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Writl; Corvallis Gazette, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1885. 1-. THIS PAPER fc t IRRa.uJssv is on FILE and Ad- IfipESESTEHTl jpnAiUkjn Tertifilnff contracts mL-- 1 GOOD n fr It and all other M GOOD IwnciEsI SSKTLS: Isewsiwhb j Wi on the most faTOr- f 1 ' Hi able termj at th. 11 INTKftNATIONAL NCWSPAPES AGENCY H. P. Hubbard, Prop., New Karen. Ct. , r . 9. A. r taa S'lnHW and Sana mnfrj triun aria. THE INAUGURATION. AFTE YEARS OF WEARY WAITING ON THE CUBSTONE COLD AND GRIM, JJNCLE SAMUEL OPENS WIDE HIS DOORS, AJjTP ISVITES THE STRANGERS IN. WITH KINGLY PRIDE THE PILGRIMS RISE, AND, IN OBEDIENCE TO THE CALL, f IRST RUSH AROUND IN GAY PROCESSION AND THEN ATTEND A FULL-DRESS BALL. -Chicago Times Head-lines. TH3REPJJ3LILAN PARTY'S STEWARDSHIP . To-day, March 4, the republican party surrenders the trust which it .accepted at the bands of the American people on March i, 18C1 just 24 vears ago. Never has a trust been administered with ruore fidelity; nevei has a nation prospered more, under wise, enlightened and benificent gov ernmental control, than the United .States in the past quarter of a century. When it assumed the direction of the destinies ef this country, we had a population of 31,500,000. We have now over .55,000,000 nearly a doub ling of numbers, in spite of the great jjkeck which the war put upon the natural increase of the population. It found a bankrupt treasury; it carried to a successful conclusion one xf the greatest and most costly wars of modern times, has paid off a very large portion of the debt thus incurred, and leaves a full treasury. It found the Rational credit at the lowest tbb, and the bonds of government bearing a high rate of interest yet unsalable un less at a heavy discount from the face value. It leaves the nation's credit at the highest point ever reached, and our bonds floating at the lowest rat? of interest .they ever bore sure testimony of the highest financial standing. The republican administration found the country on the verge of 'disunion, the Southern states having passed or dinances .of secession, and arming themselves to enforce the paper act of separation from the Union. It retires leaving the country a political unit the doctrines of secession and state rights relegated to the limbo of ex plod ed and impractical political dogmas. It found nearly one-baif the states clinging to the shameful institution of human slavery, and the doctrine' of ruling our courts, promulgated by the highest tribunal of the country, that "a negro has no rights a white man is bound to respect." Jt has wiped the foul blot from the nation, made all men free and equal, and incorporated in the organic law of the nation the most sacred guarantees of citizenship .and equal rights before the law to the enfranchised millions of black men. And it has enforced these guarantees jn all states where it has had cen trolling power, leaving it for the reactionary ex-rebels in the South to refuse these undoubted rights to the black citizens within the borders of the .states which are cursed and ruinea by solid Democratic rule. Nor .will it do to say that it is unfair to credit the growth in population, in prosperity in strength, of the nation to the republican party; that this growth and prosperity were natural results, uninfluenced by political domination. Look at the map of the Union, and those states which ate largely republi can, which have been chiefly under re publican state control are the most im portant, the ons which have grown in wealth, in power, in importance, in population, most rapidly. Wherever the blighting hand of democracy has lain heaviest, there will be found the greatest degree of popular ignorance, the least .enterprise, the slowest yield ing to the tendencies of the nineteenth .eentnry ciyilieation, tbat has in the .othtrtt(es, been quickened into new Jih, impelled into more rapid growth, by the benificent rule of republican ism. There are, and can be, in the very nature of things, but two great politi parties in, the nation. finds its idols in the past. It loaks to a demagogue of a century ago as the exponent of its political faith. It fondly adores doubtful dogmas long ago out-worn in the rapid growth of the American republic, and tries to oppose all change, and consequently all growth for growth is always change. The other is the party of progress, of en lightenment, of civilization. It be lieves in holding on to all political ideas that experience has proved sound and good, and in rejecting those which we have outgrown. The party of the past, the democ racy, has succeeded to power by a scratch by a series of accidents. It has for twenty four years done nothing but curse republicans, and endeavor to undo what the republican party has done. Now it is in power let ns see what it can possibly do to improve on the matchless record of the republican party for the past quarter of a century. Toledo Blade. A BIG SPLIT EXPECTED