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HEUT CORMHS GAZETTE. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY Corvallis, June 13, 1879. . .- CARTER, RAILROAD IRON ARRIVED. We are informed by B. W. Wilson, Secretary of the Willamette Valley and Coast R, R. Co., that a telegram has been received,, stating that the iron and rolling stock for the first ten mile section of this road has been re ceived in San Francisco, and will be shipped to this place immediately. This is glorious news for the people of Beaton county. The railroad com pany means business and the Ya onina railroad is a fixed fact. The prospects are favorable for Corvallis having two roads before next harvest Croakers to the raiv THE LAST PULL We wish to whisper a few words in the ear of every citizen of Benton county, which is to them of the most vital importance. The first ten-mile section of the Corvallis and Yaquina Bay railroad is now nearly an accom plished fact. The iron and rolling stock will be here in a few days. Most of the ties have been contracted for. and are partly delivered. But there remains some very important work to be yet done, before track :s laid and the cars are running ; bat this work can all be accomplished within six weeks from this date, pro vided the necessary funds are raised for the same. It will require, we are informed, about $15,000 to complete the grade, bridges, trestle work, culverts, etc, ready for the iron. Will the people of this county suffer this all important work to lag or hitch now, for this paltry amount? We do not believe they will. A little united effort, and the grand work is accomplished. We are assured, by Mr. Nash, that as soon as this first section is com pleted, work will be commenced im mediately upon the other end of the road and pushed toward the valley. Will the people lend a hand, now ? WEST SIDE R. R, Hon. A. Ss. Watt, of Yamhill coun ty, was in the city, the past week, in the interest of the West Side. He has secured the entire right of way for this road through Polk connty, and Benton, to near the northern boundary of Corvallis. The people of this place are anxious for the road, but have not, as yet, united upon the route desired through the city. Some want the road to run along the city front, on Water street, while others desire it located a few streets back. It is a matter of considerable im portance where the road is located, -ami our citizens should consult to gether, immediately, as to where the best interests of the public will, be subserved by its location. Of course it matters but little to the railroad company, so that they may know, in advance, and make their lines, ap proaching the city, conform to the convenience of our citizens. Ere long this matter will have to be de cided, as the work on the road is being gashed with energy, and when tracklaying is once commenced, it will not be long till we hear the shrill snort of the iron horse. Hurrah for the West Side railroad. The Portland Standard, of Wedn esday, in speaking of the progress of the road, says : Mr. Wm. Kohler, Vice President of the West Side railroad, is pushing the work of extension as rapidly as the state of the weather will permit Last week he went to the front, where the engineers finished up the work of the section and the grading commenced. Grading is being pushed for ward very rapidly, and is now completed almost to the Bickreal. Between that place and the Lnckianrate hills the grade is very light, but through the hills and at the sum mit at lock's Gap a deep cut will necessarily be made. Secretary of War. The Port land See, says : Gen. Charles F. Man derson whose name is mentioned as successor to MoCrary as Secretary of War, is a man of brilliant talent and splendid record, both as a man a law yer, and a republican. We had the pleasure of personal acquaintance with him in Nebraska, where he is a leader among men as well as among politicians. The far West will appre ciate the selection of one of her favor ite sons for this cabinet appointment 1 O. G. T. The Grand Lodge of Good Templars of Oregon, meets at Salem on the 17th inst. Reduced fares an the various routes of tavel, and the extensive preparations made tor the accommodations of visitors., will insure a large attendance.. Salem Town Talk: Major Foy is about to close out the saloon business. The temper ance cause is slowly, bat surely, prospering. ADVANTAGES OF CAPE FOOLWEATHER. The Harrisburg Nucleus, of the 7th-inst., in speaking of the advan tages of Cape Foulweather as the proposed harbor of refuge, after giv ing many other reasons why it should be selected, very pointedly says: The next consideration, is the ad vantage that the site of this Harbor will give, to stimulate and promote the agricultural interests of the State, In investigating this important pointr the claims of Foulweather tower above, and completely shadow all other places that are striving to im press upon the Board of Engineers, their peculiar and significant advan tages to bias the mUids of the Board in their behalf. Connections from a Harbor at Foulweather, will- thread the heart of the great Willamette Valley, and diverging north and south, afford short lines of communi tion to the whole of Western Ore gon in reaching the seaboard. Short lines of transit are the golden oppor tunity of production, the economy of resource. Eastern Oregon by the privilege of this outlet, can ship pro duction or draw her imports through the mouth of the Columbia or by this highway direct to and from the sea. 