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Triday T ": : Sept. 22, 1871.
Pigures of Radical Extravagance.
There appears to be no limit to Radical
pudence and falsehood. While, there
fore, the Administration pres3 is so pro
fuse in exhibition of misstated facts and
false figures in order to delude the tax
fpayers, t stands the people in hand to re
efer to official documents in order to arrive
:at the truth &s nearly as possible. The
ulgnres in these documents for the last ten
.years "hare been subject to Radical rnanip--ulatrcn.
and, of course, Lave been pur
.posly TalseQed, to make as good showing
O -4br themselves as possible. To prove this
statement, we have but to refer to the
fact that an official statement by Secre
4ry Boutwell has been flatly contradicted
9 "by an official statement of Treasurer Spin
ner. At the close of the fiscal year end
ing June -30th. 1S70, Secretary Boutwell
. .issued a statement in which the principal
of the public debt unpaid, was placed at
that date at $2,477,472,151) 29. At a sub
sequent period. Secretary Spinner made a
-etatemeat of the receipts and expendi
tures -of the Government, from March 4th,
1789, to June 30lb, 1870, in which he
placed the principal, of the public debt
unpaid, at the same dale (June 30th, 1870,)
-at $2,3G7,Sil,HS 05 . Thus it will be ob
served there is a difference in the two
statements of $109,630,511 24. Now both
these statements are purported to have
&cen made from the official records. If
Treasurer Spinner is correct, it devolves
upn Secretary Boutwell to show ialo
whose hands these one hundred and nine
Oanillio-ns dollars of bonds have passed and
for what consideration. Having, there
fore, proved that these Radical officials
will falsify the public records to suit
themselves, it would seem as though they
O might easily make statements to their own
credit ; but, taking their own figures, we
are prepared to show that the Administra
tion of Gen. Grant has been the most
profligate and corrupt of any Adminis
tration in the United States, or on the face
of the whole world.
Taking their own figures, we find that
the civil and miscellaneous expenditure
for the fiscal year of 1870 under General
Grant, amounts to $09,231,017 26. The
civil and miscellaneous expenditure for
the fiscal year of 18G0, under President
Buchanan, amounted to $27,931,336 17.
hus it will be seen that the excess of
Grant's Administration in the matter of
civil and miscellaneous expenditure (from
which is excluced all expenses contingent
ipon the war), over that of President
Buchanan, amounts to the enormous sum
of $41,302,681 09. Here we have their
own figures in exhibition of the wanton
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profligacy of the Grant Administration.
But in order to show more fully the ex
travagance of the present Administration,
we append the following table of the civil
and miscellaneous expenditures for the
0 several periods indicated :
IJWB Expended under Tierce f25.3..',347 OS
1SGO KxpeiKloii under ISuchanan. . " 27. !Uil, ri.il 17
!SCU Expended under Lincoln 27,505..V.fj 40
lsi;8Ex)cnded under Johnson 52.0(i'J,S(i7 7
z870 Expended under Grant (i'.),2 34,)17 2(
GrantVs expenditure over fierce. . . ..13,S7S,W;9 5S
Orant's exiH'nditnre over J'.iK-ha nun, 41,3()2,(S81 09
Grant's expenditure over Lincoln.. 41,72s, 417 SO
Grant's expenditure over Johnson.. 17,221,14!) 51)
Again, the total expenditure of Bu
chanan's Administration for the fiscal year
of 1860 was, exclusive of interest on the
public debt. $58,010,112 58. and inclusive
of that interest, it wa3 $61,151,753 52.
So that the civil and miscellaneous exnen
uiture for the year 1S70, under General
Grant, exceeded the total expenditure for
the year 1S60. under President Buchanan,
including the interest on the public debt,
by the round sum of $8,079,203 71.
Let us give one more contrast for the
benefit of our Radical friends who are
prating so much about the economy of
Grant's Administration.
The total expenditure, according to
official reports, of Buchanan's Adminis-
tiation, for the fiscal year end in
80th, I860, is as follows :
June
For civil and miscellaneous. . .
For War department
CForavy Department
Tor Pensions
For Indians
for interest on public debt. . .
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Total
$ 27,0.5 1, .3.1(5 17
14,472,202 72
11,51 l,fM 83
1,100,802 $2
2,!)!)1,121 74
3,144,(12 i 91
Kl,154,7i3 52
In his last annua! report to Congress,
after sUting that the receipts for the fiscal
year ending Juno 30th. 1870, at $111,255,
477 63, Secretary Boutwell gave the fol
lowing omciai statement aa to th
ie expen-
ditures for that year:
'or civil and miscellaneous..,
"W itr J H-part merit
Nnvy Department .)
Indiuns and Tensions.. ,
Interest on rubric Debt....
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Total
i fi9,23 1,017 2G
57,f(i.",7," 40
21.7SO.22!) S7
31,7 1S,m 32
. 12U,22.",m OS
$3),0j3,5(i0 93
Thus the total expenses of the Govern
ment under Grant exceed those of Bu
chanan, for ono year, by the enormous
amount of $218,198,807 4 1, the expenses
under Grant being more than five times
what they were under Buchanan. Let
Democrats, whenever Radicals bo-"in to
talk about the economy of Grant's AJ-,
ministration, or uOect a holy horror at the
reported profligacy of the municipal af
fairs of any city, thrust the foregoing of
ficial figures before their gaze, ard request
them to explain where the one hundred
and nine million dollars of Government
bonds have gone, and as to how much of
the enormous excess of the expenditures
of Grant's Administration over that of
any of his predecessors is to be debited
to the downright stealing by Radical of
ficials of the people's money?
