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OFFICIAL PAPER- DF PÔ l IT c Ô. MONDAT SEPT. 7, 1868. M O R N IN G , Revival o f Know.Nothlngism in A Fairmont o f the Bonds in Green backs—-A Heal Case in Point. Boston. The West Side Roal. d it ffiSefklj golk Émratj JSignal. On Thursday last we went out from Portland in Gaston ccmpany with President to witness the progress the W est side road was making. W e con fess our astonishment on passing over the work. W e had not thought it possible for the Company to For Frosident, HORATIO OF soon and so completely reduced the 8EYMOUR, NEW YORK. For Vice President, stubborn obstacles which we knew to have lain in their way out of Portland in atouth westerly diicction. Immense cuts and fills have been made, bridges F R A N K P. B L A IR , OF have so built and the woik completed in detail. MISSOURI. Not an obstacle has been skipped or evaded. F O R P R E S tD E S T lA L ELECTORS, S. F. CHADW ICK, of Douglas County. JOHN BURNETT, o f Benton County. An immense railro.d bridge was accepted by Wednesday la-t. the Company on Gen. Coffin bus the contract for building two others and JAS. II. SLA TE R, of Union County. inteuds to put them through on the T he Corvallis Gazette characterizes fast line, when the bulk of the work to x>ur article cm “ prohibition ” as mere Hillsborough will have been completed. chaff and then proceeds at great length A very large outlay o f money has ac to combat it. The fuct is. the Gazette complished this, and entitles the Com inability to controvert the pany to the confidence o f the people realizes its 'correctness o f our premises or deduct everywhere in its ability and purpose ions. a This is to push the work along as fast as the iudeed ! W e means at its disposal will permit. The It asks us for statistics. beggarly proposition referred that paper aud all concerned, work has been prosecuted thus to the fact that there was more diunk« with <euness in Iowa to d a y — by a very large nians who in turn will spend it among Oregon money and fur by Orego per cent.— than ever hud been previous our people thus working a positive sav to the enactment o f the most stringent n g to the circulating medium o f the prohibitory law known to any o f our country and thereby promoting the W e defy the Gaz> Vt to prove general prosperity o f the people. statutes. The 'the fact is patent to all people of Polk, as well as tho>c o f Yam observers that impractical, chimerical hill, Washington and Multnomah, will the contrary, zealots, have rolled the tide o f temper yet find it to be to their iutcrest to aid ance reform back a hundred years.— this interprise so well begun. They will not learn wisdom from expe rience. They are generally one ¡dead and intolerant— like to dictate but nev er think of resorting to practical ineas ores, because they know so little o f hu- mau oature as to make them oblivious to any o f its claims. To prove to the Gazette that the efforts o f the kind of A P arallel B e c o m in g A it s u The Gazette, in order to fasten conviction that & prohibitory whiskey thor . — law ought to be passed, and no mistake, says there is a law requiring druggists to labol poisons, and “ why uot have a law regulating the whiskey trafio ?” — W e answer that we have a law rcgula- zealots above described fall still born aa to any affirmative results, we refer ting the whiskey trafic. Now, Mr. Ga that paper to the statistics o f the rela zette, as your )orte is “ prohibition,” why not go in for a law prohibiting the tire consumption o f intoxicating bever ages for the past five years, and for which period the “ prohibitionists ” preparation and sale o f poisonous drugs? W hy be content with making the drug man label his poisons? D on’ t the have been exceedingly active and offi whiskey vender label his poisons also ? cions. Each succeeding year lor the A look at his phiz is often a sufficient period named the consumption o f such guarantee lhat there are poisons about hereragea has increased. IIis poisons label themselves. The Gazette and all o f its kind would favor the enactment o f a law re The Gazette wants the license law straining man from the use o f tobacco repealed— says it is shocking to protect i f there was the slightest prospect of a whiskey vender with laws. W ell, sup. success in the undertaking. The next pose we repeal the license law, then “ law ” the Gazette