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tmj M mi r-M ' fV5 T- 5 yCT c ii.:iV. O ' . if o DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE BEST INTERESTS OF OREGON. VOL. 10. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 187G. NO. 24. o THE ENTERPRISE. A LOCAL NEWSPAPER '-' , FOB THE Farmer, Easiness Man, & Family Circle. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY. FRANK S. DEMENT, PKOPEIETOB AND PUBLISHES. OFFICIAL PAPEB FOB CLACKAMAS CO. OFFICE In Enterprise Ruildtng. one ioor south of Masonic Building, Main St. Term of Subscription! Sing-la Copy One Year, In Advance $2.50 Six Months" " Trm of Alvertllijrt 1.50 Transient advertlsfmpnts. Including all legal notices, V square of t welve lines one week --?V For each subsequent Insertion One Column, one year J-J"' r.;irtvr" - 4000 Quarter ,. nn nasiuess Card, 1 squar. one year 1Z.W) SOCIETY SO VICES. OKECOS LODGE XO. 3, I. I. O. F., . Meets every Thursday 33Ms. venin!at7 o'clock, in the Spis: Odd Fellows' Hull, Main figgx treet. MemVwrsof tho Or i der are invited to attend. By order 3 N.G. KEIIEC'CA OCOREE LOOCili NO. 2, I. O. O. P., Meets on the Second nd Fourth Tues- at 7 o cioeK, in me uci CFellows' Hull. Membersuf the Degree aro invited to attend. MULTNOMAH l.OOOE NO. I.A.F. & A. M.. 1 olds its regular eoiu- A munications on the Fir.st ami Third Saturdavs Ln eai-h montli, nt 7 o'clock from tho JOth of Sep. temler totho'JOth of March ; and 7? oVloek from the -J)th of Man h to the Oth of September, lhetlircn in good staiuliu are invited to attend. llv order of W. M. falls Encampment no. 1,1.0. O. V., Meets at O Id Fellows' Hall on the First and Third Tues- 1 iv- if i.;ii-h iiKinth. Patriarchs in goid standing are invited to attend. ItUSlXMSS CARDS. A. J. HOVER, 5r. I. J- W. NORRIS, M. I HOVER So NORRIS, VSK IAXS AM) SCIlfiKONS, - miffliv ITp-Stairs in Charmnn's Brick, Main Street. Dr. Iiovr's residence Third street, at foot of clitt stairway. tf JOHN WELCH DENTIST, y . OFFICE I.N OKRtiON CITY, OllKUOX. IllUfst :H Prlco PaltUurtounly Onler. HUELAT & EASTHAW1, ATTO RNE YS-AT-L A W- POKTL AND Irt OpiU's new brick, 30 First utreet. OREUON CITY Charman's brick, up stair. Rcpt-Mtf JOHNSON & WIcCOWN ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT-LAW. J Oregon City, Oregon. B-Vill practice in all tho Courts of the Btato. Special attention given to cases in the U. S. Iand me. at Oregon City. 5aprlS72-tf. - JLi. T. BAR1N ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, JDKEGOX CITY, : : OREGON. Will practice In all the Courts of the O State. Nov. 1. 1875, tf H.E. CHAMBERLAIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW OREGON' CITY. Office in Enterprise Rooms. JAMES 33. UPTON, At toriiey-u t-Law, Oregon City. Nov. 6. 1S75 :tf Sv. II. IIIGHFIELD. Eslablishrd nine '19, at the old stand. Maia Street, Oregon City, Oregon. fSL An assortment of Wathea.Jewel ry.nnd St-th Thomas' Weight Clocks fc ."yj all of which are warranted to be as vL' a represented. ; "Repairing: done on short notice, and thaqkful for past patronage. JOHN M. BACON, IMPORTER AXD DEALER In Books, Stationery, Perfum ery, etc., etc, Oregon t'ity, Oregon. - triwt th Post Ofloo, Main stgect, east fcjd. -TO FRUIT-GROWERS. mnn alden fruit prkservinq J. Company of Or gon City will pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE or PI.VMS. PEARS anrt APPLES. Mr. Thou. Charman is authorized to pur chase lur the Company. L. D. C. LATOURRTTE, ' - v I'reeldent. THOS. CH A RM AN. Secretary. ORoa City, July 28, 1875 .-tf MILLER, MARSHALL & CO., PYSnSVE "lOHEST PRICE FOR WHEAT, at all times, at the Oregon Cty Mills, ; And have on' hand FEED and. FLOUR VI"i.a".nJftktwrat0?- Tarties desiring Teed, must furftjsh sacHs, ooyW r THE RIVER OF DEATH. TO MISS P. T., WITH AUTHOR'S LOVK. A mother has passed o'er the swelling tide, We clung to her hand in bitter woe ; We followed hr down to the river-side, And watched her boat, with its sail of snow : And oh ! how we longed to go with her, In the boat with that ghostly mariner. But see! they have touched the further brink, The boatman turns he is coming backl Who will the next one be, do you think, To follow the loved, o'er that viewless track ? Our lives seem suddenly dear to grow, How many of us are ready to go ? I turn away with a secret fear, I've a vorld of work just begun ; Children to raise and friends to cheer, Oh I boatmen, take those