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D. M. McKKXNEY, Eeitoh.
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Jon Myers, Fixaxciai, Agent.
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Saturday : : October 16, 1869.
(oln for tlic Capitali and Green
backs for the Laborer.
The heading of this article is a concise
; Btatement of the financial policy and prac
tice of this Government under the dotni
:s nation of the Republican party. That
there should be such a discrimination
'made in favor of the wealthy, and against
tho laborer and the man of moderate
means, by a government professing to be
Republican in its form, is an anomaly not
asily explained. Yet, such is the casein
the United States to-day. But assertion,
unsupported by facts, is of but little val
, ue, and for this reason we propose calling
attention to the following facts in support
of our assertion, viz :
e
The men employed in the navy yards,
and upon other public works of the Uni
ted States, are paid in greenbacks, and
can get no other kind of money from the
United States.
The soldiers who fought in the so-called
'J Union army during the late civil war,
were p9id in greenbacks.
The widows and orphans of soldiers
whose lives were sacrificed for the Union
cause, as it was called, are paid in green
backs the pensions allowed them by the
Government as a compensation for the
Joss of a husband or a father.
In fact, greenbacks constitute the uni-
cverdal currency pid to the common pco
pple for sejvice3 rendered to the Govern
ment. Should these people insist upon
.being paid in coin, they w ould be remind
ed. that this Government is groaning un
der an enormous public debt, incurred in
-'.preserving the Union "' that it is not
able to pay in coin and they would be
mocked and sneered at as ''copperheads,'7
tlisloyalists, and "rebels'"' for demanding
coin, under such circumstances. This
might be all right, and it certainly would
not be so objectionable if the rule was a
general one, and applied to rich and
poor to all persons alike ; but it does
not.
0. Since corrupt Radicalism has become so
triumphant, it nas been discovered by
the rulers of that party, '-hat there is a
.class in the United States far above the
common horde of laborers and men of
(moderate means, and that that class is
composed of bondholders and the hold
ers of other securities of the United States.
It has also been discovered by the Radi
cal ruler3 that these bondholders must be
paid their principal and interest in coin,
and that it would be ''disloyal," and an ev
erlasting stigma upon this Government to
pay them in the depreciated currency
tiaed in Dttvincr off laboring men. Now
let us examine this matter a little and as
certain, .if possible, what it is that enti
- tles'these bondholders to such marked fa
YoTitism on the part of the Government
thd Radical Rulers. It is a well known
Act that tho first financial policy of the
'.Republican party was the greenback sys-
4m. This policy was carried to the ex
tern t of flooding the country with this pa
per currency, resulting in its depreciation
in value of one hundred per cent below that
f "th.e metallic currency. When Ihis was
accomplished, interest-bearing bonds were
thrown on the market, and sold for what
ihey would. bring, in lawful money of the
United States, (greenbacks) cert'.fiates of
indebtedness, Ac., and bought in by Capi
talists and Government operators.
At that time a person could get a thou
sand dollars, in legal tender notes, for five
hundred dollars in coin ; and it is not
likely that the bond-merchants would pay
a thousand dollars in coin for a thousand
dollars bond, when he could procure the
name bond for one thousand dollars in
greenbacks. It is not the practice of spec
ulators to pay a thousand dollars in coin
for an article when they can purchase the
f-anie article for one-half thai amount by
the little circumlocution. of purchasing
greenbacks, with coin, and then with the
greenbacks purchase the bonds. We can
est assured that the bonds were purcha
sed with greenbacks. - The bonds, having
jbeen purchased by the capitalists, and
rfjanpmumt operators, the next move on
the part, of the Republican party was to
make them more valuable in the hands ol
the Government pots. To do this Congress
parsed an act exempting these bonds from
taxation for State, County and municipal
purposes. In other words, if a man had a
thousand dollars in coin, or properly oth
er than United States bonds, it was" taxa
ble ; but if converted into such bonds it
tdiould be exempt from such taxation.
. The Republican next took the position,
and yet maintains it, that those bonds,
principal and interest, roust b0 paid in
coin - and that to pay them ii greenbacks
Q in the Kind of money with y bicu they
were purchased is a disgraceful, damna
ble repudiation of the national debt, and
everlasting stigma upon this Govern
ment, buch is Radical Uomi.iation.
