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PORTLAND, OREGON.
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Clocks, atl of which ae warranted
to be a represented.
Kepainngs done on short notice,
nd thankful for past favors.
CLAttX GHEENMAH, .
City Drayman,
OREGON" CITY.
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Main St'-ttt, Oregon City,
y Wishes to represent that he is now as
well prepared to fnrnish any article in his line
as the largest establishment in the State. He
particularly requests that an examination o(
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Corner Front and Morrison Streets,
POUTLAJfD, OREGON.
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IIJ2XRY HUMBEL,
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Telegraphic Clippings.
VASiirxcToy,' Noa 2C The Secretary
of the Treasury to-day authorized a bul
lion fund of $50,000 in gold and S15.000
in i silver for the branch mint at Carson
City, Nevada, mid a new Superintendent
w as commissioned.
Moxtc.o.mkry, Alabama: Nov. 20. This
morning the vote for Governor and Treas
urer was counted, and it has resulted in
1.427 majority for Lindsay (Dem.) and
about 2,000 for Grant (Dem.). Lindsay
look the oath f office as Governor, and the
State for a time will probably have two
Governors. The Senate will recognize
Smith, and the House Lindsay. The mat
ter will be in the Courts soon.
Washington. Nov. 27. The Postmaster
General will recommend a semi monthly
mail for China and Japan, instead of the
present monthly service.
KkW Yokk, Nov. 27. The Ncrth Ger
man Consul here says that he has been in
structed not to interfere with shipment of
arms, as no law of nations prohibits such
shipment from neutral countries. The
steamer Erie will take, on Tuesday, 150.000
Enfield rifles for Fiance. The French
steamer has been detained since Saturday
to conclude loading arms and munitions.
Chicago. No v. 27. A Times Washington
special says the President in his forthcom
ing message announces that he still main
tains the same position on the Cuba ques
tion: also that the only grave differences
existing with foreign nations are with Eng
land, one the fishery question and the Ala
bama bueslion.
Among the arrivals at Washington to
day is Senator Williams, ofOregon.
The list of persons to be removed from
the Interior Department has been pre
pared. The name of Commissioner Wilson,
of the Land Ollice is at the head.
Washington. Nov. 28. Nothing has
been made public thus far regarding the
President's search for a Minister to Eng
land, and it now seems doubtful if any se
lection will be made before the assembling
of Congress. The President receives with
attention all suggestions bearing upon the
choice of a candidate, but gives no indi
cation of personal preferences nor his
purposes.
London, Nov. 1C. A telegram dated
Tours, Nov. 2Gth, says rumors are afloat in
that city that great sorties 'from Paris were
effected on the 21th. Fighting is going on
at Montgai is. Bourbaki refuses command
of the liilh corps. "He says he has formed
an .army, and been deprived ot its com
mand. He will not submit twice to this
usage. lie wants active sei vice, and not
organization work.
Berlin. Nov. 2(5. The treaty lately con
cluded between the North German Con-
deration and Hesse Dranistadt will be
ubmitted to the North Geaman Parlia
ment on the bth. ot December.
Iu the North German Parliament, to-day,
bill errauting credit for one hundred mil
lion thalers was read twice, and there
were only four votes against it.
Ten thousand Prussians have left
Sedan for Paris. The bridges in their
rear were destroyed.
London. Nov. 20. Prince Gertscha-
koff's reply to "bail Granville maintains
the position assumed in the first note, and
withdraws nothing. Wi;b peculiar adroit
ness he contrives to throw the onus of
commencing hostilities on England.
The Cabinet Is fcgain quarr'lmg over
the decision arrived at to day, and will
hold another formal meeting on Monday,
when a final decision will be reached.
The Cabinet will meet the Queen in coun
cil at Windsor, on Tuesday.
The Army find Navy Gazelle, in its issue
of to-dav, understands that Russia lias now
a Weapon superior to any rifle in existence.
A dreadful accident Happened to tlie
ITolvhead Express on the Loudon and
Northwest Uoud. iSo details.
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London, Nov. 27. The French have
captured the German plans for the invest
ment of Orleans. Engagements are re
ported at Coulommieres and Beacon.
The garrison ot Jieltort maue a sonic
on Wednesday, and were driven back.
Ykiwaii.i.ks, Nov. 2. In an engage
ment on Saturday at ceauvais, near
Ameins, the French repulsed the Germans,
with bayonet assaults. The Germans suf
fered severely, losing three times as many
as the French. The army at Amiens is
full of confidence.
