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Sditor. SATURDAY..., JULY 4, 1SG8. for --president: CEO. H. PENDLETON, OF OHIO. Smhjtct to (At dtcvicm of th Democratic National , CcmrtHtion,) DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. rOR rREMDES'TUI. ELECTORS, S. F. CIIADWICK, of Poujrlas county. JOHN BURNETT, of Denton county. JAS. II. SLATER, of Union county. The usual leap year advice to 'young wo men is, to "act like men." In a short time thero will be a woolen mill at Ashland, Jackson eminty. 1?rocressino. Ground was broken for the East eido railroad at Corvallis last week. A Fair and S jpper for tho benefit of the Corvalli3 Colleg$ held last week, netted $170. . ; ' Tho Jacksonville Sentinel heads births, marriages and deaths : Come," ' Fixed to Stay" and Gone." " x A mining ledgs in Josephine county U Valued nt $270,C00. The average yield is computed to be from three to five thousand xlollars to the ton. The Kero has been freed. Woman now knocks at the dcor. Some deem she oujrht to have been emancipated at first. But such are not correct loyalists. A man named Whitseli was severely hurt one day last week, near Dallas, by being run over by a wagon. The Signal says he was, at the latest adviocs, still insensible. Iloraee Greely says that if the Democracy carry Xew York, Pennsylvania and Ohio "they are bound to win the Presidential con test. They will undoubtedly do it, Horace. The editor of the Jacksonville Reveille 'Bays he has been presented with a goose berry measuring 'three inches around. That's a whopper! the gooseberry, we aaean. - Judge Boise hold Saturday, at Salem, in the Railroad case, that the grant of State aid to the Railroad enterprise was void, be cause it violated sec. 7 of art. xi. of the Constitution. A man named VFm. Burston, living on Saoviea Island, Multnomah county, this State, has a bill against Grant of $C0, for borrowed money while Grant was stationed at Vancouver. The "West sid; railroad company held a meeting in Portland on last Saturday, for the election of offcers. J. Gaston waa elect el President, W. S. Ladd, Treasurer, and E. W. Ilains Secretary. " After me, in manners," eays u back 'manhood " to Anna Dickenson, when she cries for female suffrage. White women, that is the teaching of- "loyalty which your husbands advocate. The Unionist ixlitnr says "it is of small tnoment what qcantityof water is used in administering satTadotal rites." Of course! that isn't his special "beverage' lie don't go mch oi such "weak tea,' any bow. New Papii. Vt'e have just received the first number of a spicy little Dramatic and advertising sheet, published In San Francis- co, entitled " Fi raro." It has at least one virtue over the Dramatic Chronicle, and that is that it announces itself as free from political bias. SlePherson, of the Uuionist, was beaten ut of $20 on a pair of deuces, in a game of "draw poker," recently, and the next morning wrote ar d published a windy arti cle on thc wickedness and enormous crime of betting on electioas. " The very dueee was in it." . The importance of one vote is proverbial. Gibbs was electei Prosecuting Attorney by one vote. Yic Trevett was elected to the Legislature from Wasco county by one Tote. Mr. Palmer was elected Sheriff of Benton county by one majority and if old Ben Wade could have bad another vote to cast in favor of the impeachment of Johnson, he would have been . President cf the United States. - The Unionist editor congratulates the peo ple of Lane county on their failure to get up a Fourth of July celebration. He has some how discovered tbat the affairs of the coun try under thc present radical rule can't stand a comparison with the days of our nation's prosperity. Then Fourths of July are'nt very healthy for Radicals they call too for cibly to the minds of the people the good old day's of Democratic rule, when money was plenty, taxes light and uniform, rulers honest, laws just, and white voters only were - the sovereign povt er in the land. The Democrat. One of the 'ablest men in the State, writing to us from Salem, un der date of June 29, says : " I desire to congratulate you and rejoice with you at the result of oar late election ; and I bat express the feelings of the Democracy generally when I say that your paper has contributed large ij to iaai resuu. j. a in taking atooutau the Dem ocratic papers in thin State, and several rubliahed elsewhere and I reai none of them with more in terest than yours." This is very complimentary : and we in tend to strive earnestly to merit such praise more than ever. Would it not be well would it not be foi- the interest of the Dem ocratie party of Oregon to extend the cir caiation ot the " Male Bights Democrat tn Let every subscriber obtain from one to five more subscribers, and our