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Villa, Camp Creek and Brown.ville at I f .. . Letter will be ready for delivery half an hour after arrival of train. Letter ahould be left at the office vat hoar before mail, depart. A. 8. PATTERS02. P. M. 8UCI ETIES. EnoitMit Lodoe No 11. A. F. and A. M. .Meet flrat and third Wednesday in each month. Srrxrra Bern Lodok No. ft I. O. ' s- .JjsO. F. Meet every Tuewlay evening. SiSir Wimawhala EitCAHmnrr No. 6. Beet on the id and 4th Wednewby. in each month. ' LOU. CLEAVER, DENTIST - KOOMS OVER MRS. JACKSON'S Mil linery Store, WILLAMETTE STREET. DENTAL. DR. F. WELSH has opened Dental Rooms per manently in the Underwood Brick Eugene City, and respectfully solicits a share of the public patronage. Refers by permission to J. K. Crdwell, Portland. 6. A. MILLER, DENTAL ROOMS in DUNN'S gliUlLULMi, i.UliJ!.Ii!. till. tafciiti DENTISTRY AND ORAL SURGERY A. IK PATTERSON, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office on Ninth Street, opposite the St. ' - Cfcarle. Hotel, and at Residence, KJGKNK CITY. OliEGON". 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All subscriptions to the State University "are nliif ntram l,i TllA Timtuipfv I, IU tvn O'1.'! t.t-.l by and turned over to the ritate, and I am in structed by tne proper autnonues to proceed and collect all sums at once. GEO. IS. DUKlvlS, Attorney-at-Law. .9 a o 3 tt 3 ZD ho'1; 3-3 -a O -3 a .5" 5 -S3 Mg 2-1-3 .H53- 18 K3 9 f JAS A. STERLING, Dranesville, Douglas County, Oregon. Dealer in General Merchandise. NOTARY PUBLIC. Fall line of Legal Blank on hand. Manager of STERLING'S EXPRESS. TO COOS COUNTY. All business promptly attended to. ASTOR HOUSE, EUGENE CITY, : : OREGON . S. Dl BOIS, Proprietor. Formerly of St. Chaxlh Horn, Atwrr. THIS HOUSE WILL HEREAFTER BE oondtjcteo aa a FIRST CLASS HOTEL. K OSEBURG AND 8.N JUAN LIME tier tale by X. U. Ui a-o. SPECIAL CORRESPOJiDEJTCE. ' Washinqton, D. C, Deo. 25, 1876. Tbia being the Christmas season Congress is only in session as a mat ter oi form. Half a quorum of Sena tors march up Capitol Hill daily-and then march down again, but, oi course, no business is transacted. Littlo will bo dono till after the 1st of January. The Departments, too, are on half-time from "The night be fore Christmas" to the first day ot the now year. But this latter is of light importance as little has been dono in any of the Departments sinco the main election in September. After that election, Chairm; n Chandler put in operation the patent system by which he first robbed the clerks of their salary to make an election fund, and then robbed the Government by sending the clerks into the fiold to work for Hares and Wheeler. For the last fifteen years I have been fa miliar with Departmental service and never knew anything like the demor alization in it ot the last four months. Ot course, the officers and clerks have done little official work having bceu busy in Rooking np employment in anticipation of March 4th next. It is amazing, but some of the officials are sending to claimants, in reply to com plaints of official delay, a circular to the effect that such delay is caused by the reduced appropriations made by the Democratio House and. the consequent reduction of the number of clerks. This is tho champion fib of tho Centennial year. There are clerks enough, but clerks who are making speeches for Hayes and Wheeler in New York and Indiana are not forwarding public business in Washington. Gen. Harlow, who was sent South by Republicans because they thought be was as much a partisan as Senator Sherman and knew he would of more service thau that statesman, in that he would be believed, has created the sensation of the season. The portion of tho Radical vineyard assigned to Barlow was Florida. Wm. E. Chand ler is to do the manipulating of the votes, but it was thought Barlow, by reason of the general confidence felt in him by all parties, would bo of use when papers had to be signed for pub- ication. He has signed ono paper and it virtually gives the State to Til den. Gen. Barlow is a radical Re publican, was in the Union army and, no doubt, went to Florida believing and hoping he would help Hayes by so doing. Reports from the House Investigat ing Committees are also to the effect that South Carolina should have been counted for Tildon, and that the elec tion in Louisiana was peaceable and fair and the Democratio majority of 0000 was largely made np of negro votes. Senator Conkling is mentioned among those not relied upon to sanc tion extra constitutional means for the inauguration of Hayes; so, won der of wonders, is Senator Ferry. While there may be nothing in either of these reports, we can readily see how a man with the ability and standing of Senator Conkling, or with the good opinion ot himself that Sen ator Ferry's present elevation has given him, might hesitate to take a step that might put him for all time on a level with the 'politicians who have so far taken charge of the Hayes interest since Tilden was elected. The New York Tribune suggests that the Senate may consume tbe time between now and the 4th of March next, in discussing the Presi dential question so that when the House comes to elect a successor to President Grant, the new Honsc, not