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I'. S. Official Paper for Oregon.
FRIDAY. APRIL 11, 1873.
KHOt'IUCY WITHOUT A HEAD.
Democratic journals continue to
hurl their complaints and maledic
tions at the devoted head ot the
Portland Herald. Its words in
favor of Mr. Holladay have set the
taeth of some of its Democratic co
temporaries ou edge, and in much
ill-temper, not unmixed with pain,
they give expression to alternate
words of anger and feeble complaint
not unlike the utterances of those
wbos varying moods of passion, gain
for them the name of teeb'e minded,
or demented- It lias heretofore been
regarded as the leading Democratic
organ itfthe State. It was so while
Col. Taylor was the editor, and
aince Mr. Newell has occupied that
position no Democratic journal, so
far as we have noticed, has denied
its leadership. Now is the first
time within our knowledge, that
any very serious combined opposi
tion has been brought against it as
a leader. The Oregon City Enter- j
prise, however, in its inflamed desire j
to justify the integrity aud consist
ency of Oregon Democracy, now
says that "the Herald was the first,
and only Democratic paper in Ore
gon which upheld and endorsed the
infamous Passive Policy," which
resulted so disastrously to the party;
that "it was the organ of the clique
which Dolly Vardenized Multno
mah county, last June," causing
the Democracy to lose the State,
.etc. Now it will be remembered
that Col Taylor was editor at that
time. It will also be remembered
that the course of the Herald, rela
tive to the Passive Policy, was
subsequently endossed by Demo
cratic journals throughout the
.State. If, as the Enterprise says,
the Herald "has never been in
harmony with the Democracy of
-our State since it fell into the hands
of the present owners," why have
they followed its lead ? W by does
the Albany Democrat say, that
"since the retirement of Col. Taylor
from the editorial management of
the Herald it has rapidly lost caste
among the people," if what the En
terprise says is true ? It was under
the direction ot Col. Taylor that
the "Passive Policy," the 'Dolly
Vardeuism," that the Enterprise
so bitterly condemns, was inaugu
rated. He was the cause of all the
woes of defeat which have distracted
the counsels and wrought havoc in
the camp of Democracy, according
to the Enterprise, while the Dem
ocrat thinks the contrary. It
thinks matters were all right, while
Taylor was in charge. Newell is
the sole offender in the view ot the
Democrat, and his "selling out,"
.as that journal has it, to Holladay,
is his offense. Herein is revealed
the weakness of Democracy. With
out established principles, they de
pend upon their leaders for guidance.
The Hi-rald. "sells out," and like a
(lock of sheep which has lost its
bell-wether, the rest fly in any
direction, or every direction, or no
direction, bleating and baaing and
frisking about in a state of utter be
wilderment One says this thing
And another right the opposite, and
their Democratic readers try to take
it all down. The Herald, in the
meantime, is not idle, but combats
Ahem vigorously, saying in effect
that these journals have "sold out''
to the corbett clique, accounting
thereby for the new material they
have lately purchased, and the
sympathy they have so earnestly
extended to the Oreaonian. Can
the Herald's insinuation be true?
The Atlantic Mmstor.
News from New York, April
3d, relative to the Atlantic disaster,
gives the number lost to be about
546 a less number than at first
conjectured. It gives some of tlie
harrowing details appertaining to
the awful disaster. All the women
who were asleep at the time the
ship struck, were drowned in their
births. The heavy seas which con
stantly poured over the vessel and
filled her, prevented them from
reaching the deck. Those who
possessed presence of mind enabling
them to reach the deck were washed
into the sea soon after and drowned.
Six men on shore wrote on a black
board : "Cheer up ! Boats are com
ing to your assistance!" This was
responded to by hearty cheers from
the ship. A half an hour of terrible
suspense, and a boat was launched,
and took off three loads from the
outlying rock. During this time
Captain Williams and passengers
caled to the crew of the boat, tell
ing them that those ou the ship
were in the most imminent danger ;
and the Captain ofl'ered $500 for
every boat load rescued. Three
boat loads were afterwards taken
from the vessel.
miotic Inland Election.