list would be ma teriaUy increased and the ; influence of the " Democrat" would be essentially augment ed. An i m portent political1 campaign is pending -indeed, ;it is one of the , most im portant that" ever o;curred in this country and it behooves- - every Democrafc-to do all in t;i3 power to cause a glorious victory to peick upon the Deai ocratie banner. Let our friends' take hold !n earnest 1 ; ' ... ut, w fc .4 , INDEPENDENCE DAY. This morning's : sun ushers in tho Ninety-Second Anniversary of Amer ican Independence. It is our nation's natal day. Ninety-two years ago to day John Hancock, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and all those other noble and immortal delegates, assembled at Philadelphia and drafted, reported and adopted tho Declaration of Independence, the first official note of defianco and renounce ment which afterward caused tho British tyrant to land upon our soil the finest body of soldiery that were then in existence, for purposes of sub jugation and tyranny. That memora ble Declaration fired tho hearts of tho little colonies into a rebellion destined to culminate in tho overthrow of a power which had been for years op pressing, tyrannizing, exacting and requiring abject fealty to tho most un just enactments that wero ever made. But with these things every Ameri cancither native or naturalized has become so familiar that it is useless for us to repeat them. The long and bloody struggle which followed the action of that assemblage" How dear to every patriotic bosa is Independence Day ! How doubly jdear and sacred now, when that grand old Government which was created by the sacrifices and preserved by thc blood of those bold spirits of '70, is tottering on the erge of bankruptcy and ruin being crowded and rushed to 4ts death by fanatical radicals who are crnawius: at its vitals and under mining its existence by tho same spe cies of unjust enactments and tyranni cal leffislation that characterized the British government in the days of the Revolution. Poor America! Once the boast of her people the pride of nations the brighest Republic in the history of the world thc asylum for the oppressed and down-trodden of other lands; in years gone by thc best Government the world ever saw;" with a Constitution gaaranteeing pro tection of life and property to each and every citizen ; with her sea'ports thrown open to the free and untram meled commerce of the world ; her business marts crowded with manu, factories and mercantile houses ; her taxes light and contingent expendi tures for national purposes on thc most economical basis ; her public of ficials honest, pure, patriotic and un selfish, regarding themselves as the people's servants, rather than their masters. What is she now ? Fallen as no nation ever fell before ! Wc cannot to-day afford to commiserate any civilized nation on the globe. Austria, with "her exchequer beggar ed and her credit ruined," occupies an enviable position in a financial com parison with the United States. Poor oppressed and tax-ridden Ireland can be regarded as favored in the way of taxes when compared to our own coun try ; and "rctrogading Italy" is sailing ahead of us in national prosperity. 3Ianufactories are discontinued, work shops are "close'd, trade is falling off, money is hoarded away in vaults or sent to foreign countries for purposes of speculation, and our people are in a state of lethargy and despondency from which nothing can arouse them except the return of better and more prosperous times ; and this cannot be until there is a change in the adminis tration and engineering of our nation al affairs a complete ridding out of the party in power and substituting in their places men of known integri ty, ability and patriotism. Voters of the North 1 White Vo ters ! Freemen ! Will you bear these outrages longer? Will you permit the wretches who have brought such disgrace and ruin on the fair escutch eon of once proud America, to get a new lease on place and power ? Will you allow them to have tbe power to still lower sink our credit, crush our energies and blazon our national shame by political prostitution ? Then arise, and vow on the altar of country, on this Independence Day, as our fathers did ninety-two years ago, to conse crate yourselves anew to the task of ridding yourselves and your children or the yoke that is bearing you down I to national destruction. Tako these enemies of your country by tho throat, hurl them from office, consign them to eternal oblivion and everlasting in famy, and let us onccmoro go to work and endeavor to build up, out of tho old wreck of tho ship of State, a free, prosperous and happy country-onco more make America tho "Land of tho U, free and tho homo of the brave.' rejoico overiato victory ana rainy tion of National Convention. Come, everybody. W. II. Watkins. Chalrraan Committee of Arrangement. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. To-dav assembles in New York one of tho most important and earnest bodies that was ever convened sinco ninety-two years ago, when tho sign" ers of tho Declaration of Independ ence performed that immortal task. To-day is to decide the fato of tho nation. It will decide whether tho people's desires and expressed wishes aro to bo respected, or whether a few moneyed or bonded aristocrats aro to goTcmand control tho efforts of the country for their own benefit. If a Constitutional, patriotic and brave- hcarted Democrat is placed in nomi- nition bv that bodv ono who cv- presses ami represents uic win hi wiu people his triumphant election is guaranteed without a peradventure ; but. on the other hand, if a tool of thc capitalists, or bondholders, and oifi, nrlwtrw.fit whrt havA untiling at heart but their own emolument and a( rrandizement is chosen as the Stan-1 dard-bearcr of Democracy thero is nn ii;. wi,nt r,nnr.f,,i rnnit. tn ii.n r.,,!.. Wn Mimnt. i-nntcmnlitc it. Iwo do not believe it, and we know W f WW "' mmmwm-r w.vw..-"rwwv J I Uo great mass of tho Democracy twill not tolerate such a base betrayal bf their rights and expressed wishes (That great body of patriots and IcHtMrnn tnit in onrnod n,I n. Hi ;it . I ble conclavo to-day will never betray he confidence of-thc people so much as to give their voices for ono who has not been true to Democracy, to thc Union, to the Constitution and to tho dearest interests of his country . . . 1 1 i I men. v c oeuevc mat tney win uo i riMit and that the same nnsclfish tie- votion to the country which anima- . . " tai A GRAND DAIIUECITK AT NALEJI ! This is the rebuke Oregon utters to tock they can control it and regulate the jjc,', waH taken on KVvarU. rill her Senators, Corbett and Williams, prico of freight for twenty years at least, VtIio Senate Finance Committee report- fa- ? p' 7i LEM' U - ' who wero parties to that conspiracy, othorwiso they cannot. We hear many ed against the confirmation of Perry Fuller ?iTiTcn nnnlniiNl Oregon, on Monday tho 1st day of complaints of the exorbitant exactions of aH Commissioner of Internal llcveouc. Eleventh (11th) instant appointed b echoed tho voto of tho nineteen the P. T. Company, yet many of them re- The Judiciary Committee reported fa- by Democrats hero for a grand Bar- tho fuse to give any material encouragement to vorably on Edmond's bill, providing th.t becue, torch-light procession, etc., to on U f an(l 1 th articles,, and J J the States not rcprcHerned in Congre.. ... thuiuiered "Not multv" liv a thnusand i.-ii 1.. .11,iu?1 in mi rt inmate in the .,.-vr.-vvv,., w, ..... wtU or the majority. if taken with gcl intercut. The attention control the members of the National The grejlt ,1 finn ,ftvJrig J;Ccn of the nn4 ,iarleularly the farmer, Democratic Convention, of the 4th of satisfactorily cttled, our citizens jut now, j incited to the investigation of this null July, 1868. And, believing thus, we aro carefully considering tho merit of th ject. If the premise are correct, act upon imfAnAndnnon 1 7711 w 1 1 1 iinimilfl tni-l will stand by their nominee, whoever he may be. A continuation of power in thc hands of the party now hold- . . it ii ing the reins of Government would be attended with the most evil consc- quences, and the only way thc coun- trycan be rescued from the peril whictt oescts it is by the earnest, ac- termincd, and united action of thc Democracr all over thc land. No matter then who mav be chosen from t,o r,nla nf nil t hA i.tinS.l.oi1 V m Vm9 J "lo'lV'l IIIVH mm m m wno nave ucen Drought lorwaru as candidates 'before the Convention. t,ach ot tneJCtt deservcaiy command the respect and confidence of the country, and whether the choice falls on Pendleton, Seymour, Hajght or some one else whom the Convention, in its wisdom, may deem thc most appropriate standard bearer of Dem- ocracy, let all who are animated by patriotic motives, in a common cause for the best good of thc country, act harmoniously and with a fixed pur pose to overthrow the lawless conspir acy which threatens the hopeless de struction of all principles of good Government. With such a unity of interest and purpose, there can be no doubt of the result to follow the Pres idential election. TiiiifK of rr. Tho Council Bluffs (Iowa) Democrat says : It has been long asserted, and is now reiterated, that Ulysses Shiloh Grant was heart ily drunk at Shiloh ; that he was in that condition when the Confederates conquered his superior force, driving them all huddled up, into the Tennes see river, in substantation of which, it is said that General D. 3L Prentiss, a General under Grant and at one time commander of the post