whose work is done ; The b ightness from Heaven I cannot see, And oh, I'm afraid to go with thee! But have I not faith to follow my Lord, Wherever his hand beckons me! And when in the swelling of Jordan's waves. Will he not my Companion be? Oh yes, to the'boat, 1 will joyfully llv, For Jesus will do my work letter than I. Then oh I how sweet will the union be. With the true, tried friends, who have trone be tore: My children will hasten to welcome me. For love has no frain, on the thither snore, But thy sweetest joy these words alTbrd, mere snail L ever be with the IjoiiI! M. I.. WASHINGTON LETTER. Wasuixotok, D.C, Mar. G, '7G. Like a clap of thunder on a clear summer's day came the discovery of Secretary Belknap's criminal malver sation and flagrant abuse of his high public trust. From the time of the first announcement of his deep dis grace until the present, Washington has been a scene of excitement and uncertainty. The air is thick with rumors of oilicial corruption and prospective removals from ofiice, but the pivotal point of speculation and discussion rests in the name of the exposed Secretary. With such abso lute secresy had tho investigation been conducted, that on Thursday none but the immediate members of the committee were cognizant of the forthcoming exposure. The morning pajiers contained no allusion to the matter, and the first public intima tion reached the city through the columns of a Baltimore journal. The account, though given with great accuracy, seemed too incredible to warrant belief, and it was not until later in the day, when positive con firmation was received from official sources, that our citizens were able to realize the truth of the impending crisis. There has been scarcely an individual instance since the assassin ation of Abraham Lincoln that has created a more profound sensation and jerhaps the last person to whom a taint of suspicion would heretofore attached was W. W. Belknap. The office of Secretary of War, although greatly stripped of the opportunities for dishonorable transactions since the cessation of hostilities between the North and South, has always been regarded as one which required the presence of a Cabinet Minister of enlarged and comprehensive views and unimpeachable integrity. In October", 18G9, William Worth Belknap, when but 40 years of age, was called from the obscurity of an Iowa village to assume the duties of this elevated position. From a me diocre lawyer and ex-army officer, was elevated an official who was es teemed worthy to succeed to the se.it as acceptably tilled by Stanton, liaw lins and a host of others, distinguish ed alike for brilliancy of genius and unswerving devotion to their coun try's good. For some time he evinced a firm determination to further the nation's interests, and accordingly rose in public consideration and es teem. His Alma Mater (Princeton) requested him to deliver their annual address in '71, and soon after he offi ciated in a similar character at West Point. In many other ways he seem ed to merit public approval, and it was only a few mouths sinse that his name stood prominently forth as the Republican nominee for U. S. Senator from Iowa. But all these bright promises of future usefulness are now ended, and a well earned reputation as a soldier is blasted forever. Pity in such a case is possible, that oue whose career possessed so mu-.-h of merit should end in such deep ig nominy. To tho inordinate fondness of dis play and pitiful ambition for fashion able supremacy, may be attributed the principle cause whiph has covered a nation with disgraoe apd oonsigned forever to infamy and dishonor he who so lately ocoupied one of the most important positions in the gift of the Government. The lesson af forded is one which may be profitably pondered by hundreds of families, and though deduced from a great calamity, it yet "works a moral" in which social reform is no insi-nifi-cant feature. In considering the results to flow from BeUnap'a malfeasance, there arises a, peculiarly obstruse question as to the impeachibility of an officer whose resignation has been accepted. The investigating committee seem unanimous in considering the culprit within the jurisdiction of Congress but a few minutes reflection shows how disastrous a policy this would inaugurate, tending to the revival of the many (at present! PT-nffiioT ! crimes which have long since been forgotten, and the