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OFFICIAL PAPEU FOR CLACKAMAS COUNTY.
Oragon City, Oregon ,
Triday : : : Eliroh 31, 1371.
A Warner to the Kext One-
The Oregon and California railroad was
"constructed through this county by Ben.
Hollad ay & Co., under contract, lor twenty-five
Thousand dollars .per mile, and it, i.
safe to presume that, the gentlemen made
some money at it ; but as a basis for as
eessment, we w:ll state that this railroad
cost the contractors the following bill 01
items .
Value of right of way for 21
miles through the county. . $ 6,00U
Jron rails. tons per miie, at
$8d per ton 1(18.000
Ties. ihUSJ per mile, at 20 cents
. vaoh : 8.-100
Clackamas bridge S.UUO
Abernethy Creek br.dge ........ 1.000
Trestle- work in Oregon City. . . . 4.UUO
Mofalla river bridge and trestle. 8, (WO
Station at Oregon City and lots.. 1 ,t);J0
Depot whan at Hock l.-luiid ... 1,000
-Spikes. iish bars, etc, at $500 per
mile 10.500
Cost of labor in cotisti notion, at
$5,000 per mile 105.000
'Grand total .$320 1)00
We will hazard the opinion that the
"Contractors will not deny but that the
railroad has cost them this much at least,
tirough it develops large profits to them
in their undertaking, which concerns im
neither her or there ; but what we are
coming at, is a vital question to the tax
payers of this county, both Democrats
and Republicans alike, and a matter in
itelf not at all connected with poliiics.
vet the people will hold the party who
elected these men responsible lor their
c:s. What amount has Arthur Warner.
SUerilT of Clickaiu is county, assessed this
corporation on the above enumerated
property? We will inform those wLo
cannot conveniently inspect the tx list
for themselves. Three hundred and twen
ty thoifsand. nine hundred dollars worth
of property, at a reasonable valuation, as
we have shown, is squeezed down to
t went j t ico hundred dollars. In Cte-ar's
pathetic style, -What a fall is here, my
country men J' and as Matk Antony might
have added. Won't all Home howl?"
Was the valuation of the pro terry of the
Woolen .Milts and the P. T. Company re
duced3 in similar proportion ? Was the
Standard, the Imperial and the Oregon
City Mills placed at a similar deduction
from lair value? Was your assessment,
reader, by a similar accommodation, made
G3 proportionately small ? Of course not.
because you had to go up to the -Garrett"
to be assessed, which made many of you
exclaim like the Dutchman, '-.My God!
how high ish dat ?-'
We will gently hint en passant, that it
was worth six thousand dollars to the
Railroad Company (unless, etc.) to pre
vail upon our worthy County Judge to
annul the assessment of our worthy Coun
ty Assessor and allow our worthy (?)
County Sheriff to make a new assessment.
We have said enough for this time, but
our batteries are not spiked, and our
worthy Sheriff may expect us to refer fo
the subject again. The people, irrespec
tive of parties, will view this matter
calmly and truly, and on the next judg
ment day there will be written on one
man's wall we know of, You are weighed
in the scales and found wanting.' We
have in this sad obituary endeavored to
point out a moral, which will be discover
ed to read '-A. Warner to the next one.
A IIkcoxstrvcted Statu. Frank Blair
thus told how Radical reconstruction
worked in Missouri : "If Senators,'" he said,
"were not animated by passion, by ambi
tion, and the lust of power, they would see
by that which has been done under their
system at the South what we are tending
to. I come from a State which lias ju&l
escaped this thraldom, and I understand
perfectly well what the radical rule is. A
more shameful disfranchisement of loyal
men and good men never took dace any
where in the wei Id than that which has
existed in the State of Missouri. It 'Tas a
thoroughly arbitrary government, in which
one man appointed the registrars, and
they the supervisors, and they the judges
of election ; and those men arbiirarly.
without reason and against, reason, ex
eluded an) body they pleased from the
ballot. The result was that in the State
of Missouri, with a population of over 1.
712.000. we cast at this last election only
1(17.000 votes under confessedly the most
liberal registration we have ever had in
the State since the war closed, while In
diana, with nine!) less population, accord
ing to the census, cast 318.000 votes
double the number of Missouri."
Espoused. A private letter to us from
a gentleman it Jacksonville, sn-ys :
Allow me to tender yon. on behalf of
the citizens of this county, their sincere
thanks for i he n-yanly and dignified man
ner in which you tame to their relief in
the sad all air which occurred in this dace
n the ltuh nit. There never was a peo
ple worse treated by their count)- papers.
They have been made to appear abroad
as acqi.iescing in the horrible crime by
remaining silent. Rut allow me to in
form yon that surli is not the case. They
vevi'j'oreed to remain silent, because both
were gaged, ami there was no channel left,
by which ihey could give vent to- their
fceliiijrs.
