iUiH IfJUStCV I . S, OiliHfi I !: ju-k for Oregon KB IDA Y, JANUARY 20, IWI - Ninte Mvliux of ' K.'inihlictiu itiurnl f ouimm-.-c. Then will be a Meting of tlic Ro- mWicaii Slate Central t'oiuuiittee of ( tosrou, -at Salem, on the 1st dav oft IV! ruary, 1874, for the purpose of fix hit; toe time and place at liokllng tlie im xt tate convention, ami transacting other badness. Tlie personal nttcwl aucc of each member of theCommlttea i- inu-ful. E M.h marasn of tokooioottkic. ( !. M. 1 o-ter Baker. '. ( . Met "own.... . .CtflCkiimn'. Janiff iWeMi.. ;!'it;':i. ! lean HUm-hard CoTumota. s. s. Mann Coo. T Y. Crooks Curry. David Bushey Donglas, Y. M. WttiiiA, Grant. w. M. Turner Jackson. IV, M. Gibbons Josephine. John Barrows Luin. W. II. Haley....-.. . ....Lane. T.W.laVe$V.?i.UJiAfi t . P, CrandaU MtUtnonwh. B. V. Nichols Polk. T, ('. Franklin Umatilla. vv. .r. Sitodsffil Union. & T.V.. rnrneH,... Washington. 7.. !'. ?ltoiiv Wasco, J, W. Watt Yamhill. T. B. Odeneal Benton. -44 ) Ibe KoimbllMiii Leaden Who Are 0KmrI to in n. Urnnt. It would be a. Mry remarkable ciivuinstance, if there were not some Republican leaders, who were anxi ous to defeat the nomination of Gen. GrjuftVor the mtt Residen tial term. So long as men are am bitions and aspiring; so long as envy, malice and revenge are per mittcd to influence human motives and prompt human action, so long raav such oppositions be expivtcd. 'strength audjer;etuity of the na Presi deal Lincoln, it Will be re-1 tion,tholiappinessand enlightenment luembered, was surrounded by quite a number of hostile rivals, both in las Cabinet and out, rfl endeav ored by their intrigues to turn the popular senuraeut iagainst mm; bat ins omatie shrewdness en abled him t.i ciieutrivoiit the whole of them. There never has been a l residential candidate, for a second term, in the history of the country, but what has experienced more or ics of the same kind of opposition rivalshjpj which is BtiWleing u$ed by ambitious aspirants, or revenge fufpartisans, to supplant or secure the deeat ut tk-ird.wL.Sjlf. fsnness, or revenge, isat the bottom of the whole of the opposition to Gvn. Grant, we most heartily be- neve. J-yman i runiimii, w.no.iiKe Clun k's Stfflmwr, has, on weomit of 1 ing service in the United tat..s Senate, become somewhat dictatorial and overiRWtog.'fll Op posed to General Grant, because, since the vote he gave to save An drew Johnson in the Impeachment trial, he no longer enjoys the confi dence of'the President. Sumner be came angry at Grant because of the m in 1 l'l . removal of .Motley, as Minister to j England the latter having chosen j to take the advice of Sunnier on the Atokma fucstiun, ratcj.dhwj the iiistrnetions of SwreVjfry Tish. From that time forward, Stunner sought opportunity to inaktj him self as disagreeable to tlie President as possible. Influenced,we verily be lieve, by a petty spirit of spiteful revenge, he opposed tin? PmmmVt San Domingo policy, and intensified the quarrel so much between him self and Secretary Fish, as to com pel the Senate to remove him from the Chairmanship of the committee on Foreign Relations, in order tat j business might be transacted proper- ly. llecause the IVesideut had a j mind of bis own, and ditinot choose to follow the dictation of arrogant Charles Sumuer, the latter is op posed1 to him. Tlien comes this man Schurz one of the most bla- taut, (because the' most unpriu- cipled) bounders after the President, He assumes the part of iujureoju-; liocence in fact, they all do. The ! cause of this opposition to General ! Grant, is to be found in the refusal I of the President to appoint every : to ofnoe rjiom SchjirzraM- an l'resideut's term, he was one of the most inveterate bores in Washing ton for appointments in the civil service, being utterly careless, too, st0 their qualification. In one ii win j .i cni-ctlm ViiiF Vii-V TV! instance, says the New York Tune, 1 "be advocated the case of a citizen I of Missouri, who had neither social nor politic standing, for a foreign ; mission." Not Iviug alle in every instance to influence General "Grant to appoint every nan to !