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She gcwocrat. PRTDAY......-FERRCARY" 1,1873. '.. i ' . THE SUFFRAGISTS CONVENTION. Tho Women Suffragists held a two day's Convention at Portland last week, which was welt attended by twenty-three women and eleven men. Of course Sister Duniway wo the 'Light of the Haram" (we should say. Convention!) and Gen. C. A. Reed, of Salem, waa the star rooster of the malo persuasion. They passed a series of resolutions about thj length of the famous ''Equitable Adjustment"' platform of 1870, in which they en endorsed the 14th and 15th Amend ments ; held the Radical party to their promises of last year in relation to giving the woman the ballot and a pari of the fat offices ; declared that all men and women are created equal, and that Susan B. Anthony did right in voting in defiance of a law to the contrary; offered the women suffrag ists' hearts and hands in marriage with the Temperance Alliance, (which we hope, for the sake of the reputation of the gallantry of the men will not be rejected but that they will be passion ately and spasmodically pressed to their heavin bosoms;) and urged everybody to patronize Mrs. Duni way's excellent paper, the 2Teu Xorth west. Tho Convention was harmoni ous and unanimous, especially in taking up collections from the curious who happened to drop in during its sittings. Just what it accomplished we have not yet been able to discov er, but as "a little leaven leavencth the whole lump" it may in time de velop astounding results. TVHO SO ALL BE TOE JUDGES A dispatch from New Orleans, dated Feb. 13, 6ays: At a meeting of the members of Loth 'Legislatures it was agreed to or ganize an Assembly from the mem bers returned by both Boards, pro viiiinsr it should prove acceptable to the National Administration. Think of that! A Legislature, elected by the voters ot Louisiana, wait'ng to hear from the Government at Washington before they are satis fled who are the qualified memlers ! They will organize provided it prove acceptable to the National Ad ministration f Shades of Jefferson and Jackson defend Can it be be that it is necessary to ask for the approval of the President before a State Legislature can organize for business? How is it that the General Government is made the judge of the qualifications of members of a Slate Legislative body ? It remains for the present Radical ' Administration to 6olve this problem. Ordinarily a State Board of canvassers would be the judge of the qualifications of the State officers and a county board of canvassers of the qualifications of mem bers of the Legislature. But now it wcins that the Government at Wash ington must decide who are entitled to seats in a Slate Legislature! In deed it seems that Slates have no fur ther voice in the matter of tho quali fications of the election of their offi cers. thieves likely to come to chief. A Washington dispatch nnder date of the 14th instant states positively that the report ot Poland's Mobilier Committee will recommend the ex pulsion of Ames and Brooks and se verely censure other implicated . Con gressmen, with a probability of an im peachment of Colfax. Ames is said to be incredulous us to the truth of this rumor. He says that if they at tempt to erpel him he will die hard ; that it will take the whole House to kill him;, that if this expulsion occurs what wjll it show ? No man mast hereafter tell the truth about Con gressmen. Then how are the world aad people to regard it?" Ixdicted. Last Friday the Grand J tiry of Jackson county indicted Scar face Charley, Hooker Jim, Long Jim, One-eyed Moz, Old Doctor Hum phrey, Little Jim, Boston Charley and Dave, belonging to Capt. Jack's band of Modoc Indians, for murder in the first degree. Mrs. Brotherton and son, survivors of the Brotherton family, swore positively to these Indi ans as the band who massacred the -settlers on Lost River in December last. It is not yet understood what steps will be taken by the Sheriff to make the arrests, bat it is probable that action will be deferred until after the meeting of the Peace. Commis sion. Congressman Slater has. intro duced a bill in Congress providing for the annexation of Walla Walla coun ty, Washington Territory, to the State of Oregon. As Walla Walla county is the only part of that Territory ly ing on tho east (Oregon) side of the Columbia river,-we think its annexa tion to our Slate would be eminently proper. The Columbia river is the natural dividing line between Oregon and. Wabhintiton. , The Herald and Oregonian both alluded in high praise to the able let ter of Mr. Philip Lowe, published in the Democrat last week. The Bul letin speaks very derisively of the po sition taken bv Mr. Lowe.' All this j very plain.. The Herald and Ore gonian are not owned by the propri tor of a railroad. The Bulletin is. Lut oppresed farmers draw their own - cnenBions. . '- TUB BULLETIN AM UK. LOWE'S) LET Tho able and interesting letter oi Mr. Philip Lowe, which we published last wccV, has been extensively copied by tha Oregon press. 