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I RID AY,. JANUARY 7, I860.
IMOIJJIATIOS QBATGITLLY
isec.'Eiyed.
The Oregonian is willing to lot light
shine upon tho Democrat. This is a
hibit that the Oregonian has. But
se nave never before had bo much to
bo thankful for at once. "When that
paper calls us its pu)il, we must con
Bi3er it as an evidence that we are to
lx taken into a privileged and confi
dential relationship, and that we are
to enjoy favors vouchsafed only to the
few; whereupon we are bold to ask
questions, and when tho light given
- .:n i-
us M'truia uuct'iuuu, vc win nsn lor
more. "When, therefore, in reply to a
statement that Democratic Senators in
. California favored Chinese Immigra
tion 17 years wjo, wo have suggested
that people felt tho greater interest in
' knowing who favored euch Immigra
tion now, the Oregonian makes reply :
'We will commence this ehapler of instruction
, to the editor of the Vrmocmt by inftrining him
who are not ia favor of the importation of Chinese
, coo'.ies.' And that the J'reMJeut "recotnmcn Js
. sueh legislation as will forecer prevent the pjaiit-
ing of a system of Chinese sUvcy upon Ameri
can soil."
Now everybody must know that
tlie Republican party makes a great
distinction between "Chinese Immigra
tion" and the "Importation of Coolies,"
And in the sense in which thev ex
plain it, there is a great distinction.
Ono is the voluntary coming to this
country of Chinese laborers to com
pete with white men in the various de
partments of labor. It brings wages
down to such a figure as precludes all
possibility of procuring the actual
necessaries of life to a man whose race
and habits demand wholesome food and
.comfortable apparel. The other re
fers to the abduction and carrving
away by force of Coolies and their em
ployment in the cotton and ries fields
of the South, their labor being hired
and paid for to contractors who specu
ate ia this sort of slavery. The one com
pete s more particularly with white la-
lxr. the other with the colored labor
of the South. IS ow with these prem
ises it is very apparent that the Demo
cratic party will oppose tho latter. But
what we want to know is, "do the Re
publicans favor the former?" Do they
favor the Chinese Immigration ? That
is tho question. This inquiry we put
to the Oregonian in the most confiden
tial manner. We are sorry that our
tutor had acolumn to say against "Im
portation," and not a word against
"Immigration." He knew that Mr.
Gnat, Senator Williams, the Oreym
tan, and all the rest are whollv devoted
Rut what we want particularly to
know is, whether they are willing to
"legislate" for the protection of white
labor. Now we feel quits sure that we
shall not be answered ncrrlectfullv or
carelessly. Indeed a little explicitncss
is all the more needed, since the Ore
gonian has made some statements
which may bear a sorry interpretation
to white workingmen. It has repeat
edly slid that we must have cheaper
labor, or else we cannot raise wheat.
It has ridiculed and derided the idea
of discouraging Chinamen in coming
here, but ha3 said that they were very
desirable laborers; and when the Cali
fornia Legislature entered upon the
consideration of bills for discouraging
Chines Immigrants, the Oregonian
called it, "tomfoolery of the most pal
pable sort." We did not quite under
stand such language. Now what is
"tomfoolery of the most palpable
sort?" Is it a law which shall secure
to the white laborer and to his family
the benefits of "remunerated labor?"
Is that it ?
When the 15th Amendment was be
fore tha Senate and Mr." Corbett pro
posed to amend by adding: "But
Jhinamen not born in the' United
States, and Indians not taxed shall
jiot be deemed or made citizens," whv,
pray tell, was it not adopted? Why waa
that Amendment voted down? And
why did Senators Sumner, Morton,
Yates, Cameron, Trumbull el id omne
genus, speak against it and say that
there should be no restriction on ac
of race or color ? Now this looks like
a step ahead of Chinese Immigration,
it looks like Chinese citizenship. We
are sure that so good an authority as
the Oregonian can explain all this, if it
only will. The danger seems to be that
it will gooff after some other question,';
that instead of our own troubles; it
will lock after those of the negro
South.
In humble imitation of our mentor,
say Ciat a single paragraph will
show who oppose Chinese Immigra
tion now.-! They are the Democratic
Legislatures of California and of Ten
nessee; they are the Democratic voters
in Oregon whose ballots will create a
Legislature : that will applaud the
States mentioned, and will "go and
do likewise."
He wafs a bitter satirist who origina
ted the dispatch that Joe Holt was
talked of as a probable successor to
Sir.- - Stanton. Making a Supreme
Judge of Joe Holt can have no possi
ble parallel,' unless we can imagine
Titus Gates made a Lord Chief Justice
in England.
