She Slcmoctat. FRIDAY. .AUGUST, 16 18?2. FOR PRESIDENT t HORACE GREELEY, OF NEW YORK. J"Oi? VICE PRESIDENT! B. GRATZ BROWN, OF MISSOURI. Prentdrntial Electors L. F. LANK, of Dongl county, GEO. K. HELM, of Linn county, X. II. GATES, of Wasco count. DEMOCRATIC STATE CEN'TUAL COM MITT EE. THE MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC Suite Central Committee or Oregon aro re quested U be present in person, or It proxy, at a meeting nf raid Committee to be belt! in the City ft, Portland on Monday. September 2nd. 1872. at 10 o'clock, a. a., at tho office of Judge Pago. Ejr order of the Chairman. J. A. CHAPMAN1. Portland, Aug. 10, 1S72. The following are the names of the gentle men composing the above Committee: Xamt. County. J. A. Chapman ..........Multnomah Ben. Haj mood. ....... .Jackson A xmn Rote ...... .. Dou gla W. II. Jackson ....Coot Win. Tichrnor -Curry A. L. Waldon Juo-phine J. C. Averv ...Her. ton . W. Gray Marion N. H. Crauor Linn F. A. Biley.. ...Washinctnn W. A. Miu.'ruve Columbia A. Vn Iar Clatsop Vic Trrvitt Wneo 11. C. Paige Umatilla A. C. Craig Union J. D. Hine Baker J. W. Baldwin Grunt II. X. V. Holme Plk J. H. Tpton -.Yamhill J. J. Wlton, jr . Lane IV. L. White Clackama W. II. Fauovtte .. Tillamook EEG02JCILIATI0N. Let reconciliation be the watch word of the campaign, were the noble words of Horace Greeley in acceptiug the nomination for the Presidency. Is this sentiment endorsed by the Northern people, who were victors in the bloody struggle between the late contending sections of oar couutry, is the question to be decided at the polls next November? The Southern peo ple gave an affirmative response to to the same inqury, when the intelli gent masses of the States South ac cepted Mr. Greeley as their candidate in the present political contest. It uow remains for the Northern peo ple to prove to the world the truth or falsity of tbeir oft-repeated declara tion that they fought for the perpetu ity of Republican freedom and not tor conquest and spoils. If the Ameri can people are what they claim to be, and what they once were, to doubt their decision of the question now of fered for their solution, is an insult to their intelligence and a base imputa tion against their National honor. The noblest impulses of the human heart and the Ioltiest aspirations of the soul prompt honorable men to mutual forgiveness of injuries, real or imaginary. '"Enemies iu war, in peace friends" were the words of the fath rs of the Republic when the immor tal Declaration was issued to the world. Have their children become so degenerate that they have forgot ten those glorious precepts ? Have revenge, avarice and sordid ambition for power stifled every remembrance of the past and hope for the future in the hearts of a majority of the- peo ple? We know there are many who, for a want of knowledge of the corruption among those who are con ducting public affairs, continue, by their action, to give an affirmative an swer. i For such there is a chance for reformation. But a majority of the leaders of the party in power act with a full knowledge of the conse quences which are certain to follow their continued control of the gov ernment. They are not ignorant of the lessons of history; they know that human liberty can pnly be strick en down where public virtue has been prostituted, and the love of freedom subordinated by lust for selfish ag grandizement and individual indul gence. And knowing this they labor lor its accomplishment. Men who profess to be christian teachers may be found in every community who will not dare to deny the profligacy of j President Grant and the officials with whom he has associated himself, yet who will apologize for their crimes by Baying that "all public men are more or less corrupted in morals by the possession of power." What a bowing down at the feet of Mammon; j what a compromise between right and wrong, liberty aud slavery, the devil and righteousness. And it is from this class of hypocrites and knaves we hear tho loudest clamor against 0 reconciliation and a return to peace .and good government. They cannot prosper where social and political .harmony hold sway. . Like noisome loads they fatten in the atmosphere of the dungeon and revel in the track of civil war where the widow and the fatherless cry to heaven for redress of wrongs long endured. No sound is so inspiring to their ears; no air so grateful to their lungs. . But the signs of promise are bright ening in the political heavens. The people are awakening from their dea;b-like stupor. . Hypocrites, plun derers and political harlequins have seen their day) while "The Blue and ft ray, in tense array, No local hales aUscVer; Strike bauds onee more from shore to shore. The North and Sooth forever." A movement is on foot in Washing ton Territory, among the Grantites, to crowd S. Garfield off-their ticket, as candidate for Delegate to Con- grew, and substitute that of O. Jacobs, i present Chief Justice. ' Garfield's ! defeat is certainly expected. 