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John Myers, Financial Agent.
Saturday : April 23, 1870.
DDIOCRAIC STATE TICKET.
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O For Congress,
JAMES II. SLATER, of Union.
co For Governor,
L. F. GROVER, of Marion.
For Secretary of State,
S. F. CHADWICK, of Douglas.
For State Treasurer,
L. FLIESCILXER, of Multnomah.
For State Printer,
T. PATTERS OX. of Multnomah.
Prosecuting Attorney, 4th District,
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K. E. BYDEE, of Multnomah.
District UcminatiGns.
First Judicial District.
Prosecuting Attorney II. K. Ilanna,
of Josephine.
Second For Judge A. J. Thayer, of
Benton.
Prosecuting Attorney C. W. Fitch, of
Lane.
Third For Judge 13. F. Eonham, of
Marion.
Prosecuting Attorney X. L. Butler, of
Tolk.
Fifth For Judge L. L. McArtlmr, of
Baker.
Prosecuting Attorney W. B. Lasswell,
DEMOCRATIC COUHTY TICKET.
Fo Iirp-rcsentativcs,
H. ArSTRAIGIIT. A. CARMICIIAEL, C.
F. BEATIE.
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For County Jinlgfi,
ROBERT CAU FIELD.
For b?n-ifj
JOIIX MYERS.
For County Clcrl;,
T. J. McCARVER.
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For County Treasurer ,
T&. II. SAFFARAXS.
For County Commi-txicn r rs,
R. X. WORSIIAM. JOIIX MARTIX.
For Asycgsor,
S. P. GILLILAXD.
For Coroner,
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DR. II. W. ROSS.
For', Sc?iool Superintendent,
JOSEPH HEDGES.
For Surveyor,
ROBERT F. CAU FIELD.
The Fifteenth AmemTment.
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The ratification of the Fifteenth Amend
ment ,w'as celebrated yesterday in Sacra
mento, and there can be no doubt that the
celebration was rcmcrkable in more ways
than one. In the first place it was shown
that thre exists a large class of colored
men irtthis city, who are intelligent, if not
thoroughly educated, and who are perfect
ly competent to testify their own leelings
in an lfair of this sort, without any aid
from outsiders. The procession which
passed thfpugh Sacramento yesterday was
the best conducted and the most orderly
that has ever be;n seen hero. It followed,
moreover, too closely upon the heels of
the adjournment of the Legislature, not. to
be specially noticed. A3 the men who
have been misrepresenting the State for the
past four months were packing up their
etender traps, paying (or repudiating)
their hotel bills, seeing their lobby friends
for the last time, and settling arrange
ments for the future, which will never be
consummated the colored citzens of Sac
ramento werengaged in demonstrating
their joy and satisfastio'a at the final adop
tion of a constitutional amendment which
places them in th-e true position gf free
men on ao equality with all who breathe
iod air, arid walk His earth. So, the
Legislature has adjourned ; and the Fif
teenth Amendment lias been celebrated.
In the departure. of the one vc feel reliev
ed, as in the departue of a legalized band
of robbers. In Upcoming of the other we
feel relieved, as in the advent of a better
and a nobler time for all men. Such Leg
islatures as the one that has just passed
away can never do the world any good ;
but such principles as those contained in
the Fifteenth Amendment must be verdent
and fresh forever. They help mankind.
The others retard civilization.
The above piece or elegant Radical lit
erature is from the Sacramento Record
of April Cth. The Record is a Radical
nbeet, and fully expresses the sentiments
of that party. In the election of 1S72, if
there is such an election held in the Unit
edrtates, we will Lear the same fulsome
praise of the Chinese voters in the Repub
lican party, for it is surely the intention
of the Radicals to enfranchise the Chinese
by that time. When thieves and scoun
drels obtain control of the Government
and attempt to perpetuate that control by
all kinds of frauds and outrages, it is not
expected that they will stop at anything
short of Uie entire destruction of the
country. Suiyh, is the present course and
determination of "the Union party.7'
which boasts that it " saved the country."
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Blacr Candidate, The Black RepnblW
caas of Washington Territory, have nomi
nated S. Garfieldc for reelection to Con
gress, lie is a defeated man.
Ilep;nliu ici.
