OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COUNTY
Corvallis, June 27, 1879.
W. B. CARTER,
DO WE NEED A HARBOR?
Senator Mitchell, in his able review
of the commerce of the Pacific, be
fore the XT. S. Senate, gave an alarm
ing array of marine disasters along
this coast, great numbers of which,
involving the loss of millions of prop
erty and hundreds of valuable live,
might have been prevented by a har
bor of refuge. After reading that
fearful array of figures, we thought
there could be but one opinion as to
the necessity for a harbor of refuge
at some point between San Francisco
and the Straits of Fuca. But Capt.
James Carroll, commander of the
late steamship Great Republic, which
went ashore. near the mouth of the
Columbia, and a few others, also,
asserts that there is no necessity for
a harbor of refuge or breakwater up
on this coast. Will the people of
Oregon receive him as good authori
ty upon this subject? We think not.
The great majority of the 6eafar
ing men aie decidedly in favor of a
barbor of refuge, and the question to
be settled, is where shall it be located?
It is new understood that the Board
of Engineers having charge of locat
ing the same, intend to make a per
sonal examination of each point pre
senting claims. This is just what
they should do, and for this purpose
the steamer Constantino has been
placed at their disposal.
The claims of Cape Foul weather
and Yaquina Bay have been strongly
presented before the Board by Capt
J. J. Winant, as will be seen in an
other column of this paper. The
reasons assigned by the Captain why
the harbor of refuge and port of entry
should be located upon the western
line of Benton county are so clear
and well authenticated by facts, that
no room is left for doubt. Captain
Winant is not only in favor of a bar
bor of refuge, but rises above all per
sonal feeling and local prejudice an
boldly comes to the front for Cape
Foulweather, or Yaquina Bay, as in
the judgment of the Board of En
gineers, is deemed the best. We
hope, ere long, to be able to announce
the settlement of this long vexed
question.
Postal Officials. The following
postoffice officials were at the Clar
endon Hotel, Portland. Oregon, last
week : Hon. Jag. N. Tyner and wife,
" First Ass'istanf Postmaster General ;
Gen. A. D. Hazen and wife, Third
Assistant Postmaster-General ; M. V.
Bailey, Superintendent Railway Mail
Service; Samuel Smith, Special Agent
Postoffice Department, free delivery
division. Their visit is in pursuance
of a plan to establish mail routes in
Oregon and Washington Territory,
and also to facilitate postal commu
nication with British Columbia.
Sound Plank. The following
sentiment, expressed by Secretary
Sherman, in writing to a war demo-
erat, in New York, would make an
excellent plank lor a Republican
platform one upon which our green
back friends could afford to stand.
He says the " true issue for 1880 is
national supremacy in national mat
ters, honest money and an honest
dollar."
Infant Mortality. It is stated
that fifteen per cent, of all the chil
dren bom die in the first year. This
results in summer, largely from im
proper food. It cannot be made too
widely known that the addition of a
teaspoonful of common lime-water, to
be had at the druggist's for a mere
trifle, to each bottle of milk adapts
oow's milk to the human constitution,
and renders it perfectly digestible to
eitheradult, invilids orsticking infants.
For the latter the milk should be di
luted with tepid water and slightly
sweetened with moist, not loaf, sugar.
Besides the effect on the digestion, it
may be assumed that the lime goes to
tbe formation of the bones; hence
children thus fed have none of thnt
softness in their bones so painfully
displayed in what is termed "rickets."
Stand Fast. Stand by your
friends, let come what may, is a good
motto. If you don't standby them you
need not expect them to stand by you
So whether they be friends of high
or low degree, in affluence or pover
ty, stick to them and don't slop to in
quire whether it will pay or whether
it -will be popular. Whenever you
prove traitor and desert those who
nave stood up for you and helped
fight your battles, you will find your
self without any one to congratulate
you upon your achievements, or com
fort you in an evil honr when misfor
tunes come Ibick and fast.
HARBOR 0F REFUGE.
TESTIMONY OF OTHER SHIP-MASTERS CON
CERNING THE NECESSITY OF PORTS FOR
SHELTERING DISTRESSED SHIPPING.
The opinions of sea cautains concerning
the location for the proposed harbor of ref
uge on tne northern coast were again given
yesterday afternoon before the Pacific Coast
.Board .of u. S. Engineers.
Laptam James Carroll, commander 01 the
late steamship Great Republic, who has
been running oflTthe coast for thirteen years,
was of the opinion that there was no necessi
ty for the proposed harbor. In any rough
weather captains do not run for port unless
completely disabled. Very rarely is it nec
essary to put into port in northwest weather.
Port Orford is decidedly the best of the
northern ports. Large steamers have fre
quently lain there in northwest weather.
The holding ground is better there than in
any of the northern ports. Uape Greeory
harbor might be greatly improved, lnm-
dad would be easier of egress than Coos
Bay.
lhe new classes of both steamers and
large sail vessels are so greatly improved
that they have no need ot a haven between
their starting point and destination.
