tSEIs fljoniallis fcfM
FRIDAY MOKNING, AUG; 18, 1882.
Entered a the Postoffice at Corvallis
Oregon, as aecoudclass matter.
EDITED BY
M. S. WOODCOCK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR 8ENT0N COurtTY.
'GRAND CENTRAL DEPOT."
What has become of that '-Grand Central
Depot" at Portland, about which there was
ao much talk about Mr. Villard's building
at one time ? Has it proved tc be a gust
of wind and a bubble, or is it only temporarily
lumbering preparatory to assuming defi
nite shape' hereafter? Bum or says that
some of Portland's citizens who at one time
were the most sanguine in the completion
of that promised ornament to the city have
given np all hopes of its being built. It
is said that Villard was interested in a large
lot of land which at the time the Depot was
promised he wished to sell, and since hav
ing sold it, it is not necessary to complete
the "Grand Central." Those who bought
bis land, however, no doubt see it differ-eatly.
LEGISLATURE AND SUPREME COURT
The time for holding the terms of the
Supreme Court of this State should be
hanged to commence about the time when
they formerly did, and that was about the
first part of January and July of each year.
There are many reasons why such a change
should be made. The very best reason
that could be suggested is that for some
time after the times just named there are
no courts held in any of the circuits and
attorneys therefore have time to attend
the Supreme Court. The time for holding
the Legislature could also be changed to
eminence about the first of January, which
Would be a time of year when the people
who are usually elected to that place have
more leasure than at almost any other sea
son of the year. At the present time of
their meeting it occurs at the busyest sea
son of the year. Will the Legislature look
into these two important matters and the
hmnge suggested, or will they continue to
ran along in the same groove as heietofore?
.DIPHTHERIA.
It has been suggested and it is pretty
thoroughly understood that diphtheria is so
ontagious in its nature th at it may be car
tied in the clothingand be thereby communi
cated weeks after parties have become well.
If this is the case why is it not just as
obligatory for persons having been effected
with it to purify their clothing and houses
as thoroughly as it is in smallpox and like
diseases? In almost all cases where small
pox has been in a family, the. bedding and
lothiug used around the disease is gener
ally burned or destroyed and the buildings
and all other clothing about the premises
are thoroughly cleansed, and yet probably
Hot in one case out of fifty is such precaution
taken in cases of diphtheria, a disease which
is probably ten times more fatal with
children. But parties who have been in
and around it are permitted to go around
the streets and in public places without
any preventative or safe precautions hav
ing been tr.ken.Tlie result isfthat every little
while we hear of a bad case of diphtheria
appearing somewhere in the community
and no one can tell where it comes from.
Because they can't tell whose old infected
clothes brought th? contagion around.
Authorities will scare whole community
fighting smallpox but a worse disease they
pay no attention to.
ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT.
. In another column will be fomfll a copy
of a letter 'waitten by ex-senator S. W. Dor
sey to ex-president Garfield during the time
Garfield was selecting his capmet, urging
upon him the importance of not placing
James as Postmaster General and McVeagh
as Attorney General in his cabinet. These
were the two positions which Dorsey most
feared. This letter is a strong one and
will bear some considerable study in con
nection with the assassination of the presi
dent. When the news flashed across the
wires that Garfield had been shot, it occur
fed to the minds of some that the prime
cause of the dreadful deed might have been
prompted by those who-were trying to es
cape Star route prosecution in order thereby
to bring about a change in Clhe cabinet and
thus get rid of James, and McVeagh, the
two persons of all whom they most dreaded.
Such letters as th one in question does not
certainly in any way weaken the force ot
that idea in the least. It has always appear
ed strange to a great many that the idea of
assassinating a president should originate
without any prompting whatever in the
mind- of a man like Guiteau and be carried
out by him for the simple and only purpose
of self revenge or notoriety. Time may
bring to light mora hidden circumstances
regarding what now miht seem to be a
mystsry.
