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09WtMi . l . H. Official Pepcr rp ftrrvon. l'lUHAY. FEBRUARY 3, 172. ItEI'UU.H AS NTATECOWeimOS. A l'epnblican State Convention for the State of Oregon will lc lieW at the city of Portland, at 11 si m.. on Wednesday, the 28th day of March, 1872, fur the purpose of nominating a candidate for mem ber ot Coi gress; six delegrates to tlic National Republican Conven tion to be held at Philadelphia, June, 1872; three Presidential Kleetors; ami tbrthc transactton of sweh other business as may be thought proper. The several counties will 1 en titled to Delegates iu such Conven tion as follows : , Ifclker County licnton County Clackamas Countyy Cuitson County.... ,., Coiiiu4iiity..'.. , .. iirrv Cnuutv ColuuiC ia (. ouuty 2 ltonglas County..-:... lr Grant County.... . " .hiekson County1. 10 Josephine County '.. 3 Lane County 13 Linn County 17 Million County 24 Mukuomih Canity... 24 l'oik County 11 TUIaiitook County 2 L'lliatllla County 5 Union County 5 Woh-o County " Washington 'onnty 9 Yamhill Onnty i.. 12 Total Xuinlier of Delegates .. .203 The State Central Committee re commends that the several counties hold their primary elections on Sat urdav, March 2d, and their Comity Conventions ibr selection of Dele gates to the State Convention on raturday, March 0,1872. T. B. ODKXKAL, CVn. C. P. Ciiaxdall, Sec'y. Salom, February 1, 1872. The House in the California Leg islature is Republican, tlie Senate is Democratic. The Home has during the present session of the Legislature, passed a bill to repeal the swindling litigant law ; but the Senate has voted against the bill. In this the people have a fair show ing of the honesty of the two par- .lira iiUhtit. .professed, desire&of bringing about reforms. At Norhich, Conn., on the 5th, William E. Wing, an employe of Dr. Johnson, killed first the Dr.'s daughter, then his wife, afterwards cutting his own throat. The cause of this murder wasthetefusal ofthe daughter to have him. Hie mur derer first shot and stunned the girl, then he beat her over the head with the gun, fracturing the skull. He then attacked the mother and beat her over the head with the gun, inflicting injuries from which she has since died. He also attacked the servant girl, who -fled and raised the alarm. The Oregon ian has the follow ing: A man arrived in Portland on Saturday night from Monticello and called at the store of C. H. Wood wanl, where he left some cotfee grounds, which he wished analyzed. The analysis was made, and the grounds was found Uv contain a large amount of striejjnine enough to kill twenty miA The man who brought the package stated that lie stopped at a house near Monticello, with two companions, for broMtast. When they tasted the coffee they found it extremely bitter and from this fact they wen ' suspicious that it contained poison. The analysis showed several white particles that were found in the1' coffee grounds, wen? particles or Strichnine. The three persons were heavy cattle deal ers, and the wpjtjpn, js bajli( the host wislied to secure their money, as t'icy were known to have several thousand dollars on their persons. The contract for grading the Northern Pacific Railroad from Red Hver ito the Missouri is let, and is to be completed by the first of July, 1872, Iu the District Court at Los An geles, Cal., on the 6th iust, there were thirty-five indictments for murder. The English in 1jndoii are rep resented as being intensely excited over the claims of the United States in the AMtoiha case. The Tory party is trying to force the Ala brunn question upon Parliament, and obtain a vote that Would test its want of confidence in the Glad stone Ministry. Iu consequence of j this the Gladstone party desire an J amendment to the.l Inborn taseso ! as to parry the Tor' attacks. With this thought uppermost, the admin istration at Washington was urged to withdraw its claims for conse quential damage ; kit the Presi dent is firm in 1ns conviction that! the case shall not lie amended or j withdrawn. He regards the Geii man commission as a court, and feels j that the V lilted States lias a right to go before the court like any oth er party and submit its claims for decision. The English Minister, Mr. honiton, op)oses