T V T i , I " " ' -i.. - - ii ii . . 8. OMrtal Paper for OrrB. SAttTRDAY. JUNE -: . 6, 1874. ism. wm. Vic. Woodhull is lecturing in California on the social evil. Santa Barbara, California, has voted against license. Plait's I!a!l, Sah Francisco, was crowded on Tuesday night, to hear Woodhull. v The Independents ot Linn county hare done well, having elected four of the nine member of the Legis. lafttieene Senator a:id three Rep. resentatives. The candidates for Sheriff, J. 8. Morris, Independent, end L C. Rice, Democratic, re ceive the same number of v4es, m4m therefore a "tie." A great number ot Republicans voted for Fred. Hill, Democratic candidate tor Clerk, enabling him to getaway with the office by a good round majority. It was a closely con- tested electiorf on the part of our Sft" Francisco merchants have foes, who left no stone unturned to Prteted against the repeal of the elect tlieir ticket. A noticeable I Pacific Mail subsidy, which it is feature ef the election Was that a i thought will materially lessen the Donald McKay end his Warm Spring Indians are greeted by full nouses in raliforma. The shore end of the new Atlantio cab'e was landed at Cerry Head on Sunday morning. John Mason has been nominated for Surveyor General of Ariaona by the President. The bill granting $50 a month to the widow of General Canby, has passed the P. 8. Senate. few Republicans voted foi Grover, while a few Dem jcrats refused tp swallow Grover or M ,y other man " fir Governor. Tliere were but nineteeen tickets out of over three hundred cast at one of the polls in this city that were not "scratched." The Independents electare T. P. Goodman, Senator ; J. Wassora, J. Lame and Frank ShedJ( Representatives Goodman' and Shedd were formerly Demo, crats; Wassrai and Lame were formerly Repubfcaiis. probability of its repeal. BEM'f.T IN THE STATE. There seems to be no doubt that the Democratic ring have succeeded in getting away with all the State offices, even to Superintendent of Schools. Grover, Chadwick, the two Browns, and Dawne seem to be the fortunate men. A sick hombre who dwells in Eastern Oregon, yclept La Dow, beats Wil liams, Republican, and Davenport, Independent, tor Congress. Here after it will be in order for the man who wishes to go to Congress, to remain at home after receiving the nominition. and swear that he is "down with rheumatiz.'' The Tn London on the 1st inst , as the Prince of Sax weimir was leaving his residence, he. was fired upon by an unknown assassin, who escaped. The Prince was unhurt. George Bushhy, on trial at Marysville, California, on charge of the murder ot Brady near Smarts, ville on the 25th of March, was acquitted by the jury on the 1st. The Jo fin Z. .Stevens, last week .brought, to Portland a small pox patient, a little child, which was taken to the pest house. It is get ting along well there. t . The Grand Chapter A. F. & A. M., convened in Portland yester. day. On Monday the Grand Lodge of Oregon and Washington Territory convenes at same place, in Masonic Temple. A Little Rock, Arkansas, cor respondent says tliit Baxter is en. dworing to break up the Repabli can party in that State by intfmi. dating and Imprisoning prommeut members ot the party. At Hamilton, Nevada, on the evening of the 2d, occurred one of those terrible shooting affairs. As Pat Casey, watchman at tlie Eher. hart, mine, was going to his work he met his foster brother, Tom Casey, crasy drunk, who, without provo cation, drew his revolver and com- menced shooting at Pat's doc. and turning sudden'y upon Pat, who stood a few feet distant, fired two shots at him, one shot hitting Pat in the left s de, just above the hip, and lodging in the groin. 'Pat tell. but remarked, " Come lielp me up, Tom ; I don't think I am badly hurt." Tom replied, " I am too mean to live anyway," and putting the pistol to Ids head, blew out his braina. jjU j Sir Heory Thompson, one of the must distinguished of English liv. ing physicians, said in a recent speech that all men of action, whethei educated or not, require a ffoil otsome kind to their hours of blank toil, and went on to say that if you take away liquor from the workingman you must" put in its place some agent of amusement which will give the elevation of spirit and buoyancy of heart turn, islied by alcohol. He holds l.lmrn. fore, that on all days, and especially on Sundays, ooflee. houses, reading rooms, libraries, museum i, and pic ture galleries should be thrown open to laborers. The Senate Committee on Trans portatkm is now taking its turn in wrestling with the fares and freights question, as presented in a bill in troduced by Senator Sherman. This bill does not attempt to tlx any arbitrary schedule of rates, nor can it apply to any roads except these which cross State Hues or conduct a business of transportation between States or to or from any foreign nation. Its provisions are, in brief, as follows : Section 1 pre seniles that there shall be no dis crimination in rates or charges; Section 