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HOW CIATEAUBRUN ESCAPED THE GULL
LOTINE

1t is a strange story that Vanblance tells
of M. de Chateaubrun, who was not only
condemned to death, but actually taken to
the scaffold, and yet escaped. He was the
last of twenty victims. After twelve or
fifteen executions, one part of the horrid
instrument broke, and workman was sent
for to mend it. NJ. Chateaubrun was,
with the other victims near the scaffold,
with his hands tied behind his back. The
repairing took long time. The day be-
gan to darken the great crowd of spec
tators were far more intent on watching
the repairing of the guillotine than on look
ing at the victims who were to die; and all,
even the gendarmes themselves, had their
ewes fixed on the scaffold. Resigned, but
very weak, the condemned man leaned,
without meaning it, on those behind him,
and they, pressed by the weight of his
body, mechanically made way for him, till
gradually, and by no effort of his own, he
came to the last ranks of the crowd. The
instrument once repaired, the executions
began, and they hurried to the end.
The dark night concealed both ex-
ecutioners and spectators. Led on
by the crowd, De Chateaubruh was at
first amazed at the situation, but soon con-
ceived the hope Of escaping. He went to
the Champs Elysees, and there, address
ing man who looked like workman, he
told him, laughingly, that some comrades
with whom he had been joking, had tied
his hands behind his back and taken his
hat, telling him to 60 and look for 1t. He
begged the man to cut the cords, and the
workman pulled out knife and did 50,
laughing all the while at the joke. NJ. de
Chateaubrun then proposed going into one
of the small wine shops in the Champs
Elysees. During slight repast he seemed
to be expecting his comrades to bring back
his hat; and seeing nothing of them, he
begged his guest to carry note to some
friend, whom he knew would lend hlm
one, for he could not go bareheaded
through the streets. He added that his
friend would bring him some money, Tor
his comrades, in fun, had taken his purse
The poor man believed every word NJ. dc
Chateaubrun told him, took the note and
returned in half an hour, accompanied by
his friend, who embraced Chateauorun,
and gave him all the help he required
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CONGRESSIONAL.
ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO THE REooKD-UMoS.l
Senate.

WASHINGTON, January 17th.-Walace, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported sith amend
ments the Indian appropriation bill
Pendleton, from the Census Committee, report ed
a bill to complete and compile the returns.
Garland presented the report of the Congressional
visitors to West Point, with a bill amending the laws
relating to the Military Academy
Williams introduced bill to establish and apPro-
pirate for ocean mail service
A bill was passed directing the Secretary OF the
Treasury to purchase the Freedman's Bank prop
erty on Pennsy lvania avenue.
On motion OF Burnside the Senate by unanimous
consent, the rules being suspended, took up the
Senate bil for the rel u General Ord. The hill
passed without debate.
/ The calendar occupied the remainder of the morn
ing hour. after which salisbury moved to lay aside
the regular order-the Ben Holiday bill-and take
up the Kellogg case. Reiected-34 to 90
Consideration of the Ben Holiday bill was re-
sumed, but without action the Senate adjourned.
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ASSEM- RLY.

