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UTS- Work solicited. All liusiness transactions upon a Specie baste. fifteen Days. THE PUKUMIXAIIY EVENTS TO THE DECLARATION OF AVAR. Below we append from the Chicago Ilcpublh-an of the 10th, mi admirable condensed compila tion of the events of the" lilieen da y9 immediately proceeding and culminating in the Declaration of "War by France against Prussia. Newspaper readers who will peruse it carefully and preserve it for reference can read the subse quent course of events intelligently, .11 id save themselves the trouble of voiding through many columns of telegraphic rumors and vague speculations, taking up the foreign news from tbelSth inst., with oine chances of intelligible perus al. The extract contains much in hi tie, boileri down, and carefully silted: The war in Europe which is now impending with but too much cer tainty, has a very brief preliminary history, the principal incidents of which" occupy only about two weeks. On July 1, uneasiness is manifested iiijthe French Corps Legishniif in regard to the army coniigeiit. 3L Thiers thought the slate of Europe menacing, and that France should be prepared. On July 5, in the Corps Legislating several members submitted inter pellations concerning the proposed candidature of Ilohenzoliern for the Spanish throne. On the same date, it is announced from Madrid that the IVmce has accepted the Spanish throne. On fhe Gth, the Duke Grammont said it was true that Gen. Prim had ollered the throne to Ilohenzoliern, and that under no pretext would France nei-mit anv German power to nlace, one of its Princes on the throne of Charles V. On the same date, M. Olliver said in the Corns Legislatiif that France would not engage in war without consulting the Chambers. On that. date also, the Paris jiress, the Pays da particular, came out in tavor o war. At Paris, on the 7th, rumors are prevalent that Prim had aban doned the Prince Ilohenzoliern. On the same date a note is received in Paris, the substance cf which is that th Prince is not a member of the royal family of Prussia; oth, no answer has been received from Prussia, except an unofficial telegram that the King knew noth ing of the candidature of the throne of (Spain. Same date, mili tary preparations began in Paris, ami Corps d'armee is forward to the front, .and active preparations 0are going on at the principal points. On the IHh preparations still were active.0 On the same date, Duke Grammont announces th;;.t France has decided not to depart from tne line of conduct traced at first. Count Benedetti, the 'Frond: Min ister at Berlin, had an interview with King William of Prussia, who expressed the most profound -surprise- at the attitude of France. , On the 10th, the Paris ZInileur announces that it will no longer give publicity to the movement of troops. The" army of Paris receiv ed orders to march to the Moselle. - Marshal MoMahon is ordered to march at a moment's notice ; 30, Ouo troops ordered to lhimburg and the North Sea. On the 11th, Prince Charlss, father of Leopold,! telegraphs Prim that he should refuse the crown of Spain for his sott,; 10 th i, interpellations are made Dorps . Legislating which in the Corns Grammont refuses to answer: 13th Benedetti Qwaited upon the King of Prussia and demanded that the withdrawal of Ilohenzoliern should be tnade perpetual, and that the royal veto be applied to any turtner approach to the Prince on the subject of the Spauish crown. Tim TCJnor AarA nr.l ... . .1 ""u-u to receive tne ambassador. On the 14th Napol eon came from St. Cloud and held a Ministerial Council at the Tuil Jenes. Un the 15th declared. war was The Political Future. Correspondence of the X. Y. Express. Washington, July 14. Republicans from the South at present in Washington, take the gloomy view of the situation at home. A Louisana Republican, for instance, informs his friends in the Senate that Louisiana will give 5,000 Democratic majority next November, and 25,000 at the next Presidential election. A Mississippi Republican pre dicts a Democratic victory in that State in November, lie told t 1 .1 .1 "1 . ivicorn, tne other day, it was inevitable, and J Icorn laughed. Now if Alcorn had been at heart a Radical he would have cried. But he never shed a tear, on the contrary as above stated, he laughed. Depend upon it, that man Alcorn, the old friend of Clay, Webster and Fillmore, is "ripe for treason, strategem and spoils." Alabama, 1 am assured by good Republican authority, will give 5,000 Democratic majority in November. Enough said about :Vlabama. Georgia not being as vet recon structed, I leave