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VOL. VII.
THE CINCINNATI PLATFORM.
Following is tbe platform and ad
dress adopted by tho Liberal liepub
Hcati ConviTitiou which nominated
Grocloy and Brown at Ciucinnatfi
We, tho Liberal Itopublicaus of tho
United States, in this National Con
vention assembled at Cincinnati, pro
claim tho following principles an es
sential to a just government: ,
1st. We recoguizo tho equality of
all men beforo the law, and hold that
it is tho duty of tho government in its
dealings with tho peoplo to mete out
equal and exact justice to all, of what
ever nationality, race,, color or per
suasion, religious or politcal.
i!J. Wo pledgo ourselves to main
tain tho union of theso .Slates, eman
cipation and enfranchisement, and to
oppose any reopening of tho questions
settled by tho 13th, 11th and 15th
amendments of tl3 Constitution.
3d.' We demand the imuudiate and
absclnto removal of all disabilities im
posed on account of the rebellion,
which was finally subdued seven years
ago, believing that universal smiKsty
will result in a completo pacification
in all sections of the country.
4th. Local Btll-govermiicnt with
impartial snlirago will guard the
rights of all citizens mom securely
than- any centralized power. The
public welfare, requires tho supremacy
of the civil over vho military authori
ty, and freedom, of person under the
protection of the habeas corpus. We
demand for the individuals the largest
liberty consistent with public order
for State self government, cud lor the
nation a return to tho methods of
peace and the constitutional limitation
of pow er.
01 K The civil service of the Gov
ernment h:ts become a mere instru
ment of i artisan tyranny and personal
anibiiiou, an object of scltihiicss. It
is a sea ml i I and reproach upon free
institutions, and breathes a demorali
zation dangerous to tho perpetuity of
a Republican Government. We
therefore regard a thorough reform of
the civil service as one of tho most
pressing necessities of the hour; that
honesty, capacity and fidelity conti
tute the only ali.l claims to public
employment; that the uKicers of the
government cease to be a matter of
arbitrary favoritism and patronage
aud that a public station may agaai
become a post of honor, aud it is im
peratively required that uo President
shall be a csudidaie for re-elect ion.
Cth. We demand a system of Fed
eral taxation which shall not unneces
sarily interfere with the industry of
tho people, and which shall provide
the means necessary to pay the ex
penses of the government economical
ly administered, the peusious, tho in
terest on the public debt, and a mod
erate reduction ai.nuaily ol the princi
pal thereof. Ami recotrmzui that
there are in our midst houent but irre
concilable diU'erences of opinion with
rcjara to the respective systems of
protection and free trade, we remit
the discussion of the subject to the
people ia their Congressional districts
aad to the decision of Congress there
ou, wholly free from executive interfer
ence or dictation.
7th- The public credit must be
sacredly maintained, and we deuouuee
repudiation iu every lonn.
eth. A speedy return to specie
payments is demanded alike by the
Inchest consideration ot commercial
morality and honest government.
lull. W e remember with gratitude
tbe heroism and sacrifices of the sol
diery and of tho Republic, and no act
of ours shall ever detract from their
justly earned lama or the full records
of their patriotism.
10th. We are opposed to all further
grants of lauds to railroads or other
corporations. The . public domain
should be held sacred to actual set
tlers. 11th. We hold that it is the duty
of the Government in its intercourse
with foreign nations to cultivate their
friendship by treating them on fair
aud equal terms, regarding it alike
dishonorable either to demand what
is not right or to submit to what is
wrong.
, 12. For the promotion and success
of these vital principles and the sup
port of the candidates nominated by
Convention, we invite and cordially
welcome the cooperation cf all patri
otic citizens without regard to previ
ous political affiliations.
THE ADDRESS. ,
The Administration now jn power
has rendered itself guilty of a wanton
disregard of the laws. It has acted
as if laws had binding force ouly for
those who govern. It has thus est ruck
a blow at the fundamental principles
of constitutional government and the
liberties ol tho citizens. Tbe Presi
dent of the United States has openly
used the powers and opportunities of
his high omce lor the promotion ol
personal ends.' He has kept notori
ously corrupt and unworthy men in
places of power and resousibility, to
the detriment of the publics interest.