Blt
AXD
' Thero are two bills before the Cali
fornia Legislature looking to a solu
lution of the Chineso Immigration
question. One proposes tho establish
ment of a'Bureau of Chinese Immigra
tion, and a polico Hysteni, and to im
pose a license tax upon those Chineso
who work within tho Stater From
comments of Republican papers which
are, of course, hostilo to any measures
like this, that shall protect our own
woikingraen from a ruinous compe
tition with Chinamen, it Rcema that
tho bill also imposes some tax or pe
nal restraint upon tho ship-owners
who bring tho Chinamen to the State.
Tho other bill proposes to make those
who employ Chineso laborers pay a
license for doing so. It is only a
short time since that thero was a tre
mendous outbreak in Republican col
umns against tho California Legisla
ture, which manifested itself in the
usual way of bad names and stigma
tizing epithets. Now wo havo just
learned tho extent of tho Legislature's
offending. The Chineso bills account
for tho milk in tho cocoanut. If tho
National Legislature places tho mili
tary, yoko upon the white citize ns of a
half-dozen States, these gentlemen call
it patriotism. If it impose its unequal
tax laws upon tho people who havo not
bonds, find whoso hands must per
form the labor upon which tho Reve
nue system fastens itself, the call it
"sound financial policy." If by sweep
ing enactments, like that proposed by
Trumbull, it suspends the privileges
of the habeas ctnynis, and denies tho in
estimable rirht of tho writ to ei;rht.
millions cf white people, why ! that is J
said, with fine enthusiasm, to be "guar
anteeing a republican form of govern
ment." But, mark thia : when, in or
der to preserve to the workingmau iu
California tho reasonable wages that
i
aro demanded by the necessities of the
laborer and his family, tho finger of
the law is laid, ever so lightly, upon
the yellow pagan, the almost entire
Republican party groans in anguisfy
beneath the pressure.
A little Democratic surgery upon
this most foul and putrid China sore
is needed, and wherever tho Demo
crats got control of a State Lepsla
ture they aro having it, as witness
Tennessee and California. We do not
know the precise character in detail of
the proposed law in California, but wo
are certain that it goes directly at the
evil. The Legislature of Oregon should
do the same thing, and if we carry the
Assembly in June, it certainly will
The statement has been constantly
dinned into the public ear, that Demo
crats were tho ones to most generally
give employment to Chinamen. The
Democrats of the California Legislatue
propose now to tax the employer, let
him be who he may, and the country
may derive a very attractive lesson by
observing from which side the howl
goe3 up. Here is a crucible in which
to test the sincerity of the parties.
This bill, when it becomes a law, will
show within the limit of its operations
who ia for tho whole country and
who is for the property-holding por
tion of it. It will show who is upon
the side of the man who labors, and
who is to be brought into competition
with China laborers, and who is upon
the side of the man who eraplo3s labor
and who is to become enriched by the
cheap labor that competition with
Chinese laborers will give him.
Astonishment is provoked and cre
dulity taxed by the daily developments
and, new discoveries in tyranny that
Congress is making. Here is a bill by
somebody to compel Georgia to ratify
the loth amendment now a law.
Another bill by another somebody who
is no less than our own Williams, to
prohibit New York in revoking her ac
tion on the same amendment while
Ohio is left with permission to revoke
her action in the same matter, all be
cause one voted for the amendment
and the other did not. Then there is
another bill which is to prohibit the
Supreme Court from passing upon such
acts of Congress as Congress, knowing
them to be contrary to the Constitu
tion and void, designates. .And we
have still another measure suspending
the habeas corpus in the Southern
States. This writ was purchased with
the best blood of England and is jeal
ously guarded and religiously cherish
ed as tho vital principle of English
Liberty. This writ, which involves
nothing more nor less than the right
to be heard and tried when arrested,
is inestimable to freemen since it is
indispensable to any degree of safety.
Without it, the doors of a dungeon
may close forever upon tho man who,
unaccused, unheard and untried is yet
condemned to a term of imprisonment
if it should not be death within
the caprice of some man with shoul
der straps. The immediate object of
the suspension is to enable . military
commissions to murder men unmo
lested by the Circuit and i Supreme
courts. . .; '.. ' ' -'
The encroachments by Congress up
on popular government and pubjic
liberty is developing into a fine, art.
What can the next move be ?
ntomxG tiii: wouxd,
who 1TIIUUTS.
IV HAT IOi: II 12 MEAN?
Tho sincerity of those who pretend
to bo glad over that piece f of preten
tious humbuggery introduced by Wil
liams in tho Senate, and known as
Williams' Bill to prohibit tho impor
tation of Chinese, is getting to bo
quito apparent.
So far as Oregon and California are
concerned tho Bill is meaningkss-a
make-right for next June. Notice, (1)
tho persistent clamor for cheap labor,
to develop (I) the resources of this
Coast ; (2) tho j revisions of Mr. Wil
liams' bill provide only against bring
ing Chinamen to tho country without
their consent docs anv body know
that ono was over yei brought hero in
that way? (;l) tho ferocious hostility
that the California Legislature has
provoked by a discriminating tax law.