Fokgot to Answki:. Tho Oregonhtn
has taken much time to abuse the Legis
lature of Oregon and also of California
for the passage of iho litigant act. Last
week we asked I he Oreyoman, since its
party carried the. election in California,
whether the Radicals would repeal '-this
inr.nuona aet." The Orejonin failed
thus tar to Kiv us an answer, l'leax in
form Us wither the Radicals will repeal
,h t? ,Wt u,a I he question.
iMrr.ovix,;.-!,,, elatsTTc counts
vr U-f.rn t hat C.oven,.i- r.
ingfrom hi, i cecal 13 V'c
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How the Election was Carried.
A dispatch to the Associated Tress
from Vallejo of date the 9 lb. instant, says
the S. F. Examiner, states that " forty
shipwrights and calkers were discharged
from Mare Island Navy Yard yesterday."'
This i3 a significant item. These men,
with hundreds of others, were imported
to Mare Island for the purpose of carry
ing the Third Congressional District for
the Republicans. They were given em
ployment on the understanding that they
would vote such, tickets a3 were placed
in their hands by their masters. They,
for the time being, surrendered their free
dom of thought and action and became
political serfs mere dummies in the con
trol of unscrupulous men. Now, after
being used, tbey are cast aside dis
charged from the public employment.
Hundreds of these will be discharged in
the course of the next month. Their. em
ployment was authorized for this election
by special authority from "Washington,
and only for this election.
And what a commentary i3 this on our
boasted freedom of suffrage. The great
Government of the United States, made
and ordained as the general agent of the
States in their individual capacities, tnrns
upon its sovereign constituents and by
imported votes and illegitimate use of
National funds by direct intimidation
and threats, controls not only the con
gressional, but the local elections of the
States. And yet the men guilty of these
huge outrages the party responsible for
them, pass laws to be enforced by bay
onets to secure the purity of elections!
W&s there ever anything so farcial ? At
this rate how long will it be before even
the forms, as is now the case with the
spirit, of free elections are abolished ?
To say that a man shall not vote as he
pleases, is to say that ho shall not vote
at all. Discretion is of the essence of
the great franchise. When the Govern
ment, through its agents at Mare Island,
told the twelve or fifteen hundred work
men employed there, that they must vote
a certain ticket under penalty of ins! ant
expulsion from the service, they denied
thorn the right of suffrage. They robbed
them of their great franchise. And it is
by this means by the direct interference
of the Federal Government, that the Rad
icals expect to continue in power. Fed
eral bayonets and Federal money have
served them in the South for the past five
years. Their virtue is now to be tested
in the other States. The capital of the
country, in the brands of banks, great
railroad corporations and manufactures,
is combined with the central political
power, to palsy the will of the States and
of the people of the States. The labor
ing masses, who possesss the tremendous
power of the ballot, are swept on by the
invisible force of tho almighty dollar,
and are cajoled with the belief that they
are making Presidents and Senators and
Governors, when in fact they are merely
recording the will of the few magicians
who have chalked out their work. How
long this will be remains to be seen. Its
continuance is incompatible with free
government. The people of America
must either rise up and assert their man
hood by driving from power these unprin
cipled corruplionisfs, or they must make
up their minds to bow their necks, at no
distant day, to the yoke of a despot.
In this connection we invite the at
tention of the voters to the following
article from the Solano Democrat, pub
lished at Vallejo :
We wish that every voter in America
could have witnessed the scene enacted
in Vallejo on election day. If it did not
disgust them thoroughly with Republi
canism it would be because they are hope
lessly corrupt themselves. We wish they
could have seen tho long strings of men
who were driven to the polling places by
the foreman on the Navy Yard and com
pelled to vote an open pasteboard ticket
about half an inch wide by five inches
long. The officers of Election had screens
built in front of the polling places high
enough to protect the men from the
scrutiniz-ing eyes of their bosses, so that
they might have an opportunity to vote
without intimidation, but this interfered
with the plans of the foreman who went
early in the morning and tore off the
planks. They stationed themselves at
each polling place. A person peddled
the tickets and saw that they were de
posited, while another stood by with a
book containing all the names of the
Navy Yard employees voting at tho pre
cinct, and checked oft' such as dared to
vote against the will of their masters.
The men marched up in line and were not
permitted to have (heir tickets until they
were ready to deposit them. We have
never in our lives witnessed so humiliat
ing a sight. There were hundreds of
white men nominally freemen, citizens of
this great Republic, yet slaves to a few
.Nary l ard foremen, who held discharge
from the Yard as a rod of terror
over
their heads, and thus made them vote
ticket they inwardly abhorred. This is
the Republican idea of liberty; this is
the manner in which they seek to. ob
tain control of the destinies of a great
State. It is time that this political ras
cality, this outrageous invasion of the
people of the State should be made to
cease, and it is proposed not only to con
test the election in this county upon the
ground of illegality, but to prosecute the
foremen under the provision of the Ku
klux law. Plenty of testimony can be
obtained to convict them of a violation
6t the law and subject them to its penal
ties. Steps will be taken to test the mat
ter and see if white men cannot be pro
tected iu the free exercise of the ballot,
or if negroes alone are worthy of that pro
tection. We pity the poor men who at
tempted to keep starvation from their
doors by voting against their consciences.
