MART. V. BROTN, EIHTOlt.
Iriiay,
Feb. 1, 1S7.
TEE CFFICliL PAPER FOR CREGOS
KAf.I II A MTV I
or mi -
YCF ALBANY PRECINCT!
The Democracy of Albany Precinct
wa requested to assemble at tho Court
House, on
Saturday, fcb. O, 1878,
at 1 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of or
ganizing Democratic Ci.vd.
Let there be a rousing turnout both
from town and country.
By request of
MANY DEMOCRATS.
' TBi nSI AS UftMTST.
IVota the latest dispatches it would
that the war is not ended. Peace
negotiations still bang fire and Russia
refuses to make public her terms. Mean
time her armies are preying forward,
although tho Turks stubbornly dispute
their advance on Constantinople. Not
withstanding this resistance, however,
Russian scouts hare advanced to within
TO miles of the Turkish capital and are
till pressing their way forward.
The Turkish government is having
difficulty to maintain order in the capi
tal among its. tens of thousands of rit fu
. gee. Circassians have, already plun
dered Sullh, Boutegas, Cborlus, Rodesto
and other towns, and are now flocking
into Constantinople, laden with booty,
The government wishes to disarm them
i ... . .
ana sena tnem into Asia, Ivtt it is
dtubtful whether they will be able to
do so. . There is appalling atiserv ftvtm
the Bosporus to the Gulf of Saloniea.
The whole coast is crowded with terri
nea Mohammedans, seeking transporta
tion across Aleros. Hundreds are per
ishing.with cold, hunger and exhaustion.
and no succor ia possible until the panic
and confusion in the capital l;as ataied.
AVOTHM WAT T tSET AT TRKf.
Howe diplomatic genius has int
duced in tho California Legislature an
extremely cute anti-Chinese measure.
It is a bill ostensibly to prevent the
spread of infection iu the disinterment
f dead bodies, but really aimed at the
Chinese custom of removing dead Chi
namen from the country. " The bill re
quire a permit to be obtained from the
Board of Health, at a cost of 10 to
the parties removing the body, and also
requires that the remains bo inclosed in
metallic coffin before removal. The
pJt of such a coffin will lie about i0,
ao that the law will be equivalent to
the imposition of a tai of $0 for each
orpse disinterred.
The six companies are under contract
to return to China the remains of each
Chinaman who dies while serving out
their contract term.
If the bill becomes a law, and can bo
enforced, it will have the effect to ma
terially lessen Chineso immigration, as
the Chinese will not go to a country
Without the assurance that their bones
will bo returned to the Flowery Jving--don.
t rmra
H4TB rUtMCEB
PIACE."
ABOIT TUB
In 1664 George B. McOlellan and
tjeorge H,. Pendleton were eandilates
for President and'Vice-President of the
United States. Aftar foui-teen yexrs
they reappeared in public life, the one
as Governor of New Jersey and the
Cther as the successful candidate for the
Senate from Ohio. The N. Y. Sun
thinks things have changed considerably
since 1864, Then the Republican party
was unite. 1 and strong under the leader
ship of a frightfully elected President-;
Bow it is divided and weak, and dis
trustful of the man who wronofuiiv sits
in the White House. Then the con- .
duct of the war was the sharp part- in-,
sue ; to-day the grea't question Wore !
the people is whether the stealing of
the Presidency by fraud thall go unrc-1
traked.
-
Among hi admirable prods at- the
frauds and shanis-cf this "Age of Bi-ass,'
Rev. Mr. Cruzan, in his lecture last
Saturday night, didn't, forget to give a
rap at that most M-uprndous of all
Frauds, the Presidential steal. He de
nounced the Electoral Commission aa a
farce and humbug, aud paid his partlc
vlar compliments to that brace of Rad
ical frauds, Conkling and Ma inc. who
Bare so recently become united in feel
fng as well as villainy, aftv-r so long an
estrangement. , He evident r thinks
their union a sham to do more mischief.
There was a proud statesman nsiAod Conklinj -With
a hatred to which he did l-'jig cliu-,
H had tx-li Blain
From tbe State known as Kainc ;
2snt tlsey're solid onoe more Flalne ar.d C-mklTng.
sElX-SfTT'TnTE 4 1 EIVTIOS.
The PesTiocratic State Central Com
mittee -met ves-terday at Portland.' and.
from a special disateli received late
Mist night we are informed that the
State Convention in called to meet at
Portland on April lOrh.
Tbe Committee recommend that
County Conventions be held on March
30th and Primaries on March 23d. We
will give the call and afHwintment f
delegates next week.
XtuA OUT Washington leltcr on fast
"J age. It is racy and newsy.
ItKXTO.I RKlIOt BAt V,
A musing and enthusiastic crowd of
Democrat! assembled at Corvallis Inst
Saturday for the purpose of organising
a Democratic Club, A preliminary or
ganization was effected by the election
of K. Kkintoii President and W. A.
Wheeler Secretary. A committee on
resolutions were, apjtointed oonsixliug of
Jno. Burnett, W. & McFaddcn, J. 8.
Palmer, Geo. V. Moore and Wm Gra
ham, who shortly afterwards rejiorted
the following, which wore adopted with
out a dissentuig Voice ;
IW. la. That the law for the rcsumnlli.-l of
speote payments, on the lit day of January, ia;, hev.
itm itLt-Ti mm -Trti ny me KPitl'UL-en parly without tie-
and binir both iiuifoctire to secure lt objwts anil
htirhly Injurious to tho business of the conntr) and In
order to srrure our industries from ruin end dbevitor,
resullitiir Imm Its enloroeineut, we are In favor of Its
immediate ana unconditional repeal.
