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* J . TO. S H E P H E R D , E d i t o r . a- - - " —- ------- — —: ------——---------- B a k e r C ity , F e b . 1 0 , 1 8 7 5 . TH E BEDROCK DEM OCRAT )m tlie L a r g e s t C ir c u la tio n o f any P a p e r P iiU llsk ed in E a stern O re g o n . C ircu lation 9 0 0 cop ies. tX^- The B edeock D emocrat has more f id e , paying subscribers in Balter noyx ' County, than has any other two papers pub- ished in the State. We put no man’s name on our subscription list unless wo have orders so to do. taoBBaiaaamzxazaBaMBnBiasfaaKssaxBaasBKES U N D ER F ALSE PRETENCES. The Baker City Herald was established In this county under the misapprehension that it was to be a Democratic newspaper. In this guise it asked and to a great extent received the patronage of the Democratic party of this county. Under its former management it is needless to say that -its Democracy was of a severely mild charac ter. Having attained, however, by its professions of Democracy, and its sterility of political principle of any kind, patron age from both Democrats and Republicans it has, by a change o f owners, emerged from its former energetic dullness into the feverish activity of a weak Republican newspaper. We mean no disrespect to tae Republican Party by this announcement —it will have to hear this infliction as best it may. Coming as it does upon the heels o f great Democratic triumphs in the Wes tern, Eastern and Middle States, the Lou isiana Outrage, the election of Andrew Johnson, and a divided party in Congress, an avenging fate might well have spared it this misfortune. Better even would it have been for Grant to have appointed the editor to an office one step beyond his most sanguine ambition, and have made him second deputy cierkin a Territorial Post-office, than to suffer under the “ deep damnation” of such a defender. Some lit tle political educatioh ought even in these most leveling times of “ self-made”'' men to be considered necessary, and some lit tle honesty ought to be exercised by such a person, under the circumstances, in deal ing with thoso Democrats who were delu ded Into subscribing for the Ilerald, and who yet. read it, if any such there be. Po litical falsehoods are fatal botli to the giver and the receiver. Itis not, however, with the giverin this instance, that our sympathies are enlisted, it is with the re cipients of the fraudulent “ flap-doodle” of the Herald. He may burst himself on it— Itis his constitutional food, and it eviden tly agrees with him. To those Democrats, however, who take the Herald, and to all those Republicans who are independentin opinion, and intelligent upon political questions, and there are mady. such, we wish to say a word in connection with the following “ leading” oditoriul in the Her ald of the 30th of January: said, it shall be the duty of the Secretary o f the Treasury. to ledeem the legal-tender United States notes in excess only of $300,- 000,000, to the amount of 80 per cent, of the sum o f national-hank notes so issued to anv such banking association as aforesaid, and to continue snch redemption as such circu lating notes are issued until there shall he outstanding the sum of $300,000,000 of such legal-tender United States notes, and no more. And on and after the 1st day of Jan uary, A. D. 1879, the Secretary of the Treas | ury shall redeem in coin, the United States legal-tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption, at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars. And to enable the Secre tary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any sur plus revenues, from time to time,„ in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue, sell, and dispose of, at not less than par, in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds o f the United States described in the, act of Congress approved July 14, 1870, enti tled “ An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt,” with like qualities, priv ileges, and exemptions, to the extent neces sary to carry this act into full effect, and to use' the proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid. And all provisions of law incon sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. “ P u t t i l l s uj> to D r y .” “ Since the Democratic party is trying to recuperate its wasted energies and face the music for another contest, it might bewoii for the pooplo to take notice of the straws with which they caulk their ship. It is •well to remember that every Democratic Senator Voted against Sherman’s ttnance b ill, thus putting themselves against re sumption of specie payment. They op pose the carrying into effect the pledge of the Government made to the people to re- ■deem the greenback circulation in coin.” It is known to every porson that the re sumption of specie payments lias been .advocated by all leading Democrats, and