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!' S. oniri.il Pnper tor Oregon. Kill DAY, JUNE 7, 172. A (.1 OKIO! S V 14' lossy. It is now clearly established that the State has gone largely Repub lican. Judge Wilson has been elected to ( digress by a splendid majority, an J thirty-three of the forty-nine I eprescntatives in the State Legislature have been elected, and it is thought that we have a majority in the Senate. W e have a two-third vote in the House, at any rate. ' he victory is a most glorious one. It is far beyond the most sanguine anticipation. We were almost sure of carrying the State, but just that, and "nothing more." We had not expected so many votes in our favor. It had never crossed our mind that every county in the tate would chronicle Republicm iaiiis. '! he result is all the more pleasurable from this fact. It shows the spirit ot reform is not restricted to localities, but per meates the whole mass. It shows that the people in every valley and mountain-side, have opened their eyes to the real interests of the State. No more class legislation, says tins victory. No mure oppression. No more fraud. No more dishonesty. No more lethargy, t means re peal that I itigant iniquity. Wipe out that t warap Land monopoly. Attend to that Lock and Canal swindle, and, losing sight of self, let every effort of the egislature be to promote the public interest. The influence of this victory upon the country at large will be most potent. It will cause the hearts of m :1 I ons of 1 'epubl lea ns to rejoice. It will in a corresponding degree dis c mrage those ot the opposition who l:ave anxiously looked for the moral support that a Democratic victory would furnish. It is the opening gun of the Presidential campaign, ;iud gives no uncertain sound. The country understands it. Republi cans understand it. Liberals and Democrats understand it. It not only means reform in the manage- mcnt of Mate affairs, but it means Uraid ami prJff)'C's. Oregon, by t'ns ictory, plants herself squarely 141011 the platform of true Republi canism. Democracy, as an inde pendent organization, dies with this defeat. She will now merge into the Gree'ey-i rown party, as "Old White Hat" and "Woodpecker" will manipulate that organization until next November. .Wore Venom I'roul Suumrr. Senator Sumner has again spit out a disgusting mass of venom and bitterness against President Grant. I lis previous efforts at detraction and those of his. fellow conspirators, served more to e.XpofO their own duplicity rather than to injure Gen. Grant. Although the efforts of tliese parties were guarded and skillfully planned, still they were not sufficiently so to hide their real character. The eye of the public failed not to percieve that Sumner and Trumbull and the whole Iwdy of "sore heads," were actuated in their opposition to the President by personal motives; and as charge aP ter charge, awl investigation after inve&gatiqu, preferred by this class, and others, at different times, have fallen to the ground for want of prootj the official character of Pres ident Grant has risen in the public mind, while a c rra poi.dit.g contempt Ibr the dctraeUra has has grown up in the public mind. There as a time when the opinions ot Senator Sumner were of great weight and influence in the Repub lican party ; but that day has pass ed. Delias allowed his personal spleen, his animosity to the Presi i . . , ,. . , . ,. ! t-m, to warp ins muiu irom me line of consistency and truth and decen cy ; and to-day, instead of being re. garded with leelingsof respect, con fidence and honor, by the party, ho is lpolted upon as ono who has de generated and gone down into a state where hate and malignity arc the principle incentives to action, Last week he devoted a speech of four hours in an elaborate arraign ment ot President Grant, officially and personaly, expressed in lan guage both severe and bitter. He charged the President with being a I gift-taker, a i!cpul:st, a rcltish plcns- lK.r.,t for President, -feeing no dif i. i . i 4. ....1 f iire-seeker, fiieiniuig ins nine wun.terei.ee octweeu unuiit w uiw ! horses in traveling about the country, and loitering at seaside re sort. Tliese changes have been made before. They have rolled out in clouds from Democratic presses and from the lungs of Democratic orators. They ha re been answered over and over again to the entire s;it isftclion of t he people ; and now, their re-utlerai.cc by Sumner, only- shows to