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jpimxii) rosier. satcrday. 11. 1S71. 1". S. OiUt'isil lt;cp for Oregon. i Mklk t'anal Acrtiix t3e Xn11isin. In reference t a ship canal scros the Istlnnus of Darien, nuicli lias Ikh'ii said, conjectured and written. We now have a report from Com mander Sel fridge to tl;c I'nited tates ( loveri.mont, endea oring to KASTKKM Mm News- from Cincinnati, dated Nov. 3d., state that B. F. Ran dolph, charged with murdering his wife, attempted suicide in the Del aware county jail the evening be fore, and then confessed that he The election news which comes thundering across the plains from the Atlantic slope and MisMssippiJvaliey is tno.-t gloriou. Republican principles an again triumphant. The Demo cratic party is again routed, foot, horse and dragoons. The power of Tam many. s long a source of monstrous jevilstoNew York, and a disgrace to the Democratic party of Hie nation, is eM'etlually broken, anil the St itc of New York i.ag tin p'.aced in flic hands of the Republican party. In Mass achusetts Xcw.Serey, Maryland, Ill inois. V'isi-o-i-in. Minnesota, I the Re publicans have reason to rejoice in their signal triumphs a:ul increased Mites. The statement of a ilemoir.ilie journal, that "the Republican party has on! live 1 it day of u vfuhiess." docs not Mvm to he corroborated by the present election n turns; hut on the contrary, it seems to have taken a stronger hold on the a fleet ion of the people than ever, who have given it a fresher start, and more vigorous impulse in the line of usefulness. 1'nt where oh where is good old" 1 nomocracy all this time ? 1 las it entirely vamosed the ranch? Is it wholly lhsuked? Xofc quite. W ith its Tammiiy "leader, it wends hs solitary way. gloomy, heart -broken di-gu ted. down to the bone. SUM S', ate. where with Indians, Mexican greasers and ex-R 1 els, it can die in congenial company, and in genuine i k-mocratic g!ery hallehigeruni. The election news isas follows: New York city e'ected eighteen re form candidates for the Assembly and three Tammany candidates. jAll re lorm candidates for Aldermen fire suc cessful, ai d ltanz Si ge' carried the city 'by 5.(1(0 majority. Tweed is elected by a large majority, hut w ill be expelled from the Senate, as that is largelv Republican. The State cf New York is llepuhiiean from KUMX) to -i0.O(0 majority. The Senate has '20 Kepublica ns to V) Democrats and :i doubtful. In the Assembly there are Ss Republicans ami 10 Democrat. 'Washburn carries Massachusetts by a majority of 100.200, and a plurality of from 25.00O to :!0.00O. The Demo crats have 4 out of 10 Senators, and 04 out of 2-"0 members of the House. In New Jersey, l'arker is elected Governor by from 3.0CO to 5.000 ma jority. Legislature is Republican in both branches. In Maryland Rt publicans have gain ed ai over the State. .In Illinois, Keveridge, Republican, is elected to Congress by about 20,000 majority. Medill's maioritv for flavor of (.hieagois 12.000. in Wisconsin, Vahhurns majority over Doolittle for Governor, jis about 10,000. Legislature is Republican in both branches. j In Minnesota, returns from seventy- ovdit towns anil cities give Austin (Rep.) 3.T2S; Young (Item.) 1,095. In Michigan, for the first time in twelve years, Detroit has gone Repub- lican, electing the Mayor by 82.1 ma iority. In Virginia, the conservative ticket lias carried the State by about 20,000 majority. This is about as much good news as we can .stand in one dose. show- that a "ood sliip canal can he j nuirdered his wife ly strangling, Stephen Waterman, memlicr of the State Legislature of Rhode Island, shot himself in the head at Providence on the 'id. From C hicago, Nov. ?d, it is constructed across tie Isthmus at. a cost f about Sl-Ji.000,000. The eastern terminus would he in the Darien hay, from whei.ee the route would vass up the Atrato river a distance of InO miles to the mouth stated that the total registration ot of the Napipi river, i'nmi tliis i the city is loss than 14,000, or one. point, it would pursue a direct line I half the manlier of last year. The to tl e Cum ca hav in the Pacific ! registration it is thought will not uvan. The Commander estimates j go beyond 