resurrection of which would be productive of noth ing but months of weary and useless legislation. As the matter now stands iuis legai tecnmcaiity has been refer red to a special committee who will report thereon at an early day, but in the meantime no cessation i's no ticeable in the House proceedings, and articles of impeachment to the number of VHi have already been pre pared and are held in readiness for presentment. Belknap is amenable to the criminal law and it therefore becomes a matter of very little eon sequsnse whether he is indicted be fore the bar of the Senate or that of the proper criminal court. The pros pect is that to avoid the responsibil ity of forming so troublesome a prec edent, the question of Belknap's liability or non-liability to impeach ment will after some discussion be merged into his criminal offense and the ex-Secretary remanded to the tender mercies of the district courts, there to be, throngh the efforts of learned counsel, purified and eventu ally issue forth cleansed from his sins, jjrepared once more to battle with the storms of this mundane sphere. Selah! Belying upon the telegraph, I have attempted no detailed statement as to the particular attendant upon this exposure, nor the cause which led to the issue. Suffice it to say there can be no doubt of the correctness of the charge, and Belnuap's guilt is estab lished be3rond peradventure. Dem ocratic stock has gone up, and it is wonderful to notice how enthusiastic the advocates of "ye Bourbon (?) principles" have become in their philantropic work of investigation. The startling developments adverted to temporarily pass the Republican prospects into partial eclipse and present another splendid opportunity for the Democratic faction to blun der, aud thus add an additional link to the brilliant chain of marvelous stupidity with which their party an vil has been as busily ringing during the past decade. Dame Rumor is busy selecting Belknap's successor. Johh C. Xew, U. S. Treasurer, L. M. Morrill, U. S. Senator from Maine, and Judge Taft, of Ohio, pass in prominent review, but to whom the palm is to be award ed remains yet to be seen. The War Department portfolio promises to be accompanied with stern duties and great responsibili ties the occasion is here, and the query becomes, is there a man equal to the requirements of the same. Hurriedly, R. M. D. The I'irst Steamboat on the Hudson. The steamboat itself is a romance of tho Hudson. Its birth was on its waters, where the rude concep tions of Evans aud Fitch on the Schuylkill and Delaware were per fected by Fulton and his successors. How strange was the storv of its ad vent, growth, and achievements! Liv ing men remember when the idea of steam navigation was ridiculed. They remember, too, that when the Cler mont weut from New York to Albany without the use of sails, against wind and tide, ip thirty-two hours, ridi cule was changed" into amazement. That voyage did more. It spread terror over the river, and created wide alarm along its borders. The steamboat was an awful revelation to the fiashermen, the farmers, and tho villagers. It came upon them unhearalded. It seemed like a weird craft from Pluto's realm a transfiguration of Charon's bout into a living fiend from the iufernal regions. Its huge black pipe vomiting fire and smoke, the hoarse breathing of its engine, and tho great splash of its uucovered paddle-wheels filled the imagina tion with all the dark pictures oi goblinsthat romancers have invented since the foundation of the world. Some thought it was an unheard-of monster of the sea ravaging the fresh waters; others regarded it as a herald of the final conflagration at the day of doom. Managers of river-craft who saw it at night believed that the great red dragon of the Apocalypse was loose upon the waters. Some prayed for deliverance; some fled iu terror to the shore, and hid in the recesses ' of the rocks, and some croached in mortal dread beneath their decks, and abandoned their vessels and themselves to the mercy of the wind and waves, or the jaws of the demon. The Clermont was the author of some of the most wonder ful romances of the Hudson, and for years she was the victim of the enmity of the fisherman, who believ ed that her noise and agitation of the waters would drive the shad and sturgeon from the river. Bexsox J. Lossixg, in Harper's Magazine or April. Mex With Bcstdes Ox. A Cim