He has used the public service of the
Government as a machinery for parti
san and personal influence, and inter
fered, with tyrannical arrogance, in
the political affairs of. States and mu
nicipalities. He has rewarded, ; with
influential and lucrative offices, men
who had acquired his favor by valua
ble presents, thus stimulating the de
oiorahzation of our political iifu by his
conspicuous example. He has shown
himself deplorably unequal to the
tasks imposed upon him by the neces
sities of the country, and culpably
careless of tho responsibilities of his
high office. ' Partisans of, the Admin
istration, assuming to be the Republi
can party and controlling its organi-,
zatiou, have attempted to justiy such
wrongs and palliate such abuse. To
the end of maintaing partisan ascend
ency, they have stood .in the way of
necessary investigations and indispen
sable reforms, pretending that no seri
ous fault could be found with' the
present administration of public af
fairs, thus seeking to blind the eyes
of tbe people. ; They have kept alive
the passions and resentments of the
civil war to usa them for their advan
tage. .They have resorted to nrbitru
ry measures iu direct conllict with the
organic law, instead of appealing to
tho better instincts and latent patriot
ism of tho Southern people by restor
ing them those lights, the 'enjoyment
of which are indispensable for a sue
ccessful administration of their local
a Hairs, and would tend to more patri
otic nnd hopeful national feeling.
They have degraded' themselves and
tho mime of their party, onco justly
entitled to the confidence of tho na
tion, by base sycophancy to tho dis
penser of executive power and a pat
ronage unworthy of u Republican
freeman. They have sought to stille
the voice of jut criticism, to stifle thu
moral sense of tho people and to sub
jugate public opinion by tyrannical
party discipline. They are striving
to maintain themselves in authority
for solfih ends, by unscrupulous- uso
of power which rightfully belongs to
the people and should bo 'employed
only in tho service of tho country.
Relieving an organization thus led
and controlled can no longer bo of
service to tho best interests of tho
Republic, we have resolved to make
an independent appeal to tho sober
judgment, conscience and patriotism
of the American people.
rEOii WAsmaoTTa county.
Washington Co., Or.,)
May 25, 1872.
Editor Democrat :
As polities is tho topic of conver
sation from one end of the Stato to
tho other, perhaps a letter from, this
county would not bo inappropriate.
Two years ago a portion of the Rad
iu tlii county became afdicled with a
swelling or soreness ot thu head, and
the Democrats, deeply sympathizing
with them in tteir ufiliciioii, l.e:pt-d
them to elect a Democratic Sheriff,
ono Cornuii-isioner, and it number of
tolerably respectable Republicans to
fill tho various other oflice. Two
years passed away, bat thtir wounds
were not yet beuied, su it Lecatue
quite necessary ILi-i spring, in order
to make a successful L;ht, to apply u
healing planter. Tom Cornelius, our
Slate Senator, slid Tom Ilbtuphrcy,
our present County Judge, were the
leaders of tho two wings, the latter
leading tho "bcre-heads." Tom Cor
nelius, backed by King IJen., was
fur from kuuck'ing in to UompLtey.
TLo Judge, seeing hi. gooo vas
cooked, on his bc?Jcd knees implor
ed Co!. Tom's forgiveness, aud aked
to be take.i unconditionally back into
the Radical parly. Col. Tom agreed
to tuke him bock; but tLeu the other
sore-Leads, what was to be dona with
them? They were not willing to an
unconditional surrender, and their
votes were badly Deeded. What
then was to be done? Some kind of
a healing plaster must be applied,
and wbatthould that be? A ticket
composed of ignoramuses was thought
to Lo the surest and safest. So into
tho Convention they went, and
ground out a ticket which can t Le
excelled by any race, tribe or clan on
the continent of America. T. A.
Scott, one of the candidates for Rep
resentative, is bo green he don't know
whether he lives iu Iowa, Indiana or
Oregon; and Collier, tho other gen
tleman on the Legislative ticket, is a
teacher ia the College at Ron st
Grove, and if the ubility of a teacher
can be measured by the shrewdnens
of his scholars, we are inclined to
think he wi 1 never get to the Legis
lature if elected. His colleague, Mr.
Stott, has been sending his son to
schOol at the Grove for four or five
years, and he don't know where the
Legislature meets. When the gen
tleman mho was appointed to inform
Mr.. Stott of bis nomination carried
tho news to him, the old gentleman
didn't seem inclined to accept it, and
his son, the Forest Grove student,
spoke up and said: "Accept it, pap;
if you can't go I can go as 'your
proxy. It won't take but two or
three days, pap. Where is it to be
held?'" Charley Trozier, the candid
ate for Sheriff, is as verdant as the
renowned Thompson's colt. He at
tended the convention at Hillsboro
that nominated him, a distance of
about twenty miles from his home,
and he got lost and was two
finding his way back. Old
Jackson is the candidate - for
weeks
Hugh
Treas-
urer. He used to be a Democrat,
till about ten yeai3 ago he got to bo
so infernal mean we bad to drum
him out of the party. Their ticket
throughout is composed of men who
are unfit for the positions for which
thety are running. ; V' ''-;' :""'"
The Democratic County Conven
tion meets to-day and no doubt they
will put forward tbe men who will be
our next countv ouicers. i, The pros
pects for a Democratic Victory in this
county are better than eveY before.
The party i3 well organized and ac
tively at work, ..'.-.: A WoaKEiU .
