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PS’: 3?? / A L T E R E «. M S k tS Ü le tU g J^olk é m n r t j S ig n a l, f OFFICIAI PAPER OF POLK CO’. Once upon a time, and after HONORABLE. the T E L E G R A P H IC A t a meeting o f the Republicans o f nm i-ta eloee o f the war, the Souther^ States Pennsylvania held in Lancaster, the were invited te elect Representative« following reso utions were unanimously to Congress and take their phices in adopted, aud from which it would teem F o r 1 re s id e n t, the halls o f legislation. This they did, that the republican party has been the aucPin good faith. The majority of first to make honorable mention o f J. that body (Congress) being composed Wilkes Booth : o f bigots, knaves, thieves and idiots, Reeolced , That the República« Realtor who MONDAY MORNING, JULY 2 \ 1 S 08 . HORATIO SEYMOUR, or NEtr roiiK. . For Vice President, F R A N K P. B L A I R , discovering that the Southern States now failure in bis great duty to bis country by had elected honest men— men gifted with a high sense o f honor— men pus sessed o f attainments of a high order, feared to admit these Representatives to scats OF MISSOURI. should FO R P R E SID E N T IA L ELECTORS, S. F. CHADWICK» oi Douglas County, JOHN BURNETT, of Beuton Covnlj. JAS, n. SLATER, of Union Ounty. lest their vanish. own occupations They saw clearly enough that it would not do to admit such men to seats and hope to contin- ue in their mad career o f agrarianism, murder a u i thievery. They according withholding bis support from the conviction of Andrew Johnson upon the Articles ot Im peachment, so justly preferred against him by the American people ttirou'glf their loyal Rep resentatives in Congress,aud so clearly proven, foreccr forfeit» nil claim» to honor and true!. mid merit» the condemnation o f »eery moil, ico mon and chito in the loud ; tu iT BV sueII AC TIOX UK LENDS A STHO.NÍ i Í k MANI) TO TKKASO.N th an did B o o t h t h k a s s vnin 0 r L i n c o l n ; that he betrays the trusted hopes o f millions, and commits a crime ugatust liberty that will damn his name and memory to never ending infamy ; that eveu besitition now, on the part of any Republican Senator, to execute justice upon the greatest criminal o f the age, will be u deliberate bid for the commission o f further treason, a reward for dangerous osurpat ion and an encouragement for oppressive aud de grading tyranny; that it will elevate perjury to a virtue, destroy fidelity te principle, and make corruption honorable. ly set themselves about the werk o f glish press conies down on the action o f devising ways and means whereby the Mew York Convention aud admon these Southern States could be kept ishes the American people to repudiate unrepresented. A test oath was im The auove was one o f a series of res provised. Members elect, applying for olutions, reported b) a committee and it s i the polls; in short the Nobility adopted by the meeting without a dis o f England neither endorse the plat seats in either House o f Congress had senting voice. form nor ibe candidates o f the National to take and subscribe to an oath, that A fter the adoption o f the C ommittee’s Deiuoeratio Convention. Now this is they had never aided, abetted or sym resolutions, Mr. Jay Cud well, a lead The ing mongrel o f Lancaster, offered the ell natural enough. Great Britain always pathized with the rebellion. opposed the Democratic party o f the South, desirous * o f the renewal o f ami- follow in g: O f C ourse t h e y D o n ’ t .— T ho Kn Rctoleed, That Lyman Trnmbull and Win. United Statues. And why ? Sim ply be cable relations between the scctious, Pitt Fessenden, in »eiliny their Hom e » to the devil, and voting to acquit Andrew Johnson of cause that party has ever been opposed to generally elected men who were not the crime with which ho is charged, hare ren« Monarchies; opposed the oppression of obnoxious to the charge o f even sym'* * dtred the name o f J. Wilke» Booth honorable. These the people for the benefit o f an aristoc pathizing with the rebellion. W h a t D oes he M e a n .