5 " '. J THE OTW YOBS 'mniAltD TELLS A PEW JFAOTS. The day after the election in North Carolina, when it was thought that the Democrats and Liberals had car ried the State, the New York Herald, a paper which does not support Greeley and Brown, contained the folowing remarkable acknowledg ment of facts: "It seems incredible that the ad ministration Republicans can have suffered defeat m a State where ev ery advantage has been on their side; where they have concentrated gigan tic efforts to insure sucess; where they have held majorities ever siuce the close of the war, with a single exception, varying from nine to twenty-three thousand. Indeed, the Republicans, by the vigor and bitterness of their canvass, have signified their conviction that a defeat in North Carolina at this time would render tbeir ultimato success hopeless. Senator 'Wilson himself has admitted iu his speeches that the election of the Republican State ticket was essential to the cause of President Grant; that without it there would be little hope for the ad ministration. Under these circum stances, and in view of the fact that the whole machinery of tho election, the entire federal and State patron age, the courts, the military, the po lice and the Uuited States marshals were in the hands of the Republi cans, we cannot think that the ad ministration has been overthrown. To credit such a calumity would be to believe that the Presidential elec tion is destined to be a deluge, sweeping away the existing powers and making a complete revolution in the government. If, however, the result should be as foreshadowed from the general tone of our dis patches, it will be due to the unfor tunate policy of the political imbe ciles who surround and control Pres iJent Grant; due to the refusal of the administration Republicans in Congress to allow the country to re turn to peace; due to their attempt to crush the white citizens of the Southern States under the heel of military power and negro rule; due to the incendiary appeals of Bout well and others to the passions of the negro race; due to the unfortunate foreign policy of Secretary Fish; due to the financial blunders of the Sec retary of the Treasury, who has forced our credit in Europe, depleted the country of gold, and kept up imaginary balances in the national Treasury by fictitious returns." We say these are remarkable ac knowledgments, coming as they do from a paper which bos never before failed to support the Grant adminis tration. Abe Herald never fails to follow the current of public opinion and its present tone shows conclu sively that it is preparing, like many other "independent journals," to 6pread its canvass to catch the popu Iar breeze. REPUBLICAN MUDDLE 13 LOUISI ANA The Republican State Conven tion of Louisiana met on the 12th instant. Gen. Hugh Campbell made a speech favoring an alliance with the Liberal Republicans, and an endorse ment of Greeley. The proposition was lost by a vote of 87 to 198, where upon Gen. Campbell, President of the Convention, together with eighty seven others withdrew. This is a fair illustration of the discord now prevailing in the Republican party throughout the country; yet with all these facts staring them in the face, Grant journals and speakers continue to cheer as lustily as though there were no portentious clouds darken ing their political horizon. The re sult of the late election in North Car olina, although showing a falling off of more than eight thousand votes from the Republican majority of one year ago, is made the cause of great rejoicing among the Grantites all over the country. If our political op ponents find it neeessary to make so much noise over electing their candi date for Governor in North Carolina at so fearful a cost while they lost the Legislature by an overwhelming ma jority at the same election, they are certainly driven to desperate meas ures in the vain endeavor to retrieve thier decaying prestige. The Statesman narrates a conver sation between A. B. Meacham and Col. Gates, the former Republican and the latter Democratic candidate for Presidential elector, in which the Col onel is reported to have declared in a very undignified manner, his dissatis faction with the nomination of Gree ley. Now, we have no doubt but Col. Gates would have pret'ered to have canvassed the State for a man who had always accorded with him in bis political views. But that he used the language imputed to him by the fellow Meacham, we deny. The Col onel is a man of honor and personal dignity, while Mr. Meacham is conce ded even by his friends, to be a vain, shallow lellow, with a far higher opin ion of himself than his friends have of him. The Statesman will have to bring in better testimony than that of the defunct Indian ' Superintendent, before its little tale is