HUDAY JANUARY 9, 1874.
UfcUTiMi of Tii r niraoin tic state
CUn'l'BAI. COAUU'l'l'liU.
" Tha Democratic State Central Com
mittee of Mm 8(te of Oregon, Is here
by requested to meet at tlio city of
Portland on Thursday, the 22d day of
January. 1871, at 2 o'clock, p. m., of
said day for the purpose of designating
tho time and manner of holding a
Democratic State Convention, In ac
cordance with thejisago of the party,
and of transacting such other buKiness
as may properly come before said com
mittee. Said Committee is composed
' M folIOWS: " .- ',: . : ... ' ... '
... Jftckson
...DoulUS
ftenlamtn Haymond...
A. lloBe
W. H. Jackson...
Wm. Tlchenor Curry
A. L. Wnldroa Jofw'nhiiie
J. J. Avery ................ isenion
J. II. Hiicklonmn .. Unn
J.J. Wnlton, Jr.,.;. nie
O. W.llray Marion
H. N. V. lloitnoii...... .....I'ollt
J. H. Upton - Yiimhlll
F. A. Unllev Washington
W. In While Clackamas
Eugene Bemple w.......MultnomRh
W. A. Musrrove... .. Columbia
A. Van Duscn .... H ....Clatsop
W. H. Fauoott - Tillamook
J. M. Paxter... Witsco
M. C. False -.Umatilla
A. C. CralK .Union
J. D. UatnoH .. ...llaker
J. W. Baldwin Uranl
Should any vacancies havo occurred
; In any of the counties, the County
Committees are recommended to fill
such vacancies. A full attendanco of
the Committee Is earnestly requested.
. , W. L. WHITE,
Chairman Hem, State Central Com.
Oregon City, Dec. 2flth, 1873
UUB , ltEPEESliSTATIVE, r W8 ' BOO
by the Congressional Jiecord of Dec.
16th that Hon. J. W. Nesmith has
introduced the following measures in
the House; H. B., No. 745, to pro
vide for ascertaining losses sustained
by citizens of Southern Oregon and
Northern California by reason of
Indian depredations in the years of
1872 and 1873; which was road a
first and second time, referred to tlio
Committee !on Indian Affairs, and
ordered to be printed.' Also H. B.
No. 740, to transfor the management
and control of the Indian tribes to
. the War Department: which was
read tt first and second time, reforred
to the Committee on Indian Affairs,
nud ordered to be printed. Also a
petition of surviving officers, sol
diers, sailors, and marines of the
war against Mexico, now residing in
tlio State of Oregon and Washington
1'orritory. asking for a recognition of
their services. We extend thanks (o
Mr. Nesmith for favors. '
English census returns for 1871
show that there is a gradual incroaso
in tho length of human life on the
island. A few decades ago the aver
ago life of the Englishman "wri',) repor
ted at 25 years: now it is. 44 years.
Notwithstanding this fact, for such
we take it to be, there are less aged
people in England than' America.
It was not long ago that an English
writer stated that he did not believe
that there existed in the civilized
world a person who had reached one
huudred years, but we have in this
country several well attested instan
ces whero one bundled and ten and
even one hundaed and twenty years
havo been reached. At the present
rate of increase it will bo some time
before England exhibits many Me-
thusalohs, but it will not be long bo
fore men will live their threo-score
years and ten.
, Ma. "Wilson, of Indiana, has in
troduced a resolution in Congress
declaring that Congress shall pass no
law providing for the assumption by
tho goneral government of tho in-
dublednoss of any state, territory or
municipal corporation; that the gen
eral governniont shall loan neither
Snonoy nor credit to any individual
or corporation. Itoally, we don't
flee any use in all this. Tho U. S,
Government will bo hi big luck il
she is ablo to borrow what she needs
for tlio use of hor thieving officials
for tho nest million years or so. At
loast the prosout generation ueodn't
worry about the Govornmout loaning
money to 'anybody else. .
B-. ! J
Omo IiEoiBLATuni!. Last Monday
tho Ohio Legislature orgauizod witli
a full sot of Democratic office rg in
oach House. After organisation, a
resolution asking CongroHs to re
peal the salary bill was offered and
referred to a special committee with
instructions to amend so as to censure
the President for signing tlio bill,
and the next morning tho resolution
was reported back with tho amend
ment. , Tho Republicans voted solid
ly against the resolution, but it was
adopted by a unanimous Democratic
vote. All honor to the gallant and
unflinching Democracy of tlio Buck
eye State. -
Losing Ground. Thirty-six coun
ties out of the niuoty-uiuo which
compose the State of Iowa, this
year, gave a 'Republican majority of
12,417: The same counties last year
gave Grant a majority of 13,000.
Tlio-party in cloven mouths has lout
30,000 Totes. The loss in tho whole
State will nearly roach CO.000, and
yet Iowa has been tho strongest Re
publican State in tho Union, save
Massachusetts.