this view oft the President, and argues that tlie Geneva Commission should be rated as a conference, and not as a court, He thought that there could be no peace if our ease were presen ed in the form of a misconduct in dictment. The Time declares that England must give immediate no tice to tlie Geneva arbitrators, and the American Government, that if the American case is truly reported, all efforts to arbitrate may as well cease. The indirect damages de mand is the principal feature iu the claim of the United States which excites the English. John Bull is just as overbearing and unreason able in his disposition as ever. He agreed to a court of arbitration, but now wants to dictate not only his own case, hut Uncle Sam's case also, or else consider the wlwlc thing as a mere conference. Who ever heard of tlie defendant iu a suit determin ing the nature and character of the charges brought before the court against him ? Cupidity ami love of gain prompted John bull to become a party to acts of war against the United States ; and it is right and just that he should make restitu tion, so far as possible, for tlie dam ages committed, either directly or indirectly and lue newl not expect to force the Washington adminis tration kito a false position, simply to defend the English Cabinet against the Tories. Tlie Salem Mercury says that "whenever Democrats are in power they fearlessly investigate and pros ecute all delinquencies that come to their notice, without regard to the political complexion ofthe delin quents." Tlt is a queer assertion to make by a journal that defends the Swamp Land swindle, practices the tyrannical extortion ofthe Liti gant law, and is doing its prettyest to cover up tlie Chemeketa swin dle. ' The Salem Statesman is author ity for the report that Campbell Chrisman, whose farm lies at the Calipooia, tore up the rails and de molished the railroad, which had been made on his ground against his will, and mounting guard with a shot gun, at last accounts was master of tlie situation. A Buffalo express train was pre cipitated over an embankment thirty feet bight, near Rock port, Pennsylvania, Feb. 1st, wrecking and setting fire to the cars, killing four passengers instantly, and in juring four others so that tliey died shortly after. Eighteen other per sons were more or less injured. In Portland, last Tuesday, Wil liam McDonald was bound over in the sum of 81,000 for knocking a Mr. Wflsoh down, the night pre vious, jpn the streets, and robbing him of some two or three hundred dollars. Not being able to give the bail, lie was sent to limbo. The Oregot$m thinks the re port of the arret of a man m Ore gon City on a charge of murder committed in Wisconsin, is all a hoax. The Indians have been killing men m Arizona again. The Governor of California re- ecives the largest salary of any Ex ecutive in tlie Union, which is $6, 000 in gold. Pennsylvania, we be lieve comes next with 5,000, aud tlie other states range on down to "Little Rhoda," whose Executive receives a little less tliau 20 per week. The business is not as prof i laMe as many other things, nor half so pleasant. Illinois is agitating the question of increasing her Govern or's stipend, as also Massachusetts. . Ji . - The editor ot the Eugene Guard in one week counted nineteen ladies, old ami young, who were masticat ing chewing gum. He says tlie gum is made at Poduck, Massachu setts, and is composed of gumara. bio, resin aud coarse fat, the last in gradient often being taken from dead dogs. A nauseous liquid foam is then put into this boiling mess to make it white. .Ugh ! Bad as line cut chewing tobacco made of the stumps of eigars gathered up from the gutters. Wha ! The Salem Statesman tells of a team attached to a butcher-wagon running away last Tuesday, result ing iu precipitating three jiersons, who were sitting on the driver's seat, to the ground, one lighting in a sitting posture, one on his head aud the third tnrning a double som erault. Alter spinning around tlie block, the wagon was brought to a speechless stand-still having lost its tongue. !t ' The more information obtained in regard to the Northern Pacific Railroad route, the better the re port becomes. T It is now said to be the shortest, and will