The Republican party appears to be
entirely satisfied with the Democratic plat
form, adopted at Albany last March, with
the exception of the 8th article. This ar
ticle declares in favor of an equitable ad
justment of the bonded debt of the United
States, and this declaration is loudly de
nounced by the Republican press as
square cut repudiation ; and. as a natural
consequence, all of the SxlO .street corner
politicians of the ' loyal party ' are busily
engaged in proclaiming the falsehood that
this 8th article in the Democratic platform
mea'ja repudiation of the national debt,
and at which they affect to be greatly hor
rified. An equitable adjustment of the
national debt would pay the bondholder
just what would be found due him, and
no more. Such a settlement of the debt
would certainly not be an acW)f injustice
to the creditor, and it would also be doing
justice to the laboring, tax-p?ying portion
of the community upon whose hard earn
ings these moneyed aristocrats luxuriate
while they sing loyal tongs of praise to
the Government that oppresses and en
slaves the poorer portion of the people
for the especial brnelit of the rich. But
this disposition of the Democratic party
to see that the producing classes of the
community be relieved from the continual
demands and oppressions of the wealthy
nabobs of the land, the Radicals character
ize as repudiation, because such a course
would deprive the wealthy Republicans
of some of the profits which they expect
ed to realize out of their nefarious and
unjust speculations upon the Government
at a time when it was in a very critical
situation. But let it be remembered that
the people form the Government, and that
it is the laboring, producing portion of
the people that furnish the money which
constitutes the public fund, while the
bondholder is exempt from taxation on
the capital, he has invested in his bond
speculations; and that it is the people's
right to see that the money they pay into
the United States Treasury is not frittered
away by Government scoundrels, and
gobbled up by the moneyed sharks, many
of whom, no doubt, are in copartnership
with the Government officials who are so
liberal to their partisan friends. It is also
the peoples' right to see that there is less
favoritism shown to these moneyed aristo
crats, and more j.istice shown to them
selves, and they are unworthy of a free
government if thev do not enforce these
its.
But why should the Republican party
be so clamorous to have the bonded debt
of the United States paid in coin, and to
the uttermost farthing of the exorbitant
and unjust demands of the bondholders?
This political partiality to the moneyed
favorites of the party in power, is a mat
ter that requires some considerable con
sideration on the part of those persons
who wish to live under a free form of gov
ernment. The Radicals do not manifest
such solicitude for the honor and credit
of the Government, when the creuttors of
the Government who are poor are being
paid off. But, on the contrary, take the
Republican explanation of what consti
tutes repudiation, as the criterion, and the
Government, under Republican rule, has
universally repudiated the demands of the
poorer portions of the people. As an
evidence of this, we call attention to the
following facts : It will be remembered
that the Indian war debt of Oregon, con
tracted in lS.j.5, and at a time, too, when a
metallic currency was the only recognized
currency of the Government, was first cut
dewn by the party in power, and then the
small portions of it that have been paid
at all, were paid in greenbacks, and at a
time when the paper money of the United
States was far below par. Xot only so.
but the persons that complained at having
to take this depreciated currency in full
satisfaction cf their demands againrt the
Government, were denounced y the Rad
icals as disloyal and unworthy to receive
anything from the Government. It may
bo said by the Republicans that many of
the demands of the Oregor.ians against
the Government were exorbitant and un
just and had io be cut dov. ur the peo
ple the tax-payers would have been
wrodged. and that it was light, after hav
ing ascertained what the demands were,
to pay them in legal tender netes. If this
was so ; if these demands were exorbit
ant and unjust, the cutting down opera
tion was right it was an equitable ad
justment of these debts, although the pay
ment of the ascertained demands in green
backs at par. when they were worth only
fifty cents on the dollar, might very prop
erly be con.aiJ.eree a hardship and an in
justice. Xow. in the name of justice, common
sense and decency, are the men who spec
ulated on the Government and bought its
bond.s at forty and fifty cents on the dol
lar, any better than the Oregoniar.s who
conquered the Indians and made this
counlry a safe habitation for white men?
If an equitable adjustment of the de
mands of the Oregonians against the Gov
ernment, growing out of the Indian war.
was right, is not an equitable adjustment
of the demands of the speculators on the
Government equally right ? We earnestly
call upon those Republicans who are so
partial to the moneyed aristocrats of the
present time, and who are so horrified at
the idea that these speculating bondhold
ers will not get more than is justly due
them, to answer this question.
Again ; the soldiers who went upon the
field and fought " for the preservation of
the Union,"' were Pa"Kl low wage?,and paid
in greenbacks at that, for (he labors and
privations they endured for tbeir country.
Are the bondholders, and other creditors
of the United States any better than these
soldiers ?
Still again ; the widows and orphans of
the soldiers of the Union who were slain
upon the battle field, are paid their mis
erable pittances of pensions in green
backs ; and yet the party for whom these
men fought and died, say that this is right
is economy, and at the same time irsist
that the bondholders, who amassed their
great fortunes out of the blood shed " for
the pieservation of the Union." shall be
paid their demands in coin, and to the ut
termost farthing that they expected to
rea'ize by their blood-stained speculations, i
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is such a course equitable
and just to all parties, or to any one ? We
apprehend that no honest or patriotic per
son can say that it is.