1 he competition of these out lets will lower the cost of transpor tation and save her thousands of dollars- every year. Thus a Harbor at Foulweather will arouse dormant resource and redound to the interests of the whole State. A Harbor of Refuge at the mouth of the Colum bia, means simply the protection of shipping at an expense of millions of dollars. A Harbor of Kefuge at Foulweather, means the protection of commerce, at an expense of only a few hundred thousand. A Harbor at the mouth of the Columbia means the giving away of the interests of the people of Eastern Oregon to the O. S. N. Co., and the bottling up of the unmeasured resource of the whole State, but what can push and crowd its way at great expense by Portland and the Columbia river t- a market. A Harbor at Foulweather,. means the unlocking of resource, the inaugurat ing of" competing lines of transit, the grand awakening of a prolific, fertile country, to quickly answer the call of increased, commercial facility. A Harbor at Port Orford, means the security of shipping south of the dangerous coast line, the tapping of the State at its Southern extremity and the building of long expensive lines of communication to reach the body of resources. It means the estopping of Eastern Oregon from receiving any benefit from its loca tion, by reason of its isolation from the Columbia river route. Eastern Oregon, could not possibly reap any benefit from a Harbor of Refuge es tablished at Port Orford in the way of cutting down the cost of trans poVtation by competition, neither in deed would the Central Willamette valley. These nuggets of fact are so plain that everyone must see that the necessity of the State's popular interests demands an outlet at Foul weather to accommodate the removal of growing production, hold in check and reduce the exorbitant rates of fare charged on the Columbia river route, and by affording liberal facility open up one of the largest bodies of land to commercial enterprise on the Northwest coast. The cost of constructing a Harbor of Refuge is but of small moment when such Interests as enumerated are only waiting the delay of the law to leap into life and fashion the de mauds of an untold resources. But if the cost of construction is going to figure seriously in this affair, Foul weather again comes to the front and drives another nail into the coffin of her opponents, by giving a beter Harbor for as many hundred thou sand as it will take millions at any other point. This then ought to set tle the question of location in favor of Foulweather and the probabilities are that after a thorough and search ing investigation by the Board of U. S. Engineers, she will be awarded the merit of securing the greater safety to our merchant marine in time of distress and storm, of open ing up the larger field of resource and taxing1 the necessity of .the gov ernment to a less degree than any other site on the Northwest coast. WINNEMUCCA ROAD. Judging from the tone of the Astorian, the Winnemueca railroad project has hosts of friends at Asto ria. Good scheme. We should re joice to be a waystation on this road, and we will be, at no very distant day, whether the western terminus be at Astoria or Cape Foulweather. Let us have that road enter at the head or center of the Willamette valley, and we have no fears as to the terminus. In fact it would be in order to have the road extended to Astoria, even though we should succeed in getting the harbor of re fuge at Cape Foulweather or Yaquina Bay. from the bay Ed. Gazette: The achr. Teutona, R. Hillyer, Master, ten days from San Fran cisco, with merchandise to C. H. Williams, S. Case, Eugene Williams and Wm. Ham mond, arrived May 31st. Capt. Lntjens receives some fine machinery for his new steam schr. , and, with an extra force, ex pects to have her ready for business, before the 1st of July. Mr. H. C. Darling and family were passengers.. Come to make Yaquina their home. Mr. D. is well pleas ed with the country and prospective out look. Says that Oregon is the obiective point to which a heavy immigration may be expected. Teu tenia will load with lumber from Oneatta mills. Will carry 140 M. feet. Com. Newport, June 1st, 1879. SEVENTH ANNUAL RE-UNION OF THE OREGON PIONEER ASSOCIATION WILL BE HELD AT THE STATE FAIR GROUNDS, NEAR SALEM, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 AND 18", 1879. PROGRAMME. Punctually at 10:30 a. m. the pro cession will form on the plank at the railroad depot, under the direction of Chief Marshal, and led by the VV ashington Guard Band, and march as follows i Band Standard Bearer. President and Vice-President. Chamain and Orator. Members of the Pioneer and Historical Society of vregon. Recording and. Corresponding Secretaries and Treasurer. Invited Guests, male and female. Members of the Society, male and female, who came into the Territory previous to January, 1841, fol lowed by the 13 divisions to January, 1854, each division with appropriate banner. Friends of the Association, male and female. March as the Marshal shall direct to the Stand. Prayer by the Chaplain. Rev. J. S. Griffin. Opening address by the President. Annual address by lion. W. H. tteea. Recess. AFTERNOON EXERCISES, At 1 o'clock p. M. , occasional address by Hon. Ralph C. Geer on the immigration of 1847. Half-past two o'clock volunteer speeches. From 4 to 5 o'clock concert by band : 1. Grand Medley (Quickstep) . . . .Scheurn. 2. Waltzes (Moss Rose) Argus. 3. Polka (Pride of the Valley Tegner. 4. Serenade Bachman. 