what depths of meanness a bisi man may descend when he gets in the way of it. Senator I.o-1 'an iu answering this tirade of slan der and abuse, justly said : "The assault made yesterday on the Piw j ident was fit tor no deliberative body on earth. It was fit only for ; the hustings, and should be uttered j Oi ly by the lips of a stump orator, who knew no courtesies or deceri- j cies. J can tell the Senator from j .Massachusetts," continued J.ogun, "that he will now Hilda response to Ins malignant speeoli from every wounded soldier, iu the grieving. heart of every widowed mother, and j mourning patriot, which will over whelm him and all his oratory. These will speak in thunder tones in de'ence of one of the most gal lant soldiers who ever lived in ai y nation." We Liivo met tltr Enemy and they arc OiirH. The gninil Republican majority in the Legislature, secures for tlie State j of Oregon a Republican 1. S. Senator, i It also secures the funds and the lands j belonging to the Slate from lieing further depleted by rascally political i job', and prevents the Lock and Dam j Swindle i'o. from perpetrating a Until- ( er swindle upon the State by Hie sale j of their works "at the cost of construc tion.0 One of its first measures will be a proper and just apportionment of 1 the Senators and Representatives in j the Legislature. Another will be the j adoption of a sensible and practicable j law regulating our common schools. Toor Urover. Since the election returns reached Governor Urover. his anxiety to be come l S. Senator is not so great ns it "usad to was," He is "disgusted" with politics in general, and the pcr Hdiousliess ness of men and things in particular, and like Judge Davis, the Labor candidate for President, don't care a continental about being a can didate for anything any more, nor 'nevermore." lie feels 'run out." and "let out" exhausted in fuuds, and "played" by his party. He "play ed on a harp of a thousand strings" but people didn't charm worth a cent. They desired not to hear the music of his organs of speech in the Senate ah. Voue tip Hie Finnic. Mr. Burnett may now retire to the sequestration of his household gods. The people of Oregon have post poned him. They are not quite ready j to have him go to Congress, to to ; draw his pay- They beard bis eoncat-; citations on the I". S. Hank, and then I btub'tl htm. He's aground now, and the resolutions of 1798 will still pro- j create their "ciwsedness." HaHroads and other Improvements will still "keep goin' on," and be built. "Oh, dear, wliat'll become of us?" Unl-1 versa! education and enlightenment will still be encouraged, only more so. j "Goodness gracious, and have they no j bowels ot compassion t the wise and humane policy of Gen. Grant to wards everybody and thing will still continue. "Alars, alars!" Republican Majorities. Following are the Republican ma jorities in Marion county: Wilson, .')'.).; Humphrey, 183; Legislative ticket from 160 to 00. All the balance of the ticket, with the exception of Clerk, elected by good majorities. D. H. Murphy, Democrat, beats .L .1. Murphy. Bepubllcatl.for County Clerk. 330 votes ! Yamhill gives Wilson 87, Humph rey 57. Wilson's majority 111 Multnomah coiiiuy is !. U'i it ' iii"llr ... I, fil I 1..l t'll.,. 1?..iiii . .... ,.,,. 1ev. T. L. Klllott is elected School Superin tendant unanimously. Douglas, Lane, Benton, Jackson, Coos and Curry have elected Republi can tickets. Wilson will go up the Columbia with from 1,400 to 1,500 majority, giving him a majority in the State of 700 to 000. EAMTKH9I SEWN. 7'he Greek Consul denies that Greek criminals have been shiped to America. Alexnnder .Stephens, of Georgia, advocates the lamination of aDeni- Icy. 6'eucral Wright, at the State Convention at Atlanta, Georgia, May 30th, was in favor of abiding the action of the Baltimore Con vention, but would support fVroe ley in preference to Grant. W. II. liillard and others endorsed the Liberal party. Resolutions were unanimously jiassed by the Conven- ; tj011 gur of an alliance with the Liberal rly. This is an index of the Hpu'ar leeling iu that Slate. In Owencounty, Ky., on the 29th lilt., John r.rankham split his wile's head open with an ax, killing her instantly. On the same evening be was taken from the jail by a mob, and hung. A dispatch from our iliiiUter, tSchenck, on the supplementary ar ticle, May 80th, represents that the , riy, Government is dissatisfied lk1 , t ., c'enate sub- stitute unless another supplement is adotited making the explanations s-ocrertary Fish has replied to this that no further changes would be conceded. 