- tice whom Lis citpiditand reckless ness, as to qualification, might sliggesl, he CfJticludoJ to shbw the President that he was tremendous in fact, that he trailed the Ger man vote of this country. So he, together with Rrown of Missouri, lioltod the Republican ticket, and by their course, caused theclection of the Ppayjiifj di lair to the Uni ted States Senate. Tlie history of this man Schurz, from the time he came to this country until now, as related by the Tunes, presents lit tle else than dishonest intrigue and cupidity. Kenton ami Greeley be came offended because their desires were not carried out iu regard to the spoils of the New York Cus tom House, and Greeley wanted to bo President, too, so that it has become au axiom, that leading Re publicans" who are opposed to Gen. Grant, are influenced iu their op positifli by soiuc personal grievance, or motive, of this character. All of their efforts, however v will fail ; for opposition coming from this quar ter, animated by such motives, only shows the real value of Gcueral Grant's character, by contrast, aud increases the number of his support ers. Inflnt-iirc or the The newspaper press in tluscoun try is a tremendous power. The of our people, dcjwnd upon the political opinions entertained and put in practice by them. These political opinions are derived main ly Ironi the press; for the press is not only the conservator of politi cal intelligence, but is also the in structor, or school-master through the influence of which, the great mass of the people are taught polit ical knowledge and duty. Its opinions formed and inculcated are profcsedly based upon the founda tions of truth, justice and necessity. It takes hold of every question aud weighs it in these balances. In its news department, from statistics, j actual examples, and other sources, its general spirit is to impart cor- rect principles of morality.,,. It is therefore reformatory in its general character. We speak now of our daily and weekly (wlitical press, and do not include that class of in decent illustrated literature, and some not illustrated, whose para mount design and effort seems to be to encourage vice and licentious ness. Some have thongnt, howev er, that the tendency of our daily and weekly press is evil, from the JHTCliaT crimes and evirJeeoT "are narrated in all of their native de pravity, even to the minutest de tails. While some of them may do this without appropriate comments of condemnation, or without show ing a proper distinction between right and wrong in every instance, the great majority of them publish these details as a matter of news, with wholesome comments, uphold ing the pure and condemning the evil, and we therefore think that the general tendency of this department is designed to promote virtue and truth. In the heat of political dis- cussion, while freely, as should be done, criticising public men and measures, there is then most danger of zeal overtoppling prudence and honest dealing. Fair discussion and candid disputation is too often permitted to degenerate into person. af vituperation and abuse. This is the most obnoxious feature connect. cd with our newspaper political dis- cussious. The policy aud doings of public mcn,lhcir official conduct, are public property, and legitimate subjects of newspaper criticismi .their worthy deeds should be a planded, and their evil ones, If any, condemned; and their crimes should be held up in all of their enormity to the view of every observer ; but low, vulgar personalities so often ' indulged in between ctlitors as a 1 Giilf itntn fiw Ktmr.rfdtlrt mwt Mtt. substitute for honorable and cour teous discussion, is of no earthly benefit to the irty, and is a posi tive injury to the progress of good morals in society. PACiriJ" (WART REWS. Rev. J. F. Anderson, of M. E. Zion Church, who recently arrived iu Portland, is Presiding FJdcr of a district embracing all of Oregon and Washington Territory, and also British Columbia. The editor of the Eugene (!uarl is bored with letters from "many inquirers" to get Information about Oregon. He proposes to retail his views at 12 centsLj James Thompson, of Eugcile, was sent to limbo for one mouth for stealing a poeket-kuile and some other artleles of tridiig'valtw, says the Guard. A farm of 640 acres, twelve miles north of Eugene, and owned by Mr. Cummins, recently sola fof 8H,500, says the Guard, OffiecfMcCoy, ot; Dbrtland, re cently captured an escaped Chinese ooavict, at Oregon City, who was went to the Penitentiary, from Jack son county, alwut two years ago, for ten years, but who escaped not long since. ,,,u.. .,H,v ..cm; that Isaac Davis, ot .North l amiiill has lately killed