Of ootmas. And now the Demo
crats are to be cheated out of their
wto .iiujvuei viL-iury u imim. jv
telegram says the (Supreme Court of
that Stale has just decided that tho
late 8Uto election was unconstitu
tional, on tho ground that the polls
wore only kept open one day in-
iitoad of four, as provided by
new constitution.
i MAKE mill DISGORGE.
Much deserved abuse haB fallen
upon the heads of those members "of
Congress who voted for and took the
money provided by tho increased
salary bill commonly known as the
back-pay steal; but the parsimoniou,s,
avaracious, conscienceless President,
at whose instance and with whose
connivance the bill was passed
who signed the infamy . and who
drew the lion's share of tho spoil
has thus far escaped, to a great de
gree, his measure of censure. Even
those so-callod "independent" Re
publican papers, who lash the lesser
villains of their party with merciless
fury, have spared Grant with inex
cusable favoritism. ' And now the
last act of favoritism is exhibited , in
the shape of the report of the com
mittees to whom tho several repeal
ing bills were referred in Congress,
in which ; they very considerately
leave the Presidential salary at $50,-
000 por annum, on the ground that
the President's salary cannot bo de
creased during tho term of offlco for
whioh he was elected. This' is
most shameful pioce of humbuggery,
as well as a bare-faced robbery of
the people. Presidont Grant came
Deiore tne people m lo72 for re
election, promising to i perform
certain services, as ho well know
being fixed by law at $25,000 per
annum. His express contract - with
the people was to perform tho serv
ices of tho office at that price. There
was at that time no talk of an in
crease of wages, and nobody dreamed
that such a measure would be resort
ed to by Grant and his confederates;
and now that he was re-elected Jjq
had no' rnoro right to thrust his
hand into the treasury bocauso he
concluded he was earning more than
that for his employers, than had
thoso Congressmen who have been
so thoroughly damned for their part
in the fruud. We hopo tho Presi
dent's share of the plunder will be
taken from him as well as from thoso
who, if any difference exists, wore
less guilty than himself. He certain
ly docs not earn more than the other
Presidents who came boioro him,
nud who wore noavly all able to savo
something out ol their salaries.
Even Abo Lincoln, Grant's immedi
ate predecessor, during tho extrava-
feu-n uu iocKicss years oi tho war
was abio to save $55,000 from his
earnings as President.
This is no time to pamper officials
with heavy salaries and - unusual
luxuries.' Almost daily tho tireless
wires flash to us the startling news
of the increase of the public debt and
the sore straits into which many
parts of our country are lriven by
money panics and "liard tiinos."
In this state of things tho most rigid
retrenchment should characterise the
legislation of Congress, and finanW
reforms should bo inaugurated f
every uroncn or. tlio puulio service
from President down to tho hum-'
blest official in the land.
JUet tho Jfresidont be forced to
diBgorgo!
TIIBCUA9IPION TlllliP.
Gen. Howard, chief of that pro
digious Radicift fraud, the Freed-
mans Bureau, must havo been a great.
tluef . A clerk in the employ of Gen.
Bullock, Chief Disbursing Officer of
the Bureau under Howard, Bays it
was his duty while in tho service of
the Bureau, to examino vouchers,
each and every month, and ulso to
make out the iay rolls. Ho overs
that horses and carriages for the
private use of Gen. Howard, mem
bers of his staff and summer vaca
tions for his favorite clerks, including
their traveling expenses, were pro
vided and paid for with money be
longing to tho Government.. The
wife of Capt Staden, memboTt of
Howard's staff, was put on the pi
rolls under her maiden name. How
urd's coachman was put on the pay
rolls, as was also the wife of Capt.
Girard, whilo she had no appoint
ment and did no duty whatever. , In
conclusion, he states that there are
many other irregularities which ought
to be macto public, and he volunteers
to give his testimony before a com
mittee at any time.
The Oregotiian,. commenting upon
this expose, pertinently remarks
"If full faith and credit are to bo
given to the lotter received by the
committee who have under investiga
tion tho caso of Goneral Howard
from 'a gentleman now a resident of
Baltimore but formerly a clerk' of
the Ereedman'g Bureau, the Gener
al's largo defalcations were not his
worst crimes. What this witness
proposos. to testlfywould show How
ard as a rcsan potit-lifteeny thief, as
well as a defaulter on a large scale.
Ihe small peculations necessary to
send lusfamily and his favorite Clerks
on summer tours, without expense
him are indeed vulgar crimes; but that
of carrying on his pay rollB the wives
ofmembors of his staff under their
maiden names, whilo they had no
place in fact in tiie actual disburse
ments of the Bureau, is not vulgar
only, it is disgusting. And in the
meantimo what part in tho matter
had Captains Station and Girard, the
names of whose wives are reported
to have been used as the instruments
of this deception and theft? Were
they cognizant of tho facts, and did
thoy pass it over in silence? Or did
they share tho utolon money with
Howard and thus become accessories
to tho crimo? Lot us hope tho ex-'
clerk is a malicious slanderer; for
that, even, is loss revolting to con
template than the actual and truth
ful oponing to tho light of such
uon oi uncloanness as this expose
threatens. It does seem about time
tho bottom were reached in digging
up tho atroeitios of official life.