the present one, will elect. The next House will be Democratic, but the majority of the States will have in it a larger representation of Republi cans than of Democrats. The mani test dishonesty of this course does not shock the Tribune, though Horace Greeley, no doubt, writhes in his coffin, at the bare mention of it in the paper he created and loved. Fortnn ately, there is a constitutional provis ion it the House fail to choose a Prts iueul "before the 4th day of March which will prevent this suggested fraud. There is a general belief that the next eight or ton days will indi cate just how the Presidential ques tion will be settled, and that only peaceable and legal means will bo em ployed Nkmo. Fcu Showing the TrueJ meaning of tne Constitution. From the Sun. Washington. Dec, 26. A soocial committee from the joint committoe ot both branches of Congress on tho oountingof the electoral votes for Pres ident ami Vioe President, is engaged in compiling the proceedings and do bates of Congress relating to that sub- jeot. A critical examination of the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution, aud the sub sequent proceedings of Congress leaves no doubt as to the meaning of tbe Constitution and the purpose of its iramors relative to counting tho electoral votes. It scorns that tho framors of the Constitution did not regard tho President of tho Senate as a person oi so groat importiuce and ot such unlimited power as ho soems to no regarded by radical Republicans ot tho present day. Indoed iu the origiual draft of tho Constitution, there was no Vioo President provided for, and by ono article tho Senate was to choose its own President and other officers. A part of one of the orticlos reported by tho committoe of eleven, to whom tho various propositions were rcferrod, was the following : Tbe PresiJonl of tbe Senate shall in that Douse open all the certiflcutes, and tbe votes shall then end there be counted. Pending the considciatioa of this article the following entry was made upon the journal : It wua mured nJ seconded to insert the words, "In tbe presence of I ha Senate and lNuse ol Ucpretti'iilu'.ivcs," after the word "couuted,' winch was passed in tbe affirma tive yeas 6, uuys 4. Tbe journal ot the Convention does not show that any motion was made to strike out tho words "in that louse," which ocour in the original draft, nor does it show why tho words "in the presence of the Senate and louse ot Representatives were in serted iu the place ot the words "in that House" InsuaJ of alter tbe word "counted," as was voted by the Con vention; but it m evident that tbe question was fully considered by the committee of revision. In tbe reso- ulion providing for the first appoint ment of electors and the election ot Senators and Representatives the iol- owing clause appears : That the Senators and RcprcsentatiTts should convene at tbe time and place assign ed ; that tbe Sonators should appoint a Pres ident of the Senate for tbesole purposoof ie ceiviofr, opening and counting tbe votes for rresiueot. The same method of opening and counting the vote was uniformily car ried out at every suoceeeding Presi dential election, tho proceedings and debates of Congress furnishing over whelming evidence that that tbe Vice President was regarded as only a min isterial officer, acting wholly without judicial power. Whenever any ques tion arose requiring judicial action It was always anticipated by a joint rule which gave this power into the bands of the two Houses. In reference to the Twenty-seoond joint rulo, which radical Republicans declare is not now in force, a passage found in tbe Conarmwnal Ulobe of 1873, prior to tho counting of the electoral votes, which appoars to be very good evidence that the Republi can member of the Senate who offered the resolution did not consider it in the power ot one branch ot Congress to abolish a joint rule without the con current action of the otbor, however differently he may have acted on that subject recently. The following en try is made : Mr. Sherman submitted Ibe following con current resolution, which was referred to tbe Committee on Privileges and blections: RtMved, 1 be Moose of Representatives concurring, that tbe Twenty-second joint rule be reacioded. Ot course, if one branch can rescind a joint rule without tbe concurrent ac tion ot the other, why did not Mr. Sherman simply offer a resolution for the action ot the Senate only? fteaadal to bo Brengbt to Light. An infamous scandal will be brought to light shortly by Congres sional investigation, to be offered in the House, which will ask for inquiry whether any member of the board of i t:..:... police coracniHsioiicrs ui mo uiwivi, of Columbia has attempted to use his position to interfere with investigation authorized by Congress, ibis will be referred to the committee on the District of Columbia, of which Buck net is chairman. The Nul'wntd Jl- publican, of which Wm. J. Murtagh president of the police commission, is editor, having charged .Major Kiel ards, superintendent of the police do tartmcnt, with collusion with gam lers, the superintendent demand ed investigation, which closed Tues day. Col. Cooke, counsel tor the board of police and for Major Rich ards, yesterday published a