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V. ft. tMd Paper for Orefron. FRIDAY, MARCH , 1871. KKJPS 1U.H 'AS STATE CO VKXTIOS. The proceedings of the ficpubli csn (Stat Convention at Portland last week, were harmonious ami full of genuine enthusiasm. The results fully justify the confidence imposed In it by the party. The candidates nominated and committees tilled give general satisfaction to the jwr ty throughout the State. The nom ination of Jos. G. Wilson, tor Con jrresa, cannot fail to elicit an earnest and enthusiastic siipporlfrom even member of the party. His eminent abilities, habits of sobriety, personal magnetism and thorough reliability as a Republican, as well as bis previous campaign in the same relation, in which lie re duced the Democratic majority some eight hundred votes, rcuder him a most formidable opponent to the Democracy. The candidates for District Attorneys are lawyers of acknowledged ability and fitness in professional knowledge and person al character, and will receive the liearty support of the party in their districts. For the Third Judicial District, the one in which Linn county is included, the nomination of X. B. Humphrey, ot this place, gives most hearty satisfaction. Tlic Captain's loyalty to the party is un doubted, and his professional qual ifications, geniality of temperament and social standing, leave but little room to doubt but that he will be our next District Attorney. The three Presidential Electors selected A. B. Meacbam, of Umatilla comity ; W. D. Hare, of Washington coun ty; Jas. F. Gazley, of Douglas county are all judicious selections, whose influence hi determining the political destiny of Oregon for the Republican nominees for President and Vice President, and the whole ticket, will be most powerfully felt. TlienaawscboseiibytheCwiventionljtutjo,, j,.teld of usbm the to represent the Republican party of money as intended, this dishonest Oregon in the next National Re- tlld sonlless Commodore tpent the pumicao convention, are a tower oi strength in their sterling Integrity to Republican principles; and when they cast their votes for Grant and Colfax in the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia, aa in structed to do by the State Conven tion, the universal wishes of the party throughout the State will have been met. The selection of names to serve as members of the State Central Committee, for the next two years, is wise, all being reliable and representative men. The most gratifying feature, how ever, of tbe action of the Con vention, next to the adop tion of the platform, was the unan imity and enthusiasm which prompt ed every member to vote tor the resolution instructing tlie Delegates to tbe National Republican Conven tion, to vote for Graut and Colfax for President and Vice President of the United States. We have not space in this article to criticise the clearly defined principles of the rty, as expressed in the platform. Tho platform, however, like the last annual Message of President (i rant, is so tersely and plainly expressed, that it is it own best interpretor it speaks for itself. With the action of the State Convention before ns; tbe platform ; (he candidates select ed ; the eommittees appointed ; tlie harmony and unanimity and spirit which ran through it all like a tli read of gold, we cannot but an ticipate a moat glorious result in the coming elections Let every Re publican labor and look for com plete success. Tbe Senate Executive Committee has confirmed the following nomi nations : Jos. A. Loomis, Associ ate Judge of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory ; James D. Reynolds, Clerk in the Assay Of fice at Boise City, Idaho, and Postmaster, Wra. Ingersol, at Pue blo. The new Spanish Minister to this country, Rear Adnrnml Polcde Rarnabe, has arrived. Tlic Fjist Portland publishes a complimentary paragraph in favor of Carl Schunt, from tlie New York Tribune, as an offset, or con trast, to the estimate we gave to t ha t functionary's character in a recent number of tlic Rkisiktkr, and en deavors to make political capital out of it to estrange Germans from the support of the Republican party. The Era may not be aware that tlie opinions and strictures of the