Now we ask is it right that the laboring
producing classes should be enfen up with
taxes for the purpose of sustaining a mo
Cneyed aristocracy in these bondholders?
Is it right tbgt the bondholders should
be exempt from taxation on their magnif
....... cnt greenback and bond operation, and
the laboring man (axed for the purpose of
paying such bond.i?
Is it right that the laboring man should
be paid in greenbacks lor his toil, and the
capitalist reimbursed in coin for his out
lay in greenbacks ?
Is it right, or for the good of the coun
try, to make such unjust discriminations
between the capitalist nnd producer?
And if these things are not right, is it
right to sustain a party that perpetrates
such outrages?
FACTS AXD FA5HES.
The Orcgonlan of tho 12(h, in speaking
of our article on the "large reduction of
the public debt, says :
This time he proceeds to prove, in a
two-column article, that the national debt
is not decreasing, and that Secrelary Rout
well's statements are a trick to deceive
the people.
That is a fact. We did prove that the
public debt statement was a trick to de
ceive thtf people, and we are not only as
tonishished, but pleased, that the Orcgonlan
should go this far towards acknowledging
the fact.
That the money in the Treasury should
be regarded as so much of a payment on
the national debt wc regard as a humbug.
and illustrated it in this way :
If John owes James one hundred dol
lars, and has the money in his pocket
with which he might pay it, is the fact
that he has the money a payment of his
debt, or any evidence tending to show
that it has been paid ?
To this the syllogistic editor of the Ore-
nian replies :
4,Is not the fact that John has the money
an evidence of his ability to pay the debt?
Is not the one hundred dollars a part of
his assets ? So is not the one hunddred
and sixty-six millions a part of the as
sets of the Government? Willi this same
cash the Secretary is buying bonds every
week and thus reducing the debt."
Now, we do not known that with this
same cash in the Treasury the Secretary
is buying bonds every week and thus re
ducing the debt. Rut comment on this
manner of reasoning is hardly necessary.
For if a person's as-sets and ability to pay
a deb is to be taken and accredited to
him as a payment of the debt, all debts
owing Ly persons having property are
easily paid just by a touch of the imagina
tion. Wc have never regarded a debt paid
until the money was handed over to the
creditor wc have never been fortunate
enough to pay a debt by a mere act of the
maginatiou by having the money in our
possession with which it might be paid, and
then imagining it pail and presto-change
receive the credit and keep the money.
This effort to deceive the people and
make them believe that the national debt
has been reduced to the amount of money
in the Treasury, not only shows a pitiable
weakness in our Radical dodgers, but, it
is clear testimony that there is something
wry " rotten in Denmark,"' which they
are laboring to cover up.
Rut again, the Oregonian say3 :
''Everybody, that is evcrbodv but
few Democratic editors. knows that the
Secretary in making his monthly state
ments invariably computes the interest
which accrues up to the very day the
statement is made, adds it to the principal,
deducts the cash in the Treasury from the
sum, and the remainder thus found, when
compared with the like lesult of the pre
vious month, shows how much the debt
has been reduced within that time. We
don't expect to enlighten such dense and
stolid igorance as is exhibited in the
above extract ; we notice this matter sim
ply because a somewhat similar statement
has been made by many opposition pa
pers, some of w hich probably have intel
ligence enough to know that it is false,
though others, like the Oregon City pa
per, doubtless have no knowledge at all
of the subject and are incapable of ac
quiring any."
Now every body don't know any such
thing. Rut if the action of the Secretary
should be as above stated, what then?
We will take for granted that the Secre
tary does compute the interest on the na
tional debt up to the day the statement is
mule, then adds it to the j rlncipfd. and then
deducts froTii tlie sum. the cash in the Treas
ury, and the remainder ichen thus found,
ic'tcn compared iciih the like result of the
prev'ous month, shoics Itoic much the debt
has lecn reduced icilhin thai time. Take
this, the Oregonians view of the financial
operation as true and we have at last
learned the Radical rule of computing the
decreasa of the national debt, which may
be illustrafod ' in this way. According
then to the Secretary's statement the debt
with the interest for September added
was S2.G31. 609.836,09. Rut then there is
In the Treasury in coin SlOS.lOS.-Hio.Sl.
and in currency $C5,GS0, 031,30, which
deducted from the debt leaves the remain
ing debt to be $2,108,195,072,01 as given
in the last statement of the Secretary. If
possible, to do so by the imagination then
this money in the Treasury, at coin rates
would be a payment of $lfiG,l 14.78-1,0S
on the national debt and the radicals in
giving their statement to the public count
the money in the Treasury as an actual
payment on the debt.