AMONG THE DEMOCRATS. The Star says: Mr. Blaine feels friendly toward Mr. Cleveland, and thinks it will be the duty of republi cans in congress to give him every pos sible backing in carrying out the policy he has laid down. A large majority of the republicans agree with Mr. Blaine in this. They expect to see many democrats repudiate Cleveland if he lives up to his promises. They ex pect to see a large faction of the demo crate (opposing him in congress next winter, and they have determined that they will stand by him. There is no disposition in the senate to oppose any nominations he may send in except upon such grounds as they would op pose them if sent in by a republican president, and they will treat all his recommendations with respect. Ltad LUg republicans, wlio form the opinion of all their party in the house, say that from what they can judge of his policy at this time, and from his public declarations, they do not expect Mr Cleveland to follow any line of action in which he would not receive their endorsement and hearty support. Should there be a split in the demo. cratic party, growing out of the discon tent of those democrats who looked for a complete revolution of a9air3 vhen the democratic president came into power, the republicans say they wil rush into the breach and support Cleve- and. Moreover, if the democrats oppose the administration in the house two years hence, when the next con gressional elections come off the re publicans will make the civil service reform the main issue in the campaign, and try to beat the anti-G'levaland and mti-civil service reform men, on the ground that they are more interested in the spoils than in honest govern ment. The republicans are united in this, and they will be found in the nest congress to stand with Cleveland in everything except it may be the tariff, and they don't know how he stands on that. The following is from a new paper, started in Augusta, Ga., by colored men in the interests of the race, and contains the solution of the race prob lem in tho South: "We are living here among the same people that once owned us. We must get on together. There is nowhere for us to go. We could not go if we wanted to. They could not ssnd us if thsy tried. We should thank God for the Treasure of peace that exists among us. It could be much worse. It only remains for us to educate our children, buy lands, make our homes pure, dignified, and comfortable, and save money, and every other right will follow." There is xna prevision of the Post- office appropriation bill whose adoption will be hailed by a letter writing pub lic with delight. A1J letters now pay two cer-ts oa a half ourj.ee and an ex tra two cents for any fraction over that weight. Multitudes of letters overrun .the half ounce a trifle, and if the extra weight is not prepaid by the sender it is collected from the receiver. By this provision the postage on a let ter weighing an ounce will be only two cents instead of four after June 30 next A great many letters weigh several ounces, and they will after that date, be charged only two cents an ounce instead of four cents as now. People in writing hereafter wili not be afraid to fill up another half shee: after their letter overruns the half-ounce limit; and perhaps many persons who send letters ,to the newspapers and write on both sides of jtheir paper, will not be afraid to use a little more paper The one I and write only on one side thereof The war cloud hanging over Russia aud England is not yet dissipated, although it seems probable that -matters may be settled without a-resort to arms. The newspapers of both coun tries keep up a belligerent tone, and there are plenty ol accusations of bad faith upon both sides. Meanwhile it is understood by both governments that tjiere is a necessity for the settle ment, once for all, of Central Asia matters, and the gravity of the situa tion lies in the difficulty of doing this satisfactorily. Russia's aims are well known, and England's determination is firm that they shall not be carried out. to the imperiling of English interests in India. Yet neither government really wants war, so that it is probable that a long diplomatic campaign is opening, in which the Russian intrigue and dissimulation will pay an impor tant part, The monumental cheek of the demo cratic majority in Congress in refusing to admit Dakota to the sisterhood of states can be estimated from a few facts regarding that flourishing territo ry: It pays more revenue to the Po-t-office department than any one of the 32 stater of the Union, and has a pop ulation as large as Nebraska or Con necticut, and nearly twice as large as New Hampshire, Vermont or Florida. It boasts 2,500 miles of railway, 2,000 schoolhouses, 275 newspapers, and more periodicals than any New Eng land state except Massachusetts. PROHIBITING MEMBER3 OF THE LEGISLA TUBE BEING CANDIDATES FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR. On the above subject among other obser vations, T. VV. Davenport, Senator