cinnati correspondent of the Toledo Blade writes as follows: Now, the unearthliest, funniest thing abont a man dressed up in women's clothes, is alwavs his bustle. He never, never gets it on right. Not a single one of our male women on Madri Oras wore his bustle with the flowing ease and poetical grace which only comes of long practice. Our fellows either had the bustle away around upon one hip, or, when it wasn't that, it was a good many inches too low down, and in every case it bobbed about fearfully and the man kept putting his hand timidly around every minute or two, and fealing behind to see if he wasn't losing his bustle. Uneasy is the man that wears a bustle. He isn't used to it, you see. The Chicago Post thinks that jwomen have more mental labor to perform than men. It must wear the brain to put a border on a Jamp-3at. Tom Paine. Among the Centennial events there is one that should not be forgotten, yet will not gladly be remembered, because it is associated with a name which is as generally distasteful as any in our history. In the winter of a hundred years ago was published the famous pamphlet, Common-Sense, which crystallized into fixed purpose the wishes and hopes for indepen dence which filled the colonial mind. The author was' Thomas Paine a very conspicions fignren his time, but generally known toVus as Tom Paine, the infidel. One little boy whom the Easy Chair well knew heard his name first upon a raw wintry day in New England town, when his attention was attracted by the firing of guns, and he asked what they were for. The reply was in substance that some disreputable people were celebrating Tom Paiue's birthday. The tone implied that he was a dreadful reprobate. But surely Tom Paine had done some good service. He wrote 'Common-Sense, and published it in the dark hour of the Revolution. It was a wholly unselfish service, for he took out no copyright; and even in those days, among a colonial population of three millions only, poor and in the midst of exhausting war, there were a hun dred thousand copies of the pamph let sold. Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, hailed him as a public benefactor. But among later Americans his name was always men tioned with horror and disdain. It is agreed that no single cause was more effective in produeiug the Declaration of Independence than his Common Sense. Yet sixteen years ago, when a portrait of Paine was offered to the city of Philadelphia, to be hung in the hall where the Declaration was adopted and signed, it was declined. A likeness of Torn Paine, the infidel, must hang among the august shades of the fathers. Yetthejreligiotis views of " Tom Paine " were essenti ally those of "Tom Jefferson," whose name will be saluted as among tht most illustrious of this illustrious year. lhe feeling about Paine in the be ginning of tho century was largely political. When Jefferson was Presi dent, he invited Paine to come to this country from France, where he had narrowly escaped the guillotine, and he arrived in October, 1802. His friends gave him public dinners. His opponents said that Tom Paine and Tom Jefferson ought to dangle from the same gallows. For even in that golden age of tho republic, to which so many sighing imaginations revert from the corruption of this age of brass and iron upon which we have fallen, there was some warmth of party feeling aud expression. When Paine came to New York lie stopped at the old City Hotel, on Broadway, just north of Trinity Church. And the inquisitive little Laurie Todd, or Grant Thorbnrn, heard one day that the great sinner was standing at the door of the hotel, and he rau out with some friends to see him. But Mr. Paine had goneto his room. The Scotchman was not to be foiled, but lie asked. a servant who was sweeping the hall if Mr. Paine was at home. Hearing that he was, Thorburn pushed on, au i was shown into a large room whore the table was set for breakfast. One gentleman was writing, another read ing the newspaper, and at the father end of the room stood a long, lank, coarse-looking figure warming his hind-quarters before the fire. The intruder asked for Mr. Paine. Tho figure by the fire replied that, his name was Paine. Thorburn put out his hand, which Paine took, and the little Scotchman said that he had called from mere curiosity. Mr. Paine replied that he was very glad to satisfy it. Upon which Thorburn made a bow "like a goose