SACRAMENTO, January IL, 1851.
The Assembly met at 2 P. NJ. Speaker Parks in
the chair. Roll called, quorum present. Prayer by
the Chaplain. Reading of the journal.
MIR. JACKSON, Chairman OF the Committee on Chi.
nese Immigration and Emigration, reported back
A. B. Z, to prevent the use of Chinese labor in the
performance Of contracts wherein this State, any
county, city or county, municipality, or other pO-
litica subdivision Of this State is party, witheut
Recommendation; also, A. b. 10, to prohibit the
naturalization of Chinese MoDgoians in the State
of California, with amendments, and recommended
that it 90 pass as amended
Mr.. FELTON,, Chairman OF the Committee on Cor
porations, reported A. B. 2T, to provide for the
Of a stamp, brand, stencil or trademark
manufactured commodities, recommending that it
do not pass.
Also, on A. B. 9, to prevent monopoly on rail
roads, steamboats,, steamships and other common
carriers recommending that ii do not pass.
Also, on A. B. 28, to compel banks, savings and
loan societies, and all and every kind Of person
persons or corporations, receiving money other
valuable property deposit, or for safe keeping, tn
publish sworn statement in certain cases, with
amendments, and recommending that it pass as
amended.
Also, A. c. R. Q, relative to donations to railroad
corporations, recommending that it be referred TO
the Committee on Federal Relations.
Also, A. B. 50, TO prevent a monopoly on common
carriers, recommending that il do not pass.
Also, A. B. 81, to amend Section AS of the Civil
Code in relation to the purchase and sale Of real
estate By insurance companies, recommending that
II do pass.
accounts in the English language, recommending
that it do not pass.
Mr.. EDNUSDs, Chairman of the Committee on
Municipal Corporations, reported back A. B.
90. An Act to regulate fire, marine and inland
insurance companies trausaeting business in this
State, with The recommendation that it be referred
to the Committee on Corporations.
Also, a. B. 81 to allow unincorporated towns
and villages to equip and maintain fire depart
ment, and to assess and collect taxes from time
time for such purpose, and to create Board Of Fire
Commissioners, with tile recommendation that it
be referred to the Committee on Printing for cor
rection.
The following bills introduced and referred
as stated
By Mr. EsrEE-To amend Sections e26 and 6sl of
the Penal Code, relating to the violation OF the
laws for the preservation of fish and game. Ju
dic.ary.
BY Mr.. GEAEr = Relative to apprentices and
minors and masters judiciary.
By Mr. McMURRAY-To amend the Code of Civil
Procedure by adding new section thereto relating
to actions against the State. Judiciary.
By Mr. DEL VALLE- In relation TO medical expert
testimony. judiciary.
By Mr.. LoSs-To amend Section 2lS Of the Penal
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WASHINGTON, January 17th.-A resolution was in
troduced by NewbeTy for joint Commission with
Great Britain to investigate the alleged false and
fraudulent proof and statistics used before TIE Hal
itaX Fishery Commission, the joint Commission to
consist of one appointed by the United States,
one by Great Britain, one by the two Governments
conformity, and to report their conclusions to both
Governments. 1t also directs the President to do
his utmost to carry out the provisions of the reso
luton, and provides for joint committee from the
House AMI Senate the same subject.
A resolution was introduced by Ford that every
interest demands the immediate construction OF
telegraph lines by the Government, requesting the
Postoffice Committee to report bill for the con-
struc.ion of such lines to protect the people from
monopoly.
The Speaker ruled it not in order under the call
Of States.
After the cali OF States Ford again offered his tel
egraph resolution. Referred.
Springer offered a resolution directing the Post
office Committee to inquire into the expedency OF
telegraphic postal system in the United States and
as to the cost of reproducing facilities equal to
those Of the existing telegraph companies and as to
the expedency OF operating the same, and author
izng the committee to report at any time.
Adjourned.
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THE DEBRIS PROBLEM.

The Assembly Committee on Water Rights and
Drainage held its first meeting last night, seven
members present, and Brown OF Yuba in the chair.
After general discussion among the committeeman,
all of whom agreed that u debris question should
be thoroughly investigated before making any re-
port relative to the five bills repeating the debris
Act which were before them, Mr. Kellogg asked
what the effect OF an immediate and unqualified re-
peal of the existing drainage law would be. He
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MANNERS G1rcxRoLs OF TAR, for coughs ard c0idi
Tryi IL
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MUCH SOUGHT FOR"
LGrass Valley Tidlngs, January sth.

lhidso faiiOy LUNGS Jdiiuaig OIL
grand paper was the SACRAMENTO REc5RD-UYIOS
of January list. Twenty large pages of interesting
statistical, local and general matter made it much
sought for sending to friends abroad.
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w. WOOD.