5. Polonaise , Berray 6. Gallop (Nez Perce) Roos. At 7 o'clock, the Pioneer Camp-lire will be lighted, at which time short addresses will be delivered, with time limited to 15 minutes each. FI0NEF.R BALL. Honorary Committee M. P. Beady, James K. Kelly, R. P. Boise, P. P. Prim, W. W. Thayer, R. P. Earhart, Ed. Hirsch W. S. Newbery, G. W. Gray, Col. John E. Ross, Gen. John P. Miller, J. H. D. Gray. Reception Committee J. R. Herren, Ben Strang, C. W. Anderson, John Steiwer, E. A. Poindexter, John M. Georcie, E. A. Post. Floor Managers John W. Minto, John G. Wright, D. C. Howard, D. H. Looney, F. C. Geer, Joseph Webber, Dr. J. B. Lee, Ed. Fellows, Joe Buchtell. Tickets to ball, 2. Good music employed. The sale of intoxicating liquors and games of chance on the ground positively prohib ited. In order to complete the success of the pic nic dinner, it is requested that where convenient the Pioneers bring their baskets with them. The grounds and buildings free and camp ing facilities will be furnished to all who may wish to camp on the grounds. The Secretary will have offices at the gates on the grounds where all members of the Association are requested to go and pay their dues. Membership will be received at the same time. Certificates for free passage to return home will be given to all who paid full fare on going, by the Secretary, who alone is authorized to furnish the same. The public are cordially invited by the Board of Directors. M. CRAWFORD, President. J. Henry Brown, Secretary. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY. EASTERN. The Democrats of Ohio have nominated Thomas T. Ewing for governor. Two renegade Cheyenne Indians, sen tenced to be hanged on July 7, for the mur der of a soldier, committed suicide by hang ing in the cells of the guard house at Fort Keogh. The Greenback convention of Ohio met at Columbus on the 5th inst,, and nominated General A. Sawyers Pratt for governor. A large number of delegates, including Gen. Carey, withdrew in disgust, and have issued a call for an other convention, to meet at To ledo on the 17th, to nominate a new ticket. President Billings, of N. P. R. R., has in spected the road west of the Missouri, and found the work progressing too slowly. He will take steps to stir up the contractors. It is stated, on what seeme to be cood au thority, that the president has tendered to Gen. Charles Mandcrson, of Nebraska, the position of secretary, of war, to succeed Meurary. A Democratic or can at Wash ington says McCrary will not be confirmed by the confederate senate. FOREIGN- Advices from Rome say the chamber of deputies has voted 500,000 lires for the re lief of sufferers by the eruption of Etna and the inundation of the Po. In consequence of the growth of the Rus sian and French armies, the German emper or is considering the advisability of increas ing his army, and asking a perpetual grant irom parliament. Intelligence from Santiago de Chili, capi tal of the republic, dated the 7th of June, says that Bolivia has authorized privateers sailing under her flag, to seize Chilian mer chandise, even in neutral ships and not con traband of war. Divers have recovered the bodies of three men from the cabin of the Hambjrg Amer ican steamship fomerama, sunk by a colli sion on the night of November 25, 1878, off Folkestone. The North German Gazelle stales that the German foreign office has received confirma tion of reports of the destruction of the German mission station in Natal and of ill treatment of the missionary by the British. Communications are still proceeding with the British government on the subject. Official intelligence has been received that violence and bloodshed occurs daily in Jam- na, Arta and Previsa, caused by insubordin ation of Turkish troops. PACIFIC CO AST It is privately reported that 1600 tickets have been sold to Chinese at Hongkong for the next steamer to San Francisco. The canneries on Frazer river are prepar ing for active operations. A few days ago a man on the west side of Wbidby Island picked up a case of black walnut chairs, which drifted ashore from the wreck of the Great Republic, distance of about 300 miles. The C. P. R. R. have commenced a gi gantic as welt as a costly improvement at Oakland. A bulkhead is being built on the north and south sides of the present wharf, and the middle is to be filled in with rock. The local track will be built on this founda tion. Serious charges have been prefeired against Indian commissioner Hayt by a committee of Quakers. Business is said to be worse than ever in San Francisco since the adop tion of the new constitution, and it is feared serious embarrassments will overtake many business houses be fore things get to working smoothly under the new order of things. Coitpeebncb. The annual confer ence of the M. E. Church, for Oregon, commences in Portland, on the 20th of August, 1879. Rev. Bishop Ha ven will be the presiding Bishop. DECORATION DAY IN PORTLAND. ADDRESS OF REV. J. A. CRCZAN. Memorial Day gives us pause in oar fever ish life-race. It bids as remember. Stand ing among the- graves of -our patiot dead, we cast a glance backward : It is 1861 ! The little cloud which Webster, the keen sighted, saw, has overspread the whole heavens. Its fierce, zig zag lightnings strike terror to- the heart of every patriot. At Sumpter it begins to drop bloody rain ! The South madly springs to- arms. Then we stood for a " little moment ' amazed " The Bad spectator ol a suicide ! While They broke the links ol Union ! They lighted The fires of hell to weld