of Cairo, who, with his whole force', was cap tured at Shiloh and taken South, and several others stand ready to make affidavit. General Prentiss is a Re publican, and resides at Quincy, III. Let those in doubt confer with him on the subject. Think of it, Republicans of Iowa! your God and morality and temperance howlers nominating an other drunkard to the Chief Magis tracy! "' ' ' ... : The Difference. Says the Sacra mento Bee : "The chiefest glory of England is that she protects her peo ple in their rights in whatever part of trie world tney may be." Yes, and tho darkest sname of the American government just now, as it is run by the Rump conspirators, is that it har rasses, worries, oppresses and bedevils almost to desperation a large class of its own people, and secks.to degrade them below the level of the ignorant, brutal and semi-savage negro. THE OREGON ELECTION. ' . Tho Missouri Republican, aftpr giv- ing tho result of tho recent election in this State, adds the following pcrti- ncnt and eloquent remarks: "Hurrah for tho grand old mountain State ! TVw ? h nn.u.A, .W .,! WV n njnctecii Senators who secured tho n"T nor who secured tho acquuuu oi wiu j-rcBiticn nnu uio uu- icai oi mo impeachment conspirators. mnjurivy. y huh ucinocrauc nuyur- , , T .1 T ! t i r ity uregon expresses ncr opinion oi o Radical nominations of Grant and Colfax, and calls out to tho distant East to put down that State for tho Democratic Presidential candidate, tho r,rl Sn of thc 1'rcsidcn tial campaign of 1808 following tuo uauicai nominations, it is a shot for tho Democracy for the Constitution and thc union lor a "White man's Government," and for tho overthrow of the with their multitudtous Radicals I brood of evil policies and their "No policy' candidate. Tho people do not in tend to bo humbugged by marked batteries and by a system of delusions. The Radical party is thoroughly un- derstood. It cannot disguise itself, 1 he more it seeks to hide itselt the M,feovl r.,.,,w. . ... , Us vote on .Monday, recorded the judgment of the people upon Radical The Democratic majority on that day tells the story of the cam Paigp. and 'we might now record an overwhelming Democratic majority f votes which will assuredly be cast the twenty-seven States which I . . . . . Kadicals permit to be m the union, If the Convention which meets in New York on thc 4th of July, will nominate a candidate on a judicious basis, around whom can rally all the opposition to Radicalism, they will carry thc North by a majority more OVCrWIlCiming lliatl lliat WIIK I1 flCCl fj1 1 far riant, rvr Vm nl II n Tiorr-n V v m ovii v Mf v The IlallroAtl. IlARtisni-RO, June 20th, l&Cli. FAitvr State Jl'vjhU Democrat: The political commotion that recently ag ! ft 1 1 i 1 1. .1 . f ft t. ? 1. , . ut.- - . Ptely ubuded j and the serene, mniling flc.M.th.at i.otb political parties evince the enviable alacrity I ... .... I lUiiroad tbat i to lo tenI.J from rort-1 ,ana lo City on the ht ide of the ""'"Ti . n ,r"W ovrcK"" ventral Railroad Company. u u d;fficuU Jm q orilnr tellienee, unless he is feset with criminal selfishnci., that denies the beneficial advan- tage of the roal to the people at larce. but there are those araongt u whom we mut acquit of any harsh suspicion that sincerely qoeton the propriety, tho justice and safe lJ of "cons in aid of the road as required by thc contractors, A. J. Cook k A. J. Cook & Co. in order to insure a bar monious identity of interest between them- selves ana tho people require that they pur- chase the entire stock or the roa4 at one tcnth of its estimated value; the other nine- tenths being mortgaged to the contractor. and o soon as die buyer of the stock pay one tenth of its estimated value he is to re ceive a certificate of non-assessable utock, ten times the value of tho money paid for the garae. an, ho j, tbcn a stockholder of the Company reprenenting ten times as much stock as ho has paid for, or will ever be re quired to pay for, except as it arises from tho nctt proceeds of tb road as per contract, There are some who manifest a desire to aid the enterprise but are a little fearful they will be responsible, and accordingly assess ed for the whole amount represented by their stock. Leaving out of sight the relia bio and eminent legal opinions adverse to this supposition it would be such a shame less and flagrant violation of good faith ho obnoxious to every principle of justice and fair dealing it would not be tolerated, much less sustained, a singlo moment, in any court or community where law and justice could claim the slightest entcem. There is an ejection interposed by some, that tho estimated is much moro than what will be tho actual cost of tho road, thereby , the contractors will realize large sums of money which should bo applied