Tho paramount meaning of the Wil
liams bill is to humbug somelwdy in
Oregon into tho belief that he is wil
ling to do something to protect white
peoplo against a Chineso influx, and
thus prevent doserUons from his own
party that are being caused by this
question, lie does not intend it to
havo any operation upon this coast.
Ho dare not attempt such a thing, un
der penalty of being kicked out of his
party. If tlm bill is to have any bear
ing whatever, it is in behalf of tho
Southern ncgrooa and to protect them
from competition with cheap China la
bor. Observe with what abhorrence
any measure is held to prevent white
men from sufl'ering this competition
and how instantly Congress begins to
le'rislato when the negro is threatened
with it. Even-thing for the colored,
uothing for the white races.
It is often stated that a precedent
ha?; been set by Mr. Seward for refus
ing, on the part of tho Secretary of
State, to take any notice of the action
of a State Legislature in revoking its
acceptance of an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States , and
that the question has been decided.
This is altogether a mistake. Neither
Mr. Seward nor any Secretary of State
has ever yet presumed to treat the
question as a settled one, and so far it
is wholly undecided and without pre
cedent. Mr. Seward, in his notifica-
tion respecting the 14th amendment, i
gave a li-st of the ratifying States and j
accompanied it with a statement that
New Jersey and Ohio had withdrawn
their ratifications, and that if such
withdrawal had rendered void their
ratifications, fvtill the amendment had
been ratified by three-fourths of all
the States. But if thero had been no
three-fourths without including these
two States, there is no intimation as to
what the Secretary would have done.
The presumption that he would
have stated the fact and left the con
clusion to the courtH, where it belongs
and where it must go if the question
ever arises.
Slttixs. A Chicago Tribune
(Badical) special of Dec. GO, Bays:
"Letters and telegram show that
things are not settled in the unrecon
structed States. Extreme Republicans
in Virginia are as much dif-Katisfied as
the Conservatives. In Mississippi the
defeated party to-day is evidently pre
paring to inake a great howl, charg
ing fraud in the recent election in that
State. Hamilton's supporters deny,
and tho Republicans arc sending let
ters to the "White House, charging cor
ruption and intimidation on the part
of Davis and his friends in Texas, and
that the election should be set aside.
Tho Virginia malcontents having failed
in reconstruction, are now printing let
ters in the newspapers, in hopes of
getting the election overthrown in the
ilouse. Late advices from Georgia,
are that tho majority of tho Legisla
ture will respond to tho Governor's
call for re-assembling."
W n fislr t.hn nf tpntion nf ln.horinr
men to the action of the Democratic
tiCgisiatures of Tennessee and Califor-
nia on the Chineso quostien.
NYNOraiS OF LATEST SEWS.
Money is to be rai?cd for Mrs. Stanton.
In New York an annexation league has
been formed with the avowed purpose of
procuring by persuas on or torce the an.
nexatiou to the United States of all the
countries and provinces of North Amcri
ci, all the islands along the coast. Their
motto is that the national safety of tho
I3nited States demands the acquisition of
all of North America an 1 tho West India
Islands!
A stock company with a capital of
$1,000,000 has been formed in St. Louis
for the purpose of holding the World's
Fair there in 1871.
500 Chinese have been sent to Texas to
work on the railroads. i
It has transpired that a number of
Sheriffs, appointed by Gen. Can by under
the reconstruction act, are defaulters to
tho Slate of Virginia, in Rums varying
from 5,000 to 820,000, which they are
unable to pay into the treasury, !
Tho Seward party arc stilL "excursion
ing" in Mexico. ; . ",' ' 1
The suffering among tho laborers and
mechanics of New York this Winter is
sai4 to be great, owing to the suspension
of largo manufacturing establishments.
The unsettled condition of the gold mar
ket is assigned as the cause. Liquor fac
tories and wholesale clothing firms,' with
a thousand employes each, have almost
entirely ceased manufacturing goods for
farther sales. Some of tho carpenters.
bricklayers chopper and Qther thou-
sartd, havo left tho city id quest of work.
, The officer of iho king's county Alms
tfnusn noMtivelv tlonv the alnrv that thev
havo cxpctlcd disabled doldiers because
they voicd tho Republican ticket.
A uiotion was tnado to vacate the or
der fur tho arrest of' Ben. Butler in the
Tvttzii'9 Sword" cane, on -. tho. ground
that the property waa taken under orders
of the Uoitcd States Government; and
that thero was no conversion. . Becision
is reserved.
Ono nipper killed another in TennuMcc
last Thursday week, und a iiiaked party
captured and shot tho murderer.
thirteen Spanish gunboats aro now
anchored in Charleston harbor.
A policeman wua idiot in Brooklyn,
Thursday.
Daniel fl. Major, U. 8. astronomer and
surveyor ( f the boundary between Cali-
forniaand Oregon, hat arrived in Wash
ington with thu iiuut report of his im
portant survey.
