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I -.4 -f'Yt J J i 0 VOL. 3, DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY. FEB. 1. 1873. m 46. REP PAN 1 .. ? , f ht lifetral 3Jf?ubli tan OPLTCIAL PAPER FOR POLK COUNTY 4- la Issued Every Saturday Horning, at Dallas, Folk County, Oregon. P. C. SULLIVAN PROPRIETOR. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. : HINGtB COPIES One Year, $2 00. Six Months, $1 2i Three Months, $100 f" tfor Clubs often or more $1 75 per annum. Smbttription mutt b' itr.etty im mc wt-V, ; '-. - ........ ' ADVERTISING RATES. One square (121ines or less), first insert'n,f2 50 Each substnt insertion- I 00 A liberal deduction will be made to quar terly and yearly adrertisers. Professional cards will be inserted at $12 00 per annum. Transient advertisements must be paid for iw advance to insure publication. All other ad 'enisiDg bills must be paid quarterly. Leal tenders taken at their current value. Blanks and Job Work of every description umisbod at low rates ou short notice. altIK ILLUSTRATED PHRENOLOGICAL . JOURNAL, is in every respect a First Class Magazine. Its article are of the highest interest to all. It teaches what we are and how to make tho most of ourselves. The informa tion it contains on the Laws of Life and Health ia well worth tho price of the MafcH.ineto every FatniSy. It is published at $:i 00 a jcar. ISy a special arrangement we arc enabled to offee th Phrenological Jocral as a Premium tor a new mbscribers to the Ouk; Rki-cbi.icax, r will furnish the Phbk.iolooicai. Jocr.ial and Obkgov Republican together for ft 00 We commend tho JovnsAL to all who want a good uaazio PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC JOn J. DALY, AtVy & ConxcIIcr at-Laiv, DALLAS. OKEf.ON. Will practice io the Curts of Record and In eiior Courts. Collections attended t promptly. OFFICE In the Court House, 4I-tt P. C. MlIJiUVA.Y, Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law, Dallas, Oregon, Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1 J. C. BELT, physician and H tt t g- e o n, OFFERS HIS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES I to the citizens of Dallas and vicinity. Ilav had ten years experience in hospital and pri r vata practice, feels competent io treat all cases that may come under his CBre. Office adjoin ing Dr, Rubell's denistr) office. r - J.R.SITES,M.D ; Physician and Snrgeon Dallas Oregon OFFICE at Residence 24-tf 'DR. HUDSON L M. I PHY81CIAH a SURGEON. OFFICE. Over Souther'a Store, Cor Commercial k State Sts., Salem, Ogn, with Dr. Richardson. Nor 9, tf XV. SI R U H E tsL. DENTIST. Office ono door North of the Post Office' DALLAS OGN. Pnrtiopjnr attention given to the regulation of children's teeth, "All work warauted. Janll73'3.tt 1 ' ' J. C. GRUBBS, M. D.( PHYSICIAN AND SUKG EON, Offers his Services to the Citizens Dallas and Vicinity. i OFFICE a.t NICHOLS' Drug Store. 34-tt1 DALLAS LIVERY, FEED & SALE l Cot, Malu ami Court Streets, Thos G. Richmond, Proprietor. H "A VINO PURCHASED THE ABOVE Stand of Mr. A. II. Whitley, wo have re fitted nd r stocked it in such a manner a? will satisfactorily meet every want of the com munity. Buggies, single or double. Harks, Con cord Wagons, etc., etc.. Furnished at all hours, day or night, on short notice. Superior Saddle Horse, let by tie Day or Week. TERMS, RCASONA IILE. 4 T. J. RICHMOND FARMERS READ. N TED. ALL THE I'OIIK SN ?? Pdk Countj, for wheb the highest cah price will be paid AT THE EOLA STOKE. HAVING PURCHASED A LARrtB AND complete Slock of N EW GOODS, and rweeivinj frsh no,. plies every wk I can tup ply evert bo Jy with Dry Good, firocerie Gin, !ucenvnre, Tobacco, Ci;'ni i And all articles found in a GENERAL VAR1 ETY hTORE, I wonli respectfully call the attention of the Publio to my EstahlishmeDt. Highest Cash price paid for 1 URS AND PELTRY. R, A. RAY, Eola, IVk Co. Ogn. 16 tf C 11 i: A I I A 1 T I IV a. A 8 I AM NOW THROUGH. WITH THE X tnot of my work tbi full, I rroj to paint At KR tv Al.l, ana lUJti I ES at $10,50 apiece. Now is the time to bring on your old Hacks and Wagons as you will never get them painted cheaper. Shop on the corner, over G. R. Styles store II, P, SIIRIVEIt. "GEM" SALOON jiaiw tri;i;t iadk pkivdkivce. rilbe bct of wine liquors, ales, porters and 1 TEMPERANCE CORDIALS always or. hand, fine Havana cigars. Free reading rooms attached to the saloon. R. M. Dean Pr. 27 tf c. s. silv a, No. 130,-First Street, PORTLAND, - - - - OREGON Wholesale and Retail Dealer In DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, LADIES' PRESS GOODS, HOOTS AND HOES, HATS fc CAPS GROCERIES & PROVISIONS, Highest Cash Price paid for all kinds of Country , Produce. GEO. n. JONES I i. U. PATTERSON QNES;& PATTERSON, Heal Estate, Insurance AND General Agents, 8ALEM, OREQON Prompt atttjatba Ajvkiv Business. to tho Genera j w oanc a w iiobaet D Has I LOUISIANA Address of the Committee. Wasliington, Dec. 20. The Louis iana Committee have issued an address to