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w j-.o -javutWJjgK5aisaBVcaviieJL-CLi.,.3 mm mpwummj.j'HwwtMCjg wrecb gto gnitg stcrciaix. ASTORIA. OREGON: SUNDAY- DEC. 25, 1881 J.F. IIALLORAN. .Editor. Merry Christmas. Ushered in by trailing showers and brilliant sunshine, Christmas comes, bringing happiness to all who allow its attributes to affect their existence. Tt is a season that refreshes a thousand tender ties, and brings up in memory the fig ures of those whoso presence vras a charm and whose memory is a benediction of home. The day itself falls this year on Sunday, and in every pulpit in the United States there will be a ser vice of special remembrance. If only the tongues that speak could be touched with the holy fire! If only the great lesson of the life of Him whose birth is to-day com memorated, could be so set forth as to become the golden rule of the individual and national life! If only it could be made the faith of daily conduct that to serve men is to worship God! For that is the Christmas sermon and the Christ inas carol. The song -that the Beth lehem shepherds heard is the song chat we all hear in our deepest consciousness, that good-will to men is peace on earth. And the minister of God in the pulpit who paints the truest picture of the patient, cheerful, simple self sacrifice of the head of Christen dom who shows that the joy of the Christmas season is most ap propriate to the memory of a teacher in whom was no gloom, no asceticism, but an ovei flowing ten derness of human love and sympa thy he will be truly the Christian preacher, and his sermon a carol which every generous heart will echo. ' A. Governor's Opinion. Jn his annual message to the Virginia General Assembly, Gov. Jlalliday thus refers to the "re pudiationists: "Virginia has been accused of attempting the mean crime of repudiatiation. It has been charged the facts here, too, have -gone into history and will .show that the Federal Govern ment, or the party directing its destinies, lias used its patronage, power, and money to hurry her along that rugged and disreputable way. If this be true, then if there be any stigma, ir has been taken from our Commonwealth and fast ened upon the republic, and will be with difficulty, if ever, erased. The transfer will not hide it. It will not disappear nor die, but will bloom out sooner or later in un speakable disasters. If there be any property especially sacred un der such a Government, it is a public bond. Iff has the impress of the State's or the republic's si.al, and its solemn promise to perform. AYhen broken, the virus of the breach goes like a Damascus blade to the seat of life. Parties cannot save either the State or the republic guilty of that great crime a3 well as folly. If ai: uprising o the people does not call a halt, and restore the Government to itsf ancient ways, then is the steady march begun along that road where all republics hitherto have met their fate its days are numbered, and the empire is almost in sight. Thus, there is no justification or excuse for Virginia to repudiate or "eliminate by force all or any portion of her debt, in the futile effort, by such means, to "re-establish her credit" under modes pre sented in the bill of the last ses sion. Virginia paid as interest on her debt from July 1, 1S67, to Oct. 1, 1881, the large sum of 814,272, 659 40, and she is now paying an nually more than 81,000,000, with a surplus of at least 300,000, in spite of the assertions of the ig norant or malicious that she has been and is paying nothing. The bill reduces, by "elimination," the in terest the State will have to pay, if it pays any, to the sum of about 3600,000 for, that portion of the debt and the arrearages of interest to which the foregoing balance would be applicable, would by that bill be "eliminated." "NVhatj will be done with the 8700,000 thus "eliminated" annually from the just creditors? The Common wealth is left by the "eliminators' to answer for that as best she can at the bar of public opinion.1' The St. Louis G. D. says that the Mississippi river commission wants $200,000 of this Congress to carry on its appropriations with. This is independent of the pros pective appropriations for the de tailed work of improving the navi gation of the stream. The esti mates include 40,000 for salaries and traveling and miscellaneous expenses, $10,000 for the publica tion of maps and results, and the rest to pay lor a continuation of the surveys and like operations on the river and its tributaries. About $500,000 is the figure we shall need out this way for the bar and incidentals. Washington Letter. (From our Eegular Correspondent.) WASHINGTON', D. C. Dec 10. J8S1. Congress has organized and spent its first week waiting for the House committees. The only dramatic scene thus far, occurred on the opening day when Mr. Moorp, the fresh young Republican from the Memphis district of Tennessee, bounded up the aisle from his seat, waving his arms wildly in the air, and objected to swearing in Mr. Chalmers, of Mis sissippi, in a stream of turgid rhetoric poured forth in stento rian tones. Ilis