Is a fundamental principle of their party, iind that the Republican majority in the last Congress, were only prevented by Grant’s veto from increasing the green back currency of the country $85,000,000. -<Seo Veto Message, April 22, 1874',) In the face of this fact it is assumed that the Republican Party is in favor of return to specie payments, and the Democracy opposed to it. But that was before the elections. The universal condemnation bestowed upon the Republican Party for that among other things, made it. necessa ry for the Republican majority ife this Con gress to make some show of being in favor o f a resumption of specie payments, or lose political power, the result, “ Sher man’s Finance Bill.” It would have' been more just, perhaps, looking fairly at the matter, to its subscribers, forthe Herald to have published the Bill, so that the peo p l e might judge, themselves, of its charac ter. No matter what may have been the grade o f intelligence of thoso to whom its editor may formerly have furnished liter ary food—the people of this county have intelligence enough to read, discriminate, and form a correct judgment on even as important a matter as "Sherman’s Finance B ill,” certainly they would come to a conclusion utterly different from the bald falsehood we have quoted. We publish it for tlicir and his benefit. Here it is; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury js hereby author ized and required, as rapidly as practicable, to cause to be coined', at the mints of the United States, silver coins of the denomina tions of ten, twenty-live, and fifty cents, of standard value, and to issue them in re* domption of an equal number and amount o f fractional currency of similar denomina tions, or, at his discretion, hp may issue such silver coins through the mints, thesub- treasuries, public depositaries, and post- offices of the United States; and, upon such issue, he is hereby authorized and required to redeem an equal amount of such fracti ri al currency, until the whole amount of such fractional currency outstanding shall be re deemed. S ec . 2. That so much of section 3521 of the Revised Statues of the United States as provides for a charge of one-fifth of 1 per centum for converting standard gold bullion into coin is hereby repealed; and hereafter po charge shajl bp made for that service. S e c . 3. That section 5177 of the Revised Statutes o f the United States, limiting the aggregate amount oi circulating notes of na tional banking associations, bo, and is here by, repealed; and each existing banking as sociation may increase its circulating notes in accordance with existing law without res pect to said aggregate limit; and new bank ing associations may be organized ip accord,, ance with existing law without respect to said aggregate limit; and the provisions of law for the withdrawal and redistribution o f national bank currency anjong the several States and Territories are hereby repealed. And whenever, and so often, as circulating notes shall be issued to any such banking association, so increasing its capital or cireu- iftiv" .notes, or so newly organized as afore This Bill was passed ill the House of Representatives under the operation of the previous question. No argument was per mitted upon it, nor any amendment per mitted to be offered, even by Republicans. Leading Republicans sought to amend it so as to provide that the greenbacks with drawn from circulation under tho opera tion of the Bill should be “ cancelled and destroyed ,” bin the amendment was not even permitted to be offered by the Re publican majority. The Herald might well also charge that a number of men of the highest intelligence in the Republican Party had put themselves on record as op posed to specie payments, such as Dawes,- the two Hoars, Kelley of Pennsylvania, and a number of others, who arethestron- gest hard-money men in the Republican Party. But that is not the question. Two things are assumed by the Herald. First, that the operation of ihis Bill will restore specie payments, and, second, that the Government had made a pledge to redeem the greenbacks in coin . Tho last proposi tion betrays an ignorance that can only be accounted for on the supposition that the editor has either been asleep for fifteen years, or never saw a greenback. If there was a provision for redeeming the green back when issued why legislate about it now? The issue o f the greenbacks con stituted a forced loan by the government from the people. They were not redeema ble when issued, and are not now’ except In kindred rags. So much for that point.. Now for the other. Does this Bill really provid e for the resumption of specie pay ments? What does the phrase “ resump tion of specie payments” mean. If F means anything it means that the Gov ernment will pay all its obligations on de mand of tho holder in gold and silver coin, and, as a