1 With a single exception the papers have given- Mr. Lowe'j views their hearty endorse ment. It is scarcely necessary to state that tho Bulletin is the excep tion. That paper writhes like a wounded V serpent nnder tho rays of truth which Mr. Lowe's letter sheds upon tho ' railroad despotism of which tho Bulletin is defender and apologist. Not content with produc ing a fearful array of.fjgnrcs in its ef fort to refute the statements made by Mr. Lowe, the Bulletin indulges in sarcasm by expressing astonishment that Captain Hustler, Cot Taylor and others, cited as authority to show that wheat can bo shipped in bulk without packing, ' have never engaged in a traffic they appear to know so much about." Now, wo submit that Mr. Lowe could retort by expressing wonder that tho editor of the Bulletin did not learn the blacksmith's trade, for which his physical proportions em inently qualify him, instead of wast ing his energies in quill-driving. Such a retort would prove nothing, yet it would at least be up to the mental standard of the Bulletin's strictures. It is useless, for tho railroad organ to attempt to reconcile the farmers of Oregon to being longer fleeced by railroad and steamship monopolies. The brazen impudence and barefaced dishonesty which characterized those who engaged in the plots which rob bed tho farmers of their last year's crop will not be soon forgotten There is a deep conviction in the minds of honest men, in Oregon as well as in California, that there exists a corrupt collusion, of gigantic pro portions, among transportation com panies and speculators throughout the coast, whoso object it is to so trammel tho farmers as to compel them to continue to submit to the im position of last year. And this convic tion is strengthened wlrcn journals known to be owned and controlled by railroad incorporations exhibit so much sensitiveness on the subject. The Bulletin will, in due time, find that the monopoly whose interests it is so ready to defend has lost its power to dictate terms to the farmers of Or ejjon. The faction which adheres to Mr. Ilolladay, regardless of the inter ests of the masses, may continue to control the Republican party but it cannot longer force the people to la bor for its exclusive benefit. SENSATION AT WASHINGTON. The Credit Mobilier TriScvr Impr.lr! Oakn A nrt, ' the Slauacbmtett Can- Cmunan, fexpeiled. A Washington dispatch, dated last Wednesday, says: "Washington has not tnrned out this session so large n crowd as filled every nook and gallery of the House to-day and flowed out into the spacious corriders beyond. People were present from all parts of the country applying for admission, but the vast rotunda could not hold them. It was expected that a fierce debate would be inaugurated upon the reading of the report of the commit tee on the Credit Mobilier investiga tion, and that several Congressmen would be expelled. The reading of the committee's report wrought up the excitement and interest to the highest pitch. The venerable member from Vermont (Jndge Pollard) arose amid great silence and submitted the report. He did not propose that it should be even read. 'Let it be read, Let it be read," came from all parts of the House. The Ilonse was not to be deprived of the sensation, and the Clerk commenced to read the report. Every inculpated member sat quietly in his seat. As the reading went on hardly one betrayed any new anxiety. Brooks, of New York, however, was the very picture of mental and physi cal suffering ; his face was ghastly pale. All others, save Garfield, had a sullen look that did not pass away till the weight was lifted and the commit tee had . declared that they did not propose to censure them. They then assumed an easy air. Oakes Ames sat beside Job Steyensen, on the near est seat to the Clerk's -desk, with his face as frigid as ever till the Clerk read a portion where he was spoken of as selling and buying votes. He then turned np his . bushy head and gave a decided grin, but soon screwed down his face into inflexible wrinkles again, and received his sentence stolid ly enough. , He hardly winced as the Clerk read : 'Resolved, That Oakes Ames be, and he is hereby, expelled as a mem ber of this House.' " UXAXIMOCS ENDORSEMENT. It is gratifying to note that the newspapers of Oregon, without a single exception, heartily endorse Gov. Grover's gritty letter to the Peace Commission. There is really more of the Jacksoni an metal in that letter than in any document which has emenated from a public official 6ince the beginning of the late war. , - Secretary Pish gives out that the U. S. Government is not cariDg a continental about annexing the Sand wich Islands. Fish must take tho rest of ike world for "sardines." ;', The New Hampshire .. election transpires on ;. Tuesday, Mareh 11. Jas. A. Waston is tho Democratic I nominee for Governor. BOUT THEY WILL OIlOAXZZH. " Editor Democrat: A telegram " from, New Orleans; of the 