would dictate what? W h y everybody would have a would be one requiring, under savage right to engage in the business without penalties, everyone to belong to the restraint. The Gazette's only recourse Methodist church, and prescribing the to abate whiskey vending would be number, matter and manner o f prayers brute foice. A n astute Gazette, that at to be offered up by each to Almighty Corvallis. God. This is tyranny and would bring about rebellion, when such creatures as From the Herald we glean that a the Gazette man would never be found man representing him self as traveling in t h e “ thickest of the fight.” agent and corvespondeut o f the Orego Can the Gazette point to a single individual o f any considerable mental nian was lately egged out o f Oakland calibre who favors such despotic, im burg. practical schemes as it advocates ? when the citizens barnossed him Not tor attempting to rob a man in that H e afterwards returned to town up one. On the contrary, all men ot and rode him on a rail to a mill pond great minds and enlarged views are ar some three miles distant where they rayed against it. It is only men o f small immersed him rather abundantly. intellects and Uss genuine cultiva tion who regard legal enactments aa a panacea for all the shortcomings o f the human race. The telegraph brings cheering news to the Democracy from the east, wei-t and rocth. It tells o f Grant and Col fax electors abandoning the republi cans and taking the stump for Seymour and - ’ Sir. The wave rolls on. Good people feel cheered at the prospect.— T he republicans are everywhere des pondent : they have no hopes; their days o f o f misrule and plunder are numbered. Democrats are betting two to o ’ a that Seymour will Y ork by 70,000 majority. carry New There was lately ¿20,000 bet that Seymour would carry Iudiana by 29,000 majority.— Large bets nre A ?e!y oCcrcd in Chicago on C eym o-r carrying Illinois, with no takers. Never before was a candidate •o popular as is Seymour. C o m p l im e n t a r y have received T ic k e t s . complimentary — We tickets from C. N. Terry, Esq., Sccy. o f the S t a t e Agricultural Society, and from J . locomotive trial Society, for the concerning the great yean The countrymen o f Meagher and Si- gel were fine fellows while there was hard work for them to do ; as long us battles were to be fought they were pat ted on the buck and called ‘ our brave Irish and German fellow citizens” their virtues were lauded, and pm ins sung to their prowess while they withstood ^Southern bayonets in the field or bold ly storm d some rebel citadel. But now their “ occupation’s gone ” — there is no probability o f their being soon again called on to offer their bodies as turgcis iu defense o f Yankee honor; consc quently the valiant fireside patriots of New England feel they can with impu- uity throw off the mask, and stalk forth in their natural liabiluments. Coward ice alone will prevent the de-ccndaiifs o f the “ Pilgrim Fathers ” from giving full vent to the hateful bigotry that, u few years since, destroyed churches, sacled convents, tarred and leathered priests, and ruthlessly murdered inof fensive foreigners. Speaking o f the revival o f this party, the Boston corrcs pondent of the New York Times writes, under date o f June 26 : Know-Nothingism, which disappear ed from the political stage o f action ul most as siidd<-n as it developed itself, is being resurrected in this vicinity. The latest fire ot “ Americanism ” has slum bered only to become a potent agent in ease o f emergency. Some o f the old leaders think the time has come to again proscribe citizens o f foreign birth. In a spirit totully at variance with the trenius o f our institutions, lodges o f the Know.Nothing order has beeu recently constituted in this city aud adjacent municipalities. In Chelsea the order has assumed formidable proportions 1 learn that the machinery o f the organization lias been simpl.fied, and that its ch ief ob ject is “ to keep foreigners out o f office.” The leaders o f this dangerous move ment “ contemplate with feelings o f in dignation and alarm the gradual but certain a onopoly o f the offices o f tru-t and emolument by men o f birth,” and think the o'd war-cry, “ put none but Americans on guard,” should become the uppermost thought o f every native to the manner born. It is a pity that the founder o f this demagogical society