AN TO GRATITUDE. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. THAT RIBBON AFFAIR. in the Union. The product of Oregon in this class of manufactures was half as great as that of either Michigan or Wisconsin, and was valued at $50a,- 857. The Farmers’ State Union, which met at Salem, on the 5th inst., was but meagrely attended. A resolution was passed stating that inasmuch as the objects for which it was created can be more effectually obtained through the agency of the Patrons of Husband­ ry, its further continuance was unnec­ essary. The various clubs are to be informed of this action, and are re­ quested to send all accounts to the Sec­ i retary. When all indebtedness is set­ tled that officer will place the books in the hands of President ('lark for the use of his State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. the President first pardoning the re­ peater. What rascalities of any kind has a Republican ever engaged in ex­ posing that he has not been summarily disposed of as though guilty of a crime ? These instances of Republican virtue are certainly rare enough ; it seem a great pity that they should be punished when they do appear. Dowell has seen fit to make a per­ W ashington , Dec. 24, 1873. Dowell must have a rather largely sonal matter of the charges preferred developed idea of gratitude. He says E ditor T imes : Official Paper for Jarkson & Joseph inc fountin. we musn’t make any charges against against him, and among his myriads ****** of lies, slanders, etc., he makes the NESMITH’S OFFER. EDITOR him, however naughty he may be, be­ CHARLES NICKELL, A good joke is told on Hon. J. W. assertion that we overdrew ribbons af­ cause he let us use his press. He even .JANUARY 17, 1874 goes so far ns to say we never paid Nesmith about the nomination of Wil­ ter the fire of last April, and charges SATURDAY,.. him for such use, and leaves the im­ liams as Chief Justice. lie went up us, like himself, to be an onery thief. Meeting of the Demoermtie State Cen­ pression that we never returned the to the War Department the other This assertion is so very contemptible Apologetic. tral Committee. I that it is not worthy of passing men­ paper used. When he says this, he morning to make a requisition for 10,- The Democratic State Central Committee utters a willful and slanderous lie, and 000 stands of arms, rifles and accoutre­ tion ; but as he has seen fit to mention Our readers will please pardon us of the State ot Oregon, 1* hereby requested i I for the rather extended notice we take to meet at the city of Portland on Thursday, he knows it to he such. Not only did ments, to be furnished to Oregon, it, and as there are many who do not the 22d day of January, 1874, at 2 o’clock r. of B. F. Dowell this week. We are M. of said day for the purpose of designat­ we return the paper used, but we more where he was informed that the.State understand it, it behooves us to nail averse to engaging in personal fights, and ing the time and manner of holding a Dem­ than compensated for the use of his had already received her quota. Re­ the falsehood to the cross. ocratic State Convention, in accordance with intend to ever l»e so. But when a person of Last Spring, while at work in the the usage of the party, anil of transacting few lines of type each week. We turning from liis interview with the his stamp attempts to weigh our character, such other business as may properly come I even went so far as to work several Secretary of War, he met one of the Sentinel office, (for the accommodation and slander and blackguard us as he has, before said committee. Said Committee is of Dowell ’ s foreman), Dr. Aiken common decency calls on us to give him his Senators with whom he wits intimate «•«»niposed as follows : consecutive weeks for the accommoda­ ...... Jackson just dues. Personal matters are of but littlo Benjamin Haymond brought some ribbons to the office to ...... Douglas tion of his foreman, who could not pro­ when lie formerly served in the Sen­ A. Rose........................ importance or interest to the public. Wo ............. Coos cure help and was left in a sorry lurch, ate. Shaking hands with him, the be returned to the owner. They were W. H. Jackson......... will here sav, however, that we could till .......... Curry Wm. Tiehenor.......... . advertised in the next Sentinel, and Senator with a quizzical smile said : should we have refused to acconnno- our paper weekly with Dowell’s heinous ....Josephine A. L. Waldon........... GENERAL NOTEN AND NEWS. ........ Benton date him, receiving hardly enough “I congratulate you, Nesmith, on the shortly afterwards, Miss Anna F. Kent, private transactions if we saw fit to drag his J. <’. Averv............... . ........... Linn J. II. Haeklenian...... private reputation into print, as he has ............. Ijino wages to pay for salt, when we could great honor done your State in the se­ in company with another lady, still a The army appropriation bill as repor­ done ours. J. J. Walton, Jr.,...... ........ Marion lection of one of its citizens for the resident of this town, and wife of one G. W. Gray......... ted appropriates $28,400,000. ............. Polk have done much more for ourselves by high position of Chief Justice of the H N. V. Holme* of our most prominent citizens, called ...... Yamhill H. Upton ......... J. attending to our own business. Many Supreme Court of the United States.” SPECIAL NOTICES. The widow of Gen. Canby is to have Washington F. A. Bailev.......... at the office and asked for the ribbons, a time did this firm assist the Sentinel ..