to the li quidation of the mortgaged stock of the com pany. The writer is not sufficiently conver sant with the cost of railroads to venture an opinion. It is not to be expected, nor should it bo desired by the stockholders that tho contractors should undertake to build the road at a cost that would involve loss or yield no profit to them. It is probable the builders of the road have a wide margin for gain in the contract, but it is certain the people tbat need the road here are unable to build it, and the amount they are called up on to contribute will be duplicated tho mo ment the enterprise is consummated. Then, inasmuch as we are to be vastly benefitted let us maintain a charitable indifference as to what A. j. Cook & Co. may make out of the operation. If there is a people any where suffering for the want of a speedy transportation they are to be found in the Willamette Valley, and now the opportunity and inducement are soliciting their relief. "Will they have it ? Relying upon the intelligence, pride of State, and public spiritedness of our citizens we feel it a foregone conclusion. There are many; reasons -why -.tbe: people of Linn should purcnasa the railroad stock, In. the ac ------ - -n"y ------ - - Dete with this) river monopoly. Hence it r"a". :,v. . . - 1 -r- - - j flist place it secures a poody construction of the road, which is of much importance, and a gtU1 greftter consideration, one in which every on who has the pride, independence and welfare of his County at heart feels a lively interest. That i, it place the man ngomcnt and control of the rond in the hatids f Btockhotdera tbu preventing thede- TeloPmcnt of a moniod monopoly that fc contritutiont upon the in- da.trrai nrl(!lrcf(l of tho B0:r if tne p0 ionj? tho ine of the road purchase tho nrif Willi tliia rivfr tntinrirMiIv Wl)tll(Uccm tllt!- flr0 Mt.fiI and detcrmin " ... , j dto 8UCC0r ftnd wupPort the excive de- mm(n of tjie p. t. Company. We make no ungoneru allusions to the P. T. Compa- ny. They exhibit m much liberality, per- hap, a any other liumncM MMociatiun would without coin petition. All experience 1 experience teachc that competition i indinnonnable to a ----- v i wholesome restraint upon the avaricious greed of men. Therefore, if the laboring people dciro an equitable distribution of the wealth of the country and wih to enjoy tho fruit of their labor they must maintain a vigilant guard to check the encroachment lOMnopoiicii no matter what direction the approach In attempted. And should the people fail to avail themselves of the pres- ent oppirtunity it is to bo hoped they will J not exhibit an inexcusable weakness by complaining of the extortions of the P. T. Co. or any other monopoly. They deserve it. It i conceded that tho railroad a pro jn:ted wuum matenaiiy imtent every cm of our commuuitv. but none o much n the farmer. It not only insure him qui:k nalcs and higher prices for the products of hi land, but it will bring him in direct con tact with tho cnlard markets v that he can get in exchangu his groceries, clothing. with every other necessary or desirable arti cj0 mtlc, ctaper than he now can. Yet many of them in this section, take no inter est and appear utterly indifferent, and those, t ii' i ii- 'i ww. wm cuuw give icumg a.a. It mut not lie imagined that theo thought nro in tend! n a reproof to any one. ThU is a frc country where every man has the un doubted right to the cxcrcine of bin acts and opinion when cxtiniMent with law. A to the citizens of Hrriburg, they have taVen utock lilerally, and won a aimi lar interest epued hy the people in every other portion of the county, we might cele brate the advent of a new era in true pro grest and civiliiation. For by the lt day of, January, 170, the road will be complete to the crossing of the Willamette. The road will be built whether the people take the tuck or not, but it they refuse t take I.... . . .. .... noid, the construction oi me roaa win i; iKM.ipone.l, no far a thi part of the line in kerned, fur a numW of year-, perbap a Cident length of time to reimburse thc l - them ; if not, let u hear the rcaon why. . Last Ilot'tts of Jamk Uuchanas. -Kx.PreS.dent lluchanan d.ed of pleu- ro pneumooia. He had been ill for some mouths, but was getting better, until thc I recent damn spell caused a relapse. Oo Sunday his physician had hopes of his re cuperation ; but toward night ho began to siuk rapidly, and exhibit thc symptoms of early dissolution. Such of his rela tives and friends as could be summoned were with l.im in his last moments. lie prayed and took tho sacrament at six o'clock on Monday mornin". "God bless niv contry" were thc last words express cd by htm, and they were repeated by him several times in a whimper. One o his latest requests was, that cx-Prestdcnts