7'he Senate resolution is regarded as the ultima tum. 'Jhc Spanish Minister informed the State Department on the 29th ult,, that his (government would re lease Dr. Howard iu a few days, and return his confbeated estate, In order of the 1 'resident. 7'he Collector at Xcw Orleans was instructed not to allow the land ing ot 6'reck brigands, said to be on their way to America. There is much opposition to Greeley among Pennsylvania Dem ocrats. It is reported from Washington that Hon. David Wells and several other engineers of the Cincinnati Convention will soon publish a let ter repudiating the Greeley-1 'rown ticket. Mr. Wells was sponsor for Adams. Charleston, South Carolina, lias had but three Postmasters since the ertablishiuent of the tioverument. f'cneial 1'utler is urged by his friends for the Governorship of Jasfachusctts. A man in Xcw York city named Trefcz, stabbed his wife, her ira mour, ami himself on the 28th, and it was thought all would die. A Grant Club was organized in Philadelphia, Pin-., on the 28th. Over 4,000 names were put upon the roll. Lyman Treniaiue, John D. Town send, and Henry Daly, Jr., are now retained as counsel for Stokes. Judge Davis pays that he will not be a candidate for 1 'resident be fore the Democratic Convention, and that he shall recommend the work ing men to support Grant. 7'he Democratic organization in Xcw York under the leadership of Hen Wood, last week adopted a resolution instructing tie Xew York delegation to the lUltim ir c Convention to vote for 6'reeley. John Foresyth favors a straight Democratic ticket. He mentions the names of Charles O'Conor and 6'eneral Hancock as suitable for the Vice Presidency. Rev. William II. .1ilburn, of Jacksonvilo, Illinois, the blind preacher, has obtained a decree of divorce from his wife whom he has been separated for years, on the j ground of desertion. She was form- j erly a beautiful belle of Maryland. Many Senators look upon the j Washington Treaty as dead, though others are more hopeful. Southern Missouri has been vis ited by a most disastrous flood. Whole farms in the valley of Spring river, Center creek and other streams, have been w ashed away, leaving nothing but ivok and grav el Live stock of all kinks were drowned in large numbers. Hon. Col, Taylor, Paymaster of the U. S, A., stationed at Loaven worth, Kansas, was found on the 30th ult., shot through the head. A young man last seen with, him was arrested on suspicion. Crops in Illinois and Towa arc reported backward. 7'he wheat crop is lighter than usual. The Irish Democratic Union, of Xcw York, endorses Greeley. 7'he President has appointed George Xoursc, liegister, and Geo. Connor, Heceiver of the Land Of fice at 7'urkvillc, Oregon. 7'he public debt statement shows a decrease during the month of $4, 220,000. Coin balance iu the treas. ury, (91,108,332 ; currency balance, $11,007,813. James G'ordon Dennett died at Xcw York on the 1st. The largest aqueduct in the world is the Croton aqueduct of Xcw York. It cost $12,500,000. A destructive fire which raged over Hawks Mountain, Xcw York, the other day, came within six feet of the powder house of the Midland Tunnel contractors, where 700 bar rels of blasting powder were stored. On the 24tli of November, 1871, T. A. Fogg, of Pulaski, Teiin., put in the center of a bale of cotton a note, offering 50 to the finder on forwarding it. On the 0th day of .May he received the note from, and forwarded the $50 to Albert Chambers,- a workman at the Victoria Mills, Newton Joore, Chester county, England. Alexander II. Stephens is writing columns to disprove the Louisville ('ourhr-JoumaPn assertion that bis utterances are "nothing but ab surd gabble." The Rhode Island Legislature voted to John O'Xeil$200 as some compensation for eight years' im prisonment for a crime which it was lately proved he never commit ted. James McGrew, of Warsaw, In diana, drank nine glasses of whisky to get up courage to have somo teeth extracted, and expired soon after from the effects. 