necessary consequence, when paid, destroy them. The debt and obligation then cease to exist, and specie, the only thing valuable in itself, becomes the natural, stable and certain medium of exchange. Any legislation that does not come up to this standard , is not a step in the way to resume specie payments. Now let us see what this Bill proposes to do, conceding lis fullest operation. There is about $49,000,000 of fractional currency in circulation. It is proposed to mint silver coin ofsm all denoftiinations, and redeem this fractional currency. In order to do this the Government will have to go into the market with $49,000,000 of gold coin, or $53,900,000 in greenbacks to buy the silver. This money would have to be provided for by additional taxation on the American people. At Ijper cent for cost o f coinage there would result $49,490,000 a d d e d to the public debt. That is, there being no pro vision for cancelling and destroying the fractional currency so redeemed, and no prohibition against re-issuing it—we would have $49,000,000 of fractional currency in rags, and $-49,000,000 of fractional currency in silver, at a cost of production of the same amount of taxes on- the people and $490,000 besides, making in all $98,490,000.— That is the mode of paying oil the national debt, and resuming specie payments that Democrats are opposed to. That is i n f l a t io n oX the worst character. The Bill also provides that Banking shall be free, and that uutil only $300,000,- 000 of greenbacks are left in circulation the Sec: etary o f the Treasury shall redeem 80 dollars in greenbacks for every one hund red dollars of Bank currency issued to such* National Bank«. There are $382,000,000 of greenbacks in circulation. 9000,000 only ean be redeemed. If redeemed under the fullest operation o f the bill, there wouid be $82,000,000 in the Treasury o f the United States, not cancelled, not destroyed, but subject to be re-issued at the will o f Grant’s Administration, whenever it became a necessity either to bolster up the fspecula- tors, insure a State election, destroy a State Legislature, or enrich his favorites and se cure the continued existence o f his dynas ty. Besides, if even not re-issued there will be S103,600‘ 000 o f the same kind o f paper in circulation in place o f the$82,000000 redeem ed, a clear inflation of the currencyjof the country o f $21,900,000. It is provided furthe that on and after the lst.of Jan., 1879, the greenbacks shall bo redeemed in coin, and this is paraded as a pledge that the Demo crats voted against and are, therefore, o p posed to specie payments. He who, in or dinary business transactions, promises that which he iffiows lie cannot perform, is guilty, not only o f a breach o f good m or als, but o f a fraud. He who. in public life, does the same thing, destroys public con fidence in him self and his party, and mer its the lasting condemnation o f the peo ple of the whole country. So it is with the Republican Party. They have deliberately pledged the governm ent to do that which it cannot do, in order to m ake for them selves electioneering capital. The Dem o crats refused to m ake the pledge, knowing it could not be fulfilled. W hy can this pledge not be performed under the opera tions o f this Bill? Let us see. If this Bill works up to its fullest capacity there will be on the 1st o f January, 1879, $300,000,000 of greenbacks and $457,600,000 o f National Bank notes in circulation, $757,600,000 in all. The gold and silver circulation o f the country at present is $16G,000,000. With all our increased production itjhas not increas ed oyer 10 per cent in the last four years, and, it is safe to say, \yiJ4 not exceed that rate in the next four. W e will then have $182,600,000, to redeem dollar for dollar $757,600,000 ! Slightly inadequate, is it not? lint where \yill this $182,000,000 he? In the hands of the Government? Certainly not. There is only one mode pointed out by the Bill to obtain it. To sell 5 per cent bonds a t p a r . It is safe to say that not one dol lar in coin can he realized in that mode.— The gold derived from duties on imports, the only gold jevenue ofthe Government, after the payment of the interest on the public debt, after the purchase of $49,000,000 of sliver will not be sufficient to meet more than current expenses, and there will not and cannot be more than $50,000,000 in the Treasury at that date, and it not subject to be paid out to redeem the greenbacks.— Is not this then a Bill of False Pretences? Only two things more may be said. One is, that the Secretary of the Treasury will not re-issue the redeemed greenbacks.