anew the chain On that red anvil where each blew was pain." We shuddered as we saw the dread reality of Webster's vision : " The sun in the heavens shine on the broken fragments of a once glorious Union on a land, drenched with fraternal blood ! But, not till unholy hands had torn down that old flag which our fathers and theirs gave us, and trailed it in the dust amid jeers and ridieule, did God's own chosen one, the patient, long-suffering Lincoln, turn his face northward and ask for help. As if by mag ic, companies, brigades, armies, sprang into life in a moment. Citizens, who never dreamed of war, tore themselves away from homes they loved so- well, at the call of the nation which they loved more than all else. The hills and valleys of New England, the mountains of Pennsylvania, and the prairies of the Mississippi valley seemed alive with sharp swords and glittering arms. The flags of war, like storm birds, flew to the front. For four years war's furnace-blast beat hotly upon our patriot army. They dtagged themselves over the weary march t hunger and thirst tortured them ; exposure, disease, shot and shell, and hellish prison pen did their terrible work. Then come Appomattox and Peace ! But, alas ! at what price ! " A grand army of 300,000 patriot dead lay rotting in then graves ! From one nd of the land to the other we saw broken-hearted women bow ing over their orphans, and heard Rachels weeping for their children, and Davids la menting for their Absaloros. But we saw the old flag once more in its honored place. The Union was restored. The sin and the shame of slavery were gone forever. The price was great, but we were contents. We had gained that which was priceless. Then we turned to the south. From our right -hands we dropped the dripping sword, and sought theirs in fraternal clasp across the graves of our dead. We said : " You were our brothers before the war. We differed in principles, as brothers sometimes will. You appealed to the sword. We fought not you. but your principles. These have met utter defeat and overthrow. You are our brothers still. All that we ask is that you accept heartily the decision of that dread tribunal to which you appealed. Let ' Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty ' bind in dissolubly our hearts and our hands. " Thus the war ended. It is 1S79 fourteen short years from Ap pomattox. What has been the answer of the South to our fraternal words of 1865 ? Let the present congress give answer I It says ; " The war decided nothing ! We are Southerners still! We not our principles were defeated. They shall rule or destroy this nation ! " Comrades of the Grand Army of the Re public patriots : The bugle calls once more "To the front!" But not to the tented- field ! No! no ! ! no ! ! ! The soldiers, North and South, who stood four years in that "furnace-blast," and know what war is, with General Sherman, say : " We do net want to try this question over again there shall never be another civil war ! " Woe ! woe be to the man who dares propose it ! He will wish that he had never 1 een born ! By the graves of Gettysburg and Richmond by the tens of thousands of desolated homes of Northern and Southern soldiers there shall be no more bloodshed ! Where is the monster that by pen or tongue would again propose an armed contest between North and South ? Where is he ? May his lips turn white with incurable leprosy ! But in 1879, as in 1861, we of the .North will do our duty. With sad but determined hearts we accept the issues forced upon us. We pick up the gauntlet again so insolently thrown down by the South. Not by the sword, but by the press, the platform and the billot-box ; this time we will settle our contest forever. Comrades, soldiers, citizens ! WHAT IS THE DUTY OF THE HOUR? 1. To stand bravely in defense of the principle for which our brothers died : That this is a nation, and not a mere group of Sovereign States. The false doctrine of State Sovereignty is almost as old as the nation. It has always been a stumbling block in the path of the nation's progress. In its defense the South drew the sword. The result is history. Their defeat was the refutation of the prin ciple for which they fought. Ia the slaugh ter of a half million of men, State Sover eignty perished. It took but a small grave in 1865 to entomb its lifeless remains. But, lo ! it has come forth to new life, and once more menaces the nation! That "small grave " will be large enough ere long to hold any political party that dares champion the "Lost Cause." We join battle once more. This time there shall be permanent, enduring decision of this vital question. This delusion of state independence, and supremacy over the Geneneral Government, must be given up in theory as well as fact. In 1880 we will bury it so deeply under loy al ballots that it shall not hear even the trumpet on the Resurrection morning. The Grand Army of the Republic and the loyal North, once more are rallying under the old flag.. We give pledge to our dead that we will defend this truth sealed by their blood : " This is a nation. A star once added to our flag cannot leave it, or be torn from it, no more than a planet from the sky. Thir teenth or thirty-eighth, the star once there it must stay ! " IL It is our duty to defend our present army of the United States from injustice and destruction at the hands of a hostile congress. Since 1865 we have had an era of dis graceful revelations of fraud in high places. Shame and confusion have crimsoned the face of every true