believed. Returning Home. Senator Kelly is expected to arrive at Portland in a day or two. He was at La Grande on the 10th. - PROSTITUTION OP THE WAS DE PARTMENT. If the honest people' of the country could be taught the .significance of items like the following, which are now being circulated by telegraph and by tho press, Grant would bo beaten in every State in tho Union. We copy from a dispatch dated Washington, August 12: The War Department has insuod regulations lor the discovery, Identi fication ond payment of claimants for pay, bounty, prizo money, etc., to col ored soldiers, sailors, marines, or other representatives now residing, or who may have resided in any State whore slavery existed iu tho year 18G0. A chief disbursing olUce will be estab lished in the Adjutant-General's office at Washington, with disbursing offi cers at Louisville, St. Louis, Nash ville, Memphis, Vicksbnrg, Natchez, and New Orleans. Payments to claimants in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia will bo made through the Washington office. In North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and in whatever States slavery did exist, payments will be made by officers who will .be tempo rarialy appointed, and in all other States through disbursing offices here inbefore enumerated. To the causual reader nothing ap pears wrong in this regulation, issued by (tho War Department, yet it is a piece of rascality which should bring upon its originators the indignation of an outraged people. It is simply an effort on tbe parijof Grant to purchase the negro vote. "Colored soldiers, sailors rnd marines and other repre sentatives now residing, or who may have resided in any of the States where slavery existed in tho year 1SC0, are to be discovered and identi fied and payment made of bounty, prize money, etc" What tender so licitude for the negro, now that ho is armed with the ballot. Disbursing offices are to be established, through out the South, and "officer, tenijwrari ly appointed" to bunt up colored men who have claims against the Gov ernment Why was this not thought of sooner? 1 1 the coming election anything to do with this action of the War Department ? There is not a man outside of the insane asylum who has not intelligence enough to under stand tie meaning of this order. It means. i0 purchase of the negro vote, where purchase can be made ami the intimidation of thoso who are un purchaseable It means tho over riding of the voice of the pcop'e by a venal Administration and if endorsed by tho re-election of Graut, it means the death of republican liberty, and the utter debasement of the American people. WHAT THE PEOPLE DEMAND. 1 1 j The Cincinnati jL'nquirer has a clear conception of what tho people mean by turning their backs on the dead past and supporting Greeley without regard to past political preference or prejudice. Speaking of the great up rising of the masses, that paper nays: " It is the protest and rebellion of the cultivated classes of the country against longer being ruled by a coarse, ignorant, and brutal soldier. They demand that we shall have in the Presidential chair a scholar and a gen tleman a man of thought and ideas, which he can express in good English, either by the pen or upon the hust ings. It is really scandalous that the brains of this country should so long have submitted to the domination of such mediocrity as is manifest in Grant. Great Britain has the scholarly Glad stone at tbe head of her affairs; France has the veteran historian Thiers, and Germany has the able and accomplish ed Bisniark. We, in the United States, have Grant, who, in a Presi dential message makes a mistake as to the geograr hical identity of San Do mingo; who don't know that Brook lyn is on Long Island, and who boast ed to Frank Blair that he never read a book in his life. This is the kind of a man that the intelligence of the United States has had for the last four years as its ruler. It is no won der that there is a revolt against it!" Elsewhebe in this paper we men tion a report given in the States man, upon the authority of one A. B. Meachem, stating that Col. II. N. Gates, Democratic Presidential Elec tor, had declined to canvass for Gree ley and Brown, and had expressed himself in relation thereto in very rough and undignified language. We denied the report given by Meachem simply upon our knowledge of, the gentlemanly character of Col. Gates. Since referring to the matter in the item alluded to we have been shown a letter from the Colonel, in which he gives an emphatic denial to Meach em's statement. Meachem called up on Col. Gates at the Dalles, and said in consequence of recent family af flictions he did not wish to go into the canvass at all. If, however, he made any speeches he wished to make them in the Willamette Valley and not in Eastern Oregon. The Colonel expressed sympathy with Meachem in his afflictions and stated