SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 3, 1870.
The Qualification of a Senator.
There is no other office connected with this
government where extraordinary talents, in
dividual probity and rare personal dignity
may be exemplified more becomingly than in
the Senate of the United States. Theconcen-
trated pride of all our people rests in the
assembled greatness of that body, and as the
title of “Roman Senator” was once scarcely
less significant of human glory than the wear
ing even of the imperial purple, so would all
right thinking American citizens delight to
see in the personator of senatorial dignity
evidence of meriting simular consideration at
the bands of tho people. The grandeur of
the Roman Senate, no doubt, had some influ
ence upou the minds of the framers of the
Constitution in inducing the selection of the
same name to distinguish that branch of our
National Legislature which, of all others, was
intended to embody the greatest wisdom,
prudence and discriminating judgment of the
coantry. This idea was for a long time lived
up to, as the bright constellation of our
earlier Statesmen bears testimony ; but of
late years -“what a fall was there my country
men 1” In their ignoble grasping after politi
cal power and advantage, our adversaries
have taken no heed of the ignominy they were
courting and bringing down upon the Nation
by fraudulently forcing into the Senate car
pet-baggers and unscrupulous political ad
venturers. Even Cuffee is introduced, prob
ably to give an aromatie flavor and consis
tency to the Radical portion of the Senate.
The Democratic Senators as a general thing,
we are proud to own, are men worthy to have
been the peers and associates of those who
lent honor and fame to their country in the
better days of the Republic. Such Senators
as Thurman, Stockton, Casserly, Hendricks
and Buckalew, who were recently asso
ciates, bid us not despair of once more seeing
the great council chamber, where once was
heard the eloquence of a Webster, a Ilayne,
a Clay and Douglas, and where the integrity
of a Critendeo and a Collammer once shone
with a splendor that will brighten forever,
rise up from the extreme low estate into
which it has fallen and again become a fit
object for the deferential regard of the peo
ple.
ment are always sufficient to exact respect no
matter how decided the minority an individ
ual may find himself in. The argument so
frequently promulgated by the Radical press
in favorof Williams’ re-election amounts only
to a begging of the question. Ho never did
represent the will of our people ; wasinstruc-
teikto resign, and we have not yet forgotten
the contemptuous ridicule with which he
treated the invitation. He now very humbly
asks those whom he treated formerly with
insolence to invest him with Seuatiorial func
tions six years longer. They’ll do it—“in a
horn.”
Communicated.
•
E ditor N ews :—You will confer a favor
upon me by inserting in tho columns of your
paper the following notice of the article that
appeared in the last issue of the Sentinel,
under the caption of “The County Hospi
tal
Jonathan Davis, an old man f»4 years old, was
on his way from Iowa to sec his son in Portland,
Oregon. Ry tho timo he arrived here his ankle
had become rubbed aud sore, and he was compelled
to stop. He would havo been neglected, but for
the benevolence of certain of our townsmen, who
had him taken to Dr. Ovcrbcck’s Hospital and
properly cared for.— Sentinel.
On the 30th day of July last, I called the atten
tion of Judge Shipley to the fact that a man by
the name of Davis was stopping at my Hotel sick
As the time for the convening of the Leg
and without means. He immediately had him re
islature draws nigh, we tako this opportunity moved to the Hospital,
to urgo upon the members the propriety of
L. II orne .
Additional School Tax.
increasing the tax for the benefit of common
schools. Our State certainly occupies a lag-
ging, backward attitude on this subject, at a
time when its financial condition eminently
fits it to take a front, if not a leading, posi
tion in a matter of such universal public im
portance. Most all other States are embar
rassed with weighty and accumulating debts
which, did we rest under u burden of similar
purport, might be construed into a plausible
excuse or pretext for withholding aid so es
sential ; but, thanks to the wise and econom
ical policy inaugurated originally in this
State, and which we trust our people will
have the witdom toJ adhere to, we have no
thing of the kind hanging over the bright
future of Oregon. Since Oregon was admit
ted as a State into the Union, our population
has near about trebled, and the character of
our population has undergone a noticeable
change. Formerly, the proportion of chil
dren to grown people was very small; but,
now, the tables are turned, and youngsters
multiply with alarming rapidity for those
who are only moderately able to provide for
their educational training. The means for
educating every child in the State,—the poor
a9 well ns rich,—is something our legislators
may and should provide us with. The peo
ple have petitioned for it heretofore, and
there is no valid reason for longer omitting
an act so full of general benefits to the en
tire commonwealth.