American. The army is one branch of the government which has es caped. Its record is clean, heroic and patri otic. Every American should be proud of it. The life of the army is indispensable to me me oi me nation. JNo less a per than John C. Calhoun, secretary of war 1818, forcibly nrged our ereat need of a tional army. That truth was burned into our memories in 1861. What has been the treatment which oar army has received at the hands of our con- fress during the last few years ? It has een treated infamously ! Its pay with held, and reduced again and again ; (the commander of this department now receives less salary than the clerk of the house of representatives, and a lieutenant less than a congressional messenger ! ) the numbers of the army have been reduced again and again, and honored officers unfitted by wounds and long service, unfeelingly dismissed the ser vice : the destruction of the armv threat ened ! My blood boils with indignation when I think of the treatment which our army receive from the nation it defends and serves so faithfully ! And what is the cause of this treatment ? Is it because the army is a menace to our liberties ! Every child knows better. Is it not because every officer in it is a patriot ? because its general made the immortal march to the sea and its lieutenant general swept through the Shenandoah valley like a whirlwind of vengeance and our own How ard succesfully breasted the high tide of re bellion at Gettysburg ? Is it not another attempt to Buchananizethe army ? Listen, while I give you facts : The army bill of 1878 as reported from the house committee contained these two provisions : 1st. Repeal of the statute which declares that " no person who has served in any capacity in the military or naval force of the so-called confederate states shall be appointed to any position in the army of the United States." 2d. "Hat the beginning of any fiscal year congress shall have failed to pass an appropriation for its support the army shall be wholly disbanded." Let such provisions once become laws, then all congress need do is to fail or refuse to pass an army appropriation bill. The ar my dies the commission of every officer is only so much waste paper. And the way is open for the organization of a new army in which the places of Sherman and Sheri dan and Howard, can be filled by Chalmers and Beauregard and Jeff Davis, and the ar my made a constant menace instead of de fense of the nation. III. Let us be true to history and see to it that history is true to our patriot dead and our cause. I would not unnecesarily recall the past. Gladly would we who wore the blue bury the past in the graves of our dead. We have no desire to rake " among the embers." But when those " embers " are raked up by blood stained hands and poured redhot upon our yet aching hearts j when we see our maimed union soldiers driven from official positions in the nation's capitol and their places filled by stalwart, able-bodied men who fought for years to destroy this govern ment ; when we are insolently told that the north, not the south, plunged the country into war ; that the south was right and the north wrong ; that the confederate soldier fell a martyr to the glorious cause of liberty and that our dead met the lust doom ol an oppressor r when we hear the men who 'ought us insolently declaring that they pur pose to gain by legislation what they lost by the sword ; that they will wipe out all our war-legislation, re-organise the su preme court and declare the constitu tional amendments void, and annul every thing accomplished by the war ; that the portraits of Davis and Lee shall yet hang on tne walls, ol the capitol beside those ol Washington and Jefferson then it is time to recall the past ! It is time to restate his tory ! The memory of our dead shall not be thus traduced. History shall not be thus prostituted to thus gild with glory the blackest crime which stains its pages the infamous attempt to destroy this onion. If our lips were mute in such an hour the dead themselves would speak. Standing here to-day in the presence of our dead, without one spark of bitterness or anger in our hearts, we proclaim the truth of history hear it north and south : " Se cession was a crime ! The men who engaged in it and plunged the country into war were criminals! Every one of them, from Gen. Lee down to the last volunteer recruit, was a traitor ! The men who died fighting to destroy their government were traitors, and sleep in traitors' graves. Those who sur vived were traitors and owe their lives to the clemency of this large hearted nation ! " It is no pleasure to me to say these things. But 1 am forced to say them or be false to the cause for which we fought, and the memory and good name of those who gave their lives in defense of the right. Understand me ; I honor every southern soldier who bravely fought for what he be lieved to be the right ; who sprang to arms at what he thought was the call of duty. I honor them for their unflinching braver" and their heroic sacrifices in defense of their " lost cause." No man more cordially than I would clasp the hand of every southern soldier who manfully accepts the results of the war as final and unchangeable. For ev ery such "prodigal" a brother's welcome, the "fatted calf," the " music and dancing" of reconciliation, the " dead past " buried out of sight forever, and full and equal privileges in our paternal home ? But for the prodigal who returns insolently rujoic ing in nis sins, insulting our