2 that in every depot and station shall be consDicuouslv in. ted a classification of freights and rates of nharmi tvr mile an3 a complete table of distances between terminal points and each and every station, such posted tab'e to alwo. lutely fix all charges; Section 3 provides for prosecution of com nies violating this law and col lection of penalties from them in any United States District I'ourt; Section 4 reserves to citizens the right of recovery ot damages for violation ot the provisions of this law. independent of the prosecution in the name ot the United States. ttm JwUrial Election. From the meager returns before us we gather that E. I). Shattuck is elected Judge of the 4th district, with H. Y. Thompson as Prosecut ing Attorney. They were the can didates of the Peoples' Committee. In the 5th district Hnmason, In dependent Democrat, is doubtless elected Prosecuting Attorney. In this district, 3d, Whitney probably gets away with the At torneyship a Permicratic gain. In the 2d district, Burnett, Tnde- pendent, is elected Judge, and Fitch, IVmocrat, .Attorney. The petition to throw the Union Pacific Railroad into bankruptcy has been decided adversely by Judge Lowell, of Boston. The waters of the Columbia and Willamette are rising rapidly, and First streeters, Portland, are gel ling a'armcd. The blight has attacked mm) im probabilities are that the Indepen- ! troyed mauy hundred acres of pota dents have elected a maioritv of i tes back of Mission andWi their the Legislature, and will thus be enabled to hold the executive in check. Tliauk God for this tnueh. The ship Sontus fripjj Uajy for. Nev 1 ork, sprang a leak and sunk ou the 6ib ot May. The Captain and crew toot to ibe boats. The one containing Captain Devriesand five others. fa picked up by the schooner Clara, after tliey had been out nineteen days, For three days thm neither" water or provisions. On their arrival at Staten Ibbad, M men were sent to the hospital. Two other boats, commanded by the tin ana second mates, have not been heard from. Another horror is related in New York. A Mrs. Devine, of JJpkT lyn, on the morning of the 2d, truck lier husband, Michael De vine, on the back of the head with an adze, and while lie was having his bead dressed, killed her three infant children by pounding their beads to pieces with a flat-iron. She was thought to ba crai? the effects of a protracted cooper's strike, in which her hatband was engaged TbcnW buildi ,rr i . JMOM Wok "me, now land, will not be to Half Moon Bay, says telegrams from San Francfcwi, which causes tpprehensions of a short crop and high prices during this season. Daniel Drake is the name of the man who was killed by DoraCush man at Coivallis on the evening of the day of the election. Whisky was the cause ot the affray. Cush. man fled at once, and at last ac counts had not been arrested. It is reported that he staid Monday night at Lebanon. i " -- On the 1st inst., the public debt statement was as follows: Total ftbt, $2,261,091,027; total inter, est, $33,364,003. Casjt in Treas. rjr, coin, $81,958,979; currency, 11,177,705 ; special deposits. $66,. 050,000. Total, $149,186,683. Delrt less in the Treasury, $2,145,. 268,488. Decrease during the past rooi.th, $4,456,838. The immense wharf boat that was swept from her moorings at Wallula, W. T, on the Columbia, last winter, during a violent mk. and carried a few miles down the rirver where it sunk, has Un raised, repaired and towed back to itt old place at Wallula. The wharf boat is 160 feet long, 80 Act A lawsuit is going on at Naples, the incidents of which would form a good theme tor Charles Reade. A young girl was placed by her family m the Lunatic vlmn. She was a millionaire, and wa; destined to lie married to her cousin, that her fortune might be retained in the family. She refused to marry the man provided f;,r her, having chosen some one else, and the next thing known ot her she had been shut up in the private asylum of a certain Dr. FIoureiis,atCtpodk liion. The young man to whom she had prom- isea ner hand, and other friends, insisted upon the matter being in. quired into, and i' "was discovered that she was perfectly sane. Of course she was released". She mar. ried accirding to her own desires immediately, aud lias instituted legal proceedings against the physi. cian who caused her to be shut up, a factotum of her ramify. " - i I, i i In Virginia City, Nevada, an "Independent" organization has been formed, and A. B. Elliott, Corresponding Secretary thereof; has issued a caH for Jhe selection by independent voters in the several counties of delegates to meet at V irgmia City on June 6th to form a State Central Committee " for conference, consultation and or ffanizatitfti of the Independent party of the State ot Nevada." The call denounces grasping monopolies, dis honest officials and the " Heathen Chinee," and invokes all who favor a reform of State and Federal ad ministration of government to cut loose from lxth thp old parties