Captain A. r. Lorentzen, a schooner cap
tain, said : " I think there is great need of a
harbor of refuge. 1 have frequently seen
vessels in need ot a harbor ot retuge. 1 la-
vor Port Orford. What we seamen need are
more good southerly harbors. We have al
ready good places of shelter from northerly
weather. 1 have seen as many as thirty
schooners in Bodega Bay, on account of se
vere summer weather.
Captain Jacob Cousins has been on the
coast since 1853. He does not think there
is anv need of a harbor of refuge. It would
benefit real estate owners near the harbor
more than it would . shipping. Instead of
making a harbor of refuge, in his opinion,
the government should improve a dozen dif
ferent shipping points, making several small
commercial harbors. These would make
secure ports for small vessels, and large
ones need no refuge. There is very little
use trying to improve bar channels, except
to confine the channel to one well-defined
direction. Both Trinidad and Crescent City
are suitable places at which to construct
breakwaters.
Capt. J. J. Winant then read the follow
ing paper :
Reasons whv Cape Foulweather or Ya
quina Bay should be selected for a harbor of
-refuge :
First Because it is the most northerly
point, and therefore farthest to leeward in
heavy southerly weather of any yet contem
plated for the purpose. When I wrote that
I did not think of Columbia river being spo
ken of as a harbor of refuge, and for this
reason accessible to a larger number of ves
sels. The line of bad weather being about
in the vicinity of Cape Mendocino, and the
storms heavier, and of longer duration, as
we get farth"r north, Cape r oulweather be
comes, in this respect, the most central
point.
Second It is claimed by the engineer,
Mr. Habersham, who made the survey, that
a breakwater can be constructed here at a
cost far below the estimates of any other
point yet named.
Third Yaquina Bay, four miles south of
the Cape, is alieady a good harbor tor small
vessels, and can be entered by such vessels
in stormy weather when no other on the
coast is accessible. This can be established
by positive proof.
The channel of Yaquina Bay is open to
the south, and a vessel can enter under any
saii, or even might enter without any, if it so
happened that her sails had been blown away,
The bar has only about sixteen or seventeen
feet of water on it at high water : if this
could be deepened to twenty-five or thirty
feet a harbor of refuge would be provided
capable ot accommodating all the vessels on
the Pacific coast, as it it navigable for about
twenty miles. It seems simply a question
for engineers to decide whether a channel
could be mae'e, and whether the outlay
would not be les3 than to construct aharlior
entirely outside. A ledge of rocks on the
north-side prevents the channel from shifting
in that direction. The shifting of channels
by moving saud bars is the greatest cause of
annoyance at most of the harbors on the
northern coast. One incident alone is suffi
cient to illustrate the advantage that Ya
quina has over other places on the coast as a
harbor of last resort. During the winter of
1878 several vessels were seen off Coos Bay
in distress. Amond them was the schooner
Lizzie Madison. The captain, finding it im
possible to enter Coos Bay, Unipqua, or any
other place, finally ran for Yaquina, which
ho entered without difficulty, thus saving
his vessel and the lives of his crew.
Fourth Both Cape Foulweather and Ya
quina Bay have better opportunities for
communication with the interior than any
other point under consideration, as there is
a natural pass through the Coast Range. A
good wagon road connects it with the Wil
lamette Valley, and a railroad is being built
over the same route. Many of the objec
tions that weigh against other places on the
coast will not apply to this. Therefore, in
accordance with the expressed wish of the
Honorable Board of Engineers for informa
tion on this subject, the above reasons are
respectfully submitted.
The above is from the San Francisco Bul
letin of the 12th inst., and gives a very cor
rect idea of the status of the harbor of ref
uge question. Capt. Winant, with an expe
rience of some fifteen years as a commander
of vessels on the Oregon and California
coast, and for many years frequently visit
ing Yaquina Bay, comes nobly to our sup
port before the Board of U. S. Engineers.
The Captain's arguments are unanswerable,
and his reasoning clear and concise.
It is evident, to the most casual observer,
that Cape Foulweather or Yaquina Bay, and
in fact every point outside of California, is
met with most powerful opposition, with
the odds fearfully against Oregon. Some of
the interested parties claiming that no har
bor is needed on this coast, or, in other
words, would oppose a harbor, provided it
is not located somewhere in California.
Capt. Winant is not of this class but takes
a broader, manlier view of the situation, and
looks only to the best interests of commerce.
The thanks of the people of this state are
due to Capt. Winant for his timely and able
council before the Board, and through the
press, upon the harbor of refuge question.
The Retiring Mayor. Mayor
Newbury last evening closed his of
ficial term as Mayor, presiding for
the last time at the meeting of the
City Council. He retires with the
respect and best wishes of all citizens.