Rut this money has not been paid out
on the national debt and may never be
paid on it. If not squandered in Congres
sional Committee excursions or in some
other like loyal electioneering meaner
the money may remain in the .Treasury
unlil another months interest shall have
accrued, been computed and added to the
principal and then "this same money in the
Treasury deducted from it again, and the
remainder heralded foith as ano'.her mir
aculous reduction of the national debt.
Ret us know exactly tho amount that
has been actually paid to the bond holders
and then we can compute the interest for
ourselves, and as certain whether or not
the debt has been really reduced, Rut
uon t giro U3 sl;Uonicnt3 of rductions
based cn tho monoy in U;o Treasury.
Fapts aro ,n disputable but thu fancying
tuat tae money m the United States Treas
ury is so m-ach paid cn the national debt
is not very satisfactory to sensible people
TJie "last Addition to tlie Faiuaily.
Harper's Weekly ... is an intensely '-loyal'7
paper, and as sucb, reflects correctly
the sentiments of the Republican party.
Not only does it do this, for being a Picto
rial, it, by its ekgravings and explana
tions of them, prepares and conciliates
the public mind for any new or doubtful
policy to be inaugurated by that party.
That paper is doing so now, and prepar
ing the American people to receive the
Chinaman, as the last addttion to the al
ready extensive, ring streaked, striped
and spotted family of Uncle Sam. It is
doing so in this way :
The edition for September 2oth, has an
engraving representing Mrs. Columbia
holding, in her arms, a Chinese baby, and
looking down into its "ratified"' face, with
a somewhat quizzical expression of coun
tenance, yet with all the fond tenderness
of a young mother.
The little Celestial has quite a little
que sprouting from the back of his head,
and is kicking up his hsel sucking his
thumb, and giving mamma Columbia a
look of piggish affection ; and you can
almost hear him say : "When will that
Fifteenth Amendment bo ratified, that I
may cast olf these swaddling clothes?''
The picture is cnfi.lcd the last addi
tion to the family. We presume it is not
inserted merely as an illustration for the
paper ; but is gien as a pictorial Illus
tration of the sentiments of the Republi
can party on the Chinese question, and is
intended to prepare the public mind for
the recepliou of the Chinese into full
membership in the family of Uncle Sam.
SHOULD Ij! Ivl'l TO KA'OW.
We should like to know how much mo
ney Gov. Woods received for pardoning
.Mrs. Collins, and also how much for the
other pardon recently signed?
Was the price of madam's liberty $1,500
coin, as reported? jusl one year's salary.
One question mon. Why was not the
pardon, recently granted upon the peti
tion of most of the members of the last
legislature, granted long ago, soon after
the petition was presented ? and did the
gray-haired father "bleed'' to the extent
of $1,000 in order to purchase executive
clemency ?
If Woods shall answer these questions
truly, he will write himself down as one
of the most characterless and shameless
subjects of bribery that has ever disgra
ced an official position ; and the people
will know exactly how much tlie two par
dons have added to that $.3,000 income.
Democratic Press.
rUOVlDlXG roil ItEIjATIOAS.
The Baltimore Statesman says : Cousins
and brothers-in-law are good things.
General Grant has relations of that kind,
and where their interests do not coins in
conflict with his own, he is not lacking in
substantial demonstrations of kindred
feeling. It is but justice to admit that
many of the leading members of his par
ty exhibit the same commendable attach
ment to their relations. Senator Trum
bull has a brother-in-law who is a pension
agent, and his son was clerk to the Judi
ciary Committee of which Trumbull was
a member. Senator Nye had a son clerk
to Senator Nye's Committee. Senator
Morton had one brother-in-law male post
master of Indianapolis, and another Gov
ernor of Dakota. Senator Scott had a
brother-in-law in a fine office in the Phila
delphia mint. Senator Hamlin put a son-in-law
in a good place under the Naval
Officer at Boston. A crippled soldier was
t irncd out of the post office at Jackson
ville, Illinois, by the influence of Senator
Yates, and a brother of the Senator put
in. Senator Harlan got a brother-in-law
in an Indian agency.