A pious Irishman, not long since,
in exhorting a meeting, let his re
marks take an analytic turnr "Me
beloved friends," said Pat, "all can
not be parts of the same, .building.
Some have to be posts, some rafters,
etc. , and me friends, 4 if there - were
not already too many slapers in : this
house, I would be willin' to be a sla
per (Sleeper raeself," - ,
111' it ffii'i
ALBANY, OREGON, Fill
what i. tiii: si.vrriut with
THE MOUTH?
The facts developed by tho Ku
Klux Coinuiitte furnish u powtrful
urgumeut for a national policy which
shall not further oppress und ostra
cise the Southern whites in' order to
keep a party in power in those States. I
'lhat report shows that the losses of ,
the South during thu war amount to
upwards of five thousand million of
dollars, while the whole assessed
value of the eleven Slates, iu ItiUU,
exclusive of sluves, wus pluced at
2,728,825,000, or but little mom
than hull the actual value of tho
property debtroyed aud losses, ; in
cluding the rebel debt. It would
bteui us though u country thus pros
tr le should receive the kindest pro
tection which tho errors of iu people
made possible. Rut ut this potut thu
depletion of the South only bt-gina.
Tho iucreuse iu the debts in thw
Southern Slates under carpet-Lag
rule is simply uppalling. In Kuril
Carolina tuu Stuiu debt was $11,000,
000 iu 18G0; $2(,(jW),v00 iu 18C5,
when the work of reconstruction be
gan; f2i,000,C00 in 1808, wheu carpet-bugim
triumphed, aud $31,000,
000 in 1S71. Tho wholo beliefuc
tionof the North distributed through
tho Freedmau's Bureau do n t equal
the ttaiouttt by which tho debt, of
North Carolina alouo has been iu
created iu the process of reconstruc
tion I In South Carolina, iu the hiu
gie county of Kernhuw, having 11,
0U0 pupulutiou, 3,000 tax-extculious
were issued. Tho luxes of lb70
would have paid the tuxes of auy live
years 1 fore tho war, and bud to be
paid out of half the property. They
were, therefore, ten times as high
and more. Iu two year, $1,20'J,
o7 07 wuh puid out, foi which not a
kindle voucher was kept! The Con
vention of 18GS, which framed the
State Contiitution, contained 72 ne
groes mill 1'J white tueu. Rut 13 of
the negroes were tax-payers, yet
they levied ou the State a tax of
2,230.8o0, or over hix per cent, ou
its whole property. In the Legisla
ture of lhC'J who 20 white Senators
und 12 black ones, and iu the llou-e
tht ie vvt-ie 37 white and 8t black
iiieiuler.. Rij;hty mtmbets iu the
two houses paid no taxes. RruHt-l
carH-ts, mirrors, pluU sofa, und
porcelain spittoon were furumbed to
the private upaitmetds of the.ve l-g-ihlulor
at t e cot of the tax-payers.
A year's legislation of such a nct of
toieven Las proved not le destruc
tive to the State than the march
through it of Sherman's legions,
burning -t they went. Iu Mii
sijipi a parallel ea-.e is presented.
No wonder immigration bus shunned
the South. S t wonder the Ilu-Klux
are abroad. No wonder thu South
ern States uru standing attll or going
backward. The coudition of lurge
ijitts-M-s of tho Southern peopbt i
iujp!y as wretched as the wo. si of
local mihovernmeut aud menu op
preMsiou can render it. Aud ho it
will remain until a new policy shall
bi adopted, und which dues not in
sist on excluding tho better class of
Southern whites from voting and
holding office.
The commercial tables of tho coun
try show that the contributions of tho
Southern States to our exportable
wialth exceed iu value the total ex
ji ivf all the other section of the
Union combined. In addition to
this they furnish through their pro
ductions the basis of the most valua
ble texile induhtries. It will no
doubt surprise many of our readers
to leain ths. in the matter of popu
lation the South leads the ,'rcat geog
raphical sections of tho Union. The
tjtul population of the United States
is placed by the last census at 3S.
555,083. Of this number the Mid
dle and Eastern States combined fur
nish in round numbers twelve m 1
lions, tho Western States twelve mil
lions, tho Southern States, or those
commonly classed as such in the old
times, fourteen millions. Their po
litical preponderance is equally si-
uihcaut. the total number of votes
in the Electoral College is 357. The
New England States, with New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania added,
count 10'J votes, as follows:
Ma no.. ,
Saw Kaiap'
7
ConnreticuU..
New Y"rk
I'erin.rlvaniu.,
Xuw Jet ivy ....
41
V runt ,
.li-'(W;hu tts ....
Rhode IsUnd......
4
13
4
Tot:il. ... w... ItW
It will be seen that tho Western
States are entitled to 105 votes: ,
Ohio
M i.-li i-. ti ...