Moke Gkolndsvkli,s. The New York
World of March 8;h says : The result of
the municipal elecli n irr the interior of
the State yesterday is generally favorable
to the Democracy. The gains are hand
some, and Troy leads off with 2.C0i ma
jority tor the Democratic candidate for
Mayor a gun of over 1. 000 over Gover
nor Hoffman's majority last November.
From Washington.-A private letter to us
from Washington, under dale of the ltith
last., states that Grants Administration is
4 fulling to pieces." A thing as rotten
cannot long hang together, and the peo
ple hail die -fair whh t w
say, let U -fa.l.' It t,M .n
count and the sooner it goes iato fra
liieufep, tii better lor tbu uatum
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The Cause of Trouble-
The Radical papers are full of Ku-Klux
outrages down South-, and they attempt
to make it appear as though the Southern
people are responsible for this state of af
fairs, when the facts are. that the Radicals,
scalawag carpet bagg.-rs are responsible
for the bad state of affairs. They see that
the political current has aet in against them
and in order to hold on to treir power
they urge on the semi bat barons negroes
o depred itions. which the white people,
i i self-defense, resist by organized bands,
and whatever mischief there is done, is
laid on these organizations. It is utterly
.m,-js-ib!e for .peace ever t n ign in the
South so long as the Ra licals persist in
orclng the negro oa an equality with the
vhites. and refuse to allow 'hat people to
be controlled by w hite men ot their choice.
The Federal Government ties the hands
of the people, and then censures them for
all the wrong done. It. makes Yankee
carpet-baggers and rrggers their master,
and the l ab-uses them for wot protecting
the negro. "The following from -an ex
change will give some idea who the guil
ty ones are. and what just and righteous
reason the people have in organizing
themselves into protective societies for
self preservation. No one will read it but
what he will say that the whites in the
south are the ones who are imposed upon,
and that the responsibility of all the
trouble is chargeable to the Administra
tion and its supporter?. Let the people
of the South alone, and we are satisfied
that, peace would soon reign in every
Stale. Hut that would take away the offices
from Radical carpet-baggers, and this is
at the botb in of the whole cry of "South
ern outrages." and to retain them the
Government is about to send down so'
diers. Here is a pretty picture for our
Radical fiiends ta contemplate, one that
shows who are the wrong doers:
The evidence given in the impeachment
trial of Governor iiolden. of North Caro
lina, indicated an enormity of cruelty
which is a disgrace to civilization. The
tying, knocking down, shooting at. im
piisonuig. hanging by the neck, pulling
up and pulling down, and then pulling up
again, the lain ing of the victims, give to
this trial the air and interest of the deep
est tragedy. One Lucieti M. Murray tes
tified to having suffered this sort of treat
ment, inflicted by Uerg'en. who said, as
testified to by ail the witnesses, that he
was acting umler the orders of Governor
HoUieii. William ration testified to have
been hung up by the neck. A pistol was put
to his head ami threats made to shoot him
if he did not tell who killed Outlaw, lie
was brought to Raleigh and made it con
fession, that he might be relieved. George
Rogei s. a young man. was next called He
testified thai lit: w;is hung up three several
times by the neck. The above facts are
gathered from the testimony of two day's
proceedings.
Broken. The Radical papers fry fo
make it appear as though Sumner'. re
moval from the Chairmanship of the Com
mittee on Federal R Unions was of little
importance. It is no use for them to at
tempt to deceive the people in this matter.
The subject is important enough to
burst"' the Radical party in two. The
honest Republicans will stick to Sumner,
and not such time-serving politicians as
Grant and his followers. It is also a seri
ous matter to the Radicr.I party in select
ing such a man as Simon Cameron, of
Pennsylvania, his successor. He is of no
ability, except as a pothouse politician.
He is a ct rriiptionisl of the first order,
having bought his election to the United
States Senate several times. His profli
gacy as First Secretary of War. under
Lincoln, is a matter of history and na
tional disgrace, lie is a nice man to take
Samner's place.
Kl: Ki.lx. It is rather amusing to see
the Radical journals laboring to manufac
ture "Ku-Klux outrages.'' Any little
trouble which occurs in the South, is
magnified into a huge outrage by the Rad
ical journals. Recently the 'Govern
ment." as our Radical friends f all the Ad
ministration, appointed a nigger on one of
the Southern raiiroads as a mail messen
ger. A man got on the cars, drunk, and
the rugger feeling the importance of his
position, being a limb of the ''Govern
ment," got into a quarrel u ith the drunken
man. when Mr. Nigger got a "head put on
him." This has been magnified with as
a huge 'ou!rage"J,a:ul the -Government''
has threatened to discontinue the mail
service on account ol the drunken affair,
and all the Radical papers pronounce it
a Ku-Klux outrage. This cry of Ku-Klux
outrages" is simply a deception to make
an excuse for the Government" to send
troops down South to cary the elections
in 1872. The people cannot be deceived
by such shallow pretences.