During the time he has filled the po
sition of Mayor Mr. Newbury has
been untiring in his performance of
duty and has honestly and ably met
every official responsibility. He has
been the soul ot courtesy as an of
ficer, and his private affairs have suf
fered while he served the city. This
made a longer continuance of office
undesirable, and he will hereafter de
vote himself entirely to the increas
ing cares of business. The universal
sentiment of citizens is kindness and
respect for his official life and best
wishes for bis future. Portland Jiee,
June 19th.
PIXLEY ON OREGON -A CALIFORNIAN
SPEAKS.
We are pleased to note the many
evidences of increasing good feeling
between the representatives of the
press of our sister Stater California,
and those of our own Stale. The
alienation in the past, has been the
result of ignorance and prejudice.
These are fast giving away, and hap
pier days are dawning. Frank Pix-
ley, the talented and gifted editor of
the San Francisco Argonaut, one of
the most ably edited papers of that
State, recently paid a- brief visit to
this State. The following extract
from his paper will show his esti
mate of Oregon :
On our down trip from Portland to Asto
ria the ship made twenty-four miles an hour,
which is the fastest sailing we ever experi
enced. Of our trip we can only say it was
ten days of uninterrupted enjoyment. Ore
gon was to us a revelation. We knew that
California was bounded on the north by
Oregon ; we knew that Portland was situ
ated on the Willamette ; that the Willam
ette emDtied into the Columbia : that the
Columbia emptied into the sea ; dividing
Washington Territory from the State of
Oregon. We had heard the country was
rich in forests and timber ; that it was of
acrieultural value : that fish abounded in
its streams. We had a school boy's idea of
its eeoLTarmv of coast range, rivers. Cas
cade Mountains, broad prairies and rich val
leys ; but we had no realizing sense of its
splendid domain, and the inexhaustible fer
tility of soil, its expansive primeval forests;
its River Willamette, more beautiful than
the Sacramento, draining a valley more pro
ductive than Sacramento and San Joaquin
combined. We had no idea, till we saw it.
that the Columbia was the grandest and
most picturesque of all the great rivers of
the world ; that it had scenery upon its
banks in comparison with which the Hudson
and the Pliine sink into utter iusignificance,
that it and its tributaries penetrate a land
which for food producing capacity has no
equal on all God's five broad continents.
Oregon is a wonderful State, and tried by
what seems to us to be the true test of a
land's real wealth and ultimate greatness
viz : its power to produce food it has no
superior in the world.
Astoria is the Venice of the north, built
into the water3 of the Columbia, standing
upon piles wooden houses upon wooden
sticks so constructed, for no other reason
that we could observe, than that it is cheap
er to drive piles and build upon them than
to grade a somewhat hilly and uncomforta
ble background. Astoria is a city of patient
hopes and great expectations ; located on the
banks of the great river, it expectantly
awaits the good time coming when it shall
realize it3 geographical advantage and reap
the harvest of an expanding commerce. For
half a hundred years its owners have looked
out upon the great waters of the Columbia
and wondered for half that time why the
ships went sailing by to that inferior and
interior town of Portland. Still they do,
and Astoria sits and smiles, confident of its
ultimate greatness, when it will be crowned
queen of the Columbia, and all its tributa
ries shall bring gifts and pour them into its
willing lap. We would not dampen the ar
dor ot its friends by suggesting that it is
just possible that an interior railroad system
may concentrate the trad? ot Western Ure
gon at Portland on the Willamette and that
the trade of Eastern Oregon and Idaho may
seek the shores of Puget Sound and pass
out to the great ocean over that broad high
way of commerce, the Straits of Fuca.
Portland is one hundred and fifteen miles
from the sea, situated jjpen the beautiful
Willamette, some si:; miles above where it
empties into the Coiumbia ; a city of twenty
thousand inhabitants good inhabitants,
that go to church, don't gamble in stocks,
are a little slow and poky, but always sure
and content with a steady, healthful, honest
progress. There are more commercial build
ings now in process of erection at Portland
than San Francisco. We visited Albany,
sixty-one miles up the valley of the Will
amette, by rail a rich and productive val
ley of farms and orchards, forests, and par
tial clearings and natural prairies ; a valley
from thirty to sixty miles wide, containing
5,000,000 of acres covered with groves,
grasses, wood, and copse, and every acre of
which is fertile and productive. The Wil
lamette is navigable an hundred miles or
more, except at Oregon City, where locks
are provided around a waterfall a fall
which gives power to make a great manu
facturing city.
Oregon is a better State than California.
It has a better and more promising future :
and unless the city of San Francisco looks
to itself, there will spring up somewhere on
Puget Sound a great commercial emporium
that shall challenge with us the commercial
supremacy of the West. Oregon will, in
no distant time, outnumber us m popula
tion. Washington lerritory is an empire
in and of itself, and both State and Tern
tory have as yet millions of unappropriated
lands. There is now a large immigration
pouring into the country : and while Jim
McShatter, Col. Beale, Lux & Miller,
Ihrockmorton and other land cormorants
are holding their broad acres beyond the
reach of purchase at $40 per acre, better
lands and nearer to a better market may be
bought tor fco, or appropriated for nothing,
or secured at Government price. Orecon
has escaped the greedy, black, speculative
spiaer mat stretches nis web over the soil
to steal and hold prisoner the indstrious
fool that comes to plow. This is telling now
in tavor ot our sister htate. It is getting
ten immigrants to our one. it is taking in
dustnons and working men away from
California.