two great snow or white owls, at his farm. One of tliem measured six feet from the tip of one wing to the tip of tlie other. Two screech owls have been caught in Dalles recently, and the Republican gravely inquires : "Is our town going to the owls and bats?" S The Dallas jieople are agitating the question f bringing tlie water- power of the Ellendale .Mill Com pany to town. The Dallas ReptMkan speaks of an old gentleman as having ar rived at that town propefling the following odd turnout: A box nailed to a round stick; wheels, three feet in diameter, made of inch plank, placed nyoneitlierend of the stick, or axle ; two sticks extend ing forward from this axle tor shafts, crossed by a bxr at the end to put the breast against to propel it. Within this vehicle was a knitting machine and the baggage of the traveler, lie proved to be an itine rant knitter of socks, etc. ; and had traveled from the East to Califor nia, mid from there to Amity, and from thence to Dallas, knitting as hecould find opportunity. F. Wood, one of the proprietors of the Brooklyn Hotel, died in San Francisco on the 18th. The day before he died, he paid up his over due jjremiumsjf 3.00 on a life pol icy oi iu,uuu Tlie Japanese Embassy are mak- jng excursions, about 'Frisco. Saski, Chief Justice of Japan, was partic ulaly struck with the Rogue's Gal lery in San Francisco, and ordered his Secretary to take notes ot the system. Tlie increase of foreign trade in San Francisco for 1871, was ?9,002, 796, of which 87,123,537 was Chinese trade. The residence of .Air. Ii D. Towl, ofSalem, was burned on tlie 20th, the furniture bing saved. It was insured for ?2,500. There are forty-two Smiths, six teen Jones and eighteen Browns in Portland. The Orcffonim has in its pos session an original statement of funds received and disbursed by U. S. Grant in 19) at Detroit, while, as Second Lieutenant of the 4th in fantry, was he performing the duties of Commissary of Substance. The Columbia river is full of ice. During the year just closed four hundred ant forty-one deaths have occurred in Stockton, Cal. -The Eugeueotr; desires that a college be started there. An $18,000 private residence is to be erected at Salem by E. N. Cooke. fc Stops are now being taken to re furnish and open the Chemeketa Hotel at Salem. link river, in Southern Oregon, is talked of by a Salent company as a good place for a woolen factory, i President Thiers, of France, in The wheat crop of California for accordance with i. is previous inti 1S72 is estimated at fully double mations. sent to the Assembly on that of 1871. the '20th inst. his formal resignation The Japanese Kmhassy will leave ' as President, aoeompatilea also by San Francisco for the Eastern the the announcement of the resignation 30 or 31st inst. iofalltlie .Ministers. A vt te was Money is being raised to erect a adopted almost unanimously, only Congregational edifice at Seattle. I six memWrs dissenting, appealing ThesawmilU at Tacoma now J to the patriotism of tlie President, have a capacity of 50,000 feet ; and refusing to accept the resigna daily. ft tj Ition. A deputation was appointed A company has been organized t to announce to Thiers the action ot at San Francisco to engage in the the Assembly. -V Deputy, subse whale fishery in the Northern Pa-; quently moved that a committee be cific. Seattle is to liftlnDadtpiprtcrs. appointed to endeavor to affect a It is ivtorted that Gov. Salo- compromise with the Kxceutive, and mon of W. T. was compelled to re- i in case of failure to consider and re sign, probably on account of his ;pgr.yo the Assembly forthwith what connection with the Lainper affair. , measures should bo taken under the Low dance houses and gambling circumstances. . hells are on the increase in Fort- All the Parliamentary clubs are land. City prisoners, are compelled to work on the streets at Salem. The Salem Stuh'smun says that the Willamette Univer.ty is in a most lirosiierous condition. The attendance mover two hundred, all above the primary department. There have been 8 burials in the 1'oitlaiKl cemetery m the past )'eai- A letter written from Cauyou City to the BuUctin under date of jau. 1st, gives tlie particulars ot a yerv. retnnrkable land slide which occurred at that place. An elegant cottage-house, owned by Mr. Mc- Cullough, with four porticoc's, neat garden fencing, was carried a dis- tauce of two hundred