ORIGINAL DEFECTIVE hid iiiMiiMMi iiiiiiiiiiiiw mi MiiiiHiiiiii mm irmnn 11 iiisTmsmtssj L P Jkktr V T . '"T1- . "T- 7- .... VOLUME VI. Grovtr and his fijxlogirti-ure feeling nd looking mure woebegone as the day of election approaches. The. was a slight ho), on the part of ( Inner at least, that through his mihl manner and seeming truthfulness on the stump, he might persuade the taxpayers into Hie belief that tlte charges tit corruption and venality brought against him and his administration of the affairs of State as (ioveruor, were at least overdrawn if not entirely without foundation. Aijd right here is where he made his greatest mistake. The proofs of his wrondoing, of his downright rascality as the first officer of the State, have been so strong, clear and convincing, that it has been impossibe for Mr. Grover to create a disbelief of their truthfulness in the public mind. The time was when Democrats would not have hearkened to the truth, however plain and unvarn ished ; but that day has passed to return no more forever, and here after the man who is a candidate for the high position of Governor of Oregon, must come before the people with an unblemished char acter, undoubted capacity, and with a record for honesty, integrity and sobriety, in public as wellas private life, that will entitle him to the suffrages of a free and Independent People. The party lash has done its last work. Men have rebelled and will no more violate their self-respect by voting, in ( bedience to the demands ot party leaders these "leaders" ofttimes the most corrupt and venal men in the com munity for the "nominee of the party." Those "good old times" when a nomination was equivalent to an election, no matter how unlit the candidate tor the office, have passed away, anJ a new and better ordej ot things has been ushered in. Yea, Grover is dejected ; he feels that all his scheming, all the dirty work he has done and caused to be done during the last four years, for the sake ot keeping himself in power, has only resulted in show iug to the people his entire 'ack of principle and honor, and still deeper damned the party that placed him in power. We are inclined to believe that Grover has the ability to make a very fair Kxccutive, were he not notably deficient injudg ment, entirely wanting in backbone, and so unscrupulously dishonest. And no man ever stood upon the rostrum in America, and with solemn visage and upturned eyes, told more downright falsehoods in a given time, yet covering them up with-such adroitness that they passed with the masses for truths, than this same L. F. Grover. And herein lays all there is of Grover. lint we do not wish to speak too harsh'y of the (lead. As a trickster, a time server, a political mendicant be will be known in the political history of Oregou. May we not hope that Oregon may never again be cursed with such an Executive. Woodhull & Clarlin, once the noted female bankers, of New York, it is reported, are about to open a brokers office on Market street, San Francisco, California Owylirc Mlnea. Prom the Llaho Statcmian we clip the following about the mines in that section : Geo. W. Gilmore, from Silver City, informs us that they expect lively times over there this Summer, and that money Will be more plenty than ever before. The Kmpire, South Chariot, .Silver Cord, Ward Eag e and Red Jacket have iiened new shafts during the Whiter',' and taken out rich rock. Very rich pay rock has also been taken out of the Golden Chariot. They have good prospects on Judge Hays' mine. The Hell Peck is turning out well, with good pros pect tor the Summer. The Hose dale, owned by Mr. Henry Martin, and the Illinois Central, owned ,by Mr. Sands, have good prospects Tliey are working hard on the Ida Elmore, and expect something big this Summer. Mr. (li'more a'so informs us that several other claims will be opened during the Sum mer that will pay well ; and that more work will be done in that camp this season than at any pre vious time. On the 23d inst. the friends of the Independent cause in Marion and Polk counties held a giai.d picnic at Salem, in Marion Park. The immense crowd assembled there on that occasion, variously estimat ed at from 750 to 1.500, had a very pleasant and enjoyable time, the greatest enthusiasm prevailing. Judge Boise and P. C. Sullivan made excellent, well-timed speeches. It was a glorious occasion, ami was productive of the best results, as will be shpwn by the returns after the election on Monday next. The Sheriff of Multnomah county gets within a few dollars ot torty thousand a year for his services as Sheriff; the County Clerk over twenty-one thousand dollars. The demand of the taxpayers for re trenchment and reform comes none too . soon. No wonder taxes are enormously high when two comity officers alone get away with over sixty thousand dollars a year. Let these princely salaries be at once re duced, and the heavy burdens ot taxation will at once be lightened. n- The wedding of Nellie Grant to Mr. Sartoris transpired at Wash ington on the 21st, Rev. Dr. Tif fany performing the ceremony. The East Room of the Presidential mansion, in which the ceremony was performed, was elaborately decorated' with flowers, evergreens, etc., the central piece being a large marriage bell composed ot the choicest white blossoms. A plat form was arranged at one end of the room, on which the bridal party stood consisting, only of the bride groom, bride, Col. Fred. Grant, the only groomsman, and seven bridesmaids. No Si,bakin(i.