In Bristol. England, last Wednesday,
thero wcro 18 persons killed while at
tempting jo escape from a burning thea
ter. Trappmuan is being tried in Paris for
tho murder of the Kinck furnily.
The French Ministry has resigned.
In court in New Voik, last Thursday,
Judgo Daley decided that steamboat com
panies us common carriers arc liable fur
the baggage of passengers left in state
rooms, notwithstanding notice may have
been put up thut i ho baggage is not al
lowed in tho cabins or staterooms, and
that when placed there is at tho risk of
the owners.
A match has been orranged between
Jem Mace and Tom Allen to fight near
Cincinnati about March.
Rumors of a lock up of greenbacks
arc current. The various reports of bank
defalcations, and tho intentions of the
Secretary of the Treasury in regard to
sales of gold, have unsettled nil the mar
kets. A Washington spcciil says Senstor
l'rutt, ot Indiana, will send his resigna
tion t) the Governor of Indiana, to take
effect on the 10th proximo. Uc will re
turn home and retire from public life.
Declining health is the reason aligned
for resigning.
Tho World learns by private advices
from Washington that tho adjustment of
tho Alabama claims will be made in
Washington, and that the Duke of Ar
gyle will bo Kmbaador from Kngltnd,
clothed with authority to act upon such
terms as may be agreed on. It is like
wise said that the opohgy which Sumner
insisted Knland should make fur her
cmire during the war, will not be acce
ded to on the rat of that government,
but ia lieu of this, the British Govern
ment proposes to transfer to tho United
States all that territory lying wet of
Lake Superior, including British Colum
bia and all her possesions on the Pacific
coast, in consideration of our payin
largo um of money theiefur
As far a heard from the Texas Legis
lature Mand about as fo!l.w: .Senate
Conservatives, 15; Kepublicans, 11, one
ti hear from. House Conservative, !5j
Kepublican, 3G, nine in duubt. G. W.
Flannigati U elected Lieut. Governor.
An earthquake was flt in Canada lat
Thursday.
Geo. I). Prentice is critically ill tf
rheumatism f the heart.
Three heads of departments are absent
from Washington, and a good many more
brains.
Niggers have startcd a paper in Wash
ington. New York spent $.1,000,000 on educa
tion last year.
A man confined in jil at Memphi,
was shot through tho window of hi cell
by n party ot ruffians bt Thursday.
Hcccr Sorr.lla, Minister of Justice,
made a speech in Madrid, tSpain, on
Thursday laM, wherein he declared that
tf the Government cannot find a King,
they will throw themselves into the arms
cf the Itcpublic.
Victor Huffy, of the province of Vaud.
President elect of Switzerland, died in
Lucerne last Wednesday.
Nevada is being shaken by earth
quakes. The Fenians are fast organizing milita
ry companies in New England.
Chinamen that have been sent South
demand the same wages as other laborers
on plantations. Not much benefit de
rived from their importation as cheap la
borers. The Cuban insurgents are said to be
losing ground.
On last Friday Vincent Colyer handed
to the President a memorial, ngncd by a
number of property holders and business
men in v ictoria, to be followed by anoth
cr which will contain the names of all
liritiah merchants and others at Victoria,
Nanaimo, and other places, in favor of
the transfer of liritish Cnlnmhi.i in thn
I United States.
There were 13 deaths from mall pox
m cw lork last week.
The Ohio Legislature met in Colum
bus on Monday last. The Senate organiz
ed, electing . T. Hall (Republican),
Clerk ,and IJ. I. Churchill (-Democrat'),
Sergeant-atarms. Tho IIouso partially
organized,' electing A; J. Cunningham
(Independent Republican), from Hamil
ton county, Speaker; Laymen (Democrat),
Clerk. Three independent Republicans
from Hamilton county voted steadily
with the Democrats, and Cunningham vo
ted for himself.
A terrible storm in tho east damaging
much property.
The operators of the W. U. telegraph
line arc on a strike. r
New gold diggings, said to be tho rich
est ever discovered jn Rritish Columbian
have been opened in the Reese River
Country.
Grant had a big "blow out" on New
Years Day. The reception at tho White
House is described as a very grand affair,
equalling in brilliancy any ever held.
7 he, Diplomatic. Corps, members of the
Supremo Judges, with their ladies, were
first received, after which a general re
ception took place
An announcement was made in the
Havana journals on New Years Day that
the Cuban resolutionists had laid down
their arms and signified their '.willingness
to yield to the Spauish authorities, but it
lacks confirmation. A later dispatch
states that tho insurgents in the interior
are offering to capitulate -
Hon.' IS. F. Hopkins member of Con-
gress iron) Wisconsin, died at his resi
dence in Madison last Sunday.
Iho city ot rorte au Prince, Ilayti,
ws captured by the Haytien revoltion
istson tho night of Dec 18.