— After the experience of 1872-3. when Secre tary BOutweil, in order to ease Grant’s gold corner In New York, and help Brother-in- -law Corbyn, sold gold out o f the Treasury, and afterward re-issued $44,000,000 of green backs that had been received into the Treasury under an Act of Congress that provided they should bo “ cancelled and retired,” it is safe to,say that--this provis ion, that they shall bo “ r e d e e m e d w o n ’t stand in the way of their rg-issue if thought necessary by the powers that be. The other is, that the charge for coinage is repealed. This is a good provision, but entirely inadequate to the wants of the country. cause there is money in them. If the Com mittee which are considering Scott’s request can get,Congress to pass a bill to suit him, they know they will not loose by it, pecun iary. O ld B en W a d e is on here, and has the cheek to ask Con gress to get further mixed up with Jay Cook’s Northern Pacific railroad; as if the people do not remember how they have been already swindled, individually and collect ively, by that gigantic bubble. Only Ben Wade, perhaps, could be found to champion the concern. No ether man, would have had the hardihood. But Ben was in Washing ton manv years, and knows his men in both Houses. At any rate, he has got his little job before the appropriate committee, which of course, will put it through for their own sakes, if they can. T lie A d am s Express C om p a n y bas also an agent on here who has had sev eral healings before the House Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. This man had tho effrontery to insist that the people 'of tbe United States, instead of sending by their own line which they sustain with their capital—the general Post Office Depart ment—at cheap rates fixed by themselves through their representatives, packages of books, papers &c., over a. certain weight, shall be compelled by law to patronize pri O C R W A S H IN G T O N L E T T E R . vate express companies. And this insolent demand the committee has taken “ under con W a s h in g t o n , D. C., Jan. 25tli, 1875. sideration,” instead of ordering their mes I f there is any impartial foreigner of in senger to show the man who made it to the telligence in Washington, who has been door. watching the proceedings of Congress from T lie H a n k Note C o m p a n ies the commencement o i this session until are also represented here by agents who now, he must have arrived at the conclus have “ had a hearing” before tbe House ion that our people are the tamest or stupid Banking and Currency Committee. These est of all civilized populations, and are hard Companies have been endeavoring, for years, ly worth the endeavor to rescue them from with more or less success, to “ persuade” the chains with which a grasping and soul Congressmen and Treasury oflic als that less plutocracy has been gradually fettering they, the said companies, can do the people’s them during tho last past eight or ten years, work better and cheaper than they, the peo by th , aid of a corrupt majority in Congress ple, can do it for themselves—in other words, and a purchased administration. Here we that the people, with the public capital ac- have 74.Senators, 292 Representatives and ciuing from the enormous revenues o f the 10 delegates, each receiving, in these hard Uuitcd States can not secure as good ma- times, $5,000 a year, amounting, in the ag • chinery, as high an order of mechanical gregate, to $1,895,000. In this is included skill, and as honest servants as a private the extra $5,000 a year allowed to the speak bank note company can with its compari- er; also the salary of the Vice-President, tiveiy small capital. These private' com which is $10,000; but the allowance to each panies have succeeded in making a com Congressman for newspapers, stationery* promise with the government by which and mileage is not included. Altogether, the they got a share of the work, and those offi cost to the people of supporting the Capitol cials who have been' instrumental in secur and its occupants, including an army of ar ing them the job must not be at all surpris chitects, secretaries, sargent-at-arms, door ed if they are suspected of being bribed. The keepers, clerks, reporters, engineers, fire statements of the bank note companies that men, messengers, folders, pasters, carpen they can do the work hotter and cheaper ters, painters, upholsterers, and other me than the government is absurdly nntrne, on chanics, laborers, stables, horsfes, wagons, any other hypothesis than that the officers stablemen, drivers and others; the enor of the Treasury Department in charge of mous bills for gas and coal, for the furni the engraving and printing of paper money, ture of the two Houses and the scores of and the successive Secretaries of the Treasu offices, and Committee rooms, for useless ry, for the last past ten or twelve years, have advertising in favorite papers of no circula all been rogues or fools, as also the commit tion, for the support of abrigade of police tees of both Houses whose special business men and watchmen—to say nothing of the it has been to investigate