PACIFIC COASTERS, .
Smali-pox in San Francisco.
Colorado has 0 Graugos and 3G0
members. ' '. ,
II. Lormer, 'Frisco: razor. Do
mestic trouble.
Shio Fly is tho flashy namo of a
California town.'
A new ship is in tho Sound waters
named "Modoc."
, A La Grande trotter was sold re
cently for $1,000.
I red is dead I He was the town
dog of La Grande.
Navigation is resumed between
Portland and Dalles.
Over 100 Eastern invalids are win
tering at Los Angeles.
The merry jingle of the sleigh bells
is still heard in Boise City.
Regular trains are now running be
tween Kulama and Tacoma. t
Salem is always ahead in fat things.
It now boasts a butter thief.
tho
Put-hno Up Sltes. Wo hoar of
considerable buzzing now in polilioal
cu'clos, and some "putting up slates'
for tho approaching oanvas is indulg
ed in. Well this is all harmless
enough amusement for the politi
cians, but it is highly probable that
the people will manifest thoir prefer
ence as botweon candidates when tho
Conventions moot. ' Thoro nover was
a time when tho poople cai od loss for
the wishes, dosiros and aspirations
of politicians than just now, and
there novor was a timo when that spe
cies of tho genus homo was in a more
dangerous attitudo boforo the bar of
publio opinion. Tho farmers, me
chanics ami working men will be
in attendanco at our coming prima
ries throughout the State, and it is
most probablo that vox populi will
rulo in our conventions and triumph
at tho election.
A largo number of railroad meet
ings havo boon held in Union county
recently, having for their objout tho
construction of tho Portland, Dalles
and Halt Lako Railroad. Tho La
Qrando Sentinel says: "Efforts are
now making in Umatilla, Union and
Bakor counties for 'assistance to this
enterprise, and thoro aro somo indi
cations of succoss. From' tho known
ontorprino and ability of those who
aro taking tlio matter in hand in this
county, wo all can lookforsomothing
to come of tho inovo. Daniel Chap
lain, Hon. J. H. Slater, E. S. MoCo
mas, M. Baker and others, will soon
form a Construction Company and
seo to it that the road is graded in
Union county and through tho Blue
moiuituins, if that will insure tlio de
sired object."
Tin Blkhsino. the telegraph
convey to tho country tho startling
intelligence that tho publio debt in
creased JS,45a,272 in tho moulli of
December. Nearly fci millions: in
ono mouth. And this is a specimen
of the economy that was to follow
Grant's re-election. At this delight
ful rate of increase there-- wi !1 soon
bo a lack of figures in printing offices
to express its hugeness.
A young muu at Austin, Novada,
nmde a sorious mistake the otherduy.
Ho bought a nice dress pattern for
his Bweothoart and a pair of rod iln
uol drawer for himself. Ho' deliv
ered the wrong bundle to tho young
lady. He now says ho yUhosho had
died young.
GRANGE NEWS.
There are Orangos in 05 of the 100
counties in Iowa.
Lobanon Grango, under the mas
terly Mastership of R. A. Irvino, is
nourishing like the rose.
Hon. Jno. H. Smith is appointed
one of the Grange Deputies for Linn
county, and will oporato in the south
ern part of the county. This is
good appointment.
The Patrons olJIIusbandry in vari
ous counties of Iowa are forming in
surance companies of thoir own, in
whioh thoy insure not only against
losses by fire but also insure live
stock. This is a good move.
' Five Yankee girls have entered 320
acres af land in Kansas, whieh they
intend to farm An exchange says
"thoy ore graduates of educational
institutions, and ore proflciont in ag
ricultural chemistry." An old
Gaugor nt our elbow says "that is all
vciy well, but do they know how to
farm! We give it up.
A Clinton (Mo.,) Farmer's Muss
Mooting recently adopted the follow
ing sentiments:
T 1 , . . . . .
uown wnn nign freights; up
with cheap transportation.
Down with a president at $50,000;
UP with one at $25,000 per year.
Down with obstructions in western
nvovs; up with free and choap navi
gation.
Down with tho traitor in tho groat
fight; up with tho man that is sure to
do right.
Down with tho demagogue for of
fice; up with tho honest and intelli
gent farmer.
Down with whatever stands in our
way; up with such things that will
honestly pay.
, Down with tho millorlhat takes too
much toll; up with good mills that
grind at fair rates.
Down with Iho back pay grab and
salary steal; up with houest repre
sentatives in Congress and elsewhere.
The deepest placo yet found in
Lake Tahoe moasures but 1,015 feet.
In quite a muuler of places its depth
is from 1,000 to 1,500 feet. ' The hike
has been supposed to oocupy the sito
of the orator of an extinct volcano,
and tho deepest soundings obtained
aro ot a point whero thoro are still
several hot springs.