dead, insisting that it was not he, but his elder brother that " wased the substance," demanding the slaughter of the calf as his by right, and in addition to the "best robe," tries to seize the wardrobe of his brother also, and threatens to burn the old house down if he can't rule it for such prodigals no veal, but plenty of hemp ! Comrades of George Wright Post, sol (tiers, citizens, we stand at the graves sur rounded by an invisib'e host, the Grand Ar my of our dead. They call us to duty. They bid us, if we would truly honor them, to live in defense of the principles for which they died. Hark ; .Let them speak : By the tombs of your sons and brothers, The hosts which the traitors have slain ; By the tears ol your sisters and mothers, In secret concealing their pain The grief which the heroine smothers, Consuming the heart and the brain ; ! By the sigh of the penniless widow, By the sob of her orphans' despair. Where they sit in their sorrowful shadow, Kneel, kneel, every freeman and swear ! Swear ! And hark ! the deep voices replying From graves where your brother are lying : Swear ! oh, swear ! On the mounds which are wet with the weeping, Where a nation has bowed to the sod, Where the noblest of martyrs are sleeping. Let the winds bear your purpose abroad ; And your firm oath be held in the keeping Of your patriot hearts and your God. Over Thomas, for whom the hot tear rose, While "o Baker and Lyon you look ; By Lincoln, a star among heroes ; By the blood of murdered McCook, And hark ! the deep voices replying From graves where your brothers are lying : " Swear ! oh. swear ! " PACIFIO COAST. Oregon, Fall wheat in the vicinity of Lewisville, Polk county, looks well. A large warehouse, with a good cleaner, is to be built at Amity. McMinnville people prosecute folks who drive fast over bridges. The Greenbackers have an organized club on Red Prairie, over in Polk county. The wheat yield this season in Lane coun ty will be the largest for many years. McMinnville College closed its school year last week, with interesting exercises. Twenty men are at work near the Santiam on the Marion and Wasco wagon road. Arrangements have been made for a rous ing celebration at Lewisville on the Fourth of July. Over $5000 worth of wheat was destroyed by the late hail storm within a radius of two miles from Salem. The wheat crop in Lane county has not been damaged by the late rains. Several large bands ot stocK are peing driven from the valley to Eastern Oregon. The law prohibiting fast driving or rid ing on bridges, is strictly enforced in Yam hill county. A Mrs. Wells attempted to commit sui cide by taking morphia a few days ago at Perry dale. Mrs. Coburn has retired from the position of editor the New Northwest. The lady is a talented writer, and the readers of that paper will soon find reason to deplore her loss. The narrow gauge railroad train met with an accident a few days ago. The passenger car ran off the track, but no damage was done. Mr W. J. Hill, on the Moore farm, tour miles below Eugene, has 1,600 acres in grain. all of which looks well ana abundant yield. The steamer A. A. McCully went up the river on Wednesday to Dayton and landed at Miller & Church's warehouse, and took on about 1,000 bushels of wheat. ANOTHERELECTION. In California there is no cessation of political tumult. From the strife and struggle over the new constitu tion which lasted several months the state passes into (he throes of a gen eral election. There ia to be a con test now for possession of the state ETOvernment and for administration of it under the new constitution, and the confusion of parties is chaos itself. It is probable there will be four or ganized parties m the field, each with a full ticket for state and county offi cers. A democratic state conven tion is called for the 24th May, a re publican state convention for the 17th June, and a workingraan's state con vention for the 3d June ; in addition to which it is supposed a new party will be attempted, to be led by men who supported the new constitution, who are out of their former relations with old parties and yet do not want to go with the workingmen unless they can lead them. Au effort to ward the organization of this new party is being made by the San Francisco Chronicle, but it does not appear to be making rapid progress. The Kearney faction repudiate their late allies in carrying the constitu tion, and insultingly refuse the lead ership of men who base their claim to the offices on the higher intelli gence and respectability which they modestly assume, and who profess to think it necessary for the reputation of the party ot the new constitution, to keep in the background the brawl ing crowd of the sand lots. This ungenerous requital of services with out which the new constitution never would have been carried, is resented by the Kearney party, and the con sequence is a division which makes it certain those who voted for the constitution cannot all be united in the election of officers to administer the government under it. Journals of California note already a marked tendency in the state to Ml baek on national lines ot division, ana it is probable this tendency will become more and more apparent as the elec tion approaches, which will occur on the first Wednesday of Seotember next. It will include governor and other state officers, 'members of the legislature, county officers and mem be re of congress. Oregonian. From the Eugene Journal RAILROAD AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS. The