7"he Columbus (Ohio) State Jom'Httl holds the opinion that Mr. Greeley has more capacity for get ting himself into a minority than any other man iu this country. Southerners are circulating aV simile of the bail ImikI of Jeff Davft"" late I 'resident of the Con- federate States," with the signa tures including Horace Greeley's. An Illinois farmer makes sugar from the sap of the box elder. Daniel Webster Appleton, a rel ative of Daniel Webster, was re cently burned to death in a cell of the Dorchester (.1ass.) Police sta tion. He had been confined for drunkenness, and a fire occurred in the jail by accident. The Fijii dwarf attached to Par nuni's traveling museum died in York, Pa., on the 15th, and his three companions were biting and gnawing at the fleshy part of the body when discovered by the at tendants. In Lawrence, .Mass., the other day, a Xcwtbuud'and dog rescued j two boys who were on the point of drowning. At Davenport, Iowa, a boy was standing on the bank of the river j watching some workmen digging It had hardly commenced raining, i , , , , i ttwitnrli n lwivv tloiiulot' vfnrm w:ls i 3 , . .. ,. , , . ,, , , approacinng. lueiigiiMiiug shock him on the temple, leaving two dark spots on his forehead, passing down his neck, tearing the clothing I from his breast and right log MM j' ins nooi nearly irom nis iooi. no body was badly scorched all the way down. 7'he stroke threw the lad at least four feet into the air. Judge Field of the Supreme Court tells his Democratic friends that while he would have supported j Davis orehnso.as between Greolev - , and Grant, he shall vote for Grant. This is tho the kind of cajo'eiy used by the Xew York SV( to in duce Democratic support of the Cincinnati ticket : "Leta'l Demo cratic stntctiuen join iu supporting Horace Greeley, President for a single term, in i872, and they will have ft free field in 1876." Horace Greeley has made his will, preparatory to entering upon tho Presidential campaign. As it is in his own handwriting, wo im agine the Courts will have a lively time in deciding who are his heirs. ''he New1 York Timet remarks that the' .Worts of (he' exposition to confuse lli' rcSI1 is'u ot th coming canvass, jj wLethe H k wise or projier to ekna a moMmi, Bepubli cau as President to srfy ct a re actionary Domottwie poliey, by abuse of the Administration, will not work. Fifteen Congressional Committees of investigation have Iiecn inquiring eagerly into every part of General Grant's conduct and have found nothing against him, which fact is the best answer to all slanders invci ted b the piebald opposition. James Gordon liennett died of old age. His lower limbs were paralyzed tor several mouths, anil he was fully impressed with the idea that ho could not long survive. His estate is valued at $10,000, 000. He leaves the Herald with buildings and real estate connected with it to his son, and provides that it r.-.ust never be sold, but always remain in the fami'y. His Fifth Avenue mansion ho leaves to his wife, and his Washington Heights property to his daughter, Jcaiu.ctte. A severe rain storm oceured iu Central Illinois, June 1st, doing con. siderable damage. Delegates to the Republican Na tional Convention were flocking into Philadelphia on the 3d. It was the general opinion that Grant would be nominated by acclamation. 7'ho friends of Colfax counted 280 votes for him on the first ballot. K. 15. Howard, brother of the General, says the statements ot General Hooker in ti e San Fran cisco Choi'nick, So far as they im ply a want ot honesty, courage and prompt nbedieneo to orders at Chaiccllorsvilleon the part of Gen. Howard, arc false. Out of the delegates at large elected to the Baltimore Convcn- I lion from Pennsylvania, eight arc i:i favor of ( reolcy. 7'ho delega tion is lead by Coi gressmaji Ran dall and Wm. A. Walker. A drunken woman at Fast Sagi naw, Michigan, the other day, ran her head through a pane of glass and cut her nose clean off. Bonner's colt, Startle, recently trotted half a mile at Fleetwood I 'ark in the wonderful time of 1 :04 minutes. This is the fastest time ever achieved by any horse in harn ess, with the exception of Dexter, who once performed a similar teat. 7'he Cairo aTMctmf iie lead ing Democratic iKwspapfer of South ern Illinois, has for Yoorhees no softer name than ''Democratic Ju das." A Cincinnati man is searching through the West tor a runaway wife and S 10,000 in bonds which she took especially the bonds. P.ishop Wood, of the Catholic diocese of Philadelphia, has direct ed his clergy to pray for rain. The Governor of I bode Island has forbidden the boys walking on stilts lest they straddle the State. An Audubon club in Indiana hunts crows with a stullbd club. 7'he Supreme Court has decided tint Hlathoim, Dem., is elected Lieut. Governor of Florida