In Nevada City, last Friday night,
a young man of respeotablo parentage,
armed with a pistol, wont to the
house of his mother and threatened
to kill her. The alarm was given
and the neighbors succeeded in pet
ting tlio lady nud her two daughters
out of tho houss. As thoy were leav
ing, tlio young man told them ho
would kill himself before morning.
Nest dny ho was found iu a saloon
dead -drunk ,
, The widow of Gen. Canby is to
have a pension of $2,000 per annum.
The Widow of Hon. J. S. Wilson
has been appointed postmaster at
tho Dalles.
Cattle dead from cold and starva
tion, are lying promiscuously around
Lone Pine.
L. H. Allen, of La Grando, was
killed by a team running over him
last month. '
A 12 year old boy is in limbo in
Sacramento for attempted murder.
Tho little Modoo I
Isaac M. Weaver was hanged at
Rod Bluffs last Friday, for the mur
der of A. Walner..
Lake county, Cal., boasts on $8,
000 barn. Nohouso in the comity
cost half as much.
J. S. Bogue, of Polk county, acci
dentally split his foot open from toes
the heel with an axe.
Kit Carson is Constable at North
Platto. See how greatness follows
somo men through life!
The motto of tho Santa Cruz(Cal.,)
Grange is: "Go slow and keep in
the middle of tho road."
Mrs. Welkor, of Yieka, committed
suicide by cutting her abdomen and
breast open with a razor.
A San Joaquin cow hooked a wo
man in tho mouth, and her husband
now has to stop his ears.
Mr. Casner, of Johu Day Valley,
recently killed a grizzly which weigh
ed 000 lbs. whon dressed.
Laura D. Fair mado $75,000 by
the raise m Ophir. Ophir such a
chanco as that up this way!
La Grando bas an Eastern Oregon
Legislature. We doubt if that makes
the town any more rospoctablo.
Prof. Plummer, the great elocu
tionist, is going to farming in Idaho.
Farewell, Brother Watkins-ah!
For people keeping a keg of lager
in the house, is termed "Hell in the
closet" by the Oakland Tramcript.
Up in Montana when they start a
man down hill in a barrell they speak
of his "appearance in a new rolo."
Two miners was killed and one fa
tally wounded at Austin, Nevada,
last Saturday, by a mine explosion.
Candidates for Sheriff in Baker
county are numerous. We hovn't
heard of any in localities nearer
homo I
Mart. Floming, of Idaho, has left
the country for his country's good.
Some of his associates could be
spared.
After the Masonio Bupper at Cor-
vallis, lost week, the dishes and the.
surplus eatables were stolen and car
ried off.
8ioce tho doparture of Tom Merry
the. Coos Bay News takes a good many
chances. Al least it has Hazard for
its editor.
Silvor City is to have a Grange or
ganization, which is expected to knock
the spots off of any other secret soci
ety in camp.
Rufus King, ex-postmaster of Silver
City, has cntorodjinto on arrangement
to act as boss cook of Idaho peniten
tiary till next Juno.
Grant county has an area of 21,000
square milos and enough mountains,
if pilod on top of each other, to roach
to the planet Saturn.
Wm. Lightcock, of San Francisco,
has sued John Marshall for $10,000
damages for seducing hist wife. He
is a Light rooster iudoed.
Mra. Creme, of San Francisco, last
Saturday refused to marry Chas. Mrd-
lor, and Charles took cold "pizen'
uud died in her presence.
A Portland Chinaman had seen
Meliean man jump off a movingtraiu,
and tried it himself last Monday.
Tho doctor patched up his leg.
bear iaced Charley writes back
from the Indian Territory that he is
all right, getting the host kind of a
heart and doing woll generally.
About forty different specimens of
cry fine apples were recoived from
Oregon a few weeks ago at tho Agri
cultural Bureau in Washington City.
Doc. Loryea hastens to inform tho
Bidlotin that London is the cleanest
city in the world. We can't under
stand that, and Doc. Loryea there,
too!
A. S. Lagran, of Umatilla, recently
sold 1,350 head of sheep for $4 per
head, to Beiij. Goiuiy, of Dry Creek,
and Whooler and Brandon, of Walla
AValla.
The othor day the Yakima countrv
had a lively earthquake. Persons
wcro eliakcu almoH out of thoir
beds, the earth, in many places,
was torn up, and fissures opened.
Stock ran wildly about, and tho in
habitants iu that section of tho coun
try wore considerably frightened. J
Tho New Year at Vancouver opens
ont lively for tho news gleaner. They
havo already had one murder, an at
tempted suieid and a mysterious
disappearance. ,' '
Geo. Cline, the mail carrier between
Aiden, Pitt River, and Bedding,
California," was Jast Saturday mur
dered. One John Baker will proba
bly pull hemp for it.
In Austin, Nevada, the chickens
are suffering with scarlatina, whooping
Cough, measles,, epizootic, doloreaux,
stomach-ache or something which
hurts equally as bad.
