Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-05-03

An OP1uN DREAN.-1he Local Of the
Herald has been taking opium with Chinese
oPiun-smoker. and gives his blissfal expert
ence q follows:
Two years and seven months passed, or a
lapse of time that seemed equivoleni, although
in reality but three or four minutes, and the
heavens began to roll up like vast scroll. and
in procession marched past the personi6ed ter
ror- Of the Apocalypse. including the immor-
tai female Of Babylon and the beast with seven
heads and ten horns. We lost our identity.
We deem ourself the rosy essence Of q dream.
waited through space on zyphyr pinions over
a sea OF ravishing music, sweet as the kiss Of
love and golden as the vision of childhood.
At that blissfnl moment package of fire.
crackers was by accident ignited beside the
couch from which We had been lifted to the
realms of perfect ecstacy. The sudden ming
ling Of the tumult Of exploding crackers with
our musical wanderings through elysium, was
dreadful, indiscribable. A brief struggle; a
falling, nightmare sensation; and we were
again an inhabitant of the earth. The first
object we discovered was Chez Yup attempt.
ing;to destroy the exploding crae kers. Half OBJ
livious, we arose in the face of the almost tear
full protcstations of the Celestial and drawing
on our patent feathers, groped our way dream
lily into the street. An hour elapsed before
the singular sensation wore of, during which
time we walked necessarily, apparently en-
tranced and impelled by an Invisible agency
to which we yielded without resistance ormis-
giving. Thus ended our opium smoking.
We shall try hasheesh next, and live the
thousand years that Bayard Taylor made an
enraptured pilgrimage through in twenty min.
utes.
SUCCESS CERTAIN.-The New York Times
quotes letter "from the higest possible au-
thority" in Washington, which concludes as
follows. Ofthe enemy and Gen. McClellan's
designs upon them it says: .
"Gen. Mcclellan has them caught in their
own trap. They are like fox in burrow
with one hole (Manassas,) where they must
soon be forced out, and then Gen. Mcclellan
will fall upon them like thunderbolt The
public will not then complain of his want of
energy. l tell you it will b. SO fearful as to
have wailing and mourning 20 up from every
Southern household. Knowing what do,
and having thus but barely limited at the
grand plan Of the campaign, l repeat, that the
rebels are doomed, and secession will never
again raise its hydra head in the land. The
folds of the giant constructor are now tighten
ing around the rebellion, and the coming
month will see it crushed out, completely and
forever. Again ! say, look out for short
war and desperate one.
RIcm SCENE IN THE WHEELING LEaIsLA-
TuRE-The Wheeling (Vn.) Legislature hav-
ing finished the business before it, adjourned
recently. Immediately previous to adjourn
ment, the following rather rich proceeding
transpircd
Ratclff offered resolution proposing to as
certain if the Senate would accept the Ten
Commandments without amendment, if first
passed by tho House. He remarked that no
proposition from the House had ever gone to
the Senate without coming back amended.
He desired before the adjournment, to submit
something that would meet their appreciation.
The Speaker appointed Ratclitf to communi.
cate the passage Of the resolution to the Sem
ate. Ratclif accordingly picked up the res
olL:ion and amidst great laughter, proceeded
to the Cenate chamber. He subsequently re-
turned and reported to tho House that the
Senate insisted that there were thirteen Com.
mandments, and refused, therefore, to accept
the House resolution without amendment.
THR REBEL. CRrrrENDEN.-The Louisville
Journal has an article defending the rebel,
Crittenden. from the charges heaped upon him
by the secesh press since he was defeated at
Logan's Field. The Journal concludes by
saying:
There can scarcely be . doubt that the
risking Of the battle At Mill Spring. disastrous
a. the result was to the Southern Confederacy,
was the best thing. that. in the exigency then
existing. General Crittenden could possibly
do. The calamitous battle averted = still
more terrible calamity. Without entering in
to details, We may state the fact. that General
Buell. had made stragetic arrangements which.
but for the battle. would certainly have re.
suited in the capture Of the whole Of General
Crittendcn's command. As it was. General
Crit .ndei saved the bulk Of his army. enab-
ling it to escape and disperse. Unquestion-
ably. General Buell.. on hearing Of the affair,
glorious as it was TO our arms. experienced .
keen pang Of Disappointment.
EXPENSIVE Smor.-The gunboat Monitor
is armed with two large Colulnbiads, and fur.
nished with 400 wrought iron shot that weigh
2S0 pounds each; costing SAT each. Cast iron
shot are liable to break in pieces when fred
against thick iron plates. These wrought
iron shot are for smashing through the aides
l.