NATURALIZATION OF CHINESE SHOULD BE
PREVENTED.
We frequently see accounts from the
Eastern States where some of the courts
continue to go through the farce of what
they term naturalizing the Chinamen. It
seems hardly beyond any question bnt
what such a performance under existing
laws and treaties amounts to nothing but a
farce without any force whatever. Yet
this tendency of things may lead to some
thing which may be legal and binding.
No matter how illegal such a proceeding
may be now there is danger of its furnish
ing a pretext for those who favor Chinese
naturalization to build an argument upon.
After a number of years have passed and
quite a number of those almond-eyed
duskies have received what purports to be
their naturalization papers and have acted
thereon for several years and gained rights
of different kinds under them, it will then
be an easy matter for the philanthropic ad
herents of the Chinese and enemys to the
rest of mankind to argue "that these un
fortunate individuals have went through a
certain form which they honestly supposed
gave them the rights of all naturalized citi
, sens, and that they have acted upon this
belief in good faith and acquired what
seemed to them to be rights thereunder.
Now we as free born citizens of the United
States, who do not desire to harm anyone,
bnt wish to do equal justice to and keep
faith wiyi all mankind, ought to urge Con
gress to pass such laws and take such other
steps as will admit the fondest hopes of oar
pigtailed brethren to be realized."
That there is great danger of such ar
gument being brought to bear upon the
mind of our people hardly admits of a ques
tion. There is an element East and a few
on this coast and all over the United States
who are determined to put the Chinamen
along in the front ranks among our citizens.
And the course above suggested would cer
tainly furnish a strong lever power towards
accomplishing that object.
It would therefore acpear to be the best
policy for the people of this coast and else
where who know so well the inappropriate
aess of that state of affairs, to agitate the
question until they succeed in causeing Con
gress to take a positive stand on the subject
by requiring them to pass some law declar
jng:4he Chinese incapable of becoming nat
uralized under existing laws. It might
not perhaps be out of place for. our State
Legislature to memoralize Congress on the
subject. Or perhaps what might be as well
as anything else would be to contest the
egehiy at gome of these alleged natnrali-
swghtatt curia
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
The state legislature will' soon convene
and will be called upon by numerous petit
ioners both men and women of our state
to favor a constitutional amendment, pro
hibiting the manufacture, sale and use of
intoxicating liquors, except for mechanical,
scientific and medicinal purposes. There
certainly is no room for any doubt but what
the majority of our legislators will sustain
the will of the petitioners.
The persistent agitation of the temperance
question by its advocates is fast creating
public sentiment against the license system
and in favor of prohibition. This sentiment
promises to finally overshadow our nation
and to sweep from the deck and hull of our
ship cf state the all engulfing caase of our
country's crimes and miseries. The public
man that is too blind to foresee this result
will find himself caught in the meshes of
his own stupidity, and it is to be hoped that
none of our legislators of the coming session
will suffer themselves to be ensnared
through fear or favor into the sustaining of
the whisky power as against the temper
ance cause.
When the necessary legislation is secured
in favor of prohibition something more is
I necessary than mere law. Law must be
supported by public sentiment. Some claim
that we have public sentiment sufficient,
but that it is in a dorment state. If this is
true then public sentiment still stands in
need of education it needs to be educated
up to action. 4b order to do this we must
agitate. We must agitate from the pnlpit,
the press and the lecture stand. We must
instruct in scriptural temperance instruct
in the chemical and physiological effects of
stimulating and narcotic drinks.
In order to agitate successfully requires
action presistent and uncompromising ac
tion. Appoint public meetings in district
school houses, in country and city churches,
in lecture rooms, and let all our entire press
give to their patrons a healthy pabulum of
temperance sentiment through the columns
of their papers and journals through each
weekly and monthly issue. Such methods
will disseminate temperance truths through
out all our state and nation, will keep alive
the spirit of reform and in the course of
time will build up a nation of men and
women freed from the bondage of intemper
ance. One thing is absolutely requisite in
order to secure a solid and wide-spread vie
tory ot temperance truths: it is to induce
Christian men and other temperance men to
vote in all elections on the scriptural rule,
which is as follows: "Moreover, thou shalt
provide out of all the people able men, such
as fear God, men of . truth, hating covetous
ness, and place such over them; to be rulers
of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rslers
of fifties and rulers of tens, and let them
judge the people at all seasons."