from Marion county, in the late legislature makes some very appropriate remarks on that pro vision rf oar state constitution which pre hihits members of tha legislature being can didates for any office the election of which is vestetl in the legislative assembly. The following is hit words on the subject to-wit: Mr, Hirsch, being a naem.ier of the legis latnre, was therefore ineligible, under our constitution, to th office of U. S. Senator. There is no more doubt that the constitu tion means what it says, and that the fram ers of that instrument bad the office of tho United States Senator especixlly iu view, than there is of any other declaration couched in language and addressed to plain people. No man can misunderstand it, and no one until recently had the hardihood to try to explain it away. There is nothing in the inhibition contrary or hostile to the constitution of the United States; there is nothing in it which does not conserve the best interest of the people of this state. I am aware that the senate of the United States admits to seats within that body members elected in defiance of the state con stitutions, such as ours or the state of Ill inois, and this practice was heM as a suffi cient reason, by nearly all the members of our last legislative assembly, for ignoring the dative of the constitution rendering them ineligible. I do not wish to indulge in harsh jndge- nents or set my self up as a standard iu this particular, but I do insist that the practice of the hist two sessions shall be discontin ued, and that we go b.ick and stand upon our own constitution If there wure any doubts in the minds of any as to tha wisdom of the inhibition, cer tainly thu sceues of the last session would remove them. The framers of oui constitu tion were wiser than the present, for they foresaw whit we have now learned from a dear experience. I put it as the prim" reason for our late failure to eleot a senator that we did not observe in good faith the constitution of our state. If there had been no legislative candidates we could have agreed in less than two weeks.- I know we could. The prejudice of the country again t the metropolis could not have hindered it. Tho votes show tbat the prejudice was im potent to prevent au dec: i -a. The main trouble lay in the fact that members who are candidates are striving to prevent an agreement up m one of their own number or upon any one outside of the assembly. The principal tendency of such a contest among a number of ambitious, self-esteemed, equal aspirants is to stir up disagreements and animosities which in the nature of things must grow stronger instead of weaker to the end of the session. And can any one think that legislation, under such cir cumstances, would proceed in that orderly, careful, judicious manner which is the chief protection against bad laws? The election of United States Senator is bad enough at best, and always more or less corrupting to legislation, but is it not doubly so where those who are the instruments by which legislation is affected also enter the arena of conflict where the great senatorial honors are to be won? It mu3t be go while human nature is human nature. I do not wish to be understood as even hinting that the members ef the last legislature were not good men, or even superior men, for I think as a whole it was an earnest, honest, hard working assembly, fuller of ideas and pur poses than any of its predecessors, but it was composed of human beings who were actuated by human impulses, that is all. In charity for ourselves let us adopt the Irish verdict, "Not guilty, but don't yon do it again. " Let ns learn by the past and reaffirm the ineligibility clause of our organic law. Let us have no more legislative candidates for the United States senate, and if possible let ns remove the question practically from the legislature by asking the people to nomi nate the senator. T. W. DAVENTORT. BILL NYE TO THE NEW PRESIDENT. Dtar Sir: The painful duty of turning over to yon the administration of these United States and the key to the front door of the White house has been assigned to me. You will find the key hanging inside the storm door and the cistern pole up stairs in the hay-mow of the barn. It is expected that you' will make suoh chances in your cabinet and other furniture as you may see fit. The asparagus bed, however, will need a little top dreseing in the spring, and you can do as you see fit about putting pillow shams on the pie-plant bed. In your attitude toward foreign pow. ers you will, of course, have your own ideas, and a suggestion from me at this time would be entirely out of place. Govern the peo ple with a firm yet gentle hand, apd put a little rat poison down cellar where it will do the most good. I have made a good many suggestions to the outgoing administration relative to the transfer of the Indian bureau from the de partment of the interior to that of the "Sweet by-and-by." The Indian, I may say, has been a great source