The annual election for State
officers and members of the Legis
lature of Rhode Islard, took place
on the 2d iust. All the State ticket,
with the exception ot the Lieut.
Governor, was carried by the He
publicans. Henry Howard's ma
jority for Governor was 5,800.
The Legislature is Republican. If
our Democratic friends can sec any
thing in this election whicii indicates
a Republican falling off, let them
spit it out, and jubilate. IYobably
they may think "Little Rhoda" is
too small to make a noise over.
We don't. She is small in size,
but big in her staunchness to Re
publican principles. In 1871 her
Republican majority for Padelford
over Steere was 3,471. Now it is
2,000 over that Hurrah for Rhode
Iland.
Hew York Epicure in Lurk.
New York epicures last week
were smacking tlieir lips over some
dainties received by mail from Cali
fornia. Some asparagus sold like
hot cakes, at a dollar per pound.
Installments of cauliflower were
pronounced to be the best ever seen,
and sold in a hurry at one dollar
per head. A lot of fresh salmon
went short at forty cents per pound,
and some higher. Rig prices, but
then those New York gormauds
don't care for expenses when it
comes to answering the calls of
their "appletites."
It is announced that Cincinnati
barbers wont shave colored patrons.
Of course not. Most of them being
colored, they prefer to "softrsoap"
white folks.
A milliner at Defiance, Ohio,
walked into .church one Sunday
lately and rawbided a business
man who had slandered her. The
minister halted until the affair was
over.
Succes will cover a multitude ot
demerits.
troops motiko. J )r. J lius Furst, a learned Juda-
Newg frra theTava Bed to the 1 istic autilor' m at Hft ('(r
firststatesthatthetroopfhadbroken many, on the 9th of last month,
camp the day before and marched j 68- 1,0 was re,'k"1 as one
to the upper end of Klamath Lake, 0, the mul me" ul" Uie l"m,it
and ou the 1st had moved to Tnle ! 1,1 Hcbrcw a, d WWWmW
Lake and the lava bed. This Mwdl' a Pro!i"t ' tientito
would seem to indicate a deterraina- j classi(1 H1'"- ,p l,!is
tinn on the t th Hit. t.- i m"7 lean,e,J treatises on subjects
- w j ii v V VIIU intuitu T IV
bring the Modocs to a definite
issue; but such a conclusion cannot
be indulged with any degree ot con
tidence. Too many delays ami too
much talk and Peace Commission
nonsense, has given to the character ! w"'e'y celebrated,
of affairs there a dishwater weak-! A of graveyards contain
..ess and babyish sentimentality and I the t(1,nUonos of the 0(wl alone.
vacillation, which render it con.! Where are the bad buried ?
temptible. While the Peace Cora- j
mission repeatedly seek for peace, A Washington despatch of 25th,
and as often meet with deceptive says :
replies or positive refusals from Capt. ; The Attorney-General was re
Jack's band, the latter improve the cently requested by the (Secretary of j
time by negotiating with other tribes War t0 ?ive a jwisioi. " We
. . . , p . , ; t.on whether a Mate has a nttht to
and gainmg them over. Latterly tftX t,,e mml o ml
Hooker Jim and party were seen j diers doing duty within their boun
near Alkali lake, where they had : daries. The .matter was brought to
corraledfrom fiftv to seventy-five ; attention of the Secretary of j
, , . . . . . ., ar by soldiers on duty at Y est
horses. A few nights later they Biii until i.gMnd
were at amax and talked all night ; oVer y, tnc (;eiim Govern-;
with the Modocs and Klamaths, meitt has jurisdiction, whose person
trying to get them to join Capt. ; al property had been assessed. The j
Jack. Hooker Jim reported that 1 ueyr& defies the que 1
' . i tion in trie affirmative; Mates have
five tribes had promised to join ' tlie right) he wygj t0 tes S()ldjers
Jack as soon as he left the lava bed. the same as citizens, unless residing
He, had also sent men with money within the limits of the ground of i
to hnv mwder TIip nconlp in the jurisdiction, or on that on which
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meantime in Sprague River valley
. ' . , , . I
are fearfully excited, not knowing
when they may be called upon to ',
defend themselves and families!