A terrible tragedy occurred near Tar
rytown, N. YU on Jan. 1st. A man
named N. W. JUckout, shot nts wile, a
Nowark merchant, Alfred Randall, and
his son, tho latter named Charles Ran
dull. 'Iho cause ot the tragedy is un
known. Some perrons ascribe it to jeal
ousy ou the part of. the husband, others
believe bo was insane.
An expedition of about one hundred,
men. in command of Col. Ashby Mosby's
Lieutenant during tho rebellion, sailed
for Cuba on 'Monday. They took twenty
thousand small arms and somo cannon and
ammunition.
A Woman's Suffrage Convention com
menced nt Concord, N. II., last Thursday.
Julia Ward Howe made a strong denun
ciatory speech on Sumner's position on
the Cuban question, and expressed great
sympathy with the Cuban patriots.
The Spanish Government is releasing
criminals and prioncr in Spain and en
listing them to right in Cuba. Ten thou
sand of this sort of troops will be precip
itated on tho Cuban insurgents next
Spring.
.Datos from Havana to last Friday state
that a sharp engagement occurred the
day previous at Maugia, Ctnco Vallas
district, iu which twenty insurgents were
killed und 70 captured. A large quau'i
ty of provisions and munitions of war as
well as important papers were captured.
The iusurgcots contioue to present them
selves be for o the authorities to solicit par
don. On last Tuesday a woman in Wheeling,
a., shot down her seducer because he
would not marry her. She gave herself
up to the authorities.
NT ATE KKWft.
From tb Statesman,
Mr. Cooper, of Monmouth, has made
1-0 gallons of wine from his own grape
this year, and churches arc buying it for
sacramental purposes.
Mr. Crons killed a cow for beef and
luuna in f:cr Mottfarh a leu cent piece
ana a goiu ring, it is cvi-jem mat cow
ha captured a "graMi widow."
W. N. Snyder came down from Scio
with two vrajsron loads of "legal ten ler"
meaning dried apple.1. There is no dis
count op that hort.
Iho hcho tied up at uheatland lat
Saturday tiicht, and a bigger preacher
who was on board, going up to Salem to
"Kmaneipate." preached a startling ser
mon from "dc two eyed chapter uh dc
one-eyed John, in de furty-levcnth book
ob de Ihresutc., 1
Thus. Young, V. S. Marhal, is inter
viewing Salem for jurors of U. S. Court
at Portland.
K. Cranston publishes a denial in the
l;tatrnntn that he has withdrawn as a
candidate for county judge and consen
ted to allow his friends to run him for
Governor. He don't want the ofiice of
Governor ninee Ceo. Wood has bough'
the position iot ) dirpute, but will take
the Citity Judgeship of Marion county.
rathcr than have his clothes torn." It is
uncles to add that he i a loyal cus.
Dr. S. R. Jcup, of Dallas, Polk
emnty, ha Wen elected Professor of An
atomy in tic Willamette University, vice
Lingo, deceased.
Last Saturday evening, while the 'col
ored pi.pulathm f Salem were celebrating
their I'ttr.aucipatutn, the residence of Jes
t,c Williams, an aged ''manhood" was en
tered and robta-l of $30 in coin. Th
wretch who did that would "Meal the
coppers off a dead nigger eye."
The Great River of the West" is the
title of a work un Oregon, nof being
publinhed and oon to bf; ined, wriiten
by Mrs. Prances Fuller Victor, well
known as a writer of prose and pctrv.
who has rcided in Oregon for ioue half
a doZc'U years and has devoted much time
to learning the Tacts ot which she has
written.
Tho cargo of wheat shipped last spring
by halem parties to Liverpool, in the Hel
en Angicr, has Wen heard from. The
wheal on board of her was sold as 'Cali
fornia wheat." as is shown by the account
of sales received. The shippers arc grat
ified to know that tho wheal sold for the
highest poib!c price on a very low Mar
ket, realizing 10s 4d to lis per 100
pounds. It arrived in goooordcr.
(Trout th Guard .'1
We learn that another surgical opera
tion has been performed upon Robert
Hadtcy. It beingd iscovcred by his phy
sicians, vr. Patterson and Sharpies, that
he was not doing as welt as they had hop
ed, the bone nhove the wonnd, iuclu ling
the shoijldcr jotuf, was taken out. Mr.
II. U doing as well as could be expected,
under the two painful operations to which
he has submitted. We arc informed this
is the first case of redivscciion of the shoul
der joint that has occurred in the State.
From tho Herald.
Tho cars made the 20 mile heat over
the East Side Railroad last Saturday in
00 minutes.
Hen. Holladay started for the Fast last
Saturday, but will be back about the
first of April. A large party of invited
guests accompanied him as fur as Asto
ria. Portland is on its "dig" because the
Steamer Montana came iu there from
San Francisco hint Monday morning with
out giving them previous notice.-
A forco of men will be kept on the
East-Side- Railroad all winter and in the
spring general operations be again re
sumed. - ; '
Messrs. Todd & Arnoup,- will have a
discussion at Harmony Hull, commenciog
on Wednesday, January 2Gth, afternoon
and evening, to continue for four days.