of annoyance to nie, several of their number having jumped one of my most valuable mining claims on White river. Still I do not com plain of that . This mine, however, I am convinced would be a good paying property if properly worked, and should you at any time wish to take the regular army and such other help as you may need and re capture it from our red brother, I would be glad to give you acontroling iuterest in it. You will observe, on taking possession of the administration, that the navy is a little bit weather-beaten and wormy. I would suggest that it be newly painted in trie sprang. If it had been my good fortune to receive a majority of the suffrages of the people for the office you hold, I should have painted the navy red. Still, that need not influence you in the course which you may see fit to adopt. You will find all papers in their appro priable pigeon holes, and a pimill jar of cu cumber pickels down cellar, which were leftover, and to which yon are welcome. The asperities and hart burnings that were the immediate result of a hot and unusually bitter campaign, are now all hurried. Take these pickles and use them as though they were your own. They are none to good for yon. You deserve them. vVe may differ politically, but tbat need not interfere with our warm personal friendship. Yon will also find a ton of coal left over, and an old ax in the wood-shed, which a man from Ohio left with us to have ground. Of course you do not make a business of re -ceiving presents, but oa mot' refuse to re ceive these as a.slight testimonial of regard and not in the nature of a bribe. There are many affairs of great moment which I have not enumerated in this brief letter, because I have felt some little delicacy and timidity about appearing to be at all dictatorial or officious about a m tter wherein the public might charge me with interference. I hope you will receive the foregoing in a friendly spirit, and whatever your convic tions may be upon great questions of nation al interest, either foreign or domestic, that you will not undertake to blow out the gas on retiring, and that you will in other ways realize the fond anticipations which are now cherished in your behalf by a mighty people whose aggregate eye now on to you. Bill Nye. P. S. You will be a little surprised, no doubt, to find no soap in the lauudry or bath rooms It probably got in the cam paign in some way and was absorbed. In- yltside. B. N. OUR CNEW SPRING STOCK Is Now Arming Weekly Novelties and ar Throughout. ams S NOLAN- Corvallis am STORE Oregon. 3S"ew This Week. J H. . E Baser. Lewis, City ZOx-eSty. Lewis 4 Ruber, Proprietors. i3T Do a general Draying Business. Orders Solicited ADMIN ISTiATGRS SALE OF REAL ESTATE In tha matter of the estate of Geo. P. Wrenn, deceased. Notice is hereby given that bv Tirtne of an order of sale, duly made bv the county Court of tha slate of Oregon, for the eountv of Benton on Saturday April 7th, 1832, at the regular April t of said ! BREECH & MUZZLE LOADING SHOT 6UN8 weth administrator of said estate, to sell at public auction all the right, title, interest and estate that ou:nt STORE. The prosperity and stability of every com munity largely (in fact entirely) depend upon the public spirit and private enter prise of its citizens, as well as upon the fostering and encouragement of home in dustries. It is a recognized principle of municipal economy that no city can secure for itself a substantial and permanent ex istence unless its inhabitants shall be possessed iu a liberal degree of the disposi tion to aid each other in other words to put their shoulders unitedly to the wheel. and labor with a common purpose for the general welfare. No greater stigma can f.i'l to the lot of any municipality or State than a c unman reputation tor selfishness, or hick of enterprise, or mossbackism. Such a stigma acts like a clog under th) wheels of progress, hindering and embarrassing the course of trade and dwarfing the growth of the body corporate or commercial. But let any city achieve a fame for goaheadiveness, push and energy, and you will see countless hands stretched forth to give it beuison, and the purses of capital opened to shower it with financial encouragement; the wheels of its railroads will groan with incoming immigrants, and the hotels registers crowd with the signatures of speculators seeking opportunities of investment. Portland ex change. A nasal injector free with each bottle t f Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy. Price 50 cents Fer sale at T. Graham's. ,;Hackmetack" a lasting and fragrant per fume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Por ale at T. Graham's. Shiloh's Catarrh remedy a positive enre for Catarrh, Diptheria, and Canker Mouth. For sale at T. Graham's. Shiloh's Cure will immediately relieve Croup, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis. For sale at T. Graham's. For Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, yno