R etrospection .—While the Editor of the
Bulletin is causing the columns of his paper
to groan daily with the weight of the ful
some admiration which ho finds occasion to
bestow at present upon Judge Williams, we
wonder if he has forgotten the numerous bit
ter personal assaults he formerly bestowed
upon the same individual. We can remem
ber very well when it was utterly out of the
question for Mr. O’Meara to recognize any
thing but unredeeming qualities in the great
Radical Mougal whom he now seems inclined
to worship with “more than Eastern devo
tion.” Can he account for the paradoxical
situation in which he has voluntarily placed
himself otherwise than as reflecting discredit
upon himself? Either he was guilty of per
petrating gross injustice to his idol orig
inally, or present adulation is sadly mis
placed ! Probably the Editor of the Bulle
tin is amenable to both charges. Dryden’s
two lines, in which he very epigrammatically
enunciates the prominent qualities of Zimri,
would probably apply to Mr. O’Meara bet
ter than anything else.
The Mineral Land Law -
The above named person, Jonathan Davis, was
placed in my Hospital by order of Judgo Shipley
July 30th, 1870. The statement in the Sentinel
that he was placed under my charge by private
persons, is untrue.
A. B. OvERBECKr
——
We spent considerable time the past week
in endeavoring to examine into the law regu
lating the entry ofmineral land for mining
purposes. Some uneasiness has been ex
perienced on tho part of miners lest tho late
act would enable outside parties to come in
and defraud them of their just rights under
our old mining regulations, but from an in
spection of the law with its complicated in
tricacies and devious meanderings to accom
modate itself to local rules and regulations,
we do not believe miners need apprehend any
great danger. To obtain a patent to a mining
claim, the applicant must show that he is
rightfully possessed of it and that there are
no conflicting claims to the same. A great
many preliminaries aro to be gone through
—such as posting notices, diagrams, etc., and
advertising for ninety days in a newspaper—
before title can issue, and those having rights
anyways infringed on have abundant oppor
tunities for contesting the matter. From the
Yreka Journal wo take the following addi
tional information on the subjact:
For location of quartz ledges any person or
John Clark camo here sick and penniless. He association claiming a lode of gold, silver,
was found unattended and in a horrid state of neg cinnabar or copper, and shall have complied
lect. His death was a burning shamo on our
county administration. Ilis application was made with local laws, and previously expended in
to the County Judge in person. That functionary labor and improvements not less than $1,000,
can have the satisfaction of knowing that the first
applicant for county charity, since his term of of and there is no dispute by an opposing claim
fice began, perished, if not through want of atten ant, such person or association may file in the
tion, in the niont shameful neglect.— Sentinel.
local land office a diagram of the same, so
During the week ending Saturday, August extended laterally or otherwise as to conform
13th, several strangers applied to mo for aid, with the local laws of minors, and to enter
all recently from California. Among the such tract and receive a patent therefor,
number was an individual suiting the descrip granting such time, together with the right
tion of the man who died in the Recorder to follow such vein or lode with its dips and
building, August 20th. He was a large, variations, to any depth, although it may
able bodied looking man, and from his ap enter the land adjoining, which land adjoin
pearance I considered him ablo to work. I ing shall bo Sold subject to this condition.
proffered, however, to send him back to Cal Upon filing this diagram, and posting the
ifornia to his friends, as he stated he was same in a conspicuous place on the claim, to
from Siskiyou county. He declined the offer,
gether with notice of intention to apply for a
giving ns a reason thut he had come to Ore
patent, the Register of the Land Office shall
gon to stay a few years, and did not desire
publish a notice in a newspaper, and also
to return at present. Mr. Cowan, of the post such notice in his office for a period of
City Drug Store, at my solicitation, put him
ninety days. After such time, if no adverse
up a prescription of aome kind. Since then
claim shall have been filed, it shall be the
I have not seen the man. During mv tern duty of the Surveyor General, upon applica
pornry absence from the town and State, the
tion of the party, to survey and mako a plat
same person, judging from the description,
thereof, endorsed with his approval, designa
called at the Express Office and made inquiry
ting tho number and description of location,
for the County Judge. He represented him
tho value of the labor and improvements, and
self as being unwell, and the City Recorder
the character of the vein exposed. Upon the
had him placed in the Recorder building.