17,000. that :"00,000 would be sullic'ent to construct all necessary locks, as the trato r:cr is navigable. A tun- iei, live miles long, 170 feet high aiul 70 ieet wide, necessary to be omtrueted for the passage of ships, estimated to cost f.3,000,000. fhe figures are large but it" the dan of Commander SellYidge is a good one, commending- itself to the udgment of those who have so ong been looking for something easible to develop in that direction, the canal may be built in the pro cess ot time. The Corvallis Gazette says in last week's issue : Not a single drunk worth mentioning in Corval lis this week. Where liquors are extensively diluted with water, this is frequently the ease. The same journal says "quite a number of watermelons are visible at Harris' store." Let those fond of making observations remember; this, and direct their instruments according ly. Walla Walla lias no skating rink ; and the editor of the Union in view of the statement that all o the towns of the' size of Walla Walla, and many .smaller ones. have rinks, inquires ; "Why is it thusly Albany lias no rink and may we not ask conjunctively why thusly thusly ? Intellect is a good thing to "have hut sometimes it does not go far enough. An Indiana cooper, find ing considerable difficulty in keeping in tme ot the heads ot a cask lie was finishing in its place, put his son inside to hold the ' bead itp. Alter completing the -work to his own Katisfaction, he was astonished to lind his bov inside the cask, ant: with no possibility . of getting out except through the bunghole. The Salem Orphan's Home has six orphan inmates. I!;ir Ken liciK'tit ii. Information from Cormany an- nounces that toe iicriuan rt:c exjedition reached the open I'olari Sea which was seen bv lr. Kane. 7'he expedition announces that the sea is lull ot wr.aies, ana max water fowl are numerous. It was at last accounts sailing on ti.tending to sail directly nast the North l'ole il possible. I his expeiuiion seems to liave tollowed the (.ult Stream around the wet coast ot A ova Zembla. 7'lie theory of Caitain I lent, to follow the ( iulf Stream in the Atlantic, or a similar warm stream in the Pacific, with the wa ter thermometer, to where these streams meet in the Artie, seems to have lieen the course pursued by the Cerinan . expedition, and they have thus been enabled to reach the open Polar sea. ZMtil Miriitluii ami Otiirrs ICiete. Governor Palmer of Illinois, is reported to have issued positive in structions to Attorney General Uushnell to procure the 'indictment of Lieutenant-Geueral P. II. Sheri dan, of the United States Army, F. V. Sherman, a bogus militia Colonel of Chicago, and others, who were engaged in the proceedings which led to the murder of Colonel Thomas W. Grosvernor. Col. ( Jros veimor, it will be remembered, was shot and killed by a young man lx? longing to a volunteer guard, ae- tinx under the orders of Gen. Sheri dan, Mayor Mason and others, dur ing one of the nights of the great eontlagration. The Colonel refus ed to halt, when commanded by this guard, and was shot. The Chicago Relief Committee of San Francisco have raised $100, 500. besides this, $8,000 has been forwarded to Wisconsin, and $7 ,000 to Michigan. The employees at the Umatilla Agency donated $1G0 for the bene fit of the Wisconsin sufferers. Howlise-Wampo, Chief of the Cay uses, gave $20, and Winap-Snoot, Chief of the Umatillas, gave $4. The Chicngoans have nominated a third ticket fla- city and county officers, headed by l;r. X. S. Davis for Mayor. In Chicago, twenty-five hundred wooden buildings are now in course of erection in the North Division, 000 in the South., and loO in the West. Permits for the erection of permanent buildings of stone and brick continue to be issued daily. George P. Williams, Second Deputy Commissioner of Internal Pevei.ue, has been engaged by the Japanese Minister for three years, at a large salary, to go to Japan and organize an internal revenue sys- I tern similar to that of the I "l sited i j -tates. I'e is to start January lt. Mayor Thomas, long connected with the Js'ititnt Inti JI'fji ncr died Nov. 1st, at Washington. The Internal Revenue receipts for the fiscal year amount to 48, 