But still further ; the men who labor
for the United States at the present time
and earn their money by the sweat of the
brow, are paid in greenbacks, while the
bondholder must be paid in coin. In fact,
the Republican party is the bondholder's
party, and is continually oppressing the
poor for the benefit of the wealthy and
aristocratic.
The Democratic party propose to bring
these favored nabobs down to a common
level with the laboring, tax-paying por
tion of the community, and for this reason
the Republican politicians attack the
Democraric policy and call it repudia
tion. We believe that the honest, sensible
portion of the community will show by
their votes next June, that' ihey like such
repudiation.
Joii ii PJj-ers.
The Oregonian, of the 21st, says :
The Oregon City Entkrprisk labored
hard last week to show that Mr. Myers, its
owner, had been the means of a saving to
the people of Clackamas county, by re
ducing the expenses of the sheriff's otlice.
Xow we are informed by good authority
that had the County Court allowed all the
bills that have been presented by Mr.
?vlyevs, his last year's salary would have
been fully as much or more than that of
Mr. Burns, his predecessor. By the show
ing of the E-NTEurnisK he did receive for
his first year in otlice more than did Mr.
Burns. Tims it can hardly Ije claimed that
the saving to the county "of Sl.tJUO" is
due to Mr. Myers, but to the tin willingness
of the County Court, to allow his bills, for
the payment of which they could find no
warrant in law. Two of the three mem-
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We do recollect that the County Court
(being two-thirds Republican) did refuse
to allow Mr. ?iyers one of his bills. a3 fol
lows : Mr. Myers presented a bill claim
ing mileage for going to the various pre
cincts to collect taxes, and this bill the
County Court rejected. But let it be re
membered to the eternal confusion of the
Republican oSicers who have had control
of this county for the past ten years, that
a Republican County Court allowed to
William P. Burns, the immediate prede
cessor of Mr. Myers, not only mileage for
collecting taxes, but also hired for him a
body-guard and horses and a carriage for
him and his guard to ride in while he was
out collecting taxes. Mr. Myers did not
need nor ask for any guard to protect him
in the quiet discharge of his official duty ;
he did not want the pomp of a carriage,
but furnished his own horse and went on
horseback, and thereby saved the county
quite a little bill. But because he asked
for milage, the County Court, in an econ
omical freak, which it never exercises ex
cept upon Democrats, pronounced the
charge of mileage exorbitant and unlaw
ful, and, therefore, rejectee it.
We cannot believe that the Court had
changed its mind upon the subject of
mileage, or that it considered the charge
of Mr. Myers for mileage wrong, and the
payment of mileage, carriage hire, and
body-guard to Mr. Burns, for like services,
right ; but that it was merely a little par
tisan spite, vented on Sheriff Myers, be
cause he was a Democrat. It was only
one of the many instances of scoundrelly
favoritism to Republicans and oppressions
on Democrats, which have characterized
the official acts of the Republican officers
who have been running this county for
the past ten j ears. Let the people take
cognizance of such outrages and oust from
i power ine parly and men who will not
only oppress the men who differ from
them in politics, but who. wrhile oppress
ing and outraging their political opponents,
will also be industriously engaged in steal
ing from the public. A change for the
better is much needed. We have had one
change in the election of a Democratic
Sheriff, and this one little change has re
sulted in saving the county $1,000 in two
years. Xow let there be a further change
by entirely sweeping the Republican part'
from official position "in this county, and
thereby save to the county some t.OUU
per year.
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A Vtry i'our l)o;ge.
Last week wc published a statement,
showing that in the single office of Sheriff,
Mr. Myers, the Democratic incumbent, had,
by economy, moderate charges and hon
esty, saved the county the sum of one
thousand six hundred dollars during the
past year and ten months. That state
men'; was taken from the records of the
County Court, and cannot be refuted.
The Uirjoiii'Vi knows this, and for the pur
pose of breaking the force of the state
ment, attempts a most silly and prevari
cating dodge. It says :
Mr. Sheriff Myers, of Clackamas county,
with a modesty that is perfectly over
whelming, devotes three columns of his
paper (the Ex'TKitmssi;) to laudations of
the manner in which he lias performed his
official duties, and to an attempt to show
why he should be re-elected. It's no use,
Mr." Myers; you can't win this time, how
ever much yuur modesty may deserve it.
Xow the Orcjorda-i w"ell knows that Mr.
Myers has nothing to do with the editorial
department of this paper. But true to its
policy of misleading its readers by decep
tions and misrepresentations. it makes this
foolish attempt to draw attention from the
fact, by charging the auth;rship of the
article upon Mr. Myers. We pitv a narlv
and the paper that has no better excuse I
for the extravagance of its partisans than j
misrepresentations. i
FutUier llepublirnji Importation..