Many of them showed by their counten
ances that they realized the degraded po
sition in which they were placed. They
seemed to be heartily ashamed, and we
are sure that nothing but the direct neces
sity would have induced them to submit
to the insult and self-debasement. We
cannot, help thinking, however, that they
have paid too dearly for the whistle It
is far better to endure the stings of ncv
erty than do violence to one's "conscience
and lose self-respect. No man who suffered
himself to be driven to the polls, as hun
dreds were on Wednesday last,' respects
himself tor the act. Every one of them
knows he did wrong and that the public
know. it. And what will be gained ? In
a few weeks and perhaps a few day?
these men will be discharged. They
were only taken in temporarily to secure
their votes, and this having been accom
plished, hundreds of them will soon be
kicked oil' the Yard. It is a bad business
all around.
The Herald says the Constantine was
taken off the Portland route to bring furs
from Alaska, and it will be several months
before she will resume her trips between
Portland and San Francisco.
Chapter on Stealing-
While oar Radical friends are develop
ing frauds perpetrated in the city of New
York, the titterly fail to give their duped
and blind followers the gigantic frauds
perpetrated at the National Capital and
in every State where they have power.
The following little item of stealings
comes to us from Washington 5 which we
take from an exchange :
The discovery that more than one hun
dred millions of dollars are missing from
the United States Treasury causes no lit
tle consternation in financial circles at
the East. On the first of July, led,
Secretary Boutwell reported the public
debt at 2,353. 21 1,232 22. On the same
date the United States Treasurer. Mr.
Spinner reports it at $2,213,5ti0,821 0i,
makin"- a difference between the two
statements of S10Q..630,511 11 What has
become of this huge theft? Whose cof
fers has it gone to fill ? How much of it
was used in our California election ? "tt hat
do the people think now of Tammany
frauds? No wonder Grant insisted upon
getting rid of Pleasanton and other offi
cers who believed in the sentiment of
honesty. Hitherto Congress has persist
ently refused to appoint a committee to
investigate Treasury matters. They knew
there was something rotten there. They
knew that the result would be a damag
ing exposure. Each month we have a
most Mattering account of the extinction
of the public debt, aad lo ! here it ap
pears that the robberies amount to quite
as much as the payments. We shall
await with some degree of curiosity to
see what explanation will be given by
Grant s Secretary to this stupendous dis
crepancy. Next in order we have the following
from New York : under date of the 13th
iust., ;
Major J. L. Hodge, Deputy Paymaster
of the United States Army, stationed in
this city, (Washington) has been discov
ered to be a defaulter to the Government
for a very large amount. The investigation
is still incomplete, although enough has
been ascertained to show the amount of
the defalcation to be $100,000 to S500,000.
He was yesterday taken to Fort McIIenry
and ordered placed iu solitary confine
ment in a guarded cell. It is said that a
year ago detectives discovered that his
financial affairs were in a loose condi
tion, and that an investigation wa3 order
ed, but for some unknown reason never
took place. It is suspected that other
parties are involved in the defalcation.
The next which has reached us within
the past week is the folllowing :
Nkw Yokk, September 13. A morning
naoer has the statement that John W.
Norton, Superintendent of the money de
partment of the city Post Office, is a de
faulter to the extent of $100,000 to $150,-
000. He drew on the United States
Treasury at the Sub-Treasury for $142,
000, ostensibly for use in the Post Office
Department. This money he is known
to hive used in speculations in Wall
street lie has compromised with the Gov
ernment and resigned his position. Olher
employees are said to bo suspected of
similar crimes.
The bondsmen of Assistant Paymaster
Jones held a private meeting this after
noon and appointed Abraham Wakeman
to take charge of the disposal of the
property of the defaulting Assistant Pay
master Norton, of which they have al
ready taken possession.
Washington. Sept. 11. Paymaster Gen
eral Price says that it will appear upon in
vestigation that the Treasury Department
is responsible for the failure of the Gov
ernment to discover the defalcation of
Major Hodge. The disbursements during
the last six years have amounted, as the
records show, to $2,937,1-10 for the pay
ment of Treasury certificates, and for
bounty alone ransrins: from $100,000 to
$500,000 per month for a considerable
time.
And here is another little item, th
amount of the defalcations in these cases
having been repeatedly stated at several
millions :
Sureties upon bonds of Collectors of Iu
tcrnal Revenue against whom suits have
been commenced for balances due to the
Government, are asking for a continuance
of their suits. Commissioner Douglas de
clines to accede to any requests of this
character.
We give the above specimens only to
show what disclosures are made in one
week, and do not pretend to say that this
is all there has been stolen even within
that short time. Corruption is the rule,
while honesty is the exception, among the
thieving Radicals. Stealing commences
with tho great gift-taker In tho White
House and is practiced by the smallest
appointees. It is a recommendation for
Radical preferment.