people of the Willamette Val ley appear to be awakening at last to a realization ot our wants in the way of connection with other States. We have been cooped up here as it were in a .demijohn, only one means of egress, and that through a very small neck ; our commerce and the devel opment of our resources crippled be cause we have had to pay enormous tribute to the Shylocks of Portland for every article received or exported lint it the people will continue as thev have now begun we will soon xet rid of them. Mr. Penra has at last succeeded in getting his " Nar row linage from Oregon Uity to Springfield into a definite shape so that the benefits to be derived from an early completion of the road can be easily seen. If it is completed in a reasonable length of time, then the Central Pacific will come to our relief with a railroad from the head of the Willamette Valley across the monn tains to Winnemueca -thus not only furnishing us direct connection with the East but opening up a vast conn try of inexhaustible resources where hundreds of men can find employ ment and the maikets of the world can be supplied with the products of this, at present worthless waste. We hope the citizens will not be blind to their interests, but will do all in their power to encourage and assist in the accomplishment of this worthy enterprise. Mr. Pengra de serves great praise for the energy and untiring zeal he has displayed in this work. The State Journal says Mrs, died at Eugene lately. Dr. Nicklin DIED. At Auxiliary, May 29th, 1879, Johnny Starr, son of W. W. and Phoeba Starr, aged 5 years 4 months and 14 days. On Thursday evening. May 29th, as the brilliant sun went dojvn beyond the western confines of the mourning Pacific, the sad news swept through our happy community that little Johnny Starr, " the sweet singer" was no more. While other communities and families are filled with mournful lamen tation for the loss of some dearly loved one, we, too are called upon to join in the requi em for the dead. But a fortnight ago death grasped, with his icy fetters, those beautiful forms in King's Valley, and bore them be yond the scenes of earth. Those youthful sacrifices that are annually laid upon the altar of death, call down the generous pride of sympathetic hearts and force tears in eyes that seldom weep. With appropriate ceremonies, his wasted form was deposited in the Bellfonntam biir rial ground, beneath the sod, the dew, the roses and the lillies, and although, from earth has faded and drooped this mortal Starr, in heaven has arisen an immortal Starr, which shall join that innumerable host, that hrilliantly illumue the constella tion of Paradise, and chant the euphoneous son's of eternity. M. H. Parker. At his residence, on Little Elk, Benton county, June 3rd, 1879, after a painful ill ness of dropsy of the heart, E. H. Baber, aged 51 years. Mr. Baber was one of our best citizens, a good neighbor and devoted husband, leaving a host of friends to mourn their loss. He came from Illinois to Oregon, and settled on Little Elk, in 1865, where he resided un til his death. We formed his acquaintance when we were a small boy, have been inti mate with him most of the time since, and through due respect to his numerous kind acts through life, we paid him a visit just before his death, and though suffering terri bly, we found him perfectly composed, and more than willinc to die : and when we promises anjppressel his cold, thin hand in ours, and bade him good bye, we felt sad at Heart, knowing that we snould never meet again on this side, yet we hope to meet again, where parting will be no more. Written in memory of a true friend. C. B. Mats. Notice to Donation Claimants rnHE ATTENTION OP CLAIMANTS TO DONA X tions of land, their assignees and legal represen tatives, is particularly called to that part of section; 3 of the Act of Congress approved July 17th, 1854 entitled "An Act to amend an Act, approved sep temper twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty, to create the office of Surveyor General of the public lands in Oregon, etc., and also the Act amendatory thereof, approved February nineteen fourteen eigh teen hundred and fifty-three, which reads as follows : "All persons claiming donations under this Act, or the Act of which it is amendatory, shall give notice to the Surveyor General, r other duly authorised officer, of the particular lands claimed as such donation within thirty days after peing requested so to do by such officer ; and failing the claimant or claimants shall forfest all right and claim thereto." jnow, tnereiore, tne undersigned, oeing suen oth i duly authorized OFyicBR do hereby irive notice to each and every person, his or her assigns and legal representatives, claimants of donations of land within the district of lands subject to sale at the United' States District Land Office at Rosebnrg, Oregon, under said Acts of Congress : that each and every one of them within thirty days from the 19th Day of July, 1879, ( being the day of the expiration of six weeks publi cation), give notiee to the Register and Receiver of said Land Office at Roseburg, Oregon, of " the par ticular lands claimed as such donations ; and failing' such notice the claimant or claim ants shall forfeit all right and claim thereto." Ano eacn ano every person claiming- the benents or said act of September 27, 1850, and the legislation supplemental thereto will within six month after the expiration of the aforesaid six weeks pub' lication, cause to be filed