2nd. That we are in favor ot one kind ot money for
the bond holder end plow holder ; and thornf-wrs favor
mo remonetutatitm of surer and making it a Kjal ten
der with free coinage.
a t. i nat we are in ravor oc anoitsmne; the national
RanUnir System and siipphine: iu place with t'nited
Suttee notes hutied directly bv the Government, and
convortibl 9 on demand into I tilted States obligations
brarlne; 91 per cent. per annum ; Hue, United State
notes shall he a run le-ral ttffl.lt for all purposes, ex
cept for the pavmcnt of such cliHsralloiis as are hv ex
isting contracts specially made lettable in coin ; and we
hold it is the duty of the l.ovei-mm-nt to jtrovide such
Mreulatliijr medium in eunVleut amount in a-ldition to
the gold and silver vt answer the demands of trade
and the neoe,Hice of the people.
tth. That we aro opfHMcd to any farther lsue o!
Brld bind In foreign market by which the brain and
mu-le of our penile become mortgaged to tho foreign
bond holder without eten Uho eiutty of redemption.
6ih. That wo are opposed to Chinese immitatloa
and in favor of a mMideation of the Burltnsramo Treate
so at to prevent tho furtlier influx of thuao heathen
locusts that are eating out our substance and taking
th bread from the mouths of the laboring; men and
womtm ol tnw eoimtry. That the Itepubiiran party
w resijonsinic t r uns A.natlc leprosy on the body tv-
litio, by provl.ilnjf that thy should bo recelsed Into
this country tlpon the same footing as tnreiners of the
moat favwod nations, and aracndlnu the Naturalia
tion Laws so as to entitle every chinaman to become
a voter, thny bare placed the destiny of the racifle
Coast hi th?ir bands and committed a crime against
tho HviliniUon of tba lvth e:-ulurv.
6in. That the UepubUi-an parry is rtspotislNe f.ir
wastlns; the public domain t":io heritage) of tUa poo.
poio ,iirayin rnn ot iana w miimaii com
panies witnnut pr.W iruards, thereby buildinr Bp
and f-xt.!rinar a class ol corporations tint now hjv
their feet ution the nevks of the noople and have the
Oovenunent by the throat ; and the assertion of the
Republican !rty that they are opposoi to further
granu of tuolic lands to corporations and tnonop-iti'4,
Is only equalled by thoir JuuaUing tractices of the
past eisrht J ear.
Ttu- Tbstalide r.ngfesa, by daw legislation, has
produced eonihinatltms of capital to oppress labor and
plsee the xi-lo at the mere of the great corporations
of the country, we turn wi:h sa Jsiaotion to tho l ouiia
tor relief, and (that we haU with joy the late decisions
of the riuprettta Court of the United Statea la ths
Uran'W casea, to tho effitH that railroad comtamiea,
aardiottKuieu and otraiivn carriers are under the
control trf l.-ifisiative power: aud that to protect the
l-ooplo a.-atnst exorbitant diarires for fnnghts, fares
and stoni, the le-isUtum has the right to It the
uiav.rauTTi sum raica.
8th. Tliat wts are oppnaod to high salaries and aM
c-nrarasnnt ext-ouditurs of tho prople'a money by
their public frerrants. That wo favor retrenchment
and reform in eiery department of the Government.
9th. Tliat the Southern Policy founded and iuawru.
ratetl by the lemocratic rartv, in rcoeiviinr the sanc
tion and endorsement of President Uayes, is a rebuke
to tns maie wcaa.icss of tile K-fpuhnran arty( and
t3 harbingvr of brighter day to the Uepublic.
After the adoption of the resolutions
one nunarex an-i lwvnfy-ve) persons
signed the roll of membership, and a
lermauent organization was effected by
the election of the following officers :
John Burnett, President ; W. B. Ham
dton and J. W. Weblier, Vice Presi
dents ; E. A. Milner. Secretarv : Wm.
Ilenklo, Treastnvr.
Our Corvnllis corresp,mdent informs
na that the Radital Mitchcllites of that
section were astonished and dismayed
at the enthusiastic marshaling of the
Democratic hosts on that occasion, and
freely acknowledge themselves "busted
goslings."
We earnestly congratulate our D.-m-
ocrntic neighbors of the 'Heart of the
Valley" on this most auspicious and
flattering beginning, entertaining the
fullest confidence that their efforts will
be crowned with' the full redemption of
Benton in June.
tisia . sii.vF.s.
The Oi-tyonian talks as if the cvunt-rr
was full of gold, "and more coming,"
but other, and may wo suggest, more
reliable authority, does not agree with
that paper. Mr. Grocsbes-sk, in his re
cent address before th Bankers' Con
vention, presents the following estimate
of the precious metals throughout the
world, from 1852 to 1875, as made in a
report to the Knglish House cf Com
mons in July, 1876. The amonnU are
given in English currency :
vt as". eot.iv.
1WJ 38,550,0
1S53 i,ono,ooo
1S 2,,,000
li!Ki S7,M5,0O9
livJt 29,520,fl
17 3S,45o,00O
lR5S..., !4,30,0n0
lkba Z4.070.000
ISO S.WO,000
lSrtl -'7W(WI
MI.ST.K.