000,7:10. Judge ITari.ard, of New York, stated in court Nov. od, that he was determined, upon abolishment of the law for imprisonment for debt or as a witness, and that he doubted not that the .murderers of Nathan and Rogers would have been discovered but for fear on the part of , some one who had seen them of indefinite imprisonment. A member of the Committee of Seventy, ot New York, states that Judge Ledwith sold out to Tam many during the Rochester Con vention. His reward is a lieavy jwxmniary consideration, besides the Supreme Judgeship. . The Congressional appropriation for removing the Hell Gate obstruc tions is exhausted, and several workmen have liecn discharged. At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Nov 4th, a terrible explosion took place at the railroad depot, the lo comotive boiler of the train explod ing. George Volkuer, engaged in shoveling coal into the tender, was blown into the air fifty feet and foil two hundred yards distant, a man gled corps?,ha ving no clothing on but one lioot. Adam Shilling, foreman, was killed, the top of his head being blown o1f. Adam Wanele, laborer, was injured, but to what extent is not known. II. Rurt, fireman, is injured. Fred. "Douglass was unanimously nominated as the Republican can didate for the New York Assembly, on the 4th inst., at Rochester. The President recently appointed Geo. II. Illake, of Pennsylvania., Minister Resident at Constantino ple, vice McYeagh, resigned, and John Hunt Hawes for Iloksdadi. From Washington, Nov. 3d., a dispatch states that five hundred troops have been ordered to Fort The Swiss residents of New York intend to have a grand celebration in honor of the five hundred and fifty-sixth anniversary of the inde pendence of Switzerland, on No vember 17th. The Sultan of . Turkey recently refused to grant guarantees in re gard to the status of the Catholic subjects in Turkey, to Signor Frauche, Papal Envoy, as the Sub lime Porte refuses to discuss the condition of its Christian subjects. The San Francisco Alta says that the crime of jerking the hair out of your wife's head is not so sinful as it formerly was. It is just as ungeutlemauly as ever, but it doesn't hurt as it used "to. The N.-Y. Herald heads a letter dated Olympia, W. T., "letter from Wyomingi" Leavenworth for assignment to the Eighth Cavalry. That V. G. Powell, late clerk in the Second Auditor's office, charged with conspiracy with N. U. Stokes and others to defraud the State, was released on $10,000 bail. The same dispatch states that the agent at Fort Gibson represents that there- are over eight hundred white tresspassers from Kansas on the Osage Reservation. The surveyors recently sent to the Osage country to fix the line to the 9Gth degree, made the line four miles west of the previous survey, by which the choice lands of the valley can be taken from the Osages, thus pushing the Indians upon a moun tain region. The Administration has directed that for the present the Indians must not be disturbed and shall be protected. The names of Col. Tappau, Col II. A. Clum, and General F. A Walker are mentioned in connec tion with thd Commissionership of Indian Aftairs. The managers of ' the American Rible Society donate $5,000 to the Chicago Rible Society. The Chicago VW says it U com puted that about 18;000 workmen are already engaged in clearing away the ruins in the burnt district tor business purposes. The Government was engaged last week in investigating the charges against Judge J. Wright, of Washington, formerly of Indiana, in relation to his connection .with the bounties and pensions due the 'Indian soldiers ot the Creek, Chero kee and Seminole nations who serv ed on the froi.t'er -during the rebell ion. It is 'Hedged that the frauds amount to $-100,000, and some, check payments for bounty were cashed by the Assistant Treasurer at New York upon the endorsement of dead soldiers' names, by Wright or his agents. The following military changes have lioen made by the President: North Carolina transferred from the Department of the Mast t the Department of the South. The In dian Territory, north of Texas, and south of Arkansas, is added to the Department of Texas, under the command of General