be the most easily managed of all the roads across the continent. Its resources are pronounced immense, which the road will develop with great facility- The Democracy has been very reckless in its estimate of the value of Gen. Grant's property, placing it in some instances as high as $25, 000,000. Nearly all his property is located near St. Louis, and the taxes which he paid on that, amounted to $809 69 rather low Or so large an estimate. U Twenty-five masked men went into a jail at Richmond, Ky.,.on the 2d hist, overpowered the Sheriff, and taking a wife-murderer by the name of Slough out of his cell, marched him a short distance from the jail and huiig him. Judge Barrett, of New York, has decided that Judge Barnard, being a corporate member of the Taui manv Society, has no jurisdiction, and his hi junction against the Soci ety is void. A New York Grand Jury has found that the greatest amount stolen in any one day by the late Tammany ring was six millions of dollars. Men arc being hired in consider able numbers to work on the locks at Oregon City, the conditions stip ulating that they shall stay until af ter the election and vote the Demo cratic ticket, says the Orcgonian. Knbw mis Signature. The following anecdote is given as an. thentic : Soon after Horace Greeley had made his mark on the register of a hotel in a certain place visited by him during his fall lec ture tour, a rather aged countryman came into the office, and after ex amining the register, asked if DrV BLtrain. " "There is no such person here replied the gentlemanly clerk. "No such, person here 1" echoed the venerable rustic, taking off his; spectacles arid gazing into the face, of the clerk with much incredulity and astonishment "No such person here," firmly rev echoed the clerk, "Young mati,v' exclaimed the other, with a solemn expression of countenance, "young roan, don't lie to me. It won't do. You can't fool old Gill Parks. Dr.B's been here as sure as guus, and pret ty drank too, I reckon, for he's left one of them are Latin prescrip tions of his on the register !" And the speaker gazed down at Horace's improved Arabic with a look of triumphant recognition. Salem is talking of increasing the number of her street lights. ' i. - ' roiimux sfMS. Great Britain hits proposed to supply Brazil annually with 19,900 emigrants. The wife of the German Prince Imperial is iu an interesting condi tion. Thirteen women have applied for admission at Yale. The wife of au octogenarian lately presented the patriarch with a thirty-fourth child. The latest styles of ear-rings aud pendants for a necklace arc of gold, in the shape of a yacht or man-of-war, with tlie name of -'Alexis," iu black enamel, on tlie stern. A dispatch to "New York from Paris, January 25th, says : A tre mendous scene occurred in the French Assembly yesterday. X dwarf, who is a hunchback, named Naquel, proposed the con fiscation of the property of Naio Iepn and of his family. The prop osititm was received with shouts of derision. Only twenty lands were holdup iffits favor. On January 25th the Prince of Wailcs walked out and took a stroll of a quarter of a mile. ' Tlie Radicals have organized Electoral Committees throughout the provinces and have entered upon a vigorous canvass. A Spanish gunboat has captured an English schooner and crew, for lauding contrabands on the Island. 'St. Paul's Cathedral, London, was being handsomely decorated on the 30th nit., for thanksgiving to fee held for the restoration of the Prince of wales to health. 1 A special from Paris Jan. 81st, sjrys Thiers, iu discussion with Rothschild as to the project of tlie thither evacuation of France by the Germans, said : "I would like to & the end of German occupation we had a stable Government and i settled public opinion. As it is, i the Germans were gone we would fave worse demagogues than ever, fjoiiapartists would come forth and u a few days all the calamities of a jelentless party strife would take jjpaee. I will yield, though with re gret, to the general desire, as I con sider that the presence of thePrus fHqis is, a guarantee of law and or der." ? The journeymen carpenters of Brussels, Belgium, we;e on a striRc on tlie 31st tilt. The Director of the Officiate Journal, published