PRonremon
DORSET'S LETTER TO SAXES A. QAKFTELD.
Washington, Aug. 13. The Sunday
Gazette in an article attacking the prose
cution'in the pending star route cases and
more particularly ex-Attorney General
MacVeagh and ex-Postmaster General
James, publishes an astonishing letter over
the signature of ex-Senator S. W. Dorsey
to President Garfield, in which it professes
to find the animus of the star route prose
cution . The editor of the Gazette, Rich
ard J. Hinton, was in charge of the com
pilation Of documents for distribution
througn the republican national campaign
committee of 1880, under svporvision oi
Senator Dorsey. In his article he says he
has in his possession a large number of let
ters from various sources, one of which he
sclectsSfor publication. Following is the
letter:
241 Firm avenue, New York, Feb.$7, 1881
My Dear General: CoL George Bliss
called on me recently and introduced a Mr,
Knox, who said he was a classmate of yonrs
at Williams College, and further stated
about leaving for Mentor to visit you at
your request to discuss the question of a
proper person to place in your cabinet from
New York. It connot be possible that you
would call upon George Bliss, much less up
on Knox, to give advise respecting so im
portant a question to yon aad the people
of this State. Both of these gentlemen
may be honest true and respectable, and so
far as I know they are, but Bliss and Knox
do not represent the people or leaders of
the people of New York no more than I rep
resent the king of Siam. All- such advise
as this is pretentious idiocy, and if you are
occupying your time in listening to men
like these, I wishHo express in a most em
phatic way that you and your administra
tion will prove a lamentable failure. You
should take .the bit in your teeth and
decide fer yourself who you want in your
cabinet. What do you want of advice of
men every one of whom has an ax to grind
and a scheme to push? If you want to ad
vance in New york why don't you send for
Conkling or Arthur, the two men who elec-
you consult with somebody who has a
status, a name add a following in New
York Now I tell you, and tell you with
out a grain of selfishness that you cannot
afford to have any friction arise between
yourself and Conkling and Gen. Arthur.
Whenever you determine to assail these
men you drive the last nail in your political
coffin. You cannot ignore them to make
peace with Curtis, Wayne MacVeagh and
others of that class. You can't disband an
army to get recruits. We now have a
great, well organized and aggressive army,
and if you want to muster out that army in
order to pick up sneaks, bummers and de
serters in the rear, go ahead, and I predict
you will land in a surrendered camp. I am
tired of this blathering talk about MacVeagh
to go into the cabinet from Pennsylvania
and James from New York. Such detesta
ble riot should be smoked out at once, and
you ought to do it in some public way, as I
have repeatedly urged upon yon. There is
but one appointment you ought to make
from New York, and that is Chief Judge
Folger to be secretary of the treasury.
You don't need any Bliss or Knox to ascer
tain or te prove his character, capacity and
standing in New York. Running for judge
on the same ticket with you, he received
more than double the majority you did.
Now, take my advice about this, and -I ask
you to do that because you know I have no
earthly interest except to see a successful
and honorable administration, and my ad
vice is this: "When you get ready to
select a citizen of New York for your cabi
net send fer Senator Conkling, Gen. Arthur,
Gov. Cornell, J. D. Warden of Buffalo, Ex
Gov. Morgan, Thomas C. Flatt and men of
that class and get their best judgement.
Bliss and Knox? What nonsense. I beg
you not to permit Knox to run around this
state inquiring about men fittest for the
cabinet and pretending to represent you.