('lackamas Nesmith replied with a decidedly W . L. White.*........ a pension of $2,000 per annum. Fon tho very best Photographs, go to .Multnomah office when a rush of job work came, emphatic expression : “I would very (which Dowell says we stole), which Eugene Semple... Bradlev A Ruloison’s Gallerv without stairs ....Columbia The Government is now daily draw­ W. A. Musgrove ASCEND IN THE ELEVATOR, 42» ..... Clatsop which was the case during our suspen­ willingly commute the honor for the were given them by Mr. Isaac Long, A. Van Dusen.... Tillamook sion, and when that office made more arms. The rifles would lie of some the foreman. These are substantially ing on the $44,000,000 reserve to pay ! Montgomery Street, San Francisco, Cal. W. H. Fa licet t.... ....Wasco J. M. Baxter....... use to Oregon, and that is more than the facts of the case, and we defy current expenses. - Umatilla money than it ever did before or will OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE. IL (’. Paige........ I Williams ever was or will be. You ....Union A. C. Craig......... In Cuba the Spaniards hail the over ­ H appy R eliefto Y oung M en front tho .....Baker hereafter. We in many other ways can make a very j»oor lawyer Chief Dowell or any other person to disprove I. 1». Haines....... .....Grant amply repaid what we received at Justice, if you choose; but don’t their truth. We were amazed at throw of Castelar as a triumph of mon­ effects <>f Errors and abuses in early life. J. W. Baldwin.... ManVoooy is in limbi» in new constitution. Iron, Steel, the time he did so. O’Neal’s claim against the United ed, until somebody at Sacramento told Sacramento for attempted murder. A Washington dispatch says Wil­ HORSE SHOES AND NAILS, Is this not the best proof of Dowell having Stqtes, and then rambles off to accus­ I him he was dead. Ilis next plan, then, The Coos Bay route to San Francisco, overdrawn money, as charged by us ? liams “takes high grounds” for re­ I was to get hold of the money as ad- Again. If the Government owes him so ing Drew and Griswold of dishonesty, ■ ministrator, which lie came very near via Roseburg, is rapidly coming in fa­ moving Gibbs, declaring that he had GROCERIES, much, and he has not overdrawn what was etc. We don’t pretend to know any­ | doing. The Treasury was about to is- vor. the right to do so, if he chose, and that due him, and his name is as good as he as­ thing about the matter, except that HARD AND CROCKERY WARE. 1 sue the warrant in his favor, when the A medical journal is soon to be start­ it was in accordance with the wishes serts, why is it that he is returning claims the affidavit is on file at Washington, J personal application of O’Neal arrived ed in Salem. It will be issued from Etc., Etc. placed in his hands for collection ? Why of “the Republican Senator from Ore­ and stopped all further proceedings. that he received letters of administra ­ is it that he went before P. Dunn, County traury omce. the Mercury office. gon.” This is the whole case in a Prices to Suit the Times. Clerk, but a short time ago, and relinquish­ tion on O’Neal’s estate and that he Tired of the delay of payment, O’Neal, A San Joaquin cow hooked a wo- nut-shell. Williams had the power to ed all percentage and claims whatever to a tried to collect O’Neal’s claim, which who so far from being dead, was alive and well in Fresno, county, Cal., had man in the mouth, and her husband make the removal, and Hippie wanted claim of over $1,000, the property of Capt. WANTED. it made. So Gibbs was removed. he admits. We also do know that per ­ virtually abandoned for some years his James Barnes,—a good claim and upon has to stop his ears. now which the money was forthcoming,—which sons arriving from Washington and attempts to obtain the money due him, An Eastern exchange says : The last Throe Thousand Bushels of Wheat, in ex- A Jefferson, Marion county, man annual report of Secretary Robeson rep­ «•liange for goods. Highest prices paid, and he has been prosecuting ? correspondents say that the Govern­ and had he not accidentally heard that Goods sold at Cash nites. The answer is simple: The sum he has ment intends making it warm for him. Dowell was endeavoring to secure it recently killed two ten months old Z-i'r Please give us a call and convince vonr- by administering on his estate, he pigs, which weighed respectively 31)7 resents the value of our navy at about selves. overdrawn is larger than the percentage on [42tf.] McCALL A CO. two dollars and a half. Our war ves­ all claims he may be liable hereafter to col­ We therefore drop the matter until would in all probability have lost it and 404 pounds. ; entirely. lect, and he prefers keeping it. Until he further developments. sels are all mastless and sailless, and, ^SIATIC CHOLERA IN CHINA. does make affairs right, he cannot honestly The feeling at the Department is About forty different specimens of in case of war, every steamer we may Almost Every Case Cured With Fortunate that It Failed. collect one cent. very strong against Dowell, anil should very fine apples were received from chance to send out in search of a Span­ Proof is better than assertions, Mr. Dow- he