MZO.OOO
8,120,000
S, 120.000
,131,000
S, 130,000
8,130,000
S,I30,'X
S, 150,000
,t0,0t0
t.,540,000
9,040,000
,S40,000
lo,itl0,10
10,340,000
10,115,000
J0.3,t
10,045,000
9.500.000
10,315,000
12,810.000
13.050,000
14.050,000
14,W0.O00
16,100,000
n2., ot.sjfllooo
IMS... 21.JW.000
le S0,ii,000
ltWii 24,8a,000
lb! i4,L'20.000
WS ?.',SOi,000
153 21,5!l,0)
21,245,000
170 21,-S70.0n0
171 81,474,000
1"- M.Mn.ncO
is? n.up.tm
1S74 18 150,000
175 li(,M0,i0O
Total f;.72,l?,000 341.8,000
Tiiis is a very valuable table. It
will be observed that the production of
gold has fallen off almost one-half, and
that the production of silver has ax-
aeth- doubled.
I1M IT BACK.
In a recent issue of the Democrat
we printed an item ftom some of our
exchanges, stating that Prof. Mart. Tay
lor was editor of a Mitchell organ at
Pendleton, whereat Mart very justly
elevates himself onto his' auricular or
gan anl pens us the. following postal
card :
Westox, Jan. 54, ltrs.
Editor Zmocrai:
i am now a strone dvo.-ate of temperance, a cham
pion of morality, and believe, in a hell. Thus have 1
cbanjred. But I am no editor of any Mitchell organ :
no bat-ltslider from the Democratic pane. I cannot be
bonsht with British (fold or Republican greenbacks.
I am, as ever, a muldoon Detnoerat, and the man who
. I"-" oue noon nag not wealth enoujrh to
Your o d friend, MART. TAVTX)R.
THE AHCXDE HONOICaBI K
-titter uie mmitny commng we gave
A f. .1.-1 1.1. ,
the Van Observer last week it came
down- handsomely out of its tree and
acknowledged its error j published our
denial of Pomeroy's lies about us, and
humbly confessed that it knew we were
a teetotaller of the first water.
Well, that's something like it, Van,
and we forgive you for your "evident
mistake of last week. Go, and sin no
more.
The Van Observer is forced to issue
under the noin de plume of the Afom
iny llejhter until Cartwright comes on
from Washington with its new head in
his back pants" pockeS . ,
as ixrosTAT eumiox.
There ia one resolution omitted kt the
platform of tho Carvallis Deraacratic
Club which should be in every Demo
cratic platform of the current century,
and that ia one denouncing the Presi
dential Fraud. Democrats should not
for one moment forget that they were
cheated out of the President whom they
elected by a quarter of a million votes,
nor fail to express their indignation at
the Great Wrong.
The infamous conspiracy and fraud
ulent contrivances br which tho office
which rightfully belongs to Samuel J.
Tilden was given to Rutherford B.
ITsyes should be denounced in burning
words from every political meeting, ros
trum and journal iu the land until the
party that perpetrated the infamy are
so effectually and eternally damned as
to be beyond the hopes of even a polit
ical Purgatory.
Is it possible that the American peo.
pie can for one moment forget this
shameless cheat t Will they sit calmly
and silently down, fold their hands re
signedly and stare at each other in
wonderment, as though destiny mado It
impossible for them to overcome the
fates nd right one of the most flagrant
wrongs by which any people anywhere
lost their rights ! Is the reason, strength
and will power of this jieople to give
way to pathetic superstition that the
fore-ordained destiny of the Republic is
downward, and that no effort of theirs
can change its course t Or will they
yet prove themselves ruea citizens of
the Sta'e freemen, who know thoir
rights and dare maintain thorn in the
face of fraud, by an enforced demand
made through their representatives in
the Halls of Congress, for a thorough,
searching investigation of all that per
tains to the villainous scheme which de
frauded them of their right of franchise
and seated Mr. Hayes instead of Mr.
Tilden, in the Executive chair of the
Republic, and the further demand that
the parties implicated and found guilty
shall be punished to the fullest extent
of their crime.
Who is tbe man that dati to sit
down in the broad light of to day and
look ujion the unblushing, unrestrained
reckless reveling in crime as it presents
itself to his visiou,and with compressed
lip silently acquiesce in this villainy
this work of the devil jn man, which is
robbing him of his birthright and dear
est treasures, and his posterity of that
inheritance which is theirs by right;
and should lie transmitted to them un
impaired in its purity, that they in turn
may hold it iu trust for their posterity?
If there be such an oue, he is not wor
thy the liberty and the franchise won
not only at the great sacrifice of blood
and treasure, but bestowed without
price upon the posterity of tbe men
patnote of an hundred years ago.
e are quite sure our Corvallu
friends inadvertently omitted this im
portant thing, but we hope all future
Democratic organizations will "fire it iu."
i ne .Boston 1'om has the following in
connection with a recent wedding in
East Cambidge, Mass.: "The contract
tng parties were natives of Eastern
Maine, and some ten years ago, whea
they were scarcely beyond childhood,
they were married. They removed to
Chicago, but their life was not a smooth
one, and, in the course of a very few
years, the wife returned ts her friends
in Maine, leaving her husband in Chi
cago. He obtained a divorce from her
on the ground of desertion, and soon
after he married again. At alout the
same time his wife's family removed to
Cambridge, aud there she was supposed,
by her new acquaintances, never to have
been married, as she had resumed her
maiden name, and no intimation was
given that she had ever changed it.