CHURCH OFJNGLAND.
Rev. Dr. Locke, of Chicago, lately
preached a sermon before the St.
George's Society of that city, in
which he thus rebukes those English
men who in this country forget their
Church :
I know, though I have no sympa
thy with, the feeling of many En
glishmen that they want to cast off
all the shackles ot a monarchical gov
ernment, and that the state church is
part of that. But throwing all that
in the balance, yes, going fix
leaving out of question that thi
the way in which you were trained
to worship God, that these are the
forms in which your devotion has
been cast, I cannot understand how
so many of you can so ruthlessly cut
down this bridge of beauty, which
spans the ocean and forms a highway
over which your spirits and the
spirits of your English dead and liv
ine may come and go. Everything
else may be strange ; the houses, the
stieets, the accent, the customs, the
politics, the very breathing of the air;
but the momeut you pass tne ponai oi
a church, you are at home. Listen !
What is that the while-robed priest
is savins?? "Almighty and most
merciful Father, we have erred and
strayed from Thy ways like lost
sheep." Why, you have said that
since vour little lips could lrame a
word. W hat is that song ot praise
risinsr on the sacred air ? It is the
" Te Deum" which has rung through
the arches of vour parish church tor
centuries back. Hear the creed !
Your father and grandfather and
great-erand father have said it; some
ancestor of yours perhaps went to
the stake for it. It is the creed of
home; and yet so many of you have
abandoned it. I spoke of going to
the stake for it. Do you remember
that this noble English church has
had its martyrs that English men
and English women poured out their
blood like water that it might breathe
free of the dictum ot an Italian bish
op, and with no head but Christ, and
under Him. for the carrvincr out of
law, the sovereign of the realm.
Surelv vou are no unfamiliar wilh
her history, for it is part of the his
tory of England. You must remem
ber her trials, her vicissitudes, her
defeats, her successes, her glorious
past, her living, working present must
sometimes come up before you. Sure
lv this is a thing not for a man to
leave, but tor a man to boast about,
to cling unto, to point at with pride,
as his spiritual mother. If in old
Roman times, men said with exalta-
tion, "I am a Roman citizen,''
thousand times rather can they say
now, "I am an English churchman."
This English church did not spring
up yesterday. Like that grand ab
bey which rises bv the historic
Thames, it is old, in some parts crum
hliug, filled with monuments of the
past, some battered and worn, but it
is new in that now, as five hundred
years ago, thronging crowds press
into its conrts to hear the word
preached, and its career of usefulness
seems to be increasing daily. 1 doubt
not you re-echo the words of Tenny
son :
There is no land like England,
Whereer the light of day be :
There are no hearts like English hearts.
Such hearts of oak as thev be.
Political murders in Russia bave
been recently confined to the provin
ces. Tbe stringent measures adopted
against the revolutionists seem to
have cowed them in St. Petersburg.
The Czar has decreed that all nris-
oners tried by court-martial must be
either sentenced or aquitted within
twenty-lour hours. Also that all sen
tences must be executed within twen
ty-four hours from the time they are
pronounced.
Attempted Suicide. On Thurs
day evening of last week, a little step
daughter, aged about 13 years, of Mr.
E. Marshal, who lives near this place,
attempted to commit suicide by hang
ing herself; and almost succeeded in
her efforts. It appears that she went
up to her sleeping room iust before
the evening meal was rparfv anri
when called to supper she failed to
answer. Her mother sought her in her
room and found her hano-ino- hv the
neck, in an unconscious condition.
She was cut down immediately, and
medical help summoned, and after
some time she was resuscitated, and
is now in a fair way to recover. No
cause is assigned for the rash act. but
tne gin is now considered insane,
her. mind being to all
entirely unsettled, and she does not
appear to nave any recollection of
the affair. River Side.
THURMANS SPEECH.
Senator Thurman's speech on the
military interference bill and cognate
matters appears to have d lifted into
an indictment of the Republican man
agerstor corruption. However use
ful such charges may be from a cam
paign standpoint, it must be said
that they come with singularly ill
grace from the lips of a Democratic
leader, and particularly when .New
York is selected as an illustration
We have no doubt that there has
been far too much corruption em
ployed by both parties, but the Dem
ocratic party has the bad distinction
of having added force to the pro
gramme of fraud. When Tilden
carried New York it has been con
clusively established that he or his
party contrived to cast forty thou
sand fraudulent votes. Certainly
John Davenport never approached
that feat with all his marshals and
supervisors. As regards corruption
it would be quite possible to admit a
stand off belweeu the parties, though
we have no doubt that the Uemocra
cy has practiced it five times as mucl
as tbe Republicans. But the latter
have never had resort to violence
and that has been the strong 6uit of
the Democrats all through the South
Their present fight is to secure full
permission to continue the satne pro
gramme, and Mr. 1 hurman s argu
ments are in this respect altogether
wide of the real issue. The Presi
dent has said that the Federal Gov
ernment cannot be deprived of its
constitutional right to employ th
array in case of necessity upon elec
tion day ar any other day. The Dem
ocrats contend that on election day
the field ought to be left ch ar to the
Rifle Clubs and White Leaguers.