New York Tribune are regarded with no more reseet by ' Republi cans than are those of Schorr- Tlie white-coated philosopher of the 'tribune, influenced by personal pique and hatred to (ieneral Giant, liecanse he tailed to control the President in certain matters of ap- lioiutment, long since, by his peev ish opposition, placed himself be yoml the Hue where respect merges into contempt, and his opinions now have no more influence in determin ing the principles and policy of the party than those ot any other "sore head." Many of the German pa pers in this country are as emphatic in their condemnation of the un principled and grasping course pur sued by Scliurz, as any of the other Republican journals ; and the Ger mans in New Hampshire have al ready stamped the avariciou in triguer with the die of condemna tion, by voting the Republican ticket, and such will be the ease in the coming elections. Sordidness of some men is mean er than meanest We have heard ot a merchant that split a grain of cof fee in two to make equal weight, and other transactions equally as soulless and parsimonious. We now have a report from Philadel phia that Commodore L. Lardner, in charge of the Naval Asylum in that place, has been trying his hand at a theft, which is most dastardly mean, ijist year t ongress appro priated $8,000 for a hearse and. (4,- 000 for a wagon to be used by the mm to buv a carriage for himself and family, and then used a market wagon for the double duty of tak" ing vegetables to the kitchen and carrying deceased veterans to the grave-yard ! A thousand of such Bonis as his would scarcely (111 the space of a baby vermin on an ani malcule. rail of Hope. The East Portland Era says "the Radicals have no hopes of electing their nominee for Congress, and only held the Convention to keep up party organisation." Now we wish to inform the Era, that it is vastly more presuming in that statement than correct. The Republican par ly do expect to carry the State, by electing Wilson to Congress. He came within something less than three hundred and fifty votes of overcoming a Democratic majority of twelve hundred, wlieu he was a candidate before, and some of us are sanguine enough to think that, iu the coming election, he will turn the scale far enough round to elect himself by twelve hundred major- j r.tt ar' chorcd to it . , . j Jadge Daly, of New York, lias , dismissed the case of Mayor Hail, Recorder Hackett having decided that the court he was .holding was irregular. The prosecution will now bring the case into the court of Oyer and Terminer. N. Butts, a temporary resident of Washington, I). ('., a lawyer by profession, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $500 or imprisonment for six mouths for lascivious con duct towards a school girl. Four similar cases are pending against him. . , . Tlie night of the 20th iust. was j considered the coldest of the sea-; son in the Dominion of Canada. A Peasant in Poland, who is nine feet high, claims to be the tallest man m the world. KANTEKX XKWK. A bill to rcieal the recently cn- acted temperance bill, was tabled in t.lto t Mlnni fining of Uni.rwAnts. lives, on the 20th. The Supreme Court at Washing ton has dismissed a Ku Klux case from South Carolina on the plea of want of jurisdiction. A tiie in Centrailia, Missouri, on the 21st, destroyed the Masonic Hail and throe stores. Loss, $35, 000. The new extension of tho Logan House at Altona, Pa., was burned on the night of the 19th. Loss. 800,000. The interior and roof of Simmons A Slocum's Ethiopian House, Phil- adclphia, was destroyed by tire on the 20 th. Loss, 100,000. The Chicago Relief Rill was passed in the Senate, on the 20th, with the amendments. In the Houe, a bill has passed, authorising the constitution of a bridge across the Mississippi at Clinton, Towa, for the liurlington and Quincy railroad. Gen. Sickles has negotiated a loan of $2,000,000 at 5 per cent, for the new Krie Hoard on securities rating as high as 70. Mrs. E. Slianskirk.of New York, died in a dentist's chair on the 21st, from the administration of laugh - ing gas. 