Pierce, Fiiraore and President Johnson be invited to attend his funeral. ' If remembered le Forgotten " was beautiful ly said of Howard the pbilanthropUt. It lo ap plies to every man who bring the amelioration con,foru and enjovmeuu of life within the reach of jeron and claea who are otherwise deprircd I of their advantage. Ec penally may it be tak'i of him who laboriously necks and find new means of preserving health, "the poor man's capital and the rich man' power." We think th euloginm properly applied to J. C. Aycr, of Lowell, tho re nowned chemist of New England who, spurning the trodden paths to fame, devote hi en re abil ities and luquiremenU to the discovery of Na ture's most effectual remedies for rUcae. When the hidden blessing ha been revealed, he proceeds to supply it to all mankind alike, through oar druggists, at such low prices that poor and rich may alike enjoy Hi benefits. Journal and En quirer, Portland, Me, ' Personal. -The La Crosse Democrat ha1 the following: Rev. Hatfield, Chicago bible-banger, agrees to board nigger delegates to Meth odist pow-wow, tries it ono hot night and throws up his commission. -'.Forney pitches into Mrs. Keckly, al though she is a nigger. Consistency thy namo is uot Dead Buck; Gen. E.' Whittlesy, of the Freedman's Bureau, stumping among tho negroes at government expense. - - Senator McDougal's widow is litigating in Chicago for the possession of her fath er's CStatO. : " ; Old Zack Chandler, Michigan's Rump Senator, nearly used . up. " Snaix be pesky things.'? j ; Wa8hbume's hyena getting resf?y&. ' Greeley physically "ouah ga spieled. Old Weed sick.-: , ;.;, 5..; y Train sick, : ; Tien Tiutier says ho "should despise the Ten Commandments if they taught him to forgive Andy Johnson.!' Of course the wretch would hate the Ten Command ments any how, because one of thctn says "Thou shalt not steal." Judge Underwood although represen ting llichmond in he Convention drew mileage from' -Alexandria.,' and Porter rep resenting Chesterfield dreV mileage from Norfolk, ' - ' ' , . . B Y TELE G II A P II; rcoPitiDrnoiTH orkoom nEAi New Orleans, June 26. Governor Warrmmih has issued a proclamation 'con' vcnin tho Legislature on the 29ih -tost. Jackson, June, 27. The Democrats claim 25,000 majority in the State. . WASHINGTON, June 29. the senate has confirmed the nomination of Gen. McMahon as Minuter to Parsitraiy, and and rejected Mulfbrd for Collector of In- terfiiil lvflvcnue oi me aviciiuiouu mwtiw Prpidcntial election'.. Washington, June 20. The Presi dent has nominated Henry A. Smythc, Coljcctor 0f Customs at New York, to be Minister to Austria. Senator Henderson was married to-day to 31 iss Mary 1'oote, daughter ot one ot the examining examining clerks in the Patent ohjcc Ue- dartment. A larsre number of memocrtj of Oongresx wero present, aod several other prominent ofliciaM, Wasiiinoton, June 20. The Senate Finance Committee is already at work on the tax bill and will probably make many amendments, though they are not likely to allcr thc tax on wnrnky. Nkw YottK, June 20 Governor Sey mour addressed the Jackson Central A- fciatiin to-niglit He said that all over the country were proofs f the widespread change in political feeling. He counsel! cd harmony and forbearance at the July Convention, and thc union uf ail on the xinglo determination 'to drive the present dominant party from power. 'lhe California and Oregon delcga'ex have opened their head quarters at the North Hotifc ana ore workinir Hani lor Judge Field. They may be morn sucee. ul m gofttng llaigbt nam; on I he nckc WasiiINOTo.v, June 27.-1 n the benafe Yates called up thc bill to admit Color do. The ooctiotj was an amendment by thc committee on .lerruoric providing fur a general election for a hurc Jegnda lure and State oiaccr within sixty u ... -m a a rom the passage of the act, said legiv.a urc to meet within thirty day after h, election. Imposing a a fundamental, con dition for thc admiwfiou, that the '.cuisda- turc ahall ratify thc fourteenth amondineMt to the Constitution, otherwise th act ahull be null and void. This was r. mended by inserting a proviso allowing the legisla- turc Jo ueciue, ii i ennosr-s, against al mission, also by allowing tho legiat arv 3 proceed to the election of like- united !tatci Senators in case it h ia favor ol a a mission. Conkltng offered an amendment re quiring thc question of ratification to be submitted tn the people at the election authorized by the bill. This wa opposed by Yate, Howard, Tipton, Xyc and others as unnccc.iry. Sustained by Mr. Morton without action on the bill or amendment. New Orleans. June 2$, Gen. Buch anan yctcrday received an order from iov. lJAer and Lt. Gov. VWrhes. and the appointment of Warmouth and Dunn to their respective places, to take effect on