Ratukr Inconsistent. Sometime since
a few of Horace (Jreeley's admirers sign
ed a request to have him deliver the ad
dress at the next State Fair. The Linn
County Managers extended, and he has
accepted the invitation, to Mr. Fomeroyj
of New York, to deliver the address at
their County Fair. This has given offense
to one of the editois who signed the re
quest for Horace, and be denounces the
action of the Managers of the Linn
County Sociefy. We can't see any more
impropriety in Mr. Pomeroy, a prominent
Democrat, delivering the address, than
Horace Greeley, a Radical leader, and a
prominent candidate for the Presidency.
Figures. Elsewhere we present th!3
week a carefully prepared official state
ment of Federal expenses from 1851 to
1871. These figures are taken from au
thentic records, and their truth cannot be
successfully contradicted. We ask our
Democratic friends, after they have care
fully studied these enormous figures, to
hand their paper to some honest Repub
lican neighbor, and if the record of Radi
cal extravagance here officially shown is
not sufficient to disgust him with his par
ty, he may be considered a party to the
gigantic frauds being perpetrated by
those in power.
Ei-RNF.n. By a dispatch from Roscburg,
we learn that the office of the Rosebur
Ensign, owned by the Gale Brothers, was
entirely destroyed by fire on Tuesday
morning. The origin of the fire was not
known. This is a sad calamity, as we be
lieve the sufferes were industrious, ener
getic young men.
Mr. John Forsyth of the Mobile Regis
ter begins to think negro voting is not so
bad a thins after all. He says : -The
South gains in political weight in Con
gress by colored suffrage, and some of
those days the Radicals will wish they had
let it alone.-'
Died. Dr J. D. Miller, brofher of IL
C. Miller, the poet, died at Easton. Penn
on the 13th Inst. Mr. Miller's parents re
side in Lane county, in this State. The
Doctor was highly esteemed by all who
knew him.
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COURTESY OF BANCROFT
STATE NEWS.
Wheat is quoted at $1 15 per bushelln
Salem.
The Ajax sailed for San Francisco last
evening.
Gold has been found la a vrcll at Jack
sonville.
The Linn County Fair begins next
Tuesday. . ... .
Susan B. Anthony is "doing me
Columbia Country.
Leo. Hudson and a 11 company nll
be at the State Fair.
100.000 bushels of wheat were received
in Albany last week.
Jnsenh WpIIs killed James Dennis, last
Friday, near Ashland.
Laborers are scarce In Corvallis.
Wages $2 and $3 per day.
A Mr. H. Kelly flies n"13 name 113 edltor
of the Jacksonville Sentinel.
Sufferers by the late Corvallis firo are
rebuilding their premises.
The valuation of property this year in
Wasco county is $1,111,862.
Th lata frost did creat injury to ripen
ing grapes in Marion county.
Salt is being made in considerable
quantities in Jackson county.
Thn TlornJ.1 nrocounces the Clarke
County Fair a complete failure.
Frosts in Southern Oregon have con
siderably damaged vegetation.
Two more boats have recently been
placed on the Upper Columbia.
A terrific fire is raging in the mountains
between Silverton and Cedar Camp.
Mons. DeCluto fell off a wire he was
walking, in Corvallis, last Saturday.
The Academies of Portland are better
attended this year than ever before.
A new sailing vessel is soon to be put
on between Portland and t'uget toounu.
Tm hundred more Chinaman have beert
put on the O. & C. R. R. within a week.
Tho Ttfpfhndists of Portland have been
holding revival meetings during the week.
A mineral spring ha3 been discovered
on the Macadamized Road near Portland.
The Portland postofllce has been made
a British International money order office.
Goldsmith's Addition to Portland is
now laid out, and blocks offered for sale.
Hay is said to be scarce throughout the
Valley. Farmers are saving their straw.
A heavy fire has been raging along the
Cascade Mountain Road, in Linn county.
A Hose Company, composed of boys
under 20 years, has been formed in Port
land. The Salem water works arc completed,
and the Salemites will no longer go un
clean. T. B. Merry, says tho Albany Democrat,
is novr in the employ of the O. & C. R. 11.
Company.
Tho work of clearing obstructions
from the Willammctte River is progress
ing rapidly.
The party of Yale College naturalists
are expected in Canyon City by the 1st
of next mouth.
Jack Sheppard recently walked at Hur
risburg 10( hours without rest or steep,
for which he got $20.
A calf four months old was recently
killed at Corvallis. the net weight of
which was 300 pounds.
The light house keeper's dwelling at
Cape Foulweather will be built this fall.
It will be built of brick.
The Herald says Ben. Ilolladay now al
lows that paper to be sold on the cars.
Has he bought that, too ?
Col. C. W. Crocker, recently of San
Francisco, is soon to become associate edi
tor of the Portland Bulletin.
Mrs. Pawtelle, of Salem, has gone East
to continue the study of medicine at
Bellview College, New York.
John W , a son of E. R. Geary, of Linn
county, takes a position in the engineer
corps of the North Pacific Road.
A man named Win. F. Rust was killed,
last week, by falling from a scaffolding
in the Catholic Church at Portland.
Salent is full of visitors. Those who
want accommodations there during tho
Fair should be looking out for them.
The "Portland Railway Company"
filed articles of incorporation iu the
County Clerk's office on Friday last.
The Dalles Lumber Manufacturing
Company will build a new mill on the
site of the one which was destroyed.