15th inst., . tinder tho ; caption, ' Agreed to Organize,'? says: . "At a meeting of the members of both Leg islatures, it was agreed to organize an Assembly from the members' returned by both Boards providing it should prove acceptable to the National Ad ministration." Tho italics nre mine; and it is to that provisio I would call the attention of tho reader, and in quire, in what Article and Section of our federal Constitution' docs it ap pear that a State Legislature must bo composed of such members as "prove acceptable to the yalional AdminU ministration?' "I admit that the present Administration has on several occasions exercised the power to se cure the election of such members to State Legislatures as " would prove acceptable to it;n but this does not answer my inquiry where tho au- thority tor tho exercise of such power? Before we had a Federal Constitu tion or oven a Federal Union tho peo plo of the several States elected such members to their respective Legisla tures as would provo acceptable to them. And in tho exorcise of this soverign right of each State, acting for itself, our Federal Union was con summatcd, and in duo time our Con slitution was framod and adopted all by act of the States as soverign bodies politic, tho Federal Government be ing the creatnro of the States com prising the Union. And from the foundation of on: government to the accession to power of tho Republican party, tho people of tho several States guarded with jealous care all powers not specifically granted to tho Feder al Government in the Constitution. It is now diflicu't to imagine the do irree of coutempt with which the masses of tho people would, fifteen years ago, havo regarded a body of men claiming to be members of a State Legislature who would havo passed such a resolution as tho ono in dicated in the telegram referred, to; and more diilicult bliil to imagine the degree of indignation and alarm with which the people would havo regard ed the Administration had it even looked complacently upon such a pro- ceeding. Blve Mountain. IIONOilAIiLi: NlGGtU-S." With all our Democracy ir. the country, we cling to many of the hab its, actual as well at menial, ot Euro pean monarchy. Thus, we have our esquire, reverends and honorable by tho bushel all around us. The great problem of Democracy is now on trial more than even in 177C, and though there is some danger that tho bottom will be knocked out, and our people, collapsing into Mongrelism as the Spaniards havo done in Mexico and Soutli America, will finally go back.to the European system of kings as the only escape from anarchy, we have en tire faith in tho virtue and sense of the masses, and slonghing off the 6;ns and crimes of Lincoln, Grant & Co., regime, they will restore the govern ment of tho Constitution in all its benificence, grandeur and glory. And in the hour of returninir reason, virtue and decency, we shall get rid of many f the monarchical absurdities that still cling to us. For instance, the term honorable, often given -to the meanest men possible, even to Vice President Henry Wilson, beyond doubt the meanest white man on the Continent. It is now quite extensive ly applied to negroes, mulattoes, sam bos, &c-, and will bo run into the ground, of course. Indeed, we see in the fashionable arrivals at the St. James, in this city, two " honorable cuffees" from South Carolina gravely registered with names of Senator Stockton and other honorable (?) gen tlemen ! Xew York Tay Boole. Counted Out. In counting the electoral votes last week Congress ex cluded the votes of Louisiana and Ar kansas. Does any one suppose that those votes would have been excluded if they had been needed to elect Grant? And by what right are the votes of two States excluded from participation in the election of a Pres ident ? " Are Louisiana and Arkansas to be. disfranchised because, forsooth, a lot of carpet-baggers, liars and thieves attempt to divert the electoral votes of those States into a channel which the citizens never intended they should go? It was well known by Congress that a majority of the voters of Louisiana and Arkansas proclaimed for tho Liberal ticket in November, and their votes were as jnuch entitled to enumeration in the Electoral Col lege as were those of Missouri or Massachusetts. '-. .. In the State of Illinois all forms ot betting on elections, are. criminal; .of fences, punishable ty a fine ot $1,000, or ' imprisonment for one year, ' or both at the discretion of the court In England, it used to bo a common form of bribery at election to bet the, voter that he would not vote for a certain candidate mentioned, and thus win the bet. A SAD Sight. The Danbury iVeira roan jmagines this tableau: A small; wretched, looking honse. Outside a miserable, apology , lor a man, crazed by drink, assaulting the door and ma king the air resound with his curses. Inside a thin,'pale woman with a wan expression, of. features, pressing one hand tightly over her. heart and with the other