Sunday. Galveston news nays thc question of the division of thc Ht&ie comes up in Con vention to-day. Mr. Smith endeavored to have thc boundaries arrranged so that Galveston should have entire control of the harbor. For this purpose it is pro posed to run the line duo south from Trinity river to thc Gulf. New York, June 28. A Washing ton dispatch says thc Investigating Com mittee has discovered that o clerk in the second Auditor's office, in defiance of law. paid out nearly a million of dollars to parties claiming to represent negroes mustered into service. It is said thc par- tics were generally the owners of thc said negroes at the time they were mustered into service. Chicago, June 28. -The New York Tribune'$ special siys that the fact has just been discovered that Seymour is real ly a candidate for the Democratic nomma tion. The two-third rale is sure to be adopted. Neither Seymour nor Pcndle ton can get two thirds. Chase's chances arc improving. Thc pressure from Wash ington in his favor is immense. He may get two-thirds on thc first ballot, if not, Hendricks will get tho nomination. The real fight is now between Chase and Hen dricks. London, June 2G. Prince Albert has arrived in England. Worms, June 29. The statue of Mar tin Luther was inaugurated to-day in the presence of a vast concourso of people from all parts ot Europe and America The king of Prussia and the Crown Prince witnessed the scene. When the statuo was unveiled, salutes of artillerv were fired. When the applause h;d subsided. a hymn was sung by several thousand voices with immense effect. London; June 25. In thc House of Commons, this evening, a grant annually to the rresbytertan Church in Ireland was voted. "What's ix a Name? Thc owner ot the "Ben Butler," ;was asked the other day why ho had bestowed the bottled hero's name upon his horse. - v eu,' ; no rcpnea, " i caliea him Ben Butler, because I thought: when ever he was entered he would bo cer tain to carry off the plate." ' ! No Salute. The Mongrels of Austin, Nevada, intended to fire a salue on" the occasion of their Grant and Colfas ratifi cation meeting; put thoj didn't fulmi nate, (the Uevcille says,J because 4ne Com'ntce "on noise" ha ecn. waited on by residents of the neighborhood with the earnest request that thc gun should not be fired, as "it addled tho es -and' killed the young chickens iq tha shell.' : Tho national flag. 5 printed at the top bf the Conservative ticket in Georgia, took the eyo of an old darkey, who said : rr; Fore Go'd; dey's not content keepin' ns in slavery, but dey insult us by offer in' us a, ticket wid de picture . ob do cot ton paten at do top !' - A Wish A Portland school-house caught fire the other dayv and a tho boys watched it, ooe in another school said. enthusiastically. and honestly, to his com? panion, '-Oh, Johnny ! don't you wish it was our Bchool-house ?" A YIlt to lli President ,Tho delegates to the NatiobariTypo graphical Convention called in a body at the Execuiive mansion at nooa, June 2d, for the purpoae-of paying their respects to-the President. ' lie; in reeponsbj cx' pressed hioiself grateful for the comphV ments paid him by the members of the Convention, and, in a few remarks,; alluj ded to his great respect for all classes of workingmen. It had always been a fundamental prin ciplc with him not to forget the sourco from whence he sprung." JIc bad long, since learned that one's profession was no disparagement, and if the man did not lifgrace his calling it would not disgrace - urn, lie has been a mechanic in the rop'ir nense of the terra, and when h& did follow the business practically he had the name of beinr a trood one. TAiv Ania.l He had always tried to excel 10 -what he undertook, and, so ar.; thank God ! he thought he had been tolerably successful. 1 would rather wear, (be" said), "upon my garment the' dingo of the shop or the dust of the field, than all the innignias that could be acquired else where ; tor these are the attributes,! peace. In thc course of his speech, the Presi dent alluded to the aristocracy of labor an an aristocracy elevating Jnteliigencc merit ana true worm, ana to that only fcc-, paid respect and deference. ' NKW ADVERTISEMENTS i. c. vowziu. VLI.' POWELL & rtljfjf, A TT0IISEY8 AND COV7TSJSLLOBS ATT LA W AND SOLICITOUS LX. OJIAJfCESY, , (X Flian, Ti etsry. Futile) ALBANY, Oregon. Collrak aa4 convey.: ances prompt'ij aen0cl to, oeZfeJily OFFICE OF CO CSU SCHOOL SCPEBI.Tg.VTA 1 T WATERLOO SIX,' HILCS ABOVE LEBv. i JL H''n, 'j lift tt lata,. 1'ost oCee address i.n n. J. W MACK,, r T'JulSlr Co. HihA Hneriatradtat. It. PAXTON, OF THE: PHOTOGRAPH ' i,ili tj at tlu !' t: tot rartjsg East sbeut ih firrt of Hr-f.f emher, next. All pcrfcs knowing ih-m Irfct-let.ud to thc Gauery are reqaetted to tt! before tbat time, and tbost Bavbr? ac count j against roe will pieare present tbeza. Also, tWe to wbm Pictures are due will oblige me by r&Tm f r thtm. I want to settle every tbine w l.erre 1 bare. AH tbo? mho wmid like tbctr "sooH Vtom'" U k.