out of the account for the present. South Carolina mav be set down as doubtful, but the Hon. Fred erick Augustus Sawyer, one of her Senators a native, by the way, of Boston, Mass., and a graduate of Harvard University pursues so conservative a course as to lead many persons to suspect that he apprehends a bouleversment there in November. In Tennessee the Radicals give it up; Maynard may possibly he re-elected in the Knoxville district, i If so, he will be the only Radical member from lennessee m the next Congress. Etherulge is on the war path in his district, and will be elected. North Carolina, as the Southern phrase has it, is looking "very peart. the Holden party there is dwindling every day, and will go under forever in November. llequie.sc.it in pace. lrginia is already redeemed. Gov. Walker is a trump, and you will find nulla, vestiyai velrorsum there. The Old Dominion is good for 25,000 Conservative majority. Maryland and Kentucky, in spite ot negro sutl-age, will maintain their present independence of Rad icalism. Deleware will be a close State but who ever knew the Blue Hen's Chickens to fail in an emergency. They always come up to the scratch when required. Pennsylvania Republicans are not in favor of negro suffrage. The fifteenth amendment there is a two-edged sword and cijts right and left. In the southern tier of counties the white people do not yet believe that the negroes are their equals. IS or m Lehigh, nor Lycoming,nor in Dempshire either, Simon Camoion to the contrary notwithstanding. How it mav be in Lancaster, deponent saith not. A county that worshipped such a strange ana uncouth god as Thad. Stevens m;ght reasonably be regarded as thoroughly unclean and irredeemable. If she be joined to her idols, we will ht her alone. Of New York and New Jeisey no one doubts. Grant's brilliant strategy in the Murphy business ensures both these Slates to the conservatives anyhow aiid beyond a perad venture. A gain of seven . or eight members of Congress in the districts where Fen ton is poten tial may be expected in November. in rsew 1 ork. re-nton was origin ally a Democrat, and being now a candidate for the presidency, must soon begin to marshal his forces at home, to keep Conkling in check in Oneida, and to hold Tom Mur phy and his myrmidoms at bay in that city and in Long Island. Indiana shows symtoms of throw ing oft the Radical collar. Ohio is so manipulated by Denano and his tribe of tax-gatherers that it is hardly possibfe to tell what is to become of her but if Pennsylvania caves in, 'Ohio will follow with a rush. From the above statement, com- pnea irom rename data, it would appeor that the Radicals were about to be defeated in November in many States now held by their party. ORJEGOX CITY, John Chinaman and Wages. Woman's We have been requested to pub lish the the following article, from the Boston Journal, a woman's rights organ. While we acknow 1 edge that the China population are a great curse to all laboring class es, we deny that giving the right of suffrage to women will help the matter any. Let the women edu cate and instruct their offsprings in such a M ay as" to inculcate ideas and principles into their minds that are correct, and the true and valuable women of our country will have a representative in their behalf in their sons and husbands. We give place to the article, but at the same time enter our solemn protest against woman's suffrage. We believe man was made to do the voting and protecting women, the same as he is to chop wood, build houses, make roads, or any of the harder and more burden some labors. Woman is too fair and intended by her Creator for a nobler and better object than to dabble in the dirty mire of poli tics. This article, however, shows that even the Women of the Fast are deprived of an opportunity to make their Hying, while thousands on this coast are in a similar condi tion : The injustice of woman's dis franchisement is forcibly illustrated in the Chinese question as it now presents itself. "An ounce of ex ample is worth a pound of pre cept." Take the following in stance. Among the avenues recently opened to woman's labor, one of considerable importance is found in steam laundries. A number ot these establishments are already in successful operation in and near 2ew lork. Mr. C. Browning, the enterprising proprietor of "Doty's Washing-machine and the "Uni versal Clothes-wringer," who has done so much, by ike successful introduction of these invaluable house-hold machines, to relieve the women of America from domestic. drudgery, has recently erected one of these laundries in Orange, New Jeisey. In