Tlrs putting of relations into office baa
now become the general fashion. It is
said that even the Democrats 'in New
York, and perhaps elsewhere, are becom
ing more affectionate towards their rela
tions through the influence of Rvlical ex
ample, and falling into their clannish
ways. It is a very good thing to have re
lations, and to be able to provide for
them at the expense of the community.
There can be no finer exhibition of the
household virtues than to see tho official
head of a community the patriarchal
bell-wether of tho flock leadirg up his
hungry kith and kin to tho public crib.
Who shall say. after such affecting dis
plays of the domestic affections, that cor
porations have no souls ?
Senator "Wilson's Opinion of the Ail
ministration's Policy Regarding
Southern Elections.
From the New York Herald.
Senator Henry Wilson does not approve
of the policy of the Administration in in
terfering in the elections in the Southern
States by using the federal patronage to
defeat the conservatives. He thinks it
would be better to conclude all parties
claiming to be republicans, whether they
call themselves radicals or conscrvaties,
and unite them against the Simon pure
democracy. If this policy had been pur
sued in Virginia and Tennessee he is sat
isfied that both of the States would have
elected straight out repuclican tickets.
He thinks Mississippi and Texas can both
be saved to the republicans if the proper
measures are adopted to unite the various
factions of the party. Using the patron
age in Mississippi against Dent and in
Texas against Humilton will, he thinks,
only make votes for the candidates, while
it will do the radicals no good.' It is un
derstood tht WiUon, while here yester
day, gave the President and sorne of the
members of the cabinet his opinion on. the
subject.
Gone. U- S. Senator Corbett and wife
went to Salem Wednesday morning, and
will remain there a day or two. They
will then start for Washingtoa via Sacra
meuto. "
Telegraphic Clippings.
Virginia Legislature.
Richmond, Oct. 7.
In the Senate, the protest of the Wells
Republican caucus against the legality of
the body, was taken up and read. It an
nounces that the Republican members re
serve to themselves the light to secede
from the present Legislature, and organize
by themselves a legal Territorial Legisla
ture. The Senate voted to lay it on the
table. Gov. Walker sent in a messeage
on the Fifteenth Amendment. He says
that the people of Virginia at the late
election, adopted by an overwhelming
majority the principles nsseiieu m
Amendment, namely: "Civil political
equality to all men before the law." He
declared that the people of Virginia. in
tended to maintain this principle in the
utmost good faith.
Ru-UMOxn, Oct. 7.
The Conservative caucus, to-night, re
solved to adopt the 11th and 13th Amend
ments immediately.
More Contingent Expenses.
.. San Fkaxcisco, Oct. 7.
A party of some twenty-five Congress
men and others, arrived here last evening
per Pacific Railroad. They will visit va
rious places of interest, including the Gey
ser's and Big Trees, returning on the 23d
i list. Among them are Gov. Ward, of
New Jersey. Col. Ordway. of Washington,
and lion. Chas. Knapp. of New York. At
a meeting held by them at the Cosmopoli
tan Hotel, last evening, resolutions com
plimentary to the Chicago & Northwestern.
Union Central and Western. Pacific rail
road?, were adopted. The resolutions as
sert that the Pacific railroads are fully
equal to any eastern road.
Tlie initio's tirand Lolgc Don't IIc
eoguiic fttgi'o Miiois.
The Illinois Masonic Grand Lodge re
fused, by a voe of 525 to 4:5. to repeal iho
rule prohibiting the recognition of colored
Masons. The session of the Grand Lodge
will hereafter be held at Chicago, instead
of Springfield. A niagnilicent temple for
the Grand Lodge will probably be erected
here.
J3tu.tii of Ei i'rt'&iilcnt. Pierce.
CoNcoui). N. II.. Oct. 8.
Ex President Pierce died this morning.
Dktkoit, Oct. S.
The propeller Omar Pascha burned to
the water's edge early tills nu rning. at
the mouth of the Muscatine. Loss, $25,
000. Iv llicy Carry Elections In tSic
Son tli.
