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.
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