come to Washington, it is thought iard will be forced to spend two-thirds THE PAIN-KILLER!! The New York World thinks it is legal proceedings will be instituted Oregon a few weeks ago at the Agri­ of its time in pursuit of a coal-yard. ell. _____________ fortunate for the Democratic party that against him. Unless he can clear this cultural Bureau in Washington City. Reaolution Passed. D ear S irs : During a residence of some In 1900 it is estimated we will have It is reported that the schooner Eli­ it failed in the Presidential election matter up satisfactorily, (and how that ten years in Siam and China, as a mission- The telegraph states, says the Port­ last year. We should have reaped the is to be done is beyond comprehen­ da, while going from Coos Bay to San a population of 100,000,000. J Of our ar.v, 1 found your Pain-Killer a most valua­ sion) no claim coming through his ble remedy for that fearful seourge the land AHrx, that Colonel Nesmith has ripened and bitter fruits of four years’ hand will receive the slightest at­ Francisco, was lost with all on board. public hinds, 162,000,000 acres have ! Cholera. In administering the medicine I found it procured the passage by the House of of incapacity and misrule, and the re­ tention. He has lieen in trouble for It is said 18 passengers were on board. been sold, 260,000,000 of acres have most to give a teaspoonful ot Pain- been granted to railroad* as subsidies. Killer effectual Representatives of a resolution requir­ sult would have been ascribed to the some time about other claims, but this in a gill ot hot water sweetened with The wedding cake of a San Jose ; then, after al»out fifteen minutes, l>e- ing copies of all correspondence between change of administration instead of its last performance has exhausted all pa­ couple recently married weighed forty We have given of swamp lands 48,000,- sugar gm to give about a tablespoonful of the same tience with him. The worst of it is, 000 to the States — in which they are mixture every few minntes until relief was the different departments of the Gov­ proper causes. The saddle will now be that it has injured the honest claims pounds and was in the form of a three supposed to lie—50,000,000 of acres obtained. Apply hot applications to the ex- ernment and the Peace Commissioners put on the right horse. The financial of other Oregonians, and the Third story brown-stone front, with a sugar for military services, 20,000,000 have Vr<-7iUll,os’ B^he the stomach with the Pain- during the war with the Modoc Indians embarrassments which the country is Auditor has suspended for the time all bride and bridegroom coming out of been entered as homesteads to actual Killer, «dear, and rub the limbsbrisklv. <»f those who had the Cholera, and took the in Southern Oregon and Northern Cal­ suffering have destroyed confidence, action on them till some agent can l>e the front. [ settlers. We shall have 1,400,000 of medicine faithfully, in the way stated above, eight out of ten recovered. ifornia, during the years of 1872 and and will justly ruin this Administra­ sent to make a personal investigation, Hawley Dodd een resid­ congratulate the people of Oregon on that the above gentlemen are the au­ ures of retrenchment, in the House with her night after night, and they which was refused, and Pomeroy’s bail ing in this place, more than ftftv miles from a physician, and have lieen ol»ligoo Dowell says we haven’t much ad­ ular army is enough and to spare. reported that the railroad company brought any of the Republican rob­ checked, and the patient relieved in the Williams, seeing that ignominious vantage over himself and Dr. Jim, of Our army is the most costly, man for ’ beries to light and yet retained his the course of a few hours. rejection stared him in the face, re­ Portland, as (he says) we are a cross man, in the world. The 80,000 men has sent over an agent to try to buy position in the Republican party. . The I N. B.—Be sure and get the genuine article; and it is recommended by those who have quested Grant to withdraw his name, between a thief and a baboon. We now in the service cost the treasury them up at some low figure. used the Pain-Killer for the cholera, that in inquiry of the Sun suggests the con­ extreme eases the patient take two (or more) over $50,000,000 a year. That is at which was quickly done. Cableb Cush­ deny the vile aspersion that we are According to the census reports Ore­ duct of Attorney General Williams in teaspoonfnla instead of one. ____ _____ _______ ___________ The PAIN-KILLER is sold by all Drug- ing has been nominated instead for the progeny of his, or of any of his the rate of $1,666 per man, including gon produced in 1860 a larger amount officers. If we could lop off 5,000 removing Gibbs and in removing 1 the and Dealer* in Family Medicines. Chief Justice. We shall give the mat­ relations, and consequently pronounce there would be a clear saving to the of woolen goods in proportion to popula- TASr-.*- • . Prii*«. 25 ‘¿A Atlil Price, and 50 onntu cents an/1 and <1 $1. District Attorney in Philadelphia for PERRY DAVIS A SON, ter more consideration next week. his charge as slanderous and untrue. treasury of $8,330,000 per year. (tion and wealth than any other State I _ Manufacturers and Proprietors, 136 High prosecuting a repeater to conviction, street. rro>illen«. R. I. I H a a aa