Yn.'Ksnrn;, Oct. S."
A. C. Fish, chairman of the National
Republican State Committee, sent a tele
gram to the President, asserting that (Jen.
Ames said, in an ofheiel interview with
the citizens of Mississippi, on Monday, that
he intended to carry the lection against
the Democratic ticket if he marched bis
soldiers from poll to poll to effect it. (Jen.
Gr.uit is appealed to prevent the interfer
ence by Gen. Ames in the election.
LoLisvii.f.i:. Oct. 8.
Wm. Reed, the wife murderer, will be
hung Nov. 19th.
Tlie Virginia
T.egi.sla( ure.
Richmond, Oct. 8.
Roth houses to-dav ratified the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendnents. In the
House only six votes were against the
Fourteenth and two against the Fifteenth.
Legislature has adjourned till Oct. 2Sth.
A Desnc: ado JL. y n Intl.
Skvmoik. In;., Oct. 9.
The notorious desperado Stephen Clark
was taken. Wednesday night, from the
custody of the Sheriff by Regulators, near
Clear Spring in this county and hung.
IVitro Glycerine Explosion.
S pnix:FiEi.i, Mass.. Oct. 10.
A building at lloosac Tunnel, used for
storing nitro glycerine, blew up on Sat
urday. Three men were killed. The
cause of the explosion is unknown.
EarthquaUc at St. Thomas.
Washington", Oct. 10.
Letters received in thi s city state that
on the 17lh of September the Island of St.
Thomas was visited by an earthquake at
2:50 p. m.; the city shook to its founda
tion. The shock was so severe as to ma
terially injure the walls of the Spr.nish and
Union Hotels and other large Structures,
ami caused a genera! panic among the in
habitants and a suspension of business.
The day was excessively hot, without the
slightest breeze ; thermometor !)2V; ba
rometer 30. indicating fair weather. In
the interval between tlie first shock nnd
11 p. in., nine shocks occurred, producing
terror and dismay. The writer concludes:
' 1 had experienced many severe shocks,
but nothing compared with those of yes
terday ; nothing like it since the great
earthquake of 18G7."
The report that the Rothschilds have
sent an agent to offer our Government a
loan, is denieJ by friends of the firm.
Funeral of Ei-Prcsitlent Fierce.
CoNcono, N. II., Oct. 11.
The remains of Fx-President Pierce
were removed to the State House at 11
o'clock this forenoon, w here a large num
ber of people took a last look at the de
parted. The obsequies were performed
at St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church, by Rev.
Dr. Lames and Rev. Dr. Coir, assisted by
several otlu-r clergymen. All places of
business were closed from twelve until
two o'clock.
Ni;w York, Oct. 12.
The JTfrald states that Senator Wilson
recently urged the President to suspend
the political slaughter of Conservative office-holders
in "Texas and Mississippi.
Cutler and Gen. Clark, hearing of his ef
forts, immediately urged the President to
continue the operation.
London, Oct. 7.
Additional, though co later, news is re
ceived from Dr. Livingstone. He was seen
about fourteen, months ago by an Arab at
Lake Tangany. The Arab pays he was
going toward the west, probably endeav
oring to reach Congo. There were no
doubts of his safety at Zanzibar.
Savannah Election.
Savannau, Oct. 11.
The Democrats elected their fire Roard
of Aldermen by about 3.000 majority.
The negroes generally voted Democratic.
Vessel Lost.
Boston-. Oct. 12.
The whaling schooner Susan Smith, of
Boston, was lost in a hurricane, Aug. Sth.
and all hands were drowned except the
captain and four seamen, who remained
on deck eight days aqJ nights without
food or water, and ' were taken off by an
English bark and carried to London." The
captain's wife and two . children were
drowned in the cabin.
New York, Oct. 12.
Several vessels injured iu the gale of
last week have returned to New York in
a disabled condition. One bark bound
for Glasgow, is supposed to have sunk
with all on board.
the tjiiiii Election.
Cot.cmbcs, Oct. 13. Tho Ohio returns,
and the opinions of both parties, indicate
that Hayes i electea by about three thou
sand. The House is Democratic ; the Sen
ate Republican. Democrats claim that
the vote is so close it will require the of
ficial returns to decide the election for
Governor. Independent Republicans
from Hamilton county have the balance
of power in the Legislature.