frjm the bullets and knives of these j
bloodthirsty savages. At a Peace j
Commission "pow-wow," on the '2d I
. v. f. i u., , ,i '
uist., C apt. Jack was insolent and i
; . . . , ,
overlieanng, and positively refused (
to remove to any other country, j
He wanted to be let alone. Sup-!
no ho ivoto lot lno wW np,.o
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andsecunty would be left to the
whites m that region? None. He j
must be"punished. He must be j
taught that the slaughtering of;
white citizens, at his own royal
pleasure, is no trivial offense; that,
it is a crime, the punishment of
which is imprisonment and death.
John Osborne, who was hanged
at Knoxville, 111., on the 14th inst,
made a confession inst before his
Tt MrfD
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most incongruous. Here is a speci-
men extract, whose brutality would ,
well become a Fijian. After detail-
ing the horrid preliminaries of his
crime having crushed his victim's
skull with a brick he says :
I saw her eyes looking at me ; I
went up to her, and bending over
her said, "Adelia." She raised her
eyes and looked up. I said, "Do
you know me ? ' She made no re
ply. I asked her again and sue
said, "I do." I asked her who I
was, and she said : "Mr. Osborne,"
and reached her hand to me aud
said: "Why did yon do this'' I
dropped her hand and turned away, j
and looked at her again a moment
later and felt that I would give
worlds to have her well again. I
then took out my knife and cut her
throat. She never moved or shud
dered. I then went up stairs aud
left.
Mrs. Dougherty, of Oldtown,
Me., ought to move to Colorado or
Texas. Roth these States want
women who add to the population
rapidly. 7his lady has been mar
ried eight years, and is the pensive
mother of fourteen children two
batches of triplets and four pairs of
twins. Dougherty must be a hap-
(y man when that interesting fami
y are troubled witb the stomach
ache. And it must be trying to
the constitution when be has a gen
eral job of spanking to do.
connected with the religion, litera
ture, and history ot his people. His
Hebrew Concordance, and his Bio
graphical Dictionary of Eminent
Hebrew Literati and r-'avans, are
jurisdiction has been ceded by the
i,.: t ., ..TL" , . ,
Mate to the I inted Mates, ... which
case they are m t0 taXR.
tion.
Another despatch says :
At the Cabinet meeting to-day,
the action ot the railroad companies j
in threatening to withdraw postal '
cars on the first of April, was dis-
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cussed and the views ot the Post- i
marter.(;cuemi on tne subject fully j
sustained. The hope was expressed
that the companies would reconsider
their determination to withdraw the
cars, and continue the service under
th compengation awanled by Con.
gress until the reassembling of that
body in December, when the whole
W0lll(1 probably be satisfac-
Aft" ,A .l,rom.ine,lt law;
ver here exDrewwd the nmnion .hut,
jt the railroad companies carry out
their purpose to discontinue running
postal care on the first of April, the
Postmaster-General will be justified
under the law in proceeding by
force to compel them to run such
cars.
A Jersey City youth has thrown
his family into the deepest affliction,
He ,,as take tQ he f Gef.
man, and now calls his mother
" mine gute mutter," and his sisters
he designates as "sch wester." His
father informed him, the other even
ing, that he'd knock his blasted
head oft his bloody shoulders if he
didn't stop swearing.
Ja, alter, da habeu sie rechtl
The Mayor of Schenectady, it is
said, recently disguised himself as a
rough, and staggered through the
streets to test the vigilance ot the
police. He was arrested, and an
examination showed burglars'
tools, a policeman's whistle, and
other uncanny things concealed
on his person. He was about to
be locked up to await trial, when
his disguise was disarranged, and
he was recognized and set free by
his thunderstruck subordii ates.