under the con trol ofthe Commune, in Paris, has Keen sentenced to transportation. r News from England up to Feb. 2d, state that the newspapers teem with hostile comments and false re jWrte regarding the case of the Uni ted States, which has been publish ed, in refereiicc to the Alabama claims. The statement of the Eng lish case is not published. The Lon don Advertiser asserts that Chief Justice Cocklmni, one of the arbi trators,' will withdraw aud the Gov ernment will repudiate the treaty. Washington correspondents ad vocate this course, and suggest the repudiation of the first treaty given by the United States as a precedent, h The Daily Arc says the claim of tlio United States for damages lias been declared out of tlie ques tion, and this opinion is backed by tlie sentiment of the country. Kewsfrom Math-id on the 2d inqt., state that at the Phi Hi pine Is lands if company of two hundred na tive soldiers belonging to the artil lery j rebelled and took possession of tupbrt. The place was subsequent - ily carried by assault by tlie regular droops and all the insurgents kill ed. . John Guuu, D. B. Goble, Amos and William Slaven got into a drunken row and street fight at St. Helens on the 3d, iu which Slaven was severely stabbed twice in the back by Goble, The latter was put under $1,000 bonds. There are 28 inmates ot the Washington Territory Insane Asy lum at Steilacoom, seven of whom arc females. The mills a Puget Bound are manufacturing more lumber than for some months past, and some of them are running night and day, (Ftoin n Xcw York fitter to the Spring lieiu itriniiMicun.j The JPrtwHtPnt'B long Brunch itiri. ONE OK THE KAUSE STOItfES AGATXST OKKKRAG OK ANT TAKEN HACK. It is one of the nuMt common com- filainN tigalnsf jotinmli'M that, wlmn ii error, thev do not make proper re paration. Xot designing to deserve this criticism, I wish to correct a statement in one of my letters some time since, re-ccti!ig the alleged gttt of Tom Murphy andothers of a cot tage at Long Itnmch to General Grant. At the time 1 had every reason to be lieve tliat tlie popular "version of tlie matter was true, but later inquiry las shown that I was in error, as the following statement will demonstrate: 1 lately hnd occasion to meet Judge Kdwnrti Pierrcpont respecting hU re portwi appointment as successor of Hamilton Fish in Grant's Cabinet and taking the ml vantage of the opportu nity i asked Judge Plcrrepont respect ing the gifts reported as liaving been accepted by tlie President. In reply he said that for himself lie would say positively that he had never given a single dollar either directly or indi rectly to Gen. Grant notwithstanding all newdpniicr reports to the contrary. He luid. us was generally known, sub serilidl $20,000 to aid the Republican party to carry the Presidential elec tion, but is made no apology for that. The money was mostly spent in this city and State, a portion being spent in other parts of the country, but it was used solely for election purposes and not paid to General Grant. Re specting tlie cottage at Long Branch he said lie liad often beard General Grant speak of it ; of the sum paid for it. and of the difficulty- he had iu raising so large an amount. Tlie Judge was nuite satisfied from all lie had heard iu the matter that the story of tlie cottage Having liecii given as a present to Gen. Grant was wholly un true. In oilier to gain still further In formation on tills point l called on Mr. Howard Potter, of the banking firm of Brown Brother & Co., who said that lie had licen the owner of the Ixmg BrflneH cottage but owing to the ifi neaii ii oi one oi uu ranuiy lie bad con eluded to sell it. Tills he did through Mr. LcwU II. Brown, a real estate broker, who act ed as Gen. Grant's, agent in tlie sale. The consideration was 140.000, and Mr. Potter himself made out the deed in tlie General"!) name. He thought the story thnt the cottage had been presented to Gen. Grant was as absurd as tlie report that lie had given it to tlie President himself. A Vtrl Htut to l. 