in the XT. S. District Land' Office at Roseburg, Oregon, the proofs, as required by law, to complete their claim to a donation of land" under said acts, and failing so to do, such claims will be held for cancellation. In witness whereof the Register and Receiver of the said U. S. District Land Office, at Roseburg, Ore- con, nave hereto suoscnoeu inerr names, una Z4W day of May, A. D. , 1879. WM. T. BENJAMIN, Register, 16:22w6 J. C. FULLKRTON, Receiver. NEW BUSINESS! LISTEN FOR THE BELLI THE UNUESrONED PROPOSES TO S8TABUSH A MIL T3L DAIRY For the purpose of supplying the- citizens of Corvaf lis with Pure Fresh Miik at the very reasonable rate of 35 Cents per Gallon, He intends starting a Delivery Wagon on or before? the 1st day of June next, when he will be glad. to. supply all demands for Pure, Fresh Milk, t the above rates. Patronage is respectfully solicited. cf Listen for the BelL A. a MULKEY. Corvallis, May 20, 1879. . 16:21ml, HOUSE MOVING LORD fc TRIMBLE, Proprrs. BEING SUPPLIED WIT9 ROLLERS,. Jack Scews, etc., we are prepared to Raise, Move, put under New Sills and level up your barps, and Buildings of any kind, on short notice. TERMS REASONABLE. LORD. & TRIMBLE. Corvallis, May I, 1879. I6:21tf I FOE8ALE. HEREBY OFFER FOR SALE MY undivided half interest in the Oneatta JMill Property Situated on Yaquina Bay, consisting of Steam Saw Mill, in good running order, with a capacity of 20 thousand feet per day. Also, GOOD HOTEL, FOUR GOOD DWELLINGS, and ONE STORE HOUSE, aud 53 acres of land, together with my stock of merchandise. For further particu lars, apply to the undersigned, SAMUEL CASE. Oneatta, May 5, 1879. 16:19w6 Sheriff's Sale. BY VIRTUE OF A DECREE AND EXECUTION' issued out of and under the seal of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the county of Ben ton, to me directed and delivered, for the sum one hundred and seventy-two ($172 61-100) dollars and sixty-one cents in U. S. gold .coin with interest there on at the rate of ten per cent per annum from the 28th day of April, 1879, together with costs and dis bursements, in favor of W. W. Thayer, Governor of the state of Oregon, R. P. Earhart, Secretary of the State of Oregon, Ed. Hirsch, Treasurer of the State ot Oregon, constituting the Board of Commissioners for the sale of School and University lands, and the man agement of the Common School Fund, plaintiffs ; and. against Melcena Right, John R. Kight, Mary A. Right, O. F. Right. Harriet A. Right, Chas. W. Right, Joseph Kight, Ida L. flight, and Martha Kight, defendants; and commanding me to sell the real property herein after described to satisfy said sum of money hereinbe fore mentioned and interest and costs thereon, I have levied upon the following described real property, to wit : Lots one, (1) two, (2) and three, (3) in Block number (13) thirteen, in the City of Corvallis, (form erly original town of Marysville,) in Benton county. State of Oregon, together with the tenements, heredi taments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and on Wednesday, tub 11th day or Jrxz, 1879, I will soil at Public Auction, to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, all the right, title, interest and estate of the defendants in said execution in and to the above described real estate to satiafy said execution, costs, and expenses of sale Sale will take place at the hour of one o'clock T. M. of said day, at the Court House door in the City of Corvallis in said county and State. Dated April 29, 1879. SOL. KINO, 16:18w0.j Sheriff of Benton County, Oregon. BOARD and LODGING. Neat Rooms and Splendid Table. OUR CORRESPONDENT ON YESTERDAY WAS shown the Neatly Furnished Room OF MRS JOSEPH POLLY. At their residence, just opposite the residence of Judge F. A. Chenoweth prepared and now in readiness for such boarders as may choose to give ber a call, either by the single meal or by the week. Mrs. Polly has a reputation as a cook, and sets as good a'tabie as can be found in the State. Solicits a share of patronape. 15:46tf. Farm for Sale. THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS FOR sale his splendid grain and stock farm, four miles north of west of Corvallis, on Oak creek containing 1200 acres over on hundred acres in cultivation two fine bear-, ing orchards, and well calculated for divid ing into two or more snue farms Terms easy and title perfect. For particulars in quire of h. Jtlolgate, W. U. Uarter, or on the premises. Corvallis, Jan. 1. 1S78. lesltr Assignees Notice to Creditors. THE UNDERSIGNliD HAVING BEEN DULY appointed assignee of all the estate of E. A, wmtney. ol aenvm county, owwj oi ureRw, xor ww benefit of his creditors Notiee is hereby given to all the creditors of said E. A. Whitney to present their claims under oath, as by law required, to me at my office, at the Court iim in the c.itv of Corvallis. Benton countv. Ore- eon, within three" months from this date. nr a i,.e- A Tnw Assignee, Dated May 1, 1879. 16:18w6, ORLANDO C. TAYLOR, Inrenter and Proprietor of Tajlor, WONDERFUL DITCHING MACHINE, Proposes to cut a Ditch five feet wide at the top, one and a half feet at the bottom and two feet deep, throwing the dirt two feet from ditch, for the small consideration of Thirty-three and one-third Cents per Rod. This he guarantees or no charges. He has three machines now in operation. One each in Linn, Benton and Lane counties. Junction City, Oregon, Jan. 17, 1879. 16:3m6. B ILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, MONTHLY statement -neatly prime attnis omoe- 1