WUcoiisi:!.' ,
Muiiits it.i. .
Lwa
Kan a
22
II
IU
6
II
i
Indiana. .....
Nevada
li.i.H.U
Xebranku....,
14
3
21
i
Uti
California claims 6 votes and Ore
gon 3 making a total of 9 ; for : the
Pacific Coast. The Southern States
are entitled to 131 votes in the T21c-
toral College, being a majority over
the New Englaud and Middle States
combined, and exceeding the consoli
dated vote of the; great Northwest
Here are the figures:
Pulew'aru....!.'.. ......
Maryland "..... '
Virginia....
West Virginia....,;,.
Kt-niui-ky ..j ......
Tvniia-se -
Xortii Ciirulmu......
Missuui-i .............
Arii'iiiBiii... ...... ...... ,
3 South Carolina.... .. 7
8 Georgia II
11 Fii'ri'liV .... .....i.. 3
5 I Arabuiua 9
12 Mifi'ii'.-ipiii...... 8
M Lojiiuu.t. ....,.,.... 7
HI Ttxa 8
6 Total ............... 134
a. clergyman wished to . , Know
whether the children of his parish
ioners understood their; Bibles,;, He
asked a lal whom ho found one - day
reading the Old Testament, who was
the wickedest man. "Moses, to be
sure," said the boyf h "Moses," ex
claimed the parson, ' how can that
be?" ;-Wby," said the lad, 'he
broke all the commandments at once."
' There is a man in Buffalo who has
registered a, vovv never to makea'iiu
mane society Vof himself again.; f He
took off his coat and leaped into the
canal to save a lacly from tlrowninsr.
when a pickpocket stole ten dollar
from his coat, and the rescued wo an
was mad because he pulled her chig
non off ia getting her out, '
&
DAY, MAY 31, 1872.
A.V UXCICI.I.K.Vr LAW.,
'. The San Francisco Examiner, has
tbe following concerning a law lately
passed by the California Legislature
regarding elections. : The law; wua
generally- adopted: - ' '
j Que or the best acts of the lost
Legislature was the adoption of that
pol l ion of the Code bearing on elec
tions, which provides that ouch tick
et must bo twelve inches long, aud
four inches wide foulded four times,
so thiit it will be three-fourths of an
inch by four inches. The mutking
of any ticket is made an ollunho, No j
porcoii on tho election day, within
one hundred feet of tho polls, ' must
fii'e or receive a ticket, nor within
I hut distitnce must he show by oj eu
ing or otherwise how he votes. The
ticket must bo free from my murk,
device or anything by which it can
be distinguished,' , '
;Such a provision "should always
have been it wie one: but ever since
the completo ascendency of Radical
ism iu the land it has been impcii
tivtly requested to protect poor men
iu the Ubtrummeled exercise of th
elective fruuehise. It is well known
that for years past, iu this city, thai
Democratic laboring men have been
in bundied-i, ,if not thousands, of in
stances driven to the polls with bal
lots selected for them by thir Radi
cal employers und compelled either
to deposit thuMi fah delurations
of thvir political faith orb discharg
ed from emplo'vmeut. A choice, bo
tweeu independence in political sen
liineut uud Li cad for their familit.
was prent-nted ami niuety-uiuo men
iu a hundred would cbooe the lat
ter. The outrages prpftratd on elec
tors ut Mare Island by Federal sa
traps ut thu last ele ;t ou are too freh
iu the public mind to require a nar
ration of t em now. Under ihe ap
prehension of immediate dismissal
from employment, on jjuII c works,
hundreds of nieu were coerced into
humiliating portions us, so-called,
freemen, walking up t the election
polls under the sujM-rvi-tioti of over
seer, and e'epositin iu the ballot-box
a pieco of jiatboar J of such size and
pattern that while it as lure enough
to contain the numes of alltlie Radi
cal candidates to be voted for was
yet so small that, without folding or
eruwpitiig, it -could easily be con
ceuled Letwt-eu tho thumb und fre
liner of the hand of the poor thralls
who were compelled to vote it.
It is a great misfortune, fur the fu
ture welfare of the country, that
evry State in tLe Union has not
such a law upon its statute-book us
that iu our new Code. If such were
the cae the real Democracy of the
country, the hard-fi-ttnl l.-tborer of
tho laud, could attain their rights
and the reign of Radicalism would
bo forever ended.
UE.tU.Ili:.tDl.
The following irom the pen of Win.