Theodore Uurmester is acquitted of
the murder otH. li. Mortord ,andis now in
Portland.
The editor of tho Herald has been pro
sented with a cigar holder.
A man j named R. G. Clark was acci
dentally killed by a flying board from tho
saw in a mill last Tuesday, 'i
Passenger coaches have passed over the
line of the Oregon Central Railroad on
several occasions this week, The turn
table at Parrot's creek is finished, and
the locomotive Jume li. StejiJiens was
turned about in precisely sixty seconds,
on Wednesday.
On Thursday the work of putting in a
side track and switches, at the Oregon
Central Railroad station,' in this city, was
commenced. The station is at present lo:
cated midway between Sixth and Seventh
streets. I lie sido track will cover the dis
tance of about si blocksperhaps pQQ
feet, .-.
mtmmmmmrm.
From tb Oregsniao.)
The Oregonian editor has sfen ripe
plumbs plucked from the tree on New
Years Day.
J he U, S. Circuit Court, M. Y. JDeady
presiding, commenced in Portland last
Monday.
Lwiuor dealers in Portland hvao paid
$10,000, exclusive of retail lager beer hou
ses, as license last year. '
'Ft... r t i ii w ' .. t . .
ai.uiiuw UUd X' CI 10WS JCHJpiO 13 IO
have a city clock on its frontispiece.
The new Raptist Church has been ded
icated in Portland.
About $700,000 have been paid out as
the cost of "constructing the twenty
mites of railroad on the east side of the
river. Much of this money has eome
into the hands of the people of this
State.
Portland is now destitute of play actors.
Tho itiflox tf strangers to Portland has
been larger. than ever before.
From tie Mercury.
Prof. Kmcry clipped yesterday morn
ing on the icy sidewalk and so wrenched
hi back as to be unable to get about.
One hundred and sixteen pupils in
Corvallis College. A good beginning for
the new term.
TIIK PAKSEE -LETTISH.'
No. 21.
lb Horace Greeley .
Hmn: In one of my former letters
I faithfully recorded to you the great
complaint made by the umbrella-manufacturing
wihib the gTeat inconven
ience he han in not beinfj able to ex
port the odd goods which accumulate
on his hand. I did not then know
to what extent this great evil is really
felt in your great manufactui ing coun
try ; but, ar I was anxious to buy some
carpets for esjxjrt, I began to realize
the evil.
I applied to a great carpet-manufae-turiug
Kahib for his goods, but found
that although the invention of making
carpets by machinery is purely Ameri
can, I could buy them in London, of
CroHIyt much cheaper than . here.
When" I told the carpet Kahib this,
li?, of course, knew it already well
cnougn.
"How is it," said I, "that your peo
ple, who supplied tho world with your
brains, in this .instance, to produce
carpets by steam machinery, still can
not take tho full advantage of your
own invention by supplying the world
with the carpets Ir
"Well," said the carpet j-ahib (who
is one of your greatest admirers, O
Greeley, sahib), "we tlimli that our
own market is sufficient for ns. All
we can desire is to shut foreign car
pets out of our own country. Yet,
do what we will, we cannot succeed."
"Perhaps," said I, "you are not
piotected enough?"
"Of coufse," said the carpet sahib,
"we do not find it enough, although
we are continually taunted and pester
ed by the press and thoao enemies to
society, free-traders, that we have
fnm 7oto)'i j cr cent. rotecttun; which
h perfectly true. Yet ym :e, ihi duty
5 clearly too Utile; fur. would you believe
it no lc!. thau three million dollars' worth.
f foreign carpet are regularly imported
annually ioto the Unite i tales'."
'ThUU very itrane," raid I. 4,Kven
if you cannot compete in foreign mar
kets with carpet, huw i it you cannot
keep the foreincri away from your own
country with uch a protection as you
name Y
'Well.,' rani the cirjct shib. "there
are several reasons. Firstly, we have to
pay at least 23 to S5 per cent, duty on
the raw material, which entirely comes
from foreiu countries."
"Hut why is that?" id I. "If you
do not rai.-e that class of wool here, why
i it protected V .
'Umph' i?asd the ah!b. eyeing roe
rather awkwardlv, "our Western wool
growers will not understand th'm, and
they insisted upon a duty on oil foreign
wool, which we woollen manfucturers had
to concede to them, or else they would
not have allowed us our duty ou carpets
or woollens, you sec, paid he.
"Yes," said I, ' ce if, ."