A woman was arrested for drunkenness,
in Albany, last week : the first instance
of the kind in that moral atmosphere.
The'demand for lumber, in Portland,
is far in excess of the capacity of her
sawmills, although driven to their utmost.
Dave Long, the well known clown, has
arrived at Portland with a number of
animals, for exhibition at the State Fair.
A strata of Powhatlan clay has been
struck a few miles west of Portland,
thirty feet below the surface of tho earth;
The Conference for the M. E. Church
South was held lately in Linn county.
Some fifteen ministers were in attendence.
Rev. G. P. Weaver has arrived at Port
land, from Pennsylvania, to take pastoral
charge of the Lutheran church of that
city.
A man named McCucan met with a terri
ble accident on Tuesday last, near Dallas,
having his leg torn off in a threshing ma
chine. Freight for Oregon is now offering in
San Francisco in larger quantities than the
steamships now on the line can carry
away. ,
Mr.'T. B. Hall is building a large new
livery stable, on the site of the one that
was destroyed by the late fire at the
Dalles.
The steamer California, having been
thoroughly overhauled, is advertised to
sail for ports on Puget Sound to-morrow
evening.
A brother of Geo. Ilimes, of the firm of
Ilimes fc Bachelder, of Portland, was re
cently severely injured, near Monticello.
by a falling tree.
The Pho-nix Insurance Company has
made the deposit required by law of $50,-
000 IT. S. Bonds, entitling it to do busi
ness in this Slate.
A thrashing machine Caught fire while
in operation in Baker county recently
and was consumed, together with about
300 bushels of grain.
It is reported that E. G. Bert, manager
of the Metropolitan Theater, of San
Francisco, will open Oro Fino Theater,
in Portland, this winter.
A child was run over in Portland, the
other day. by two of Susan B. Anthony's
converts, who were asserting their riglds
by driving fast hor3PS while drunk.
The locomotive John II. Couch, of the
Wesiside Railroad, passed the Fourth
street bridge in saftey. on Wednesday
last. The structure is now deemed secure.
A little son of Mr. Tarbuck, while play
ing in the saw mill of the Capital Lum
bering Company Saturday morning, had
his arm caught in some part of the ma
chinery and entirely tore from his body.
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LIBRARY,
General News Items.
Twenty-one cases of smallpox are re
ported in Lowell, Mass., on the ISth inst.
The Know-Nothing Order is said to be
reviving in New York and New England.
The Yreka postoffice has been made a
British International-money order office.
It Is expected that between 200 and 300
women will attend thb next term of the
Michigan University.
Large numbers of 'sheep have been
tiolsoned in Tclare Valley by eating a
species of milkweed.
Up to August 1st the number cf Ger
mans arriving at New York tho present
year exceeded 50,000.
The profits of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad Company for 1870, as stated by
the Philadelphia Ledger, were $6,612,901.
It 13 said Mrs. F. M. Bates made a good
hit in her role of "Pigeon," in Howard
Taylor's new play, recently produced in
San Francisco.
The Texas Pacific railway is to be
1,515 miles in length. For 250 miles the
road will be an air lino, and in a stretch
of 815 miles there will be but six bridges.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee has issued a call for
the organization of the Army of Northern
Virginia, to make preparations for the
erection of a monnment to Gen. R. E. Lee.
Locomotive No. 8, of the New York and
JWspv Railroad Company, is said to be
the fastest locomotive in the United States
htivina- made eurnty-nine miles ia one
. q WW
hour.
John Slidell left no will, and there are
no heirs to his confiscated estate in Louis
iana. and the public administrator has pe
titioned in the United States Court for
possesion of the property.
James W. Marshall, the discoverer of
gold in California, has started on an east
ern tour. He proposes to give lectures as
he journeys, and we presume they will be
listened to with unusual interest.
A nroiect is under consideration for
constructing a tunnel through the Sierra
Nevada of sufficient size to admit of the
passage of trains and a canal. This tunnel
will save to the Pacific Railroad Company
a distance of seven miles and an ascent
and descent of 1.000 feet, and make
almost wholly unnecessary the use of
snow shovels.
Once more the anxious public mind i
get at rest with regard to Dr. Livingston
the great explorer. A recent letter from
the British Consul at Zanzibar states that
the Dr. is making his way home. The
satisfaction which this information is able
to give us is. howevor. somewhat counter
balanced by the certainty that within s
week full particulars will be received.
from some equally reliable source, of his
death and the means by which it came to
pass.
The Buffenbarger case which ha3 ex
cited so much attention during the past
week has at last been ended by the hon
orable discharge of Mrs. Colbnrn. Itwll
be remembered that this lady was arrest
ed upon charge of having poisoned her
former husband Mr. Buffenbarger. Her
hiends have all along: contended that ihe
entire prooceedings were instigated
through malice and hopes of procuring
gain. The verdict of accquittal would
seem to show that such was true.
The Territories.
A plum tree In Olympla born 600
pounds of plums.
The Clarke County Fair wound up
night with a grand ball.
last
Carrie Your.? and Yankee
were in Olympia last week.
Plummef
Wheat in abundance is now
offering
at
Walla Walla, at 60 cents per bushel.
The Washingfon"""Tprritory Legislature
convenes on the first Monday in October.
It is rumored that a new steamer is
be pu on tho line from Puget Sound
to
to
Portland.