-s by me are respectfully invited to call, as T am in a rxmI bani'r t nuke pretty pktores at th stre I'.w price. Call soon. "A word ta tbe im L raaeient.M A. B. PAX! OX. . Joje 27, ises xZnijit, Prfp'r. EXKCX'TOirS NOTICE. OTICE IS 'HEREBY GIVEN TIIAT THE Jj unlerigned ae Wo appointed Exccatora "I i be Estate -f Elcaaor Foot, deeeued, by th Cusntj Court of Lka ooantj, Orcgn- . AH p4rrB hariog eitaims against tali Estate -e ofj43i.l 19 preseat tbcto, (dalj Yerified). to the noderfsneJ at Brownsville, Oreen,. witbia s!x laotttbo frvm th'u date. D. P. FOOTE. KLEXAXDER KIRK, j July 3. 1SS. r?.ui&4. E. F. KrsLL. Att'y fur Ex'rs. Exectttetra. Nil lilt I IT'S SALE. XT OTICE IS I1EEEBY GIVEX TOAT BY virtue tf an execation tscued out of tbe Cir-t-ih Ci o:t of Linn eonotv, Oregon, by Iks Clark, of tbe tame, and to me directed and delivered, ia fjrur of E. A. Fre.-lio4. I'laiotiff, and against I). T. Dlnwiddieand Kaehel Dinwuldie. Defendants, fr the sum tf $S0i.f!5, jadmect and costs of salt U. S- go!d coin. I have this SCth day of June, A. D., IfCS, Iee ied upon tbe tullowtn j described real estate, to wrt: - Tbe Xorth half f df.ra'ion Ua l cla n Xot, "7128," in TP. 15. S. It. 2 W.t Linn coontT, Ore gn, oalainin 1C0 acre?, more or less, x proven up .n by D. T. biawiddie in tha Land Office at Oregon Citj, Ore jon. alo: 1'fK.n tbe undivided one-balf interest of said T. T. Dinwiddle, in LoO 1 and 2 in dock 53 in the city ot Albany, Linn county, Oregon, with the ap urtennci." thereunto belonging. And on Saturday, the lf day of August, 18GS, between the boars of 9 o'clock A. v. and 4 o'clock p. . cf said day, in front of the Coart lions door, in the city of Albany, Linn county, I will -sell tbe abore descriltMl real property at pabli outcry ta the highest and best bidder for cask therefor in band. Dated this 30th day of Jane, 1S6S. HARVEY SMITH, v3nt6iH$33,33 Sheriff Linn county, Oregon, ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. PURSUANT TO AN ORDER OF TI1E COUX ty Court of Linn county, in Probate made at tbd May tenn, 1S6S Notice U hereby given. That David Frotnan, Administrator de Louis not), of tho Estate of Thousss Boggs deceased, will on Saturday, the 1st day of August, 18C8, in front of the Court IIu?e door, in Linn county, Oregon, between the hours of 9 a. m. aad i p. m. of said day day, sell at public auction, to tha hib-. est bidder, tbe followt described real estate be longing to the estate of Thomas Boggs, deccaetd, to-wit: Donation Land Claim Notification No. 2061; in -Towusbip No. 14, South Range 2 and 3 West Will. Mer., containing 313 and nincty-seven-one-hun dredths acres, in Lina county, - Oregon, as laid dowu on the recorded maps and surveys of tha TJ S, in the Land Office at Oregon City, Oregon. Also Lots o a&d & in Block No. 23 in the eitj of Albany, county of Linn, State of Oregon ; also Lot No. 5 in Bloelv No. 3, western addition to tho city of Albany, as laid down on the recorded plat of said city on file ia the Clcrk'a otSee ef Lina ' county, Oregon. - TE RMS of sale : Cold coin payable at the time of ale. D. FROMAN, Adm'r, Atbany, July 3d, 1S68. E. F. RrssEix, Att'y for Adm'r. n4$w4 ;r ;'. DISSOLUTION. " :; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ETIE? long continued co-partnership heretofore ex , ibting betewecn N. II. Cranoraad Gee. R. llcln. as partners in the praetico of Law, under the firm naiuoof Cranor 4 Helm, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. N. II. CRANOR, , GEO. It. HELM. Albany, Oregon, June 4, 1SG3. n42tf ;t;.-;6TICiu;v:V;" NOTICE IS HEREBY GI undersigned has thi- , T Administntrixof the- 'Jf7 Voea apoomted.i .v.n.i ko -Ktt ef A. H. Oeburn, do-. g0n. ' " vv -uty Co.of Linn eouaty, Ore-. n ,-re..ore all pewons iarisg claims, agaiqst the ?slt.te of my lte hvsband, the said A. II. Oshqrp,, dee'd, are ooti,fied to present the sarpe", duly verU fied. to mo at Peoria in said county and State, within, t,e 101,0 prescribed bj law j and all per sons awing said estata are required to eome for wa.rd at once and pay such indebtedness. June24,I868. MARGARET OSBURN, : v3n45w Adm'x. NOTICE ! " ' - 00K OCT FOR THE CARS I " JUST RE- ceired j very large stock of 1 DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES " by cteamer from San Francisco. - I will sell for cash or merchantable produce, at low prices, my entire stock of Goods, to make room for more. Call and see for. yourf elves. " " ; ' . ' R. CnEADLE'S - npr4v3n33tf Cash Ste'ro, Albany. , WAMTEB- (0,Op0 O; jpoiihds Of WOOL, flr which I will pay the . - Oar;.jv2n3:t, K0BCB0SS