"Secondly," said he. do what we may.
there are some sort of English carpets
preferred by our people, whom no act of
Congress, somehow, will restrain from us
ing the foreign article. Thirdly, our la
bor is also higher much hither than the
pauper labor of Europe. Hut our chief
difikulty is in the accumulation of surplus
"stock. The English manufacturer, after
supplying his home trade aud his foreign
cuMom iraac, wncn ne onus r.e nas one
hundred pieces of carpet left on hand
which is in man afacturing unavoidable-
he consigns it to our maikct, und dos
not care if he loses 20 per cent, on it, as
that pays him in the end better than ci
ther making less cr keeping it on hand.
Yon, as a merchant, will understand that,
if.I have one hundred pieces of carpetjn
stock. I can easily sell and supply a cus
tomer with seventy pieces, but if I have
only seventy peice I capiwt sell them
all. People will pick and choose from a
large stock, and not take what we give
t them. Now, we find that our trouble is
to compote with this foreign surplus pour
ing into our market, while we have no
market to-send our own picked-over sur
plus to. This nlono requires tho great
consideration of government, nnd it is
against that wo should like to ha?e a few
hundred per cent, more duty, to entirely
prohibit the foreign surplus coming here."
"Were it not better,": said I, "ifyou
would have no duty on wool, less duty on
everything else, aud thereby reduce, the
high wages, by giving your working-man
the power to purchase more commodities
for his wages than he can do now ; have
cheaper machinery ; go iu ior aree com
petition, both hnre in your own country
and abroad and then givo thoe very En
glish a lloland for an Oliver, h? sending
yoir .surplus carpets not only to England,
but to their foreign possessions and all
over the world?"
"My friend, said the carpet sahib, "you
are a dangerous person, and I believe you
are a free-trader; and, for all I know,
you may be an agent of the foreign man
ufacturers and paid by British geld." , ;
Thus excited, he left me very uncere
moniously. But I leave it to you, O great
Sahib Greeley you wh'o have such auge
lic patience with r II who differ Iroui you
-whether my ideas do not deserve eorao
consideraton, which t nm sx4 ycu vt;.11
be ready to give them; ; ;
-With great A. pv WSinnor,
vi Parsee 1 Merchant', of Apollo street.
Bombay. (
NEW A D V E R T J S E M E N T S .
. RAILROAD -lUTEUIGENCE I
BLAIN & YOUNG,
ALSAUr, - - - - TXSQQtt,
Would call tte ttteatioo of Baytn to thSr
WELL SELECTCI? p30X
or
cossiSTiso or
FAflCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS I
HARDWARE, GKOCXRIEg.
BOOTS & SHOES ( Onr Specialty.')
Aljlt OF IjXTEHT Tyi.BS
GOOD QUALITY t
- -' ;f
' ' ' " - -' "
SOLD AT MODERATE PRICES
AGENTS FOR TUB CELEBRATEp
FLOREXCE NETVIXO XACIIISE I
TJic Br tt in U$e.
DLAiu & rourca.
Pee; 31. 169 rSi20tfV '
CITATION.
Iu the County Court of the County of
Linn, State of Oregon.
In the matter of the Estate of Abra
ham Osborn, Sen., deceased. 5
To Elizaletli McGee and 3Iary Jane
McCann, non-residents :
IX TIIK NAME OF THE STATE OF ORE
CJOX : Vm are fcereby eited to ppr sk
iuo FemarT term rf tbi Court, tt be tSB
UtJ'l at tbi Couit Hottt ia iht eilj of Ahnj, ia
ai4 count .f l.isn, n lbe Crt M d4sj. bt'mg
the 7lh Any of FcLraarr, 1870, at tb boar of od
f the tl'xrk r. m. f A daj.aiid tL ai4 tber
bw raBMf. M my wbjr a a order of aaW f
tbe wkle nf the lUal Etate if aid deel
ftbould t ns nude, fr the orTMoe of pnjiag tbe
claim oaUt-Atidmg aalnt aasd Estate aad tbe
rbsre- and espenaea of AJroinUtration, at praj
ed f.ir i'i the pelilio of E. E. Wheeler, the Ad
ntiniKtrator of the E'e of fanl deeeated, filed ia
Li CVurt oo tbe ZQlk &j of Xftrewber, lSf9
Said Ileal Kit ate is doeribed at Mlom$: "Lotg
2b sDi 26 ia tbe tHj of Scio, eoaatT f
Linn. State of Oregoo." ,
lif rlerf taid C"rt.
Wiinet iito. R. Helta. CletV ofeforaaid Court.
with llccal then of Lereto affixed, tbi 24tb dmj
of Peeeraber, Wi. UKO. II. JIELM,
Clerk.
I herelij- eert!fr tbat tbe aTe and f.reriDe ia
a trae c f.j of tbj original eiTaiin cow on file ia
tur eStce ia tie vitkiu enlitlel eace.
iSEO. II. HELM.