card ad dressed to Murtagh, in which he says the public shall be mado acquainted with base efforts employed by you and others constituting a vilo con spiracy to prostituto and use Richards and the members of the detective force to destroy or impair Congres sional investigation, and to injuro Hon. J. M. Whitthorno. Other mat ters equally dishonorable and nefari ous shall bo uncovored. The point of the scinclal which Cooko threatens to exposo is, that certain members of the Washington police board unsuooossfully endeavor ed to use the publio police during last session of Congress iu conspiracy against Congressman Wbittnorno, chairman naval committee. The al leged proposition was to -entice Whitthorno into a brothel or gam bling den, and then raid tho establish ment by the polico and arrest all found therein, including Whitthorno, and thus get means of smothering his investigation of tho navy department affair, or destroy its effect through Whitlhorne's degradation. Robosou's friends soout this story as a cunning afterthought, without foundation ex cept in diseased imaginations. i " ' ' Siraniie Heaolullosio for Perusal In Hie Last Kays or the Itepabllcau l'arly. Extracts from tho Republican Flatform of 1800. Sec. 4. That the maintouanoe invi olate ot t'..o rights oi tho States, and especially tho rights ofoauhStato to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judg ment exclusively, is essential to that bnlanco of power on which the porfco ticn and endurance ot our political fubrio deponds; and tee denounce the LmIchs invasion by an armed force of any Nate or lemtory, no matter under what pretext, as among the grav est of crimes. Sec. 5. That the Administration has far exoocded our worst apprehen sion in its moasnreloss tubsorvienoy to the exactions of a soolionbl interest, as especially evident in its dosperate ex ertions to toroe the infamous Lcoomp ton Constitution upon the protesting people of Kansas; in its attempted euforoomcnt everywhere, on land and sea, througb intervention of Congress and the Federal Courts, of the ex treme pretensions of a local interest, and in its general and unvarying abuse of tbe power entrusted to it by a confiding pooplu. . See 6. That the peoplo justly view with alarm the rookless extravagance of tho Government, that a return to rigid economy and accountability is indispensable to arrest the systematic plunder of the publio treasury by fa vored partisans, while the rocent startling dovolopmonts ot fraud and corruption at the Federal metropolis shows that an entire change of Ad ministration is imperatively demand ed. The Danger Ahead. It is no idle suggestion that the oountry is at this momont in serious danger from tho violence, unsurupu lousness, and moditated infamy ot its politicians. Acd unless the men who claim to be tho statesmen of the Re publican party interpose thoir voice for moderation, and show some sense and wisdom, instoad ot permitting thomselves to be dragged along by tho rushing and short-sighted orowd of partisans, no man can tell how the present criminal enterprises may end. It is a totally new experience in this country that our ordinary elections aro to be decided by the sword. It is a shame to the Republican mana gers uf the country, now sitting in thoir seats of power at Washington, that they have not before this, indig nantly rebuked the suggestion, more especially whon coming from the mouth of the President. Wo warn them that they are making history and forming precedents in this direction altogether too fast. Mr. Uonkling's reputed suggestion that if things are allowed to go on in their present way a littlo while longer, Senators might be obliged to have their own tiokels punched by a mili tary officer before boing permitted to take their seats, hits the nail on the head. He would have been even near er the mark if be bad said members of tbe House. If tbe tactics put in operation in Louisiana in 1874, and in South Carolina in 1870, are right for those Slates, they are right for Con gress. If Hayes is inaugurated by fiand ac cording to the present programme, we seo no reason in the action of the present Administration to forbid the supposition of tbe exercise of the mil itary power in tbe same way it was used in both those Slates when tbe new Congress comes to assemble. To be sure, the publio mind does not now admit the possibility of such inconceivable eflrontry. But it is an old proverb that tbe decent .into bell is easy. We may add that people are often on tbe way when they do not suspect it Sun. RIaioe Mains. will be re-elected Senator from A general court martial is beiog held at Cheyenne. J Tbe Florida investigating committee ie oa its way to Washington. A Dumber of mail robbers were arrested Id New York on tbe 4th lust la Conkllng's speech on the 4lh be did not commit himself either to Tildea or II eyes. The Kolloeff Legislators has appropriated $200,000 for tbe reorganization of the State militia. Wiodora has been re-nominated by tho Minnesota Republicans for United States Senator. A Chicago firm sues the Pennsylvania railroad company for $164,000 lor unjustly discriminating in tho rates of freight. Tildea's baukers have been summoned to Washington to show the identical drafts which were cashed to