'A. C. Brelsford, of Portland, jump
ed overboard whilo on his way to San
Francisco by steamer last week and
was never more seen. All because
his wife got a divorce.
Western women are grumbling ter
ribly because tho managers of tho ag
ricultural fail's don't give at least a
year's notico when they offer prizes
for the finest babies.
Jas. A. Stewart, of Jackson county,
lasf week had his eye kicked from tho
socket, by "a vicious horse. The
doctor put the eye baci and Stewart
lives to larrup the horse.
TEI-EKAI,,,CiLEA3i,StiS
; Another extensive fire, accompa
nied by a terriblo explosion, has oc
curred at Cartagena. . . : . i
A special dispatch says that three
hunched Asliauteos were rewncd
in the river Praih in their flight be
fore Sir Grant Wolsey. -
Tuesday night a shell from the
besieging batterioi near Cartagena
set fire to the insurgent ironclad
Teluan, in tho harbor of Cartagena.
After burning for three hours the fire
reached the magazine, which exploded
with tremendous force, damaging
surrounding vessels.
A Key West dispatch says Captain
W. D. Whitney, Chief of Staff of
tho North Atlantic squadron; Lieu
tenant Adolph Mario, Flag Liouten'
ant; and Chief Engineer Hams of
the dispatch boat, have been sum
monsd to Washington to testify m
the investigation in regard to the
sinking of the Yirginius.
ITmmentlml'a Onera HoUSO, at
Wilksbarre (Pa.) was burned on the
niht of the 1st instant. Loss $85,
000: insurance, $30,000. A large
audience was present when the fire
broke out. Many persons narrowly
escaped suffocation, owing to the
denseness of the smoke and the diffi
culty of exit. Mrs. Langcfred, mill
iner, on the first floor, sustains a loss
of $2,500. The lire was caused by
That spicy little gopher, the Jaci- I plosion of a lamp
sonvillo Times, has begun its 4th vol
ume. It is among our spicyest ex
changes, and is Democratic to tho
core. Long may it grind.
J. W. Hopkins has been arrested
in Walla Walla recently, charged with
complicity in a murder committed in
Missouri. He was taken back on a
requisition from the Governor.
The fellow who figured this out
must have had worms: The total
cost of fences in California is $29,-
000,000. Annual cost of same inclu
ding repairs and interest $8,000,000.
A wife at Yuba Dam, Cal., had an
advertisement in the newspaper for
bidding saloon keepers furnishing
her husbandwithwhisky. Meantime
the husband is drunk every day and
retorts: "Yuba Dam (hie) cant help
it!" s
Brig. Gen. Ross, of the State Mil
itia, has returned to Jacksonville
from a visit East. Bo it said to his
credit that he is the first Modoc hero
who has gone East that didn't lec
ture.
The Baker Herald talks of printing
a book in the Chinese language. All
they need to do the work successful
ly is a full font of Chinese type and
a Mongolian typesticker and proof
reader.
A poor California farmer has just
sold his ranch for $00,000. If he had
got a little more money for it he
would have had hope of living
through the rest of the winter with
out work.
Miss Mary Guntley, of Mendocino,
Cal., wore a large-chignon and (lean
ed over the lamp. She now.has nei
ther false nor genuine hair, and has
to go about with her head bound up
in a red bandana.
Archibald Garrison Stokos, County
Judge of Stanislaus county, was
thrown from his buggy, last Saturday,
and instantly "killed. His name
probably had something to do with
frightening the horse.
"The evidence shows that he sot
up with hor nigl't after night, and
they squoze hands and talked soft,
and I think she ought to have about
$23 damages" was the chii.vge ol an
Idaho Judge to a jury. i
Chinamen in San Francisco orei
apt scholars in hoodlumism. Six of
thorn last Sunday entered a house
occupied by China women, threw red
pepper in the hitter's eyes and robbed
them of all their possessions.
A number of the Corvallis lodies
set beautiful boards and received calls
on New Year's Day. We had the
pleasure of calling on Mrs. Dr. Bai
loy and her accomplished daughter
and were most elegoutly entertained.
A Vii-ginia City (Montana) lunch
fiend has bet $2G0 that he can eat 1,-
000 eggs 1,000 hours. He is at it
now in one of the restaurants of that
placo, and ought to furnish a second-
class job for an undertaker as soon as
he wins his bet.
A car load of marriageable touiib-
ladies (50 in number) arrived at
Truckee, Nevada, from Massachu
setts, last month. So far not one of
them has been gobbled up, the Neva
da boys preferring to patronize home
manufacture first.
A Washington Territory paper
strikes a note of timos in this fashion:
"Farmers selling their wheat for 40
cents a bushel and county officers
pant nt tlio rate of $3,000 a rear
Our Legislative Solons should have
a vote of thanks."
iho wedding cake of a San Jose
couple recently married weighed for
ty pounds and was in tho form of a
three story brown-stone front, with
a sugar bride and bridegroom com
ing out of the front, and, like the real
couple, loo sweet to last.