Augur, and the Department of .Texas is added to the Division of Missouri. The Department of Platte is discontinu ed. The States of Louisiana, Ar kansas, Mississippi and the Gnlfposts will continue in the new Department of the Gulf, to be commanded by Col. Morey. The 5th Cavalry is ordered to Arizona; the Jld Caval ry is ordered to Fort McPherson; Second Lieutenant F. (J. Grant, of the 4th Cavalry is ordered to re port to the General of the Army, lie will accompany General Sher man on a tour of military inspec tion through Furope. One county in Tennessee has pro duced 400,000 bushels of peanuts. Twenty-one millions of the Yir ginia State debt has been refunded up to October 10th. Paudman, the actor, gave $2,870 to Chicago. Pen Puttier gave to the Chicago relief fund the $400 he got for his Philadelphia lecture against the Washington Treaty. Tne Columbus (Ohio), Mate. u,an, a leading Democratic journal, says: "We lielievc the riot in New York and the unblushing steal ing of Tammany lost us both Ohio and Pennsylvania at the. late elec tion." Philadelphia has one hundred and sixty citizens who are worth from one to ten millions. Tweed, the Tammany thief, was held to answer in $2,000,000 bonds instead of $1,000,000 as stated in our last issue. The names of the bondsmen are as follows : Jay Gould qualified in $1,000,000 per sonal projierty ; lienjamm Fan child, in $o00,000 in real estate?" Terence Farley, in $300,000 in real estate; Bernard Kelly, in $5100, 000 in real estate and personal property ; and Hugh J. Hastings, in $100,000 in personal property. The office of the Iloboken Trader (New Jersey) was gutted on the morning of November Gth, by some unknown parties, supposed to have lieen rival Democratic factions. The M. E. Church of Franklin, Pennsylvania, recently gave $1,000 to aid in rebuilding the M. F. Church in Chicago. .t the Erie Conference it' is proposed to increase the amount to $2&,000. Pratt's oil factory at Hunter's Point, was burned Nov. 5th. Dur ing the fire a large tank filled with gasoline exploded, seriously burn ing four firemen. Loss, $20,000. At Louisville, Kentucky, a very distressing accident occurred in the African Baptist Church, on the corner of Fifth and York streets, on the night of November 5th. A col umn in the basement gave way, creating a terrible panic among the congregation in the upper room, all of whom rushed and jammed into two narrow stairways; men tramp. ling over women and children in their flight. Some eleven persons were killed outright two of them were children. A number are more or less wounded. One had a leg broken. The scene was terrible and heartrending mothers screaming over dead children, and husbands in agony oVer dead wives. The col umn or pillar which gave way proved to have been standing on the lower floor, between the joists, with nothing under it but inch floor Charles E. Woolsev, a school teacher in Christian valley, Dela ware, was killed last Sunday by Stephen II. Castner, a Justice of the Peace. Castner surrendered to the authorities. The Stewart Paper Company mill at Prooksville, Ind., burned last Monday morning. Loss, $70, 000; insurance, $25000. From Boston, Nov. Gth, we learn that the effect of the Lews of the disaster to the - whaling - fleet ad vanced whale oil lrom sixty cents to a dollar er gallon. New Bed ford insurance offices lose a million dollars by the d saster. Martin Yankleck, 17 years old, has been arrested on suspicion of stealing six thousand dollars' worth of jewelry from his lather in Brook lyn, New York The New York, Tribune says : There were consumed at a single beer-garden in the Bowery during the three Summer mouths, 3,300 kegs of lager beer, 324,000 glasses, which, at five cents per glass, cost the imbitiers $10,200. The President has appointed William I'rescott Smith and John W. Davis commissioners -from Maryland for the Centennial Cele bration of American I nde lendence. .Major J. B. heeler of the Engin eer Corps has resigned. At a Republican meeting held at Montgomery, Alabama, the com bustibles used in an anvil exploded, killing two men and wounding sev eral others seriously. A dispatch dated Washington. Xn veniher '5d, says: Iufrni:i.tion has heeu received