ducking his head under water," walked out, and shut the door, while all the gentleman in the room burst into a laugh which he heard all the way to the door. He did not care: he had seen the great man. But he had to pay for the pleasure. The great city was a small town then, and the story of the interview grew as it was repeated. TJiorburn was clerk of the Scotch Presbyterian church, iu Cedar Street, and if he had hobnob bed with Voltaire as was Voltaire was then generally esteemed or had sworn eternal friendship with David Hume, he could not have struck his brethren with great horror. The Kirk Session took alarm. A special meeting was called, and Grant Thorburn was suspended from psalm singing for three months because he had shaken hands with Thomas Paiue. Doubtless Paine has been very haifehly treated. His honesty can not be doubted. His political views were those of the men of his time whom we most reverence, and his religious opinions did not differ from those of many men whom we most highly honnor. He was not an infidel in the ordinary sense, for his Aye of Reason was written to op pose atheism. His misfortune was that he had no tact, and the very vigor and simplicity of mind and style which made Common-Sense and The Rights of Man such efficient political pamphlets, made his reli gious treatise, the Age of Reason, fatal to his reputation. In the first he trenchantly expressed a great and powerful public opinion. In the last he came into collision with it, and it crushed him. Editor's Easy Chair, in Harper's Magazine for April. Some people regard it as singular that a man who "never played cards in his life because it's wicked," will exact fifteen per cent, interest from a widow. Jackson county's 9,000 this year, State tax was Confederate Make-shifts. Every household became a nest of domestic manufactures, every farm had its cotton patch and its sorghum field. Spinning wheels and looms, which in former days had been used for clothing the slaves on large plan tations, but which, during the era of cheap dry goods, were compara tively idle, were again set going. Ladies whose hands were unused to such labor learned to card, to spin, and to weave. Knitting became as fashionable in Southern parlors as it is in German homes. Homespun dresses were worn by the first ladies iu the land, and she who was clever est to contrive and deftest to execute had highest praise from her associ ates. Foreign dies were well-nigh unattainable, and the woods at home were ransacked . for the means of coloring the home-grown flax, wool and cotton. Black-walnut bark fur nished a rich brown, varying in iutensity with the "strength of the dye ; swamp-maple, a clear purple ; pokeberries, a solferino, bright, but not durable ; wild indigo gave a tol erable blue, and elderberries an unsatisfactory black. Indeed, no experiment with bark, root, leaf or berry ever resulted in any substitute for logwood ; and as black was the dye most needed for Southern gar ments in those dark days, the blockade-runners learned to make it part of their regular cargo. At one time in some sections of the South there was fearful destitution of salt. Speculators held it at enor mous prices. Even tho rich were forced to use it sparingly. The poor seemed likely to suffer for lack of it, and live slock were in many cases denied it altogether. Barrels and boxes which had been used for packing salt fish or pork were soaked in water afterward, which was boiled down and evaporated for the sake of the salt thus extracted. The earthen floors of smoke houses, into which the precious mineral had been trodden year after year, were dug up, and the earth given to cattle, or treated with water, after the same manner as the salt seasoned boards. The government at Richmond came to the rescue, and seized the salt works throughout the country, issued regular rations to each family at nom inal prices for the rest of the war. By this high-banded measure the people were saved from a salt famine. Coffee was a luxury seldom enjoyed, and for which rye or wheat, roasted and ground, was the usual miserable substitute. Some quick-witted person conceived the idea of using sweet potato chips instead. These made a more palatable drink, but were, after all, only a hollow mockery. Dried raspberry leaves were used for tea, and some people fell back upon sassafras, the North Carolinian bev erage, grimly assuring those who scorned it that it was good for the blood and would save doctor's bills. Not a few eschewed all these trans parent deceptions, if that may be called deception which deceived nobody, and when unable to afford milk, drank cold water with patient heroism. Mrs. M. P. Handy, in Harper's Magazine for March. Haying un. A dignified citizen of Detroit yes terday sat hi his office, in the third story of a building on Griswold street, wneu a stranger about forty years old, with a red nose and a grand smile and a ragged coat, slid softly in. " Any fun here?" he inquired as he stood by the door. " Fun ! "What do you want, sir?" shouted the citiz.