is not in the flesh to direct its move ments. Poor Jonathan Pierce, humble “ pump and block m aker” that he was, passed down to his grave w.thout hav ing occupied so much as the office ot a doorkeeper to the Know Nothing Leg islature, instead o f the Governor’s chair, as was promised him. Geo. L. L hatiso t u b P a r t y . — Two prominent re- ately resigned his position— a very lu publican politicians of lniliunupolis«Muji>r J<»u. crative one— in the army. Grant, alhan W. Gordon anp Col John A. Matson__the letter the candidate o f that party for governor fearing lest the people will repudiate several years ago— have taken open aud bold him, hangs on to his army toggery — grounds against radicalism and the action of the jacobiu leaders iu Congress, Thousands And how mute the republican press is more will follow their example before Novem ber next*— Juliet (111 ) Siynnl. on the subject. for this “ ------That faintly, murderous brood To carnage and the Bible given; Who think through unbeliever«* blood Lies tbeir directast road to heaven. One who would pause and kneel unshod In the warm blood his band had poured, And mutter o ’er some text of God. Eitgravm on his reeking sward.” I I o r a t i o S e y m o u r .— Gov. Seymour, W oods, the Democratic candidate for the Pres about which the east side company have idency, is about f>0 years o f age. H e is descended from Richard Seymour, one blowed so much, turns out to belong to of the original settlers o f Hartford, the Central Pacific railroad in Califor Conn. Ilis paternal grandfather, Ma. nia. It was ordered by the cast side jor Moses Seymour, served in the war company but they fuiled to raise the o f the revolution, and was afterword« necessary funds to pay for it, and the for 17 years a member o f the Legisla ture of Connecticut. His maternal s-nne, sa)s the San Francisco Bulletin, grandfather. Colonel Forman, served has been purchased by the Central Pa through the revolutionary war in the cific as aforesaid. New Jersey line. Ilis futher, Henry Seymour, was a distinguished citizen o f Western New York, and served in the T h e Gazette insit uatca that the S ig State Legislature with signal ability.__ nal favors dram drinking. Nothing A t the time o f his death lie held the could be further from the truth. On office o f canal commissioner, which lie the contrary, nothing shall be left un had filled for many years. Gov. Sey mour inherited from his futher an ample done by us which promises any salutury estate. H e married a daughter o f the results in the way o f circumscribing late John 11. Blecker, o f Albany. Oue the giant evil. But no reform was ev* o f his sisters married Hon. Roscoe er effected by coercive means; hence Conkling, U. S. Senator from New York. Mr. Seymour lias been from we oppose what is popularly termed early boyhood an earnest and useful “ prohibition.” member o f the Episcopal Church, and is greatly respected for his purity and up M u t e . — When Gen. McC'lellan ac rightness o f character.— Reading Daily cepted the Democratic nomination for Times. the Presidency, in 18G4, he immedi Tnx D. Merryman. Cor. Sccy. o f the Wash ington County Agricultural and Indus respective Fairs The city o f robed statues and naked women, puritanism and hjpocrisy, grand churches and dirty hovels, osten tatious opulence and squalid poverty, mock-modcsty and scandalous immoral ity, liberty aud tyranny, is at its old tricks. “ N onj but Americans on guard,” is again the cry in ibis self' styled Athens ” o f America. W e had supp 'sed that the great services render ed by foreignersduring the recent civil war would have prevented the revival o f the covenunt sacking Kuow-Nuthi >g faction. But in seems we were mistak en ; the Puritans arc as ungrateful as they are fanatical. The holy spirit that consigned witches and Quakers to the pillory in the same breath that it chanted hytus o f praise to the Most High, is not yet extinct in straight- laced Massachusetts. The sanctimoni ous cant o f the authors o f the Blue Laws still reigns there. They seem t*» be o f It says not a word want o f self re Turn out to the Railroad mocting on spect displayed by Grant in this matter. Thursday next at 1 o'clock. A great public question was élucida ted in u striking manner the other day, says the Louisville Courier, during the progress o f a private conversation. The details o f a transaction then alluded