There was one death from smallpox,
at Walla Walla, last Week. No more
cases reported.
Eighteen emigrant families recently
passed through Walla Walla, en route for
the Yakima country.
The frame work of the railroad bridge
over the Kalama river is now completed,
and ready for the track.
The Walla Wnlla noonlrt hiwr rofupp
to 21 vo the $300 .000 subsidy for a rail
road from that city to Walula.
Many claims are being taken up by
settlers on the Snohomish river, whicn
empties into the Sound north of Seattle
Since the first issue of'lhe Arizona
Miner, four years aco. over one hundred
of its subscribers have been killed by the
Indians.
The N. P. R. R. Agents are engaged in
examining their lands in Washington
Territory, preparatory to offering them
for sale.
The Boise mines sf III yield well. The
Gold Hill company on Granite creek
cleaned out a four weeks run a few days
ago, and had 10,UUU lor dividends.
the editor 01 tne mano world was
serenaded the other night and got up and
made a speech to the serenaders. while
his linen -streamed bravely out behind.
A man named Doc. Mann was stabbed
by a man named Baker, at Readersburg.
Montana, last month. Mann was killed
and Baker was taken from the Sheriff bv
a crowd of
citizens and hung.
A widow named Liggett is accused of
having stolen a considerable sum of
money in Idaho lrom a man named Mc-
Hendry She fled toward Oregon. A
warrant Was issued for her arrest but it
is believed she escaped into this State,
Democratic Senate. Private dispatches
received here last night, says the Sacra-
1 T - 1 e r-t
meuiu jiertoner 01 repiemDer tutn. an
nounce the re-election of W. W. Pende
gast as State Senator from the counties of
Lake, Napa and Mendocino. This will
probably render the Senate Democratic,
as there is little doubt of the election of
McCoy in San Diego and San Bernardino.
Pacbeco will probably think seriously of
n-siyiuo ins oenaiorsnip now, as a spe
cial election this Fall will be requisite to
fill that vacancy.
The Herald says a large portion of fhe
passengers brought here by the Ajax last
Monday, are persons who come here to
engag3 in mechanical and agricultural
pursuits. Many of them are from the
vari3us European countries, and were at
tracted bere by the several railroads in
process of construction- The faster they
come the better for all; there is plenty of
room and work for them in this State.
Mrs. Stanton has perpetrated a good
joke on Theodore Tilldn. In the Golden
Age, she says : "I tell you, Theodore,
sub roaa, the 'white male' ha.s something
to be proud of, and my only consolation
la that xte are his mother." The idea that
Mrs. Stanton and Theodore are the white
male's mother is good. She evidently re
gards Theodore as an old granny.
The Secretary Of the State Agricultural
Society give3 notice that no license will
be required of persons who desire to sell
hay, grain, meat, flour or fuel at the fair
grounds.
Telegraphic Clippings.
EASTERN NEWS.
SrurxcFiELD, Sept. 11. The following is
the complete ticket nominated by the
Democratic State Convention to-day: Gov-
enor, John Quincy Adams, of Ujuiney;
Lieutenant-Governor, S. O. Lamb, of
Greenfield; Secretary of State, Luther
Stevenson, 3"r.; Treasurer. Levi Hay wood
uarainer; Auditor, Phineas Allen, or
Pittsfielg; Attorney-General, William W. j
arren. of Brighton.
A.CGCSTA. Sent. I-t Official rptnrna of
the vote for Govencr are received from
3o0 'cities, to
these places Perh.im hna 4) ()? Kimball.
39,874 majority for Perham, 9.81S.
St. Paxx, Sept. 13 The Democratic
State Convention met to-day in this city
auu nominated the following ticket: Gov
enor, Winthrop- Young of St. Anthony;
Lieutenant Govenor. L. Buell of Houston;
Secretary of State, E. Falk; Treasurer, B.
auerg; Attorney-General, J. L. .McDon
ald; Justices of the Supreme Court, W.
Mitchell of Winona and W. K. Burke of
Mankito.
State Convention met to-day. Ex-Gov
ernor Joel Parker of Monmouth was nom
inated by acclamation.
Detroit, Sept. 13. The third trial of
Vanderpoel, charged with murdering his
partner, Herbert Field, at Manisto, in this
State, in September, 1S60, ended to-day
in the accquittal of the prisoner.
New York, Sept. Jacob Vanderbilt,
President of the Staten Island Ferry Com
pany, arraigned to-day on charge of man
slaughter, pleaded not guilty.
Judge Barnard has grantad the injunc
tion restraining the city authorities from
paying any further bills against the city,
except regular salaries, water and gas
bills, and educational bills, in excess of
the amount set apart by the Board of Ap
portionment; and that no further money
shall be paid from the city treasury until
that Board is reorganized.
It is rumored in Democratic circles that,
owing to the decision of Judgx; Barnard,
Controller Connelly will resign. In
that case it is said Gen. George B. Mc-
Clellan will be tendered the position o
Controller, and he will probably accept.
Pm i.a delphi a. Sept. 15. The Treasurer
of the Mint publishes a card intimating
that the accounts of Deliiken, who was
lately removed, are not correct.
Hannah Roberts, a colored woman aged
nenrlv 130 vears. was burned to death
j v
yesterday.