'i here has been a terrible mow storm in the vicinity of Fonda, New York, and the drifts are from j six to ten feet deep on the Fonda & Galveston Railroad. Navigators say they never saw" so much ice in Lake Erie, with so little snow. For nearly eight miles out the ice measures three feet six inches. It is feared navigation will not ojien until May. i The Asatians are emigrating ; attempted to commit suicide in A gentleman was killed in Chi- j largely to Algeria. Bast Portland recently, lut the cago, on the 19th, by a tree falling! A treaty of amity has lieen con- i physicians saved her. Cause, do on him, which some men were cut-1 eluded between China and Japan. mestio trouble, ting down. ' All olielisk to the memory f Earl f I n tlie new hotel of Mr. I lalsey 's, William Waito, a carpenter, fell i 10 1 w6d at Naas, in-: Portland, a system of telegraphy, from a roof of a building in Chicago Kildare county, Ireland, the family i instead of Iwlls, will be put in op- oti the 19th, and broke his neck. Alexander White, one of the j ,'orx' t oiirtney, the oldest son ,1 1 ne fretfonuui boasts that 1 ort oldest and wealthiest citizens 0f land heir to the title of the Earl of land juveniles are not much behind Chicago, and a liberal patron of fit j Devon, has gone into the Rank-1 San Francisco boys in playing on aits, died of heart disease on ti,0 19th iust. J ohn Side, cattle drover of Union county, Ohio, was arrested on the 18th at New-York, Ibr forging the1 name or hie lather m 1869 for $30,000 and abseomling to Cali fornia. He had avoided the police by traveling over the country. On the 19th iust., Sargeant, in the House, presented a petition signed by 4,000 persons in Caiitbr-1 nia for the enfranchisement of wo-! men in Territories and iu the Dis-! trict of Columbia. Tl United States Treasurer on the 19th sent a coin check for over 82,000,000 on account of tlie third call of 1862 bonds. 'The snow blockade was still un broken iu Nova Scotia on tlie 10th. It is reported that about forty Tammany refugees have taken np their residence at St. Johns, Nova Scotia, and that they are living there under assumed names. A railroad accident happened on the morning of the 22d on the seventy-five miles east of Pittsbunr ' "CTWIII I .Il lJIV IkOIIIOaU, MfUHT . b in the killing ot two . " -. . . , tlie injuring of fourteen. Tlie last three care of the train were the ones wrecked. Tlie New Orleans Pfcayvne was recently sold to a stock company for $100,000. Tbe St. Louis J met has alwut $100,000 of libel suits pending against it. A twelve-year old boy recently passed a first-class examination for a teacher's certificate at Oswego, If a ocas . ,r A Kansas young man, while en-: gaged in a heated political discus- f won, jjuiicniiu. ms seiiieiices liy knockii ig the butt of his loaded gun on the floor. The ruii went ofl'and punctuated the young man througl ttlie head, putting a "period" to his ex'stenee. Win. R. Astor'B income is $5,000 per day, and he owns 600 houses, lie only lives in one, however. FOUE14IN SEWS. Lord Lvons, British Embassador i to franco, has Minion i mers mai i Kiifflaud cannot modify hercusteti antics lor the aevmni..' lauou o France. (atacazv is reported to have bean received cordially by the Km. peror and Gortchakolf. Journal- ism, henceforth, it is said, will be his business. A dispatch from V ienna, Austria, on the 19th says : Tim workmen engaged in the minus of Roth child, at Wlttrowitx, Moravia, eto l . I .1 T . . : I !'ged at the notvpn f their of tlie an en- ate, np" deraol- were wages, attacked t j Superintendent. tnee, tliey burst propnated its contents, s ished the building. Tr called out and fired into the rioters, killing four and woiiudii One hundred were arrested, has been restored, but the n fifty. I litter es are guarded by the military. Sir Francis Twiss l a- resigned the Kisition as Queen's Advocate General, England. Visitor in the galleries of the House of Commons, Kigland,madc some demonstration and were eject ed. Among the ejected, was Mill- 'str Schcnck. j London, with a population of 8,- 1 251,000 has 123,849 paupers; or I about one paitper to every 2ti of the timabitoMa. Twenty markets for horseflesh laveiust becnopened in Paris. A naval academy will bo found- Cisco jVunioipal court this term has ed at Kiel, in Germany. resulted in a conviction. Singular. The Pope secretly