The ' Octi'.agk.s." To show on what
some of the reported Ku-Klux outrages
are based, we publish the following, which
is made the subject of aa outrage by the
Kn-Klux"s. It looks to us as though the
niggers are the guilty party.
On Monday, in the town of Meridian.
Miss., while a negro wa on trial for incen
diarism, a negro friend shot and
killed the presiding Justice. Then a gen
eral melee ensued, the crowd of spectators,
a uual in mississippi. being weighted
with revolvers, and the two negroe-. were
killed. Then the Sheriff called a posse to
gether and commenced a general arrest of
negroes, in the course of which lour more
negroes Were killed.
One Item. From facts published else
where in this is-ne. it will be seen that the
success of Ren. Ilolladay 's ticket in this
conn)- last June cost the county, or lax
pavers, about six thousand dollars in one
little item of the railroad tax. That is
pretty good for high. We hope the peo
ple will remember this next rear.
QrESTiox? A
gentleman asks us
whether it is safe for a man to try a case be
fore a Judge who carries a r -ilroad pass
in his pocket wherein the railroad Com
pany is a party to the suit ? Some of our
fiieiyds who had cases in th last term of
Coirt may be able to give an answer to
this q ties lion.
The We.fi Si'is says that Joseph Smith
and Squire Johnson have been arrested on
a verdict of a co-oners jury, that they had
caused the death of a squair by giving her
drugged whifcy.
Coming. Our Eastern exchanges began
coming again last Tuesday. We got some
two months old, which i pretty high.
Conditions of the State Lands-Great
Loss tyittpuo can negligence.
From the Mercury.
Our attention has lately been, drawn to
the condition of the public lands belong
ing to the State, and we must confess to
great surprise at the utter con:nsion into
which they had fa Hen. L ia matter of as
tonishment that dnVingeight years of Rad
ical rule, or rather misrule, in Oregon, that
so little has been d'-methat is right and so
much has been done that is wrong. The
neglect and malfeasance in office, in the
ma"iia"ement ot the State lauds, has not
only resulted in delay, but it has produced
loss" to the State to the amount ol thou
sands of doilais. and we will give some
facts about these lauds.
THE LNIVEIISITY LANDS
Granted to the State for a University, and
which amounted to 40.080 acres, were sev
eral years ago selected from excellm
tracts lying in the Willamette and Unipqm
Valleys. A list, of these lands was made
and filed in the Surveyor General's office,
which was intended as a notification to the
United Stales of lands selected by the
State for this purpose. This list was after
wards transferred to the Oregon City Land
Ofiice. It embraced all in that Land Dis
trict and also lands in the Reseburg Dis
trict, but the Land Office of the latter
District was not notified of the selections
made in the sourthern part of the State.
Nei.herol these Land Offices paid any
attention to the interests of I be State in
these lands, and they were consequently
left open to private tniry as still being
public lands ol the United States.
These University selections never hay
ing beett approved by the Land O tvices in
Oregon Were consequently never pre
sented for approval at the General Land
Office at. Washington. In the mean time
our State authorities paid no attention
whatever to the subject. The result has
been that up to the time when the present
State administiatioti came into ofiice not
a single acre of this important, grant was
vested in the State.
In the mean time nearly one-third ol
these lands have been taken by pre-emption
and homesiead claimants and rail
road corporations, and are lost to the
State. A leading branch of the work now
going on in the Executive office is the ex
amination of the old lists of University
Selections, releasing all lands which can
not be held and making new selections to
complete the amount due the State, and
making three sets of papers including the
same. Oae to be filed in the Land Office
ol the District in which the lands are lo
cated, one to be filed in the Executive
office, and the third to be transmitted to
the General Land Office at Washington.
Alter the approval of these select. ons. at
the Local Land Office and at the General
Land Office they are noted as University
Lands on the plats of the United States
and therefore they ate held as vested ill
the State of Oregon.
This work has been completed, as to
the class of lands located within the Ore
gon City Land District, except as to final
approval at Washington, which will prob
ably be soon accomplished.
Next week, Mr. GiliYy. of the Executive
ofiice. will prot; -ed to Urseburg to exam
ine the lands there and to loca'e and list
selections to complete the amount of Uni
versity Lauds to be located in the Rose
burg Land District. A"d the whole work
will be pushed through to an early con
clusion. INDEMNITY SCHOOL T.AXD3.
The Sixteenth and Thirty sixth sections
in each township of the public lands of
Oregon were grained to the State fur com
mon school purposes ; but in case any of
these sections were occupied by bona fide
settlers before the survey of the lands, the
State was entitled to locate other lands of
the United States in lieu of those occupied,
to the same amount, and to notify th.' pro
per land offices of those so located, and
have tin miipi rovt d and seperate from
the pubiie Sands so vested in the Slate.
These lands selected were called "Indem
nity School Lands."