By acts of this kind you injure yourself and
cast an unpardonable reflection upon men
who can and ought to be the best judges
and who represent the republicans of this
state. I don't wish to be put in a position
of being obliged to lecture the president
elect and especially in regard to the forma
tion of his. cabinet. You have repeated
urged me to tell you whenever I should
think you were going wrong, and I write
you when I think you are aboat to make a
mistake. have not and shall not mince
words in pointing out your errors. You
drop all this staff about Conkling. He
don't want to fight you or any one else.
He is not prancing around with a chip on
his shoulder, challenging all mankind to a
battlefield. All Conkling wants and all
that Gen. Arthur desires is a fair show and
an honest deal. These two men with their
friends represent the intelligence the pro
gressive and aggressive element of New
York republicanism. They possess wisdom
force and courage that the people of this
country and all other countries admire.
You know my interests ana purposes are
solely to a successful consummation of our
great work. I have presented to you some
frozen facts, and I sincerely hope you will
give them your candid and careful atten
tion. Yours, etc.,
S. W. DORSEY.
The President's Wife.
Mrs. Arthur's room in her beautiful New
York mansioa, in which she died, has never
been disturbed; her needle is still threaded
and sticking in a bit of delicate embroidery
in her work basket, undisturbed; nor will
her hnsband allow any one to change the
room in its furniture arrangements. There
is the little rccker beside the standard work
basket, and the little negligee chrocheted
slippers. There stands her desk with the
ink dried on her pearl-handled pen, which
she had hastily pnt aside from some inter
ruption, never to use again on earth. Her
favored books are plaeed in a tiny case, with
a marker in one of them just as she left it.
On the table are placed each morning by
order of the president, a bunch of her fav
orite flowers. Even her favorite perfumes
are in the toilet bottles at her dressing case.
and in her wardrobe hang her dresses. This
room is bright and sunny, her former maid
keeping it neat, aad arranging the flowers
in the vases, and attending the cannries in
th window, but never altering the places
for the furniture, the books, etc. This
room is a place where the president takes
much comfort in reading aad meditation,
and they who know, say that the bit of
needlework has been many times wet with
tears by the husband.
TELEGRAMS.
New York, Aug. 11. There is wide
difference of opinion among friends of Ire
land as to what course they should take
with reference to Arabi Pasha in his contest
with England. The question has derived
some importance from the recent action of
the national land league in Philadelphia.
in advising that the funds of that organi
zation be sent to assist Arabi in his strug
gle against England. Some of the land
leaguers here are in favor of such a proceed
ing, but others condemn it.
Chicago, August 11. The past few days
have been very cold, uncomfortably so at
times, and frosts are reported from northern
Wisconsin.
New York, Aug. 11. Democratic poli
ticians are nearly all back from Saratoga
and some of them in the best humor. Tam
many folks insist Tilden was manager of
the private conference as well as the state
convention, and that no specific provision
was made in the latter for keeping the door
open for admission of Kelly delegates.
They say the prospect for a reunion of the
party is as forbidding as before. The Irving
hall faction likewise feel they had received
the cold shoulder and they cannot escape
the conviction that they are to be ruled out
of the state convention as well as the Tam-mauyites.
Saratoga. An ar. II. At the national bar
association meeting Wm. M. Evarts advoca
ted the adoption of a minority report on the
relief of the stfpreme court, (jen. Wm.
Preston of Kentucky, Judge J. L. T. Sneed
of Tennessee and E. B. Sherman of Chicago,
spoke in favor of the majority report. The
vote stood 39 for the majority and 22 for
the minority.
Washington. August 11. First Comp
troller Lawrence signed a warrant to-day
for $2265 in favor of Lucretia R. Garfield.
Erastus Bond was to-day appointed tim
ber agent of California.
New York, Aug. 11. The spirit of the
times says, editorially: It now seems abso
lutely certain that in- their cowardly effort
to sneak away from a fair race with the
mg association have added to their other
crimes deliberate and Willful falsehood in re
gard to letters of inquiry said tohave been
sent to America.