that he would be ready to commence the can vass about the 20th' of October. Meachem'a troubles seem not to have prevented him from indulging in his well-known weakness of distorting facts. The Chicago Journal wants to know, "Shall we have a drunkard for Vice President?" No, dear Journal, we've had one of that class for Presi dent long enough, and the people don't like if , POLITICAL GOSSIP. Greeley's what's the matter. - The Portland Bulletin is trimming. Ward Greeley Clubs are being or ganized in Portland. Grant wears a Greeley hat. Ho does not wear a Greeley hond. Dr. Biddlc, of Corvallis, an old lino Republican, is for Grcoley. Senator Doolittlu, of Wisconsin, will visit California and Oregon in October. "Taking it for Grant-cd" probably grew out of Grant's disposition to take things. Senator Wilson said at Long Branch that the political horizon looked "alarmingly blue." 1 The Salem Greeley Club met last Wednesday. Several now names were added to tho roll. John A. Bingham has been dclcat ed for re-nomination in the Sixteenth Congressional District, of Ohio. Senator Cameron says it will take a great deal of money aud hard work to carry Pennsylvania for Grant. Prominent Radical officials at Washington concede Pennsylvania to the Democracy by 10,000 to 15,000. "Colfax's health will not permit him to tako the stump." A good many Republicans aro similarly situ ated. Senator Kelly is expected home in a few days. Ho has declared his in tention to stump tho Stale for Greeley and Brown. Seventeen Grautitcs will present their claims to a seat in the U. S. Sen ate to tho Radical caucus at Salem next mouth. The Tribune and World have "sha ken hands across the bloody chasm" and are now pulling together like an old and tried team. The Grant party is terribly demor alized in Pennsylvania. Two electors havo withdrawn from the ticket, and will support Greeley. A "German Republican" writes to tho New York Tribune that Grant will not receive five hundred German votes in Philadelphia. Even Grant himself, the sporting character who resides at Long Branch and wants to be President again, won't bet on his re-election. The Dallas Jlrpublican, while fly ing the names of Grant and Wilson, said "some bcliovo Oregon will go for Greeley." Wo should rather think so. The New Orleans Picayune, which could not abide Greeley, and suggest ed Mr. Bryant for the Presidency, has gone at last with the tido for Greeley and Brown. W. N. Saunders, tho colored elec tor, who came out for Greeley, pub lishes a card ofTcring to meet any colored orator on the stump iu New York or t-lscwhere. An Illiuois letter to tho Hartford Times says: "I have yet to ce the first German in Illinois that is for Grant, and I have seen and conversed with thousands of them." "Our model Prcsidtnt" lets no op portunity slip to put a little money in his purse. It is stated on reliable authority that he . made on the last races at Long Branch $20,000. Andy Johnson says of the Cincin nati movement: The politicians have nothing to do with this; the people have wrested it from their hands, and when they move it is irresistible The Buffalo Courier offers a reward for any "well authenticated case of enthusiasm for Grant," outside of office-holding circles. The Courier is safe enough on that proposition. . The Hon. Galusha A. Grow. writes from Texas that that State will give Greeley 50,0C'0 majority. He will 6tump tho northern counties of Penn sylvania for Greeley in Septempcr. When Mr. Liccoln first became President there were thirty-one Re publicans in the United States Senate. Of these Senators six are dead, thir teen are for Grant and ten are for Greeley. The Radicals aro now claiming that Grant is a self-made man. The matter is not denied on our part. One would naturally suppose he was a self-made man. The job asserts its authorship. It is such a fearfully bad one. Tho Hartford (Ct.) Courant, a Grant organ, needs calling to order. It says: "We do not for a moment con ceal for ourselves , the danger that Greeley will be elected. The Demo cratic party is now united on him without reserve." A man was passing himself off for Grant on a Long Branch steamer with a Radical excursion party on board, a few days ago, and the crowd were disposed to doubt him at first, but after they found out that he was both 6hallow-minded and drunk, their doubts were dispelled, and they im mediately took him home to their hearts. i Hon. E. F. Colby . returned last week from a protracted visit to the Eastern States. He was a delegate from Oregon to the Baltimore Con vention, and cast his vote for Greeley and Brown. He statei us that the country wherever he has been is in a blaze of excitement for Greeley and Brown, and that their election is be yond peradventure. , The Jacksonville Times Ioses an able article on the signs of the times thus : "Stand to your guns, laborers and citizens; .when Greeley is elected, as he