the people of tho United States who they believe are not unconcerned spectators of the events now trans piritiir within the limits of that State, and to which, it is probable, no paral lel can be found in history. The Com. tnittee repel as utterly false the inainu ation that th.yare mtre allies of Gov. Wariuoth. Tl.ev are not repr-Benta-uvt? of any personal or pnrty interct whatevir. So far as Waraioth's past conduct is concerned, few, if any ol tlicin, have not been amon his fro. nouneed opponents; while in those nie;jures fur which he has been most loudly denounced, he had for advisers associates, coadjutors the very men who now assail him, including, espec ially, 1'inchtack, Autoine, and otheri, whi.se nami'S figure most conspicuously io these rotvcdiijs. 'J'he Cwmniittee declare, in reply to an other insinuation that they are not parties to and have no knowledge of any political trickery in tended to defeat the true voice of the people that they do not believe anv such lifted, and that they would not be here unlcs they c ud ruc?aim concien ously their conviction, thai the men who have hen foisted into the office of the State have net n cr.lv been irre- u lai ly jjtid unlaw fully installed, but were not elected by the feop'e, and mere not Mid tre not ibe choice of the in pojuLtion of Lcuiina. The ('on nitt e ndd that all they hae asked of the Government is to make a candid and impartial invcMipttion of the facts ; and then they proceed to pive a detailed stall merit f all the faets ei nm ted with the electirn, including the vati. us injunctions by courts, and with the organization of the partial Legislature which impeached Governor Warn oth and placed Pinel.Daek in his -trad. Steps having: teen taken, say tie C tntnitttf, by Governor Warmoth tc secure a revision by the Supreme Court of the Tnitid State of the chancery onhrs of the United States Circuit Court thisbodv fjihwith adoptrdreso lutions to dismiss these proceedings. The militia was placed und. r command of General Lon.str et, ni.d the arsenals taken o.es-ion of by the aid of the United States army. A civil revolution Wiis atcompli.-hf 1 within a month, under the otders of Chancery Court, in suits over which the eurts hare no juris diction at all. The Circuit Court of the United States is a Court of limited jurisdiction, and without any authority to enter into civil suits between citizens of the same State, unless the case arises directly under the Constitution and laws of the United Stales, and juris diction is vested by acts of Congress. Congress has no power to confer juris diction in any other ense between such citizens. It has no authority, to rive jurisdiction over a suit of a oitizen of the State against the State. Under the act of Congress of 1870, upon a single condition of facts, a citi zen of a State may maintain a suit for an office of a State within the Courts of United States, but the State Legisla ture is specially excepted from tho operations of lhi.4 act, in the same clause that excepts members of Congress and j 'residential Electors; Tho organiza tion of the. Legislature is by chancery order. Had there beeen resistance to to the execution of the oiders, and riot md bloodshed had followed, upon whom would have fallen the responsibility ? Dy whose forbearauce was it that a bloody catastrophe has not been exhi ited as a scandal to the land ? It soitetimes happens that the Executive Department h tolerated, excused, or justiGed in acts of administration which exceed their legal powers. The argu ments derived from the terms of State necessity, public welfare, or convienence here have a sooting influence, but judiciary action is not entitled to any benefit from such arguments. The damage which ensues from their employment of ju diciary power to accomplish other than judicial acts of administration cannot be calculated, and it is impossible to justify a Court on determining that to be legal which is merely desirable, or that to be right which is only profitable. The order in ibe KeMogg case was ex parte; it was placed iu the hands of the Marshal without notice to tho parties. It proceeded for an alleged contempt by no legal proceedure usual in matters of the sort, and we are not aware of any imminence of danger to the public peace, which justifies the seizure of the State Capitol iu a chan cery cause in a suit between Kellogg and a Canvassing Board, a suit pro fessedly brought to perpetuate testimony The case of Autoine displays with more distinctness than that of Kellogg the ue that nan been made of judical or ders to accomplish the results of which the judiciary had no cognizance. An toine was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor and was eutitled his office January next, had he been elected. With a disputed title, a month io ad vance he filed this hill ami obtained the order we have cited, placing under an interdict the Governor, Secretary of State, the members elect of both branches of the General Assembly, all