Galveston, Aug. 11. There seems to be a
panic over yellow fever in Matamoras, and
dispatches from there regarding the number
of cases are exaggerated and contradictory.
According to one report via Laredo, the
number of cases on the 9th was 56.
San Erancisco, August 11. Exporters
seem to have less difficulty in procuring
wheat vessels at reasonable rates as there
has been a steadier demand for tonnage at
unchanged quotations, eight vessels in all
having been placed during the week. The
most important feature of the week has been
tfte addition of a number of vessels to the
fleet headed this way. The accessions to
the list are from Australian ports, and have
increased the total amount on the way to
304,073 tons, and this is less by 6391 tons
than that of the same time last year.
San Francisco, Aug. 11. A Shasta dis
patch says forest fires were all around town
last night anil nearly all the citizens were
out fighting and keeping the flames from
the village. Several residences on the out
skirts and a number of line orchards and
vineyards are destroyed.
Tucson, Aug 11. The Star's Mexican ad
vices of the 8th from Hermosillo, Sonora,
says that parties have just arrived from
Ures and report Apache depredations in
that section are most fearful. Over 200
warriors are in the. Mazatlan mountains
near Ures, and make daily laids in the val
leys in small bodies, burning crops, houses
and murdering the inhabitants. During
the past twelve days forty-five persons have
been murdered within a radius of twenty
rive miles of Ures.
Spokane Falls, Aug, 11. A fire last night
at two o'clock destroyed the Franklin hotel,
Still's billiard hall and Quinn's large barn.
The tire spread with inconceivable rapidity,
and the imitates of the house barely escaped.
The superhuman exertion of the citizens in
carrying water, and the heroic fortitude of
several men standing on the roof of Jones'
billiard hall, together with a favorable
change of wind in the very nick of time,
saved the town. Business men had given
up all hope, when the wiud changed to the
southeast and the town was safe. There
was no loss of life, but two or three men
were quite badly burned. The hotel and
barn were owned by Peter Quiun. Their
probable value was $4000.
Constantinople, Aug. 11. Following is
the teat of the proclamation against Arabi
Pasha communicated te the conference yes
terday: Arabi Pasha having a second time
transgressed the law by taking authority
which does not belong to him, and having
presumed to menance vessels belonging to
the old and tried friend and ally of Turkey,
is for these misdeeds proclaimed a rebel to
gether with his adherents. Be it known to
all that obedience is due solely to the
khedive, who is a representative of the
sultan.
Madrid, Aug. 11. A dispatch from
Tangier states a holy war is being preached
throughout Morocco against Christians.
Chicago, Aug. 12. A special from Boston
says Commissioner Fink will soon make an
appeal to agents of different lines both in
Boston and Chicago, to put a stop tc the
practice of billing freight for Chicago and
then reshipping it for California, but as
their pecuniary interests lie in opposite di
rections, this appeal will probably have
little effect.
New York, Aug. 12. Fish Commissioner
Eugene G. Blackford yesterday received an
order from Henry House at Corinne, Utah,
for two barrels of seedling oysters. House
wrote that he intended to plant them and
make an attempt to cultivate oysters in
Great Salt Lake. Blackford said to-day
that two barrels would coutain about 6000
seedling oysters, and that the cost, together
with freight charges, would be about $00.
Chicago, Aug. 12. Times Council Blnff
special: An important air line railway com
pany was organized here to-day and articles
of incorporation tiled under the state laws.
It is called the New York and Coancil Bluff
Railway Company. The line is to go east
through Oskaloosa, Iowa; Macon, Ills ; Fort
Wayne, I ml., and Akron, Ohio, to Red
Bank, Fa., and there connect with the
Allegheny Valley and Central road of New
Jersey to Philadelphia and New York.
Chicago, Aug. 13. Footings of the school
census showed the population of Chieago,
not including sailors, at 562,000.