heating a poker in the fire. . -UrWHlll.il IMILIHJMK.'tffr PACIFIC COASTEIW. Diptheria is prevalent at Iho Dalle ( Gea.SEades ia Mayor of Sitka, Alaska Gold yield of Moutana ia 187?, S8.000.CU0. Supreme Court baa ground ite winter grist. Sr. - Kalama has a first class Chinese boarding house. State Temperance Alliance met at Salem yesterday. Union town is the new county tueat of Uuion county. Tho Snake Indians at Camp Harney threaten a revolt. Helena, Montana, pays 45 mills on the dollar as taxes. Hoodlum theatricals ia what's the matter of Portland. A Douglas county hunter found a snake with two heads. The lako near which Capt. Jack is fortified is frozen over. A San Francisco boy is on trial for murdering a Chinaman. A mulitia company ia being or ganized on Yaquina Bay. Portland is to hae a Catholic Cathedral costing $80,000. Nearly every county i- tho valley has farmer's organizations now. Fifty teams are employed in freight ing from Roseburg to Linkville. The Mormons are talking of emi grating to the Sandwich Islai ds. Tho Independent ia to be the name of tho new paper at Forest Grove Twelve mules belonging to a Mon tana man, died of epizootic recently I. II. Fairchilds, tho new agent of the Siletz Indians, is a Methodist, Sam'l Dervilt was killed last week by n cave in a Jackson county mine Pcttr Rarick. of Gooso Lake valley, was last week killed by a log rolling on him. The Portland parers call Mr. Duniway their "fellow townsman. AVrect. A Walla Walla Sister of Charity last week accidently poisoned herself to death Three feet of snow at Gem City, Baker county. Mining prospects flatterin The possession of 3 children is why Mr. and Mrs. Ray are figuring in the Idaho courts. Walla Walla's big parsnip wa 2 "5 inches long, and Olympia claims one to beat it G inches Gen. Crook is having a good influ ence on tho Arizona Indians. He scalps all be can catch. Dick Popin, of Montana, has fallen heir to 820,000. Some woman will Popin there next, Dick. The M. E. Church South contem plate the building of a church at Harrisburg next summer. A brilliant surpriso party was held at tho resident of Governor Grover, in Salem, last Thursday night. Miss Nellie Nesbilt, a blind girl of Salem, will probably have charge of the State School for the blind. Col. Taylor, late editor of the JLrald, has a lawsuit in the Portland courts against T. Patterson & Co. George Bangesser of Yamhill in dignantly denies that any such bugs as are called weevil, infest hia wheat. San Diego has a new teacher named Miss Skinner and tho young sters now don't want to go to School. The State University fund in the hands of tho Board of School Com missioners ia stated at $19,GS3 32, coin. Brig. Young only has 117 children now. He is afraid he will die father less if Lis family doesn't increaso faster. Prospects are flattering for a heavy yield of gold from the Eldorado mines of Baker county, this coming Season Tho Wyoming female Justices of the Peace insist on resting their feet on hot bricks, and sitting with bon nets on. Salt Lake papers are being prose cuted for publishing obscene litera ture in the shape of Brigham Young's sermons. Last week, a small child of Mr. A. B. Falkner, of Sheridan, fell head foremost into a tub of lye and was drowned. The Modocs last Friday made a sortie and burned the house of Demis Crawley, just to keep their hands in, you know. James Warnick, of Empire, has a pistol which is no respecter of persons. It took off his finger the other day. , Gen. Crook's command has killed over 330 Indian warriors in Arizona, and the red devils are suing for peace down there. Mr. James A. Smith has resigned bis position in the U. S. Collector's office to accept a position in Ladd & Tilton's bank. A party of old folks at Olympia havo organized a musical troupe and are now giving screeching concerts on the Sound. Bro. Bull of the La Grande Sen tinel has discarded his old hat. 'Cause whe somebody gave him a new fancy one. A Portland gentleman owns two noble dogs who were for three years used to draw a sleigh in the Cariboo mining country. Gov. Woods has been dismissed from the Utah Gubernatorial chair, and Claggett, of Montana, appoint ed m his place. A Vallejo schoolmistress under took to chastise an unruly boy of twelve years of age; whereupon the incipient Stokes drew a knife and threatened to dissect her anatomical arrangements, and the punishment was postponed. An insane man named Parker, I from' the Slato penitentiary, waa admitted into the Insane Asylum, Saturday evening. The Woman Suffragists are going tc have a grand State Celebration at dalem on July 4tb. What in thun- r is it all about? Ned Percy, who about two months ago finished his time in the Oregon Penitentiary, stabbed a man to death in 'FriHco last week. I. - G. Rood is now the meanest cur on the Sound. Ho is in jail for indecently exposing his person, to school girls at Olympia. Mutton bbeep aro selling at $4.50 5 per head at , tho Dalles at this time. Sheep raisers are