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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. We
shall ' carry New Hampshire, Con-!
necticut, New York and New Jersey.
This is the extent of our work. in the
East. The rest will have to be done
in the South and West.
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