that '200 Ku Klux have made voluntary con fessions and sur rendered to th authorities. They are disgusted with the Ku Klux. Seven of them confess in writing. It is esti mated that SOU have - lied, and 110 are con lined in jail. The Yorkviile, pris oners sjeak well of their treatment. A number have been released on parole. Application has been made to the Supreme Court of the Untied States tin-a madamustocompel the Secretary of the Treasury .to draw a v.arant for . f:i5, 000 al'eged to he due Kentucky for arming troops in the late war. It is believed that it will be unsuccessful. Tlie Portland Ornoniatt " makes the following truthful relleetion: Tweed's election not only disgraces the Democratic arty, but is a reproach to ' the country and to the republican gov eminent. It proves that there is no power in the ballot against the - worst, form of demagogism, and will be quo ted everywhere a the strongest possi ble argument against political in-f itu t ion founded 011 the suiiiages of this people. 'Gov. Grover has Appointed the fol lowing named iiersoiw Commissioner of Deeds for Oregon. Fred. K. Ander son, XeW York City; 1. A. Ilayne, Chicago; James I lam, Memphis. Ten nessee. Bay sells readily, at $22 per ton it Salem, says the Statesman. Two large baud of lieet' cattle were lately driven from the Ochoco country oyer the .Mountains to the Willamette Valley. This the commencement of what in a few years wiil be a largo and money m iking business. The Corvall'H market i destitute of butter and eegs. , Potatoes in Montana are selling ?.t thirty cents per bushel. The Circuit Cotirt for lime county. convened on last . Monday, with 42 cases on docket, six 01 wiucli are divorce suits-. , Empire City, Coos county, is to have a newspaper, published by . Mr. M. N. North, formerly of Corvallis. , Oysters are said to be larger ami more! abundant at Yaquina bay, this season than ever known before. A dispatch from Paris. France, dated Nov. Wh, states that Victor Iliiiro has made a second visit to Thiers to procure the pardon of JlenriKoche fort. Tin President'! received him kindly hut declined to interfere. The Communist Quesnel has been convicted of tiring buildiiiirs in Pari and has been sentenced to death. The Iie!iau Government forward ed '20.000 francs for the relief of Kel- arian settlers in Wisconsin, recently The Government has. also opened a subscription tor voluntary contribu tions. The Queen of TCnjjiaud has post poned the meeting of lrliment until the 2i th ot December next. Kusenie was eo'dlv received, it is said, on the occasion of her recent arrival in Madrid. The, ex-leader of fashions was very plainly dressed. Mie wore a very simple black traveling uit, and no jewels ot any description. JSy the last census ot Kussia, and m accordance with estimates, the popu lation of the Itussian empire is up wards of 80,000.000, distributed as follows: Kussia proper, 52,000,000; PolandCuicludingthe Polish provinces), 1(5,000,000; Finland, 1,800.000: Sl- lx'ria and the Caucasus. 10,000,000 ; Turkistan, upward of 1.000.000. The extraordinary sum 01 sn 5,000 was recently obtained in two weeks from the Caledonian gold reef in New Zealand. Considerable more than si ton of cold was extracted from live hundred tons of quarts:. The hugene City dvard contains an account ot the death ot .John Iserly, whether bv h'w own hand, or from drugs administered by others, is not delmitelv settled. They are circulating a subscription paper in Walla Walla, W. T., for the purpose of pledging the sum of $75,000 in gold coin, to be paid to 'the; Walla Walla ana coiumtna liiver ltauroau Company, in three installments, one- third 011 trie laying ot ten miles of track; one third 011 haying ot twenty miles ot track; and the remainder when an entire railroad track is com pleted from Walla Walla to the Colum bia river. The road is to tie the much talked-of narrow gauge, if built. The Walla Walla liecord announces no new cases of small-pox in that place, nut rnanv new taees. The two subjoined dtems .are from the Dalles Mtuntuineer : Mr. .Broad- well, who lives on Kight Mile ereek. brought to town on Thursday a potato of the peachblow variety that weighed over lour pounds. Ii. F. Hastings & Co., of Sacramen to, Gal., have susiieuded. They have been, 111 business since 1849, and al w-avs stood well.'