In 1858 a Sacramerrtan pawned a
silver watch for $5, and though he
has never at any time had a sufficient
Bum wherewith to redeem it, he has
regularly paid the monthly interest
of 50 cents thereon, and finds that he
has now in this way paid over $1)0.
A Salem husband took his wife be
fore the county authorities ond had
the physicians declare her insane,
but a lot of ladies crowded into tho
courthouse and insisted that the
woman wasn't crazy, and one of them
took charge of her and triumphantly
bore her off. After all it takes wJ-
mCU to got BWaV With mnrta ..,.1
doctors. i
TtTwVrunt Bill of the Senate
Judiciary Cpmttee, offered in -lien
of the House proportion for repeal,
requires the concurred of a quarter
of tho insolvent creditors -0 lo
him into bankruptcy. It allows pro
tested paper to run sixty aaj-s, nzw
allows a maionty of tho creditors to
take the case out of bankruptcy at
any time and permits any number of
creditors to make' composition of
their own claim, after the Brittieh
system.
The Tribune's Now York special
says an attempt was made on New
Year's Dav to kill Juhge S- D. Mor
ris, formerly District Attorney of
Brooklyn, with an infernal machine.
As Mr. Morris was absent at the time,
the box was put aside until his return,
when he opened it in his bedroom,
surrounded by his family. On lift
ing the lid the snap of a spring was
heard, and all at once it was seen
that the box was an infernal ma
chine.
A Havana dispatch of the 3d inst.
says: Wharf laborers and trade or-
cttmizations demand their pay in gold
or its equivalent in currency, and
propose to strike on Monday unless
their terms are complied with. The
draymen and coachmen will join in
the strike. The Junta on debt has
been in session to-day discussing
means to relieve tho financial situa
tion, but withot favorable results.
The proprietors of newspapers also
held a meeting to consider tne ques
tion of raising the subscription rates.
A Washington dispatch of the 3d
saj-s: "Judge Williams still seems
confident of confirmation, notwith
standing the lawyers in the Senate
almost unanimously protest against
his candidacy, and urge an exchange
of his nomination to the Supreme
Bench for some foreign appointment..
Meantime there seems to. bo no room
to doubt that the Department of Jus
ticn paid $1,600 for a landaulet used
exclusively by Mr. Williams' family,
besides several hundred dollars for
repairs on tho samo, and $750 for
horses to draw it."
Advices from Cape Coast Castle
to December 15th, report that the
Ashantees were driven across the
river Praih, re-enteimg their own
territory in great disorder. They
left a large number of dead and
wounded on the bank of the river.
Wolsey was in pursuit with fivehun-
dred sailors. The troop-ships Him
alya and Tamar having arrived, cvery-
uiras was reaay lor an advance unon
Coamossie. Tho Gold Coast is very
unhealthy.
The House Committee on Anpro-
I prioticus despair of cutting the esti
mates dofi'.u more than $20,000,000,
even by withholding many items
asked for by fee Supervising Arch
itect and those recommended for the
river and harbor improvements, and
noarly all those for fortifications. Ac
bordingly, increased taxation txj meet
tne necessarry expenditures seems in
evitable unless a temporary Govern
ment loan is authorized. Tho infla
tionists urge bonds at 3 65-100 per
cent, interest, bolieving that in these
times of money pressure they would
pas's readily from hand to hand, and
thus practically expand the currency
for a temporary occasion.
In the Cortes on the 3d the Dep
uties, on two votes, gave a majority
of 120 against President Castelar.
General Pavia, who is friendly to
Castelar, thereupon occupied the pal
ace of the Cortes and other public
buildings with fourteen
troops, dissolved the Cortes and sum
moned the most nrominfinf. nun .rf
all parties, including- members of the
present iiovernment, and only ex
cepting Carlists and Intransigeutes
to form a Government. Tin' fioo l
Pavia declared, was the only way for
ramuuuu oi me countn-. xlere-
iiisea personally to tenrninmninu.
ot the Government. The streets are
failed with people, and there is great
excitement, but no blood has been
B11UU.
Col. Chapman, Presidont of the
Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake Rail
road Co., has located the eastern ter
minus of that road at Corinne. The
Utah, Idaho and Montana road is
adopted, and to be identical with the
wrcgon for 50 or 100 miles. Lead
ing men of Oneida countv.
also citizens of Corinne and Malad
City have agreed to grade and tie 50
mues oi the road. Col. Chapman has
gone to Washington to labor in be-
uau ot uie road.
A Red Bluffs paper says afewd
smce an attorney called on another
orotnerot the profession and asked
his opunon upon a certain point in
aw. The lawyer to whom the ones
Hon was adilroQa,i v
" iunise.ii up
clul '' ls7-' 1
' ABOVSW P.VU) INTO Til 15 CITY T11KASC11Y.