Bismarck, Aug 13. A four hundred feet
span of the Northern Pacific bridge over the
Missouri river at this point was finished to
day. The bridge when completed in Octo
ber next will be over thirteen hundred feet
long, seventy -five feet above the river and
the only bridge on the river having solid
granite piers. It will cost about $1,000,000.
San Francisco, Aug. 13. The steamship
Arabic sailed yesterday tor Yokohama aad
Hongkong with 370 Chinese passengers, 240
of whom took out registration papers per
mitting tnein to return so Mi country.
Victoria, Aug. 13 Preston Bennett,
member of parliament elect for Yale dis
trict, died on the 9th of hemorrhage of the
lungs.
Havana, Aug. 12. A dispatch from
Jamaica says: Westgate, the self-confessed
assassin of Lord Frederick Cavendish aud
Bourse, arrived there, and evidence impli
cating mm in tne crime is strong.
Wheeling, Aug. 12. Democrats of the
second district at Keyser after two days
session and much bitterness split into two
factions. One nominating Daniel B. Lucas
for congress, and the other Judge Hoinie.
IMther would prefer the election of a repub
lican to election ot ms adversary it is be
ueved.
Pittsburg, Aug. 14. The labor situation
has assumed a new phase on account of the
reported sale of the workmgmen s organi
zation to one oi tne oiu political parties.
It is alleged the coming convention of work
ingmen in Philadelphia is to be packed with
"rounders and peelers, who can outride
the laboring class and carry out the plans
ot politicians. Jarrett is consequently pre
paring circulars designed to prevent this
scheme, and it will be signed by officials
representing 40,000 workiagmen in Pitts
burg district.
Laredo, Aug. 14. In tbe 24 hours end
ing at 8 P. M. of the 13th Brownsville had
23 new cases of fever and one death; Mata
moras, one new case and eight deaths.
New York, Aug. 14. Times Washing
ton special on Dorsey's letter to Garfield:
Dorsey said to-night that he had no objec
tion that the letter should be published and
saw no reason tor its publication, which
could do no one any gflod. So far as it was
an expression of his opinions he was ready
to stand by it. Col. fimton, he said, bad
in his possession about one hundred letters
which he (Dorsey) had written to Garfield,
and be had chosen to publish this and had
intimated that he would publish others.
In Dorsey's opinion it was an unwise thing
to do. If the editor had desired to pick out
the strongest expression of opinion he had
made a mistake, for there were much more
emphatic letters in the batch. As far as he
was concerned, he did not see how giving
out of these letters to the public now could
help anybody in the star route cases. He
certainly did not think it would help him
and he had not consented to their publica
tion with that idea.
Washincton. Aue. 14. The hoD crop of
the United States indicates a small rate of
yield. About 265 pounds per acre on over
30,000 acres is reported in New York. The
total acreage of the state now slightly ex
ceeds 40,000 acres. Indications point to a
ted yon with the aid of Grant J Why don't gilladale crew the English Amateur Bow- product of not more than 96,000 bales.
The Northern Pacific Railroad has com
pleted two additional sections of its road.
One is in Idaho and the other in Montana.
The two sections cover about 140 miles.
Ex-Senator Conkling, counsel for the North
ern Pacific, called at the department of the
interior to-day on business in relation to
examination of the completed sections.
Constantinople, Aug. 14. Stringent or
ders have been sent to the governors of
Beyrout, Damascus and Aleppo to take ex
ceptional care to secure public order and
prevent an outbreak of natives.' At Bey
route events its Egypt are greatly influenc
ing Syrian mussulmaus and the situation is
such a trifling incident would suffice to set
tbe whole province ablaze
London, Aug. 14. King Cetewayo has
arrived at Osborne. It is rumored the
queen, at an interview to be granted him,
will inform him of the dicision of her gov
ernment to restore him to his kingdom. It
is stated a British resident will be appoint
ed to reside at Alandi, the Zulu capital, in
order to advise him on questions relative to
external relations.