- - It is now stated, that in discharging the cargo of the bark Whistler, which was on fire for two weeks at San Fran cisco, that most of it was found unin jured. The fire was in a lot ot second hand furniture, etc., Deiween oecKS, underneath which was salt, which pro tected the freight below. The United States steamer Gueri'erre, is to bring the remains of Gen. Robert Anderson to this country. Patrick Hughes., fell and broke Ills neck at East Portland last Tuesday nicrht. Supposed to have fallen lrom the trestle-work. lie . leaves a family m W isconsm. Captain B. G. O'Brien, Assistant United States Assessor for Washington Territory, while endeavoring to save .Judge Green from .falling into the river at Vancouver last Monday, fell in himself and came near" drowning He was finally fished out by the offi cers of the steamboat r ancouver. Sheriff Palmer, of Corvallis, on Saturday, last, shot and killed a deer within a few feet of his dwelling in the central part of the city, says the JUemocrut. -Kite Texw "Vietorj-." While the Democratic pajjers nr.- blowing over their victory in Texas, the only success they have had this year, it becomes interesting to know how the victory was obtained. The Washington correspondent ot the New York Triimnc states that letters from Texas give particulars a to how the Democracy carried that State. The Republican vote in the more thinly populated counties has been decreased, -and one of the ways of bringing about this result was lor Democratic can vassers to call at the cabins and dwel lings of the pooi-er people with a list of the registered voters, and demamk. from each" one an account of how he was going to vote whether, for the Democrats or "scoundrelly Radicals." These canvassers would tell the white voters what fearful con equences would follow the last named vote ; how they would lie scorned by all their rave, their children would be insulted and ' their wives ostracised. If a merchant or other person dependent on patro nage, it was suggested that loss ot custom -would be the consc'iucnccj The colored people were threatened with loss of work ami consequent . starvation. This sort of thing was skilfully done", so as fo avoid the law, and was very effectual in its results Appeal. ago some one A day or two overturned a chair in Judge Barn ard's .Court in New York, when his Honor remarked : "Be careful and not break that . piece of furni ture, as it has already cost the city 440,000 to repair it." The Walla Walla ; Statesmtr . says that the first prisoner confined in the new city jail of that place as a woman a strong minded one. iter right to the tan no one dared to dispute. The Pittsburg Commercial calls Joaquin Miller a "literary ring-tailed roarer." lie means by that, that the Oregon Poet is "scmo piinkins'' as a reckless "hit or miss cuss. The little steamer Forty Nine is running again on the Columbia river above Colville, carrying sup plies for the Canadian Pacific Kasl- road survey,"1 - - j President Thiers is uncertain of his tenure of life, and has made a political will, hoping to secure a succession in the Presidency for Pernor. 1 Boston, St. Louis and San Fran cisco are . candidates for holding the National Republican Convention of 1872. All good places, The total debt of the tfmted States was $2,315,492,506, on No vember 1st. "Only that and noth ing more. In London suicides are 1 in 175 deaths. Tn Kew York 1 in 172 ; in Vienna 1 in 100 ; in Paris 1 in 75. : Paris is the champion suicidest. Steelacom wants the Legislature to amdlid the law of incorporation, as thinness of population makes a "city government too expensive. ! The Italian-government contem plates the fortification of the Alpine passes, at a cost of seven million francs. ? ut, iN oixn nas purcnasea mater ial and proposes to issue a paper at Empire City, Coos county, soon. The Nea Perce Indians were to hold an election at Lapwai, last Monday, to select a head chief for the tribe. The Mountaineer mentions hav ing seen some good sized applet sixteen to the bushel, Jacksonville appropriates lu 000 for water works.