Doard and Officers and men of the police, the members of the two Canvassing Hoards, and upon this ex parte order, the organization cf the General Ascembly was regulated and directed. Since the meeting in New Or'eans, under which the Committee was ap pointed, we have been met with the suggestion that these orders and acts are facts accomplished, and that iheir revocation or recession would not restore the $totu gio, and that our complaiuts. tin rcfore, are unseasonable. If this we have be correct, such a condition ought not to effect our action or conduct. When the King of Great Drittain es tablished arbitrarily a Government io one of the colonies, the remaining colonics look alarm Ifast it might serve as a precedent as well as an instrument to establish such governments elsewhere Besides, men are less patient under wrongful orders and acts of ajudiciary tribunal than even vio'ence from other sources of authority. A government which rests for its organization upon an illegal judicial order, executed by the Marshal with companies of soldiers does not command as much respect or authority as if judical appendages had been dispensed wsth, and the army had set up a government with a strong and usurping hand. The Committee lake the liberty to say they had no connection with these suits as parties or attorneys. Neither do they claim any of the offices in dis pute. They have not heretofore been confined in controversies among politic al classes, which have endangered the peace of, and brought scandal upon the State. They affirm that, during the laat four years, there has not been a pood Government in Louisiana. There has been extravagance, prodig ally, dishonesty, and waste in the public expenditures. The public debt has been enormously increased with but little corresponding benefit. The credit of the State has been rjven to fpeculating corporations foe personal aims, Tho taxes on property have as sumed such proportions that they might be called rents paid by proprietors to the State for its occupation and use. The taxes upon business oppress the commercial and laboring classes. The laws to control election, corporations, and public institutions stimulate these excesses of office holders, and the consequence is depression and discon tent. The Stato needs an honest, and faithful and responsible Government, conducted to attain public objects, and not to enrich its members, or to perpet uate their poer. There was an earnest effort to obtain such a GoYfrn- lueut at the last eleciiou. We amrui without fear of contradiction, that the foregoing statement exhibits, on the part of the United States Court, the most unparalleled and baseless usurpa tion of jurisdiction and authority of which the annals of jurisprudence afford any example. The action of the Returning Board, recognized and vested with all its powers by this Court, has been eeinally unprecedented. Without any official returns before them, without any e fficial data on which alone their action could have been rightfully based, they have presumed to proclaim the results of the election. The dec laration by them of the votes cast in the different parishes is as purely fan ciful as is no election whatever had been held. They have arbitrarily re duced and increased the votes on one side cr the other in different parishes to suit their purposes. In Several parishes while returning, or even adding to tho votes cat for their candidates, they have simply annihilated or stricken out entifely the votes cast for their oppo nents. In other parishes they have exactly reversed the returns, giving to their candidates the majority which had really been returned for their opponents. They have not pretended to furnish the public with acy state ment of the basis on which they pro ceeded, or theory on which they acted. Their whole conduct is without reasona ble explanation. Wc submit to the people of the United States that such proceedings reach a jxiint at which the who!e theory of popular Gv-rnment is reversed and overthrown. The means by which such results have been reached are enough to startle the public mind, but the results themselves are not less appalling. Aside from geueral affairs of State, we find the Legislature of the Statt delivered over into the hands of men who were not not elected, and who were utterly unfit for positions of such responsibil ily. As originally composed at its organization, it comprised sixty eight pi rsons of color, most of them totally uneducated, with a very small minority of whites. Since that time they have members whose seats were uncontested they have unseated members returned elected by their own Board, and seated their defeated opponents ou the simple ground that the former had not appeared to claim their seats. The result is, that originrlly bad as the Legislature was, it makes itself worse day by day, and the prospect is that soon the Con servative element of the State will have no representation whatever, To those who flatter