and report upon money expended in bringing witnesses from the administration o f that branch of the all quarters of the Union to testify before Treasury .Department. investigating committees, and in sending There are a half a dozen other schemes to committees into the. several States on fruit subserve private interests now before com less missions—all these expenses do not fall mittees which will be probably sprung upon short of $5,000,000 annually. Besides» there Congress during th© last few hours of the is session; but I have not space in which to re- TSio G o v e rn m e n t P r i n t i n g Office, fer to them now. A. F. B. which is under the legal control of the Sen ate and costs several millions more annual OUR HOGEM L E T T E R . ly, for paper, ink, presses, type, and other printing and stereotyping materials, for H ogem , U nion C o ., Feb. 3d 1875. book-binding stock, gas, fuel &c., and for E d ito r D em ocrat :— Tho items from this the wages of some 1,500 persons whose chief little Burg are few, but generally are good. occupation is to print the tomfooleries of As the camp has a small population, things Congress in the shape of bills, not one in aren olyery lively; but as tho mines are fifty of which is ever intended to be pushed looking well, we expect lively times in the to a passage by the man who introduces it, spring. Mr. J. B. Griffin, Supt., of the and not o re in a hundred of which ever Summit Mine, is running levels north and passes; and to print, daily, in the Record south from the shaft, and is finding plenty the speeches of Congressmen most of which of good quartz. He thinks that he is on the are never read even by the men who made main chimney’ of tbe Mine. There is plen them, much less by the people at large. Is ty of rock in sight that will pay from ten to it not a fair question to ask, in view of twenty dollars per ton. these vast annual expenditures. Messrs Bowen & Cranston are making W lu it h a s C on gress D o n e, th u s fa r , d u r in g th e S essio n I preparations to start the water in their Ditches about the first of March. Tho answer is simply this : Both Houses, The weather is very cold; the snow is four have been devoting about one quarter of feet deep, and I hope that this is all that their time to the discussion of, and uncon will fall this winter. stitutional interference with, the internal Yours Respectfully, affairs of four of the States of the Union, ST. CROIX. Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Ar kansas, and one fourth to the consideration The House debated the Civil Rights of the private affairs of rich corporations Bill Feb. 4th till one o’clock, p. m which are anxious to swell their coffers at S peeches were made by a jjood the expense of the people. Another four h many members, but the most noted of tho time of the H orse of Representatives one was by Brown (Dem.) of has been consumed in covering up the ras tucky, in which he made a fierce and calities of its own members; persistently re belligerent attack on Butler whom fusing to bring to the light the crimes with he by inuendo denounced as’a mur which they have been charged; and in en derer, adding thereto that ho (But ler) is pusillanimous in war, vicious deavoring to make it appear to the people that a few newspaper men, whose admitted in moi'als and infamous in politics. The House refused to second a res acts would not be deemed amenable to the olution to censure Brcwn for this law by any jurist in Christendom, are the indecorous and indecent language. culprits to be looked, after; The Democrats united to prevent T ile W a y s a n d M e a n s C o m m ittee, the needed two thirds vote, but the the most important committee of the House,' resolution was passed, 161 to 79 af have been neglecting the interests o f the ter the House had heard some fur people for weeks; having been selected by ther bullying language from Brown. the House to perform this dirty work of Brown was then taken to the bar of shielding mem hers from merited disgrace. the House by the Sergeant-at-Arms In the mean time, Secretary Bristow tells and severely censured by the Speak the Committee that he requires iriany more er. Without voting on the Civil millions of revenue, with which to pay the Rights Bill the House took a recsss moneys appropriated for running the gov till 10 o’clock this morning. ernment; and he is quietly informed that A New Orleans special of Feb, 4th the commitiee have important and urgent says that the prospects for a com business on hand, and is requested to do promise are now much better than their work for them, and to name the arti at any previous time. Antonio is cles upon whtch he thinks extra duties willing to abdicate in favor of Penn should be imposed, Mr. Bristow replies Conservative. Kellogg remains and “ tea and coffee;” and the probability is that five expelled Conservative Assembly- the