have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shiloh's Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. For sale at T. Graham's. Are you made miserable by indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Los of Appetite. Yellow Skin? Shiloh's Vitalizer is a posi tive cure. For sale at T. Graham's. The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bourbon Itid.. savs: "Both myself and wife owe our lives to Shiloh's Consumption Cure.'" For sale at T. Graham's. Why will you cough when Shiloh's Cure will give immediate 'relief. Price 10 eta., 50 cts. , and $1. For sale at T. Graham's, Take a look at ..those fine noby hats at E. Rosenthal's and you are sure to boy One. the said Geo. P. Wrenu had at the time of hit death. in and to the following de3cxib:d premises: The undivided 3-5 of two hundred and fifty one acres, lying- in the east 1-2 of the donation land claim of Geo. P. Wreun and Mary E. F. Wrcnn, his wife, notiacation 6268, claim No. 54, T. 13, S. K. , (I west, Willamette meridian, in Benton countr, Orwfron. More particularly described as follows to-wit: Be ginning at a point 4. 05 chains east of the 1-4 Sec. comer, on the line betwe-an sections 16 ana 21 in T. 11,8. It, 6 West, of Will. Mer., running- thence sooth 58.50 chains to the middle of the channel of Marys river, thence following down with the meandcrings of said river to tho east line of said donation land claim, th' nee north 84.25 chains to the rorth east corner of said claim thence north S9ueg. 27 mi a. west chaius to the place of beginning containing 250 acres more or less. AI-o the whole of the following in the west half of said claim beginning ata quarter Sec. corner on the line between sections 10 and 21, in T. 11, 8. it., 6 west, Willamette Meridian, thence south 89 degrees 27 min. east 4.65 chains, south 58,0 chains to the middle of the channel of Marys river, thence following up the river to the middle- of the county road leading from CorrallU to Kings V alley, north 16 degrees, east along the middle of said road, 16 chains north 6 degrees? west 13 chains, north 26 degrees, west 23 chains nor-h 39 degrees, west 5 chains to the north line of the claim, south S9 degrees 31 min. east 13.20 chains to place of beginning containing 39. OS acres. Therefore in accordance with and in pursuance of said order of sale, I, F. A. Chen owetb administrator of said estate of Geo. P. Wrena. deceased, will on Tuesday April 38th, 1885; -at the hour of one o'clock P. M. , of said day In front of the court house door, in the city of Corvallis in Benton count j Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, all the right, title, interest and es tate which the said Geo. P. Wrenn had, at the time of his death, in and to the above described premises, together with the appurtenances thereunto belong ing. Terms of sale, cash down at time of sale. F. A. CHENOWETU, Administrator of the estate of Gee. P. Wrenn, de'ed. V7C. Crawford, J E WJELER. KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON BAND A LARGE assortment of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc. All kinds of repairing done on short notice, and all work warranted. !8:.'M-yi Kiflrs, P'gfnln, Ainunirion, Cntlffj-y, Spy Glasses,, Fi.Wns Tackle, Se-wir.gr Marhln'a, Work made to order und warranted. 20 33tf p. HOPES, CorvalHu. Livery, Feed and Sale Stable Brink & Wright, Prop's, Good Teams, Baggies, Carriages and Sad dle fiorses .it reasonable rates. Third Street, between Jefferson and Adams. CORVALLIS, - OREGON. sl-41-ti New Jewelry Store. C. W. Smith, A practical Jeweler and Watch-male er has located in Waggoner & Uuford's real estate office, Corvallis. Special attention given to repairing Hue chronometer watches. Satisfaction guaranteed. Prices to suit the times. A fine stock of watchea, clock and jewel ry constantly on hand. 21-51 tf PBODUCE PRICE CURRENT. Oats Wool per lb Flour per barrel Bacon sides Hams Shoulders Lard, 10 lb tins " Kegs Butter, fresh rolls Eggs, per doz. . . Apples, green Dried apples, Plummer,. . . " Sun dried'... Plums, pitless Chickens, per dos , . . Hides, dry flint green Potatoes fteese, ta w -is, 17 .20 to 18 4.00 10 11 14 to 16 to 10 Wi 10 20 a 15 17 30 so 6 to 8 6 to 6 7 8 00 to 400 10 to 14 6 to 7 20 0 00 3 50 to 400 Jame.- L. JLewis. Sheep, Cattle, erses and Hos bought a& sold and Contacts aiadato ftrffetSa sam AT ALLTIMKS. Mutton, Beef and fat Hogs a Specialty. CORVALLIS OREGON. 2L-iU-2m 0. B STARR'S LIVEE? FSSD and SALE STABLE. (South end Alain Street.) Charges Reasonable, Satisfact ion Guaranteed, Corvallis, - - Oregon. J. B. SCR AFFORD. J, R. SCR AFFORD J. B. Scrafibrd & Bro., PROPRIETORS OF CORVALLIS MARBLE WORKS, AND DEALERS IN ALLKINDS PLAIN, FANCY AND ORNAMENTAL Marble Granite. MAIN STREET Corvallis, - Oregon. -3ir FOR SALE. The Kisor Hotel. And Lot, sit uated in Philomath, Oregon, only one block from the proposed site of the O P. R. R' depot. Tile Buildings are in good repair and will be sold for 81,400. Enquire of S. A. KISOR. Philomath, Or. 22-12-3mo,