— Is Grant racy ; opposed England’s iron rule and men applied for admittance— were in convinced that there is no earthly tyrauoous domination over Ireland and terogated as to whether they would vut * show for his election and is therefore isdfwth to flunk} ism everywhere. The with the radicals, and refused because uuwi’ ling to relinquish the office he Republican party suits the Monarchists they would not sell themselves to now ho ds ? Or dues he propo-e to use o f Great Britain to a dst It is tyrun- the corrupt, perjured cabal, although the authority vested in him b j the ioal— despotic. This is the secret to they could take the prescribed oath.— Rump for the purpose o f illegally fleet the opposition o f the English press to The Kuinp then doubles upou its own ing himself through military interfer the Democratic nominations and plat trucks by euacting the reconstruct 11 ence with the elections? it is time form. Some o f the republican papers measures— placing the Southern State» the people were advised whether or not These are parading in their columns what under a military dietator»hip. the man who comes before them fur this, that aud the other Johny Bull reeoustruction tots provide that, when their suffrages for the highest office in journal says against the Democratic any State Government is orgauiz d rheir gil t has self respect enough tu re- party, 'lliis action ou the part o f re under them, Representatives from publican editors betrays a great want of such State shall be admitted to seats >igu a position t-ready held by hiru.— sagacity ; and »specially is this true in in Congress— subject of course to the Having a vi ry indifferent opinion ot view of the fact that they are making an limitations and disabilities imposed b\ ihe man’s sense oi honor or slutue, we « that to capture a portion oi tin. Fenian the af,re.said test oath. Well, tbi» predicted when Grant was n minuted fir the presidency that he w'oulJ not resign the situation he already hel l.— <|iiarr«:ct*d in England aud lrti .nd be returned to plague its iuv« utora. The \Yre v.ere a-sured, however, by repub » d o being hunted down on the high telegraph under date o f Ju y 4. inform» ¡¡cans who know something of the fii *oas. The Republican j arty is the enemy us that two an mbers from North Car no -s ot things, that we were mistaken o f the Fenians while the Democracy olina— Boydou and Dicky— elected un — that they liad too much coiifidtsice has ever been their friends. England der the reconstruction laws and now in > in the man to suppose tor a mout-nt knows this and acts accordingly. The Washington— cannot take the the outh ; that he would be guilty o f so unseenih Despots o f the entire Old World arc yet these gentlemen, upon agreeing to and unmanly an action in th ; fac# ot pleased with the Rump Despotism down be black, republicans, were sworn in, tho example set by Gen. McClellan.— * 800111 , for, ao long as such a state of minus the test oath ! Aud this is all Blood will tell. things exists, they cm poiut to the done by the party o f all integrity ! It >ote. / Feman.« are being hung anci invention (the test oath) has already experiment o f self government in the Wilks Booth, Jeff. Davis aud Capt. T he M a j o r it y to R u le .— Every United States as a stupid failure— as an Wirz were to present themselves and body in Oregon has heard the republi abortion. W hile the republican party claim seats as members o f Congress, cans loudly protesting during the last maintains the ascendant the bayonet is they would all be admitted to seats seven years that the majority should in substituted for civil process. O f course upou pledging themselves to vote and all cases rule— that they were ever the Britishers don’ t like the Democrat act with the radical des.ructionists.— ready to bow to the will o f the major ic party. W e are glad o f it. There What a parody upon decency, honesty ity, &c. Now let us try their practice is no love lost. and consistency. To be a wretch o f by their professions. Geo. H . W il the first water is the best recommenda liams and H . W . Corbett are Senators S cared — The Humpies, alarmed at tion one can have to republican favor, in Congress from Oregon. Theso gen. ■the bold stand taken by the New York It is copartners in crime which the tlemen, instead o f bowing to the will of Convention, against the continuance o f leaders o f that party seek after, and who a large majority o f their constituents, that nuisance, the Freedman’s bureau, they must have at no matter what cost to propose and advocate measures which talk seriously about repealing or limit» the people have been most emphatically aud ut ing the infamous arrangement. It is terly repudiated by them. They advo too late to scare now Should the law W e w a n t it S to ppe d .