to, are stated below and with strict the transaction the connection accuracy, itself illustrated between the Govern ment and a large class o f its creditors: A g'ass manufacturer from Pittsburg was a few days since in the counting room o f a Lou sviile house with which he has doue a large business for twenty yours past. In a conversation with his old hiend, the Louisville merchant, he rcmaiked that he was not pleased with the nomination o f Grant, and would not support him unless Pendleton should be the opposing candidate. “ In that case,” I shall v-de for G rant, because I contributed to the support o f the Government in the hour o f its dis tress, and Mr. Pendleton would compel me to accept greenbacks for the bonds which I hold. That would be répudia tion.” *• I remember that investment of yours,” said the Lou's ville merchant. - Y ou sold SlU.OOU in gold at 282 in 1864, and bought gold bearing United States bonds for which you paid 94 iu greenbacks.” “ E xictly so,” said the Fittsburg gentleman. “ Then,” said his friend, “ you e x changed your 8,10,000 in gold for $28,- 200 in greenbacks, and these you ex changed for $80.000 in United States houds. Ou these bon is the Government h is annually paid you an interest of $1,- 8J0 iu gold which is 18 per cent, per annum ou thesuiuy.m invested in G ov ernment securities. Your interest in four years has returned into your pockets 7,200 o f your 10,003 gold dol lars, and you claim that the Govern ment owes you $80,000 more iu gold ! I f in four years you receive $87.200, in return for $10.000, your patriotism will be well rewarded indeed.” *• I am not responsible fur the bad management of the government,” said the Pittsburg gentleman. “ i was finan ciering for nivselt and not for the G ov ernment, and 1 only ask it to keep its engagements as l keep mine.” “ But while you were financiering lor yourself,” said his friend, *• )uu should have observed tin striking tael that while the bonds promised gold for the interest they did not specify the money in which the principal was to he paid. Moreover the greenbacks with which you bought tho^e bouds bore this legend : “ T ait note is a legal tender fo r all debt*, public and private except duties on imports, and the interest of the pub tic debt.'* “ E veryon e o f those notes w h ch has passed through your hands, before you bought the bonds, aud since, has been a notice served oil you by the G ov ernment that the principal o f your bonds is payable in greenbacks. A c cordingly, you f-ce the Government paying its other debts in greenbacks. 8o it paid the soldier for enduring toils, and braving dangcis. Even the pitiful pension o f the disabled private is paid in greenbacks; and the widow is paid in greenbacks lor the lost labor of the husband who lies mouldering in a sol- dicr’s trrave. What hive you dune that the Government shall make uu exception in your favor ?” “ 1 hold its bonds,” replied the gla-s manufacturer, “ and though the bouds may fail to specify unyiliiug of the sort, yet there is an implied obligation, whenever a government issues such bouds, that the principal shall be paid iu g«»ld.” “ But,” rejoined the m erchant,“ that implied obligation is directly negatived by the inscription on the greenbacks, and negatived also by the wurdiug o f the bouds, which carefully specifies gold for the interest aud carefully omits any spec ficatioti us to how the princi pal is to be piiu ; thus leaving that point optional with the Government — Moreover, the greenbacks themselves are notes, bonds, * promises to pay,’ which tho Government is as much obliged to pay iu coin us any other de .«criptiun o f bonds whatever. I f the Government substitutes its greenback notes for its bonds in your possession, you hold against it as valid an obligation us you h-Id before, and have no right whatever to cry * repudiation.” “ The Goveru.