-n. " Want to have some fun with somebody !" was the oily answer. The citizen turned to his papers, and after a pause the stranger creit nearer and said : " Come on less wrastlecach other and kick around and have a good time." " Yon go down stairs !" was the reply, spoken in very earnest tones. " Won't you have any fun with me ?" pleaded the stranger ; won't you tussle around and knock off hats and kinder liven me up?" The citizen rose up and pointed to the door with a look and gesture that Booth might envy. " I can't find any one around hero to have fun with me !" complained the stranger as he backed off a little. " I haven't half enjoyed myself since I came here just 'cause no one will punch me in the ribs, jam me around, cuff me up to a peak aud get in a kick occasionally. I don't wan't work ; I don't care for money ; all I want is to git somebody by the choker , me git liime by the hair, and have a reg ular old-fashioned time, just as we used to have in those boyhood days now gone forever." The citizen had a table-leg near at hand, and he grasped it, drove the stranger to the door,- and then gave him a royal kick to help him down stairs. The man paused on the land ing, looked back, and in a sad voice inquired : " Won't you change your mind, won't you gratify a feller ?" "You go down.01 -I'll throw this olub at you !" was the answer. "I hate to but I will. Wish you had kicked me three or four times and let me piled you under the table aud tied your legs in a knot." Love axd the Stomach. A Washr ington doctor says love is an affair of the stomach, and not of the heart; but we really cannot conceive of a love-siok swain singing to his mate, Ask my stomach what means this sadness." It wouldn't be right. She might think it was something else. - A colony from Arkansas, it is said, is preparing to come to this State in "prairie schooners" during the summer. Preparations for Dinner. There are the decent proprietors, moreover, which belong essentially to the well-ordered home dinner, which not only heighten its pleasures, but render it more healthful. There is the preliminary refreshment of the toilet, not only securing cleanliness, but compelling delay before sitting down to the table, and thus prevent ing that dangerous practice of eating and drinking when fevered with the heat and agitated with the flurry of excitement and exercise. There is no part of the toilet before dinner more important than cleansing the teeth and thoroughly rinsing the mouth, operations which are hardly practi cable in the hasty " down-town feed," but which no nice person would fail to make a preliminary of his deliber ate domestic meal. The cigar, if permissible at any time, should never be smoked within the two hours preceding anv solid meal. If it is, it will not only deaden the appetite, but pervert the taste and weaken digestion ; and yet it is no uncommon practice to take a cigar at the very moment of starting out for dinner. When this meal is dis patched in the restaurant, the last puff has hardly passed away, and the taste of the fetid remnant is still clinging to the mouth, while the first morsels of food are being swallowed. Nicotine has never been commended, so far as is known, either as an appetizer or a condiment, but is uni versally believed ts be a nauseous poison, nhould the dinner be eaten at home, the cigar will, be thrown away, at least by most decorous per sons, at the door step, and there will be some chanco of its vile smack passing off in the course of the ante prandial purification. All provocatives of the appetite in the form of " bitters," absinthe, and glasses of sherry are hurtful to diges tion, and especially dangerous to morals, for nothing is more conducive to habits of intoxication. Strong spirituous or