appointed the Douglas county Republicans in Archbishop o' Posen a Primate of fsjfcrttcted for Grant for President and Poland, and now that the matter ' has leaked out Rismarck is said to ' be strenuously opposiu' it. " r Uie deceased. I ptcy I urt with debts amounting : to the astounding sum of 824,00, ; ormore than 84,000,000. : Gladstone's reply to a question, wM t!,t!s far as t,ie Alabama claims were concerned, he Mieved the speech of Her Majesty on the opening of the session, gave all nec essary information. Gladstone, h, conclusion, said it would be trope-1 sible for Government to delegate to Parliament the power of making ies. j ; Bouaiiarte wiw reviewing some trcoiM. gj B ,fr""' i a common soituer ntn. tint avmt hold ofthe bridle, bnniht back' the tffffJF? lu",L wLl"' he ; -Well done, eipferin." j yaHe- i on, pleased with fiis instant belief in Bmperor rwlc off; the soldier I threw down Ms amsket) ami ilnhhe I Lrt I or advancement, he ran ami )oinl tlie ' sUff of eouiinanding tttmn. Thuy ; fc-Vht fwTC yon faih hmt LW .f.. . .1 , I Mill Mnftftllt of 111.. .rni.L ' Iu. M piltil They wen; amszed, but lie satd ; "Ilie Emperor lias said so. and there fore I am." in like manner through the word of God : "He that beiicveth hath everlast ing life," b confirmed by the feel ings of the believer; he ought to tike the word ofGod as true, because he said it and thus honor him ns a God of truth, and rejoice with Joy nnspeakable. A Wisconsin editor was called ont of bed one nitrht to receive n surm-rirt. over Wet!k( blll the 0 JJ (tested. A Western editor came near beinc cowhided for printing riie line, "Burk- i banlt isavillian." It was the printers wioi. ik eiiiior nnitt, "BarKIS M wlllln." The Nashua TikjraJi reports that three Republican voters In Ward Two ,'rfy w'T.f ml ,,Mt0 m,0TO out of the ward before election day, 1 hey are poor-, but the bribes were spurned. A Jerseymnn wrote to a local paper j lately, inquiring if President Grant I Him .iimmiii.'o n uay wr asmugion s Hirtlsiav vet. A citizen ot Xewnort K. I., is i d,i,.t4..i I v,v 1....... 1... i.1 t BJ I pr()JM..riy.(1stiumtlat00,(KJo.to also i worthy poor of that city. The Guard says it is rumored at Kugenethat the (). 0; Railroad has concluded to locate its shops at I .. ..!.... ...... i.i. ml IM II i IT 1 1 III wnp j, mwi !"" Kiigene, instead of Junction City. Had on the latter, if so. In Kittitas Valley, W. T., on the Upper Yakima, out of 1,400 head of cattle not more than 25 I head perished during the past win- 1 1 r, Neglect permitted many sh tep to perish. Mrs, F. McCanh, of Dallas, in attempting to step over a ditch, j missed her footing, and dislocated j her ankle. The hone was replaced, i and she is now doing well, says the i Republican, j Sweet Vengeance is the name of I a town in Yuba county, Cal. Deserct is the name suggested by the Constitutional Convention for the proposed State, instead of Utah. A sturgeon over six feet long was captured not long since at Donohue, Cal. Wheat on some of the ranches in San Dingo County, Cat., la already high enough for cutting. 7'he Arizona Indians have left nearly all the Reservations. AUmt a thousand Apaches are alio wr lth. The petrol, un sY. gs of 6m ! Fernado, Southern California, are yielding at the rate of twenty bar- relg ot 0,11 pep Hay. 1 Kverv case tried in the San I' ran- Attorney General Williams tor Vice President. A lady whose name is not given eration tiirongtiout the building. "evil s riddles. .lolin Rrown and Mrs. II. T. Jones were arrested on the 21st, at Rafael, Cal., charged with the murder of H. 7'. Jones, the husband of the latter, wbo was murdered recently. The leading recreation in Salem is trout angling iu Mill creek, Th Roseburg PUihukakr says that Col. W. J. Martin, ot Ga'es. V'H, has applied Cr a patent for a gmWang machine, which is likely o enchance the va.ue ot the nrusi, Jwato. Crl 1recnt. " cmi,,e"t (;er" died suddenly on tho morning of t,,e 22d'of whrt wM "pp6 to l heart disease. T1'e "'J Sitinot cxjiects to receive his com- mksion .frum Washington as Indian Agent iu about three weeks. He - ,ed a in t,,e sura rfr 000. T. R. Odeneal has also filed m. iwln,i Portland reports 2,4.r2 childrei; of school age, of whom 1,120 are enrolled