The peace strength of the Impe
rial German army is at present fixed
at 401,659, being 978 per cent, ou
the estimated number of 41,000,000
of souls. Constitutionally this per
centage could at any time be raised
to 1 per cent., or 410,000 men.
Prussia, when alone, kept up a
peace army at the rate of 1,065 per
cent, of the then population. In
France the estimate is for 1,157
per cent.
Miss Ella Lawson has been made
a "Bachelor of Science and Letters"
at Paris.
" C atcl.it r "it M i i id " is tl.c
crowiiihgtunoymc.it forhviys. Julm
nv comes home at night Kitfteitcil
with tin., he has had a good time,
but he is tired. His nose is split
ojK'ii at the end, and one of bis
teeth is gone, and he has lumps on
the buck of his head, but, he has
had a good time, and he comes
home to hear his mother read alioitt
Joseph and l is brethren, and nii
liim with liniment, 'J here is huge,
fud in catching oti behind, but it
requires a great deal of adroitness
and decision, he successful lad
is he who is never looking for a
ride. l!e stands with Lis I, aids in
his pocket, actively devouring the
scenery w ith one eye. while the oth
er is prowling around under cover
on the look-out fiir a good chance.
And when it comes he ponnes
down on the cornice of the sleigh in
such a manner as to cover the most
tender parts ot himself in case he
has fallen on a Philistine. The sq
lioitude with which a Iniy shields
his tender parts will bring tears to
the eyes of tax-collectors. But he
always gets on the sleigh, and gets
off too, when urged by a long whip
lash; and when he gets oti' he rolls
himself in a lump and merely lets
go and the fate that, always protects
boys sees that he bounds into safety.
Wood sleighs, with long strong
stakes to catch hold of, are god
senders, hut a box sleigh, with a
place for three to it ou and make
faces at rivals who are breaking
down their legs and lungs in vain
attempt to catch up, is not to be
despised. Not at all. Heaven
bless the fanners why own blue
sleighs with floor boards protruding
a tiior or two beyond the tailboard.
Danbury $ewe.
MiNCcWllUCOUM.
The latest wedding cards are very
long and narrow.
Joseph Bowman, of Washington
county, Tenn , was married a few
days ago for the third time within
the space of twelve months.
It took a sjiecial train with four
cars to cany a Kentuckian's rela
tives to the residence of his bride,
where the nuptials were celebrated.
A grave Elder in an English
church forbade the bans of a certain
young couple because he had "in
tended Hannah fir himself."
"Floating down the sea of mat
rimony by the light of the honey
moon," is the way a city editor
touchingly alludes to the marriage
of his son.
Kansas girls in great numbers
are signing a pledge not to marry
a man who drinks. There is a
great temperance revival going on
in nearly all the Western States.
A marriage was performed in
Waterloo, Michigan, recently, be
tween a man aged 88 and a girl of
20. The bridegroom presented his
bride with an estate worth $11,000
before the ceremony.
Sir James llannon, the successor
to Lord Penzance, is said to be also
breaking down in health on account
of the overwhelming amount of di
vorce business thrown on him in his
Court,
A Kentucky paper contains a re
port of a recent wedding, in which
"the bride was not particularly
handsome, but her father threw in
seven mules, and the husband was
satisfied."
Mrs. Annie A. Pomeroy, late of
La Crosse, Wis , divorced wife of
the notorious Brick Pomeroy, was
recently married to James H. Reid,
an artist, of Fulton, 111.
Twenty thousand women of Bir
mingham have signed a petition in
favor of a bill now before the En
glish House ot Commons, legalizing
the marriage of a widower with the
sister of his late wife.
Why did not George , Washing
ton's sister go with him to cut the
cherry tree? Because she had not
got her little hat yet.
A bill has been introduced into
the Indiana Legislature giving min
isters fees from $5 to $10 tor preach
ing funeral sermons, and more if
the estate exceeds $100,000, the
same to be a lien on the estate of
the deceased.