T. Tinley, of the Lyons (N Y.) Jit
publican, will beuf.preci.ttud by news
paper editors who have been victims
of the nuisance of which, tho writer
complains:
It is common for certain classes of
people to look upon newspaper edi
tors as " dead heads" xif cxevilence.--Rut
the truth is, there is no class- ol
people so remorselessly and coittinu
ouly filched from an iinpoHed upon
by dead headim iu myriad shapes, as
theso very newspaper editors them
helves. Wo will give an instance or
two, by way of ill tiM rat inn.
i There is the man win patented a
new sort of tingumUob for "regulat
ing the heat ot stovt a. ' He coin' s
to us with a specimen of his tingum
bob, and tells ns that it is the greatest
blessing' ever invented; it will save
lot of money for poor people ; only
let it get into general use, and the
community will rise up and cull him
blessed, lie wants us to publish bis
invention through our column's for
nothing; ho pesters us with it, till we
aru strongly tempted to rise up and
call him the reverse of blessed, and
show him the door. However we
don't; we are too good-natured and
too overwhelmingly rolite. We
don't even ' tell him ho is a dead-head.
There are the associations that get
up schemes lor benevolent purpose.-.
Of course the editor must do th,eir
advertising, for nothing; it "'won't
cost him anything" to give them a
tree notice.. .Perhaps ho obliges them
and perhaps ho show;s them his ad
vertising rates. Some of tl.etn, no
doubt, are very excellent people, and
really believe themselves in the right.
Whatever else they are, , however,
they are dead-heads, ; ' 4 ' :
; There are tho temperance societies
and missionary associations, and moral-reform'
agencies, and associations'
for the furnishing of the Hottentots
with flannel drawers and cod liver oil.
"Can you ask us to pay yon for adver
tisings'" "Caif you refuso to put in
notices itr of meetings, and so on,
and , have thu hardihood to ask us for
money when tho poor Hottentots are
perishing with cold 'f", Certainly, not,
dear dead-heads.' Fetch on your no
tices, we' will print them,' provided
theyaro not too long; but remember
you are dead-headsv; SJ -n.:j w -i-
: An Indiana woman, while scouring
the country for names to. a , petition
for the. purdon of her husband, . who
had been condemned for borne trifling
manslaughter to imprisonment for
life, met an Adonis 'vv ho suited j. her
iu uch better . than her incarcerated
lord. She immediately burned the
petition, aud intends claiming the
divorce the law grants in such . cases
and becoming the blushing bride of
her adored Adonis j jS'tc transit ' fem
ittfl? 0mor. . . . ,' ,',),,..-;
Georgie a little boy of six" years,
says: ' "Mother this book tells about
the angry waves of the ocean. Now
what makes the ocean get so ansry? ' j
ecHiso iv. urn ... uecu
crossed eq
4
E,
THU M1TI' ATIO.H.
Ail Eastern exchanu has tho
fob
lowing: ; ; .'; -.- -; . ; '
Notwithstandinjf the assertions of
tho administration organ lu re that the
leading statesmen of tho. Republican
party in Washington are united in
favor of the reiiominatiou of Grant
and no one else, there aru indications
most manifest that, sevend of these
very leading, statesmen aro having
conferences on a possible plan to pres
ent the names of other candidates be
fore the Philadelphia' Convention.'-'.
There was a revival -.today of the
story that a combination is on foot to
press Rtatfie and Wilson on the con
vention us a ticket that could reunite
the Republican party, and it was stat
ed lhat if tome of the loyal newspa
per organ in the West which are
known to be secretly hostile to Grant
but cpeiily, supporters of the Phila
delphia Convention, could be induced
id make a l.i esk iu tho oft'ice-holders'
phalanx and urge a new ticket, that
tho movement thus inaugurated would
be certain of success". The Baltimore
American has an article squinting that
way. Grant's most dangerous rival
for the nomination, however, is Col
fix, who, while ho professes unaltera
ble loyalty to his chief, wishes it. to
bo understood that' iu the event of
Grant's withdraw! or of his being
thrown overboard at Philadelphia, he
(Col I ax) in a candidate for the nomi
nation. Not only Speaker Blaine ami
Co! fix, but Senator Wilson is also in
the field, and it is even said that Mor
ton, who is most loud in his profess
ions of fealty to Grant, is secretlv
plotting for his place. . Grant himself
is growing auspicious of his thanes,
and he is not certain but that when
the criMS arrives they will Uy' from
I 1 i t
mm ami leave turn io ins late, l lie
friends ot Colfax, Wilson, Blaine and
Morton are eeitaiu that any oi.e of
them if nominated could unite the
Republican party and leave Mr. Gree
ley ami. tho Cincinnati movement
without a following. In other w ords,
they think they would doi-troy the
necessity for tho existence of the Lib
eral Republicans. The trouble is to
g-t Grant out of the way. It is in
contemplation to make a coup ddai
at Philadelphia which will throw
Grant overboard, when the other as
jffrants will come upon the scene.
How this is to be done U not clearly
set forth, but there can bo no. doubt
thai som.-t hint; of the kind is con
templated: The President does not
trust either Colfax, Wilson, or Blaine,
and it is iinderslood he is not without
suspicion n regards Morton.