By late dispatches we learn, that the
ship Bertha has cleared from China for
Portland, Oregon, with another rcargo of
Chinese coolies, China immigration and
cheap labor is the present great hobby of
the Republican party, by means of which
white laborers will be driven from the
country, and their places filled with the
filthy pagans from Asia, who arc totally
unstated lor rei c ions, buli.h. i
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intercourse wan me pi-oiMt. -States.
But they are coming, and coming,
too. through the influence and efforts of
the unprincipled men who now misrule
this unhappy and devoted country. This
cargo is coming to Oregon, and as soon
as the June election is over, the white
men the imported voters of Williams A
Ilolladay now quartered on the Oregon
Central Railroad will be discharged, and
we will have swarms of these pagan im
portations at work on the road immedi
ately thereafter. Yet. notwithstanding
this fact, there are some white men who
are laborers, and who are so blind to their
own interests and so devoid of every pa
triotic impulse, that they will continue to
vote with the party that is forcing this
destructive and infamous measure upon
the people of the united States. But it is
a comfort to know that such loyal slaves
to the party that is destroying them, are
growing scarcer every day ; that they are
awakening to their own interests and the
future prosperity of the country; und
that, as soon as they are awakened from
their lethargy, they leave the party that
is trying to drive them from the country
or bring them into absolute subjection
to the moneyed monopolies and the irivi
leged classes being created.
But the white laborers who still adhere
to the party of '' universal brotherhood,"'
and mongreiisra, say that they do not be
lieve that the Chinese will ever be en
franchised, and that they will never exert
any political influence in this country.
But what of it it they are not enfranchised ?
Are they not driving lrom our community
the independent and respectable white
laborers who refuse to be slaves to their
employers and work for Chinese wages ?
Look at the Oregon Cify Woolen Fac
tory now! A year or so since, the work
of this factory was done by white men
and women, but now they are nearly all
gone, and the factory is now swarmimr
with herds of Chinese laborers. With the
departure of the white laborers, a large
portion of the life and . prosperity which
showed itself in this place, also went, and
in place of it we have repulsive Asiatics
and dull times. Look upon this state of
affairs, and ask yourselves if Chinese im
migration does no harm, even if they are
not enfranchised.
But the persons who believe that the
Chinese will not be enfranchised, are
greatly mistaken. The Republican con
vention which nominated Grant for the
Presidency in lS(i8, adopted the following
as the 2d plank of the platform :
The guarantee by Congress of equal
suffrage to loyal men in the South, was
demunded by every consideration of pub
lic safety, gratitude and justice, and must
be maintained ; ichi'e the snm,rtig in a!l
loyal t!f ales properly belong to the people of
those tT'taien.
The italics in the above are ours. It is
a well known fact that at the time this
platform was adopted, the 15th amend
ment was under way, and this was incor
porated into the Radical platform for the
sole purpose of deceiring the people in
regard to the intentions and objects of this
15th abomination. This 15th amendment
has not yet been legally ratified by the
proper number of States, but Congress
and President Grant have fraudulently
declared it ratified, and the President has
issued a proclamation to that effect. As
soon as this fraudulent proclamation was
issued, the Radical press raised a shout
throughout the. land on account of the in
creased vote the Republican party will
get in the Xorth from the negroes enfran
chised by this amendment. Mongrel suf
frage is forced upon the " loyal "' States
by a corrupt Congress and unprincipled
President, notwithstanding the declaration
in the Xational Republican platform of
ISfiS. that " the question of suffrage in all
loyal States properly belongs to the people
of those States.''
And under this amendment the negroes
have been voted at the school meeting in
Portland, Oregon, and in jollification over
the enfranchisement of the negro, a torch
light procession was had, at which Gov.
Gibbs spoke and said, that if the Irish did
not like to vote wilh the negro, they could
go back to Ireland where they belonged.
So much for Republican deceptions and
falsehoods.
Congress is now at work on the natural
ization laws, and before the present session
of that infamous body is closed, the word
white will be stricken from the naturaliza
tion laws of the United States. But for
the purpose of still further deceiving the
people, the Republican State Convention
of Oregon, held on the 7th inst., adopted
the following article as a part of its plat
form, viz :
C. That we are opposed to any change
in onr naturalization laws which shall al
mit. to citizenship any foreigners not now
entitled thereto under said Jaws. j
Opposed to any change in our natural- j
ization laws! what a falsehood! Before j
the election of 1S72, if the Republican
party retains contiol of the Government,
the partisans of that party will be shout
ing over the enfranchisement of the
Chinese and the increase of the Republi
can vote thereby, as loudly and exultant
ly as they have lately been over the negro
vote in Portland. Are the people willing
to be still further deceived and hum
bugged by the party in power.
Speaking. Hon. Jas. II. Slater Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, and Jos. G.