Torus. Nov. 27. A H urld s special tele-
rlswm n. victory for the French at
Vendome. on Friday, l tie Dauie com
menced at 2 p. m. The Prussians tried to
turn the French left but failed and we:e
pursued until 9 o'clock at night. Fight-in"-
is going on all along the line. The
French have carried everything. lhe
Prussians tried to turn the right of the
French, at Gien, on the Loir, and then
left at Chateau Dun. about midway be
tween Leneaus and Tours, but were re
pulsed in both attempts, with great loss.
There was also hard fighting at endome.
with the French left, early to-day. u:e
French driving back theenemv and taking
five hundred prisoners. No doubt a de
cisive battle will be fought on Monday.
London. Nov. 27. Gen. Hotenfeldt
says the bombardment of Paris will begin
earlv in December.
Bancroft has received a dispatch from
Washington, for Washbnrne, giving him
permission to leave Paris.
It is believed in official circles that there
will be no war with Russia. Russia re
mains firm in her claim but England will
take no action until Russia actually viola
tes the treaty. The Queen resolved to
prevent war, if possible, and will bolo l a
Council on'Tuesday. Meanwhile England
continues her naval aud military piepara-
v i, ,i,;m victory at Moreuil
ve terdaV: Th battle lasted till darkness
LterSed The German army was
beSn and driven into the in.rencbments
before Amiens. The French army of the
' .-.otortn numbers and better
t nWurelv Riven in the
Soand; The Prussian Hnssars rode
l.1UR , -J... a a recriment of
Min.. infc.ntrv. The German
loss was
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severe. 90 Dispatches
from
.hi Prussians have opened
Ameiii c-f ' Wtr Railroad to
fh I aris aim on"-"-o . .
Chellea Facilities for transporting rem
forceraents to the army bese.gmg I am
ar-a increased.
. : hf.!vr witness to
. aJA V; ir.V;" f lh neonle. who.
t he pnc.no ap - . ' Q of the
tney sav. ifin"i "-"
Tours Government.
The stages are now running on long time
(From the Washington Patriot.)
The President
That at the end of the Avar the
predominant feel ing towards liitii
who had been fortunate enough to
win its latest victories was grati
tude, no one will deny. On this
foundation, -when political honor
was to be bestowed upon him in
the form of the highest executive
office in the gift of the people, was
raised a superstructure, if not of
actual confidence, certainly of gen
erous hopefulness; and even those
who voted against hin found abun
dant consolation for political defeat
in a certain sort of conviction that
he would be true to the' .high and
not to the low instinct (for'there are
both) of the soldier.
That there has been and is deep
and bitter disappointment, extend
ing far beyond tho limits of mere
political opposition, and souring
the affections and fretting the tem
pers of his own friends, is beyond
all question. It shows itself in di
vided councils, disorganized action,
political reverses in all directions ;
so that, with every effort to
strengthen the cohesiveness of the
power of patronage, (we prefer the
mild word,) ."Republicanism " is
disintegrated, and the President
has no party but the mere camp
folio wers. Contrast his position
with that of the other soldier whom,
years ago, popular enthusiasm lifted
into the Presidncy. On the 4th of
3farch, 1829, Andrew Jackson was
inaugurated, In November, 1S0O
just the pericd of official exist
ence which the present Executive
has completed he was as strong
in the affections of the people as he
ever had been, and this though
there were clouds lowering in Ins
sky and subterranean "elements
surging under his feet. Neither
the tempest above nor "the waters
under the earth" moved his firm
tread. He looked aloft, and he
stepped proudly. He did not fidget
and fume about trifles. Ho did
not hanker, as it were, for the habits
of his old profession. Then, too,
the grand words of that ancient
soldier's inaugural ! How strangely
they sound now-a-days ! "I shall
never," said Andrew Jackson, "dis
regard the salutary lesson of polit
ical experience, which teaches that
the military should always be held
strictly subordinate to the civil
power." This he said, and this he
meant, and, as we know, the affec
tions of the people clung the more
closely round him. Our other sol.
dier Presidents Harrison and Tay
lor died too soon to test their ten
ure of popularity ; but in the few
months which were vouchsafed to
them they appointed no relations
to office, and made no grotesque
mistakes, buch are the sad mem
ories and sadder contrasts of the
past.
