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so to do.
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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.
B ronze T urkeys , the finest collection on
the Pacific Coast.
Send stamp for illustrated circular to
GEO. B. BAYLEY,
Importer and Dealer of Choice Poultry, box
659, San Francisco.
Piease state what paper you saw this ad­
vertisement in.
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D O L L A RS
GENERAL HEWS AGENTS
AND DEALERS IN
Books, Stationery» Ctieau M icalioiis,
TOYS, YANKEE NOTIONS, &C.
E R E C E I V E S u b scrip tio n «
W
for, and furnish all of the leading
P e r io d ic a ls , M a g a z in e s
N ew sp ap er»
published in New York, Philadelphia, Bos­
ton, Sacramento and San Francisco, at Pub­
lisher’s rates.
B O O K S A S P E C IA L T Y .
Any Rook published in the United States
furnished by us at Boise City, at Publisher’s
Prices. We are in constant receipt of NEW
BOOKS of all kinds.
SCHOOL B O O K S,
N
TO THE AMOUNT OF TWO MILLION
A large supply constantly on hand, at Cat­
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ARE TO
BE DISTRIBUTED ON THE 3T tk FEB­ alogue Prices.
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,
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* WILLIAM MANGIN,
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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.
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•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,
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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,
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I- D.
Louisville,’ Ky.
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