Wilscn. Republican, speak in this city on
the Glh of May.
Slore Itttilroatl Schemes.
The Oregonian, of last Thursday, says :
It appears that the bill to grant lands
in aid of the Columbia River and Salt Lake
railroad has been reported in the Senate
by the appropriate Committee. This is
the same bill which was introdncen some
time ago by Senator Williams. As the
Cammhtee have reported it, we may pre
sume that it will be acted upon ere long.
People in Oregon who take an interest in
these railroad projects may expect a re
newal of Democratic opposition to land
grants, when this bill comes up for con
sideration. Tho Oregonian is so constantly calling
the attention of the public to the acts
of George II. Williams, that we have
almost arrived at the cnnclusion that this
Mr. Wiliiams does about all the worK of
the Senate, and that the other members, at
his nod, carry out his remarkable plans ;
and that upon the whole, he is a most ex
traordinary man, just at the time he is
seeking a re-election to the United States
Senate. In fact, if the half of what the
Oregonian says about him is true, everj'
man in Oregon might expect to have a
railroad running across his farm, with
switches extending to every field, and the
companies will get land enough from the
Government to build their roads and then
have a nice little margin left. And what
is still more remarkable, that paper would
like to have the people believe that the
distinguished politician is doing all this
solely tor the development and future
good of the country. But what is more
singular, is the fact that these bills are
merely introduced in the Senate paraded
before the public, and then allowed to re
main quiet, unless it becomes necessary to
stir them up again in order that the great
political wire-puller and demagogue may
attract still further attention. The only
real object that the great politician ever
expects to accomplish by his numerous
railroad biils, is to attract attention to
himself and make the people believe that
he is single-handed and alone, working
wonders for the country, ami thereby se
cure his own re-election to the Senate of
the United States.
Snapping Votes.
Some time since., the Oregonian falsely
charged the Democratic party with the
design of colonizing votes in doubtful
counties. At that time we said that the
Oregonian spake thus for the purpose of
apprising its own partisans of the course
to be pursued by them in order to carry
the legislative ticket, and for the further
purpose of covering up the rascality of
the Radicals in their colonization opera
tions. The joint action of Ben. Ilolladay
and the Republicans since that time, has
clearly shown that our prediction was
j right That paper of the Kith inst. comes
ont with this further suggestion to its par
ty friends. It says :
A correspondent at Oregon Cify says
the Democrats of Clackamas county aie
making propositions to " swap : votes on
Uie representative ticket tor the votes on
some of the county officers. We advise
our friends in that county to "swap"
nothing; but votethe straight Republican
ticket clear through.
We feel fully satisfied that no Democrat
has made any such proposition. But, on
the contrary, the Republican State ticket
was nominated for the sole purpose of
swapping the greater portion of it off for
the legislathe ticket, and the Oregonian is
now preparing the way for the swapping
operation, by charging upon the Demo
cratic party the very thing the Republi
cans contemplate practicing in the com
ing election. So look out for them, and
do not trade any person off, but vote the
entire Democratic ticket, and either sue
ceedor fail in battling for correct prin
ciples. Telegraphic dippings.
Ijopcx Killctl.
Washington-. April 13. The Argentine
Ministry, this morning, received a cable
dispatch from the Argentine Consul at
London, saying that the Paraguayan wai
ls at an end and Lopez killed. This is
confirmed by dispatehes from Lisbon
Xluitiored Arrival of Prime Pierre
Euiiiipartc in Stw York.
Chicago, April 15. A Xew York special
says it is reported that Prince Pierre Bona
pari, arriued this aftynoon ou the steamer
Idaho, travelling incognito. He met two
friends on the pier, and went immediately
to the Xew llavea depot and left for Bos
ton. Explosion of si Tow-l)oat,
CiNCixxrr, April 15. A tow-boat on the
river blew up to-night, above Little Miami
Depot. 1 wenty-three persons were aboard,
of whome four are known to have been
saved. The fate of the others is unknown.
Tlie Oliio Legislature.
In the House April 17, the Democrats
offered the protest against protection,
specifying the Fifteenth Amendment.
The Speaker ro'emv ruled the protest out
of order, as containing language disre
spectful to members. An appeal lrom the
decision was taken. During the discus
sion, McClay and Parr, both Democrats.
got into an altercation and one attempted
to strike the other. Speaker Cunningham
made an effective speech, defending his
vole for the Amendment. During the
speech. Barber called the Spe iker a liar,
and shook his fM in his face. The excite
ment was infence. The decision of the
Speaker was sustained by a vote of 40
to 49.