and forty yards into Canyon creek. Mrs. Mc- J Cullouuh anil uieec were entertain - ing some frteds at the time, the lat ter Wing engaged iu. performing a i .litl!,.ii!f ntant tif inncii. mi flin ei'arni I , ' , , .' I Castle, England, recently destroyed when the earth bewail to move qui-i ; ,. ! ov fi re etly Ijencnth them. Of course they ' J ' . were astonislietl find alarmed. On I eaxti:k m:wis. examination, however, they found rr)e eeraiy approTC of that the slide had not injured 4he j tlie vroyxt ft,r a Iiew house or surroundings, but ha.l fi.om English coast to the Umt sinrply moved them to a hcalthuM ej States, as it Will secure cheaper location. The slide is supposed to f rates. have been about ten acres of ear! h. The (lefense M wU, to p i,,c'-,"'l mm "wl of Santa Rosa, Cal., were dumping j acartidtoapond, when the cart a cart into a poi.u, when tlie cart and all went oil the lank into tlie ' pond, catching both men under tl'e j cart. McGinty was drowned, and j his companion so injured that his life is despaired of. t'OHEUiX KEWB. A German Court-martial hascon demned the Principal of the college of Vitrey lc Francaisc, Pari -, to throe months imprisonment, for per mitting his students to make hostile demonstrations against tho Get mans. ' . fhe French Goveniment has made formal demands on Austria for the extradition of J.esereres, ('ami betta's private Scretaiyduritsg the German war, and subsequently con nected with the Cummuue... Thiers is reported as threatening to resign if the Assembly rejects the new tariff on raw material. Jlinister Washburn,' Rancroft, Davis and other Americans collect ed with Geneva arbitration, have taken offices in the Rue"de la Paix, Paris, and will remain until the next meeting of the tribunal. The American Charitable Society of Paris is to be reorganized. A new political club, to be com jioscd only of Progressionists, Las been formed in Madrid, Spain, and already numbers 400 members. Onthe22d ult., the Pope offi cially proclaimed the appointment of twenty-eight new bishops, of whom nineteen were Italians aud three Frenchmen. The Kingdom of Portugal pro poses to adopt some measures to keep its working may from crai grating to the United States. The Paris Univerte publishes this prayer, which tho Pope is- said to offer up daily for France: "O Mary, conceived without sin, look down jupon France; pray for France; O save France 1 The greater its guilt, the greater its need of thi in- tercessioii. A single word to Jesus, rcciinimr. ling in thine arms, and Fjanee .ed. JbTrrryaiid is sav ve France." sending deputations to Thiers to persuade him from his pui'ivse. The Deputies of the Uight Center held a meeting this evening ami adopted resolutions declaring that a tariif was solely a question of finance, not j,,,- ,K,iticj) aiid Q voting against j tle proposed tax on raw materials tiev j,a,i no intention of expressing , want ot- C()1)fiUci:cc 'm the goveru- meut at Versailles, and a deputa tion of twenty was appointed by the j A,,nhW bn ttito,l rm Thiers I thfs eVcniuSr and informed him of m? vote in which the Chamber re fused to accent his resignation. j Thiers consented to remain in tlie ipc 0f tho ("hamberand country. j rt j, probable the present Ministry wjn ,vn,a: m 0ftjW) m v v .... i . n .. The a tncultv between Germany 1 , , ,.!.. ami i u .i.u lias oceu sen ten tiuuiaun . A national subscription is propos ed to assist in rebuilding Warwick : in the Stokes' case, will 1 thatthei-e . -j ns a aVktwni-Maov tilct Stokr-s' ... aM() m wa,s tl)Creforo in self deface. It is stated that Fisksestate is worth not more than 6100,000, after the payment of his debts ; also that the Grand Central Hotel sent in a bill for if"2,500 for rooms, which Fisk owes. A Washington special says the result of the inquiry of the Commit tee of Ways and .Means into the Syndicate transaction is the discov ery that Government Las lost inter est on one hundred and thirty mil lions for three months, duriiig which time this money was in the hands of Syndicate, and that Government had no security for it whatever. In answer to inquiries by Cox, Bout well said the debt had increased to one hundred and thirty millions ; that he construed tlie law to justify him in this temporary increase to enable him to place the loan upon the market. He considered that tlie law gives him largo discretion in the matter. Jay Cook in his tes