These land- were pretty fully selected
at one time by Governor Gibbs. in the
Oregon City Land Office only, but, were
never approved at Washington. Up to t'e
time o! the present State administration no
selections of this class had been made in
the Rosebuivr District, (except, a beginning
to locate, which was never ca'ih-d inioel
fect.) nor in the La Grande Land Dissriet.
So that all the Indemnity School Lands of
the Slate have been virtually left, uuse
iected. while the valuable lands which the
State might have been possessed of. have
been dispo.-ed of by lhe United States, to
purchasers and railroad companies, and
the Oiniunn Scoo Final has brcu dimiu
Lilted ut ten .si one hnf its value In the most
criminal ueijljrn ce. ot Itadic d Oijh-lats. The
Slate has not -mly lost the opportunity of
locating the best indemnity lands, but the
School Fund has lost, for many ears, the
interest on the moneys, which the land
would have brought had they been secured
at the proper time.
THE 500.000 GHAXT.
Mopt. of this grant was located six or
seven years ago. but by a blunder which
cannot be accounted for. over 100.O0J
acres-of this class of lands were located
in swamp and over l'owed districts to
which the State was entitled already un
der another grant, ind winch should have
been before this location, secured to the
State. Rut the location of so much of this
grant in swamps was not indicated in the
report, of the same to the General Land
0;lice. and they have been approved. The
iSlnle has lost b'j this si.ntj'e trans iclum. over
one hundred thousand dollars. About 70.
0)0,acres of this grant reniaii.s yet to be
approved.
SALTSntlXO LANDS
43.080 acres were due? the State with six
Salt Spiings. They have not been loca
ted within the time required by the Act of
Congress granting the r ght. and these
lands are lost, unless revived by Congress.
LANDS I'Oii I'LBLIO DULDINGS.
Ry Act of Congress admitting Oregon.
G.100 acres ot land were authorized to be
located by the Governor of the State to
assist in erecting public buildings. Noth
ing has been done to secure thisrrant. It
is thought that these lands may yet be locat
ed and field by the state, though twelve
years have passed since the right accrued'.
Steps are being taken to test tbe right of
the State to locate these lauds now.
Veterans of the Mexicax War, At a
meeting of the survivors of the Mexican
service, held at Portland, last Saturday
an Oregon branch was organized by the
selection of the following officers : Pres
ident Gen. E. R. S. Canby ; Vice Pres
ident Gen. E. Hamilton : Secretary
Lu.yJ Rrooke ; Corresponding Secretary
Victor Trevitt ; Treasurer Jas. IE
Lappeus.
The Democrat says :
As we go fo press a painful rumor i3
current to the effect that Mr. Abe. Haekle
man. while on his way to Wheeler's camp,
on the Cascade Mountain Road, was
drowu-ed irr attempting to cross the San
tiam. We can trace ihe rumor to no re
liable foundation, and therefore think it
is only a canard." However, we await
anxiously for further tidings of the miss
ing one.-
In Again. -W. C Carter, Esq.. has
again become one of the proprietors of
the Corvallis Gazelle. -Billy'' is one of
the best fellows in the world, but his poli
tics have become corrupted since we first
knew him.
Thanks. Hons. J. S. Smith and J. II.
Slater have our thanks lor public documents.
COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
TIMTytTPC! TTV Pit? r t t-paomt
Chaos Come Again-
Governor Scott and his negro, scalawag
constituency, says the San Francisco b
aminer, having " organized hell" in South
Carolina now call on Grant to send them
troops to disorganize it. The Governor
says he has not sufficient troops or suffic
ient morieo transport them, and that
the Legislature is about to e arrested by
the Ku-Ktux. Of course there will be no
money in the Treasury so long as the
Radical theives carry the keys of the
money chest, and if two thirds of the
Legislature were hung, nothing more than
justice would be meted out to as Tascall)
i et ot scoundrels as ever gathered in
council. The attempt, however, to saddle
he responsibility of these disturbance,.
in any other parties than Governor Scott V
wn party Mends, is adding falsehood t
v illainy. Of course men who are daily
outraged, as are the whites of that State,
will not tamely submit. They must, in
self-defense, organize to resist outrage.
Thus wrong begets wrong ; but, of course,
in Radical eyes, is all on one side.
The fact is, these disturbances are the
necessary result ot the contact of whites
with semi-barbarous negroes. It is not
in the nature of things that they can live
peaceably together on terms of equality.
There is a natural irrepressible conflict
that carrot be reconciled. At l his time
South Carolina is under the control of ig
norant, arrogant negroes, who have been
taught to hate the native whites by the
wicked carpet-baggers and scalawags, who
made use of them to obtain office and
plunder. Matters, instead of "rettin"
better, will continue worse, and either
the whites must get ur and leave the field
to the negroes and permit South Carolin i
to become an American Dahomey and be
given over to savagry and all the abomi
nations incident to it, or Congress will
be obliged to take possession of it as
abandoned State territory for there is
not a republican government there now
and mal.e of it a kind of darky rcserva
lion, and rule the ebony " wards of the
nation" with bayonets and feed them on
public grub. That is what it will conic
to. Oil and water will not mix. Either
the white or black element must go to the
wall. Of course the Radicals will try
and crush out the former, and that is the
object of Governor Scott's call. In the
most, cheerful view we may take of things,
we see Utile hope for poor, devoted
South Carolina.