payment of five dollars per acre, together with
Mr. Bonham’s services were procured to wait
the cost of survey, plat and notice, a return
on him—to furnish him food, &c. Dr. L.
shall be made to the General Land Office for
Ganung was called in, who, as examining ‘
a patent, but no single patent will be issued
physician, examined into tho nature of his
for more than one vein nr lode. No location
case, aud rendered him all the medical as
hereafter made shall exceed 200 feet in length
sistance in his power. On my arrival from
along the vein for e ich locator, with an ad
California, I was informed by the Recorder
relative to what had been done for the man, ditional claim to the discoverer. No person
with a request’that I should’have him re shall have more than one location in the same
lode, and not more than 3,000 feet shall be
moved to the Hospital. Within two hours
of my arrival the man died. The certificate allowed in any one claim to any one associa
of the examining physician, and the bills for tion of persons.
N ot A nswered .—The Bulletin complain®
that its arguments in favor of the election of
Williams to the Senate are not attempted to
be answered by the Democratic press of the
State, and that in lieu of such attempt, criti
cism of its editor’s own condnctare too freely
indulged in. What Mr. O’Meara would call
an answer to his own productions would needs
be very difficult to perpetrate. Probably no
small amount of the neglect to which bis po*
lemic effusions have been subjected, arises
from the inability of other people to discover
the same amount of weight belonging to them
that the author does. It is no unusual thing
for writers to exhibit an appreciation of their
own productions wholly unapproachable by
persons not equally interested in keeping up
the infatuation.
T elegraphic .—A late dispatch states that
the Prussians, after a tremendous struggle,
have completely used up the French, and
compelled them to seek protection on the neu
tral territory of Belgium. Ten thousand
French surrendered their arms to the Bel
gian authorities. Advices from Brussels, 2d,
say : Slaughter in battle yesterday was ter
rible. Tne river Meuse filled with dead
bodies. Villages in flames. Paris Journal
admits that McMahon was defeated on Tues
day, but claims a partial success on Wednes
day.
A C hance to G et Ricn.—By referring
to our advertising columns, the anxious as
pirant after great wealth at little cost or out
lay will find the very thing he has been look
ing for—a chance for leaping right ¡Dto the
possession of a competent fortune at a single
bound. Who would continue battling with
lank poverty when a life competence can be
secured at so little cost ? Read the list of
premiums, etc., for the benefit of the Neva
da School District, and see if our head is Dot
level.
J ust in T ime .—Sachs Bros, had thoir store
house refitted, repainted ¿nd neatly fixed up
just in time to receive their new supplies of
goods, which have already commenced to ar
rive. We expect their intention is to offer
one of the liveliest competitions for the fall
trade yet witnessed in the mercantile expe
rience of Jacksonville. A new supply of
“shoo fly” hats for boys just received.
A t the O ld S tand .—Mr. J. Miller begs
leave to inform the public that he still holds
forth in the Harness and Saddlery business,
at the old stand, on tho north side of
California St. lie ia making large addi
tions to his stock, and is determined that no
one shall under sell him.
G one E ast .—Silas J. Day, County Clerk of
Jackson county, and R. Benedict of Apple
gate, left on the stage, Wednesday evening,
for the States. Mr. Day goes to attend the
Nitting of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows ;
Mr. Benedict to look after some private in
terest in one of the Western States.