Omaha, Sept. 15. Mr. Gallegos, the
Democratic candidate for Congress from
New Mexico, is probably elected by
maiority of 500.
It is believed that the Grand Jury in
Brooklyn to-day presented indictments in
the cases of the alleged abortionists
Perry and Busker; also, agaiust Jacob
Vanderbilt. Cant. Braiste and others con
ftected with the Staten Island Ferry.
Boston-. Sept. 17. A letter will appear
front Harvey Jewell to-morrow, withdraw
ing his name as candidate for Governor
Chicago. Sept. 17. Last night Andrew
Perfect, colored, cut his wife's throat from
ear to ear, killing her instantly. The
murderer then frent to the station house
and asked, protection, saying that he had
been attacked, evidently pretending in
sanitv. He is in custody.
New Yokk, Sept. IS. The latest phase
of the municipal fight is creating great
excitement through the city. Coifftolly's
action came like a thunder-Clap on Hall.
Sweeney and their adherents All last
night Hall and his friends were consulting.
The fight is now reduced to one between
Hall and Connolly and their followers.
Hall's desperation is shown by the re
moval of Connolly, thus using the power
he had declared he did not possess. The
action of Tilden is aimed at the destruc
tion of the ring. The attempt of Hall to
checkmate will probably result in a crisis
which it is impossible to speculate on.
The Tribune thinks it a matter of congrat
ulation the affair has taken this turn. The
World says Connolly was persuaded into
that course he took by promises ot pro
teclion from the consequenses of his con
duct. He declares the new dodge is ap
proved by Murphy men, as it is thought
it will so demoralize the Democrats as to
secure the State for the Kepnblicans in
November.
Mayor Hall publishes in td-day's Herald
a letkr to Connolly, saying, he considers
his actio i In relinquishing his office to
deputy as a legal resignation, he there
fore considers the controllers ollice va
cant, and has appointed a persou to fill
the vacancy. lie writes a letter tender
ing the office to Gen. McClellan.
Connoly is in ofiice to-day, and Green
entered on the duties this froenoon, and
an opinion is expected to-day from the
Aniinnnl ! o Trior flmrloa O Yn i tat-in
the ground mat t,onnoiiy s course is sus
tained by law. and Hall's is not. As Con
nolly is in possession, it is thought he will
resist any attempt to oust him. Connol
ly's reply to Hull denies the authority of
the latter to exercise the power, and de
clares he will not retire. Green has just
delivered to a committee of citizens and
aldermen all documents in the office re
quired m investigation of the municipal
accounts. Hall's clerks, this forenoon, re
fused to file the official oath of Green
A party of anti-Tammany Democrats
will make sfrenuous efforts this coming
tall to have the strongest nnd best men
who are opposed to corruption returned
10 legislative omces, ana to this end pro
pose to work in harmony with Republl
cans of this city. Divisions of Republi
cans here have almost destroyed the party
doing anything in this city.
Sr. Ai.haxs, Sept. 18. A disastrions fire
broke out on Lake street this morning
and raged five hours. Ihe entire south
side of the street from rarrell s block to
St. Albans House is in ashes. Fifteen
families are made homeless by the fire.
Loss $300,000.
Charlksto.v, S. C, Sept. IS. A. J.
Rinzer, (colored), Lieutenant Governor of
South Carolina, and Chairman ot tbe lie
publican State Committee, publishes a let
ter in the JS'eics strongly opposing the
proposed declaration of martial law. He
thinks the civil power is amply sufficient
to repress existing disorder, and that mar
tial law, as a remedy, would be worse
than the disease.
Chicago, Sept. IS. The Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows of the United States, com
menced its annual session here to-day. P.
G. M. Roggers delivered the welcoming
address. Grand Sire Stuart responded;
Forty-one Grand Lodges and thirty Grand
Encampments are represented. To-morrow
there will be a gr. n 1 p -occasion.
which promises to exceed anything of the
kind ever attempted in this citv.
Rostov, Sept. 18. The Advertiser to
morrow will have tbe following: '-We
have seen Senators Sumner andWilsnn
and are authorized by them to say that
they deeply regret and deplore the extra
ordinary meanness which Butler has pre
cipitated on the commonwealth, and es
pecially his attack against tho evistinnr
State government, ami tho l?r!iu;rn
party of Massachusetts, and that in their
opiniou jis nomination as Govenor would
be hostile to the best interest of the State
and party.
jxkv? 1(,kk, sent. 18. Gen. McCIe lan
declines to accept the office of Controller.
lheveruictot the Coroners Jury this
aiternoon hold3 the proprietors of the
Beekman street establishment, where the
fireworks explosion occurred, resoofisible
for the lives lost. Goldschmidt. one of
tbe proprietors, was killed: Kincher. the
olher, is in the Toombs, in default of bail.
Washington-, Sent, l!). Tbe U.S.. and
British mixed Commission under tho
Treaty of Washington, lor the examina
tion and decision of claims of both enn n.
tries olher than those known as the Ala-
uui ciaiuis, lioiu me nrst imtm-r
Washington on Mondjv. the ?5t!
in
CALIFORNIA NE S.
Sax Fkaxcisco. Sept. 20. Flour-Tk
consequence of a falling off of exports th
demand quiet; rather weak at last quota"
tions.