-Hou. Ban Hay den, announced to speak in this city on Monday night btst, as we are informed, although here, failed to make a speeck because of sick ness. The outlook for Democracy, even in Linn county, is bad enough to make even the average Demo crat rick ; and as the day of election approiaches mattewget worse and worse. ALBANY, ORJSGON. MAY 30, Last Saturday in Cincinnati Ohio, forty-three wen, crusaders, were a rested fJif obstructing the sidewa'ks. They were dismissed the next day, with the admonition that on the next occasion tltfy will be punished. Thef.. inarched im mediately to ehurah and prayer meeting. What their future action will be remains to be seen. Kate Leinbach, young and beantifnl danghtet; a widow lady tn New York, warmrtrdered a Summit Hill on thepiihg of the 19th. She was enticed into the woods just outside of the city, where she was ravished and then murdered, as is supposed, to hide the first crime- Trwin is said to have determined to return home next monthahd a he has in his possession receipt and vouchers for the $$$,00 spent at Washington to seenre the dhlna Mail subsidy, a slight warming tip of some of the "waiters" in and about Wash jjton way beaxpectied. The following described sinful little little game was indulged in at Atlanta, Georgia. A party ot young men dined samptiipns'y at a restaurant, arid each one insisted on paying tjhe bill. To decide the matter, it Was pvoprafed to blndfold the waiter, and the first one he, caught should pay the bill. He hasn't caught any vf lttem yet. Late date from Brownsville, T.i x as, says a terrible state of affairs is existing on the border. The Mexicans are raiding on cattle and firing on the people. Com. panics have been formed for defense. In Corpus Christi some Mexicans attempted, unsnocessfully, to rescue some ot their countrymen who are confined there tor murder. They swear they will rob and bum the city.. Mr. Smith living twelve miles from Fort Davis, was at tacked by four Indians and slightly wounded, and ten of his cattle killed. The last steamer from San Fran cisco to China, in the Pacific Mail line, carried freight at 40c per Ion $7 and $10 per Umj was the figure but a short time since. Thja, is tlie result of opposhm. China men are now charged $12 per head against $40 heretofore. A Vermont pape h the rural districts charges tor first class marriaae notices. 15 pounds of dried apples; with poetry appended, 12 pounds of onions, in additiol to the dried apples, Bia is bis m Ver mont. One-quarter of Forest City, Ark., was destroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss, $40,000. On the 23d, an other fire destroye aJboat half what was left by the fire the day before. Further lots, $50,000. . The murderer and noted bandit of CaliforniaVasques, publishes a card appealing to the charitable for funds to enable him toploflegM advice iu his coming trial ! What next. Gen. Frank P. Blair, Jr., has joined a Presbyterian church in St, Louis. " Ab long as the lamp holds out to burn, the vilest rinner may return." The other day a monkey in Troy, N... V., ooy. 18. 'Jttmllmois. Yvlftil4NatjB A tlnv, slender, silken thread Is friendship, and we make it Bind heart and lives to bes rt and lives But e'en a breath may shske it. And oft it takes bit one Wee word--But que wee word to Drti -J" ft draws the lips In smiling shape, It draws fiie look of pleasure From eve to eye when bauds touched id. When two hearts heat one measure ; And draw inewdrtg from a word Which make .that WpjjTa treasure. Like string of tuneful harp or lute Between glad souls 'tis holderi. And love's fond fingers on the thread Make music rare and golden Make music such as tender hearts Could live, ami ne'er gyswoW In. But if breath msy shake ft, let Thar breath come near it new ; And never spoken he that word Which friendship's tie might sever? But let the cord grow stronger till The dawning of Forever. oa the Plalas. Westward, westward, westward we have been riding all day over the Kansas Pacific. From Kansas City the road runs straight ap the river bottom and along Smoky Hill and tlie buffalo country to Denver. O.i the trail are Grangers from ('arson and iljugo, and killers and slabbers from Wild Horse and Kadft Tail. ( jn we near osiuih, ivnnriw, ductor Cheney (Domes along to i ir lect the fare. Touching a long haired gentleman on tlie back he looks down and says : "Haictgot none," saystha passenger, holding his gun with one hand and scowling out from under his black