Last summer her engagement to a young
man of this city was announced, and, at
about the same time, her former bus-
band obtained a divoroe from his second
wife. He came east during the fall,
met his first wife, and on Thanksgiving
Day was remarried to her."
"t.BfvrSBACftvEk-8" SAT.
We publish to-day a lengthy com
munication from a "Greenbacker" which
crowds out other matter that should
have appeared in this week's issue. We
trust our correspoudents will remember
that the space of even our ample col
umns is limited, and condense their
communications into as small a compass
as possible, consistent with a clear and
concise expression of their views.
We shall have somethiug to say to
"Greenbackers" in the near future.
RAI.r.H MEKCIKY.
We neglected last week to stat that
E. L. Bristow has sold the Salem Mer
cury to Messrs. W. F. Cornell-i Walter
Moss, two of the best practical printers
in Oregon, who will continue to make
the Mercury a first-class Democratic
paper. That journal could not fall into
the hands of a better man or a truer
Democrat than Wilbur Cornell, and we
wish him all possible success in his new
field of operations. -
Caetwrigiit is in Washington, inter
viewing Mitchell, and Van, becoming
ing impatient at his absence, changes
the name of' the Van Obsrrver to the
Regittcr, and drops Oartwright's name
entirely from the gable end of the paper
as one of its proprietors.
Whew ! won't there be music in that
North Methodist concern when Deacon
returns I Guess not I No chancel i
. e,-ar- .-
ftss at rcsKiaAm .httkelr,
Th9 Now York .Suit of tlio 12th ul-
time seemes to imdewtan I our san'or
Senator, judging from tho following;
iriri'i.K MiTCEtKLT., in his speech in
tho Sunate defending his BeheniB to se
cure a new laud grant for tho bimofit of
Ja.T Goui.n and the Union Pacific, ad
mitted that the country was thoroughly
sick of tho syatmu of subsidies to raif
roads. Hipplg also condescendingly re
marked that the universal public santi
ment was "in n great ineas'uro well
founded," We arc truly delightod to
hear Hippi.E say this. He is a states
man of such gigantic stature, and up to
the timo that Mr. Thompson, at present
member of Congress from Pennsylvania,
helped him out of that good old Com
monwealth between two days, ho had
earned a character H'j atuiulus thtit we
were really not quite sum that the peo
ple of tho United States wero right in
withholding tho public property from
the Goulds and tho Sootts und tjie
ni'MTlx'GToXa until this wolooino sen
tonoe had fallen from tho lips of Hip
ple himielf. But doubt is pust no.
Hippi.e has said it, and, being sum we
are right, we shall go ahead.
But, after all, IIipplb has a strange
way of showing his faith. TUo fruits
that he brings forth are meet for any
thing but repentance. Ho doesn't be
lieve in subsidies; he think that the
public sentiment against the practice is,
"as it were," just. But tho pure Hip
ple proposes, in that very breath, to
confiscate about five million acres from
lands once granted to tho Northern
Pacific, aud make a lie gj-aitt of them
to Jay Goui.n, or to somebody for Jat
Gould, on the sorry pretence that they
are to be used to build a road from
Portland to Salt Lake. Now,
Mr. Hipi le, if he livos n fow wek
longer, may lenrn tlmt, iu addition to
the sentiment against fui!.i;iivs, thc-n
is also a very general sentiment ngiiinst
Jay Gould and nil his works. This,
like tho other, is, "as it were,'" jiiot;
or, in the phrase which Hipplk seems
to prefer, it "is, iu a uia'ure, well
founded." He might just as well (ause
before lie but ts against tho stone wall.
If Hipple should unfortunately collide
with an immovable body, and knock his
brains out, tho enormous quantity of
them flying about would produce some
thing like the reported rain of "uncook
ed flesh in Kentucky. We renllv
trust that Hi pplp. will bo preserved to
U3. Since the prostration of the ex
cellent Mr. Patteksos of South Caro
lina we cannot possibly spare Hipple.'
He is now the only surviving specimen
in good condition of the "Camkros
school of Pennsylvania statesmen. We
trust the people of Oregon will pen-ive
the necessity of returning Hipple to
the Senate, end wo camot!v advise
Hipple himself to sco thnt Mr. Gould
pays cash to cover election eyjenses as
he goes along. He -ought a!soto lie
niore circumspect as to the manner in
which he servos Mr. Gould. Thomp
son's resolution, looking to tho forfeit
ure of the whole Northern Pacific
grant, would undoubtedly prove a very
effectual method of removing u!l dan
ger of tho Northern line competing
wiih the Union Pacific. 13ut HirPLE
ought not to have got Thojipso to of
fer it. Thompson is well known as
nippi,Ks ether folf, and if tho resolu
tion passes, and the peoplo -.-f Oregon
find themselves deprived of even the
sickly prospect of a railroad held out
by tho Northern Pacific, they may get
sore about it, and remand HiprCE to
private life.
ceiuivr sTisn tuj.