That is the main point of difference,
and on that Mr. Thurman bad little
enough to say. Such a speech as he
made has this fatnl defict, in fact ; it
will only oltase those who require no
arguments to bring them to his way
of thinking. Record Union.
MOVING SPECTACLE ENGLAND'S
QUEEN INAMERiOA.
No more touching or appropriate
nternational expression of good will
between the people of our country
and that of the great nation over the
sea whose noble Queen all the world
delights to honor, was perhaps never
witnessed than that which tound a
regiment of American volunteer soj
diers doing honor to tbe birthday of
Her Majesty in the Canadian Domin-
on in the presence ot her nonie
daughter and the Marquis of Lome.
fhe words of hearty recognition and
acknowledgement in which the Mar
quis expressed himself, with his royal
wiie by his side, were eloquent witn
generous sentiments as ne pausea
with uncovered head to greet with a
soldierly and statesmanlike welcome
the American regiment that had
come to honor the natal day of Eng
land s Queen. But what was more
touching than any other scene in the
round of public festivity in Montreal
on Saturday, judged from this dis
tant view, was that at which, while
the Marquis and the Princess were
passing, the visiting regiment s band
struck up that grand old martial an
them ot God Have the Queen in the
midst of the universal plaudits of
the vast multitude whom it thrilhd
with indiscribable enthusiasm as it
doubtless touched with deep emotion
the hearts ot those whose presence
inspired it.
..... ...
Our country should be permitted
to see and welcome England's Queen,
and Mr. Evarts could do no greater
service to the cause of liberty through
out the world than to secure the pies
ence of Her Majesty in the United
States where she is. as wife, mother
and Queen every whit as much be
loved as she is in her own realms.
England is our Motherland, not only
in tbe consanguinity that springs
from race and blood, but in the insti
tutions which give liberty to all peo
ple under the sun of heaven and this
great Anglo Saxon people ought to
be permitted, if Her Majesty can be
persuaded to cross the sea, to honor
the best if not the greatest of Queens
on American soil. Omaha Herald.
He that hath no music in his soul
is fit for usher, undertaker, table
waiter, or some such thing.
A man is going to have his name
stamped on 50,000,000 toothpicks.
That man's name will be in every
body's mouth.
The 3,000 wives of King of Siam
live nnder one roof, though it must
be confessed that tbey occasionally
raised it.
IN MEMGRIAM.
During this year, Death has thrust in his
sickle and Gathered a rich harvest from the
class of '63.
In October, 1878, by an accident never to
be on earth explained, Dr. John Cloud
Grubbs. was drowned in the Willamette
river, near Corvallis.
In March, 1879, after many weeks,
months and years of suffering, both in body
and mind, Mrs. Nellie (Stipp) Curl died in
Salem, of consumption.
Language is so madeqaate on such occa
sions, and especially so now, that we are
made to feel our losses more keenly. All
we can fittingly do is to make a formal rec
ord of death's inroads. To the widow of
our deceased brother and to his fatherless
children we extend our sympathy. With
the doubly orphaned daughter of our de
parted sister, .we bow in silent sorrow. To
all those stricken by these untimely deaths,
we thus feebly convey the fact that we, too,
are numbered with the large circle of those
who do truly mourn.
With each recurring anniversary ot our
Alumni, there come from our Alma Mater
many bright faces and bounding hearts.
We welcome them heartily, and are as oft
reminded of our natal day when we were
just -as bouyant, just as full of plans for
lite. But, with each return ot our reunion.
we miss many of those who began life's real
work with us, and, instead of preparing es
says, we are often delegated to write obitua
ries. These scenes, this experience, we
must be prepared to meet, There are les
sons to be learned from our losses lessons
quite as important as any we ever learned
when students within these halls. The re
citation hour for some of us may be near at
hand. Let us be fully prepared when called
1 y the Great Master.
We append the usual formal resolutions :
Resolved, That this report be spread upon
the journal.
Resolved, That copies be sent by our sec
retary to the immediate relatives of our de
ceased brother and sister.
Resolved, That the secretary be author
ized to ask for the publication of this report
in such papers as he may deem necessary.
Respectfully submitted,
T. H.! Crawford,
John B. Waldo,
Angie Eobb Drake.
Com. of Class of '63.
VACI IO COAST
Oregon.