nENTIsTS, NO. COS j STREET, Be 81
tween Sixth and Seventh, Sacramento. elf9f6
dI7-1ptf
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HAMMERS GLYcERoLFaioF Tar has been
before the public for the past six years, anu
its constantly increasing demand Is the pes5
testimonial of its success.
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FOR SALE.
HERE YOU SEE
DENTISTRY.
m. 81. PIRI.sON,

DENTIsT, SIS J STREET, BETWEEN 81
Fourth and Fifth, Sacramento. Arti- e5ttffYr
hclal Teeth inserted on Cold Vucanite and al. bases
Nitrous Oxide or Laughing Gas administered for the
painless extraction Of Teeth. jal4-1m
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DRs. BREWER & sOUTnWORTH.

nMTISTS, SOUTHWEST CORNER OF szxA
Seventh and streets, in Bryte's new 65f7Y6
building, up stairs. Teeth extracted without pain
By the use OF Improved Liquid Nitrous Oxide Gas
in16-lnlml
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e. MASONIC TEMPLE, COR, SIXTH EyWA
Es3YfS3 and streets ET5f9H
w o. THRAILKILL D. ID. s., Editor aud Publisher
Of the Dental JairtLs, Monthly Journal Of Dental
Science. o27-1pu
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Il. 4. TEBBETs,
HARE & MoAD,

ID ENLIST
No 5275 street, between Fifth and Sixth.
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The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
[Brooklyn Eaglel
The Decline and Fall of the Ameri-
can Republic.
BY EDWARD GIBBON.

Scarcely had the confederation Of States,
banded together for internecine welfare and
aggrandizement, reached the zenith of its cor
porate glory than its star began to pale and its
vivid track among the system of nations to
flicker and fade from sight. The forces that
had held the mighty agglomerate of powerful
municipalities became feeble. The inherent
weakness of cumbersome political machinery
became so manifest that the boldest staggered
before the threatening disruption of the NIGH
ty whole, and recognizing the downfall that
impended sought only to rescue his or her ba-
con from the ruin that lurked in the very tenn
pies and strongholds. Treachery to the high
principles on which the foundations of the
State had been reared sapped the strength of
the commonwealth. The Ethiopian of the
South burst the barrier that common nature
had reared to confne him, ana the Mongolian,
scaling his native wall, poured in resistless
flood through the proud laundries of a prouder
people. Fenianism uSurped the throne of the
Democracy. Squatter sovereignty crippled the
aspiring wings of Republicanism, and the
statesman who had held the alluring reins of
political power until his thumb was bistered,
leaned against the forgotten lamp post and
watched the decay that crept at his feet
DEven the matrons of the nation felt the de-
generacy of the times and so influenced
the more powerful minds around them
that the shotgun became a terror to the
senator, while the representative trem-
bled at the resounding gurgle of the inno-
cuous gin fizz Following closely upon the
footsteps of these pioneers of fear, came the un-
folding of plan now fully matured. Sezing
uoon her position as the ex o6icio wife of an
acting president, the ranking matron of this
once proud and happy, but now broken spirited,
people imposed the yoke of temperance
upon the bended necks of her subjects and
substituted the feeble exhiliration of cold tea
for the generous intoxication of the iavigora-
ing whisky. Reduced to puerllity, tie sena-
tors bartered and fought over offices in the
Chamber OF Laws. Commerce stagnated, and
the sequence following swift busted the nation
and left upon the page of history the mournful
epitaph, sit was!''
The death of a people, born at once to gov
ern and obey, cuts hideous rut in the track of
tradition. But blind obedience to a misguided
sway inevitably finds its elimination up tree,
and, as in the case of the republic, leaves the
treasures OF the people to warlike distribution
among the Senegambian of the South and the
Mongolian of the Orient.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
Henry James in the Atlantic.l
Carlyle and the New England Girl.