Tho Bet, in its account of Edmunds'
speech before the Workingmeu's meet
ing in Portland, says :
" He Indulged in a ran on the knuckles of Noltncr,
of the Standard, and Urown, of tlu Aiiia :ij- DgjtucHAr.
indicating vory forcibly his imposition to tha unterii
fijd pemocrasy. In dor. 13, lia inriWU all men, irrc
specUveof age, color, -a. ;v, or former oomlmn of
servitude, to step forward a d 1X1 tbvir uaiiK-j to the
roll.'
Under this broad invitation several
Chinamen would have stepped "forrcd"
and signed the roll, but they couldn't be
induced to train in tho sauio crowd with
Edmunds.
VISE S. V. a. A,
The State Woman Suffrage Associa
tion meets in this city on Tuesday, the
12th instant. We cheerfully welcome
its memlicrs to the hospitality of Al
bany, but wc don't see much use in the
concern anyway. This movement socnis
to be losing ground instead of gainin
and-is gradually growing into disrepute
through the character of its leadership.
(OUE OS t
As tho campaign approaches new sub
scribers to the Democrat come slashing
m, at men our Heart 13 made glad and
our exchequer puffv.
Continue to give us this substantial
help,good friends, and our. paper shall
be an additional power in tho land and
the Radical Philistines shall be made
to quake in their boots! Selah ! Bullv1
TUB 51 I'T. " 1
Let tho people of " The Forks " turn
out en masse to-morrow and assist at the
organization of the Scio Democratic
Club. This is a glorious work, and
should be helped along by every true i
patriot iu that "Democratic Gibraltar."
He who reflects upon death has al
ready cut short tho evil habit of talka
tiveness ; and he who has received the
gift of inward and spiritual tears shuns
it as he would fire. But he who pay
eth not for his paper is a dogoned bilk.
You hear ns !
-..i'.,tT-rrT:-w T-eweByi.'i;a)jMe.-.-Mtagg.r -
11IR iilStT CKSACK tLXlf6V.il.
IIaeiiisbcro, Jan, 23, 1878.
EJilor Democrat :
I notice, in your last Issue, in your
eagerness to endorse the platform of the
Hulsey Greenback Club, and your fan
cied absorption uf tLo Independents of
Linu county,- you are inspired with
the cdinmeiidable liberality to invite
your Greenback friends to send you any
mutter they wish published, aud you
will cheerfully comply, evidently intend
ing to convey the impri'isiou that you.
as a loading exponent '39 Democratic
party of this State, intend to stand with
the Greenbackers, upon the Greenback
platform, iu the coming political contest,
that we may overthrow the Republican
party. Nothing would give me greater
pleasure than to cooperate with the
Democralio party, or any other party,
to dethrone ami subject to just and
equitable laws the present legalized
moimy-shaving, banking ami boudhold
ing monopoly that lives, mores and has
its being in the old political parties.
Notwithstanding your Apparent zeal in
tho great reform m3veml?St, I suspicion
your enthusiasm has overstepped party
discipline, that other and calmer coun
cils will reject. Therefore, as a friend,
allow . me, as one that only aspires to
subserve truth and the natural and po
litical rights of the laboring people, to
briefly review youv position, that we
may. know whether you have seriously
resolved to do honor to your head and
heart by mounting and standing on the
new, sound and staunch Halsey Greet,
luck platform in the coming fight.
Iu the outset of jour editorial com
ments on the Halsey Greenback plat
form we are assured that "in the main
it is a good Democratic platform," but
in the very next sentence we are told
tlmt "it palpably misrepresents facte
when it charges the Democratic party
with supporting in its essential feature
ttie unjust Republican financial system."
There was no intention to misrepresent
the nuts and designs of the leaders of
the Democratic party, aud we will per
sist in our innocence until facts reveal
tho contrary. To determine what is
the "essential feature" in thia unjust
Republican financial system is the point
at issue. The essential feature is wheth
er United States bonds and other obli
gations of the government that were
purchased with, aud were payable in
lawful money, shall now be jiaid in cur
rency or in gold. The leading, ruling
clement of the Democratic party is
pledged, "teeth and toe nails," to the
puymont of the United States bonds in
gold, and nothing but gold. Even the
silver bill that has just passed theDem
ocin'.ie Houso of Congress exempts
these United States bonds from the
general ojici-ation of this Democratic
measure, showing conclusively that it is
i,i tho interest of the bondholder and
against tho jeople. The Republican
party is unequivocally in favor of pay
ing the public debt in gold. Yet the
editor of the Democrat denies, and
claims that the Democratic party has
won nil its recent victories by boldly
opposing this unjust Republican financial-system.
It is true, in some of the
Western States, in the late elections,
they adjusted their platform so as to
deadfall tho Greenbackers, inducing
them to believo there was no difference
between the Democratic and Greenback
parties. This assurance, coupled with
die magic power of old party attach
ment, led captive by thousands tbe hon
est, unsuspecting Greenback element of
tho country, just as the leaders of the
old parties are vainly attempting to do
in Oregon. But the Greenback people
saw that they had been misled and be
trayed, which provoked a retributive re
action that is making such inroads upon
the ranks of the old organizations that
it is frightful to the old party leaderst
The aggregate Independent Greenback
vote that was cast in the 22 States that
held elections Inst full did not reach
150,000, and to-day there is enrolled in
tho 13,000 Greenback clubs in the Uni
ted States over 700,000 names, and in
creasing daily as never before.