certainly will, be intellect will again assume some power in our land. .1. - I... -11! M. 1- I. -ll . V - 1 me iuveuigviit lauurer win not e de prived of justice, and ho . will foster an immigration of free men from the Eftstv who will eagerly join hands with us to develop our resources, and to shout aud fight the battles of free men over the beautiful vallies and hills of the Pacifio Coast. Tho Administration managers have reliefs of department clerks at work ransacking old Tribune files to iiud all the bard things Mr. Greeley has said about tho Democracy. It may be pleasing to reflect that at tho time Mr. Greeley was leveling his heaviest blows at the democracy, the party was afflicted with Grant, Butler, Chan dler and Johu Logan. , "How can you support Horace Greeley, the life-long opponent of the Democratic party?" was the ques tion propouuded to a Democratic voter by a supporter of the great nepotist. The Democrat replied: "Do you consider Greeley honest?" "Oh, yes," answered the other. "Do you regard hint as capable?" "Cer tainly," answered the Grant man. "Well, then, said tho Dernoratio sup porter of Horace, "If you could vote iu 1808 for a drunken and incompe tent Democrat, I think I can vote in 1872 for a sober, honest and capable Republican." Tho Grant mau sub sided. Attouney Gen. Williams' Opin ion. Tho Woshington correspond ent of tbe Cincinnati Commercial in terviewed Ex-Senator Williams on the political situation just prior to the North Carolina election, and slates that " as to his opinion on the result of the coming Presidential flection, he is in grave doubt. He is not by any means sure that Grant will be elected, and says at this date that no body can presume to judge of the result. He says it is a subject which tho future can alone disclose. He is one who believes that more depend upon the result iu North Carolina next Thursday than anything else. If the Grant party are beaten, then tho result will seem largi-ly in favor of Greeley; but that if Grant's peo ple carry tho State, they will succeed in November. He thinks, also, that if Graut, on Thursday, carries North Carolina, and the Liberals carry Penn sylvania and Indiana in October, Greelty will be elected." Gbant organs have been publish ing a statement charging Horace Greeley with the henious crime of at tending church, recently in company with Geo. N. Saunders. One of the editors of the New York Tribune had the curiosity to ak Mr. Greeley as to tho truth or falsity of the story, whereupon he promptly responded that, while he should gladly welcome Mr. Sanndcrs or any other acqnain tanco to worship in Dr. Chapin's meeting house, yet, from tho creation of the world to the 22d of July, 1S72, it had never been his fortune to sec Geo. N. Saunders in any church, chap el, or conventicle whatever. Refebuiso to the approaching Senatorial election, tho Oregonian says: " Let each member frecley ex press his preference in caucus, accord ing to party usage, and then let all abide by the result, supporting tbe candidate who receives a majority. This is the usual course, and adherence to it is the safe way." In regard to the "safe way" suggested by the Ore gonian, we refer that paper to A. C. Gihbs. His experience would be rather interesting reading to the half score of Radical aspirants now on the tapis. Decapitated. Dr. J. R. Bayley, of Corvallis, who has been holding the position of Superintendent of In ternal Revenue, for Oregon, Wosh ington and Idaho, last week received notice that his official head had just dropped into tho basket. Tho posi tion he has held is a sinecure, the only duty required of him being to draw his regular $2,500 salary. Whether the office is abolished, as it should be, or some other man has been appointed to make a stake off of tho National Treasury, wo are not yet advised. As Goes Master so Goes Mas. The subsidized lackeys of Grant are proclaiming loudly to the people that the "moneyed men" are all goin for the gift-taker. Those fellows have been so long accustomed to do the bidding of their masters that they ev idently forget that other people think for themselves and do not look to men for advice simply because they control a few paltry dollars more than the average of mankind. The most brazen exhibition of cheek to be met with any where this side of the brimstone regions, is now witnessed in tho small spawn of Fed eral officials, who charge every sup porter of Greeley, with being an. office-seeker. What immaculate crea tures they are, to be sure. They never sought office -nary. Not long 6ince the Oregonian gave notice that Joaquin Miller would soon publish a poem inscribed to "our trusted leader," U. S. Grant. It turns out that Joaquin supports Greeley. So it seems the child was named rath er prematurely. ' THE,Orogon and .California Rail road Company pass members of the Methodist conference over the line at reduced rates. A little reduction