— The Union cate negro suffrage, the continuance of he repealed or modified during this ist concern, no longer able, it would the Freedmen’« bureau and the perpet s ession o f the Rump it will be most seem, to borrow the S ig n a l , has beta uation o f military rule and supremacy. obvious to all that the Democracy is ken itself to apprcpriatirig it. Certain Oregou has rej udinted all these things. entitled to the credit therefor. What subscribers about Salem complain. Ought not Williams aud Corbett re will the Rump organs o f Oregon say in Now Mac., you can have our paper by sign? the event the great bureau is abolished ? the quarter— at one dollar— payable in W ill th ey , continue to support Con advance. W e again give you notice A Republican subscriber at Salem gress ? They ail say that said bureau that we cannot afford to exchange with complains that, as soon as the SiONAL is as necessary to day as it ever was, you. reaches him each week, McPherson (in which conclusion we heartily join “ goes for i t ” and he never gets to see them though from a different stand P rofound .— Macfiersen o f the Un it again. -point— the thing never having been ionist has made the discovery that H o Tell Me. that, for three dollars, ¿weessary) and that Congress would ratio Seymour is the uncle o f the duke coin, in advunce, he can have our pa. notsdo the country and its own record of Argyle and nephew o f Cleopatrse ; per sent regularly to his address for the Yiolenco to repeal it. Now, if the He probably gleaued this item of intel one year. thing ahould be abolished, Congress, ligcnce from the book containing four according to republican logic, would be Kings. l i e is said to be a close stu T he Record says that the greater guilty o f a great wrong W ill they dent o f this sort o f literature. come down with their thunders upon that body? C leaned them O u t .— T he Dem Huntington portion o f the crowd in attendance at the Democratic jubilee in Salem on is bleeding freely for Saturday, the 11 inst., was composed the “ lo t cause ” o( radicalism. He o f Republicans ! This is rather a fa has twice purchased tho Unionist estab tal admission for a wooly paper to make. ocratia County Superintendent o f Mult lishment out of the voracious clutches » omah county has di.-charged from the o f the Sheriff. His butter depends public Schools o f the county such upon the success o f the disUnion ticket teachers as sing John Brown and hi this fall. I f Seymour is elected (oi glorified and require scholars to join in which there can be no doubt) the in the blasphemy. O f course the Oreyo dian Department wilt be transferred to niati is worried at this. other hands. T h e most ludicrous thing we have S om ebody invited Dickens, while read lor many a day was the dispatch in Boston, to attend one o f tbe churches to the effect that the Democracy had on Sunday. Dickens declined to go, ear» it d the election in Mississippi by because he didn’ t take ¿uy iuterest iu e» o«* Lauds.” J American politics. T he old Catiline, Stevens, has pounc ed upon the President again with a nu merous progeny o f “ articles o f Impeach* ment*” C h ic a g o , July 13.— Specials to the morning papers say that several. pol iticians and members from the Tamma. ny Hall Convention, and some who are dissatisfied with the nomination o f Grant, are trying first to compel Sey mour to withdraw, or failing in this, endeavor to enlist Chase or some prom inent statesman as third candidate for Presidency. Should Chase rjfusc, John Quincy Adams will be proposed for President and Sum. Carrey for Vice President. The Convention will he held August 81 h, it Pittsbuig or Cincinintti. The 1 aders oi this m >ve ment are said to embrace Lew. Camp hell o f Ohio. Gen. Freemonf, Sam. Curey and many o f the participants in the old Philadelphia Convention two years «go. '' ’ Chicago, July 14.— The Democrats intend holding an immense ratification meeting in this city to-moriow night. Frank Blair and Geo. H. Pendleton are among the speakers. A Washington special says that Con gress will probably not adjourn until after the 23d, wheu the ten days will have expired since the bill excluding from the eleotoral college unreconstruct ed States was presented to the Presi dent. From Mississippi. Jackson, July 14.