Ibe Fay -Kalis Aifray-
Relow we publish a sworn statement
from the daughter of Mr. Ralls, which will
be found to corroborate the letters hereto
fore published. Mr. Ralls also publishes
a long letter, in which he charges the se
duction of his daughter on Mr. Fay, but
as we did not publish Mr. Fay's defense
from tLe Tims, we do not deem it just to
publish his statement. The affidavit was
published in the Hcraht of the 21st inst :
STATE OF OREGON".
County ol Jackson, i
- S. S.
I. Hannah A. Ralls, being duly sworn,
depose and say that my name is Hannah
A Rail: that my age is twenty-one years ;
that I have been working lor James 1).
Fay. at his hou.-e in Jacksonville, most of
my time during the past eighteen months;
that about one yur ago James D. Fay
and i were engaged to be married : that
we occupied looms up stairs, with only a
partition separating them: I. the depon
ent, further siy that I was delivered of a
child, in Mr. Fay's stable, on the morning
ol the li'.th ol 1-Vburary, Ls71 ; that said
child was begotten by James D. Fay, in
his own house, under promise of marriage.
I mi ther slate i h it Mr. Fay knew niy fit
nation, and advised me to go home and
have my mo. her give ine medicine to de
stroy said child; that I was confined some
two weeks beloie Mr. Fay or I eitlu r ex
pected me to be. I also state that Mr. Fay
saw me on my way to his stable, to be con
fined. I blither state that Mr. Fay and I
occupied the same bed the last, time on
Sunday night. IYburary 12. 171.
I. Hannah A. 'alls, being duly sworn,
depose and say that th;; statements set
iorlh in the foregoing aflidivit are true.
Hannah A. Ralls.
Sworn and subscribed to before me,
this blh day of March. A. f). LS71.
La F. Gall., J. P.
Error. The Orejonian of last Wednes
day, says that " W. IJ Barlow sued the
O. & C. 11. R. Company for damages."'
This is a mistake, as the Railtoad Com
pany commenced the suit against Mr.
Ii.u low. We shall have something to say
of this master next week.
Retckxixg. V.'e notice among the pas
senger list on the steamer which left San
Francisco lhe 2Uth inst.. th'..' name of 1I p;
J. S. Smith and family. The people of
Oregon 1 ave reason to be proud of Mr.
Smith as a public servant, and will all
unite in saying " well dou'J thou good and
laithfttl servant."'
The Walla Walla Htutesman says:
Judge Boise has decided that the war
rants drawn by Sam Mu'y upon Ihe State
Treasury, without authority of law. are il
legal. JiuE'e Boise must be careful or he
will be read out ol the radical camp. A
Judge who refuses to sustain bis piny
through thick and thin is out of place in
the radical organiz ttion. Take a lesson
from Judge Deady. who always meets the
expectations of the party that owns him.
Go to Work. The Washington corres
pondent of the Piovidence Journal says
the White House has been thronged all
day by members of Congres not re-elected,
and in want of a good place. Let them
go to work and earn an honest living.
Xothi.vg. The telegraph has been very
silent as to the results ol local elections
held in Eastern towns. The reason of that
is. that in all cases Uiey have been favor
able to the Democrats, by increase'! ma
jorities.
Redeced. The fare between Portland
and San Fruncisco has been reduced to
$30 and $... It is stated this was done
on account of a rumor that an opposition
was about to be put on the route.
A State telegram says that S. Booth was
shot at Ashland. or the 26th inst., by A. D.
Benton. Very little hope for the recovery
of Booth was entertained.-
A Washington corresponeent says r"
Mr. Grant has just let out the contract
for governing the newly-erected territory
of the District of Columbia to the private
banking firm of Jay Cooke & Co. It ap
pears that Forney and his friends had
been cooking tip a plan to put John info
the (iovernorship. but another Cooke
came interfering round and spoiled their
broth.
Telegraphic Clippings.