A person aspiring to a position of such
importance ought to combine with a high or
der of talent certain unmisiakable moral
qualities or attributes. No man who would
purchase his election through bribery and
corruption is fit to represent the sovereignty
H ouse B urned .—The dwelling house cf
of our State in the forum of the National
Mr. C. Neil was burned down last Wednes
government; nor is the individual who would
day evening, up on Bear creek. The fire is
work through the agency of conspiring rings
supposed to have originated from a defective
and corrupt cliques much better. We had
flue. We have not learned the exact extent
For
placer
mine«,
including
all
forms
of
of the loss sustained.
taking
care
of
him
(Clark)
have
been
sworn
mueh rather have the election of a Senator
to, and are now on £lo in the Clerk’s office deposit except quartz and other rock, shall
left directly with the people, where the na
awaiting the meeting of the Board to be bo subject to entry and patent upon the same
ture of their preferences could be more fully
conditions as lode claims, and may be pur
elicited and made known. Not that we ex
audited.
These are the fact upon which was founded chased at $2 50 per acre. Legal subdivisions
perience any distrust of the preseat Legisla
GRAND award
that false aud libelous article written by Mr. of forty acres may be subdivided into ten acre
ture more than of any other that might be
chosen ; but the election of a Senator, strictly
E. B. Watson, and published in the columns tracts, and parties contiguous with claims of of Premiums in aid of the Nevada School District,
of the Sentinel. I was confident in my own less than ten acres, may join entry. No lo Nevada city, California.
speaking, cannot be regarded as a matter of
partial list :
mind, from its first appearance in print, that cation of a placer claim hereafter made shall
legislation, aod valuable time is consumed in
Mr. Dowell was not the author of it ; that exceed 1G0 acres to any one person or asso 1 Premium, Gold Coin,.............................. $10,000
contentious wrangling, plots are laid and
“Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong ;
he had too much self-respect to make such an ciation of persons, and like the quartz lode 1 Premium, Gold Coin,.............................. 5,000
schemes commenced for future operations;
Was everything by starts, and nothing long ! uncalled for personal attack upon the under act, shall not defeat or impair any bona fide
1 Premium, Gold Coin,.............................. 3,000
whereas, if the people bad it in their power
signed, as well as upon the charitable spirit pre emption or homestead claim upon agricul 1 Premium, Gold Coin,............................. 2,000
to speak directly, the general good of the en
A lmost a C hristian .—Mr. Sullivan, of
tural lands, or authorize the sale of the im 1 Premium, Gold Coin,.............................. 1,000
of our people.
tire people would be more fully subserved.
1 Premium, Gold Coin,...-.......................... 1,000
the Dallas Republican, gets off some sound
provements of uDy buna fide settler to any
T. H. B. S hipley .
But this is what might be construed a digres
1 Premium, Gold Coin,.............................. 1,000
views occasionally condemnatory of the prin
purchaser.
sion.
1 Premium, Gold Coin,.........................
1,000
ciples and practices of the Radical party.
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Railroad Meeting.
1 Premium, Gold Coin,.............................. 1,000
Whoever is elected at the coming session He ought to be, what he comes very near ,
I
S an F rancisco , May 15, 1870.
10 Premiums, “
“ each......................
200
of the Legislature, we trust he may be selec being already in principle, a Democrat. It
100
Pursuant to agreement a meeting of the M essrs . C owan & F lint , G ents :—For the 10 Premiums, *• “ each...................
ted in consequence of unexceptional merit of looks like stultification all the way through,
benefit
of
those
suffering
with
the
terrible
disease
50,000 Season Tickets to the Grand Fair eom-
his own and for bis likelihood to wield what for a man to be sincerely opposed to Chinese Incorporators of the Oregon Branch Pacific Fever and Ague, allow me to state that I was af
mencing October 27th will be sold at $2 50 each.
ever of influence he may possess for the good and Negro suffrage, and yet claim allegiance R. R. Company convened, August 31st, 1870, flicted with the Chills and Fever which afterwads
at the office of Mr. Jas. T. Glenn to perfect
Treasurer, Bank of Nevada County.
of all sections of the State alike. We want to the universal-brotherhood party.
turned into the Dumb Ague. I had tried all the
the organizing of the Company, and devise most celebrated physicians of this city for four
25,000 Premiums,
no man sent to Washington unbacked by per
means
for
receiving
subscriptions
for
stock,
To the R escue .—The Roseburg Ensign
months, but grew worse until I was scarcely able amounting to $85,000 will be awarded to tho hold
sonal integrity, or who would bring odium
&c.