It is supposed that a bogus half-dollar fac
tory is m full blast in Astoria.
One dealer has bought over 50,000 pounds
wool in Jackson county during the past
fortnight.
Station buildings for the O. & C. Stage
Co. are being put up half a mile south of
Grave creek.
Lhinng the last quarter 17M pupils were
enrolled in the Jacksonville district, and the
daily attendance was above 140.
The police of Albany are diligent in run
ning down the opium vice, and several ar
rests have recently been made.
During the last Spring considerable gold
dust, on the Santiam above Lebanon, was
found, and some good quartz leads on the
South Fork have lately been found.
Monmouth will unite with Independence
in celebrating the 4th of July. A large
crowd is expected, and the citizens ot Inde
pendence are making preparations to make
this celebration one to oe rememDerea.
Charlev Miller's steamer, the Welcome
was successfully launched at Tillamook on
the 5th inst. This boat has been buiit for
the trade on the bay, and will begin busi
ness as soon as her boiler and engines arrive,
winch will probably be in tne course ot a
month.
Bishop Morris has secured another clergy
man for his diocese in the person of Rev. D.
F. McDonald, late of Vallejo, OaL : he will
have charge of the work in Southern Oregon,
with headquarters at Eugene City.
Christian Colleee. Monmouth. Oreson.
finished its thirteenth session on the lltn of
June. It will be reopened to commence its
fourteenth session on the third Monday in
September. The graduating class of 1879
consisted of eight members ; two ladies and
two gentlemen receiving the degree of A. B.,
and the remaining four gentlemen the degree
of B. S.
Eugene Guard -. The arrangements for cel
ebrating the Fourth at Junction City are
progressing as rapidly as possible. Hon.
John H. Mitchell, of Portland, will deliver
the oration. Rev. J. P. McCorkle will offi
ciate as chaplain, and it is expected that
W. S. McFadden, of Corvallis, Will be read
er of the day. Both of the Eugene bands
have been engaged for the occasion and no
effort will be spared to make this one of the
best celebrations ever held in the central
Willamette vally.
COME INTO COURT AND BE CONVICTED
BY YOUR OWN EVIDENCE.
Concluded from last week.
Mr. E wing : ' ' We are not bound in faith
or morals to make the f nnd which we pay
to the creditor for his principal be it gold,
silver or paper legal tentfer, worth more
at the time of payment than it was worth
when it was borrowed." "If you borrow a
piece of coin called a dollar, having in it one
hundred cents worth of fine metal, and by
virtue of your sovereign power, so debase
your coin that the dollar contains but seventy-five
cents worth, it is repudiation, or its
equivalent act, of injustice. If you, in be
half of the nation, borrow coin having but
seventy-five cents worth of pure metal and
call it a dollar, and afterwards improve your
coin, and put in one hundred cents worth of
metal to the dollar, and pay this improved
dollar to discharge a loan of baser com, it
is generosity to the lender, and injustice to
the nation : it is taking from the tax-payers
without leason, and giving to the capitalists
without consideration. The same is the
case whether the fund loaned or borrowed
be adulterated coin or depreciated currency."
Here is sufficient testimony to convict
any man charged with crime, and shows
conclusively that at the time the bonds were
authorized, coin payment was not intenued
But after a few vears it was claimed that
the act of 1862 was ambiguous, and conflict
ins opinions arose as to its true intent and
meaning. Instead of applying to the courts,
however, as should have been done, Con
gress passed a declaratory act, and whether
this declaratory law called the " Credit
Strenethenine Act," possesses any binding
force or not, will now be determined by
Chanceller Kent, in his charge to this jury
He says : "it seems to be settled as the
sense of the conrts of justice in this conn
trv. that the legislature cannot pass any de
claratory law, or acts declaratory of whnt
the law was before its passage, so as to give
it anv bindintr weight in the courts. "It
is only evidence of the sense of the legisla
ture as to the pre-existing law. The powers
of covernment mthis country are distributed
in departments, and each department is con
fined within its constitutional limits. The
power that makes law is not the power to
construe it. The latter trust belongs to the
judicial department exclusively, (1 Kent
513, notes.)
Prior to the election of Ueneraf Orant, in
1868. no one questioned the right of the
sovernment to pay the 5-20 bonds in green
backs. But the war being over, and a large
amount of bonds in circulation, the bond
holders seized upon the occasion of the first
presidential election to obtain direction of
Dolitical affairs. "Heretofore, under the
lead of Belmont, thev had used the Demo
cratic party to hold in check, and head off
as much as possible, tne wreenoacK tendency
of the Renublican leaders. Through their
aid and influence, the Democracy had be
come a powerful and dangerous rival of the
Johnson demoralized Republican party.
Th8 election of 1868 was in doubt, with the
chances in favor of the Democrats. On the
7th July. 1868, the Democrats held thei
national convention and nominated Horatio
Sevmour on a platform containing the fol
lowing plank i
"Resolved, third. When the obligations
of the government do not expressly state
upon their face, or the law under which
they were issued does not provide that they
shall be paid in coin, they ought, in right,
to be paid in the lawful money of the Unit
ed States."