1 here are tlto-o who assert that at the
last moment Grant will decline, but
his moot iutimate friends hold that he
will do nothing of the kind, an 1 that
he is determined to rule or ruin the
priy.
A foil si:stxui:xt.
One of the best and truest feelings
of our nature, is reverence for the
dead. When ono of our race, how
ever erring, however sinful, passes
through the shadow, that hovers over
the grave, into the great unknown
eternity beyound, a common instinct
tells us that the voice of harsh censure
should bo hushed. This thender,
noble sentiment is beautifully ex
pressed in the Latin maxim.
tnortui nil nii b'.nuM." "Of the
dead, speak nothing bin good," a max
im that finds an echo iu every true
heart in Christendom. But this
common tmpul&s of humanity has no
place in tho cold, unfeeling bosom of
Attorney-General - Williams. In his
speech here Sat unlay, May 25. he said
of poor Jack Rader, the Jackson
county member, who died iu this
city, of small pox, at the close of the
last session of the Legiidature: ulle is
tlead and has yone 1 know not iriere,"
and, to the eternal shame of Salem,
the infamous allusion win loudly ap
plauded by a part, thank God, only
a part of his audience. Be it re
membered lhat the circumstances of
poor Rider's death were peculiarly
awful.' In a . strange city, far from
home, with not one friend near him,
ho died after horrible suffering of a
loathsome estileuce. Even the rite
of Christian burial was denied him.
Threo rough' men hired for the pur
pose, took him in tho dead of night
and buried him with pestilence reek
ing clothing and bedding around him,
hastily covering j him up in a rude
grave somewhere near Salem
God, knows, where. . Of this poor
man whoso death and burial were so
terrible, tho Attorney-General of the
United States uttered the atrocious
sentiment ..written , above. - ,. Rader's
only sin was that ho was a Democrat
For the honor of, humanity let us
hope and believe that there is not in
all this broad laud another individual
of the eminence of Mr. WUHam!, who
would liave been guilty ot the ghoul
like act of digtrins? up this dead man's
me-nory and making it the subject of
such a heartless inuendo. oulcn
Mereuny. -v ilJ'-" ', .
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,A Suit, for a breach of ".contract, of
a rather nove' character, is now pen
ding in one of the Vermont courts.
In effect, a gentle maiden sues a man
for promising to buy her ' and then
refusing Jto fulfill bis . contract.' It
seems that the lady had a farm which
the man wanted to purchase... She
offered the property and herself , for
$20,000, and refused to sell separate
ly. 1 He acepted the terms,, paid the
money, obtained tho title-deeds of
the lands, and was so ' well satisfied
with his bargain that he insisted on
her keeping the rest of the purchase
herself. , She did not appreciate his
magnanimity, and ' insisted on bis
marrying ' her. He declined and
now she has sued him for a breach of
contract. i-, l::v , ' ?.!
What is a' true friend? !A true
:A"
friend is he who not ouly shows him
self so when the frowns ; of misfor
tune fall upon us," bat even when we
treat hi ur as a foe,; builds friendship's
' "iiei higher and nrmet with the yeiy
i Btouea casit against hiin oy our roily
NO. 42.
3I1I1K TWA IK Alt EDITOU-IX-...
CI1ICF. ,
Mark Twain, in hi net folome,
'Roughing It,'' gires his . experience
as local editor of the Virginia City
(Nevada) Daily J$Uerprite, and inci
dentally credits the "leading writer"
of a daily journal in a manner as rare
as it usually deserved In the case
mentioned, Mark had tired of his ta
bor as local editor. Ho i ays:
I vrAJfTElV, VARlfcTT. OF SUU3 KID.
It came. Mr. Goodman went away
for a week and' left me the post of
chief editor. It destroyed me. The
first day I wrote my leader in the
forenoon : The second day I had no
subject, and put it; off till evening,
and then copied an elaborate edito
rial of the American Cyclopedia, that
slendfast friend ot the editor all over
tho land. The fourth day I fooled
around" till midnight, ami then fell
back on. the Cyclopedia jgain. The
fifth day I -cudgeled' my brain 'nntil
niter midnight, and then kept the
pre waiting while I penned some
personalities on six d die rent people,
i'hu sixth day 1 labored far into the
night and brought "brth nothing.-
The paper went to press without any
editorial The seventh day I resigned.
On the eighth day Mr. Goodman re'
turned ami found six . duels on bis
hands my personalities had borne
fruit.
Nobody, except he who has tried
it, knows what it is to be an editor.