looking for ward to bigh prices for wool. Two trains last Friday collided on the Pacific R. It., near Elko, dan gerously wounding several jasscn gers and employes of the road. Hon. Sam. Brown declines the ap pointment of Capitol Commissioner, and tho Governor has appointed Mr. Samuel Allen, of Marion county. Josh Billings says that if be can bavo plenty of mackeral fqr break fast he can generally manage to make tho other two meals out of water. It is said that the Pacific Railroad Company contemplato constructing but forty miles of the Pacific divi sion of their road the coming season. A Moutana paper is in the conun drum business. It wants to know the difference between a jackass and a certain justice of the peace. Wo give it up. Peace Commissioner Meacham nays Capt. Jack Modoc is an ''honorable and high minded gentleman !" If he is such bo will have nothing to do with Meacham. Lewihton folks havo a playful way of practising pistol shooting at the door knob of the Signal office. The editor says that kind of thing won't "pan" much longer. Tho steamer Geo. S. Wright, which plys between Portland and Alaska, has been d:o at Portland for nearly a mouth. It ia feared that it has been "cast away and lost." A dispatch from Washington says tho President will bring the Mormon subject to a speedy issue. Ho can't beat Brigham on that "issue" busi ness, either in speed or quantity. Tho Statmmaix estimates that Walla Walla has been victimized by a Credit Mobilier composed of county officials. It gives tho figures, show ing that somtbody has had a "fat take." I Wedding cards in Denver consists of tho jack of diamonds and the queen of heart, with tho contract ing parties' names thereon; if the bride's mother is living, the ten of clubs is enclosed On Tuesday last in San- Bernar dino Win. Hicks tried tho old trick of pulling a gun toward him by the muzzle. Tho Doctor is now engaged in reckoning how much of Hicks' arm can be saved. A San Bernardino lover got thrown from bis fiery bleed in front cf bis girl's residence the other day, and the Guardian heard him call for her and sayB the name sounded like "Helen Damnation!' A man named Zook was shot at Scott's creek, California, last week, growfng out of a dispute to tho title of certain lands. The parties who did the shooting were a man named Brown and bis two sons. Virginia city youngsters are engag ed in coasting on their sleds which often get unmanageable in couse- quence, a boy who has got two or three black eyes, and a broken nose is considered an Ishmeal. A Montana man offered to bet his wife $100 that she couldn't swallow a hot marble. She told him that was too thin ho couldn't get rid of her that way! He says he didn't think she was so darnation cute. Two San Jose lawyers trot ' into a row in the Court room the other day, and one of them was hit with an ink stand. His wife now claims that he is a Crimean hero on the ground that it was the battle of Ink-her-man Gen. Jackson, an Indian Chief, of Utsalady, W. T. last week died by the aid of another Indian's pistol because he got sweet on the other Indian's squaw. See how fast the Indian imitates the noble white man I A Puget Sound paper asks: "What shall we do to be saved?" Well, we don't know of anything that you can do, now that you ate bo far gone. A few years ago we might have done something for you, but now the jig's up. , As the new divorce law of Oregon requires all evidence relating to cases of that kind to be given . in open court, the 32 cases now pend ing in Multnomah county will afford the newspapers down there a huge feast. ' i - ' A Marion county chap. Bays an eye witness, recently picked a quarrel with his girl, in which he. attempted to pull her hair and spank the spunky mink; but she turned dentist with the fire-poker, and he lost Jus shovel tooth. A Virginia (Nev.) " wife"' gave her good looking ; servant ' a 'holiday Hearing her, husband come ; into the kitchen, she 6lipped down, put her j hands over his eyes and kissed him, He kised back with a vim nhe had not witnessed in him for years and said, "Mary, darling, where ia your mistress?" Sbo"droppe1 thoo 1: ands and gave a war-whoop and he depar ted in haste, closely followed by a poker. . ; The Roseburg Pantograph says: "That pence Commission to treat with the Modocs have got a soft thing on tho Uncle Samuel. They are sure of their pay, but Uncle Sam hasn't got anything fluro on their treat." There in a "corner" ia etove polish at Walla Walla because tho most fashionable young map of the place appeared at ft party the other night with bis boots blacked with it. He looked "snipshious" and was thte oberserved of oil observer. A female speaker at the Woman's Rights Pow-wow,. in Portland, last week, said that thr "coming woman is on the mountain top and that her spirit is of the mountain air." If this is truo it is probable that we will hear something "drap" shortly. A citizen of , Helena, Mod tana, was discovered in the stroet with his garments all on