Wheat Market weak; demand light
$2 502 62 for milling lots. 1
Barley Prices given away under infln.
ence of large receipts and a pressure to
realize salefs. Range of quotations $1 r
02 10. . .
o
Oats Good, VI Oo.
Flat Footed. The Boston Journal (R .
ical) comes out flat-footed against tht
nomination of Ben. Butler for Governoi
of Massachusetts. It says "we cannot for
a moment admit that any man has a claim
upon this or any other noTntnation. Th
Republican party owes nothing to Ben-
jamin F. Batler. For all that he is to-day
in public life, General Butter 'OfreB to fho
Republican party. What he has don
since the close of the war for the good of
the Republican party, we have yet to find
the first man possessed of the informMio
to enlighten us. If his career has afford
ed any evidence of peculiar qualification
lur iuu pusiwou ui jroeruor, we fall
to discover them. He would k'vri ja..
State in a turmoil if his ends wonM
answered by such a course, and his fidni;
iy 10 pany wuuiu. ia&u no longer than it
pleased him to continue to rise the ogani.
zation.-' 1 he Journal notices Dr. T.nr;
in the same vein, and the music has cotn-
Tl-reTT'P yHU Dwvtrkx- il. .
ure of a call en Tuesday from Bishon
ens onMonday and proceeded overland
jrs-iua; i anvnu iu u.cn'erai Conven
tion. lie reports progress In his work id
Oregon and is especially gratified at tb
nrnsnerif r of h;a ctUn . .
t r"-JK, oi,mmi;. J 113 aUUTegS
until the hrst of October, Will ms'GercW
town, l'enn. Pacific CTiurchman.
MAItlVlEiD.
At St.
t St. Paul's Church, Salem, on the 20th
., by Rev. John W. Sellwood. V n
inst.
Knight, Esq., to Miss Sarah U. Miller both
ot Salem. '
DIED.
In this city, Sept. IS, 1871, D. B. Good,
aged 5J years and 3 month.
-- - - - 1 ji
The Cosmopolitan Dm-wing.
Tbe Managers are settling with Agentr
and the Committee is making everv iVepr'
ation for the drawing. The day will shortlr
be announced to the public.
Exuberant 'calth.
Is a blessing vouchsafed to few.
those who have been favored by nature wilk
strong constitutions and vigorous fraores are
apt to neglect the precautions rieces.ai-y to
preserve these precious endoWmttits. Ja.
deed, as a rule, the more healthy and robuit
a man is, the more liberties he is inclircd to
take with his own physimie. it is sum coii
solation to the naturally weak And feeble to
km?w that they can be so invigorated and
built up, by a proper use of the meani
which science has placed at their disposal, m
to have a much better chance of long Hfe
nnd exemptions from disease and Jiain, th
the most athletic of their fellows who art
foolish enough to snppoEte themselves itiTul
nerable, and act accordingly.
It is not top much t Say that more than
hair the people tof the ciViliied world need
an occasional tonic-, to enable them to up
port tbe strain upon their bodies and nn'ndg,
which the fast life of this restless age oce-
sions. In fact, a pure, wholesome, unexcit
ing tonic is the grand desideratum of tha
busy millions, and they have the article in
Hoatetter's .stomach Bitters. It is a stnm.
inal medicine, i. e. it imparts permanent
strength to weak systems and invigorate
delicate con.-titutiuns. Its reputation and
its sales have steadily incieased. Competb
tive preparations have been introduced ad
lihdum, and us ti r as the public is concerned,
ad nauxruni) hi the hope of rivaling it; bnt
they all either perished in the attempt, ef
been left far in the rear. It has been the
great medical success of tbe present centurr,
and it is quite certain that no proprietary
medicine in this country is as widely knowe,
or. as generally used.
Ten lightning presses, running inccssahtly
(Sundays excepted.) the whole vear through,
barely supply tbe demand for the Illustrated
Almanac, in which the nature and use or
tbe preparation are set forth, the circulation
now being over eight millions a vear.
iVcw To-laty.
GOLDSMITH'S ADDITION
TO THE
CITY OF PORTLANDl
THE UNDERSIGNED OW OFFERS
for sale, at
VERY REASONABLE RATES,
Blocks & Fractional Blocks
GOLDSMITH'S ADDITION
TO THE CITY OF PORTLAND,
Formerly known as the Balch Claim.
Commencing at L and Twenty-sixth street;
about, trin rri im, too w.lt r . i.
street Railroad on 1J street. The PROPER
TV IS WELL SITUATED, about three'
.uui ma yi u jevei, no grading required, and
is, either for
HOMESTEADS OR SPECULATION
THE MOST DESIilAIJLE TO BE FOUND !
And will be sold on the following
One fourth Cash i thfl balance in air.
twelve and eighteen months, with nine ner
cent, interest per annum.
WAKRAXTV DEEDS GIVEN.
ror further particulars, enquire at our of
fice, where Maps can be seen.
GOLDSMITH I1ROS.
Sept. 22, 1871 -nil
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1 It contains twice as many Seng a.JLX
can De louna m other vrors.s. The
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t MUSIC is octvl frrrra
VXauthors, and not filial up with one
uumor s composition. rnce,73 cents
each, or 7 i per dozen. Sample
copies mailed to Teachers for rt.T
tents. Liberal arrangements for
introduction. Address,
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