The following proclamation is issued by
the President :
Wherhas. It is provided in the Consti
tution of the United States that the United
States shall protect every State in the
Union on application ot the Legislature
or of the Executive, when the Legislature
cannot be 'convened against domestic
violence ; and
Whereas. It is provided ih the laws of
he United States that in cases of insurrec
tion in anv SaU or obstruction to laws
hereof, it'shall be lawful for the President
ot the United States, on application of the
Legislature of such State Cf Executive,
when the Legislature connot be convened
to call for th the militia o1 any State, or
States, or employ such part of the land
ind naval forces" sis shall be judged neces
sary for the purpose of suppressing such
nsurrection. or causing the laws to be
Inly executed ; and
Whereas. 1 haVe received information
hat-a combination of armed men. unau
thorized bv law. are now distutbing
South Carolina, and committing acts of
violence in s iul State of a character and
to an extent which render 'he power .f
the State -and its officers unequal to the
task of protecting life and property and se
curing public order therein ; and
Whereas. The Legislature of that State
is not now in session, and cannot be con
vened in time to meet the present emer
gency. and the Executive ot said State has
therefore made application to me for such
part of the military force of the United
States as may be necessary and adequate
to protect s-id Suite and citizens thereof
against domestic violence hereinbefore
mentioned, and enforce due execution of
lhe laws; and as the laws of the United
States require that whenever it may be
necessary, in the judgment of the Presi
dent of the United States to use military
force for the puroose aforesaid, he shall
forthwith, by proclamation, command
such insurgents to disperse and retire
peaceably to their respective abodes,
within a limited time ; now. therefore
I. U. S. Grant. President of the United
States, do command persons composin'
the unlawful combinations aforesaid, to
disperse and retire peaceably to their re
spective abodes, w'uhiu twenty days from
this date. . .
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the Seal ol the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city of
Washington, on the 21th day March. IS71.
U. S. Grant. President.
Washington, March 2.. In the Senate
Scott moved an appropriation of SM VOOO.
to pay lhe expenses of the investigation
of Southern outrages.
Eichmono, Va., March 25. Charles T.
Friend, a prominent citizen living near
Petersburg, was murdered last night by a
band of negroes.
Memi-his. March 25. A Little Rock
Arkansas dispatch says a disgraceful scene
occurred last, night in the Lower House of
the Legislature." The Clayton ring having
a majority carried every measure sent by
the Senate", regardless ol rules, law or
precedent over the protest of Conserva
tives, who. seeing ail lost unless a quorum
was defeated, at 11 o'clock a sufficient
number had left to leave the House below
a quorum. A call ot the House was
ordered, doors locked, and the Sergedtii-at.-Arms
sent for absentees. Then fol
lowed a scene that would have disgraced
a town meeting. Whisky iiowed freely,
cigars circulated and a dozen members
addressed the chair at once. In the midst
of all. one member Mason -who could
scarcely preserve his equilibrium, was
speaking when Barber (coloied) rose to
the point of order, and proceeded to ad
dress the Chair.' lie continued his re
marks in a loud voice. The Chair could
not heat- R u ber, and the ie.Mer left his
ehair. i dvaneed up the a;
near the
Spe.tker "
Speaker S Stan
1.
ud said. " Mr.
Wis
uishing) "by God. who h is the
i floor this drunken man Ma-on or my
self. If he h ts not. I will make hi;, v t.ike
his seat." adfatieinir towards Mason, and
picking up a book and brandishing it
over h:s head. At this petal the Speaker
succeeded in restoring order.
lM)!ANAfoL;s. Ind.. March 25. Thomas
Ringsdoraf. of the Sewing Machine Co.
here, was shot and killed in a !rug store
at Shelby ville. lad., this evening. If is
supposed he was k.llcd by Renjovvsky.
proprietor of a store, for insulting lan
guage used to his (Renjowsky's) wise.
Washington. March o'. the President
will transmit a report on Ihe San Domingo
Commission to Congress at an early da).
He does not intend to reeommend action
on it during the nier'eni session, but is de
sirous that the Contents shrai
be re;-d bv
the people in order that they r;i 'V tuna
from (itlicia! data a judgment of the ques
tion Mnder discussion.
The Joint High Commission will con
clude its labors in a lew weeks, and as
surances come from three distinguished
and well informed parties that there will
be an equitable set: lenu-ut. of matters ia
dispute. If this shall be the result, 'h
President will send a treaty to the Senate,
should that body be in session.
Cit aheestox. March 2G. The Tennessee,
with the San Domingo Ceinmissionei s on
board arrived oil" the bar at daylight tilts
morning. The Commissioners and all the
party, except t lie scientific corps came
ashore and started at once for Washington.
Washington". March 27. Mr. Sumner's
speech on San Domingo is loner and diirns
fied in tone personal allusions being gen
erally avoided ; yet, it is a severe arraign
ment of tlie President for violation of in
ternational law and n-urpation of war
power. Sumner states that it is now in
evidence belt re th Senate that the navy
of the United States, acting under orders
from Washington, has been engaged in
measures of violence and of belligerent
intervention, waging war without au
thority of CYngress He says the whole
business is aggravated, when it is consid
ered that the declared object of this vio
lation is the acquisition" ot half an island
in the Carribean sea. and siill fiirther.
that this violence has been employed' to
prop and maintain a weak ruler him
self a usurper upholding him in power,
that he might sell his country; and sec
ondly, that it. h is been employed to men
ace the Black Republic of Havti. Evi
dence. Sumner asserts, is conclusive that
means have been employ ed by the Execu
tive to secure the aggrandizement of for
eign territory which cannot be justified.