poor man will soon have to pay higher men will be reinstated. The Senate price for those articles of general and daily will bo Republican but will have a consumption, while the rich will enjoy their Democratic President. luxuries at the present ratesr The full Louisiana Investigating N one lin t P r iv a te B ills excite the least apparent enthusiasm among committee men. Some oi these bills are> ostensibly, of public importance; but not a single one is being seriously considered which will give employment to the laborer and permanently ameliorate his condition. J A S .W . VIRTUE, GOLD AND SILVER BARS, ASSAY OFFICE Recently the local paper at Grass Valley said: The prettiest girl m Grass Valley doesn’t carry herself straight enough when promenading. For a week after all the Grass Valley girls stalked about like so many bean poles; and every girl said, That hor rid paper! Ma, don’t I walk straight ? It takes the Irish to dead. “ wake” the ... l E f l D M T I s i E m ' C attle S a le AT PUBLIC AUCTION. he U n d e r sig n e d w ill S e ll at PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Slough T House, about nine miles below Baker City, HEW ADVERTISEMENTS. on Saturday, 6tk day of March, WOOD HAULERS 1875, about ONE HUNDRED head of Cat tle -F o rty five head of which are good Milk Cows. T erms of S a l e :— On all amounts over Q E A L E I ) B ID S w ill b e re ee iv - Twenty Dollars, one years time ,will be given U ed by the undersigned, at his Office at on note with good security, with one per the Virtue Mine, until cent, interest per month. J. MANSFIELD. Februiry 20, 1875, Slough House, Feb. 1, 18i5_.ng.9td at 12 o’ clock, M., for the delivery of T A K E N T O T I C 35. 2 ,0 0 0 Cords o f S e a so n e d P in e W o o d , to the Virtue Mine as follows: 200 Cords in April, and 300 Cords each month thereafter until the Contract is completed. Payments will be made as follows: Three quarters of Contract Price will be paid each month, one quarter will be retained as a guarantee o f full compliance with contract. Th© right to reject any and all bids is here by reserved. For further particulars, enquire of the un dersigned. M. HYDE, Supt. V. G. M. Co. Feb. 10, 1875.n40t2 STRAYED OR STOLEN. Q T R A Y E D O K S T O L E N F rom O the Subscriber’s lianch on or about the 15th of September, 1874, seven head o f horses described and branded as follows: One large Iron Gray mare, 6 years old, branded H, on left shoulder. One brown mare, four years old, branded RR on left shoulder aDd KID on right hip. One brown mare, 3 years old, branded with a T and J combined in one letter on left hip—she lias a colt with her. One bright sorrel mare, 3 years old, branded KID on right hip. One black Cavuse marc,8 years old, white face, branded with a triangle on left shoulder; and one Cayuse Pinto mare, 8 years old, branded with a triangle on left shoulder. A ny person delivering the above houses to. It costs no more to keep good fowls than meor giving information in relation to then- whereabouts to tho undersigned will bo lib - Poor ones. erally rewarded. O a k la n d P o u lt r y Y a rd s, JOHN W. WISDOM. Baker City, Jan 6th, 1875.nS5tf Corner Sixteenth and Castro Streets, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. IMPROVE YOUR POULTRY. J A 8 . A . F I N N E Y & OCX* SEASON O F 1875- B o is e C ity, Idalxo, CJGS f o r H a t c h in g f r o m th e Largest and best bred Fowls in the E World. Carefully packed and warranted to carry safely any distance. The varieties comprise Dark and Light Dramas, Buff and Patndge Cochins, White Leghorns, Houdans, and Silver Spangled Hamburgs, Black Span ish, White Dorkings, Golden Polands, Ayles bury Ducks, and Game, Sebright and Black African Bantams. 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RUARY BY THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF Orders from a distance solicited and satis IiENTTCKY, UPON THE OCCASION OF faction guaranteed. THEIR FIFTH AND LAST CONCERT. JAMES A. PINNEY & CO- Boise City, F e b -1, 1875.n391y Drawing Certain or Money Refunded One One Oi»e One One Grand Cash Gift.................. Grand Cash Grit.................. Grand Cash Gift.................. Grand Cash Gift.................. Grand Cash Gift.................. 5 Cash Gifts, $20,000 each. 10 Cash Gifts, 14,000 each. 15 Cash Gift ’, 10,000 each. 20 Cash Gifts, 5.000 each. 25 Cash Gifts, 4.000 each. 30 Cash Gifts, 3.000 each. 50 Cash Gifts, 2.000 each. 100 Cash Gifts, 1.000 each. 240 Cash Gifts, 500 each. 500 Cash Gifts, 100 each. 19,000-Cash Gifts, 50 each. BAKER CITY MARKET. $250,000 100,000 75.000 50.000 25.000 R E D . D I L L R e s p e c tfu lly in F forms the citizens of Baker City that bo Has purchased from John"Eppinger the B A K E R C IT Y M A R K E T , 100,000 140.000 150.000 100.000 100,000 90.000 100,000 100,000 fThere, at all times, he will bo prepared tc furnish his customers with the BEST OF MEAT, Of all kinds, at most reasonable prices. Baker City, Feb. 1, 1875.