— Gov. Humphrey and family were yesterday ejected from the Executive wausion by military authorities. It is claimed that the Democrats carried the recent election iu this State by gross frauds. Washington, July 15.— The commit tee on Elections reported the creden tials o f Boydeu and Dicky, members elect from North Carolina, but those gentlemen were unable to take the test nuth. The committee recommended that the ojth prescribed for persons whose disabilities have hem removed be administered Agreed to. Both gentlemen were then sworu iu and took their seats. G ra n t W h ippe d b y a N eoiio .— W c understand th it Thomas Grant a h a lf breed youth and reputed sou o pGeneral II. S. Grant, was badly beaten at Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus county, a few days since, b> a gentieniau o f the Alrica 11 persuasion, and is not expected to recover. The bottom rail is getting on top. The diffi ulty arose from th desire o f the/freeduntn to more thor mjghly commingle the blood o f the tacea, aud especially to become a t el.» live o f our futuie president. The lie gro has been committed to await the action o f the grand jury. The Gener al has our sympathy mi this melancholy affair.— Tuolumne City Xetes. P ills H O SIE ri'E R , SA1ITU k DEAN. San Franeisso. Legacies Left By B#chauau. - D e f a u l t * » .—-Prom diffrent pjtffci*« % The will o f the late President Bu chanan has been filed in the Register’s office, at Lancaster Pennsylvania The following are the beq^efets : $ 2,000 to the poor o f Lanoastey City, in addition to the $4,000 previous« donated; $1,* 000 to the presbyterian jphuroh o f Lan caster, o f which deeasedyas a member; $5,000 to Esther Parker, hou»e keeper o f the deceased— being in addition to $ 2,000 heretofore givcnjher: $ 2,000 to Martha J. Lane, widow*of James B. Lane, deceased, P e te r »llillier, Mary Sm thgall.aud Lizzia Stoner, servants, $100 each. The books, plate and furniture to Mrs. llariiet L. J- huso*, Rev. E. Y. Buchanan, aud J . Buehiuun Henry, to he divided equally among them, allow ing Esther Parker $2JU out o f the amount The balance o f the estate, real add personal, is directed to be di vided among his heirs as follows : One*, fourth to Mrs. Harriet L. Johnson, ouo fourth to Rev. E. Y. Buchanan, neith er o f whom is to be charged with con siderable advancements which have been made to them, tnd the balance to J. Buchanan Henry, son o f his sister, Harriet B, Lane, and\the three sons of his nephew, James B. Lane, deceased ; Mary E. Durham, daughter of his sis ter, Mary Yates, deceased ; to Maria B. Weaver, Jessie Magaw (formerly Jes. sic W eaver,), James B. Weaver aud John B. Weaver. The testator states that “ whilst feel ing full confidence both in the integrity and business capacity o f Edward E. Johnson, the husband o f my niece, liar net Lane Johnson, I yet deem it pfu dent to secure to her u maintenance against the unforeseen contingencies o f f'utur^ytrffrs For this purpose l up point uiy hereafter named executors. Ilham B. Swarr and Edward Y. Boon unun, *>r the sttrv vow o f them, tru.-iecs »»r trustee, and ditvo* 110*111 to ret,»in in their hands, and invest and manage '«» the b st advantage, * free ami disci; trg. ed from the debts and control «if her said husband, two-thirds o f the amount Bequeathed her as my re-id nary lega tee.” The testator appoints lid ward Y. Buchanan, his brother, and ilirum 1 }. Sw.ur, Kscj. to be the executors ol his l ist will ami instilment T h e vV heat land property is given to Harriet Lam* Johnson, niece o f the tes tutor, for which she pays $12 J;JJ out >1 Iter residuary »hare < f the estate. The will is dated at Wheatland. Jan nary 27. 1801». and a codicil o f the 0 th o f August. 1867. provides that W ill iam B. Reed is to have ouo thousand dollars, to |>av the expenses and secure the publication of a biographical work •it* deceased; ami to Mrs. Mary L Reed, wife o f William B Reed, the deceased gives five thousand dollars, a legacy for her separate u-e and benefit, as a compensation for the woik Mr William B. Reed has un iertuken to perform. All deeea.