Ecllil'iulnl lasw lh" UU M 50
collei'l'xl ',V;C7-'t WHO
Toa. . W148
AM0VST9 PAID OUT AS FKU OK1H51IS, BY
VUUtSL Of CITY COUKCU.
Tn 1 he ntv Beconlw. 073 40
onllHnr.m,lli'i;et...........--i W 75
li)6flowi'i',lc'liMl"".ll'l""u 10140
TO 11. Momoil, ' Hlkll"!5 llu 7B0 ra
To (mMliVsiiai.'coVlwi'iii'liVnxoa.. liw O
To X. Carlwristlit, Uulklluif era
KUlkS.IISllCl'COIltlWt. 208
To T. Oii't wrigHt. City Milwl.on
oinlnwu mill J'", "crvicun a
To Snillli Clolu", on conlruot to
nun iali dirt mid gravel
To M. V. Jlrmvn "
ToJ.U.lto-ren '
ToWm-llii... , !f
To N. H, lltunplin-y.. 3
To foil. Vim (Aovo, city printing. M JJ
To (.'rouse Huril, lumlwr W "1
To I'uikur Co., liinilmr.. ... .... .. . j
Anmml allowance to Fire Dopar't. W 00
To A. J. Wnnier, city surveying. . W
To lVrry Spink J
To I.. Miller l
To Join Hi". mcJii-ul attend-
nnce on eityprisouers W 00
To W. S. Jonea ' "J
To ( ' Menltiy in uw
To o". W. Win-roil, Ucputy JIurelull M 37
To Kulin.t Co......
To 1'. U. Harper & Co IW SS
To Kline Co Sl$
To H. C. Hill & Son....... J; 3?
To ltnymond ft Freelnnd 1.J A
To MuiBhall & scnlosaer J)
ToA.llriilnes
Toll. M. Thompson '
Todeo. rattevson J
To J. K. Smith , 0J
To John Wrings 2 '
To A. F. Wheeler ? 50
ToW. H. llcnkl&Co 4 7.1
To 11. M. l'owois 2 110
To W. It. Jh Fuilaud 8 00
,,-o M. M. Harvey ' 1 lio
(ionlon 1 00
"J mjntgoiiicry 1 t'o
Kjl&younell loo
to wm. p.:t....-- 8;
To T. shay Sffi
To A. Cm-others & Co... '
To Dr. Harris - ' ! !i
To L. Iliulihart J S
To T. Fi'Oinan
To W. KoU'huin i'S
To W. TuccdiUe j J
To A. J. Fox J
To Martin l'aiu -
To Ceo. Younir 1 J"'
To Julius (iradwohl 2! OH
To W. Wuluin 00
Total amount paid out 15,037 71
Balance in the c-ity treasury nt tho
close of the orlleiul year, 1873.. 03 72
Amount of labor lv prisoners on
ell v improvements lor the your
1873..... 230 00
JOS. IIAXXOX, .
City ltecorder.
Albany, Jan. 3, 1371.
ADVERTISE MEN T 8
B.TITUS. v
. . CHAS, 90UMUSBSS,' ,
TITUS, BOtfllGARDES & coj
tor
DEALERS IN
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELf,
SILVER AND PLATED WARE, 1
STATE FAIlMISIt'S UNION D1SIBANDED.
The State Farmer's Union met at
Sulem last Monday, and there being
only a few persons present, and the
conviction gaining ground that the
institution had been generally absorb
ed by the Patrons of Husbandry, Mr.
John Minto introduced the following
resolution:
Jiesoleed, That inasmuch as since
tho organization of the State Farm
ers' Union, the organization of tha
Patrons of Husbandry in this State
has been elloetect to sucn an extent,
and having in view the same general
objtets, together with the means of
carrying them out to such a degree
of perfection as to render the longer
continuance oi tnis Union unneces
sary, we therefore advise that the
Presinent and Secretary of this Un
ion take such action as is necessary
to inform the various clubs and oth
er bodies of fanners of their propor
tion of indebtednes incurred by
former meetings of this Union: and
we hereby recommend that . such in
debtedness represented 4n the Union
oe paid by each senuincr forward bv
mail to the Secretary, and that when
snch indabtedness shall be paid the
Secretary shall hand over to the
estate Grange the books ior its use.
Cohdemnnd. At a special meeting
of the Bar Association of New York
City, last "Wednesday, a resolution
was unanimously adopted condemn
ing and earnestly protesting against
the nomination of Geo. H. Williams
as Chief Justice. The latest informa
tion from Washington look less
favorable to his confirmation than
heretofore.
DIAMOND
AMD F"
SPECTACLES'?
' ALSO i
PISTOLS AND CAKTKIDGBow
SINGER SEWING MACHINES,
And all kinds of Bewhng Machine Heedwe 1 '
' . . Siir
REPAIRING A BPECIALC
' -'- , b.
All Goods
Sold and Work
Warranted.
Hi'
Jfl'ifc!