recall the uproarious. mirth with which he
and Mrs. Carlyle used to recount the incidents
of visit they had received from young New
England woman and describe the earnest, de-
vout homage her credulous soul rendered him.
1t was her first visit abroad. and she supposed,
poor thug, that these famous European writ
ers and takers meant all they said, and were
as innocent and lovely in their lives as in their
books; and she no sooner crossed Carlyle's
threshold, accordingly, than her heart offered
its fragrance to him as literally as the flower
opens to the sun. And Carlyle, the inveterate
comedian, instead of being humbled to the
dust by the revelation which such simplicity
suddenly flashed upon his own eyes of his es-
sentially dramatic genius and exploits, was
irritated, vexed and outraged by it as covert
insult. His own undevout soul had never ris-
en- to the contemplation of himself as the
priest of really infinite sanctity and whom this
clear-eyed barbarian, looking past him to the
substance, made him feel himself for the mo-
ment the transparent mask or unconscious act
or that he was, self-consciousness took the
alarm. She sat, breathless, silly little maid,
between him and Mrs. Carlyle holding hand
of each, and feeling the while, her anticipation
of Paradise on earth so met in this foolish en-
counter that she could not speak the pious rap
ture which filled her SOUL
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
New York and It's D irt.

For some weeks the journals of New York
city have been teeming with articles con-
corning its neglected streets, its dirtiness,
and its consequent unhealthiness. Its Illus
trated papers have had pictures of it that
would well serve as awful examples in a
board of health report or an account of
Shepard Cowly and his flock. Readers of
the New York papers have sometimes
thought those papers were in earnest, and
have Stunned New York as they would a
pest-house. The result has been that the
trade of the city has greatly fallen off. Coun-
try merchants, seeing the yellow flag at the
masthead of every New York journal, have
not cared to go into quarantine, and have
made their bargains elsewhere. New York,
much to its surprise, has been taken at its
word 1t is not used to that, and complaius
bitterly because it is believed in.
The New York papers now say that the
city is not so filthy as they have represented
it to be. 1t is not too dirty, but
just dirty enough-for country trade.
They say they only tried to make a sensa-
ton. They succeeded. They have made
the streets of their city as dreadful as dyn-
amite bomb, and most men would as soon
be the Gar of Russia as visitor to New
York.
New York is undoubtedly dirty; but we
question if it has ever been as dirty as its
journals say it has. 1t certainly needs
good sp-ing-cleaning, and will, we hope,
speedily put itself under the scrubbing-
brush. We all like to visit it, but hardly
care to while its papers are filed with p. p.
C. cards. Even we ''provincials'' can take
that hint Perhaps the New York journals
are also capable of taking hint-when en-
phasized by kick-and will come to the
conclusion that it is for their interest and
that of irconstituencies, to be little more
truthful and a little less sensational than
heretofore.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
Worthy of Imitation,

THE mayor of Chicago has issued an order
to the police of that city which the mayor of
Portland would do we'll to copy. 1t is as
follows:
There is another class to whom / desire to
direct the attention of the force, and who also
may be properly classed as vakrants, and
should be arrested aud prosecuted as such, to
wit: Street-corner loafers and idlsrs who hab-
itually congregate on prominent street corners
and in front OF public places, using vile Ian
men who have occasion to pass by. You will
instruct your patrolmen that it will be their
duty to keep their respective posts entirely
clear of such, and report to me any member of
yonr command failing to comply with his in
structions in the premises
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
A gentleman in the New York Swamp met a

gentleman in the New York Swamp met
rather uncertain" acquaintance the other
day, when the latter said: I'm a little short,
and would like 10 ask you I conundrum in
mental arithmetic" Proceed" observed the
gentleman. "Well," said the short man,
suppose you had $40 in your pocket, and 1
should ask you for S5, how much would re-
main?" "Ten dollars" was the prompt an.
swer.- Shoe and Leather Reporter.
The latest and most refreshing Sabbath
School incident happened in class not thou
sand miles from Lewiston. The teacher had
grown eloquent in picturing to his little pupi's
the beauties of heaven, and he finally asked:
"What kind of little boys go to heaven" A
lively little four year old boy, with kicking
boots, flourished his fist "Well you may an
swer," said the teacher. "Dead onesl' the lit
tie fellow shouted, at the extent Of his lungs
Lewiston Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

PROVIDENCE Journal: A political party
shows its vitality and sound health when it
is remorseless and persistent in exposing
and Furnishing crimes and scandals which
have brought reproach on its good name, OR
done harm to the country under its shield.
A great deal about this star route matter is
mere conjecture as yet, but enough has been
intimated to demand a thorough and search
ing investigation; and all the vague threats
of disclosures by discarded and disgraced
officers should only make it the more severe
and complete. Meanwhile we can trust the
administration of President Garfield to do
its full duty in the matter.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
Magazine Notices.