IT 13 EAST TO SCRIBBLE
local rubbish, with the facts all before
you; it is eay to clip, selection from
other papers; it is easy to string out a
correspondence from any local. ty; but
it is an unspeakable hardship to write
editorials. Subjects are the trouble
the dreary lack of them. 1 mean.
tvery day is a drag, draff, drair think
and worry and suffer all the world
is a dull blank; and yet the editorial
columns must be filled. Ouly give
the editor a subject and his work is
done; it is no trouble to write it up;
but fancy how you would feel, if you
had to pump your brains dry every
day iu the week fifty-two weeks in
the year. It makes one low-spirited
simply to think of it. The matter
that each e.l.tor ol Uaily paper in ,
America w rites m the '.urte of ai
year would fill from four to eight
bulky volumes like this book. Fancy
what an editor's work would mike
after twenty or thirty years seivice.
Yet people often wonder that Dick
ens, Bulwer, Scott Dumas, etc.. have
been able to produce so many books.
If these authors had wrought as vo
luminously as newspaper editors do,
the result would be something to
marvel at indeed.
How editors can continue this tre
mendous labor tiiis exhausting
CO-SSCliniON' OF ERAIS FIBRE
(for their work is creative, and not a
mere mechanical laying up of facts
1 ko reporting,) day after day yer.r
after year, is incomprehensible.
Preachers take two month's holiday
in midsummer, for tby ml that to
produce two sermons a week is wear
ing in the long run. In troth, it mast
be so. and it is so; and therefore how
an editor can take from ten to tweuty
texts and build upon them from ten
to twenty paiustaking editorials a
week, aud keep it up all the year
round, is further beyond comprehen
sion Than ever. Ever since I have
survived my week as editor, I have
found at least one pleasure in any
newspaper that comes to my hand; it
is admiring the long columns of edi
torials, aud wondering to myself how
the mischief he did it.
INDIAN S.lLUOX-FaSUCBY
TUU liLlKATU.
IX
In, catching salmon they efhploy
principally nets, woven of lino, roots
or grass, which are stretched across
eddies in the Klamath always with
tho mouth ' down-streams Where
there is not a natural eddy, they some
times create one bv throwing mil a
rude wing-dam. -1 hey select, eddies,
because it is there the salmon congre
gate to rest themselves, ' At the head
of the eddy they etect fishing-booths
over tho; water, by planting sleuder
poles in the bottom of the river, and
lashing others over them, in a light
and artistic framework, w ith a floor a
few feet above the water, and regular
rafters overhead, on which brushwood
is placed for. a screen against the sun
and moon. . In. ono of - these really
picturesque booths an Indian sleeps
at night, with a string leading up from
tho net to his fingr: so that, when
a salmon begins to fionnce in it he is
awakened.. Sometimes the string is
attached to an ingenious rattle-trap
of sticks or bones (or a ' bell, nowa
days), 'which 'will' chink or clatterand
answer tho same purpose. They also
spear salmon from these booths . With
a tlsh gig, ! furnished T' with movable
barbs,' whichj after J entering tbe fish,
spread open and 'prevent the with
drawal of the; instrument. Another
mode they sometimes employ, is, to
stand bn' a large bowlder in the main
current; . where . the salmon and the
little skeggers shoot in to rest in the
eddy when, ascending the 'stream,
wherenpoo they scoop them np in dip
nets. - Again, they construct a weir of
willo w-stakes nearly across the stream
at the shallows, leaving only a narrow
chute, wherein is set a funnel-shaped
trap of splints, with a funnel-shaped
entrance a) the large end. - The sal
mon easily shoots , into this,- but can
pot return. By aH these methods
they capture enormous quantity of
fish: ; William MoGarvey says he-has
often seen ; a ton of dried salmon
hanging in the smoky attic of a cabin.
There are two runs of salmon in
the Klamath; one in the spring and
ono in tho autumm ot which . the for
mer is' tho better, the fish being' then
smaller : and sweeter, v, The; Whites
along the river compel the Indians to
open their weirs a certain number , of
days ft weekj, during the spring run,
that they may participate it the cateh.
Quo-land Jlontldyjor June.
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CUPID'S I0I50S.
Thai racy correspondent of thti
CvniMtrrfal Adeerliaert Eli Perkins,
Writes as follows apropos of the ga
famine in New, York: Lost night I
went home from Dr. Ewer's with Ju
lia: I felt creat confidence in myself.
The darkness aavemeconlidence. Is
ai ways gi ves loVers confidence, ,Taer
were thirty-six dark gas burners, an l
one tallow candle one Eighth Ave'
nm tallow candle in bet lather's pa! -latiai
mansion. I took her hand Idid,
and I was about to say aomethlnLf
very confidential in the feeble candlo
light, when we heard Julia's coasiit
Mary in the back parlor with Charley
Brown. Charley was taking alvan'
t age of the darkness too.- We saw
their shadows on tho glass -door. I
heard him whisper: : . ,
" Mary, dear, I have something con
fidential to tell vou." -
"What is it, Charleyr she lisped ia
a sweet voice. ; "'" ' ,
Then we saw one arm oC bis shad
ow encircle her shadow, and some
body whispered: -t ; - -, .