this large estab lishment he employs some two hundred women. These women work altogether by the piece. With the aid of powerful steam machinery, shirts are starched ana ironed at eight cents apiece. At these prices, the women earn from a dollar and a halt to three dollars per day, according to their strength and skill. A few days ago, we called, in company with Mr. Browning, upon one of his heaviest customers, Mr. C, an extensive manufacturer of shirts. In the course of conversa tion, the difficulty of getting faith ful and industrious working-women being considered, Mr. C. urged Mr. Browning to import Chinamen to take the place of women in his laundry. Chinamen can be hired at seventy-five cents per day in gold, by the year. They are steady, strong, docile, patient, in dustrious and persevering. With a little practice, they will do more work for seventy-five cents than ths women now do for three times that sum. Mr. Browning admitted the facts, acknowledged the greater conven ience and larger profit, but to his honor be it spoken expressed his unwillingness to supplant the labor of women by importing men to till their places. Yet how few keen, shrewd busi ness men would share this chival rous feeling. How long will it be ere working-women will find their scanty wages still further reduced by the competition of these labori ous Asiatic human machines? And yet, while working- have the matter under their own control, and can influence legisla tion in their own favor by then votes as they may deem wise ami expedient, tens of thousands of working-women are prohibited by law from expressing an authorita tive opinion in regard to the mat ter of vital interest to themselves. The very bread may be taken from their mouths by the importation and substitution of servile laborers. And these servile laborers are le gally constituted their political su periors, and are authorized to make laws, public opinion anil social usages, to which these difranchis ed American women must helpless ly conform. Without expressing aDy opinion OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST SO, 1870. as to the wisdom of admitting or excluding these Chinese competi tors, fwe" demand the ballot for these working-women as their nat ural rigid. It is for them to say whether this immigration shall be permitted or prohibited. No other class of citizens have an exclusive right to settle a question in which these women have so vital an in terest. WThat would any class of working-men say if they were thus ex cluded ? What would the Crispins say if they were disfranchised when the rights of the laborer are in question, because, they are Cris 2ins? Or the lawyers, if they were disfranchised when laws are to be enacted, because they are lawyers? Or the liquor sellers, if they were prohibited from voting on the question of licenses, because they are liquor-sellers? What a cry of injustice would be raised, and what sympathy would be awakened ! Shame on our code of political ethics! It is respectable to be a Crispin, or a lawyer, or a liquor seller. It is a crime to be a ico man. II. B. B. The Fall Election. The fall elections this year are to decide not only the character of the next House of Representatives, but also, to a cer'am extent, that of the Senate. Twenty Senators will be elected by the next State Legislatures. 1 he Senators whose t-.M-ms expire on the 4th of March next are Morrill, of Maine; Cragi.i, of New Hampshire; W ilson, o.' Massachusetts; Anthony, of Rhode Isla.nl; Cattell, of New Jersey; Willey, of West Virginia; John son, of Virginia; Abbott, of North Carolina; Robertson, of South Carolina; Fowler, of Tennessee; Grimes, of Iowa; Howard, ot Michigan; Thaye", of Nebraska; Boss, of Kansas; Yates, of Illinois; McDonald, of Arkansas; Revels, of Mississippi : WTi'iains, of Ore gon; Harris, Louisiana; Warner, of Alabama; San'sba.y, of Dela ware; McCreery, of Kentucky; and Norton, of Minne.- oia. The outgoing Senator are all Republi cans, except S.ti'lebiiry, McCreery and Norton. The seat of Mr. Fow ler has already been fi lied by a Democrat, and that of Mr. Grimes by a Republican. The Democrats will pvob;;oly lose one Senator in Minnesota, and gain in New Jersey, Oregon, ai'd perhaps one or two Southern State. Li many ml of the States the contest will be spirited, for personal as well as political reasons. Successful Men. All men who have succeeded in life have been of high resolves and endurance. The famed William Pitt was in early life fond of gam ming. The passion increased with years, and he knew he must at once master the passion or the pas sion would master him. He was