-n39tf 120,000 Administrator’s Notice. 50.000 950 qo 0‘ is o t ic e h e r e b y g iv e n $50,00 that the undersigned has been ap 25,00 ' 5,00 pointed administrator of the Estate o f John 500.00 Mangm, deceased; all persons having claims said estate are notified to present 1 , 000,00 against them, with the proper vouchers, to the ¡¡un dersigned, at his residence in Jordan Valley, For Tickets, or Information, Baker County, Oregon, within Six months Address, from the date of this Notice. THOS.E. BRAMLETTE, Dated January 26tli, 1875. Agent and Manager, n38n41 * WILLIAM MANGIN, n39na0 Louisville, Ky. Administrator. Whole Tickets....... Halves.................... Tenth, or each Coupon 11 Whole Tickets f or . ... 22H Tickets for.............. P U B L IC L IB R A R Y " OF N KENTUCKY. D e a th o f G ov. B r a m le tte __A c tio n o f th e T r u ste e s—A S uccessor A p p o in te d — No M ore P o stp o n e m e n ts —D r a w in g ’ C e rta in F e b r u a r y 2 7 th . At a meeting of the Trustees of the Pub lic Library of Kentucky Jan. 16, 1875, it was resolved that C. M. Briggs, Esq., who un der the late Hon. Thos. E. Bramlette was tho real business manager of the gift con certs already given in aid of tbe Public Li brary oi Kentucky, be and jhe is hereby au thorized to take the place made vacant by the death of said Bramlette, in themanagement of the affairs ofthe Fifth and Last Gift Con cert, and the Drawing annwmeed.-for Febru ary 27tli, 1875, shall positively and unequiv Committee finally agree with the re* ocally take place on that day, without any ¡postponement or delay on any ac port of the Foster Phelps SutxCom- further count whatever. mittee as to the action of the Return It. T. DUBEETT, Pres. J ohn S. C ains . Sec’y. ing Board being outrageous. Reports from all over the North’ ern States speak of the storm that occurred day Before yesterday, as Col. T o m S co tt the most terrible experienced for is on here asking aid for the Texas and Pa years. cific railroad; and to that and similar schemes congressmen gravely listen, be B A N K IN G H O U SE C h a r a c t e r . — Not two leaves in the forest are exactly the same forru ana OF texture. No two grains of sand taken from the sea shore or the great A n i- ern desert are identical in bulk oi outline. Even two drops of water, ¡D S iO x -e r O it 3 r , the most alike in the universe, will OREGON, exhibit some marks of distinction P a y s tlie H ig h e s t P rice fo r when submitted tp a powerful micro scope. The law that excludes du plicates from the visible kingdom of C S -O H L alO 3 3 TT S3 *3?, nature, is also a law of the inoial world. From Adam to the last man no cwo races will be found exactly And Transacts a General the same; and variety in trait and lin- iament of human character, is as in Banking, Collection exhaustible as is a man’s outward AND appearance. The power ^ which in one man’s moral composition is ar EXCHANGE BUSINESS. dent, demonstrative, and predom inate,to another lies dormant or dead. Interest alflowed on Special Deposits. Tbe craving which in one breast con C o u n ty O rders B o u g h t a n d Sold. centrates upon itself the whole mind A complete and will before its voice can^ be si lenced or its will appeased, ib never felt, scarcely, understood, by a be Is in Connection with the Bank. ing of a different organization. The weakness of a weak mau is laughed We make it a branch of our business to to scorn by the strengt of the strong; give Correct Information in regard the to moral power and weak pupils travel side by side, and souls of fine porce. Mining Interests of E a ste rn Oregon. lain tremble in the near presence of iron and granite. Baker Ci!v, Dec. 1,1874. n30y •THE HEW YORK TRIBUNE. “ The leading American Newspaper THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. D a ily $ 10 a y e a r . S e m i-W e e k ly $ W e e k ly $2. P ostage F b e e to the S u b sc r ib e r - S j cimen Copies and Advertising rates Frt Weekly, in clubs of 30 ox more, only S postage paid. Address, n38Y T h e T r ib u n e , N. Y. S e ttle U p . J ] w v in g s o l d o u t m y b u s in e s L x m Baker City to Fied. Dill, it becom necessary for me to settle mv accounts. A those indebted will confer a favor by comii forward and settling their accounts immec ateiy, by so doing they will save cost. JOHN EPPINGER. Hereafter, all communications relating to Baker City, F e b -1, 1875.n39tf the Fifth Concert should be addressed to the undersigned, and I pledge myself that the Drawing shall come off February 27th, or that every dollar paid for tickets shall be’ re E E V O T E S d u e A . H . Brow turned. must be paid to me immr'3" ' 1"1” C. M. BRIGGS, Agent and Manager. Costs of Action will be incurred. Room 4, Public Library Building, u32tf I- D. Louisville,’ Ky. n o t ic e A T