Because we refuse ta worship the
goldsn calf, and connive with the Dem
ocrats to bolster up the hard money sys
tem, the Greenbackers are accused of
organizing ii the interests of the bank
ers and bW .holders' party. This wan
ton assertion is so groundless and ab
surd that it is unworthy of further no
tice. Our demand for the repeal of the
national banking system is said to be an
appropriation of Democratic material
The Democratic party has all the jtime
ostensibly favored the repeal of the na
tional banks, and have also failed all
the time to tell us how, and with what
kind of money, if any, they propose to
supply the place of tho national bank
circulation, amounting to $350,000,000.
Does tho Democratic party propose to
repeal tho national banks and contract
tho circulating medium of tho country
to the extent of the national bank cir
culation, or substitute currency or gold
instead ? Until this question is explic
itly answered wo must withhold any
credit that seems to be attached to their
opposition to tke national banking sys
tem.
Section five, the editor says, he can
scarcely get through his hair. Quite
reasonable, for ho has the thing so mud
dled there is no sense to it. Whether
it is owing to the confusion in his mind
caused by the force of reason and pub
lic sentiment that impels him to adopt
this section, or something else, I know
not. But among all the Democratic
platforms that have sbeen adopted
throughout the country since they nom
inated that good Id, man, Horace Gree-
ley, for President, not one, to my
knowledge, has fairly and squarely fa
vored taxing United States bonds.
This is a bold and manly advance in
the right direction. One more step,
friend Mart, and you will be firmly
planted on the center plank of the Hal
sey Greenback platform. Will youl
There are other points of tho editorial
that deserve notice, but must be da
ferred, as the limit intended is already
exceeded. The importance of the sub
ject constitutes the reason for the length
of this article, and I hope it will be re
ceived iu the same spirit it is given, as
a sincere expression of an earnest
GREENBACKER.
HRRO 15 TUB MOISTAIXS.
A correspondent of the Salem Heard,
writing from Cedar Camp, Marion
county, under date of the 2Cth, tells
the following strange and horrible story :
"The imagination fails to conceive of
a sadder accident than that which hap
pened yesterday morning in this vicin
ity. James K. Sturgis, a shingle
maker near this camp, accidentally kill
ed his wife and babe last night. I
jive yon the particulars as I received
them from the unfortunate man him
self, who is new nearly crazed over the
horrible catastrophe:
It seems that he bad been out hunt
ing during tbe day, and came in just
as the shades of evening were falling
jver the canyon in which they lived.
He put his double-barrelled shot-gun in
its usual place, and a small "Smith k
Wesson" pistol, which he had with him,
uuder the pillow of the bed, which was
located in the main room.
Now comes the sad part of the story:
Mrs. Sturgis, with her little babe, re
tired about 8 o'clock. The babe, only
five months old, was lying on the left
side ef its mother, dreaming as only
babes can dream ; the mother, like one
who had worked all day, sleeping that
quiet sleep that nothing but the little
"precious" by her side could disturb.
The clock had just struck ten when
Sturgis aroused by some fantasy of the
brain, picked quickly the revolver from
uuder the pillow, cocked it, and in his
dreamy state, while lying in the bed,
discharged it. The bullet sped to its
destination, passing through the abdo
men of the mother and the heart of the
child.
After the act Sturgis struck a light
We leave it to our readers to imagine
what a scene was there, and what met
his eyes as the fitful match disclosed
everywing. 1 neitner nave lien nor
tongue to describe further.
Last Sunday the agonized father fol
lowed to the grave tbe wife and child
r ACIFK ASTKBS.
Gen. Howard lives at Vancouver.
. Fanny Buckingham's le-imb theatri
cals at Portland had the biggest run ef
auy known season.
. Five men and a boy tried to bridle
a Walla Walla mule. The still un
bridled mule alone remains to tell the
tale.
Some of orr exchanges have taken
up the cudgel sinst round dances.
We'll bet the editors can't dance any
thing but a "Kentucky hoe-down" and
then fling their legs around like an old
cow in a stampede. The mad that
don't like those beautiful undulatirg.
beezy, squeezr round dances hath no
muBio into his soul aud is eu old poke
generally.
Following are the new directors of the
Luckey Queen mine: S. F. Cbadwick,
D. Levens, J. Brandt, Jr., W. R. Wil
lis, W. B. Royal, J. B. Bmith, R.
Mallory. Another rich strike in the
mine is reported. Specimens of the
ore were brought to Roseburg and as
sayed on Saturday last, in the presence
of the directors. The first assay of
gold rock gave 13.16 to the ton; the
second of silver rock gave $197.64 to
the ton, and third, ruby silver rock,
gave $6,873.46 to the ton. Of coarse
while such prospects are obtained the
company will not step work'.
A Kentucky preacher rose to sjieak,
and opened the Bible. The first verse
that met his eye happened to be, "The
voice of the turtle shall bo heard in the
land. " BretheriBg," said he, "at first
sight one weuld not think there was
much in this text ; but, on a little con
sideration, you will see there's a great
deal in it. Now, it is said, 'The voice
of the turtle shall be heard in the land,'
But the turtle hasn't any voice, that
any body ever heard ; so it must be the
noise he makes in plunging off the log
into the water. Hence, we conclude
that immersion is meant, and that im
mersion will become universal."
r ABHEaU !