In the Senate the Democrats attempted
to defeat the confirmation of the Governor's
appointments for managers of soldiers
and sailors' orphans homes. The Repub
licans delayed matters till 2:30 a. ni.. when
Senator Ga'teh came up from Xenia, giv
ing the Republicans a majority: At 3 o'
clock the Democratic Senators left the
chamber in a body, in order to break up
a quorum. One vas captured and return
ed, making a quorum. The appointments
were then confirmed.
Ilacli-aii:x: in St. 1,0 u 3s
St. Loris. April 17. The committee of
investigation on account of the defaulting
cny u rii.-un i . n-jiorieo ilu amount of de
ficit at $13.000- Thev found notes, checks
and receipts signed by Kroegn. The stock
gold operations amounted to ?18,000.
Etrnck xvith paralysis.
Xew lorau April 10. Commodore
Meade was struck with paralysis last even
ing in Brooklyn, and was sent to the City
Hospital.
Congressional.
Congress covering up tlie frandg of tSo
liiliiciftl4.
Chicago. April 15. The Tribune's Wash
ington special says that the gFreedman's
Bureau investigation begun to-day. The
committee announced to the counsel thaM
no copies of evidence will be allowed, and
no notification of rules be made. The evi
dence will be more restricted than at any
former Congressional inquiry. Even redi
rect examination will not be allowed, and
an unusual obligation of secrecy is im
posed, so that nothing can be learned ex
cept faom witnesses."
Another Constitutional Amendment.
Washington April 18. Drake intro
duced a joint resolution for a Cons. Ra
tional Amendment to give the President
power to protect any State against domes
tic violence, upon proof; after the discus
sion of which, Edmunds suggested that
the Constitution now gave power to
the United States to suppress domestic
violence. The resolution was referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
Georgia, still kept ont of the Union
ly " Tlie Union paitj-."
The Georgia biil was taken up snd dis
cussed by Pomeroy, in favor of his amend
ment, and Hamilton, of Texas, enforcing
his views, and by Morton in favor of
Drake's amendment for military interven
tion to suppress Kuklux. It was agreed
that the final vote be taken at six o'clock
on Tuesday.
Still more Negro.
A resolution, offered by Sumner, was
passed, making inquiry what legislation
is necessary to secure equal rights on the
prange and Alexandria Railroad. This is
the affair of the colored member of the
Georgia Legislature being refused admis
sion to the gentleman's car and compelled
to ride on the platform.
Dishonest Dcuiocracy i
It is enough to provoke the contempt
of civ ilized man to hear those who have
absolutely stolen the Government poor
denouncing the " dishonesty " of the Dem
ocracy for its proposed plan of settling
the Government bonded indebtedness.
Whittemore is loud in his denonciations
of the bad faith" of the Democracy!
Spoon thief Butler rails at the Democracy
on the score of bad faith." The perjur
ed Conover looks out through the grated
windows of Sing Sing prison ond decrys
dishonest Democracy ! Ex-Sheriff Brow i
son. of Benton county, tne defaulter
screeches ' dishonest Democracy !"' Sam.
May. the Embezzler of S 1.750 of Escheat
Fund grins Dishonest Democracy !" A
coarse, gutterai sound wells up from the
pious throat of Ben. Simpson, the Yaqnina
libertine and manipulator of Government
funds for his pocket, Dishonest Democra
cy !' Si m Clarke, the school fund thief,
carrying the stripes of a richly deserved
cowhiding on his back, yells " Dishonest
Democracy!" A dismal 'croak issues
from Governor Woods, the wreck of man
hood and integrity, Republican Dem
ocracy ! "
James O'Meara, whose want of honesty
in private transactions is so notorious that
he is known from San Francisco to 'Pen
d'O'Tieille' Lake by the euphoneous title
of Jerremy Diddler,"' has become sub
sidized in the interests of Radical piracy,
and makes the columns of the little Com
raercial vocal with lamentations over the
degeneracy of a people who would not
only pay all thay owe according to con
tract, but much more.
In short, all the Government convicts,
thievs, and swindlers, of higli and low
degree, unite in denouncing the " dis
honest!"' aims of the Democracy! Why
U it that honest men do not take up the
refrain ? This is a point for the people
to consider and ihey are considering it.
IVilknnelle Valky Mercury..
is. mnk9 J . si ft mmw i wrr-i
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
Hon. Jas. H. Slater, Democratic nomi
nee for Congress, will address the people at
the following times and places.
April 14, Amelia C'itv, Baker county.
" 2. Walla Walla precinct, Uni.itiila Co.
2 ;, Wild Bcrse Creek, Umutiha county.
" 27, Umatilla City, Umatilla county.
" 2t, Dalles, Wasco county.
General L.c1iti!y is Ait(urf' Appeal
for Help.
