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About The Albany register. (Albany, Or.) 1868-18?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1873)
4 V. H. Offlll Vpr for Oregon. FRIDAY, AUOUSf 1, 1873. The Rrwoii The reason Democratic journals scarcely ever discuss principles, but substitute personal abuse in their stead, is because they have no principles of uniform acceptance to advocate; and that has been their fix for a long while. Hence the rediculotisuess of their charging one who has left their ranks, with betrayal of "honor," "manhood," iiid other good virtues which con. listency to established principles lone recognizes. To become a good Democrat, now-a-days, all the individual has to do is to begin to Blander and abuse the Republi can party, or some of its leaders. The more glibly he can do this the greater his ability to command tho most comprehensive words of slanderous import and vituperative emphasis, the nearer he approaches the model of a perfect modern Dem ocrat. Even in this, however, care must be taken by such person lest he inadvertently departs from the line of "glittering generalities;" as too much speceficness in dwelling upon any one crime, no matter what that crime is, would be sure to hit some traction of the party tor no inconsistency, known under heaven, have they failed to resort to, and the crimes the party has been guilty of exhausts the who'e calendar. No Hope of It. TSe Salem Mercury speaking rebV e to the kind ot platform its party hould make at the coming State Convention, thinks it should contain no "equivocal terms." It would be a new thing for a modern Democratic State Convention to draw up a platform containing no ambiguity, no words susceptible of double signification, no hypocrisy, do equiv ocation. Democratic Con ventions in these days have sought, as did the Grecian oracles, to give to their utterances a wording sus ceptible of any interpretation. By uch dishonest trimming, they have driven many men, who have frank ness and truth and manly candor, from its folds, and brought upon the party repeatedly overwhelming defeat at the polls. We would be glad if the coming Convention would be specific and truly honest in its declaration of principles. It would bo an evidence that the party is in a state of genuine repentance for its past deceptions and sins, besides it would enlighten the world as to what modern Democrats do believe. But scarcely a shadow of auch a hope need be indulged. The evil of deception is too finely knit in Democratic habit to permit it, and the days of miracles have passed. A dispatch from Khiva says a decree was issued by the Khan on the 24th of June abolishing slavery throughout his dominion. All per sons held in bondage are to be made citizens or return to their native countries. So much for the Russian army invasion. Judge Bonham held court in Tillamook county a few weeks ago. Miller's warehouse was used as the court room. Tillamook was tiiere in best bib and tucker. Everything passed off in apple-pie order. The Shah ofPorsI. The papers contain numerous items about the Shah of Persia who is on a European tour. While in Queen Vic's dominions, everything he did iu feet, almost every breath of that foggy country he t-wk in, was chronicled. Fetes, excursions, reviews, displays, etc., were arrang ed days in advance, and the hither to case-consulting Shah was hustled around until he scarcely knew whether he was the "King of Kings," or otherwise. Correspon dents could have omitted the state ment that "he was egregiously bored." He went to see and enjoy at his own royal pleasure, and not to be taken in hand by practical England and made to conform to stipulated events and specific times. In one instance His disgusted High ness was hurried oft" so fast he lost his breakfast, and doubtless he was ravenously hungry before he got anything to eat. In another, His Arbitrariness wanted to go and see the bear at the Zoo, but the pro gramme had him down for another place. He talks English but little, but as that is of the most emphatic kind, His Profanei.ens frequently brought into use while he was being rushed around. Ilis choice ox pie tine starts out with a d, and ends with an n, thus d n. It was not expected that his manners and hab its would reach any higher than that of a Prince of Ind. About halt-civilized, is the English esti mate ot his. His gallantry for the ladies of rank, consists in letting them take care of themselves. So he treated the Princess ot Wales on one occasion, helping himself into a carriage first, and leaving the Prin cess to get in as best she could. Then he eats with his fingers, and when anything he doesn't like gets into his mouth, lie takes it out with his fingers and slings it on the ladies dress who sits next to him. When introduced to a lady, instead of looking at her face, he directs his eyes critically towards her feet and then her waist. He approves of the nudeness of the ballet, and want- i ed the Prince of Wales to join him in a romp with some of the dancing girls of Covent Garden, and asked the Prince to issue a ukase ordering the cantatrices who sang to him at Floral Hall, to dine with him at his private table. His d n's were unusually emphatic j against English morals, which the Prince urged would not sanction such proceeding. Like all semi barbarous potentates, he glitters in jewels and diamonds wherever he appears It is said his depraved habits improve as he goes along. It' is to be hoped so, certainly; for he has been entirely without shame or restraint in his expressions of dis regard for morality, and many of his acts have been highly indecent. Because the Eugene Guard