The Albany Democratic Club organi
zation will be in tho afternoon of the
9th inst, for the' especial accommoda
tion of you who can't remain in town
after night. Let every Democratic
farmer in the Precinct attend the meet
ing and assist by tis presence an?,
counsel. in its organization.
e
IMT APPRECIATE THE FILTH.
The following explains itself :
Sauis, Oregon. Jan. 17. 1S73..
Editor tabor World:
Sir As there Is more Brick Potneroy In your paper
n I can reasonable swallow. I most rasnactrollv re.
queet you to stop my pa.er.
Youra respectfully,
T. D. UARKUA
Mart Brown, ot the Albanv Dt vockat. sars that If
any of bis delinquent subscribers sidle up with Baecher
and think there la no hell, hs'U make it hot for them
untU they square up. Watchman.
And that fetched lotsf 'em but
there are many more yet oat of the fold
who must be snatched as brands from
the burning.
. CDJTOSSll PAaAtSAPKi,
Political clubs organizing.
Friends of silver increasing in num
ber.
Democratic SUvte , Cjmmitteo. mst
yesterday at Portland.
TI18 S. F. Wvip still plants its stinger
iuto the Chinese curse.
Tbe Snohmoiiish Start valedictory
was briefly, "So long, boys f '
Radical State Central Committee
meet at Portland on the 20th.
Lake county has a now city, named
Plevna, aud settlers will soon Russ:a
in and take it.
Conkling's Utica paper wants io
know when the President will begin to
conciliate tho North.
Our Balsam, (a lloosier,) says Beech-
er may ravo ahead but he can't abolish
"Hell on the Wabash."
We havo an agricultural exchange
with the continued story, "Buckwheat
Cakes aud Ingen Batter."
Adam Sting lives ia Pendleton, and
the Portland See occasionally gives the
Orejonian a A-dam stiug too.
Prominent bankers iu Now York,
Philadelphia and Eoston are endeavor
ing to prevont the passage of tho silver
bill.
According ta the Watchmm the
Walla Walla hons are already on a
strike in anticipation of ths Easter rise
in eggs. ' '
Joaquin Miller is thought to be
sensible because he has gone to prais
ing Poe s writings. It is tinn he was
doing something smart.
The Walla Walla Watchman says:
"If any of ur readers don't get this
papers please notify us of the fact!"
We'll do it, Bro. B3serer!
Amqng the distinguishing features tyf
the Salem Daily Slateitnan just now
is its most excellent and elaborate re
ports of the. Supreme Court proceed
ings. Green B- Smith, Ciiairnun of the
Independent Greenback Slate Central
Committee, has ordered the Committee
to congregate at Salem on the 20th
inst.
Mr. Bristow, rotiring editor of .the
Salem Mercury, is receiving bushels of
friendly puffj from Radical newspapers.
It wasn't just thia way when "Lafe"
was in the "biz."
Women who read newspapers are al
ways bright, good natured and have
common sence. JN ow won t tnis induce
lots of suffering husbands to subscribe
for tbe Democrat?
Hon. J. W. Nesmith has. received
letters from the proprietors of the
West Suie R. R. which give ample as
surance that tho road will be completed
to Dixie, Polk county, this Fall.
Representative Luttrell, of Califor
nia has introduced a bill in the House
"to punish and prevent 'the practice
of polygamy in the Territories and
other places, subject to the jurisdiction
of the United States.
Representative Luttrell, of Califor
nia, is the leading ante Chineso Con
gressman from this coast, ne is work
ing industriously aad vigorously to de
vise means and supply remedies for this
most stupendous eviL
uaiiiornia editors ore standing no
their head with delight because they
have had a shower or two of rain down
there. If that was the f.tshion up here
when it rains we would dose up shop
and play circus all the tiroa these days.
Joaquin Miller wants his body burned
so that "the corporeal essence can go up
wards aud not be gnawed by the
worms." The JFw. thinks the other
part of his essence will be attended to
without any specific instructions on the
part of Waw-keen. t
- State Treasurer Brown has paid ofi
nearly all the out-standing warrant?
which Lave been drawn against the
State during his term of office. This
is a remarkably good showing, and is
another argument in favor of the con
tinuance of a Democratic administra
tion.
The Now York Saturday Xij7tt, a
story paper, is publishing a serial sfbry
of Chief Joseph and his Nez Perees
band. It gives a thrilling account of
the Camas Prairie Massacre and slings
terrific mass of sensational romantic
literature in sight.
The Orejonian sadly admits that it is
more than probable Bland's silver bill
ill pass the Senate, as it has passed
the House, and that tbe probabilities of
Hayes's vetoing it are poor, especially
as he could not hold the necessary one-
third vote in either House to sustain
him.
a 1 mi 1 , . ..
a. 0111 lifts ceen lnirouucea in tlie
Lower House of Congress to repeal the
old ironclad oath, and another sweeping
away jury disqualification on account
of connection with the rebellion. If
it becomes a law, as it should, what will
the Republicans do without the support
of carpet-baggers and the aidof the out
rage mill?
The Supreme Court of Georgia has
decided in the case of a murderer that
"to bo too drunk to form the intent to
kill, he must be too drunk to form the
intent to shoot." If that sort of com
mon sense is going to, prevail on the
bench, it will go hard with tho gentle
men who like to plead intoxication for
every spec:e3 of deviltry they commit.
Hos. Best. Havdes is Worthy Chief
Templar of ono Salem Lodge of Good
Templars, and E. O. Norton wields the
gavel over the other, Lodge.