It is a piteous record, that of the
past twenty months for nearly
one-half the term is gone and we
shall trouble our readers, in whose
memory it freshly lives, -with
naught but salient points illustra
tive of character. The Adminis
tration stumbled on the threshold,
or rather, comiiiu into office with a
jaunty, heedless step, demeaned
itself with that sort ot perplexity
which, according to the homely
raying, characterizes animals of the
feline nature in strange and exalted
places. lie gave a kind of bugle-
call for a Cabinet, and up the pupet
ministers started, amazed them
selves and still more amazing otheis
by their apparition, only to relapse
into original insignificance for but
one of the first batch now s :rvivcs.
ins nrst occretary 01 state was
but "the Cynthia of a minute,"
There was a frightful " balk" at the
Treasury, and then, to use a favor
ite phrase, a sudden "shy" from
New York free trade to .Massa
chusetts protection. An actual
soldier, for the first time, was made
Secretary of war, and a retired mer
chant, of convival tastes and ami
able incapacity, called to the Navv
All was inconsistent and incoherent
at the outset. Nor, in the estimate
of the public, has it much improved
since then ; and the last weeks have
witnessed the mysterious with
drawal of one of the most eminent
of the "privy counselors," for no
conceivable reason except that he
refused to. soil his hands by a party
manipulation. They "parted com
pany "to use the 1 resident s fehcit
ous phrase, from mutual repulsion.
Jx-becretary tox s words tell a
sad tale of Executive dcmoraliza
tion:
Mv views of the necessity of reform in
the civil service have brought me more or
less into the plans of our active political
managers, and my sense of duty has
obliged me to express some of their meth
ods of action through the Departments
r have no doubt whatever that, nuhlie
sentiment will sooner or later fully sustain
these efforts at what I regard needed re
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forms ; but I ought not to overlook; the
fact that for the present they involve' op
position which it may not be for the inter
est of this administration to provoke :
and r.s my personal tendency is to be rath
er more than less persistent in the course
to which I am committed. I deem it my'
duty to place in your bands my resigna
tion to the office of Secretary of the
I.iterior.
Had their been dominant over
these incongrous subordinates a
wise and high-toned statesmanship,
all minor errors of choice and'
action would have been of little
account. This brings us naturally
to the judgment which the Ameri
can public and the world at large
so as, far in its agpnies it has time
to think of us have formed on
this unfinished and, in every sense,
incomplete Administration.
Creat and far-reaching as is the
disappointment, it is greatest and
most poignant in this, that the
word of honor which, in the mo
ment of victory, the successful
soldier gave, has not been kept,
and that the prayer for peace if
prayer, and not promise, it was
lias been wilfully and cruelly, by
the acts of the suppliant himself,
frustrated. In one sense there is
peace, accidental though it be.
There is no visible foreign entan
glement. There is absolute sub
missiveness throughout the length
and breadth of the Southern coun
try, on the part of all, leaders and
masses, who so recently were in
arms, They arc degraded by
actual contact with men who are
offensive to them, less their former
menials than the political adven
tures whom the policy of the
Executive has forced among them;
but, even in their humiliation,
their "parole," the plighted word
of honor, is sacred, and hardly a
whisper of complaint escapes their
hps. Still, there is not the peace
which General Grant- promised,
and the patriotic North of all par
ties expected." The Federal bay
onet yet gleams; the rickety fab
rics called State governments in
the South are, in many places, up
held by the armed Federal, au
thority, and, as lately in South
Carolina, popular sentiment, strug
gling peacefully for redress, has
been redressed by the strongliand.
The great lesson taught by recupe
rated Virginia first, and by North
Carolinia afterwards the illustra
tion they give of the capacity of
even a half-enfranchised people, if
left to themselves, to administer
their own affairs this admonition
is stolidly and contemptuously
sregarded ; and Georgia and
Texas stand as monuments of
rustratcd pacification. And, all
this while, no word of kindness, of
mercy, or of consolation, to cheer
the South, comes from the com-
ressed lips ot its conqueror, and
not a hope for the future is held
out. JNo Czar ' ever was more
sternly silent to Poland no
Cromwell to lrelanu-
Wc do" the President the justice
to believe that such conduct
such feelings are not congenial
to his nature or of his own promp
tings. These were not the emo
tions with which, in his moment of
natural exultation, he received the
sword of Lee at Appomattox. He
thought then, we .doubt not, only
of generous reconciliation. The
easy nature, to harden which, it
seems, the tires or war are needed,
and which reveals itself in the inert
cility with which he accepts gifts
and appoints relatives to office, and
yields to pernicious influences and
remembers favorites was unable
to resist the clamor and din of
technical politicians. They have
forced and are forcing him into
forcing
the extreme measures of an ex-
tremc
party, and
he, who began
his career to the disgust
of
the
and
politicians, is now their idol,
as radical and arbitrary as they
ever wished to see him. His per
sonal sympathies have been used
o carry him on in this direction.