timony refused to say how much tho Syndicate gained in the opera tion. It is understood the Secre tary will make no more Syndicate transactions until Congress has ap proved past operations. The news on tho 15th from Fort Platte states that Duke Alexis had killed his first buffalo. A Berlin letter states that the German Goveniment received a letter from Gortehakotf relative to the Catacazy affair. This circular lar is said to have been necessary from the following circumstances: American Minister Reymer, during a dinner at the house of the Gcr man Minister at Copenhagen, pro posed reading a letter from the American Government explanatory of the Catacazy affair, but the Rus sian Minister refused to listen, and the German Ministry sad such a letter must not bo readin his house. Sul-sequflrtly Reyme: rwent to each pfiufeter m Copenhagen, and read the letter to them individually, theyjof course, reporting to their governments. The Russian Minis, ter (Cadei.t) feds vexed over the affair, and rumor are afloat in Her. j linithat a coolness between 'Prus. : sia and the Uuited Mates has arisen therefrom. The same letter states that advics 'fK ui st. Petersburg represent that ti e Emperor and all the Secretaries tfwre consider Alexis slighted By 1 roideiit t - rant iu not returning the visit, and tlie Eiaper- ! or will not allow Alexis to return I . i, ... to v asiiingtoii. It is said that a rumor prevails at St. Petersburg that Alexis has becu married since his arrival in America to a Ihistdan lady whom his father oppOsetl. It is proposed to move a resolii tion in the New York Legislature to declare Tweed's place vacant, if he does not present himself; and when lie does present himself, his lexptdsion will be moved. The j Election Committee have summoned j Tweed to appear before them on the 25th. The 'New York Time has dis covered another fraud in the Re j pa'rimont of Public Works, growing ! out of four contract s for iron pipes, concluded finder the auspicxs ot Tweed) whereby the city is robbed of 9120,000. An anonymous letter has lee:i received by the Mayor of Chicago from San Francisco, in which tho writer confesses to having set tire to Mrs. O'Mera's barn on the night of the fire writer thought to be some insane person. A jury was impanneled in Chica go on the 18th inst., to try Alder man Glade of the present Council, for bribery, Plead 'not guilty. Secretary Fish now asks for a efficient appropriation to pay the expenses of the Chinese Embassy, just arrived in this country, during their stay here, thus making them tfie guests of the government. Mrs. Stanton lays the bhur.e of the Wyoming woman suffrage re peal at the door of Miss Anthony. Telegrams of ti e 15th inst. re- port the following bills which had been introduced into the house of Representatives at Washington : A bill to have tho bust of the late Admiral Farragut placed in the Capitol. One to provide currency in coin and paper, of eiinl and uniform value throughout the Unit ed States. Cue to aliolish the office of Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Gov. R. Dennis has been elected United States Senator by the Mary, land Legislature. The Kentucky Senate on the I9tji. passed a bill allowing colored per sons to testify in the courts. There was a numlx?r of cases of small pox reported in Washington on the 19th inst. Tho Post evolves this : uIu 1872 there will be five eclipses two of the moon, two of th: sun, and one of tho Radical party." Hugene Guard. A very opaque body, rifted and torn with "Departure ' eruptions, will shutout its luiniiousness it the Democratic orb eclipse! it. Kimball, the head of the Tobac co Division of the Internal Reve nue Department, estimates the num ber of tobacco consumers in the United States at 8,000,000, who each consume eleven pounds and fourteen ounces of tobacco and one hundred and sixty-seven cigars an nually. He says a thorough collec tion of the taxes would produce' a revenue of $25,000,000. John Russell, messenger of the Metropolitan Bank, New York, was robbed in the streets, on the 20th, of $23,000 iu gold certificates and a quantity of note and bonds. No arrests were made. Tho Chairman of tho Executive Committee of tho Reform Democ racy in New York City reports the number of names enrolled to lie 24e 000. In tho terrific storm which raged on tho Pacific Railroad last month, tho wiud blew directly from the south. .