Cincinnati, Oct. 13. Full returns from
Hamilton county show Pendleton s ma
jority to be 07(1. The fusion ticket elects
two Democrats and two Republican Sena
tors, ond five Republican and five Demo
cratic members of the House with three
Republican and three Democratic county
officers, by a majority of 2,000 to 2,500.
Ic imsylvMiiiH Election.
Pmi.ADKU'iiiA. Oct. 13. The State Sen
ate stands, Republicans 18, Democrats 15:
House. Republicans, G3, Democrats 37l
The city journals have no data to indicate
the majority in the State,. but all the pa
pers but one concede Geary's election by
5,000 to 10.000 majority.
The evening Jiulldin has a Ifarrisburg
dispatch that says leading State official:
claim the election of Geary at least -1,000.
The Democratic State Central Committee
concedes Packer's defeat.
UNITED feTATKS liONDS.
Workingmen everywhere complain of
the hard times excessive taxation, and
difficulty of getting along.
Farmers complain. Mechancis com
plain. Workingmen complain. Even
tax-collectors complain of the hard times.
There is no need of this coin plaining.
There is no need of paying taxes. Let the
farmer sell his land the lumberman his
mill the merchant his store the me
chanic his tools the drayman his horse
the gardener his little patch of ground
the shopkeeper his stock in trade, and in
vest in United States Bonds.
Theu you have no taxes to pay. You
can go to wa;ering-places, can visit the
race-track, the epera, the fancy ball, keep
trotting horses iu your stables and silk
dressed harlots in your cottages by the
sea.
Sell your taxable stuff and invest in
bonds. Then you will have a better in
come in gold than you now have in green
backs. You will be exempt from taxation. You
can live on the labor of others. You will
be loyal, and a supporter of the Govern
ment. Our Government taxes every man win
works it exempts from taxation those
who do not work who sell their taxable
property and buy the bonds, or the notes
of poor men, on which large interest is
paid. To be sure it is hardly lair to make
workers support the idlers, but that is
what our Government does. It is a good
thing for farmers, laborers, workers for
all wiio toll and pay taxes.
It is a good thing for bondholders, and
'.hey run the Government. Therefore es
cape taxation, buy bonds, rob the people,
and be popular.
There are smart people enough to buy
bonds there are foolish people enough to
pay them to pay i:itere-t thereon to
permit bondholders to live without, beii'g
taxed. Therefore be a bondholder be a
nabob wear kids drink champagne
keep a private house of prostitution, wi h
a nigger door-keeper, and be somebody
So runs the world.
Pomci-ofs Democrat.
iClLI.tXCi THE IXSAXH.
No problem of the day has more per
plexing sides fo it than that of the duty of
society toward the insane. Within a few
days the community has been horrific? by
the act of a maniac mother. She had been
insane for fifteen years, and in all that
time apparently had never been placed
nn-ler any physical restraint, yet had nev
er done violence to any one. The facts
seemed to prove that it was quite safe to
leave her at large ; but just as this is to
ordinary perception demonstrated she
splits open the head of her own child
with an axe. Clearly she ought to have
been in confinement ; for the life of the
child was worth more than the freedom of
the woman. But within a short time past
the attempt has been made to incarcerate
several persons clearly insane, and it has
been found impossible to detain them
when, by counsel, they demanded their
freedom of tlie courfs ; for the evidences
of insanity are not always in the demor
slrable realm of fact, and therefore will
not stand before the judges and juries.
Had the attempt been made to imprison
the woman wlo commited this maniac
crime one month before the crime she
could have been set at liberty on the very
arguments that are used in all similar
cases. At the same time there is no doubt
much abuse in the uses made of insane
asylums in cases where property is in dis
pute. As these caes can be so befogged
by medical and legal niceties in wirespun
argument it seems impossible to lay down
any definite point of departure any rule
that may not seem ridiculously insufiicient
in one case of outrageously tyrannical
in another. The proposition to kill every
body that is insane has just been made in
England, and has the recommendation of
being sufiieiently startling. But it does
not relieve us of the greatest difficulty.