On no other principle can any one
account for what we must be per
mitted, to call the outrages of
military interposition, by direct
Executive command, recently at
the Northern elections, in Phila
delphia and in New York.
And here we pause, so that we
may speak with emphasis. We
trust the time will come when the
secrets of the Executive Councils,
on this head, will be made known,
and we shall see the official opin
ions which have been given, and
the exact orders that have been
issued. To us, and to all thinking
men, it is simply astounding
That it has ended without the
spilling of blood, generally on such
occasions innocent blood, is a mat
ter of profound gratitude. I Jut
where, wo ask, does the President
find his authority of law to use
military
force
Wi
thin
the States,
even for the bloodless
purpose of
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NO. 5. ' 7 . ' !' I
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terror? Jf it be in his assumed
uuty to see mat the laws arc exe
cuted, he being the judge of what
is the law, and the measure of his
own power, then have we- a Dicta
torship, without express sanction
or without knowing it. There is
no other pretence of direct author
it'. We assert as a principle, rec
ognized everywhere outside of the
ex-Confederate law office of our
Executive, that "a Federal soldier
in arms, except for the purpose of
transit, has no right to put his foot
on the soil of a State, unless au
thorized by express law;" and we
have looked in vain, through all
the old-fashioned and new-fashioned
statutes, Federal and State, to
find a trace of such authority. It
does not exist. There is abundant
authority for deputy marshals and
Federal "posse;" but the marines
in Philadelphia and the regulars at
New York, and the Guerriere's
sailors, had they landed, would
have been invaders, and had they
fired, would have been murderers.
Yet all this was done in a moment
of profound peace, and only failed
to ripen into bloody fruits through
the good order and forbearance "of
an aggreived and insulted people.
Let no reader be startled by this
distinct enunciation of "clear disa
greeable truth," for it is the truth,
and we say, without reserve, that
if the American people do not
awaken to the fearful reality, then
is the debauchery of the last ten
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years greater tnan we
They are awakening.
imagine.
Judicial
Incident-
During
the trial of George
Chahoon, ex-earpet-bag Mayor of
liichmond, rccentlv convicted of
forgery in that city, and sentenced
to the penitentiary for four years,
an incident occurred which is prob
ably unparalleled in judicial his
tory. Chahoon. it appears, is
United States Commissioner, and
when the case against him closed
for the day, he was taken into cus
tody by the United States Mar-
shal and conveyed to his own
court, there to sit in judgment on
other offenders. At the close of
tho day's work, says the paper
winch records the tact, "Be was
handed over by the Marshal to be
put in the lock-up !"
"Oh ! but it was
King Jamie, "to
Charles laying down
grand,
said
hear Daby
the guilt cf
dissimulation, and Steenie lectur
ing
on the turpitude of inccntiny
ence ! "And to see a man under
trial for an infamous crime don,
metaphoricaIly,the spotless ermine,
ascend the judgment-seat, and
there, representing the majesty of
the Fluted States, proceed to try,
to exhort, and to admonish offend
ers, must have been truly an eddi
fying and suggestive spectacle
one, probably, which could be
witnessed in no other civilized
country but this, under the happy
auspices of the present Adminis
tration. "Change phases," says Lear,
"and which is the justice, which is
the thief ?" But had Lear had
the advantage of living under the
"best government the world ever
saw
no change of place would
have been needed to make the
question a poser.
We thought we had reached
the bottom of judicial degrcdation
when two or three railroad mag
nates kept each his private judge,
as dukes keep their chaplains, or
as Warren, the blacking-maker,
kept his poet; but this Ulys'ses of
United States Commissioners, this
polyfropos, or man ot many" vicis
situdes, going day by day lrom
the jail to the felon s dock, from
the deck to the bench, and from
the bench to the jail again, strikes
us as a lower deep. yet. "We may
soon expect to see the Artful Dod
ger upon the i 11st ice-seat, lecturing
iiiil Sykes 011 the enormity of
theft and the ruin which follows
lawless courses, in language-which
draws tears from every eye; and
then releasing him on promise of
reformation, and changing places
with him, to be the subject of a
himilar exhortation .and similar
clemency.