-uctfit will be able to re deem the greenbacks iu coin us soon as it will be able to pay your bonds iu coiu. Its necessities compel it to give its creditors promises instead o f pay. It is for you to show why it should give you interest bearing note« and compel its other creditors to accept notes which draw no interest—- It is for you to show why the people shall be taxed to pay interest on what the Government owes you, while they get no interest on tho notes whicli they hold against the Government. In what respect is your claim more just or sacred than theirs? “ Now. suppose the Government takes your bonds at their face and pays you $30,000 iu greenbacks, You cun exchange that sum for $21,400 in gold. Y*»u will then receive more than double the sum you invested four years ago, and upon whioh the Government has paid you usury at the rate o f 18 per cent, per annum ! My friend, you have no good reason for calling this * re pudiation/ When so liberal a settle ment is proposed you have no right to demand that $9,UU0 more gold than is * nominated in the bond’ shall be wrung from the labor o f the country for your private emolument. A s a just business man you would not set up such a claim against a private individual and you could not legally collect it. T h e obli gatiou ol your bonds as you construe it against the public would convert th-rn and the Government itself into instru ments o f extortion aud inordinate op. p re.-8 ion. “ This implied obligation with which you propose to piece out the a.-tual ob ligation of the Government, applies with far more force and justice to the claims o f the soldiers who rendered persoiiul service aud devoted their lives to the public defence. But you aud the party with which you act do not call it repudiation to pay them in green* backs for the blood they shed and the limbs they lost. You prefer the least meritorious class o f the public creditors; and for those who have already grown rich oft o f the necessities o f the Govern ment you demand ail exorbitant, addi tional gold premium. The s-ant wages and inwards o f the poor, who have t<>iled for the Government, and who have bled and suffered ior it, you would pay iu greenbacks.” A s lie listened to this argument in favor of what is termed “ repudiation,” the Pittsburg gentleman bethought him that tor twenty years he had known the good old merchant to be a man who would part with his last cent and coiu his body to pay his bond, lie mused a moment with the air o f a man who hears something which lie trust ponder more at leisure, aud then changed the conversation. G rant and t iie raelites o f Helena, J e w s . — Alabama, A G E N T S o f character and ability wanted in every county on the Pacific ooast, to can vass for 10,000 ■ M u m ri IX ALL T M USEFUL AMD DOMESTIC ARTS; COXSTITUTIHO A CO M P LE T E AND P R A C T IC A L L I B R A R Y , RELATING TO Agriculture, Angling, Bees, Bleaching, Book keeping, Brewing. Cotton Cnltnre, Crochet ing, Carving, Cholera, Cookiog, Calico Print*' ing, Confectionery, Cements, Chemical R e ceipts. Cosmetics, Diseases, Dairy, Dentistry, Dialysis, Decalcomania, Dyeing, Distillation, Enamelling, Engraving, Electro-Plating, Electrotyping, Fish Culture, Farriery, Food, Flower Cordoning. Fire works, Gas Metres, Gilding, Glass, Health. Horsemanship, Inks, Jewellers’ Paste, Knitting, Knots, Litho graphy, Mercantile Calculations, Medicine, Miscellaneous Receipts, Metallurgy, M exio- tints, Oi! Colors, Oils, Paiuting, Perfumery, Pastry, Petroleum, Pickling, Poisons and Antidotes, Potichomauir Proof-Reading, Pottery, Preferring, Photography, Pyrotech nics, llural and Domestic Economy, Sugar Raising, Silvering, Scouring, Silk and S ilk - Worms, Sorghum, Tobacco Culture, Tan ning, Trees, Telegraphing, Varnishes, V ege table Gardening, Weights and Measures, Wiues, Etc., Etc.-, USING AN K NTIRELY NFW EDITION. CAAFULLY REVISED AND RE-WRITTEN, Improvements dnd Discoveries up to date ot Publication, JA N U A R Y, 1868. This is one of the best selling bonks of the age. Have sold upwards o f six hundred cop ies in a singic county. For tut! particulars, address SUBSCRIPTION D EPARTM EN T -O E - II.H . B A N C R O F T & Co. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. P. S.— Iu uiakiug application for territory, please name several ceunties that would be ac ceptable to cauvass. BAWL H E A D R I C K - CEO . A . EDES. GEO. A. E9ES & CO., EALERS IN a meeting on the evening of June 20th, D ru g«, .Medicines, Paints, Oils, and passed unanimously the following resolutions: The name o f Ulvsses S. •» Grant has been brought before the peo ple o f the United States as a candidate for the Presidency ; and, Whereas. The said U. S. Grant did issue during the rebellion that infamous order, No. 11, well known to every cit izen o f the land, thereby trying ♦« throw a stigma upon us as a nation ; and. Whereas, Said Grant lias proven himself prospective, as