vinious drinks are prob ably hardly ever safe, but they are certainly never so when taken into an empty stomach, and especially at the moment just as it is ready for a hearty meal, and its powers of absorp tion are at their height. Dressing for dinner, as that process is generally understood by our dressy dames, is by no means a preparation favorable to the enjoyment of a heart j meal and its good digestion. The constraints of the fashionable cos tume, with its constricted waist and multiple pressure upon the very organs, the free service of which is imperiously vemanded on the occa sion, are hardly consistent with the full reception of the necessary food or an easy disposition of it. I)r. Tomes, in Harper's Magazine for April. The First Clreat Tipple on Manhatleii Island. There was a tradition, a hundred years ago among some of the neigh boring tribes, that an old chief said had been handed down from genera tion to generation, in which it was stated that when the Indians here first saw tho ship, which seemed a huge white thing moving up, they thought it was some monstrous fish, but final ly concluded it to be tho canoe of the great Manitou visiting his children. ' Runners were immediately sent to the neighboring tribes who flocked to the place of rendezvous. Sacrifices were prepared, and a grand dance ordered for his reception. Hudson, dressed in scarlet and attended by a portion of his crew, came ashore, and the chiefs, grave and respectful, gathered in a semicircle around him. Hudson, to show his friendly feel ings, poured out a glass of brandy, and tasting it himself, handed it to the nearest cheif. He gravely smelled of it, and handed it to the next one, who did the same, and passed it on. In this way it went the entire circle without being tasted. At last a young brave declared it was an insult to the great Manitou not to drink after he had shown them an example, and if no one else would drink it, he would, let the consequences bo what they might. So, bidding them all a sol emn farewell, he drained the goblet at a draught. The chiefs watch ed him with anxiety, wondering what the effect would be. The young brave very soon began to stag ger, till at length, overcome by the heavy dose, he sunk on the ground in a drunken stupor. The chiefs looked on at first in still terror, and then a low, wild dcath-wail rose on the air. But after a while the appar ently dead man began to rally, and at length jumping on his feet, caper ed round in the most excited, gro tesque manner, declaring he never felt so happy in his life, and asked for more liquor. The other chiefs no longer hesitated, and following his example, the first great tipple on New York island took place, end ing in a scene of beastly intoxication. From that time on the name of the island in the Delaware language sig nified "the place of the big drunk." many people think it would be a good name for it now, or at least portions of it, not onlv where th6 "sachems" do congregate, but other places. J. T. Heatev-, in Harper's .uagazine jQr Jiprtl. The Albany Democrat is responsible for the following item : " At an event in the foothills re cently, which would properly come unuer the bead of " census reports, a surprise party was given somewhat after this manner : Due preparation had been made to welcome the little one 'all the wav from heaven.' but lo ! the heavenly visitor brought a playmate with him. and the unfortu nate male pa-ri-ent of the new comers had to travel six miles throuoh the rain and mud to borrow suitable apparel to clotho the extra nn pected, X- CONGRESSIONAL norsE.. Washtxgtox, March 20.' The House then as the regular, order of business, considered the'bill reported by Banning from the com mittee on military affairs, regulating the pay aud allowance of the officers' of the army. The bill Is' to bake' effect on the last of July neVt. Bah'1" ning proceeded to address1 the. House in explanation and advocacy of the. bill, which he said would effect aTi' anuual saving of over half a million' dollars. The reductions, he said were made in accordance with the' advice of Gen. Sherman, who said to' the committee, "Cut off at the head, and not at the foot." The bill was cutting down the pay of general offU" cers. Garfield had read an extract1 from the testimony made by Geny Hancock before the committee ad.