on the freight charges on wheat would bfi morfi nnfipntnhlft to the Deonle of J Oregon. : - PACIFIC CJAST1I9. Harvest is about over in Southern Oregon. Roseburg boys aro organizing d brass band. ' The whistle of tho locomotive can be beard at Roseburg. Judge O. N. Deny, of Portland, ban been quite sick for a week past. In Boise City there are two hun dred and thirty-five school children. Tbe State Teachers Institutes is in session at Eugene City this week. R. C. Kinney & Co., of the Salem Mills, give 70 ctu. per bushel for old wheat. The first number of the Roseburg Pantograph is at hand. It is neatly got up. A man named A. L. Alexander died of mania a polu at Portland last Saturday. In Klamath Valley tho crop of crickets is getting the better of wheat and grass. M. II. Abbott, lato of tho Bedrock Democrat, has located on a ranch on Powder River. The First Presbyterian Church at Salem has been furnished with a splendid organ. It is expected that the railroad will be finished to the Sound by the last of September. The Indians of Utah are on the war path. Two hearders were shot at San Pitco, recently. A Polk county farmer caught a young water melon thief in a steel trap one day last week. The people of Oregon City are considering the project of bridging tbe Willamette at that place. The farmers of Polk county are annoyed by bugs in their cabbage. They call them tbe Grant bug. The Chemeketa Hotel, at Salem, bos been leased and will bo opened before tbe Legislature convenes. The large Agricultural Works in course of construction at Salem have been completed to the third story. . The Odd Fellows of Jacksonville will celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Lodge at that place on the 19th. Burglars entered the Post Office at Oregon City one night last week and robbed the establishment of $1000. Portland had a fire last week. One wooden building was destroyed and a whole block imperiled. Dam age light. J. M. Murphy, formerly on the Portland Herald editorial staff, in getting up a history of Washington Territory. More than two thousand laborers are now at work on the Northern Pacific Railroad between Kalama and Olympia. A California paper says Geo. L. Woods is the deadest man in Utah. George is not only dead but stinketh in Oregon. j Sixty thousand dollars has been subscribed toward the construction of a bridge across the Willamette at Portland. Fires are raging along tbe stage road near canyonville. Much labor is required to keep the road in pass able condition. A man named Thomas Stephenson fell from tbe second story of a buil ding in Portland last Saturday and was severely injured. George Francis Train is in Cali fornia. He thinks bis chances good for tbe Presidency after the expira-' tion of Greeley's term. A man named Brady has been ar rested and held to answer on the charge of being concerned in the Oregon City post office robbery. The name of the West Side news paper published at McMinnville has been changed to the Yamhill Reporter. George W. Snyder is publisher. Charles Reobuck, convictid of per jury in the circuit court for Multno mah county, was last week sentenced to three years in the Penitentiary. The bark Manila was seized by Collector Hinman at Astoria a few days ago on the charge of carrying more passengers that allowed by law. A man named W. F. Mansfield, white laboring under the effect of strong drink, attempted suicide by taking laudanum at Salem last Mon day. Miss. Anna Pentland, formerly of this city, and now resident of the Dalles, was married on the 7th. inst. to Mr. Samuel L. Brooks, also of Dalles city. "Curt" Whitson, Geo. H. Will iams Associate Judge of Idauo, is exercising his ponderous intellect lecturinsr before sewinjr societies in that Territory. One hundred and nity dollars in coir, were collected from the citizens of Eugene, last Salurday, for the benefit of a family lately afflicted with small-pox. Charles Geroy, was convicted of highway robbery at tho special term of the Circuit Court in . Yamhill last week and sentenced to'four years in the Penitentiary. Stocks of Puget sound lumber in San Francisco are much broken and prices: tend upward. Prices of rough are $17 to $18 per thousand; dressed, $25 to $27. by the cargo. The value of exports from Puget Sound for July was $84,259, of which $31,095, went to South America, $3,510 i to China, :i and $49,654 to Brittish Columbia and the Dominion Track Jay ing on the Northern Pa cific Railroad is again resummed. Forty miles of road will be complet- ed by the 1st of October. The bark Zouave, from New York, is now due at Kalama, with l,C0O tons of rails. Work proceeds rapidly in the ma chine and car shops at Kalama. v- The hew Baptist Church in course of erection at Olympia, when finish ed, will be the finest church edifice on the Sound. It will be dedicated on the second Sunday in September. A man named Joe Brannan threw himself into a