Thousands of persons, without any spci
fic ailment, are the victimt. of languor and
und lassitude. The unthinking are apt to
confound t.lii.s species of inertion, with lazi
ness ; where;is it ii-uallv arises from a want
of organic energy, for which the subjects of
it are no more responsible than the near
sighted are for their defective vision. Such
persons, although they may be free from
pain, are as truly invalids, and as much in
need f medical aid, :is if they were tormen
ted with the pangs of acute disease. They
require a toxic iind ai.tkkxativk, that will
rouse and regulate their torpid organizations.
In case of this kind, HOSTETTKR'S
STOM ACH KIT I KRT produce an immediate
and most favorable effect. The debilitated
and desponding valetudinarian, who feels as
if he were but iialf alive; who shuns com
pany, and has no relish either for business
or pleasure, it m-la mo -phoned ', by a brUf
course of thin iaot potent vegetable invigor
ant into quite a different being. The change
effected l.y the BITTERS, in his bodily and
mental condition, is a surprise to himself
and to his friends. He mopes no longer;
the active principle of life, which seemed to
have died out of him, is re-awakened, and he
1'eeN like a new man Remeaiboring that
debility is not only an atll ction itself, but
an invitation to di.-euxe, no time should be
lost in recruiting the broken down system
with this choicest and most potent of all
TOXICS MXI NERVINES-
-UlLLIAM. IJAViUS.O.,
OiTicc, JVo. Gl Front Street,
Adjoining- the Telefjraph OL"ice, Portland Oregon.
SPECIAL COLLECTOR of CLAIMS,
Accounts. Notes. Bonds. Drafts and Mproar..
tile Claims of every description, throughout
wregon iiuu uie leiritones, HILL BE MADE
A SPECIALTY, and promptly collected, as
well as with a due regard to economv in all
business matters entrusted to his care and
the proceeds paid over punctually. -iutf
REAL ESTATE DEALER.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Saddlerv.J. H. Schram, of this
City, is now manufacturing the best Saddlery
ami Harness in the State. lie will hare at
least 50 sets of all grades, from fine to com
mon, finished and ready for sale next month,
and more than that number of Saddles. He
is bound to make a trade with anv man who
wishes to buy of him. He uses both Oregon
and California leather in bis establishment,
and his work bears a most excellent reputation
abroad. We hope that citizens of our own
county will think of this, when they want any
articles iu his line.
Ortgon Lodge Xo. 3, I. O. or O. F.
yS- Meets every Thursday even
J$3z?$i&i ing at 7 o'clock, in Odd Fellow's
'm' Hall. Main s eet.
Member.'' of the Order are invited to attend
By order. K. O.
Oregon City Prices Current.
The following are the prices paid for
produce, and the prices at which other ar
ticles are gelling, in this irftirket :
WHEAT White. bushel, 70 cts.
OATS B bushel. 37 1 cts.
POTATOES bushel, cts.
OXIOXS tl bushel. SI OOf.Sl 50.
FLOUR "r' bbl. SI 00$i 50.
BEAXS White, lb., ti cts.
DRIED FRUIT Apples. It,.. 40h4l
Peaches. lb., lfifc: Plums. TfO ?bZ 7!
15 cfs.; Currants. "R lb.. 10(.20 cts.
BUTTER -'t? R).. lC(?20efs.
EGGS dozen. loR,2Q cts.
CHICKENS V dozen. S3 00(U 00.
. i. .1 1 ft, on ... i
TEA Young Hyson, lb., SI 50; Ja
pan. f It)., UUc(5l -a; -black, 75e
S1 00. u
CUt'l EE lb-.. TlittyZ CtS.
SALT " fb., 143 cts.
SYRUP Heavy Golden. crall.. 90c;
Ex. Heavy Golden. p, gall., SI 00
1JACUA Hams, ri E.. It) cts; Sides,
15 cts. "n? lb.: Shoulders. 124 cts.
LARD r. Ib.. 12e;:15ets.
OIL Devoe's Kerosene." gall.,
75 : Linseed oil. raw. t; crall..
70c
SI Co ;
Linseed oil. boiled, gall., 1 70.
WOOL "P.
lb., zu cts
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BEEF On foot, 7 0S cfs. ft lb.
POKE On foot. 6 cts. r. lb.
SHEEP Per head. $2 0U$2 50
HIDES Green,
ft lb.. 5c. ; Dry, Jb.,
10 cts.
Kf betea Dt giee ptJge .to. Ji, 1. O. OiF.