themselves with the hops that ?Ir. Kellogg would not willingly abet any schemes of outrageous uiis- goveromcnt, it is r.ow apparant that, even supposing this to be true, the power of restraining has passed entire ly beyond his control, and that, should he attempt to thwart tho schemes of this Legislature, his own impeachment would be a probable event of his fu ture In conclusion wc would state that kb hate attempted to perform the duty of our'mission in the purest non-parti san spirit ; that we have not sought to furnish capital to any political party, or to excite popular clamor in the in terest of any faction. We have laid our caso before the President and his Attorney General, and we willingly testify that we have been courteously received and patiently listened to. While they have refused the specific measures of relief for which we applied, they have given reasons for such refusal in no manner implying their indisposition to seo justice done. They have referred us to ' Congress, and we feel assured that wo shall have his co-operation in any measures of relief which Congtess may adopt after a just investigation. The people of Louisiana, ignoring party and con scious of on honorable effort to place in offi co men of tried probity, seek justice not geoorosity. They ask for a calm, impartial examination of the Tceeqt extraordiuary events wilhin thetr borders, and that there may be a speedy correction of the dangerous evil now threatening the very life of their State. (Signed) J. A Campbell, J. Alridge, August Bohn, Joseph Bowling, N. Barnett, A. Chtapella, J. S. Copes, H. W. Connor, Colerxan, John Fairbanks, C. E. Fenner, E. B. Wheelock, A. B. Griswold, G. Kohn, II. McCloskej, G. W. Knott, II. V. Odgen, W. 8. Pike, John C. Potts, John F Pollock J. Turyes, Wallace, Walker Fcaro, D. C. Sabott, H. O. Seixas,J. V. Sabouisse, D. West, .Richard Taylor, Mayor Stem, R. P. Shlestern,R. Pogb, George W, Seiuires, F. A. Haber, H. Gartcs, P. M. Baker, Albert C. Janln, S. Hcrnsheim, T. H. Kennedy, J. M Scott, Alfred Millenberger, II. O. Pirey, Sella Martin, U. Marker C. M. Wilcox, II. R. Craler. ANOTHER ANCIENT ACCOUNT OF THE DELUGE. Our readers who have pursued, with deep interest, ibe account of the del uga deciphered from tablets found at Nineveh, pubh-hed in the Observer, will be glad to have before them the account of the same event, us given by Bcrosus, a priest of Biibylcq, who lived aud wrote nearly three centuries before Christain cm. He was the author of several books Babylonian-Chaldean history which have all perished, with the exceptions of some fragments pre served in the writings of Joscphus, Eusi-bius, and others. We copy from the paper of Mr. George Smith in the Nineveh tablets. Mr. Smith says : The Chaldean account of the Flood, as given by Bcrosus, I have taken from Cory's ALcieot Fragments, page 2G to 29, as follows : " After the death of Ardates, bis son Xisu'.hrus reigned eighteen sari. In his time happened a great deluge, tho history of which is thus described: The Deity, Chrouos, appeared to him in a vision, and warned him that npon the fifteenth day of the month D&sius there would be a flood, by which man kind would be destroyed. He, theretbere enjoined him to write a htstory of the beginning, procedure, and conclusion of all things; and to bury it in the city of the sun at Sippara ; and to build a vessel,, and take with him intojt his friends and relations ; and to couvey on board everything necccssary to sustain life, together with all the different ani nials, both birds and quadrupeds, and trust himself fearlessly to the deep. Having asked the Deity whither he waa to sail ? he was answered, 'to the Gods, upou which he offered up a prayer for the good of mankind. He then obey ed the Devine admonition, and built a a vessel five stadia in length, and two in breadth. Into this he put everything which he had prepared ; and last of alt conveyed into it his wife, his children, and his frieuds. ' After the Flood had been upon thi earth, and was time abated, Xisuthrui ' sent out birds from the vessel, which not finding any fool, nor any plae whereupon they might rest their feet, returned to him again. After an in terval of tome days he sent them forth a second time, and tbey now returned with their feet tinged with mud. He made a trial a thud time with these birds, but they returned to him no more ; from whence he judged that the surface of the earth had appeared above waters. He therefore, made an opening in the vessel, and upon looking out found that it. was stranded upon tho side of some mountain upon which he immediately quitted it with his wife, his daughter, and the pilot. Xisuthrua then paid his adoration to the earth,, and having constructed an alter offer ed sacrifices to the gods, and, with thosa who had come out tho vesse) with hira disappeared. They who remained finding that their companions did not return, quitted the vessel with many lamentations, and Continued la fourth pugt; k