burning brush 'heap and was burned to death while la boring under an attack of delirium tremens in Washington Territory re cently. John Merritt gives notice through the columns of the Herald that he is not the "John Merrill" who attempt ed suicide last week, nor has he any design to snuff his light out at any period near or remote. Sensible John Merrill. A Seattle paper say s : Joh n Fan st, a farmer on the Snohomish river, two weeks ago was hoisting hay into his barn, when the beam to which the tackle was attached came down, striking him on tho head. A wife and children mourn his loss." R. II. Tyson, formerly of the Dallas Republican, has purchased the Enxign material and will commence the pub lication of a paper at Roseburg en titled the Pantograph. The new pa per will "pant" for the re-election of bis Royal Highness of Long Branch. A gravel train collided with a hand car on the railroad in Pass Creek canyon on last Monday. There were five men on the hand car at the time of the accident; four sprang to the ground and were thus saved. The fifth a Russian, named Henry Otto, seemed stupificd with fright and re mained on the car until it was struck by the locomotive. He was instantly killed, his body being thrown many feet from the road. The Statesman learns that Presi dent Catch, of Willamette Universi ty, and "numerous others" have sent a petition to Washington asking that that institution be designated as one of tbe Colleges entitled to a Military Professorship, under the act of Congress of July, 18C5. It is therefore quite probable that those who are partial to a mixed dose of gospel and guopowder can soon be accomodated at Willamette Univer sity. The La Grande paper says: "It is reported that David Henry one of the financially heavy men of this valley is reported to have been killed by the Indians somewhere be tween Douse and salt lake, wnue in charge of a band of Texan cattle. The report is believed by his most intimate friends, but from whence tbe report emanated we could not learn. John Creighton and young Tom Baird were in company with him." From the La Grande Sentinel: "Last Saturday a little child, aged eighteen months, of Mr Christison, living near Summerville, drank a small quantity of diluted concentra ted lye from a vessel sitting on the edge of a cook stove. The mother bad prepared some for use, and the child drank it while her back was turned. At last accounts the child was at the point of death, and prob ably by this time its death has oc curred. Another warning." From the Walla Walla Statesman: "At about 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon a whirlwind of more than usual violence passed over a portion of the town, carrying clouds of dust and pieces of paper and rubbish over everybody. The column of air in its wild gyrations was seen for many minutes before it reached Main street, and at first looked like the smoke of an immense conflagration. Later in the day auother whirlwind, of a similar character, passed over the eastern portion of the town and caused many to think of the tornado a year ago." NEWS OFTHE WEEK. ' Gleaned From the Telegraph. Friday, Angast 9. Putt, Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labor Reform party, has issued a circular by direction of the Executive Com mittee. re-assembling the Columbus Convention on the 31st of August. Official returns from all the wes tern counties in North Carolina, have been received except Ashe and Yan cey. Caldwell is elected by about one thousand majority. Democrats claim that there have been frauds committed, and it is thought that the election will be contested. Ihe Re publicans hold a jubilee to-morrow night. , The Times Raleigh, N. C, special to-night says returns from , eleven of tbe thirteen counties heretofore un heard from, give Caldwell a net gain of forty-seven. Only two counties remain to hear from. - Caldwell's majority is over two thousand. The Legislature (all but two counties) stands Senate, 31 Democrats and 19 Republicans; House, 63 Democrats and 57 Republicans. In accordance with the letter of Gerritt Smith to the President ask ing the release of Ku Klux prisoners now confined in the Albany peniten tiary, the General to whom the President referred the letter, has requested Col. Whitley, Chief of the Government Detective Corps, to visit the institution where the . prisoners are confined, make a complete inves tigation of their condition and report all the facts to the Department. j V Saturday, August 10. . ; Greeley arrived at Hartford, Con necticut, at nine o clock, and was received at the depot by the Mayor of the city, a committee and del e gation, who escorted him to the State house, where a short reception, was heard. M. W. Tappan made a wel coming j speech. . Greeley T .bfiefijr replied and was . then escorted to the Phoenix Hotel, where he dined, and afterwards held a reception. He. proceeded to Bradlord this