Victoria, Aug. 14. The steamer Goliah
arrived here last evening with two China
men from Port Townsend, who arrived on
an inward-bound vessel and were refused
permission to land, in accordance with the
recent prohibition act. passed by congress.
The captain preferred chartering a steamer
and sending them over here to entering in
to bonds of S500 each that they should
neither run away nor land. Such additions
to our population may be expected frequent
ly in the future. ,
Boston, Ang. 15. The Herald discussing
Dorsey's case says editorially: We have in
our jiossession information going to show
that the exposure of the frauds was inevit
able, and that, Jame3 and McVeagh were
simply instruments willing, honest and
fearless used to bring them to time. Our
information is to the effect that Samuel J.
Tilden was in possession of the star r-ute
business before the election two years ago,
but did not choose to make use of them for
reasons net wholly inconsistent with a pur
pose which he is said to have cherished to
let the men who nominated Hancock elect
him if they could. After the election and
selection of a new cabinet these facts were
furnished to Mr. James by or through Mr.
Tilden, and a double purpose was thus
promised by showing up stealing by fraudu
lent means, and injuring the republican
party without creating a fund of glory for
any democrat outside of Gramercy Park.
Ia view of all these facts and considerations
the reason of Dorsey's action and the in
justice and absnrdnes3 of star route assaults
upon Messrs. James and aic v eagn appears
in a clear light. It ia very evident also,
that all the disclosures are not yet made
The trial of the conspirators has broucht
out little except matters of record. The
true inwardness of ie great fraud is still
hidden.
Chicago, Aug. 15. An Irish national
demonstration occurred at Ogden's grove
this : afternoon and evening attended by
10,000 persons.
Omaha, Aug. 15. Ex-Secretary of War
Ramsey, Colonel Godfrey of Des Moines,
Judge Carleton of Terra Haute and ex-Senator
Paddosk of Nebraska, comprising the
Utah commission, arrived here yesterday.
Ex Congressman Pettigrew of Arkansas is
expected in the morning. They leave for
Salt Lake at noon. They express them
selves as ready to carry out the law, but
are unable to say, until they have a con
sultation, how they will enforce its pro
visions. They will supervise the elections
and remain till November.
Terre Haute, Ind., Ang. 15. About forty
counties were represented here to-day in
the convention to organize a state liquor
dealers association JKesomtiona were pass
ed pledging the association to vote for the
nominees of the democratic party, because
at its convention it declared itself opposed
to prohibitory laws, and because the repuo
licans declared in favor of them.
Chicago, Aug. 15. The letter from Dor
sey to the late President Garfield excites
some comment. Gen. Swaim, who was at
Mentor as confidential friend of the presi
dent elect at the time the letter purports to
have Been written, says he never saw it un
til it appeared in print. He received sever
al letters from Dorsey himself and supposed
that all written by the ex-senator were sent
to him. He regards it as somewhat singu
lar that he never heard of the receipt of
such a missive.
New York, Aug. 15. Congressman Page
was met by a reporter this morning, and in
course of the conversation expressed his
opinion freely on several questions of inter
est. He first dwelt on the effects of the
Chinese bills in California, ami said :
"FromTvery reliable source I learn that
the large manufacturers, especially boot and
shoe makers, are discharging their Chinese
employes to make room for white men and
girls. The consequence is, that money
which formerly went over to China, is now
spent in this country. Tbe result is that
poverty, or I should say actual misery, is on
the decrease in that state."
Harrisburgh, Aug. 15. There is no long
er any doubt that Camerous are negotiating
for a transfer of the votes of the labor party
to Gen. Beaver. The headquarters of the
movement are in Philadelphia, bnt some
outcropings are discernible in this part of
the state.
Constantinople, Aug. 14. The proclama
tion of Arabi Pasha as a rebel and authoriz
ing an Anglo-Turkish military convention
is not yet decided. Ambassadors met at
the residence of Said Pasha to-day and dis
cussed the question of protection of the
Suez canal, hot no decission was reached.