Clerk.
wni'itirr'S sale,
Y VIRTUE OF AX EXECUTION ISSUED
'out of lbe Coonir Court of tbe State of Ore-
jjoa for J.irn eooatj, ti tne direete! aad delivered
in favor of Smith. iJrawSjM i Co.. and asaiovt
Jam Krflicjr, fr t2cji,t, and intereitf ant
iftt. I have tlt 2"tb daj of December, 1SC9,
levied on the fallowing deacriled Real tate, afy
nil :
Cwtemw injf wxten rd East of tbe South
west rn tr of the Town Plat of IIarribargh, at
tbe Xortlieaf t corner of W. II. McColly'a laad,
roTjnitix thetice South te rd. tbenee Earttwen
f r.ici.n rt.rf fhnc Xi.nK trs rfkt. lhBm lTtt
twentjr-Msrea rnl ta lbe place of beiosia
one aod tbr-e-ftJrth aer more or le, aitaatel
in tbe county of Linn and St to of Ore -on, and
itutcd in Township fifteen, 8ontb. Range f-.r.
Wet. S tin Sixteen being a part af tbe laad
of Win. A. Forgy'a Iaation Land Claim ; and
on
Saturday, the SOft day of January, 1870F
at 2 o'clock r. in frunt of tbe Conrt IIoa
dKr. in the eitj f Albany, Linn coaetr, Oro
S"n. I will fe!l the aboro described Real Property
to aiiafj aid Exeeuti'in. intesrete and cost, at
pub.tc auction to tbe highest bidder therefor.
R. A. IRV1XE.
T5n20wl. Sheriff, Linn Co Ogn.
notxcc or rxrAZ. scttxxsxsitt.
Jj. C. MARSHALL, ADMINISTRATOR DE
!m,m huh of tbe estate of Jobn II. Lines, dee'd. baa
tht day filed bi account ia tbe Conntj Court
of Liun CMontj, Orcpun, tajin a final teUle
mt rt r f the Mine and to be discharged at each
Altn'nirtrtnr : Then-fore, notice i birtbj iprra
that aaid aceonr.t and tbe settlement thereof will
be beard and determined on
Tuesday, the 8A day of Felrvary, 1 870,
at the Conrt Honc in the city of Albany, ia said
county, and all rerin interested in vaid citato
will file their objections to aaid account and tha
aettlement thereof on or before said day.
-. By order of said Conrt. i
S. A. JOHNS.
Dec. 7, 1S69 n19w4 ' County Jadfe.
hotics or fzn&l SETTLEnrnr,
Tame? rlakely. admixistrator de
omk mom vf the estate of William Sperry, dee'd,
hirinj; this day filed bis final aeernnt of his Ad
ministration of said Estate and rendered the same
for settlement ; it is therefore ordered tbat
Monday, the 7th day of Fclruary, 1870
being a day of tbe February term of this Conrt,
be appointed for the hearing of objections to such ":
final accottT t and the settlement of the same, and ;
that notice hereof begiren by publication ia tba
"State Rights Democrat," a newspaper of general .
circulation, once a week for at least four successor
weeks prior to said day. - ; , . . ;
ly order of said Court.
S. A. JOHNS, County Judge.
Dee. T. 1S69 n!9w4.
" FIXAI SKTT1.0IEXT. " "
4 RRAHAM MILLER. JR., ADMINISTRA
jfV tor nf the estate of David Qoodfow, deceased,
has this day filed his account in tbe County Conrt .
of Linn ounty, Oregon, praying a final settle- '
mcnt of the same and to be discharged as such
Administrator : Therefore, notice is hereby given
mat saia account ani tne scuienient thereof will
be heard and determined on .;
)Vedne..doyt the 9A day of February, ;1870t
at the Court House in the city of Albany, ia said
county and State, and all persons interested ia
said estate-will file their objections to said account
and the settlement thereof on or before said day.
Ily order of said Court. S. A. JOHNS,
: Jan. 3, 1S70 -n21w4. v' County Judge.
FIXAI SETTLES EXT.
JAMES SIIERRILL, ADMINISTRATOR OF
theesUte of. D. M. Bond, deceased, has this
uuy filed his account in the County Court of Liua
county, Orertn. pruying a final settlement of tbe
satno and to be discharged as such Administrator:
Therefore, notice is hereby given that said account
and tbe seUl.racnt thereof will be heard and de
termined on - ; - " ,
Tuesday, the Sth day of February, 1 S70J .
at tbe hour of one o'clock p. M,at the Court Tlousej
iu the city of Albany, in said county and State. :
and that all persons interested in said estate wil)
fibtbeir objections to said account and the settle-.
ment thereof o? or before taid day,
: By order of said Court.
S. A. JOHNS, County Judge.
ree.SO.lSCS v5n2tw4 , 1
. FRANKltINMARKET. :
GEORGE S. r.HLLER
Has purchased the Franklin Market, where ha '
; keeps constantly tho very best -
Beef Mutton, Pork, JBolona Sansas, Etc.
One door wet of A. Cowan & Co's !
Cull theve.