and. oome into the new movement. It is to be hoped that the Independent rty will do something toward purifying Nevada politics. The coming transit of the planet Venus is a matter of great impor lance to the scientific world. The phenomenon will occur on 8th of 1 teoemlier next, and extensive pre parations are being made for the observation of the passage of that planet, across the sun's disk. The last transit, visible from the earth occurred in I860, and there will not be another till the year 2004. By 1hc knowledge we now possess, as a basis tir calculation, it is impossi The Western Union Telegraph Directors have just declared a quarterly dividend of two percent., payable Jn'y 18th. Richardson was confirmed Judge ot the iCiwrt of ( laims by a ma jority of three. 1 , , J. Mccormick has been con tinued as Pension Agent at Port land, Oregon. Harvey W. Scott has been nom inated tor Collector of Customs at Portland. A statistical table has just been published, showing the influence of ble to ascertain the earth's distance intemperance ou the chinches. Ac- from the sun within 300,000 miles. When the total distance is about 91,480,000 miles, as slightamat'er as the distance above mentioned would seem to be of no practical importance ; but a variation ot forty times the earth's diameter renders computious too uncertain to suit astronomers, it is expected that the observation, which will betaken next December, will leave a margin of only 50,000 miles open todoiibt. As the transit will occur in the win ter, the base of oliservation must lie located south of the equator, (ireat Britain will have special stations iu the Sandwich Islands, and in seven other localities. The United States will have eight parties in the held, r ranee will occupy three stations, Russia four or five, and Germany five. The probem is simply the familiar geometrical pro cess ot constructing two sides of a triangle iu order to determine the third. The more we con over the election returns, the more we are convinced the Independents had the strength to have carried the election by sweeping majorities had they have heel) better organized. The People 'at heart are right, and will hereaf ter sieak for themselves. It will not lie a question of policy hereafter with the People, but a question of right, honesty and justice. Poli. ticians and political rings have gained their last victory in Oregon, we hope and believe. wwty " W Pf8 ww Jwff. wde and 7 &MiA . i It is no ascertained that the famous century plant, so beautiful in bloom, and yet so rare, buds aud flowers every sixteen years, instead of once in a hundred yean, as has been long supposed. The question is, why is it called the century piani r (Ml It is reported that a Scotch com pany will put np the money to erect a bridge across the Wilkpaetto at Portland. When iit J D j iuun 9 boon? WbenafcelrtMIWairi. 'tMic. -":. t IU8K3 The funded debt of New York Uy May increased $1,500,000, making an increase of over $11,. 000,000 in two years aud three quarters under the reform government. John Owens, a saloonist at Sierra City, Cal., ou the 1st so aided by shooting himself the mouth with a revolver. Bristow has been confirmed See. retary of Uie Treasury by tbell. 8. cording to the judgment of the author, at least seven-eighths of all 'he offenses requiring discipline, for the past twenty or thirty years, have originated directly or indi rectly from this cause Among the Pennsylvania Ger mans there is a religious sect called the Schwenklelders. They go be hind even the famous " Prayer book of 1785 "; for their principal Uxik is entitled, " Catechisms; or, First Instruction in Christian Doc trine; Needful aud Profitable tor all Christian Disciples, Young aud Old, to Exercise Themse'ves There- in." l'nnted at Philadelphia, 1763. The W(ti(itit Jovial asks: " Why should not women be more generally iustructfd in the principles of civil government snd matters of business?" There are some hus bands, replies an exchange, who believe that their wives are suffi ciently instructed on points of gov. eminent (civil or uncivil) already, and that they know more about some matters of business than is al together agreeab1 to the husband aforesaid. Tltat'swhy. We wonld be glad to know what Venus thinks about all these pre parations for observing her transit. If she is anything of a modest fc ma'e, it most be extremely harrow ing to her feelings to bo squinted at through spy-glasses from all coi ners of the earth. Suppose yon had n transit !!rs. Ornndv, wouldn't y.tu grumble at this sort of thing y We have private and personal rea sons for believing that Venus is preparing to inquire whether she lias any rights which astronomer are bound to 'respect. The Tcmieranee mass meeting iu Seattle resulted iu the formation of a County Aliian.-o auxiliary t the Territorial, with J. H. Hall, Presfdent; John Webster, View President; I). B, Ward, Secretary. and Mrs. Emory, Mrs. Dr. Weed eud'llisnKreeland. KxerutivB t 'om mm ppp "WPHMHI