-" verse to the proposed reduction's":-. ; Without further debate 'the" bill1 passed yeas 141, nays 01. : Banning from the committee on' military affairs, reported a bill ta promote the efficiency of the army of tho United States;to provide: for' its gradual reduction and to co'nsdli-" date certain of its staff detriments; referred on . the whole" and made special order for next Wednesday . Burleigh, from the committee dtt: naval affairs, reported a bill directing the naval estimates to be made in detail under tho various he:ids of ex penditures. After discussion the passed. o . Knott, chairman of the judiciary' committee, presented articles" to be adopted and presented to the Senate in the maintenance!' arid support df the impeachment for high crimed and misdemeanors in office of Wrii. Belknap, late Seretary of War; wbicib, 'is rofnni in i 1 1 il nnil onlered td printed, with the understanding that' they would; be' called Hp Saturday next. senate.- March 30. The committee" orlJ Territories to-day authorized . Chr"s- tiancy to report for jjassage his bill' to regulate the elective franchise and; trials by jury, with certain amejid'- ments which do not materially affect - 1 A t tne main provisions as uereioiore pub.ished. ? Kelhr, of Oregon, presented the petition of the Board of Trade of" Oregon, asking an appropriation to' improve the Columbia and Villaln ette rivers;' referred to the committed nn commerCe.' Sargent introduced a bill grahtiBgf a site in Santa Barbara county, Cal.v to tiie trustees of the James Lick fund; referred to committee on pub lic lands. Morton introduced the metaoriail of a convention of delegates're'preseB ting the Society of Friends, remon strating against the transfer of the Indian Bureau from the' Interior Department to the' War department referred. Pars'oii 3Iurrav oil riariiessiii'r a Colt..- When the foal is 15 mouths old we begin to educate him to harness. Most colts, remember, are timid;- they were born so. The first day,- we simply put the saddle without the back-strap on, buckling tip the' belly-band loosely. This is done' many times, increasing the pressure. Then we take the ncck-collr. ancf put it over his head, first permitting him to smell of it, and touch it with his nose, until he is entirely convince ed that it is not calculated to' hurt him. In like manner we add part to' part until the colt is fully harnessed. lie is then allowed to stand with tn-6' harness on until he has time to reflect upon the whole matter, and became accustomed to the pressure of th harness against his sensitive skinj for we must remember that all thia performance seems very queer to him, and startling. When he has fully composed his mind, atid settled down into the conviction that every iumg is an right ana as it snouia do with him, ho is then walked about, the harness still being on, aiid brought back everv few minutes to the spot where he is to be unharnessed, and taught to stand as long as it would naturally take to remove the harness Straps are loosened,- buckle-tongues, started, saddle and collar eased; in short, everything done that would le done in unharnessing, save actu,i ally removing the harness. After several times, this standing 6tiU while being unharnessed has come to be, in his mind, a jart of the programme, and he understands it, and assents to it as such. Once learned, in the case of an intelligent horse, always learned. This same process should be gone through with in the case of a high-spirited, valua ble colt, once or twice each day, for a week at least. And remember that he is learning many lessons in ope, including that greatest of all a (iolfc can learn, viz., to have confidence in, and yield his will to, man. Have great patience at this point oi his education, and proceed step by step, advancing no further than your pu-j pil's success justifies. During these harness exercises, accustom the colt to pressure againt breast aud shoul der, by tying" lotg corda into either side of the collar, and pulling gently, cause him to brace himself, as ha will naturally do, against it. This gives him the idea of drawing weight somewhere behind him, and. by peri mi t ting him to pull you along, ha will grow to feel that he can pull anything. -Vie Golden Rule. It has just been discovered that it isn't whisky that kills. When a man s teeth strike a tumbler there is fnc tion, and friction jars his nerves and wears him out. The trial of Shepardson, the mail robber, has been set for the P.f May. O