It is believed the resolution of the confer
ence in relation to this matter will have no
immediate important bearing on the situa
tion. It is understood a majority of the
ambassadors are in favor of bringing the
conference to a close, or adjourning its
sittings.
Elkawab states that Arabi Pasha has
already been semi-olficially made acquainted
with the terms ot the proclamation declar
intr him a rebel. He has been infoimed the
sultan would grant him a free pardon should
he make submission, but if he refuses strong
measures will be taken to enforce his obed ¬
ience. The ministers condemn Arabi Pasha
as acting contrary to the interests of Islam.
It is understood a divergence o" views ex-
hptwfHn th Tiortp and Tjorrl LhifFerin on
affairs respecting the wordmgTM the pro
clamation aaaiust Arabi Pasha. Lord Duf-
ferin desires a plain and simple proclama
tion in Turkish and Arabic, that Arabi
Pasha is nothing hut an ambitious and law
less adventurer. England insists upon com
manding the Turkish troups. It is stated
the question will be brought before the con
ference.
London. Aug. 15. A dispatch from Con
stantinople says several stipulations propos
ed in the military convention are considered
anexeeptible to Turkey, and the proclama
tion against Arabi Pasha will not be issued
until the convention is signed.
of English and French controllers, and these
employes profit enormously by abuse of
their places, which they held to the exclu
sion of Arabs. They constantly extended
their own privileges and increased their
preference until Arabi. who was then colo
nel in the service, complained to the khed
ive. In this way a breach occurred be
tween Arabi and the khedive, and difficul
ties arose which might easily have been ar
ranged had not the appearance of the fleets
aroused native feeling and destroyed my
plans for reconciliation of the opposing fac
tions and peaceable settlement of their
troubles. I had already sent to Alexandria
a commission including Derviseh Pasha,
Acbmed Essad Effendi, Lebib Effendi and
Cedn Effendi, to act as arbitrators, but the
Action of the English rendered their plans
useless. Lebib Effendi, who has just re
turned, will give you a written statement
of the ease mre at length."
"What does your majesty think of the
bombardment?"
"It was most cruel and unjust. The
English forbade Egyptians to fortify their
own works and then while defenceless open
ed fire upon them. This was an unjust inhu
man act, and contrary to the law of nations.
The English claim they were dealing with
rebels. In that case it was England's duty
to inform the sovereign power and to leave
settlement to that authority, instead of tak
ing the law into her own hauds, which she
ha' no right to do. English say there is uo
justice among us. Yet, leo us look at Ire
land. England's Irish subjects are simply
demanding a right which here in Turkey is
universally granted to the people. Such
trouble? as the Irish agrarian riots would be
impossible in Turkey. England boasts of
her superior-justice; yet we have what she
does not graut to her subjects an equita
ble land la, under which farmers and even
farm laborers are projected in .their rights.
When the Romans obtained Dobnibja they
continued the use of Turkish law in re
gard to real property."
"What is your majesty's opinion about
the result Of the present troubles?"
"I am sure that when all the fact3 are
known in America aud other impartial coun
tries, the action of England will be con
demned as arbitrary anil unjust. If Eng
land's object is to protect her own interests
in India, she has taken the wrong course.
She will never be allowed by other powers
to occupy Egypt alone. France would in
sist upon the maintenance ot a free central
.province or a joint occupancy, and in either
case there would be more danger to the
canal than under the Turkish rule. Any
Euglishman who has any brains in his head
understands that the interest of England is
Un maintenance ot Turkish power. It has
Ween the intention and desire of the Turkish
government to maintain the statu quo in
Egypt. It was endeavoring to bring about
a peaceful settlement of local disaffection
when the fleets appeared and precipitated
a crisis."
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vour corresoondent at Yildiz palace this
afternoon tbe sultan expressed himself free
ly upon the Egyptian question.
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the people. Arabi's party then took advan
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