evinced in Slid ■rder No. 11. we deem him unworiln o f our confidence and that o f our fellow constituents,and inasmuch as we cannot know how far his prospective po’ icv may extend, consider him unsafe foi the high position tu which lie now a> pires or any other within the gift ol the people ; therefore, be it lie solved, i’ ll at wc indorse the princi. p'es set forth in the platform o f the Democratic party, and the candidate- nominated at tho New York Convention. an«l will licarti y co-operate with said party in securing their election as Pres ident aud Vice President of the Uuited States. That wc will, at «11 times, declare ourselves against religious proscription, and will eo operate with the party that opposes the same W ) & R E C E IP T S, The Is held ^ hereas , AND DYE STUFFS, At the Oi l Stau l formerly occupied by M. R. COX A CO., UNION BLOCK, Commercial Street, SALEM , OREHOV. A liberal discount made to country trade. GEO. A. KDES. SAM L. IIK AD RICK . SELLING OFF SELLING OFF! I M IT C H E L A KOSENDOUF, INDEPENDENCE, y y y I L L SliL L T H E IR EN TIRE STOCK oj Clothing, Dry Goods, Bout* ami Shoes, Carpeting Crookem, and Sotions at P O R T L A N D PRICK!«! For the next N I N E T Y DAYS. Being obliged to Refuruish our Store, before winter sets iu, and haviug uo tioeo to more our. goods, we will sell attlu aforesaid rates, No charge made for showing goods, so call aud learn the prices -3 if M ITCH EL 4 R 3 S E N D 0 R F . C. G. CURL. T iif . D i f f e r e n c e . — In Democratic times Congress held sessions averaging: A T T O K S E T A N il C O U N SE LO R A T LAW, four and a half months a year, aud the members received eight dollars a day IL L practice in all the Courts o f Record when at work. Now it is in session aud inferior Courts o f this State. neaily all the time, and the expenses Office, in Watkiuds A Co’s Brick, up stairs. average over forty-five dollars a day to 18 tf each member. What do you think o f such extravagance, tux payers ? Re. member, a radical Congress is responsi ble for i t ; that the Chicago Couve ition M O NEY 8 A V E D 1 indorsed the action o f Congress, and fi that Grant says he indorses the resolu tions o f the Convention ! By electing radicals this extravaganco will be con r j j .I I E L A R G E S T A N D B E S T STOCK OV tinued— by defeating them it will be Stopped.— Solano Sentinel. D ry Goods, Clothing, F o r splendid harness go to S. C. Boots, Stiles, Dallas. Mr. S. has lately laid in Shoes, Groceries, a fresh stock o f hardware, &e., to be and Crockery, used in his harness establishment. Salem, Oregon. W Farmers’ Store— LOOK ATTHI8I G. B . Stiles has just received large additions to his fatui'y grocery— is con stantly in reccint o f n^wr em n l!«* B O .Y H 4 M A l L A W S O .\ , Attorneys & Counsellors at Law, SALEM , OREGON. That has ever been offered in Polk C-»., is ju st received at CROWE A l W O L F ’S New two story building at IN D E P E N D E N C E , which we will seil C H E A P E R than the CH EAP EST. W e are prepared through recent arrange ments made iu San Francisco, to fiod constant sale far all kinds of Produce, and paying the highest market price for W H E A T . We also have in connection with our store, A LAR G E W AREH OUSE, where we offer storage on good terms. ltHf OFFICE IN THE COURT IIOUSE n27tf CRONE * WOLF. W H E A T ST O R A G E . MUST SETTLE UP- IHOSE HAVIN G Wheat brother goods to «tor*, will do well to eonsid- the advantages MITCHEL A R0SEND0RF offer. Tbeir Warehouse being on bi -h ground and occupying an isolated position, is compar atively secure against the ravages o f both F I R E aud W A T E R ; No Consignee assures against these elements. Before Storing your Crop, consider these advantages and Btor* with M ITC1IE2 A KUSKNDORF. The Highest price in eatk paid f o r Oatt T H A V E SOLD M Y E N T IR E STO CK OF I Dry Goods and Groceries to J. G, Brown, aud all those indebted to me by book account, will confer a favor, by coming lon r*** u»tee<L lately and making settlement, eithw by Cash or Note. J . G . Brown is aurhorUed to eettle *“ W . C. B R O W S . In pursuance of arrangementa just entered into as per above announcement, I make my bows to ail customers ot the house and desire a continence of their favors. Thoss desiring good bargains in dry goods, groceries, etc., etc., will do well to remember Brown’s fire proof brick, Dallas. - m 103 L •. BROWN» t