language and be havior were so utterly ridiculous that the whole house broke out in derisive laughter. "When Mr. Moore's name was called, Gen. Bragg, oi Wisconsin, rose, and mimicking the melodramatic stylo of that gentleman, objected to his being sworn in in almost precisely his language when objecting to the admission of Mr. Chalmers. This brought down the house in loud rounds of applause, but it had no effect upon Mr. Moore, who will require more time and sad experi ence to discover that new mem bers, unless of transcendent abil ity, must be a little diffident or they will be. very severely "sat down" upon. Among the new members who stood up to be sworn in for the present Congress, 'comes one from the far off Pacific coast of California, General "W. S. Rose crans, the old commander of the Army of the Cumberland, who impressed new life into it at Mur f reesboro "and led it into glory and triumph from Stone river to Chat tanooga. "When I used to sec him dodging about the armjr at Mur freesboro, and when I last saw him at Bridgeport, Alabama, where he and "Fighting Joe Hooker" met General Grant, General Rosecrans was flashing with bru nette vigor. His hair was as dark as as a midnight picket line in a pine thicket; his cheeks were "rosy," and his eyes gleamed like the flash of a sabre or bayonet. But the other day as he walked down the aisle from the Demo cratic side of the House, and came to the Speaker's desk at the head of his State delegation, though his martial form and fine Roman nose were familiar, bis hair and beard were whitened, and ho looked an old man. He shows that he has been broken down and soured since the days of the ill-starred "Storms of Chicka raauga." In the determination of the Speakership contest wo had an other illustration of the magic of the Cameron touch in Pennsylva nia politics. The delegation from that State was substantially solid for Hiscock until Don, the son of his illustrious father, took them in hand and won them away from their positive pledges. What promises he made of favors from the Administration can only be guessed at. Anyhow the Speaker may be said to owe his elevation to the Cameron influence, whether he recognizes it or not. Accord ing to all accounts he has an un- usually difficult and laborious task in the arrangement of the commit-. tees, and an intimate, confidential friend of iiissaid recently that it is" likely to be two weeks before they are announced. There never has been more of a s-trurirV on the part of members to get on favorite and imporlanr committees, and j not a little ill-feeling has already ! been created by the conflicting claims of those who want the same j place. Old members think they i ought to have the prefoience over; new member?, which rlasm new : members are not alwavs toady to J concede. The Indiana Republican : members have neon in an uncom fortable state of mind for some i days, because they failed to sup port Keifer. In sticking to Orth so long they fear they havo killed the goose. Orth would not let them leave him. as he set strong hopes upon the dark-horse hypoth esis, and now there is some doubt whether Indiana will get a single important chairmanship. Onf of the delegations lately remarked that Indiana would have to go Democratic again to inspire a little greater respect in Republican councils. .Gallery visitors at the Capitol in looking down on the green carpeted House, wherein the frisky solons disport themselves, crane their necks to get a good look at old Aleck Stephens, nc looks like a grasshopper; and wheels himself about constantly in the arc-area in front of the Speak er's perch backwarJs and for ward like a craw-fish or crab. This little, dricd-up fragment of i)e ttrosracy evidently rather ciijfys the notice he attracts. He weighs about 70 pounds; but the small, decrepitl frame contains an active, vigorous brain and a liberal spirit. Row J. Hyatt Smith, the Brook lyn preacher of Indcpeudent Rcpuhlicanism, and lecturer on re ligion, also attracts some attention as :: law-giving curiosity. Ho wears a sort of cornice expression between a grin and a smile, and black cork-screw curls about his brow. "Washington pronounces him a witty lecturer already; and the Republican putty is reconciled tt his "lecturing," for In votes with them "straight as a string.' The expeits are now knocking Guiteau's insane theory 4crazy," and 1 shall not be surprised to see brother-in-law Scovillo abandon and throw up the case before it cl ose.s. Sror. HAKllIFslt. At I'jijier Astoria. Friday. Dei. '2.1, 1K31, Mary btuie to .laeob Ktttre, lv Rev. J no. Parsons. NF.W TO-DAY. Teachers Examination, mm: examination of tkaciieks jL for the -itli Quarter of lfc-l, win be held at the School House on Main Street, in Asto ria, on ThntMlaj and lr'.dav. HoeemhcriiOlh nndnoth. 1831. cenn: cncincnl l0oVlickA.3r. ot each day. W. V. I'AUKElt. County School Stint. Harper's Weekly. ILLUSTRATED. Hut-tier's M'tchlu stand at the head of American Illustrated wteKly Journals. P.y its nnpartisan positnm in iKihlis. its admir able illustration. 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