As a pendant to this scene take
the following, into which the lif-
teenth amendment introduces a
gortesque feature :
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u negro who was tried in
Tunica county, Mississippi, for hog
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stealing, ana acquitted, was imme
diately put on the jury to try and
acquit one 01 tna negro jurors
charged with horse stealing
Only the jury in this case, let it
be observed. Uut the bench .wil
follow in time.
Do we all note sufficiently the
signs ot the times, and are we
content with the result to which
they are pointing "?
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The Kovember Elections.
The great reaction which was
foreshadowed by the elections in
North Carolina, Indiana, an4 Penn
sylvana has been confirmed by the
results just witnessed in twenty
States, the great majority and most
of Avhich have spoken in strongest
condemnation of the President, his
policy, and his party. When we
consider the immense pova?r of the
public" patronage; the extendetl
influence of the national banks ;
the vast wealth of the protected
manufacturing interests; the cor
rupt combinations which ramify
over the country, and reflect that
they M erc all welded together, and
that their aggregate strength was
exerted to bolster up the waning
fortunes of the Administration, it
may be said, in a word, that a
mighty political revolution has
been accomplished.
And tins result is made more ex
traordinary still, in view of the
fact that all the Southern States
were "reconstructed" for the ex.
press purpose of perpetuating Kad-
lcal power, and that die Kecular
Army was converted into a parti
san machine, in order to intimidate
opposition and prevent a free ex
pression of opinion at the ballot
box, o
The State of Illinois, from which
the President hails, and which
gave him a majority of G0,000 two
years ago, has denouned her alle
giance, and the State of Missouri,
to which he will retire at the close
of the present term, which gave
him over 2G,000 majority, now re
calls her vote of confidence with
condemning judgement of 40,000.
So too in WesJ, Virginia, where pro
scription has been nobly proscrib
ed. Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia,
Maryland, Florida, Tennessee,
Kentucky, and Deleware have all
done nobly, while even Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Nevada have
snapped some of their chains.
New York, great and powerful as
she is and as she deserves to be
looms up with even more imposing
grand urc than ever, so that even
the chiefs of Hadiealism vol unt an
ally -surrender to the popular judg
ment, which they have long and
vainly resisted.
All the signs point with inevita
ble certainty to the great consum
mation in 1872, if there be but
ordinary prudence practiced Our
first duty is to compact opposition,
to gather strength from every
-quarter, and with liberal welcome
invite every disaffected interest
and man to unite with us in
redeeming the country from
misrule and in saving onr institu
tions. When this shall bei
done the task of choosing a leader
who will bear the standard of re
form and victory will not be diffi
cult. The necessity of the hour
will point him out, and the duty of
patriotism is to wait with patience
until that hour shall strike. Pa
triot. 0 o
Pkddijxg Out Orpiiaxs. A
boy ubout fifteen years old, ac
cording to the New Orleans He
2'tuhlican, was recently picked .up
while in a starving condition,
searching through the streets of
that city for employment. He
said three weeks previously he,
with one hundred and fifty-other
orphans, were taken from, the'
Worchester (Mass.) Orphans
Home, in charge of an agent,
Charles Drown. They all pro
ceeded south, and, after traveling
a day or two, the man iu charge'
egan to leave half a dozen lads at
each roil road station, which pro
ceeding was continued until all
had been scattered, the last at
Montgomery, Alabama, where the
agent disappeared, lhe wait then
found himself alone, without
money. Not knowing what to do
he traveled through the country
until he found himself in Pensa-
cola. Still wandering, he shook
the sand of that inhospitable vil
lage from his shoeless feet, march
ing for Mobile. Still unsatisfied,-
he smuggled his attenuated body
on board the mail boat, and ar
ried here quite prostrated. While
passing through the streets, a
policeman sentdiim to the charity
hospital. When recovered he wiisr
told to go, and for two days.
without aim, he begged A 6irtpJt-
ence, at night finding a P'jt rest
ing
under tne wiw. es,
eating
little or nothing
Hellman has given $5,000 to
the poor of San Francisco and the,
same to the poor of New York.
Citv. At least so much of the.
-Si 00,000 drawn in the late lottery;
is to be put to good use.
It is very difficult to keep, yotnv
own .peace of mind, "if people,
thurst fieces of theirs upon you
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