slouch, hat. "But yon mast pay your fare sir!'' expostulated the conductor. "Now jes look a-here, stranger! mebby yooer a doing your duty, bat 1 bav't never paid yet gomg through tliis Country, and-'' Jnst then a slonchy old frontiers man who had been compelled to pay his fare in the car, stepped iip . in the front ot the mulish, passenger, and, pointing a six-shooter at him, said : "See here. Lorn Bill, yon iespay yer fare. Pve paid mine, and they doirt anybody ride oh this tram free if I douV-if they do damme!" "All right, you've got the drop on me, old boy, so pat up yer shooter an' I'll settle," said the passenger, going into his pockets for th money. "Do these incidents often hap pen?" I asked the conductor a little while afterwards. "Well. ves. but not so often as tiiey tfsed to in M58 and TO, Mrv Perkins. The other day," con tinued the conductor, "some three card monte men came on the train and swiftalea drover out ot m. He said his cattle got so cheap during the Eastern 'bust' that he had to just 'peel 'em' and sell their hides m Kansas City and this was all the money he had. A half dozen miners from Denver overheard the talk, and, coming np they 'drew a bead' on the monte men and told 'em to pay what money back. Mast too ttouot thai money back, conduct?," they said! "and after I had done it," continued the conductor, "one of the head miners said:" '"Now, conductor, yon jee stop tlie train, an we'll hang these three cord fellers to the telegraph pole.' But the monte men flew oat of the door too quick for em, , To illustrate the value" ot human life in this country, Mr, Locke, toacagv of the KaassJ City Opera I lonsa. tells me tm mtt t Two waff ago tie Ji mts. Brothers, the same two desperadoef who sacked the Express ear, tad. "went through" the passeugew v the Chicago, Kook tstaito .r cific, at Gad's Hill, stolthemopey box at the Kansas State f air. They rode into Kansas City on horseback, and when the cashier was walking to the bank with the receipts uf the day, about $2,000, they pointed their pistols at his head, seised the box, and ga'lopetl of. This was done in broad day light hi the midst of a grer t crowd. Well, somo time afterwards one of the Kansas C ty reporters wrote an articleabnot thesebighwaymeu's recoro. a w iugm since iflr wards the James Brothers rode into Kansas City, went to the newspsier office, and calling toe reporter out, presented him a handsome watch and chain. The article touched them ou the tender spot and they desired to show their gratitude. "But I don t feel at liberty to take this watch," mid the reporter. "But do it' to' gratify us. We didn't steal this wateh ; we bought and paid for it with our own money,'' continued the desperadoes. "No; yon must excuse me," continued the reporter. "Well, then, it yon can't take this watch," replied the James Brothers regretfully, "perhaps yon can name some man around here you want killed." It has never been ascertained to s satisfaction of the public who the man in the Iron mask was, Dot generations to come will know about Dick Palmer, of Macob street Wh got inside ol something worse than a mask Saturday. His mother sent him after a brass kettle which one ot her neighbors had borrowed and orr the way home the boy turn ed the kettle upside down and pnt it on his head. Another Ooy gave it a blow, and it shot down over Dick's face as closely as a clam in a shell one ctheW digging into tlie boy's heatrfwpjW.aiKi tneotner pressing oh his siW, The victim shouted and x . TT - A. and clawed at the kettle, lden't bodge it. A mall and lifted at it, but Dick began to come out by the roots, and the man bad tostop. A crowd ran put from the corner grocery: Dick's mother was sent for, and the boy danced up and down and cried "Oh, golly!" with out ceasing. One boy said they would have to take a cold chisel and drill Dick ont of the kettle, and another said they'd have to melt the kettle off, while everybody rap ped on it to see how solid it wason. Then they taried to lift it off, but Dick roared marder!"till they stop ped. Some said grease his head, and some said grease the kettle, while the bey's mother sat down on the curbstone and sobbed out "Oh, HTchard! why did yon do thief" Tlie crowd took it coolly ; it wasent their funeral, and a boy with a brass kettle ou his head isn't to be seen every day. Tears fell from the ket tle, and a hallow voice kept repeat ing "Pll never do it again." Fi-' naily they laid Richard on the side walk, and While one man sat on his legs, and another on his stomach, a third compressed the kettle between his hands and knees and the boy crawled out, his nose all scratched and twisted out ot shape, a hole in bis head and a bump on his fore bead. His mother wildly embraced him, and all the boys cried "Hoop laP and little Richard was led home to loaf around on the lounge, and have toast and fried eggs for a week. It was believed on the 21st, at OiMwa, Canada, that the Pacific Rahroad BWwottM pass the Do- it. mm bsm.ewi 'snose 1