one night persuaded to keep the faro bank. He made a firm re solve that he would never again play a game of hazard. For him to make a resolution was to keep it. His subsequent eminence was the fruit of that power. William Wilberforce in his earlier days, bke most young men of his rank and age, loved the excitement of the places of hazard. He was one night persuaded to keep the faro bank. He saw the ruin of the vice of gaming as 'he never saw it before; he was appalled at. what he beheld. Sitting and gaming, ruin and despair, he took the resolution that he would never again enter a gaming house. He changed his company with his change of con duct, and subsequently became one ! of the most distinguished English- I men of his age. Dr. Samuel Johnson was once requested to drink a little wine with a friend. The doctor propos ed tea. "But drink a little wine," said the host. I know abstinence, I know excess; but I know no me dium. Long since I resolved, as I could not drink a little wine, I could not drink at all. A man who could thus support his reso lution, was a man of endurance, and that element is well displayed in this incident, as in the combina tion of his great work. When Richard Brinslay Sheri dan made his first speech in Par liament, it was regarded on all hands as a mortifying failure. His friends urged him to abandon a field not suited to his ability. "No!"- exclaimed Sheridan, " no ; it is in me and it shall come out !" And it did, and he became one of the most splendid debaters in England. Perhaps no other nation in Eu- rope, at the time, could have won the battle of Waterloo, except the British, because no other could have brought to that conflict that amount of endurance necessary to win. For many hours that army stood manfully before the murder ous fire of the French; column af ter column fell while not a gun was discharged on their part. One sullen word ran along the line, as CD ' thousands fell. File up! file up! Not yet! not yet! was the Iron Duke's reply to the earnest re quests made to charge and fight the foe. At length the time of ac tion came. The charge was given, and victory crowned the standard of England. Men of Genius without endur ance, cannot succeed. Men who start in one kind of business may find it impossible to continue there in all their days. Ill health may demand a change. New and wid er fields of enterprise and success may be open to them, new ele ments of character may be devel oped. Men have rare talents, but if they are everything by turns and nothing long, they must not expect to prosper. No form of business is without its vexations; each man knows the spot on which his own harness chafes, but he can not know how much his neighbors suffer. A Horrible Crime and Swift Ven geance. Ycsterday morning a negro named John Sears committed a most bj-utal outrage upon the per son of Miss George, near this place, ami now (10:'50 a. m.) his body is suspended by a rope to one of the trees in the Court House yard. This is an awful crime, and a speedy and a just retribution. Miss George was picking berries in a bush, when Sears crept stealthily up behind, and, seizing her by the throat, strangled her until she could not stand or sec. Then drawing a knife, he admon ished her to keep still or he would cut her throat. He told her lie had been watching for this oppor tunity; had seen her a few days before, but could not get hold of her, because of the close proximity of others. He very modestly informed her "when begot through with her she could go where she j pleased, and he would go to Kansas." He tied a handkerchief over her eyes, threw her down, violated her person, and then lied. The lady sought her friends, told her sad and disgusting tale, and in one hour perhaps 100 men were in pursuit of Sears. He was arrested four miles northwest of town, and brought in last evening at six o'clock, taken before a Justice, and remanded by him to jail. Miss George identified Sears,select ing him from among a number of negroes, saying, "This is the man." It was with the greatest difficulty the crowd were restrained from hanging him on the spot. Sheriff Dodson deserves much credit for his efficient measures in the matter. He got Sears back into the jail, placing a guard around it to pro tect him. This morning he was brought into Court for an exami nation. The prosecuting witness was asked but lew questions. Her feelings were spared in a measure. She was not compelled to recount the disgusting details. The court was interrupted by the friends of Miss George and citizens. An old, gray-headed man (probably her father), asked -Miss George: "Are