized up to his grade, and,
like the best class of Germans, they
can throw off profoundness of chat
and listen to music, the host mean
time all-pervading and witty and
soothing, while Mrs. Schurz, with,
her dark Hamburg eyes, and almost;
tenderly interest in young people,
receives, one by one, Iier callers, ana
is obliging, without effort,"- to all.
Her daughters are growing up after
the style of their father and mother,
and the young men olserve iu them
a docility and sensibility quite rare
in general society. Schnrz holds
his place in the Senate as much by
industry as talent. He is not a man
of genius, but his accomplishments
are general; he knows sufficient of
music, the languages, mathematics,
polite literature and law, to be con
sidered proficient in. a country of
partial education like ours; and then,
he is always fortifying himself. In
the evenings when his brother Sena
tors are distributing patronage and
writing goosey letters to a hundred
numbskull constituents, playing po
ker, keeping an assignation or stuff
ing down food with Sam Ward at
Walksr's, Carl Schurz is at his books.
His wife has put the children to bed
and is, perhaps, sewing at his side.
He has none of the embarrassments
which attend fashionable wives.whose
daily study is in finding ont what to
wear, for the benefit of other men.
The star of his fame Mrs. Schurz ad
mires, but does not worship. Her
ideal is a more stable and frugal ca
reer than waits on the Senate. To
husband his resources of the mind
and the purse, to be a part of some
real society, and to develope more
slowly and in the line of happiness,
is the German wife's desire. She
knows the petulance and exaltation
of the literary mind, its want of hus
bandry, and the necessity of giving
it method and self-denial before its
wayward habits become incurable.
She desires him to return to St.
Louis and proceed with his newspa
per and the practice of law. Wash
ington Corr. Piteburg Dispatcli. 0
John Yorxa Beown. We find the
following extract from the speech of
this gentleman, at the time he was
reprimanded by the House for the
castigation administered to Beast
Butler, in an exchange, Mr. Brown
said:
" Gentlemen and Mr. Speaker, the
South is broken; it lies in its help
lessness and despair before you;
homes dilapidated, nelds wmsted,
bankruptcy upon it. Is there noth
ing in its situation to touch your
pity? And if your magnanimity can
not be reached, will yon not be mov
ed by some sense of justice?
' In 182, bv a conspiracy between
the Attorney-General, Governor Kel
logg, and a drunken Federal Judge,
the sovereignty of a State was over
thrown. The usurpation has been
perpetuated since by bayonets. And
but recently one of your generals
entered the legislative hall of Louis
ian, like Cromwell when he invaded
the English House of Commons with
his Colonel Pride, and keeping touch
and time to what had gone before in
the sad history of that State, ruth
lessly expelled its duly qualified
members.
" Onward and onward you go in
defiance of the sentiment of the coun
try, without pity and without justice,
remorselessly determined, it seems,
to devote these distressed Southern
people to complete destruction to
give their "roofs to the flames, their
flesh to the eagles. Your Lieuten-ant-General
but steps upon the scene
wnen lie sends his dispatches to the
world that they are banditti. We
have heard it echoed elsewhere that
there are thieves, murderers, night-riders.-
Tho clergy of that State,
Jew and Gentile, have denied it.
The business men and Northern, res
idents there have denied it. A com
mittee of your own House, a majori
ty of whom were Radicals, have given
it their solemn and emphatic contra
diction and nailed the slander to the
counter. But still it is echoed and
rechoed."
Old Grimes Not Dead. A gen
tleman who has an eye and an ear for
the humorous, writes from his plan
tation in North Carolina as follows:
" Last night a little incident hap
pened, my wife said I must tell you
all about. I was weighing up the
pickers' cotton so as to pty them for
their days work. I had about sixty
hands at work, and all came in quite
early, except about twenty. About
dusk, there came an "old dark," and
put his basket on the scales. I was
a little mad, being kept so late, so I
said, " What is your name?"
"Grimes," "What." said I, "I
thought Old Grimes was dead long
ago." "No, child," said he, " dat
was my fodder," (mind you, this old
fellow was about 75.) I said, "any
more pickers out in the fields yet?"
" Yes, sir, some of my children; dey
will be heah directly, child;" so on
they came; I asked each, " Wrhat is
your name?" Each time it was
" Grimes; dat yar old man is my fod
der." Eighteen times I got that re
ply; then said I, ' Old man, are all
these children the fruit of vour
loins?" "No, child," said he, "dey
don"t eat fruit, only corn bread, and
sometimes polk, when de good Lord
gives it to us." " You did not un
derstand me, uncle; I mean are all
these children 3'our own?" " Bless
you, yes, honey, and I has got four
mo' at home, and one at the ole
w oman's breast," was the ready an
swer. So you see, after all, Old
Grimes still lives.
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