'itni how to Make Batter, nnd What Came or It. "Well, EHe, yon got through your work soon?'' "Yes, father, I made myself an apt scholar and learned the whole thing In a fortnight." t "Well, what is this secret of making butter such ffs sells well and kecj well. Let your mother hear." "There is no secret, fatlier ; only one great fact, and that Is cleanliness. It runs through everything in making butter.'1 "Tell us wlrnt tills cleanliness is. I am getlinginlercsred." 'Til tell you. In the first place but ter makers must have a good room in which to set the iiiifk. rt must be clean and sweet and not a fly or a spider allowed to live In it. It must tie cool, just as cool as tlie butter mak er wants it in summer, and just as warm in winter as necessary. Then there must be. If possible, a stream of living water run In trougl is through It, in which to set the milk puns with milk. And then these pans, mostly crocks that hold a halt gallon or more, arc kept sweet by hot water and a warm rag to dry them. And then when they go to milk the cows, they carry a basin with a cloth, to work the bag,' so that no dust should fall into tlie milk; ami when they bring tlie milk to the dairy-room, it is strained into the crocks, and the crock set into the cool water, whore they remain un til tlie cream rises. Awl they watch tin cream when it is all right tliey don't let it sour bike it off and put into a churn, pure and sweet, and the butter is soon made to come ; aud then they don't put tlicir sweaty hands into tlic butter to work out tlie butter milk, but tliey do it with a paddle which is as clean as Hie chum or 'the bowl in which f lic butter is worked. Aud then after tlie butter milk is worked out, the butter is made into large rolls and each roll covered with a clean, white cloth, and is laid away iu a cool place, where it is to remain until wanted. That'll the way butter makers make good butter. l)o you wonder that people stuck up their noses at oow?" "Wife, Elsie, we can't stand tills. We can't go through all these ways to make butter. Were off to Ochoeo. I'll sell the farm to-morrow.'' "Well, fatlier, you can go toOclioco. I wish you would stay here. I shan't fotoUchoco. I must tell you ail. I mml a young man at the butter mak ers, and I suited Mm and lie suited me, and we agreed to make butter in com pany on a branch ofthe Loiig Tom." "t h. I am willing to die now ! And' this comes of butter making. And my daughter marries a butter maker, aud a temnerance man and a black Repub lican f Blow, Gabriel, blow !" Emperor William of Germany lias entered his seventy-fifth year, and still his hair and beard alone betray his age; for he not only towers, strong and erect, above his suite, but tlie fresh ness of his complexion, the ease of tils movements, and the power of endur ance winch tins white-haired mon arch displays, whether iu the Held or Cabinet, whether attending festivities or giving himself up to social converse, encourage the belief that he is destin ed to remain the hope of Germany for many years to come. He owes lib physical powers to his simple, soldier like mode of living rising at seven In the morning, reading hb letters and telegrams while at coffee, ami forth with dictating his replies or noting them on tlie margins. Tom- Fields was arrested and bailed in the sum of $8,000 on the 6tb, at New York. tuxtamm. Better Is a little with rfefaVaJftjne?, tlian great revenues without right. A few days ago a little girl lu Jtni- ea, jtwt before site died, exelaimefl : l'apa,take hold or my naisi ana ueip me across." Her fiitiicr had aieu two months before, The Irish Presbyterians are very earnestly opposing the demands of rtio Roman Catholic prelates for separate denominational schools. Tlie Quakers at tlieir Convention in New York City, determined that their u efnluess shall no longer be retarded on account of reserve and inaction. On the 3d day of December the New Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, of Chicago, was dedicated. Tills was ju-t eight weeks to a day after tlie old one was burned up. The First Presbvterian Church of Elizabeth, Xew Jersey, was organized in Kii! I. ami has not intermitted ser vice for 207 years, in tlie last ten yearsj .105 have been added to the member ship ofthe church. The number of ministers in all branches of tlie Lutheran church in America Is 2.175, a gain of 100 during tlie past year. - During the year 1S71 ebliteen min isters ofthe Baptist church declared in fiivor of open communion. There has liecn unite a revival in the Congregation.