Well we giveitup !
They uJk about another seedling-, but wa think it's
all bosh. The old folks won't stand lu WaXa Walla
Watchman.
Who in thunder wants the old folks
to stand It, anyhow.
sinri.mi s ea ef . i .
Tbo origiuil moonlight trp
the cow jumped ov(;r the moon.
A Hartford, Coan., newspaper : -poses
a bachelor how, the prizfw to )
awarded by ladies.
For matrimonially inclined if y, t
can't get the girl you want, take the
girl tfiat wants you. .
Hand organs are forbidden in the
streets of Bryan, Tex., by the law-.
the organic law, probably.
Jf you think you are too tall, marry
an extravagant woman, and you wilt
soon find yourself short enough.
. A Kentuckian has sued a mature
Indiana maiden of forty years or more
for breach of promise of marriage.
' The mildness of the season has in
duced some of the sparrows at Spring
field, Mass., to begin to build their
nests.
When Adam was half through nam
ing his descendants, he got tired and
said, "Let's quit and call the rest
Smith." .
The managers of the Philadelphia
baby show and the tnctbers of tbe in .
fonts have bad a hand-to-Land fight
over the prizes.
It takes all the enjoyment out of a
game of croquet to hear it called an v
"amusement within the reach of tie
feeblest intellect." r
A hale eld rooster of 94 married a
buxom widow of 80 in Jersey City the
o'.her day. May tbe Lord bless aud
prjiper their children 1
Tho Laramie Sentinel says: "Geo.
I. Cannon, the Mormon Congressman,
has gone back to Washington. He
took only one of the four Mrs. Can
nons, and tbres little blunderbusses.''
A cauple in Cleveland Ohio, wh
were divorced some time ago on the
ground of extreme cruelty by the hus
band, found that they had made a
mistake and at their mutual request
the decree has been revoked.
A stable burned in .New York the
other day, and several horses perished in.
it. One old drav horse, however, after
standing tbe heat as long as be could
broke bis halter and deliberately walk
ed to the stable door, kicked it open
and trotted out into the street, saving
himself by his presence of mind.
There is something human about tLat.
Sanator Howe, of Wisconsin, Las
submitted a petition from the working
men of Cdorado, protesting agaact tlio
monopolies of the Central Pacific Rail
road ; against their employing Chinese
labor; against their paying their labor
era silver instead of gold; against their '
discrimination in freights and fares, aud
praying the Government to build a
competing line to the East. ,
The Nez Perees, numbering 84
braves, 184 squaws, 78 boys and 60
girls, all the tribe except' the 80 war
riors and 290 women and children that
White Bird took acros3 the line, are
camped on the race course at Leaven
worth, Kansas, having the run of the
country near by. Rations are issued
to them. They have dug a hole forty
feet in diameter beside the Missouri
river, where, having previously wann
ed the Water by casting heated stones
into it, they bathe daily, no matter how
cold the weather. Chief Joseph wants
to be sent bark to hi3 old reservation
and take his tribe with him. . '
"!.tVTlE A3l tliOaCK."
A little whip-snapper of a Radical
editor is mad because Hon. George it.
Pendleton was elected to the U. S. Sen
ate from Ohio, and calls that eminent
statesman such names as "jobber,"
"pot-house politician," "greenback scab,"
etc., ad naueium. But fortunately this
doesn't hurt Mr. Pendleton. Honest
anl capable, a true man in every sense,
Senator Pendleton is fully the peer of
any man in the Upper Hotise of Coc-
gre3s, anljn social circles is fully enti
tled to the sobriquet of " Gentleman
George," liestowed upon him by decent
Republican statesmen and editors.
Edmcsd3, of the Labor World, is
worried for fear either Lawson or Cba
ney will Lead him off in his aspirations
a3 the Workingmen's candidate for the
U. S. Senate in our next Legislature.
O, Lor Jy !
Ths imminent close of the war in
Europe has knocked the bottom out of
oar wheat market. In San Francisco
it is down to SI 90 per cental, with a
corresponding decline in our local mar
kets. -
Flaane!al aad Cemtmcrclal.
Oold la Sew York, 101).
Leal tenders in PorUsnd bayinf ,
Silver coiu i per cent, difcaounl.
rottrnxa aUXEKT.
WHEAT, per bushel
FLOCK, extra
Superfine.
OATS, per bushel
HAY, baled
Loose
POTATOES, per busbel
BtEF, choice on foot, perB..
UOOS, ex in choice
BACON"
HAMS
COrFEB :
LARD, in kegs
in 10-lb tine
BITTER, in brine
Solid.....
Freeh dairy
E00S, per doi
PRIED FRUIT
Apples, sun-dried, in sacks. ....
la kegs.
Pears, sun-dried ,
Plnms, sun-dried
POULIliT, old hens
Spring chickens .
HIDES, dry Bint
flood culls
kfurrain -
Green
Peer skins
TALLOW, pertt,
HOPS, Oregon and Washington Ty . . .
WOOL..
ALBAXT aUJUCXT.
WITEAT--per bu S o
OATS per bu KkjHSc
HAY Wled 15e.
Loose 13c.
rOTATOES per bu
BACON bams lit.
Sides 10a,
Shoulders Tic
LARD "n 10 tine 41 CX
BUTTER Freeh roll ISe.
QGS 23c
C'BiCKENS tS Ot).
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