Cronio's order. Tbos. Adams, President of the citizens committee at New Orleans, says tbat any orders made by the Democratio Legislature for funds in the hands of tho Treasurer shall be honored. Lieut. Roe, U. S. Infantry, testified before the Louisiana Senate Investigating commit tee that he was stutioned at Itaton Rouge and knew of no Intimidation. Other wit nesses testified to similar facta. Tbe cause of the May-Bennett trouble ap pears to have grown out of a promise mads by the latter to abstain from intoxicating - liquor, and tbat he had broken his word. A duel will probably grow out of May's assault on Bennett. The Missouri Democrats think it unnec essary to call a convention to give expres sion of the sentiment or tne l-emocrats as to what was done in November. Tbey will stand by the Itoinncrnts in what Is authori tatively adopted, in the Presidential diffi culty. Several colored witnesses testified bnrore the House investigating committee at New Orleans tbat the election was peaceable In Iivingstono parish, and tbat U. S. snporvl eor Davidson Is a bad man. Intimidation affidavits were all made out by clerks In the New Orleans custom house. Tbe limes Washington special says: Ssy lor, chairman of the South Carolina commit- . tee, says their report will show that the en tire Democratio Slate ticket and a majority of the House of Representatives were elect ed by from 200 to 1,100 majority; that Rad ical negroes were the only lotimidators, and instigated the riots lo arouse Northern prej udice. Tbe Ilityes electors seem to be elected, though Sayler has soma doubt of this. All decent Republicans In 8ontb(Oaro lina admit Hampton elected and favoc his inauguration. Tbe World'i Washington dispatch says: Soma weeks ago orders were issued from Washington transferring (Jen. Hancock to . tbe Pacific coast, Uen. Sheridan from Chicago to this city, succeeding Ueo. Han cock, and directing Ueo. McDowell, lately assigned to tbe division of the Pacific, to re main io New York. This publication cre ated mnck comment, and although tbe trans fers were not thus made, It was ascertained upon examination that several leaves of the record at the war department covering tbe time when orders were supposed to have been torn out, and oo trace of them has since been found. On. A. Ruford, of Kentucky, who was at West Point with Grant aod Sherman, now says: "I bave positive author ity for saying that such an order was issued, but tbat Ueo. Hancock absolutely refused to obey orders transferring him to California. I know tbat this is true, and that the order was immediately returned by him accompan ied by bis resignation, to take effect if tbo order was not rescinded." The ordor was revoked and dates destroyed, with what pur pose, as just at that juncture of the political situation Ueo. Sheridan was ordered to New York, may be easily conjectured. Cloud Banner of the Alfav Among the most exquisite sceoes which)' delights tbe eye of the European traveler are those wonderlul rose-colored cloud-banners,, floating from the Alpine cliffs. Bat it is on ly io the sunlight that Nature bangs out these beautiful tokens. So it is ooly io the glow of health the suullght ol our inner being that nature reveals loose pnysicau cloud-banners, the "rosy sbceks" sud "cher ry lips, to praise wbiub every pout oi the earth has invoked the Muse to aid him. llu they are as rare as tbecynlcal Hood conceiv ed Christian charily to be. Woman eager ' to retain this charm, resorts to French art and rougt. Tbe effect is similar to tbat, which would be produced by substituting auctioneers' flags for tbe delicate glowing ' cloud-banoers of tbe Alps. II woman would -aid Nature instead of adopting art, would 1 seek health instead ot vaiuly trying to mask -disease, she would not only wio tbe greatest -charm of womanhood health but she would avert much misery both from herself and others. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Proserin- tioo has received the highest praise from thousands of pale, delicate, suffering women. One bottle olten affords more relief than ' months of treatment by caustics aod other medicines. It is harmless lo any condition of the system, and its use ofteo renders tbe modest iovalid exempt from tbat most trying ordeals a personal coosultatiou with a pby-' siciao. It is lh duty of every womao to be--' coins familiar with the causes and symptoms of the maoy diseases to which ber peculiar organization rvoders her liable, and also to ' learn the proper means of preventing these ' maladies, lbs leopies lueuicai Adviser coutams ao extensive treatise upon "woman ' and ber Diseas t. 1 be Author also advises course of doin--uic treatment, which will of- ten render the services of a physician oonrc- easary. hvery wom.n should read it. . A copy of tb Adviser can be obtain! by ad dressing tbe Author, Dr. It. V. ri-rce, at Buffalo, I . X. Price 51 -oOfpostege prepaid). Favorite Prescription is sold by drupgisU- Vaoderbill s last words were, "that is a good prayer. " Tb Louisiana militia is beinj enrolled. Geo. Longstrset wilt taka command. ' The tiivef euuiinwiuu fci!S nOt tm tO report before tb first week iu February. Morton say the report that Cronio tried to bribe tbe Republican electors ia without-foundation.