fire in the rear. He had put a pipe which be bad been smoking, into bis coat pocket. He remarked that he "thought the weath er waa moderutiu' d d sudden." A certain Oregon justice of the Peace "splices" candidates for matrimony in tho following unique manner: "Them that this court joins together let no man bust asunder; but suffer little children to come unto them so help you God' A young Mormon, named Benson, was lust Tuesday hung by a mob in Salt Lake for murdering another young man named Crockett. A Mitts Merrill, who was affianced to the murdered man Crocket died because of her lover's death. This is a sad tragedy. Whew! How nice! La Grande Sentinel fcavs "sleigh riding, spelling matches, singing schools, oyster sup pers, kissing bees, bails, etc., ara all tho go iu these parts this winter." We can hardly keep our davil from emigrating to that Elysian field im mediately. Two young misses, aged respec tively twelve and eight, ran away from their borne in Riverside last week to enjoy life and see the world. The dreams of bliss were rourrhly dispelled by tho advent of their ! paternal, who wore out a fair-sized bu.sb on them and then carried thc-m home. Now comes a story that on the 14 th of December James Eradley was driving a herd of 71 cattle across the Pen d'Oreilo River, AV. T., on tho ice. An earthquake broke the ice to pieces, drowning all but 21 of tho cattle. This story would have been huger if the teller of it hadn't run out of cattle. The Timex tells us that a frisky Josephine youth a few days ago sent a note to bin neighbor's wife, inviting her to meet him 'neath the pale rays of the German-silver moon. She didn't go, but her husband did, and the doctor thinks that barring the loss of bis none, one eye, and two or three dozen tctth, the young man will soon be as well as ever. A Lewiston gallant concluded he would bhow bis geranium how he eould ride on muleback. 'When he got in front of her house the mule squatted down, then all at once bumped up it3 back, and the gallant rider flew upward into tho air about as high as Mt. Hood, and came down astridle of a picket fence. The girl says he showed his agility success fully. Tho following advertisement ap pears in a Utah paper : Wanted. Two young Mormon women (cousins) who have bcome disgusted with "Mormon ideas," and are now living under a strict surveillance with their parents in Box Elder County. Utah, desire to correspond with two or more bachelors, with a view to matrimony. Photographs exchanged if desired . Address, Maria Mason or Mary Sherman, Corinne, Utah. A Dalles .washwoman who had n6ver seen a new-fashioned open-behind shirt got one in the wash the other day, and being an obliging and kind-hearted woman, and feel ing sorry for "the ignorance of the wife who had made such a mistake in constructing her husband's shirt, sewed up the slit behind and cut one in front "where it ought to be," you know. ' Imagine the surprise of the proprietor of the shirt when it came home all fixed up the old fashioned way. , A California wag, traveling on the Pacifie Railroad the other day, hap pened to be seated just behind a couple of pretty boarding school misses, with whem he was. essaying a small flirtation. As the train passed into a tunnel he leaned for waid and smartly kissed hia hand. As the car emerged from the ob scurity be chuckled to see the mutual glances of suspicion which passed between the young ladies, each bjing morally certain that the other had been kissed in the dark. " Fools rush in where angels fear to tread," is fully exemplified in the conduct of the Modoo Peace Commis sioners in accepting such appointment. No person of good sense would have accepted that appointment in the very teeth of tho indignant people of our outraged State. ' ( ToXr-GU AFI2K": CLEANINOS5. The Ex-Queen of Spain is very ill. Franc9 will attempt to compel Spain to sell Cuba. . The snow crushed in a church in New York last Sunday. Congress sends congratulations to Spain "on becoming a Republic. Antoine Holm will be hanged at St. Louis on the 3rd of April. James Dennis, of New York, tick ed his wife to death last Friday. , Two children were burned up in a New York house hat Wednesday. A 17ew York broker last Saturday broke bis neck by falling down stairs. Grant and bis Cabinet will begin their Southern tour on March 20tb. Four rough were kiFed by vigi lantes at Acheron, Kansrs,' last Sunday. About 40 miners wsre killed by a coal mine explosion near London last Tuesday. I After all obligation4! are paid, Horace Greeley's daughters will each have ZW.),W0. A bill is before Congress appropri ating 81.000 for a statue to the late Col. E. D. Baker, of Oregon. A stay of proceedings has been granted in Stokes' case, to allow ar guments on tho unconstitutionality of the jury nystem under which ue was tried. . A Paris special says the troops of the Regular Army of Spain are divid ed in their choice of a form of Gov ernment. The Cavalry ,are sp.id to have pronounced in favor