113 i
tor's old stauii, Albany. Uivkoii.
tmiiitr. TITUH, boUltUARDES & Cijjut
Next door to in till Druj Store, 1 John
NEW GOODS I
le:
LATEST
FASHIONS; J
at tho Btoro or ' ' f,
' '" ' 'the
few
c
jVi''
WE HAVE JUST HECEIVED FROMHyl"
Francisco tho very latest styles tt' It.
uud OojiU
L. KLINE CC-
FASHIONABLE
CLOTHING
- ' ' ; ;lo
op
!,).
' ah-
LADIES' AND MISSES'
DRESS GOODS;!
and everj-thing else to bo found In a 4
- ' IU
FIRST CLASS RETAIL STORE
BEST QUALITY OF GOODS
LOWEST.. PRICES
fob j -ac
CASH OR PRODUCE, ti:
' Iti-
"Ncst door above Postofflco, Albnnv, On.
The new Republic in already over
thrown in Spain, and military an
archy reigns Buprenie. What sort of
a gocmnmeut will & born out of all
this chaoa.no one can predict.
San Francisco I.-is a Hippie sensa
tiona very prominent citizen of that
oity having abandoned lua wife and
children and eloped to South America
with a Miss Flannigan,a school marm
It is reported that the schooner
Elida, while going from Coos Bay to
San Francisco, was lost with all on
board. It is said 18 passengers were
on board.
JAMES Lt. COWAN,
(m-ccKSsun or a. cowak k oo.JI
LEBANON, ORE GO K
, . ' . DEALER IU
GENERAL MERCHANDISE!
WILL m? ALWAVS OK HAND A FULL STOCif
or
GOODS!
GROCERIES !
Boots and Shoes I . .
All for S.-ilu ot tho lowert Prioof for OiSB
or PRODUCE.
All penoDi owing A. Coiran i Co. can Mlllt
hy oUin(t on mo at Lobanon.
fl'ZM. JAMES L. COWAN.
DRILLS PLOWS
and s.ud, -I generally paiJ
telling what little I know!" -n..
tiuvoiiuuLT urcw ft
know!'
holfniin 9
i . , a i urn
lus waistcottt-pocVet, handed it to the
other and coolly remarked; "Tell
rh-uW,aBjthe
A man in Pioche the other day ac
cidentally discharged his gun. The
rage of the citizens was fearful to be
hold when thoy ascertained no one
was killed.
ADVKHTISlSMKNTH.
ASSIGNEE'S SALE.
fN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Tmr
.uit win uo at 0lQj ;ea
"Mny, Or., Jan. 5, 1ST4. M T.
Having a large lot of the celebrated f
STATESMAN F0E0E TEED '
GRAIN- DBILLS,
direct from t.hn fnn. r .ti ,
tmwiuvuw m larmera Irian ever.
' . ' AU30 THE
PA0IPI0 DOUBLE SHAKE TATS MIU,
for grading wheat, cleaning flax, etc., . ; '
PLOWS, OF DIFFERENT PATTERNS, ,
TEED COTTERS, WAGONS,
and la variety of other machinery,
thl- 1"h " n,'.of fiu"n "tlolea will find II t
c,,r ' -MW"5" f 0111 M ny Blacksmith 8h(
Sh n. .VlS""1 "i;! Ellsworth streets, (oik i
slli- Pierce's terry), Albany, llnmn.
iU?r'rom """ Promptly attended to. '
'lw i'RANK WyOD.
WAGON SHOP FOR RENT!
any time UewrTa, hU 1CM0 rent-
WAGO SHOP AT TAHGEYT.
In IJnn county Oregon.
waiwn shop. Xta TmJT 3?"f?ln!n
for tho business. ' ueslniblo mention
Tangent, Or., Jan., j, i874'SVXGI'ER-
WEBFOOT MARKf
W. II. UEARHAKT.
nerof K,r an? iC" " " b,!!L1".''.-. on the c
aim w many , i " "'r W CMorne
no H call, i -.ii'S""'" " s-e Ht t., ,.
JOHN CONNER'S
BANKING AND EXCHANGE OFFICE
ALBANYOREGON.
DEPOSITES RECEIVED,
BUiijisci 10 CHECK AT SWOT. :
Interest Allowed on Time Deposits in oin-
ESCIIrrn 0N, f oiiriND. SAN FRA1T
CISCO, and NEW YORK, for ial.
t lvrest rates.
COLLECTIONS MADE AND PROMPTU REMITTED
"nuJg Bonn, g i, K. t0 4 , m.--
Befor to
Teb. 1, nn-i
H. TV. CORRETT.
HENRY FAILING,
W. S. LABI). ,
Hi ffik
STEEtB t .--a-.
thniMAK,s fin "ua -
auu.
FARM far '
a farm, .ituat ;i' tlmv. r ,, KKS F0B SAT E
oi'init in cultlvaiion ami n . " ""pmvea-ia
ItC4imaln. . !?,f,M,.al1 Rood wheat land.
!; ,, ;,r 'rn . ,,rcharU
walla Waila, W.T.