"After this, August Belmont, chairman
of the Democratic national committee, was
instructed by Baron Rothchild, who held
S500.000.000 of the 5-20 bonds, to make
terms with the Republican leaders, and
they would pledge the immediate passage of
the credit-strengthening act alter tne assem
bling of the next Congress, the Democracy
must be defeated, and the future power and
influence of the bondholder should be given
to the Republican instead of the Democratic
party. Belmont at that time owned a large
interest in the New York World, and on
the 15th dav of October, iust before the
election, when it was too late for the party
to recover from the shock, the New York
World came out in a leading editorial de
nouncing Horatio Seymour in unmeasured
terms, as -'unfit." and "unreliable," and
advised his withdrawal. It had the effect
It killed him and his party, and gave the
Republicans a new lease of life. This sale
was a tough pill for Mortsn, Wilson and
other leading Republicans to swallow, but
some did it silently, and others, like Doolit
tie, and other liberal Republicans, aban
doned the party, unwilling to co-operate
with it longer, when after saving the Union
it had sold its saviors to mammon." But
Sherman, more brassy and conscience-callous
than all of them, in less than twelve montni
after he had given the testimony above re
corded, declared in his place: "That to
refuse to pay these bonds in gold would be
repudiation, and would be scomng at in
blessings of Almighty God." (Sherman'
Speech. March, 1869). " Ah, shame where
is thv blush."
. This jury, Mr. Sherman, will be compell
erf to convict of false testimony. And ii
order to whip Congress into the passage of
this measure, as per agreement wiin nei
mont. Grant called an extra session of Con
gress for no other purpose, and in his first
message " cracked the lash ot executive pax
ronage over the heads of politicians, say
ing: "Let it be understood, that no re
pudiator of one farthing of our public debt
will be trusted in public place." So the act
nassed. and the aonroval was Grant's first
official act. and from that time on. the Re
publican party has been simply the clay in
the hands of Shvlock notters." The gold
standard is to be enforced : nrices are to be
kent down, and doomed to sink as gold ap
nreciates. The creditor class has got labor
and enterprise in the clamps, John Sherman
has been placed in charge of the thumb
screws, with orders to tighten down as prices
and values Rhrink nnder the pressure. It
is plain to be seen. The secrUfcry has re'
vealed the plot. There is no mistaking the
issue. Congress will offer legislative relief
but the nresident. in the hands of his
finance minister, will vfito the bill and tram
pie upon the will of the people. Then the
issue will go to the people for trial. Let no
voter be dfteeivftd when he casts his next
ballot, whether it be to elevate or sink him
self and his fellows in deeper ruin and deg
redation. W. A. Wells.
Corvallis, Jmne 15, 1879.
Notice to Donation Claimants
THE ATTENTION OF CLAIMANTS TO DONA'
tions of land, their assignees and legal represen-
a i T a . . 7. ' vauieu to mat part of section
pntiMH "a o Congress approved July 17th, 1864,
entitled "An Act to amend an Act, approved Sep-
omvcyur vrenerai oi tne public
lands in Oregon, etc., and also the Act amendatory
thereof, approved February nineteen fourteen eigh
teen hundred and fifty-three, which reads as follow
.u AUPeJ90u? claiming donations under this Act or
the Act of which it is amendatory, shall
h J?Ie iiHfc to the 2UTVyoT General, or other
duly authorized officer, of the particular
lands claimed as such donation within thirty davs
after peing requested so to do by such officer : and
failing the claimant or claimants shll.
lorlest all right and claim thereto."
Now, therefore, the undersigued, being such "oth
er duly authorized OFFicEa"' do hereby give notice
to each and every person, his or her assigns and leeal
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 dav of the expiration of six weeks mihli-
cation), give notice to the Register and Receiver ot
said Land Office at RoRehurD- rtratmn t v.n
ticulllr lands claimed as such donations : and faiUns
such notice y, i.!m, ... - - -
sucn notice the ciaimant or claim-
miAii luneit an ngnt and claim thereto."
ahu eacn ana every person claiming the benefits of
said act oi September 27. 1850. n.n1 t.ho lorrialnttw.
supplemental thereto will within !
after the expiration of the aforesaid six weeks pub
lication, cause to be filed in the U. S. District Land
Office at Roseburg, Oregon, the proofs as required by
law, to complete tneir 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 RniHatr nnd Rp.
the said U. S. District Land Office, at Roseburg, Ore-t-on,
have hereto subscribed their names, this 24th
day of May, A. D., 1879. '
WM. T. BENJAMIN, Register,
J. C. FULLP.RTON, Receiver.
A Remedy fob Poison. Now that the
time or picnics has arrived and the attend
ant evil of poison oak stalks abroad, any
remedy tending to alleviate that painful and
disfiguring disease will be gladly welcomed
by campers and picknickers generally. Dr.