doesn't like our sentiments relative to Senator Mitchell, it calls us an "unmitigated ass." An organ of a party that has no head, should be more modest. Its language deter mines the foul beginning of its ideas, certainty. N Second Lieutenant, M. Frank Gallagher, Second Infantry, recently tried before a Court-Martial at Columbia, S. C, for killing John McAnely, a discharged soldier, in Spartanbury, S. C, has been dis missed from the service and the entence has been approved by the President. The civil authorities will next take cognizanceof the murder. ALBANY REGISTER. NoiQallr Induct!. The Albany Register says any-1 body who does not believe in adnl- i i ! T - a I tery ana Digamy is a uemocnu. , Oreaonian. It there is any wit in the above, Mr. Oreaonian. it is of that kindjtori8: r which depends on a falsehood for! . At ran!a'n T ., L . ! ritnTV, there is the dullest Kind of its nib. AVe never talk that way. , M The railroad is passing You were probably povertystricken the j,aw fifteen miles away, and for an idea when you invented that I real estate and business have had a statement. If you ever pray, doubt- j great decline during the past twelve less the first devotion you indulged mo'lt,ls- . . Seattle is as dull as it can be and plea for the Lord to forgive you for breaking the commandment about "bearing false witness." .liquor businesss, ana particularly Look at it: The party that fought J! niJuor 011 Sll,,day; aud . , . . ' I I then came the rebellion m defense of negro, twit temperance fever, slavery, the practical working WhJoh fliVl ltawe which was to perpetuate the most j u, ie paml al g400 Fr anmim corrupt and cruel form of adultery, and next followed the Sunday law. and substantially to uphold the This last was the feather which most degrading bigamy of which 1 broke the camel's back. It ruined , , . the famous death-den, known as modern examples give any account; g,',, Jo)n that we would say the above ot pennel's celebrated "Mad House" that party? No, no, Mr. Oreyo- closed for repairs. The men in the nian't that partv's slaverv history, logging camps and neighboring and its many unprincipled departures j mills, who receive their pay on each , . . . , Saturday night and who were wont since, endorsing anything and every- to yisit Seattle and get broke on thing which held out a hope of j Sunday, had now no inducement, enabling it to regain power, would j and a great "want of change" was rise up and condemn us were we to noticed by the Seattle saloon-keep- i .i u vi,. 1 e1"8- Added to this the Puget make the above statement. What ... ,. .. ..j , . , Sound Banking Company failed, has not that party believed, is the question. Since you have been coastine along the shores of De mocrat, the lesson of misrtatiug the position ot one whom you opX)se, you have mastered well; but when you become thoroughly has almost ceased, owing to some inducted into the fold, your state- j thing being the matter financially, ments will be less specific and more j f Victoria B C., the times are , . , , ., as dull as the dn lest, rromliemg gencral-in other words, you W'H once a city 0f 10,000 it has settled become more artistic in your fabri- j (iuWn to a modest 4,000, and the cations. ! contraction gave it a hurt that will - I be felt tor many years to come. On An Eloquent Paroicrapb. many of the outside sidewalks I I found the grass growing luxuriantly On the Fourth of July, at the through the boards beneath my teet ceremonies conducted at Philadel-; and actually found herds of cattle phia on the grounds selected for j g'-g l"ly " the streets in .-, , ... j a most the heart of the city. The the (. entennial Kxposit on in 18(0,1. , , v. . . . J f : harbor at ictoria is very small, Attorney General Williams was L1Mj lne Canadian Pacific Overland among the speakers. He said: Railroad Company have selected Our meeting here in 1876 is not I the harbor of Esquimalt, three miles only to be a .National Anuiversary distant, where a rival and more but an exposition of the world's j lively town may spring up hereafter, progress. In common with those We"s, Eargo & Co. close their ex from other quarters, products from i press and banking business at Vic the shores of the llaltic and the j toria on the 15th instant, but it is Mediterranean, from the banks of ! id that their agent here will con the Thames and the Rhine, from the sunny lands on the Caribbean and from the gorgeous East are ex pected here upon that occasion; and they will be welcomed by the i oeonle of the United States. This will be the neutral ground for all countries; nation mav contend here j with nation in bloodless strife for the triumphs of peace Different forms of government, no doubt, will continue to exist, and countries will differ in their language, their laws and their customs, but intellectual I and physical laoor have m view 1 but one end, and the exhibition of ! their achievements here in 1876 will, as we hope aud believe, benefit and honor the industries of the whole world. (Prolonged enthusi asm.) Had him There. A gentleman who was riding in a railroad car was asked by the conductor of the train to show his ticket. "My face is my ticket," he answered. "Very well," replied the conductor, "I am authorized by the company to punch all tickets. But who are you, any way?" he added. "I am a cMrector of this road, sir," returned the gen tleman, "and am also authorized by the company to keep all con ductors from knocking down. A Peoria editor on his way home the other evening had the misfor tune to lose a sum of money which he had been saving up to invest in real estate. The amount lost, including the value ot the pocket book