The numbers of the Living Age for the
weeks ending April % and 50th respectively
contain articles on Macaulay and Lord Camp
bell, Fraser; Helena Fauct Martin on Desde-
mona, Blackwood; Sir George Ethridge and
Autobiography, Cornhill; Carlyle, Macmillan
A model Swiss Commune, and Miss Tyler on
Miss Austen, Spectator; Health aud Noun
tains, Pail Mall: The Iron and Stone Ages in
South Africa, Times of Natal; with continue
tions of The Freres and Visited on the Chill
dren, and the usual amount of poetry.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
muncations that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

PHILADELPHIA Press: The plan which
Gen. Malone advocates will pay nineteen
millions of Virginia's debt. The plan
which his opponents advocate will pay no
one can tell what. no one can tell when, no
one car tell how. 1t hasn't even paid the
interest for years. 1t is only perpetual
promise to pay.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
SLIGHTLY
D A N A G Ed.

Ihave just received a large lot
OF fine All Linen Handkerchiefs,
slightly damaged by manufactur-
er's imperfectiOns, consisting of
fine hemstitched, and hemstitched
with printed borders, fine all linen
with woven borders in cOlOrs and
corded borders, making one of the
largest lines of Handkerchiefs ev-
er offered in this market. I shall
offer the entire lot at about half
the regular price, and can assure
my customers they will not have
an opportunity to buy Handker-
chiefs SO cheap again for many a
day.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

LONDON Nature, in a review of the re-
port of the United States fish commission,
says, "We cannot part from it without ex-
pressing a feeling of almost envy at the
elaborate pains which the government of
the United States is taking to understand
the best methods of developing the great in
dustries of their seas. In this country we
do not even take steps to obtain the best
statistical information on the subject. Might
we not in such matter with advantage fol-
low the example of our transatlantic kins-
men2''
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

BEAcoNsFIELD's will is thoroughly char
acteristic of the man. In his ambition to
found family, he leaves all his property to
his brothers son and the heirs male of his
body, while the reversion to the female line
in default of such issue is conditioned upon
the assumption by the taker of the name of
nicraaI;
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

THE French postal office has introduced
postal cards with reply prepaid. Postmaster
General James, to whom we owe much and
of whom we expect more, will endear him
self to American newspapers by aping this
latest French fashion. Tie people xho
make inquiries and inclose no stamp for re-
ply exceed in numbers the dollars of the ma
tional debt-and they usually write to the
neWSnanerS
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

WILLIAM STRONG, recently associate JUS
tice of the United States Supreme Court,
thinks that the best way to relieve the Su-
preme Court Of the present pressure of busi-
ness upon it, is to create court intermedi-
ate between the Circuit and Supreme Courts,
which would result practically in the estab-
lishment of court of appeals in each of
the nine judicial districts. This plan, he
thinks, would be very much preferable to
the suggestions that have been made in re-
gard to the increase of the number of JUS
tices of the Supreme Court.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 80.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon lis by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent journal.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

Mr.. VENNoR, the predictor of weather,
has resigned his post in the Canadian Geo
logical Survey, and is about to establish a
mining exchange in Montreal
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

THE late Senator Carpenters estate is
said to amount to SOL. 800. All this is in
life insurance except $4,000, which is in
real estate.
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

PLEASE beari mind that the increased
expenditures for the Star routes were made
by a Democratic Congress 'devoted to econ
omv -
The Portland daily press., 1881-04-30

SECRETARY WINDOW begins to look like a
good financier. His disposition of the ma
turing debt is generally praised.