by -15 J" ,, , ,,, , In answer to a dbpatch publish 1 ed in the Chicago Tribune to the effect that "nine out often men on the streets of Elgin, III., arc for (lively," the Elgin Gazette says positively s '-There arc not in the i city ot migin six voters ot hepuo J lican antecedents who will vote for ; Greeley or l'rown." Xew Jersey, which docs more j hanging and has more hanging to do than any other State in the Union, will ham: a woman Union, will ham: a woman on the 19th of July. The Indianapolis Journal states that the potato bugs will poll a heavy vote in Indiana this fall and sweep the State by irresistible ma jorities. The contest in the Philadelphia Convention for Vice President will bo very close between Wilson and Colfax, and it is thought that a third man will be substituted. Jeff Davis is for Greeley, be cause he is trying to beat the man who beat him. Gen.Troeh&,thefcbfted French soldier, has renoftueed' Catholicism ami become a Protestant Prince Uisftiajck hm retired t hiscstaUr where he will jcjuain tin' several mouths. 7'he Ameream Episcopal Church has purchased sifts' in the new quarter of Home for flhsnr of 3, 200, on which they will erect a new church at once. Forty-seven thousand' persons die ' ami,,a"y England of consump tion. Sir John A. McDonald, lafe pre mier of Ontario, died June 1st. The Union Pacific Hailroad bjlf passed the House ot Commons at Ottawa, Out., on the 1st, An explosion of a powder maga zine in Oswcstery Slurp!!, Log., Slay 31st, killed six persons. 7'he weather in England is fa vorable to crops. The Queen's birthday was celc brated at Victoria, 15. C, on the 24th ult, by firing salutes, boat racing, etc. In the Spanish Cortes on the 28th ultimo, a resolution to censure the late Ministry was rejected. One of the first painters of Ant werp paints with his feet. Nearly all the evidences of the ravages made in Paris by the late war hare been obliterated, and the city is as gay and wicked as ever. .niHi'cllltueuHM. Minnesota claims to have a great er amount of water-power than any State in the Union. The second wife of Professor V. B. Morse was a deaf and dumb lady. She survives her distinguish ed husband, and is the mother of several children, all of whom pos sess the hearing faculty. Mr. Elilm Burritt is said t. make a point of learning a new lan guage every year. This year ho thinks of undertaking the tariff plank of the Littoral Republican platform. The Union Pacific Railroad lost $8,000,000 by tho snow blockade, aside from the perishable matter. St. Louis clerks have established a co-ojierative real estate association. 7'he initiation fee is $5, and the weekly dues, one. When $5,00') have liecn raised, they intend to buy a space of laud in tho BUbcrlis, subdivide it, sell the sultdivisioriv : i the highest bidders in their own number, and continue the operation till they are all supplied. Bishop Williams of tho Roman Catholic Church at Boston, la been presented with ?20,000 worth of real estate in that city. Texas claims to have received 120,000 immigrants since Septem ber last. There has been no new case ot the small pox in Ashland sinco the removal of the immigrant family to the quarraiitiue, and it is hoped there will ho note. One of the small pox patients, a child, died a few days since. Vkoetaiilk Ct niosn v. 7 i.o Auburn Stan and Striimot May 23d says : Our attention has been attrack"! to a natural curiosity recent')' taken from an Auburn garden by ilolden. It is a piece of the shin bone of a beef, which had been fftwed Off about six inches from the knee joint, and hail by some means got into it vertical position iu the earth ft abort distance below the surface. Direct ly above this bone a radish peed happened to be planted, which germinated in duo time and sent its roots straight down the cavity that had formerly been filled with marrow, penetrating the entire length ot the bone and filling it to its utmost capacity. We have heard of the marrow squash and the mar rowfat pea; may this not bo considered a sell-constituted mi r row radish, A kind old firther-in-law wanted know why the Mjlftlts were called Ciin ulbals, to which Bannmi replied; Because they live otr other peop'c." "Then," replied he, unhappily, "my tour sons-liwavr hnit be calwlbals they live off of nic!" The ex-King ot -Naples is now m poor that be sells patents of noLill; , for twenty-live dollars apiece. Jjar 'Drowning men catch lit Strews. ' . inking Democrats catch at Greeley,