A circumstance has been brought fo
lisrht which it is understood will be made
the suhjeel of Congressional iuve-'igation.
It appears that the State of Alabama is
entiiled to several thousand acres of Ag
ricultural land serin, under act of Con
gress, and that Smith, late Governor of
that State, visited Washington a year 1120
for the purpose of causing the iu of
the scrip. The Commissioner of the Land
Office directed the scrip to be made out.
but from some niysiericus reason was
never issued. A few days ago Governor
Lindsay, of Alabama, receive I a commun
nication front a gentleman of Ohio charg
ing the existence of a conspiracy for
withholding this scrip, by which Alabama
five per cent, bonds were to be depreciated
in Wall street to j0" cents on the dollar,
and then bought in by interested parlies,
and under State law exchanged for this
scrip. In consequence of an examination
in the matter had under the auspices of
Gov. Lindsay, of Alabama, a package of
ecrip h said to have been discovered m
Ihe Land Office, all made out. but en
dorsed on envelope, as withheld bv direc
tion of Senator Warner. The writer of
the warning letter from Ohio chartred
that ex Governor Srniih and Senator War
ner were interested in this stock jobbing
conspiracy. It is said ihit ex-Commissioner
Wilson knows all about the affair
and there is no doubt some curious revel
ations of U o, rr.d other land jobs will be
made.
Washington. March 23.---While the
Commission was coining up on the Aquia
river, j-esterday, Fred Douglas was de
nied a seat at the dinner table on account
of his color, by officers of the boat. The
Commissioners indignantly left the fable.
New York. March 28. The Tribune's
Washington special says a rumor is cur
rent that the Ad ininisi ration has decided
to drop the San Domingo business for the
sake of harmonizing the party. The in
ference is drawn from the remark of Mor
ton in Hie Senate yesterday, that if the
Com missioners report unfavorable to an
nexation, he should favor the abandon
ment of the project.
The declaration is thought to be sisiifi
cant. in view of the fact that correspond
ents with the Commissioners all announce
that the report is unanimously in favor of
annexation. Another correspondent says
it seems to be the general opinion of the
Commissioners that annexation is certain
to involve the United States in war with
Haysi. RaeZ admitted that Cabral con
trolled one thousand square miles of Do
mmic.i contira.ms. to Hayti, and ac
knoAledged that lie could not protect the
Commissioners ia a viMf. to that oortion
of the island. The impression is that the
report of the Commissioners, when pre
sented to Congress, will be rather un
favorable than otherwise to annexation.
Washington. March 2S. In the Senate.
Freii,ig!ni)sen obtained ihe 11 aor and spoke
i.i eulogy ol President Grant, and criti
cised the action of Sumner in precipitat
ing this discussion in advance of the re
port ot the Commissioners, from which
alone Congress and the public could form
tin opinion.
Sumner briefly defended his course, say
ing he had done simply what, Le believed
to be rig in.
Schurz next addressed the Senate. He
did not think the report ol the Commission
ers, who had just returned from a pleas
ant jaant to San Domingo, would prove
influential, either in the Senate or before
the country, for lie thought they were al
ready e'.ieCiUally disposed of.
Howe continued his reply to Sumner's
speech of yesterday, and in defence of the
President in the San Domingo matter. In
coi. elusion, he said the mission of the Re
publican party was not coded.
In reply to questions by Howe & Stew
art. Schurz denied that discretionary pow
er was ves;ed in the President, and cited
them to the debates of the Senate iu ISo'J.
when Ruehanan asked discretionary pow
er to protect our citizens in transit over
the Isthmus ot Panama. The Senate then
indignantly refused. The tact was Presi
dent Giant had laden into the mistake of
supposing he was the United States ot
America, lie defended the course of
Sumner, declaring that he deserved the
gratitude of the country. He said the de
lemJeis ot the ad mi ii is; ra t ion had appar
ently acknowledged themselves defeated
on constitutional grounds. Hereupon he
ptoceedod in a sarcastic manner to com
ment upon the speech of Howe, and said
it' it were pr.ven that ordeis had been is
sued to our naval commanders ia gros.; vi
olation of the Cons i.iL ton, then someihing
more than mere rhetorical flourishes about
Gen. Grant's services, or the Secretary ol
S'a;e and navy would be required to uti
swer the proof. He argued that under the
Coosiiiu-SoiiaJ clause vestir.g in Cong: ess
the war making power, th Exe it ive cO.lld
not commit an -act ol un.es.s iu case ol
actual invasion of the Territory of the
United Siates or by expre.-s Congressional
authority. li:s' ructions of tiie Presideut
to our n aval force, directing .hem in cer
tain contingencies to fire upon vessels ol
Hay ii a power with which we sire at
peace was m.t clearly u;i usurpation of
war-ill iking powe .
iit"i4uiii.v:.' xv. til sew?.