5 Meet on the Second and Fourth
TUESDAY Erj&LXGS.
of each month, at 7 o'clock, in OJd Fellows'
Hall. Members of the Degree arc invited to
attend. By order oq I. G
p
(.4 '.-A li t-j fej
y -f s r r - r
TO THE WORKING CLASS. We are
now prepared to furnish all classes with con
stant employment at home, the whole of the
time or tor the spare moments. Business
new, 1 i jrfit and profitable. Persons of either
sex easily earn fiom ;"uc. to per evening
iind a proportional sum by d.-voting their
whole time G the business business. 15crs
and girls earn nearly as much as men. That
all who sne this notice may send their ad-die-s,
and test Hie biisines, we make this
unpsirallcled otter: To such as are mi well
sati-tied, we will send 1 to pay for the
trouble of writing. Full particulars, a valu
able sample, which will do to commence
work on. and a copy of The Peopl-e' Jittra
ry Companion one of lie l;irest and best
familj' newspapers published all sent free
by mail. Reader, if you wank permanent,
profitable work, address E. C. ALLEN .v CO.
Augusta, Maine. U.3m I
WM. SINGER,
jr. WEKTIIEI MER.
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SINGER 0b WEIlTHEfMER,
rfri3jir?- Have Fvfalili.-'ted
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FOR THE MANUFACTORY OF
sash; blinds aho eeesssf
AND MOULDINGS OF ALL STES.
Kir They will also do TURNING, ol every
description to order,
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With Ueatness and Dispatch !
Furniture i-tore at Weitheimer's old ttand.
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ALL WORK WARRANTED.
Shop on the River, back oLAc-kermnn's
23. 1 vj Store, OregoH City, 0giu.
L!N80LNJ3AXEFiY.
BA!LEY,HARD5WCS&CO.,
Sucets oisef L. Diller in the Lincoln
Rakery, Q
IFG LEAVE TO INFORM THE CITI
) zens of Oregon City and surrounding
coiiutry, that they keep "constantly on baud
and for sale, all kifils of rs
BREAD, CR AUREUS,
CAKES, RASTkY,
CANDIES AND NUTS.
Also, a good and general assortment of
FAMILY GROCERIES-
Orders promptly filled, and goods deliver
ed tit the residence of the purchaser when
desired.
Tlie highest pi iccji. paid fbr Butter, Eggs
and Veg'etabl 's.
A liberal share of public patronage is re-
spcctinlly solicited.
April 23, 1870:Iy
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(.UARDIAX SALE.
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Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a
license of the lion. County Court of the
State of Oregon, tor the countv of Umatilln,
bearing date on the 4th dav of April? A. I).,
170, I will oiler for sale, and sell to the
highest cah bidder, on the lc.tSi day of May,
ls'o, at 1 o clock in the aUemoon of thatday,
at the Court Ilnn-e door.Oin Oregon City, in
me county ot Cl.sckamas, State of Oregon,
nil the right title and interest of Henry
Hampton Uees and George William Bees,
minors, being au undivided onPfourth inter
est, respectively, of all the following des
cribed real estate, lying and being in the
county of Clackumas'iti the State of Oregono
to-wit: Tlio west Ii.ilf nf tu
quarter, and the west half of the southwest
quarter of section No. twenty-two (l
towrs ,ip jso. five (.), south range No
(,) east. : also, tpn
two
enst
v. ti.iiuii 1, U. ltlll-OilC(-l i ill Sill'l
... 1 .1 t , :t j
fill'.) t . 1 1 f " .'II. t i . , r i I'll . :
aid
iu, om j., aim mom particularly acstrmcu
as follows : Commencing at the i.oifftwest
comer of section No. twenty-two (t2'2), town-,
ship No. five (5). sonth range No. two 2
east, and running thence west ten rods,
thence so-ith one hundred and sixty (lii")
rods, thence east ten dOI rods, thewe north
one hundred and sixty (ltlO) reds,
to the
piace ot beginning.
Dated, Apiii Oth, 170.
GEORGE REES,
Geo. A. La Row, Guardian.
Att'y for Guardian. L'iw-t
JOTICE. 0
The undersigned having sold out the Lin?
coin Bakerv, respectfull v requests air who
f re indebted to lum to call at the Willamette
Fish Market and settle tbeir accounts before
the (ith of May, 1S7, or they will be placed
i in the bauds of J. A. Smith tor c llection.
All persons having bills against me, will
please present the sarce for pavftet t.
11 L. DILLER.
Oregon City, April IS, 3 S70.
D3I IXISTI LVTOKS' NOTICE
Notice is hereby given, thnt I have been
appointed by the County Court of Clackamas
countv, Oregon, administrator of the estate
of J. N. Harrington, deceased. All persons
having claims against said estate, will pre
sent them, witn the proper vouchers, io
at the otlice of Johnson McGown, lawyers,
in Oregon City, Oregon, within six months
rom this date.
ALBERT IlAl.KirsUiU.
April 0, 1870:11
SUGAR Crushed. lb., 20 cts.;Il(nj
r$ lb.. 1012i cts. ; ST ()., lb.. 15 cts.;
San Francisco refined. lb. 1G-S cts.
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