-ed’s private pa pers, correspondence, etc , are directed to he given to Mr. lieed for this pur pose. The estate ¡»^estimated at three hun dred thousand dollars. directly from Yamhill couoty we learn that the late County Treasurer, Mr-, C. Eckles, had fallen bebipd some $4,000 in his settlement with the ootioty,“ and that .bis securities had been notified o f the delinquency. It will be remem-- beied that a short time since the late Treasurer o f said county reputed him self robbed o f about nine huodrod dol* lurs in currency, belonging to the coun ty. It occurred to us at the time that the pockets, o f the Treasurer constituted a singular depository for county funds and effects. It Was unfortunate that he had hot been robbed dh the whole amount while he was about it. was a This decided b l u n d e f j, and -a blun der, they say, is a crime. Yamhilliaus are wedded to lo ilty f let them have it,- subject however* to all o f its inherent adjuncts. H o r a t io Seymour aud Frank P. Blair have both signified their ac ceptance o f the Dominations tendered them by the late New York Coavcn» tion. Their letters o f acceptance hav« not yet reached this coast. A third party movement is talked o f with Chase or some other republican as standard bearer. This arrangement would have the effect o f demoralizing the Republicans— especially at tho South— where Chase would carry the solid nigg« r vote, and o f course w«*akcn • he tepuhlicati O. A T T O It N I 'l l force correspondingly. . i CURL. AT A M ) CO U N SELO R J. t w , K n l e m . O i* e ffo n . Y r ILL |»r:t<*ti.-e in all tin* Court* nf Rocord * v Hint intorinr Cnurt.« «»ftliis Stat«s. > « Hie«, iu \Vutkiaas A Cu’ » lit ick, up stairs. mr F a n n e r « ’ H to r e — MONEY « A V E « I LOOK A T ^T H IS I r.M IE LAK'i I.sr AM) 1SK.ST STOCK OF D r y Goo Is-, Clothing, Iloo's. Shorn, Groceries, and Crudery, That bar evtr been offered iu Polk C received at i t ju»t CRO.YR & W O L F ’S New two nti>ry building at INDEPENDENCE, R a il r o a d L a n d s .— Mr: Gaston. wui«*h we will mk ! CHEAPER (ban the CHEAP- BST. President ot the Oregon Central Rail, We are prepared through rocent nrra*)"e- road Co., W est side, has received a «uents made iu San F'ranei-'c », to find c »nit.nl letter, dated June 22 d from the Hon sale f >r all kin«!» <»f Produce »n<l paying' the Highest market price for WHEAT. C. Hubbard, informing him o f the pas We alto have in connection with our store, sage by Congress o f the act extending A LARG E W AREH OUSE, the time for completing the first mid where we offer storage on food terms. second sections o f the Oregon Central Railroad. The following is a copy ol i8 tr C R 0P3E & W 0LF. N ot G e n e r a l l y K nown .— Martin the a ct: To amend an act entitled “ An act Van Bureu is the only mau who held granting lands to aid in the construc the offices o f President, V ice President, tion o f a railroad and telegraph line Minister to England, Governor o f his AND from the Central Pacific railroad, in own State, and member o f both houses of Congress. Thomas II. Benton is the California, to Portland, in Oregon.” Be it enacted by the Senate and only man who held a seat in the United S. CRIDER, THANKFUL POR TIIE 9 liberal patronage which has been hith House o f Representatives of the United States Senate for thirty consecutive Tho only instance o f father erto extended to him in Dallas, would embrace States o f America, in Congress assetn. years. «his medium to say to all that he U prepared bled. That section six o f an act entitled and son in the United States Senate, with increased facilities to serve (> An act granting lands to aid in the at the same time, is that o f H m Henry CFVrOJVKRS construction of a railroad and telegraph Dndge, Senator from Wisconsin, and fur more acceptably thuL heretofore. line from the Central* Pacific railroad,^ His son, Augustus 0. Dtnlec Senator Boots, in California, to Portland, in Oregon.’ from Iowa. General James Shields is Shoes approved July twei ty-fifth, eighteen the nnly man who ever represcit c«l two end Gai'ers, hundred mid sixty six. he so amended States in the United States Semite.— and warranto 1. A i u-oj»rt- us to provide that ii stead o f the times j At one time he was Senator from Illi- manufacture'! tnent of now fixed in said section, the first sec- ) mtis and siih-cqiicntly fr-in Minnesota CUSTOM M A D E W O R K t¡on o f twenty miles ol said railroad John Quincy adattis held positions un constantly on ham). and telegraph shill he completed wi ll »let* the government during every »d lte p a ii ii i g neatly done, ^ A continuance of patr«>nage solicited. in eighteen months from the passage o f ministration from that o f Washington A . 