iu the public schools, and, 8 15 in private and corporate schools, leaving 511 who do not attend any school. From the Oregonain we read of the sudden death of Mr. John W. O'Neil. He was preparing to attend the funeral ot Mrs, James Lyon ; had procured a two horse buggy, and was on his way to the residence of Mr. Lyon ; was taken with somrthino- like a fit and talon - . i i r as8lstaD which came from gentlc men on the sidewalk, could take him to his hotel, died. Organic ! disease of the heart was the verdict j of the inquest held over his remains. Eugene is to have a .brass band. A petition is being circulated at i Eugene asking (lov. Grover to par- don Jas, McC'ord, says the Guard. r, . .. j n i.iiiii.ui kino ri'rtx.Mi in oail Francisco is 33.53 inches. One of the three brick college Monmouth, is nearly icomp'cted. Rounds, Woodcock & Co Proprietors A Manufacturer of HUNTER'S Grain Separator, JUNCTION CITY. . Received the Diploma at tho State Fair of 1871. PBICB BEDt'CKD TO FIFTY DOLLARS! Tlie'o Machine are warranted anliMtan tially male, ami arts not to lie Niirnasacd in ctcatltlUf Wheat Ibr eed.andaiv equal ly a :;no ! for pfenning nt ' sii l in your ci. lm s.Kii t we will warrant siitiMl'iu-iiun. Adln-w, H(H'XI,S, WOomX'K & CO., Junction City, Or Jun.n ls71lini " JOHN SCHMEER, DKAI.KK IS - Groceries & Provisions, ALBANY, OREGON. II AS .It:sT OPES Ell HIS XKW (JROt mi and rii-t greets, with fieah stock or liiweritH, Provisions, I'nndiea, Clears, To bacco, Ac., to which lui invite the atten tion of oar eiluciM. ! In connection with the store he will keop ; a hulcery, an I will nlwaya havenn hand a i lull supply of fresh bread, crackers, Ac. ! ,-" Call ami xen me. ;iM'niiiiuuui on corner 01 r.uswortli JOHN gCRMKKH. Fobrnarjr tvstvl turns IT GOES. Ku K CVJMSTOX.'K A hand a lai;e amount of CO. 11AVK t Choice Seed Wheat of even- variety, which thnv oiler for aula ntCKEATl.T RElWCEIl PHIZES. Btf Vt'M. S. NKWISI KY, ,fL I FEKD! FKED! PEED! j C B. OOUSTOCK A CO. HAVE O hand a laiw lot of RKAN". nNn a lar ! amount ot CHOP KEEI. made from nuru ! wheat, which Itiev oiler for sue at rvasuu I able rates. W. S. NEWBURY, i February a, 1872:22 Atfent. j . Mr. Bril;efurnier WISHES TO INFORM THE LADIES of Albany and vicinity, that Ml M. I M. JOHNSON lias taken charge of her Millinery nu4 Drcw-Maklng Ntorc. She iirtrcd to do all kind of work in that line. fein,1 ALL AND SKE.J3 Albnn y, Jan . 19, ISIj-Wt 1 Kead This ! VI. L PERSONS KNOWlNi; THlill wlves inilelnetl to Hiltabldcl A Co.. i are reiinested to call and not I Is their ac- counts iinuuMliately. an in a sliort liiuo all f accounts will be left Iu the hands of tho I moiwroftker for collection. We are clo- lie; out onr businem, and will collect all : amounts due us in thirl v dav.i W. J. HILl ABiDKL CO. I Jan. IS. hUi.jut HAKDWAKK- for Bulldcri, for SllltttvC and for Farmers sold by Wheoler, at SllblHI. IIV1 Hillamette Trarosportatloss Company X ITtROM AH II AFTKK DATK, L NTH furtliemoticeJheCompany wlU dU patcbaboat front Albany to Corvallbou Taeaday and rridajr of Kneh Waek.. Abo, will dispatch a boat from Albany for Portland and intermediate plaoea on same days, leaving Coinstook A C'o.M wharf. rare at Reduced Rate. J, O. BII.ES, Dec. M, UTt-M AireoS. IiaproTci Band HAWS, Woodu-orth 7tatan- Holding Murium, UorttKni. nnd ever description of Wood working Machinery k I'laninic Mill wi- piles. AttunMif UKItKYA I'LACB. tflrliln.TV Ol'lMj!.. lDiufi ll.('Ilfornla-Hi., Han iVanclaoo. II OMK SIHiTTI.E SJCW1NG MACIHNKS. . Plowa and all kinds of Aaricoltnral Machinery, sold by WHKKLKIi, at SUwia. G ANIIIES, Nt'TS, RAISINS, etc., fre and cheap, by 3vl jdi:ir)U. 1 oj ; I l For Sale I 1,000 BUSHELS OF CHOICE WHITE CHILI CLUB WHEAT FOlt SEED. CAI.I. AT THE EtCSIDENCE OF THM underBlKned, all mllea muth of AJbar ny. MAItTIN Ltl'KU- Jan. (!, IS?M8ma JOB WAGON. HAVINfi PURCHABEK TIUC lNTlUt ext of ii. W. YounK In the Well very Business, I am proiiarod to do any ami all k inrta ol lolw, on uliort notice and with rinick dl imtch. Terms rcasonahle. I'ackiigcH de ivered to any part of the T.:"' out for the BAY TEAM aiur JlMV J O WEKT ft lTATOES,i)er last steamer, by ft Svl jfWKIIft ' M. F. JONES, . Auctioneer, il HATSEY, OBEGOX. ; v 'mmmm