-! 1 Church in Washington city. Its present membership is J50. A union meeting of the Baptist, MethodistaiidOngregatlorittrchiirclies held recently at Pair Haven, Conn., re sulted in tlie conversion of more than one hundred persons. A secret organization called "The Catholic Union" has been formed in the United States, for the purpose of extending "practical sympathy" to the Pope. Tlie Episcopal Almanac for 1872. gives a list of 5 1 Bbhops and 2,898 clergymen in tlie denomination. The uumiier oi coummuicauts is contributions hi"t year, $5,514,574. Tliere were thirty' deaths in the clergy. A ten days meet ing of extraordinary power and success was lately held in Boston, Mass.. by Rev. J. S. Insklp and W. M. McDonald. Out of a con gregation of 1,-JOO one half arose as professors of entire sauctlflcation.atid a large part of the balance as seek ers. Elder Weaver, a man who has preached tlie gospel with good succe-s for forty-five years, wlio b now-settled over the Baptist church in Volnn town, stated in an address to the Sim day Scliool in the Congregational church in Jewctt City, tint ne had heard a man say that he had read the Bible through lu sixty hours. Deter mined to ascertain whether the' irtuV vidua I told ttie truth or a lie, he' set about it himself,. aud rend the whole of it aloud to his wife in fifty-nina hours and something over thirty minutes. He read sometimes an hour and some times two hours a day, keeping the. ex act time, with tlie result indicated above. '' " Religion Is universal; theology is exclusive. Religion is humanitarian ; theology is sectarian. Religion unites mankind ; theology divides it. Reli gion is love, broad and ail comprising as God's love ; theology preaches love and practices bigotry. Religion looks to the moral worth of man ; theology to lib creed and denomination. Reli- f;ioii teaches us tlie common ftther lood of God and the common brother hood of nun ; theology pre-destination, eternal damnation, ami that we should rather fear the anger of God than trust to hb paternal mercy. Religion is light and love, and virtue Aud peace unadulterated and immaculate; but theology is t lie apple of discord, which disunites and estranges one from an other. Tlie Episcopalians iu Ireland have gained a membership of 10,002 in the last ten years. The much-talked-of union between tlie Baptists and Cougregationnlists of England seems likely to be consum mated. The Cohgregationalbtg have two hundred places of worship in Loudon. Tlic next meeting of the Evangeli cal Alliance b to be held in New York in 1873. The statistics of tlie Ohio- State Convention show that there are 20. - 020 Baptists in tlie State. The American Bible Society licvc lately bsued tlie Gospel of MattLew iu the language of the Flathead In dians of Oregon, i Tlie salaries of pastors of Episcopal churches iu Philadelphia arc from (FL OOD to $7,000 per annum, St. Stephen's being the only one paying tlie iat named amount. The Prussian Government has re solved legal disqualifications Of - the Jews, and to grant new righto to the corporations combining for worship in Synagogues. Tlie Roman Catholic Envoy to Con stantinople has returned to'"Rome, having been unable to obtain flora the Sultan any guarantee for the protection of hb Christian subjects. The Roman Catholic Btehop Bar clay, of New Jersey, lias ordered the clergy to refljse Christian burial to those who die Ofthe effects, of liquor, as well as those who sell it to drunk ards. 700 church edifices liave been, erect ed by the M. E. Church during the past year, or two and a qiwrter church es for each working day. A set of Mohammedans has arisen in Persia, now nunuiertng two hun dred thousand, which recognizes the Bible as the word of God, aud at tempts to reconcile tlie creed of Islam and Christianity. T6 Sabbath-school statistics ofthe M. E. Church show that we have In all 17.555 sdwob 193,979 officers and teadiers, 1,367,743 scholars, and 2, 631,450 volumes in tlie libraries. The flrst Christian chnrc i In Con stantinople was founded to 1. - arc now 70 In the Turkish Empire. Connected with the 3303 members, " eonBX numbering 13,000 with a jiopulation