of a Mon archy, with Prince Astoria, son of tho ex-Queen Isabella, for King, while the Infantry favor a Republic. Mrs. Wood, daughter of General Taylor, who was recently voted by the Jlouse a pension of ?w per month, in the mother of John Taylor Vood who commanded the lebel crnier Tallahassee, and who is now a wf-Il-to-do commission merchant at Halifax. It in also said that Mrs. Wood was a bitter secessionist during the war. A Rome special pays the abdication of Amadous is received with satisfac tion on all sides, and that neither Victor Emmanuel r.or !! Govern ment gave anv advice to Amndeas. The !attr telejrraphs to Rome fre quently, giving information concern ing the situation. It is also reported that a serious distnrbnncfl has tai?n place at Madrid and that fighting has occurred in the streets. The appraisers of Greeley's estate estimate that bis personal property will foot up nbont $12 0). It is said that Samuel Sinclair is indebted to the estate at b ast $3 J.000. There are about $100,000 in bad debts and worthless securities. Cornelius Van derbilt, Jr., owes the estate $50.OJ0 borrowed moner. Commodore Van- derbilt has piven $3,()0J to each of can have a much money as thev need at anv time. During the present session of Con gress there have been offered no less than 2G amendments to the Con stitution. These amendmend cov er a great many subjects, from the manner of electing, the term, and the eligibilty of the President, dowu to a decree prohibiting, intermar riages between the races. Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illi nois will resume the practice of law after the 2d of March, the day on which his Senatorial term expires. He has been in the United States Senato since 1S55 seventeen years. Ex-U. S. Senator and ex-Minister to Spain John P. Hale of New Ham; shire, went to the polls and voted on election day, and has not been out of bis bouse since. He has been Bick for over a year. The Memphis Appeal tella of an Irishman who got laughed at for making faces over some persimmons, and who retorted thus: "Ye Kay grin, ye mutton-beaded idiots I but I can lather the sowl out uv -the man that spilt vinegar over thim plums." A very modest young lady, who was a passenger on board a packet ship, it is said, sprang out of ber bunk and jumped overboard, on hearing the captain, during a storm order the mate to hauf down the sheets. An Arkansas artist carved a sleep ing lion in marble and took it to the county fair for a premium. The award was thusly: "James McGill first premium for a beautiful bull- pup carved in marble." From Toledo the announcement is made that a boot black has bought a building which he has converted into a church for his brethren to. worship in. Belle mettle A young lady's temper. Ohio's debt is $3,583,456 37. WEEKLY PRICES CURRENT. CORRECTED WEEKLY IT P. C. BARPBB CO, Following are tbo prices paid for produce, and tha prices at which other articles ara selling in this market: WHEAT White, buohel 80. OATS J biuhol, 40 cts. POTATOES bushel. $ .50. OXrOXS bushel. U l 50. FLOUR f bbl.$9 50. REAXS W hile. W lb, 45 cts. DRIED FRUITApples. tb, k cents Peaches, f lb. Ci cts.; Plums, "J lb, lSo-j LnrrnntK, Id. IHO." BUTTER "jS tb. fresh rolll525e. Eli US rf doj. n. 20 ets. CHICKENS W doaen. $3 00. SUGAR Crusboil, lb, 15 ets.; Island, 93 lb, $11(3)13 cts.; San Francisco Rofinsd, TO n. 131 cts. - TEA Vounjr Hyson, TO tb, $1 50 ; Japan TO . fc($ 0" I Black, TO lb, 75c$l 60 CUrrKE to I". 2.1(0)35 eeuts. SALT TO lb. ll'2i cts. .SYRUP Heavy Golden, TO keg, $3 50. Kx. Heavy Golden, TO gall.,$l 25. BACON Hams, Oregon, TO tb, 18; Eastern, 2 (lets.; hhouMers, 10 ets. LARD TO lb. 121 cts. OIL Devoe's Kerosene, TO gallon. 75 cts., TO ean. 5 gall., 3 00 ; Linseed Oil, raw, 3 " (fall., $1 2.'; Linseed Oil, boiled, TO gall. 1 374. . DISSOLUTION OF CO-PART- XK1ISIIIP. mjOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN- THAT THE il firm of Westlako & Simpson Is this day dissolved by mutual consent, C. 1. fctmpson re tiring from the linn, having sold his intprest to t). WeBtlake. All accounts duo Irom West lake & fsm psfn , as a firm, will b paid by C. Westlake, and all amount due will be collected ana receiptee ior oy mm oniy. 1 CVKUS WESTLAKE. CD. HlsIPSOJf. Albany, JaB. 23, lSTX-nlBwK N EW A D V 12 jT 1 8 J M E N T 8. BEER-WAXTEIH. WAXT TO R-JY A PAIR OP WrtlTE- taikd lttr; !o two femalo blnck-tnllud diT. I would p v a fair nrlce lor th skeleton of n white-tailed LucJc. Aci Ire tnf lit Albany. H2SW4. O. P. 8. rLUMMKB. SKA1.2R Ilf GROCERIES, PROVISIONS. Tobacco, Cigars and Yankee Uoticns, ALBANY, OREGON. , J will strive to kpp on bends the tx?t of erytnlns In my Hue, and to merit public pnt rtmuge. , vXn4L. EUREKA I ! , THE MACE TO CO fob Torn TURNOUTS ! MERRICK MONTGOMERY'S LIVERY STABLE KEEPS THR FASTEST HORSES -AM Till v BUSG1ES . AND IN ALBANY. HAOOKIST CARRIAGES ThT take rv?lal rains to kmi rwrtli!nr In th Ut r-pnirand lurnlnh the inont complcto ntlafnctlon to cvnUtmi-rn. Jtnv-fntx-r aU thia wn.