after noon, were he will remain overnight. The four mile race was won by Susan Ann in 7:40i; Littleton, sec ond; Milesian, third. The, start was effected at the first attempt, the horses getting away in a bunch, .Lit tleton leading on passing the stand. At tVa tum-mil Knaan Ann vn.a in the lead, closely attended by Little and and Milesian, Kingfisher broke down at the two-mile and a half post The race was very close for the re mainder of the distance between the other three. ,The finish was very exciting. ' ' J. V. Forney is- announced to leave for the Pacific coast, to be absent two months, Sunday, August XX. General McClellan, with General Marcy and a party of friends, left last night on a trip to Utah and California. The Lvqmtch says that since the letter of Gerritt Smith in, terceeding for imprisoned Ku Klux at Albany, similar recommendations have been received from influential Republicans. The report of Colonel Whitley, chief of the secret service, who has been directed by the President to investi gate cases, is to be the basis of the President's action, who has already intimated his willingness to comply with the suggestion made. The new French Minister was yes terday seeking accommodations for tbe legation. It is the intention of the French Government to be rep resented on a scale somewhat in ad vance of what has heretofore pre vailed. W. W. Corcoran Las sold his conn try seat at Harvard, and donates the proceeds, $223,000, to the Gallery of Art, which he has already donated to the City of Washington. Tuesday, August 13. Sumner's letter to White, one of the San Domingo Commissioners, expresses surprise at the latter statements and misrepresentations lespecting Douglas. Sumner reiter ates that Douglas was excluded from the common table on the mail packet, and omitted by the President from invitation to the dinner to the Com missioners. Ex-President Johnson made a po litical speech lakt evening. He said he was not a candidate for any office, and severely criticised the adminis tration of Grant. The re-election of Grant be said would be a great na tional disaster. He accepted Gree ley on the principle of universal pressure of circumstances beyond human control, which has limited the choice to two men. Patriots cannot hesitate to support Greeley. He pleaded for a return to tbe an cient reverence for tbe Constitution and strict official obligations. Tbe official report of the assault of United States Consul Butler npon Major Campbell in Alexandria, Egypt, by Gen. Loring, who was present, shows that it waa undoubt edly a premeditated attempt of But ler and Wadleigh to murder Camp bell while at the office of the Chief of Police giving testimony and del manding the arrest of WadleigbV1 tbe latter attempted to draw a revol ver and shoot General Lonng, and was only prevented from so doing by the police. Wednesday, Align st 14. A Geneva letter says the American , claims for damages bv privateers sum up about $7,000,000. The English papers in the case, however, fixed the damages at $3,0000,000 which, it is contended, is all that should be paid, if indeed any guilt is to be laid to England at all. A Times Madrid special says that King Auiadeus is reported to have signed a decree providing for the gradual abolition of slavery in Cuba and Porto Rico. The document which he signed is simply a code of rules providing for the enforcement of a law passed by the Coites in 1869, providing for the emancipation of slaves in Spanish colonies.. A Washington correspondent tele graphs a conversation with Fred Douglas on the alleged "slight. as published by Sumner, in regard to the President not inviting him (Doug lass) to dine with the other San Do mingo Commissioners at the White House. Douglas acquits the Presi dent of all intentional neglect, and says he thinks it was mere thought- -lessness that he was notinvited. He admits that he expressed regret to Sumner st not being invited, but does not believe he said he felt it keenly, as Sumner, alleges. He thinks that, so long as he has no fault to find with the President, neither Sumner nor any one else need. Thursday, July 15. It is stated that General Hillyer announces his determination to ac- cept the wager of $10,000 offered in the Daily Kews, that Greeley will be elected. The Democratic State Central Com mittee of New York to-day re-, solved to hold a Convention at, Syra cuse, September 4th. Gen. Coch rane and Alfred Wilkinson, Chairman and Secretary of the Liberal Repub lican State Committee, present, con curred in the time and place as above , for their State Convention.' 1 - A Traveler special says that Gree ley has written the following letter to one of his friends: Deae Jcdge Yours of the 3d finds' me here. The news - from North Carolina did hot justify the first re ports; but if we work well I an' sure' we will carry it in November. 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