and some articles ot jewelry, was sixty -four cents. THE MHIND. A correspondent of the S. F. Chronicle gives the following in- terestjn accout 0f matters and things on Puget Sound and Vic- moral place almost ruined it forever. It had grown lively on its retail and several other failures of impor tance had already preceded it. All the mills on the Sound are ming light, and there is not so ; much logging in the pineries as iu I former years. The shipments ot ' lumlier to Harry Meiggs in Peru, tinue a similar business in the old place, thus keeping up the connec tion. A REMARKABLE DISCOVERT. Before leaving Cajie Flattery, I visited and circumnavigated Wa- ana island, six mueseastward trora the Caie Lighthouse, and in doing so made the discovery of a singular tall of water, and one which has hitherto remained unnoticed and unknown, lost in the mazy wonders of the place. This tall is caused by the flowing of the surf upon the rocky shores of the island and re ceding again alternately over the same ledge of rocks. So remarka ble is tho formation of the place that the water falls to a depth of about ten feet on the side next the island, and instantly reverses and falls to the same depth toward the straits. The water falls in this manner alternately as often as twelve times a minute, and is alto gether a most curious affair. Its width is about forty-five feet, and its distance from the solid shore of the island is about one hundred and fifty teet. The process of this fall has been continuing so long that on each ot its sides the rock is percept ibly worn away by its action, and the geologists will there find the chronicles of time marked for more than a thousand years. Afker mak ing this discovery, I called the at tention of Rev. C. II. Hodges, who accompanied me and who was not far distant, to the circumstance, and then there, by right of discovery, named it "Chronicle Falls," in honor of the newspaper which I represented. Therefore, know ye all the world, that I, a Chronicle correspondent, have discovered and named this fall of salt water, which, I believe, exists without a parallel on the face ot the earth; and that the same is an alternating double fall, ten feet iu bight, situated on the northern shore of Wa-ada island, near the mouth of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, in north latitude 48 deg, 20 mm. and west longitude 47 deg. 40 min. TAfOMA. The following diseription of Tu coma, the terminus of the Northern l'acilic Railroad, will !x read with interest by those who have never visited the coming big city : Tacoma is a small town, located midway betwueu Olympia and Seat tle, and near the head of Pnyallup5 Hay. It is but thirty miles from Mount Rainier, and takes its name from that mountain, which in tno Indian language is Tacoma, or grand. The to,vii is but two years old, and has only two hundred and titty inhabitants. It lias a tine steam saw-mi I, with surrounding docks and wharves. This mill is owned by Hansen, Ackerson & Co., of San Francisco, and cost over 8130,000. It has a capacity for sawing 75,000 feet of lumber per day, and from one to three ships are constantly loading for the south ern markets. The town is naturally a great commercial Kint, being really at the head of ship naviga tion on the Sound. All ships pro ceeding further up the Sound, to ward Olympia are compelled to take steam or make long aud slow passages. Tacoma being the ter minus, would also accommodate, by steamships, the trade of the west side of the Sound en route to Vic toria. It would make tributary the great milling points of Port Hlakely, Port .Madison, l'ort Oam ble and l'ort Ludlow, and also tho port of entry l'ort Towusend. The first four of the above are tho largest and heaviest mill points oi the Sound. THE PRESS. The correspondence winds np with a description of "the press" of Puget Sound, which is too rich and racy to be left out, and we therefore give it in full, sparing comments: Puget Sound may, of itself, be regarded as a large nattering town, and the news from one of its bavs or mil s is just as interesting as from another. Therefore, a newspaper, if published in an uninhabited island, or away on top of Mount Rainier, could get tm a circulation and eke out a precarious existence just as well as if published in Olym pia, wnere mere are now no less than two dailies and live weeklies and but 1.800 inhabitants. The morning paper at Olympia is the (. 'inner, republican m politics, owned and edited by two young men named Hag'ey and Harned. It is on this little paper that Thee balls, formerly of the extinct San Francisco Time, would dish tip a three-column editorial without paragraph on the condition of affairs in Spain, to the extreme amazement of the people of this Territory; who were far more interested iu tile price of beans and pine boards. The Olympia Evening TrUmm is pub lished by Thomas 1). Prosh, who once wielded the quill oil your neighbor, tho "Morning Grand mother." In the matter of existing he is a success, but how he does it those who "know him well, Hora tio," cannot understand. Tom is given much to talk of his past ex perience with the press, aud as an editor in San Francisco and New York; and those who have listened assert most positively that his dates and events makes him out to be at least 250 years of age. The Weekly Olympia Standard, a I emomtic paper, is conducted by a persistent Italian named John Miller Murphy. The Weekly Olympia Transcript is owned by politicians and edited by E T. Gnnn. The Olympia Echo, a temperance paper, is man aged by J. H. iMuuson. me owiiucoom Weekly Iteprm J M ovmi by Julitw Dickens, a Sun day School teacher. He has tba