-n you want fwt, or a comforuiM" or sate r.tif. MKKRK K A MOXTOOM r.KY. Cur.Hveoudaud Washington bc Albany. -vsnastf. COMMERCIAL HOTEL. OPEltA riOtrSK BLOCK, 8ALZX, ORKOOX. 33RK. A. J. RIELY, Proprietor. Tl;l hoa' will b krft In tint clan order, and wit.l attentive and obliging w rvantn. No CtiscM Cooks Employed. ' I am pr"p"r-d to fnrnlxh pood n -com mod a ti'.nn Ui th trawling nubile, and will uae ewry endi-nvnrUi mi-rit the pntronat;- of tiie pabUc. Ki-fe-uUr boarding at rt-ry lw rates. Tree Coach to the Home. SHEEIFF'S SAL2L " OTirE IS IIETJEBY OfVKN THAT HT ia vlrtnof an -x--i!fion ixwd out of th Cirnitt Court of th Wat" of itfpnn, tctr th eotintjrof I .Inn. and to m l!rrt-d and dflir tmJ. upon a jiidirnvnt acninat K. Conxtnnfino ftfmnnon and H"nrl!-tt f jnnr.fmn, d'-f'-nd-ant, and in fqvorof AUolr-h ih-M'ir, plainritf, for lh for-dof-nr" of a c rtaln mortcne and th!of tb morterrR-d irrn !--, J havo l-vp-d iifon nil the risht. tltl- and lnfrt of thld F. Conantln" foatinot! and IInrt lta Mpncnoun In and to that c-nnln traH of land drrib'-d n MUrw. to-wit : Kieupt-d and lyinjr in the County of IJnn and HUttc of Or--eon, in Townnhiptwlw. South of ) nrzf ono w-t, in atvtlonii twT.ty-v-n, twntrlpht, thlrtr-thrr-e ami thirty-lotir, b-tt-T know.-n and dHfrtb"d an th tkmation Ijnd Claim of Frd'-rlclc Pin'-prr Wnr- f"r-d'Tlfi I-.inna-ghnrl, a hia notification on HIp In th furvp-or-ti"nTr Ofito, in th xalil fctntf of nf-eoh, not lnUn 2T.1, claim rontainlnc xri-lOO rurv-ttl In it.'f.T in um of t, with lnUTt from tho dT of tmM Jadsm-nt, and for cost and dlsbnrtnnta. r.mountlnj; to ihirty-ono do)!nrnnd fifty wiit and for accruing costs, notice U hcrt-by gi"n that on, Saturday, the loth of March, JS1S1 brtwffn th" hotir of 9 o'clock a. m and 4 o'clock u. m.. Ut-vlt : nt th" honrof nn" ov-lock p. m. of mid day. in front of the Court Ilotuw door in the cHy of Alunr. I.!nn co?mtv. Ktaft of tm-eon. I trill sll all th rifrhf. fitlo'and in t"rff or thKaid K. Connnttn'-Spannoasand Hnri'-tta Spnnnoiut in and to th mtid abov df-fcrribfl pr-miora at piioilc auction to th hijhr-rt liMdT forch in hanfi. . ALLEN JAKKKK.8hi-nJr. l inn Co.Or?i. i'-yiEo. HrainKKY, lx-puty. TVfd rh. 13. Ki-nS7r4. , A. WHEKI.ER. C. P. BOOCI. A. WHEELER & CO., SJ!EDD' STATION, OREGON, FORWAHDIXG AXD COMMLSSIOX 5IER- CHAXTS. AXT) DEALERS IX MERCHANDISE AND PRODUCE ! A pood assortment of e!! kind of goods al waj iu store al lowest market rates. Agents for sale of " WAGONS, GRAIN DRILLS. CHURNS', CIDER KILLS, ETC. Cash pn'd for Wheat. Oats. Pork. Battier, Eg and yogltry. OH, YES! THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES! AMD IS RUXKIKG CM TIME! Tir.VKFTT. FOR PAST FAVORS, AXt still dfslrooa of continuing to mwt th samf, th nrnprirtor is always r-ady and easily found at all times. Passonirers and taijsga carried lo and from the cars to an part or the city at r-asoiialile rales. A. X. ATiNOI D, Albany, On-gon. Proprk-tor. T vSnCaif. OUT OF THE 'EIRE ! s. j. Mccormick: Is happy to inform his numerous friends, pat rons and the public in general that ho has REOPENED THE i FRANKLIN BOOK STORE! o XO. . , FIRST STREET, (Comer of Ash.) With a Complete Stock of STATIONERY, BUSK BOOKS, , ... 0 SCHOOL BOOKS, GOLD FENS,' CCTX.SKT, ETC, AU of which ho will dispose of , AT THE LOWEST PRICES. kBubsm-lntlons rPCPlvea jor an i.'m popular . . 1 ..iM.nA. w. ll I. K wilt t ... a livervd in any part oi thetciiy. rr.-5w4. EXECUTOR'S SALE. "WlTOTICK- IS HEItEBX U1VKS THAT TUB i undersigned, Kxeeutois ot the last will and, .... . ..t 1 hm.iik 1urt.ln. IntA nf Mnn county, Oregon, deceased, in pursuance of an onlr ot the County C;ourt of Linn county. Ore eon, made at the January term of said Court. T ' . . . ii.. : - .... i... .1 .. l iNt-i. WIN sell IUU luuuwum Mirm.-i.wT. it-o, iix-ujs- erty, belonging to the estats ot the said Thom as Martin, ucoeasra, hi-wii : reKimiuig at m point U tlo-lUu chains west ot me soutn-east cor nerof Claim So. 41, "ot. No. 2.OT3, in Town ship 15. South Range, 4 West, Willamette Mer idian, in IJnn county, Orejron, on tha south line of said claim So. 41 : running thence west 10 67-100 chains ; thence norta 'J8 11W chains ; thenoo east 10 57-100 chains ; thence south to tho place of beginning containing 30 acres more or less, at tbo Court House door ia Liun ooutt ty, Oregon, on Monelay, tte 2tU of February, 187St at the hour of 1 o'clock P. M. of said day, at publia auction, to the highest bidder. Terms of sale U.tS. gold coin, one-half cash in hand. 11.. l...lnn Jul i mAnth. trt hi. eamiiwH -kv mortgage on the premises, with ten per cent, interest; . ... II I HAM SMITH. -JOHN F. ilAKTIX. n21wl. V Executors. . It tapped Elands aud Faee, Sore Ups, Dryness of the Skin, ; tc, lc, , ' Cured st ence hr HEGBMAN'S CAMPHOR. ICE WIT II GLYCERINE. It keeps tb hands sol t in all weather. See hat . you get HEGE MAN'S. Sold by all Druggists", only 25 cents. Manufactured only by Hscismam 4 Co., Chem ists and Dr2ir," Xew Tor. jsalJ'Tlyl