S. Brown, TJ. S. N., gives this specific bro
mine. He says : "I have used it with the
same unwavering success in at least forty
cases. The eruption never extenas air.er
the first thorough application, and it prompt
ly begins to diminish. Within 24 hours, if
the application be persisted in, the patient
is entirely cured. I used the bromine dis
solved in olive oil, in cosmoline and in gly
cerine. The application with glycerine is
painful, and I think possesses no advantage
to compensate for irritation. The strength
of the solution is 10 to 20 drops of bromine
in an nnnno nf nil nnd hv mbbinseently the
affected part three or four times a day, and
especially on going to bed at night, a cure
is speedily effected. The bromine is so vol
atile that the solution should be( renewed
within 24 hours of its preparation."
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NEW BUSINESS!
LISTEN FOR THE BELL!
THE UNDESIGNED PROPOSES TO ESTABLISH A
MILBL dairy
For the purpose of supplvinir the citizens of C!nrvi-
lis with Pure Fresh Miik at the very reasonable rate off
25 Cents per Gallon,
He intends startins a Delivery Wacon 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. Patronace is resnectfullv solicited.
Listen for the Bell. A. Q. MULKEY.
Corvallis, May 20, 1879. 16:21ml,
lot
HOUSE
MOVING
LOED & TRIMBLE, Propr's.
BEING SUPPLIED WITH ROLLERS,.
Jack Scews, etc., we are prepared to
Raise, Move, put under New Sills and level
up your barns, and Buildings of any kind,
on short notice.
TERMS REASONABLE.
LORD. & TRIMBLE.
Corvallis, May 1, 1879. 16:21tf
I
FOR SALE.
HEREBY OFFER FOR SALE
undivided half interest in the
MY
Oneatta Mill 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,,
and 53 acres of land, together with my
stock of merchandise. For further particu
lars, anply to the undersigned,
SAMUEL CASE.
Oneatta, May 5, 1879. 16:19w6
BOARD and LODGING.
at Rooms and Splendid Table.
OUR CORRESPONDENT ON YESTERDAY WAS
shown the Neatly FurnUhed Rooms
OF
MRS- JOSEPH POLLY.
At their residence, just opposite the residence ot
Judse F. A. Chenoweth prepared and now in readiness
for such boarders as may choose to give her a call,,
either by the sinirle meal or by the week.
Mrs. Polly has a reputation as a cook, and sets a
good a'table as can be found in the State.
Solicits a share of patronage. 15:40tf.
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 one-,
hundred acres in cultivation two fine bear
ing orchards, and well calculated for divid
ing into two or more snug faring Terms:
easy and title perfect. For particulars in
quire of E. Holgate, W. B. Carter, or
E. MARPLE,
on the premises.
Corvallis, Jan. 1, 1878.
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NEW ARRANGEMENTS.
NEW STAGE COACH.
From Corvallis to Newport
CARRYING THE U. S. MAILS.
New Steam Launch.
A
A Stage Coach, drawn by
good teams, in care of a good.
cnUr arivpr. will leave
Corvall'is at 7 o'clock, A. M. , on Mondays, Wednes
days and Fridays, connecting with the new Steam
Launch at Pioneer at 6 r. M. The Steam Launch leay
inz Pioneer on the first tide, arriving at Newport in.
three hours. Only 15 hours running through. Re
turninir to Corvallis at 6 P. M. Tuesdays, Thursday,
and Saturdays. Through tickets $5 00; reduction for
families Good accommodations for pasturage at Pio
neer Prompt attention to express business and fast
fre:"ht at reasonable charges. Better facilities for
traveling than have ever been on the route to the sea
shore The boat is managed by competent men,
namely, Ed. Carr and Mack Crow.
We expect to receive public iavor by first clan ac
commodations and close attention to business
.11. ai. Ofc BL. JL. V"" " -
16:24
George P. Wrens,
Auctioneer.
E. Holgate,
Att'y at Law
Wrenn & Holgate,
REAL, ESTATE
BROKERS,
COLLECTION, LOAN. INSURANCE
OEXRAL BUSINESS AGENTS, AND
AUCTIONEERS,
Office at present, back ot ROSENTHAL S Store,.
entrance on Madison street,
CORVALLIS, : : OREGON.
Buying,
Sellinsr and Leasing Real Estate.
Prompt
attention given to
COLLECTIONS.
Loans Negotiated, etc. Will keep Regular
Auction Sales Rooms
inH .oil at ArJCTION. anvthlne desired, either at th
Sales Rooms or elsewhere, in City or Country. Agent
for good reliable Insurance Companies.
We now have on hand for sale, both Oratn and
Stock Farms, and Cirr Property, at fair prices, and
easy terme.
rywi can make Sales tt anybody can."W
Please give us a call. WRENN HOLGATE.
CorraiUs, April IT, 1878. !;!.