you positive this is the man?" She answered, "I am positive." Sears was then dragged from the Court House and hung to an adjacent tree. There is much confusion ami excitement, and I doubt whether Sheriff Dodson, with six months' notice, could have gather ed a sutrkient force in Henry county to have prevented the lynching of this fiend in human shape. I am opposed to mob law, generally, but in this case our criminal law is not adequate to the case. 6 p. m. Order is restored, and our town is quiet as usual. Clin ton Cor. St. Jsouis JJtmocrat. Queex Victoria is said to be a very decided apponent of woman suffrage. So strongly does she feel upon this subject that she recently testified most emphati cally her commendation of a pamphlet written by a literary lady of London, denouncing the woman . suffrage movement, and the women engaged in it. Victoria ordered a highly complimentary letter, to be sent to the authoress together with a considerable sum of money, to be used for the more general circulation of the pamphlet. The Mitraillenr. French dispatches assert that the town of Saarbrucken was captured mainly through the aid of the new slaughter machine called the mi trailleur. This terrific engine of war is a sort of artillery revolver. It consists ot some thirty or forty barrels, fastened together, and loaded by machinery in the rear. The barrels may be fired singly, or in such quick succession that the discharge is almost simultaneous. It is easy to comprehend that such an arm, if properly aimed and managed, would produce a destruc tion of life unparalleled in the an nals of war; and a battery con sisting of several such machines would render the storming of the position so defended practically impossible. There is a deep in terest attaching to the battle of Saarbrucken, as viewed bv this new light, and it is not too much to predict that the introduction of the mitrailleui may virtually de cide the campaign. The world has been discussing the physical qualities, and the mental attributes, of Celt and Teuton, and deducing conclusions from physiological facts, as regards the probable issue of the war; but there is reason to believe that the bravery and en durance of the troops may have nothing to do with the result. We have, in this Saarbrucken affair, a feature entirely new. The Prus sians advance bravely to storm the French position a battery of mi traiileurs opens upon them, dis charging probably four or five hundred balls a minute, and cen tralizing its fire with an incredible precision. The discharge sweeps through the Prussian lines, mowing down the men like grass, and in five minutes half the advancing force is dead or disabled. Again the troops pour forth from their in trenchments, and again the mur derous battery ploughs the ranks. No troops can withstand such en gines, and -the result is that the Prussians are defeated. Now, if these initrailleurs are capable of producing such eifects as described, the question arises whether it will be possible for the Prussians to stand the brunt of a great battle, against such odds. A few baittries of this new arm, judiciously dis posed, would render a close attack absolutely impossible, and an ad vance could onl' be made by sac rificing battalion after battalion, with a recklessness ami waste of human life never paralleled. Some time ago a dispatch was received here to the effect that King Wil liam has offered a reward of five hundred dollars for the capture of every mitraillenr. This shows the importance attached by the Prus sian government to the irew weap en, and their thorough appreciation of its deadly capacity. Unless they either neutralize its effects, or bring into play an engine, as de structive, the war may be decided much more speedily than has been anticipated heretofore. liecord. The Hystery of a B rder Horror Revealed. For some time notices have been circulated through the different frontier posts to the effect that a Mrs. Dorathy Field had been ab ducted by the Indians from Mer nard County on the San Saba Riv er, four miles below McKavett, State of Texa, and offering a re ward of 8750 in gold for her safe return to any point in the United States. In addition to this, the commanding officers of the differ ent posts were communicated with, and every effort made to gain some information of the missing lady. The following statement has been made before the writer by the Cheyenne Chief "Little Robe," and as circumstances go 'to prove the truth of other matters which he tells, there is no reason to doubt that part of his story re lating to Mrs. Field. Little Robe with other Arrapahoe and Chey enne