UL think Mary I think that I1ot
your :
Then we beard a suppressed sigh.
-MAry,' continued th voice, "do
you love mc'r" r ; ... ' '
"Yes Charley, I do lova ,you,n, sho
sobbed. ;
"How mach?" 1 ,T
"More than words can express.' '
"I am very glad, Mary," continued,
the voice, "for I thought you wer
flirting." .
; "Well, Charley?"
But Cliarley never said another
word. Young fellows seldom get
lafeher than tb.s nowadays. , This is as
much as any reasonable young lady
ought to expect. . Now Charley is an
honorable, High Church fellow, aud
he has gotten so fir with three hun
dred aud eighty-six different yonng
ladies on Fifth Avenue. It is called
by the fellow s the sticking pointJ" ,
"Pshaw! Eli, yes," he replied, uther
are two other points still. We call
them tho 'awful oath dodge' -and tb
poverty ooilgeJ, by 1 v - come
these dodges over the Fifth Aveauo
girls more than twenty times." .
"What is the "awful oatli dodder '
l inqiHrcd au!rlo,lbtv
1 he 'awful oath dod is where
we get sweet on a girl; tell . her that
we love her, get her to say ye that
she loves us, then announce with tre
mendous solemnity that we are com
pelled to take an awful oath at the
bedside of our dying grandmother
not to marry until the age of ZQ. .Of
course the young lady can't wait so
Irwg as that, and we are oat of the
rcrape," .
"Well, what is the 'poverty dodge,'
and how do you do it?" I asked, still
opening my eyes at Charley's revela
tions1.' -
"Never tell, my boy?''
.-'Never!' .-
"Well, I always tell the girL. that I
love them." .
"Yes?"
"Ask them if they lov ma."
"Yes?:' ,
. "Then they sav yes.ri . ,
-And you' " -
"Why, then I sigh and say: Abut
darling, I do love you; but I love you
too much to ask yon to" marry. You,
Mary, are used to a life of luxury. ' I
am poor and proud. I would not ask
you to leave a home of comfort for a
home such as I could give you."
"Well, Charley, how does this gen
erally work?..;:-, i ; - v '
"Splendidly, - old , fellow! That's
what we Fifth Avenue fellows coll
the "poverty dodger the very lost
jumping-off place, yoa know."
A PBIXTEU'S PROVEC3S,
Never send thou an article for pub
lication without giving the editor thy
name, for thy name oftentimes secures
publication to worthless article.
Thou shonld'st not rap at the . door
of a printiiiGT office, for he that an-
swereth the rap sneerelh in his sleovw
aud loseth time. ; "
J Neither do thou loaf about, ask
questions, or knock down type, or the
boys Will love thee like they do shada
trees when thou leavest.- , s
; Thou shonld'st nevef read the copy
on the printer's case, or the sharp and
hooked container thereof, or he may
l. .1..... ,j ... - -
sttiovtw luco.uunu, . t , . . r ...
1 Never inquire thou of the editor
for the news, for behold it is his. busi
ness at the appointed time to g;Ta it
thee without asking. r
It is not right that thou 6hould'st
ask him who is the author, of an arti
cle, for his duty requireth him to keep
such things to himself. . ,
v W hen thon dost enter into nfs of
fiee take heetl unto thyself lhat thou
dost not look at what, may -be lying
open and concemeth thee not, for
that is not meet in the sight of good
breeding. - ' 1 1 -'. -
Neither examine ' thon tho proof
sheet,- for it is not ready to meet thina
eye that thott mayst understand. - -
iHemember that thy yarna boreth
much the man of quills,, and maketh.
him to wish thee in bell-Si e ' forever
and ever. ; .
j A little four-year old miss hearing
a nAntln fa n n rl ,'1 ". D , 1 cafr Kv4 v"nv V h'm
house as Joseph, eyed him" intently
for a while and thea 1 asked: "Was
yoa tbe Mr.' Joseph that wa3 sold' by
his brethren? ' , VXes," ; replied tha
gentleman, VI have been sold agreafc
many times, my dear." "Oh! I was
so sorry for youl" said the little kind
ly heart. . .' ., ' . ' . .
I An Irishman fell. fromthar third
story of a building in course of erec
tion A friend ran to him expecting
to find life extinct,' but ; instead tho
tougb Celt raised up scratching his
head and rubbing bis shoulders; Lis
friend asked, did your fall hurt you?"
when Pat replied - "no ye " t lasted
fool, Awaa the stopping 60 quick." '
A Texas editor contends thai Clark,
Inqa SkricfJ) to bxtf gift b&'steo "ta
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