8. ( R I D E R . this act, anJ at least twenty miles in to that- o f Polk, during which he «lied Dallas, July 20, 186S. 18tf He had been Minister to England, each two years thereafter, and the whole on or before the fh^tday of July, member o f both houses of Congress Anuo Domini eighteen hundred and and President o f the United States.— He died while a member o f the House eighty. ------------- ------------------------------- o f Representatives. I CELEBRATED ( C o n sisten t G r a n t .— It is a fact to W e see it stated in the P o lk C o u n . be noted in connection with Grant's Theee deHckms stomach Bitters are entirely | letter, “ endorsing the resolutions ” o f t y (O regou) S ig n a l , that there is ) Vegetable, and free from alcohol and every hurt- ( the “ Shycoggy ” Convention, that strong talk o f the removal o f Geo. L TRY JUDGE with the “ breeding in ” theory which W oods from the Gubernatorial chair THEM! FOR is part o f the Rump creed, his past life TRY YOUR It will be remembered has been most signally accordent — o f Oregon. SELF! T H IM ! Dalles City has the honor to be the that Judge Wilson charged that there ful ingredient. A pleasant tonic, and a m ost! resting.place o f one o f Grant’s widows was a fraud in the Grant county votes, agreeable dtink. Tue market is flooded with» poi son ous com pounds; bu t TH E8E bitters, m edej — a la Mrs. Thad.,— and o f a summer's from tbe purest extracts o f valuable roots, bert f J whereby W oods was elected. I f he and herbs, are admirably adapted to the «u reoll day a smart, little grayback eating. all affections o f tbe Stomach, Kidneys,! leer and) holds the office unlawfully, and it can Miss Grant may be seen majestically Bowels. s*.tch as Dyspepsia, Fever, Diarrhoea,, Loss o f Appetite, etc. etc. For sale every adore. | waddling througlethe streets. Wonder be so proven satisfactorily, turn him A. FENKHACSEN. S ol * M a s u f a c t t m *, i f “ Grant the elder,” wouldn’t like to o u t; i f not, let him alone. The poor cor Bsnsome ft J u k son , Fan Fn-rrirro.] r w \ # v a «4 have Mr. Bonner to trim op this little fellow suffers enough remorse o f con- incident “ according to centrak ?” The old mau would be 41 tickled to death.” science for the defeat in Oregon, and D R . H U F F L A A D ’S for the part he took in the canvass in — Grande Ronde Sentinel. CELEARATED this*State last year.— Solano (C a l) Sentinel. S W IS S S T O M A C H B IT T E R S A STORE. ISTAROFTOUiTO] | 3 T0 M ACH_BITTERS!: T iie G r e a t H ea lth R estorer .— are prepared expressly fur tho cure o f those dis eases that have their origin iu impure blood and foul and vitiated bnmors, and for 35 years they have proved tnat in all eruptive skin dis eases, in all m.asmatie and scrofulous or can cerous diseases, and in every form o f ulcerous and scabious disease, these two great remedies never fail in ifTeciiug a cure. 5fiff B ristol ’ s S a r s a p a r i l l a and NEW S. Many thousands ot sick people have hoen re stored to health by Bristol’i« Sarsaparilla and Pills, and in«»re certificates o f cures and letters o f grateful thanks have been received in tln-ir favor than were ever written for all other med icines combine i. Sufferer! whatever may 1« your ailment, give these two remedies a trial. No matter how often you tuay heve been dis appointed, they will benefit and most like cure you. ’ I10STKTTER, SMITH k DEAN. San Franeisso. McPherwon. the p«»krr fl«t, successor to McDonald the stupi«! and “ pi«*us ” bmmuer, as edit-dr o f the ' Unionist complains because we won't exchange with him. W e never refuse to ex change with any paper in Oregon which is conducted with respectability or by a m»n o f tolerable habits. T K l f ---- The best Purifier o f the Blood, A Pleasant fu n ic ! IT A try Ngreoab/o Drink ! Unsurpassed t»»r acting survly but gen? gently «»it tho ncreltou* of the kids neys, bowc/», »t -in i-li aud fiver! For tale at nit who/esa/e aud retail /iquor, drug and grocery stores. NO BODY PIIOULD BK WITIIOT IT. J. G. FHISCH. : : : Proprietor, TAYLOR k DEN DEL, bole Agenta; * 413 C ay »treat, Baft Francisco, mitt#