Chiefs, was invited by the Kioway and Camanche Indians to attend a "medicine dance," and council, held by the latter nt n point forty miles south of the An telope mils, in this Territory, and he affirms that the Kioways held out every inducement to their Cheyenne brothers to accnm,,, them on the war-path against the whites. These overtures Little Robe says that he and some other old men of his tribe steadfastly declined, say ing that they had war long enough with the whites, whom they found too numerous to cope with, and that as long as they were treated justly they desired to remain at peace: that he advised his young; men not to involve themselves in NO. .13.. another war, which would inevita bly end as did0the campaign of 1SG8-G9. TheKioway, finding they couldo not effect a general alliance, boast ed they would commit such depre dations as would involve the Chey ennes in spite of themselves; then desired Little Robe to tell the whites that it was they who car ried off 3Irs. Field, and they wished we should know it. , He says they describe her tin having beautiful long hair: that ?he was on horseback, and, when surrounded by the Ivioways, kept discharging a rev olver, with which for a considerable time she kept her assailants off until at length she fell, having her leg broken by a bullet. Iii this condition they captured her, carried her to a con siderable distance to where there was some timber, tied her to qi tree, scalped her alive, and left her to die of starvation and her wounds. Their inhuman instincts q told them that this would be great er torture than they coitld invent. Indian Territory, June ?tJiy Correspondent of the St. Louis Times. Gen. Jackson's Endorsement. Some twenty-five years ago, a merchant in Tennessee became involved and wanted money; lie had property, and oftd debts. His property, however, coujd. not be made available just then and. off he posted to Boston, backed by the names of several of the most solid men of Tennessee. Money!) was then everywhere "tight," and. Boston capitalists Rooked closely at tne names "Very good," said they, "but but do you know General Jack- you son "Certainly. 15 "Could you ment?': get his en dorse- "Yes ; but he is not worth one- o tenth as much as either of these men whose names I offer you." "No matter; General Jackson has always protected himself and: his paper, and we'll let you have the money on .the strength of his name." In a few days the papers with his signature arrived. The mo ment those Boston bankers saw the tall A and long J of Andrew Jackson's signature, th Tennes seean debtor found he could have raised a hundred thousand dollars upon it without the slightest dif ficulty. CD Could Not See It. The worthy gentleman who rules the rising generation of boys in a cer tain town in Tenneftee, had occas ion recently to correct a little fel low named Johnny. Now, Johnny got in.o a lit of.what is called "sulks," because he was whipped ; and in order to convince him that he was justly and necessarily pun ished, his teacher had recourse to' the following argument ; "Well, Johnny, suppose you were riding a big horse to water, and had a keen switch in vour hand, and all at once the horse were to stop and refuse to go any iarthei, what would you do ;g' Johnny stifled his sobs for a mo ment, and looking up through his tears, replied : . "I'd cluck to him, sir." "But, Johnny, suppose he woeldu't go for your ciuc?ring, what would you do then?" O "I'd get down and lead him, sir." "And what if he wereobstif?ate and would not let von lead hiiii?" uVhv, I'd take? off his bridle o and turn him loose, and walk home, sir." "You may go and take your seat, Johnny." Johnny could not be made to see the necessity for usi9ig the b witch. Many years ago in England, there was a band of freebooters, all young men. One of them abandoned it, reformed, studied law, and rose to the rank of judge. While sitting to try oneoof the band, whom "he recognized but noj, in the least thinking the prisoner would know him, and feeling some curiousitv to learn something con cerning them, asked his old chum what had become of thern: Iho prisoner, heaving a sigh, replied. "They were all hanged but your lordship and me." O . Arroi.NTEO. Pi esident Grant has appointed Gen. Geo. B. Mc Clellau to the position of Engin-eer-inChief of the Department of Docks. The appointment is a food one, but won't some Radical friend be kind enough to tell us how Grant was induced or pernrit ted to make it? O o o o o 1 o G o 0 0 0 A1 t Q O o O o 0 0 o O oil i i t O o I O o G O AS . -"-m-' -t-. 1 r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, ,-r