Pauis. March 2 L
-A violent scene oc-
cuiied at the au-edng o! the Central Coiu
iinliee. A member of lite Conim it I ee dil
lered from Gen. Lul.ier, Comuiaiuler ot
I ae .National Guards. Luitter threw a
Cl iir at Ltie Iie.nl of his c.d.eague, for
w iicii he was dr.i-t-ted o u ot iLe meeting
and iiumedla.eiy tir-posed of from coin
m i iid r-ti .p. iMgns oi disatisiaciiuii have
been siio'.va am :ig tue adherents of the
Cen.ral Committee. Live Luudred Na
tional G.iur.is have be 11 disaimed.
pAiii.s. -i irch lit) A Wuml special
yesterday imei v.ewed the wbo.e Central
Joai.'mi tee u the iiolei de llie. Tire
members of the Committee organized iu
iiii' iti-.-t place on account of information
I i:at iii.ers was co-operating with Bis
marck lor the u veri i.ro w of Km RepuLhc.
evidence ot which Was overwue. tiling,
l'iiiers li.id tried to provoke tue Committee
to acis ol violence, but mey waited ami t
he Li;n.-ell committed the first, outrage.
uy attacking Moiiiiiiartre. The object ol
uie Coiiiiiiitieu was to secure municipal
iighis lor i'as'is. Iree elections and l tie. ao;
ii.itui Oi payment of real during the sit ge.
to loiui one Republic under tue regime oi
a Cinmiiuue wtiicu is to be more compre
hensive Ihais O ven as advocaied b' ijiaue
and Hugo, and based upon courpuisory
education. Tile Cunnuilieo says we ignore
tue eis.iilies Ooverualent a. id dec, are
all us ac;s null and vo.d. Ere.-li elections
will be held, and a new Assembly cboSeu
having lis S'
at ill I
ails.
Members of I iu
Comm. uee will no-, accept oiiiee in the
new government, but will form a Cordon
saniluire Having supervisory power over
it. The people ot ail r.u.ks are daily of
fering thea" services to us. and otfieers are
de erting fiom V r -.idles an l placing
1 1 eiusel ves ai- oar U;Sposal. We d. not
w .nt any needless eii'.isioti of blood.
Gen. 1: u.'.y wil. not be executed, but
Ueas. DucioL and Titichu will be, il
caught. We have appointed Garibaldi
Commander-in-Chief lie will arrive here
to morrow. Menoiii and liiccioiti Gari
baldi are his aids.
liAViiK. M u-'jh 26. Lavouette and three
other agents of the Ceu ral Republican
Committee of Paris, who came here on a
m.s.-ion of agitation, have been arrested.
London", March 27. The Te' jruph's
special savs the Government at Versailles
has. ordered Gurib ilui's arrest on his ap
pearance on French soil. Cheinbault, a
late prisoner, succeeds to the Ministry o!
W;r. It is generally thought that the
Government is defunct, and that liners
will be made to re.-ign, Aumale succeed
ing him.
Thiers rays, privately, that when he has
one hundred thousand men he will attack
Paris.
The official journal of the insurgents
sas eighteen balalliotis of Nationals out
of twenty-four, in Lyons, support the
Communes. The rew Government is pro
claimed without bloodshed.
The election in Paris passed off quietly
with an overwhelming Communist-.
majoivt.'. The
ie.o u lo iary authority
is
CJiiipletety dominant. ihe ab-
duct ion of Saisset. as Mayor, increases th
success ot the revolution, which within a
week wiil spread to all the towns and rea
der the posi.ion of the Government ill the
rural dis'iiets tin enable.
Rui'.s.sKi,-. March 26. Razaine is going
to Franc.', and Le Ikeeuf to the Hague.
Revolution is prevailing in Algeria.
Vki:sa!U.ks. March 27. The War Min
ister has asked Prefects for a batallion of
mobilized volunteers from each of the
Department, in purt-umce of a law just
pissed. These are to be forwarded to
Versailles immediately'. Volunteers will
receive one snd a half francs daily. The
Minister of War appoints oilicers.
"IIe ir the Cry that Comes Across the
Seat V Rallying song and chorus. Words
and Music by Geo. V. Root. Published by
Root &. Cady, Chicago.
The above is on the title page of a
piece of music just received, and is de
cidedly iu the right direction. It is no
time to cr ticise the later acts of France.
She needs our help and should have it tor j
hnm initv's sake, even if she h id not
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Only two radicaLCongressr
bem arrested so far tiVs session-one to
bigamy, and the other for forgery-bur?
then, it must be remembered that arrert
are not made in Congress for bribery W.
lslattve stealing, and miscellaneous cor
ruption. Cocldxt See it. The Committee 6
whom was referred the cdaim of W. Vo
Rhinehart. for arresting Henry Mnlke
for treasor?." refused to pav ihS) Maioi
his little bill. " J
Eastern papers say that the Radical,
convinced that their teachings have for
ever disgusted the people of the country,
are organizing secret societies similar to
the know nothing order, in tbe hope of
again carrying the popular vpte.
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