The
meeting
was
called
to
order
by
to walk, with loss ef appetite, night sweats, etc. ers of season tickets.
is
again
drifting
about
at
the
mercy
of
a
Re
upon the office through bacchanalian excesses;
Hon. J. D. Fay.
»
In fact, I began to believe my case hopeless, when
For reference we refer you to any citizen of Ne
neither do we want one sent capable of publican Gale,—two Gales, in fact,—and if
On motion, Mr. David Linn was unani finally a friend induced me to try your Ague King. vada city, California.
ignoring an important constinent section of the capacity of the chief engineer to do mis
mously called to the Chair, and Mr. Sol. I had no confieence in it, supposing it to be like Responsible Agents wanted. Liberal commis
the country by him represented. “Is he chief were equal to his vanity, the ruin and
other medicines the base being quinine. I used sions allowed. For full particulars and terms to
Saehs duly elected Secretary.
devastation
that
usually
follow
a
tornado
honest? is he capable?” are the main ques
On motion, a committee for soliciting sub but two bottles of it and in ten days I was a sound agents, Address
would
present
an
agreeable
contrast
to
the
tions which Southern Oregon would profound
scription of stock was appointed, consisting man. Three months has passed since I med your
R. L. G RINNAN, Sec’y,
to the candidate fur Senatorial distinction, desolation that would certainly revel in its of Messrs. J. T. Glenn, C. C. Beekman, II. remedy, and I never felt better or stronger in my
Nevada city. Cal.
Klippel,
J.
C.
Tolman
and
J.
B.
Wrislev.
life. After paying five hundred dollars and lying
ind we trust that the Democrat combinin'*
D wake 1
On
motion,
Mr?
J.
T.
Glenn
was
appointed
idle four months, I am cured. I consider the Ague
these qualifications in the most eminent de-
M atrimony .—Mr. Wm. Thompson, the Chairman of committee and Mr. Sol. Sachs King a dead shot for fever or fever and ague.
greewiJl be the one chosen to succeed Wil
enterprising publisher and editor of the Rose Treasurer.
SAM’L SHAW.
liams* We want no man of fourth or fifth
On motion, an assessment of 81 per capital
In the matter of the Estate of Gabriel
burg Plaindealer, has went and gon and got (each incorporator), was made for the pur
Brown. Deceased.
rate capacity. That species of oratory which
married. We wish him untold happiness in pose of defraying expenses which may ac•' N ot S o .—The Ensign man accuses us of
otice is hereby given that the
works very well on the stump where the petty
his new found relations of life, and trust that crue in procuring books, &c.
undersigned has been appointed (by the Pro
relishing frothy articles, which accusation we
prejudices of the people are to be tampered
Off
motion,
Mr.
J.
T.
Glenn
was
duly
em
bate
court of Jackson county, Oregon, at the Au
many new editions of himself may in iuture
with will be found sadly out of place in the
powered
to
call a meeting at any future time are inclined to believe wholly untrue, else gust term thereof) -Administrator of said Estate,
cluster around the publication office of the as contingencies may arise.
how could we ever hope to be able to concea and all persons having claims against said Estate
deliberate councils of the Senate. There it
are required to present them with proper vouchers
—Plaindealer.
There being no further business for present our extreme fondness and partiality for the to
will require something more than the appeal
the undersigned at his residence, two miles
adjustment, on motion, tho meeting adjourn effervescent ebullitions of the blubbering ge northwest
of Bunch’s saw mill on Evans ereek,
of the demagogue to arrive at the possession
R eturned .—Alex. Martin returned from a ed.
within
six
months from the date of this notice.
nius who presides over the Ensign^ It
of influence. High individual attainments recent trip to the bay about the middle of
DAVID LINN, Chairman,
WILLIAM W. BROWN, Administrator.
would be impossible.
August 27th, 1870.
sepU-w-L
S ol . S achs , Secretary.
united to a gentlemanly and dignified deport the week.
11 rw, CTo-pat).
Administrator’s Notice.
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