We kuow very well already what to do
with the insane ; the puzzle is to find a
definition of insanity that the courts can
insist upon that society will be safo in ad
hering to. Who are the insane? That is
the question, and the one that mugfc be
come even more imperative If we propose
to take lifo that if we only take liberty :
sinGe if the lawyers should come forward
and prove to the satisfaction of the courts
that the lunatic who had been killed was
as ?ane as any man the killers might like
ly stand accused of murder.
Exchange.
Rkckipts of the Fa:k. Tho Oregon
Statesman of Wednesday, says :
Lrp to last evening at dark the receipts
of the Stale Fair were as follows:
tin try fees $350
Admittance fees 3,290
Including hack licenses receiv
ed at Race Slaud 42
Total , S-1.CS2
Huckster and show licenses not report
ed. This showing is moft favorable than
that made at this early day. by any pre
vious State Fair.
J'f3" President grant has no stated time
for receptions. He receives at any time
and any thing.
tC 'A Chicago policeman is in trouble.
A cook sues him for a breach of promise
and claims $10,000 damages.
jiii- A verdict of 3. 000 has been ob
tained in Cincinnati against n telegraph
company for its rejection of a message
desired to be sent for trading purposes,
in competition with the company itself.
Gambling Among tlovex nmeitt Km
pluyctf. From Use New York Herald.
The Collector. Naval Officer and Sur
veyor of the Port of New York have uni
ted in requesting Secretary Bout well to
make a contribution on behalf of the gov
ernment to the society in that city for tiie
suppression of gambling. They allege
that the interests of the Government re
quire that there should be a system of
espionage over those in Government em
ploy, and the only practicable way of
reaching those guilty of gimbling is
through the infh ence of the society. The
New York merchants contribute accord
ing to their business, the firms of A. T.
Stewart and Clufliu & Co.. paying $2,500
each annually. Secretary Bontwell, hav
ing no authority to authorize the expen
diture, was compelled to refuse the re
quest. Shot. George Good, one of the clerks
employed iu the Bank of British Columbia,
met with a very severe accident this
morning. "While out hunting with a par
ty, down the river, he had the misforUine
to shoot hiniseif through the right hand"
He had just discharged one barrel of .his
shot gun, and was engaged in leading it.
when the other barrel, heavily charged,
went off, tearing otr the fore finger of his
right hand, and badly mangling the oth
ers. He will probably not lose his hand,
though the wound is quite severe. Com
mercial 12th.
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Portland October 12th, by Be v. JOHN.
W.SKUAVOOD, AMOS HUKST. of Seat
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C. COLK. of Portland.
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AUCTION SALES
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dise and Horses,
Every Wednesday and Saturday!
A. B. Ilicii.vRDsox, Auctioneer.
AT PRIVATE SALE.
English refined Kar and Rundle lion;
English Square and Octagon Cast steel
Horse shoes. Files, Hasps, saws; '
Screws, Fiy-pans, sheet iron, 11. G Iren
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A large assortment of Groceries and Liquor
A. L. Hichakdson, Auctioneer
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JOTICE.
On the !7th ult. a nerson who
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A;iy person having any claim upon tM,
Horse, must make his claim known witlua
ten d.ivs from this date, or the properly w.ll
be sold t i pay f barges.
Oct, 2d, i!sM. JOHN MYERS,
47 -'t) Shi rill" of Clackamas Countr.
AO
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Beors Windows !
WHICH HE OFFERS AT
Very LOW RATES!
o
Tl'Ooli at his Stock before
purchasing elsewhere,
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the balance t i t e uudeisisrtml' at tin nlhVf.
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ROSA BON H EUR,
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LIDIA II. SIGOURNEY,
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Come where cheap good are sold ;
The place we will mention. is easy to linuV
It's at A. Levy's old stand.
Cigars and Tobacco to suit,
Ammunition and Powder to shoot.
Kitties and Dollies Candies and Nut.
To bring home and please the young f"lss
Sugar and Coilee the of very b&t kinds,
Ahv,iys remember, and bear in your minds
Goods of all kinds.too numerous to mention
Only to a fe-y we've called your attention,
l'lease call and see for yourselves, .
And vou'll always find our's well supplied
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Offices of the Western Union Telegraph Co.
and Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express Co.
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